This is Worse Than Oligarchy

It's F A S C I S M

It’s getting ridiculous hearing and seeing folks refusing to acknowledge that the United States government is being taken over by F A S C I S M.

Or just being silent about it, which is complicity. (Yes, you can hear silence!)

Yes, the federal coup agent and shadow president Elon Musk is a “capitalist oligarch” who wants to “grind the face of the working class.” But guess what else? He’s a fascist enemy of all humanity. He is the malignant spawn of fascist South African white colonizers and their cold-blooded racist apartheid regime — an Afrikaner who publicly celebrated Donald Trump’s inauguration with two giant and unmistakable Third Reich Seig Heil salutes.

Think those salutes were an accident? Really?

Trump’s Vice President JD “Professors are the Enemy” Vance is a Nazi too. Remember his insane racist claim that Haitian immigrants were eating their neighbors’ pets in Springfield, Ohio? That was straight out of Adolph Hitler’s and Joseph Goebbels’ playbook.

Vance just went to Europe to tell the continent’s political leaders to “stop shunning” their rising white supremacist neo-fascist parties like the neo-Nazi AfD in Germany. Vance told European rulers to focus on their real “enemies within:” dark-skinned criminal immigrants and their supposed leftist, liberal, “woke,” Marxist, and atheist “enablers.”

Herr Vance and a handful of other Trumpist-fascists (Donald Trump, Jr., Steve Bannon, General Michael Flynn, and Tucker Carlson) wrote approving blurbs for a recent book which argues that communists are “unhumans.”

That’s straight out of Hitler’s Mein Kampf.

Last week both Vance and his fellow (possibly more powerful for now) US Vice President Musk argued that federal judges have no business intruding on Trump’s unconstitutional war on federal government. They said that Trump should ignore any injunctions imposed on them by the judicial branch.

Donald “Take Down the Metal Detectors” Trump himself last year campaigned on the claim that nonwhite immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.” That was Hitler talk. So was his campaign threat to “clear out the Marxists from our great country” and his threat to hold Jews responsible if he lost the 2024 election.

Mein Trumpf’s threats to seize Greenland, the Panama Canal, and now even Gaza — some “isolationist”! — sound eerily like Hitler in 1935-39.

Fascism? Trump at the outset of his second presidency pardoned two leading Amerikaner fascists who were serving serious time for planning paramilitary assaults on the US Capitol on January 6 — former Proud Boy head Enrique Tarrio and former Oath Keeper chief Stewart Rhodes.

Hundreds of other and lesser January 6 thugs were released from jail and prison by their tangerine-tinted Dear Leader. It’s clear that Trump wants organized fascist paramilitaries out and about to terrorize those who dare to protest his program.

In what ought to be called its “Reichstag Fire decision” last July, the Trump-crafted US Supreme Court ruled that the Dear Leader is immune from prosecution for any crimes he commits as president. As the liberal Supreme Court justice Sonya Sotomayor noted in her dissent to this terrifying ruling:

“The long-term consequences of today’s decision are stark. The Court effectively creates a law-free zone around the President, upsetting the status quo that has existed since the Founding.

The President of the United States is the most powerful person in the country, and possibly the world. When he uses his official powers in any way, under the majority’s reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution.

Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune.

Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune.

Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune.

Let the President violate the law, let him exploit the trappings of his office for personal gain, let him use his official power for evil ends. Because if he knew that he may one day face liability for breaking the law, he might not be as bold and fearless as we would like him to be. That is the majority’s message today.”

What qualifies the drunken woman abuser and former FOX News host Pete Hegseth to be Trump’s recently confirmed Pentagon chief? His “telegenic charisma” combined with his Christian fascism and white nationalism. The latter attribute makes him a lock to follow future Trump orders to deploy the US military against those who he and his president see as “our leading enemies”: “woke” and “radical” liberals and leftists inside the imperial homeland itself.

Recall that the Confederacy-fan Donald “Shoot Them in the Legs” Trump was frustrated by his 2020 Pentagon chief Mark Esper’s refusal to drown the George Floyd Rebellion in blood.

Hegseth, it is worth recalling, was removed from a National Guard battalion charged with defending the US Capitol on January 6 because of his white nationalist tattoos. He belongs to a far right evangelical denomination whose pastor preaches that women belong in the home and that the best period in the history of American race relations was when Black people were enslaved.

Hegseth is spending tens of million of taxpayer dollars renaming US military bases after secessionist Confederate generals, commanders in a Civil War (1861-1865) sparked by slave-owners’ outrage over President Abraham Lincoln’s opposition to the westward expansion of Black chattel slavery.

Now Trump is offering asylum and citizenship to wealthy white Afrikaners he falsely claims are being oppressed by Black majority’s South Africa’s post-apartheid government.

Trump has further ordered sanctions against that government as punishment for its noble decision to charge Judeo-fascist Israel with crimes against humanity for its US-backed genocidal ethnic cleansing of Gaza.

Trump’s “Justice” department has just suspended the federal prosecution of New York City’s corrupt mayor Eric Adams in exchange for Adams’ agreement to cooperate with Trump’s fascist mass deportation program.

Trump has already sent Venezuelan “illegals” to a notorious torture site in Guantanamo. He has shipped hundreds of dark-skinned immigrants he’s swept up in raids back to their countries of origin on military planes. The deportees have been handcuffed, chained and otherwise humiliated and endangered on these flights.[1]

The Republi-fascist US Senate has just confirmed the anti-science pandemo-fascist lunatic Bobby Kennedy, Junior to head the nation’s Department of Health and Human Services. This notorious psychopath and antivaxxer is a lock to kill millions during the next pandemic.

These fascist maniacs are out to kill us in huge numbers.

If you want to call all this (and so much more that I write and talk about here) just “oligarchy” or some other term other than and short of fascism, you are in my opinion making a real mistake. You are telling the world that you don’t know what time it is. Your confusion is complicity, unwitting perhaps (to be generous), but complicity nonetheless.

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Note

1. Here is a recent report from Brazil:

“ ‘We were tied at the wrist, waist, and leg. There was no water; we asked to go to the bathroom, and they wouldn't let us,’ said Edgar Da Silva Moura, a 31-year-old IT technician who arrived deported on the flight after seven months in detention in the US, to AFP. ‘It was very hot, and people fainted,’ he added.

Luis Antonio Rodrigues Santos, a 21-year-old self-employed worker, described the ‘nightmare’ of people with ‘respiratory problems’ who spent ‘four hours without air conditioning’ due to technical issues, which also affected ‘a turbine that wasn't working.’ ‘A lot has already changed [with Trump] (...), immigrants treated like criminals,’ he said.

'Disrespect of fundamental rights'

The Ministry of Justice ordered ‘the immediate removal of the handcuffs’ when the plane arrived in the country and condemned what it called a ‘flagrant disrespect for the fundamental rights’ of its citizens.

Brazilian authorities emphasized that human dignity is a non-negotiable value. The flight bound for Belo Horizonte had to land in Manaus due to a technical problem. The passengers, who arrived in handcuffs, were immediately released by the Federal Police in respect of national sovereignty. Mattresses, medical care, and water were provided while the passengers remained at the airport overnight.”