This talk is pretty informal and off the cuff, which is both its strength and its weakness. I listened to it before putting it up. I think there’s a small factual error or two in it. I have the French Nazi-collaborationist Vichy regime staring in 1941 when in fact it started in 1940. I may have said 2020 when I meant to say 2024 somewhere here.
I really had no idea how many F-bombs I dropped in this talk until I listenesd to …at least ten. WTF! That’s way too much. Sorry.
And, no, I’m not apologizing for saying fascism.
Here are a bunch of links relevant to this talk/rant….
The Fourteenth Amendment here: https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-14/
Mein Trumpf’s insane fascist executive order to “end birthright citizenship”: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-the-meaning-and-value-of-american-citizenship/
Mein Trumpf’s insane fascist pardon of 1500+ January thugs: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/granting-pardons-and-commutation-of-sentences-for-certain-offenses-relating-to-the-events-at-or-near-the-united-states-capitol-on-january-6-2021/
The Jason Stanley reference: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/586030/how-fascism-works-by-jason-stanley/
The Jack Smith January 6 indicment of Trump: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149.1.0_1.pdf
The sick AF Laken Riley Act: https://apnews.com/article/what-is-laken-riley-act-trump-immigration-2667d626139ddf5a16d1533516eab18f
Dems who signed on with the Laken Riley Act: https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-democrats-voted-pass-laken-riley-act-2019432
UAW head
Shawn Fain’s Vichy-esque Wapo Op Ed: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/19/shawn-fain-uaw-trump-trade/
Proud Boy “6WME” t-shirt in nation’s capital in December of 2020:
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