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View: https://x.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1849189689623806079

Scary enough people are literally stupid enough that they believe this. This new Trump is Hitler rhetoric amongst some other stupid thinks like Mark Kelley propaganda Red pushed this morning is nothing short of desperation.

Thread 'How close it Trump to being a modern-day Hitler?'

Oct 23, 2024

Ok let's get it out there, why not?

How close is Trump to being a modern-day Hitler? I have had several articles arise in my various news feeds, one that sums things up very well was in the Guardian, although they are far from my preferred news publication, hence why I do not quote them very often. But in this article they lay out the similarities based on a book by a professor of German in England. Here is the article

The reich stuff – what does Trump really have in common with Hitler?

Comparisons between the ex-president and the 20th-century Nazi leader are controversial but a new book says they resemble each other as political performance artists

www.theguardian.com

Keep in mind this is even a few months old and I would wager Trump is...

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View: https://x.com/dandinohill/status/1849144895971500133

 

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View: https://x.com/BehizyTweets/status/1849222273045082314

 

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McConnell says ‘MAGA movement is completely wrong’ and Reagan ‘wouldn’t recognize’ Trump’s GOP

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell delivered a scathing assessment of the modern Republican Party in an upcoming biography, saying the “MAGA movement is completely wrong” and that Ronald Reagan “wouldn’t recognize” the party today.

www.yahoo.com

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell delivered a scathing assessment of the modern Republican Party in an upcoming biography, saying the “MAGA movement is completely wrong” and that Ronald Reagan “wouldn’t recognize” the party today.

“I think Trump was the biggest factor in changing the Republican Party from what Ronald Reagan viewed and he wouldn’t recognize today."

McConnell added that the former president has “done a lot of damage to our party’s image and our ability to compete.”

Some of McConnell’s strongest comments were focused on Trump’s behavior after he lost the election in 2020, calling him “erratic.”

“Unfortunately, about half the Republicans in the country believe whatever he says,” McConnell said at the time, adding to an oral historian, “I think I’m pretty safe in saying it’s not just the Democrats who are counting the days until he leaves on January 20, but the Republicans as well.”

“I’m not at all conflicted about whether what the president did is an impeachable offense. I think it is. Urging an insurrection and people attacking the Capitol as a direct result … is about as close to an impeachable offense as you can imagine, with the possible exception of maybe being an agent for another country,” said McConnell.

“I don’t know whether you can make a conclusive argument that he’s directly responsible for them storming the Capitol, but I think it’s not in dispute that those folks would not have been here in the first place if he had not asked them to come and to disrupt the actual acceptance of the outcome of the election,” the Senate GOP leader said.

The Kentucky Republican did not mince words, calling Trump a “sleazeball,” a “narcissist” and saying that the former president is “stupid as well as being ill-tempered.” He added that Trump is “not very smart, irascible, nasty, just about every quality you would not want somebody to have.”

In a statement about his comments on the former president in the book, McConnell said, “Whatever I may have said about President Trump pales in comparison to what JD Vance, Lindsey Graham, and others have said about him, but we are all on the same team now.”

McConnell also expressed support for special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into Trump’s actions around the 2020 election and the insurrection. “I think it was the single most – in a category by itself – of how wrong all of it was and there’s no doubt who inspired it, and I just hope that he’ll have to pay a price for it,” said McConnell. “If he hasn’t committed indictable offenses, I don’t know what one is.”

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McConnell says ‘MAGA movement is completely wrong’ and Reagan ‘wouldn’t recognize’ Trump’s GOP

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell delivered a scathing assessment of the modern Republican Party in an upcoming biography, saying the “MAGA movement is completely wrong” and that Ronald Reagan “wouldn’t recognize” the party today.

www.yahoo.com

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell delivered a scathing assessment of the modern Republican Party in an upcoming biography, saying the “MAGA movement is completely wrong” and that Ronald Reagan “wouldn’t recognize” the party today.

“I think Trump was the biggest factor in changing the Republican Party from what Ronald Reagan viewed and he wouldn’t recognize today."

McConnell added that the former president has “done a lot of damage to our party’s image and our ability to compete.”

Some of McConnell’s strongest comments were focused on Trump’s behavior after he lost the election in 2020, calling him “erratic.”

“Unfortunately, about half the Republicans in the country believe whatever he says,” McConnell said at the time, adding to an oral historian, “I think I’m pretty safe in saying it’s not just the Democrats who are counting the days until he leaves on January 20, but the Republicans as well.”

“I’m not at all conflicted about whether what the president did is an impeachable offense. I think it is. Urging an insurrection and people attacking the Capitol as a direct result … is about as close to an impeachable offense as you can imagine, with the possible exception of maybe being an agent for another country,” said McConnell.

“I don’t know whether you can make a conclusive argument that he’s directly responsible for them storming the Capitol, but I think it’s not in dispute that those folks would not have been here in the first place if he had not asked them to come and to disrupt the actual acceptance of the outcome of the election,” the Senate GOP leader said.

The Kentucky Republican did not mince words, calling Trump a “sleazeball,” a “narcissist” and saying that the former president is “stupid as well as being ill-tempered.” He added that Trump is “not very smart, irascible, nasty, just about every quality you would not want somebody to have.”

In a statement about his comments on the former president in the book, McConnell said, “Whatever I may have said about President Trump pales in comparison to what JD Vance, Lindsey Graham, and others have said about him, but we are all on the same team now.”

McConnell also expressed support for special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into Trump’s actions around the 2020 election and the insurrection. “I think it was the single most – in a category by itself – of how wrong all of it was and there’s no doubt who inspired it, and I just hope that he’ll have to pay a price for it,” said McConnell. “If he hasn’t committed indictable offenses, I don’t know what one is.”

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The draw of the cult is indeed powerful.

 

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The draw of the cult is indeed powerful.

Agreed, but the cult is your side. McConnell has a book and publishers have learned the best way to promote a new book to to attack Trump.

 

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The latest polls are crazy. These are National Polls. Trump could win the popular vote! RCP is now showing the popular vote as effectively deadlocked. That includes California and New York.

 

[Al-O-Meter]

Kamala Harris’s Blue-Collar Blues

Donald Trump’s appeal among working-class voters is neutralizing Democrats’ traditional advantage with unions.

www.city-journal.org

"In a break from tradition, the International Association of Fire Fighters recently announced that it would not endorse a candidate for president. The firefighters’ union endorsed Joe Biden last time around and has backed a Democrat in almost every presidential cycle for the past 40 years, the only exception being 2016—a parallel that might provoke dread in some Democrats."

 

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How Did the Democrats Get Here?

Talking with Tim Shenk about party realignment, the legacy of 1990s political consultants, the 2024 election, and his new book, Left Adrift: What Happened to Liberal Politics.

www.thenation.com

 

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The Democrat plan to censor America

unherd.com

"The First Amendment codifies a “negative liberty”, not a licence for certain behaviour but rather a protection from government interference. It reads: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” It can function as a kind of barrier to the worst excesses of the illiberal Left, even at a time when their party of choice occupies the White House.


Such challenges to the First Amendment began around 10 years ago with the emergence of the Critical Social Justice (or “woke”) movement, which sought to promote equity according to group identity through authoritarian means."

 

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It was interesting to see the effect of Kamala letting everyone know the DNC of 2024 is the home for neocons like Liz Cheney.

Jon Stewart almost blew a fuse on his show and Cenk Uygur from TYT signaled that it was enough for him to stop supporting Kamala.


View: https://x.com/cenkuygur/status/1848541323277832213


Not it is appearing the move is indeed informing the undecided voters.

Opinion: I'm a non-MAGA conservative. Sanctimonious liberals make me want to vote Trump.

Kamala Harris and her fellow liberals are starting to sound a lot like Democrats did in 2016, and it's a huge turnoff to voters like me.

www.usatoday.com

 

[fishonjazz]

MSN

www.msn.com

A majority of Americans think it would be “wrong” for Donald Trump to have the Justice Department drop federal charges against him if he wins back the White House.

Legal observers say there's no chance a Trump Justice Department would continue the two federal cases he has asked judges to dismiss as a "witch hunt" led by a prosecutor he calls "deranged." But nearly 58% of likely voters who responded to the poll said it would be "wrong" for Trump to direct the department to drop the charges, compared to 30% saying it would be the "right" thing to do.

 

[fishonjazz]

MSN

It’s one of the most-aired ads of the 2024 election: Buddy, a Black man from Allentown, Pennsylvania, watches on a tablet as former President Donald Trump tells a crowd at a fundraiser: “I know about 20 of you, and you’re rich as hell. We’re gonna give you tax cuts.”

“In 2016, Trump was able to convince some voters he wasn’t Republican on abortion, Social Security and taxes,” said Jesse Ferguson, a Democratic strategist involved at the top levels of both the 2016 and 2024 races. “But he can’t in 2024 because he now has a record on all of them: tax breaks for the rich, cuts to Social Security and overturning Roe v. Wade. His ability to disown the Republican brand doesn’t work anymore.”

The result, as Ferguson put it: “He’s blended the policy agenda of Paul Ryan and the character of Caligula.” (I love that line lol)

 

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Signs of the Times in Pennsylvania

A dispatch from the heart of the heart of a swing state.

www.thenation.com

 

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Some would prefer to claim these generals turned against Trump because….military industrial complex: these guys are warmongers and know Trump will end wars. Warmongering generals want more war!

That’s a pretty ignorant interpretation. Personally, way too late to be ID’ing Trump as a fascist. Way too late. Hell, I recognized it the very day he descended the escalator in Trump Tower in 2015, and created a scapegoat, migrants from south of the border, upon which disaffected Americans could hang the blame for all their problems. Just a bit too late for Kelly, Milley, and others to be pointing out what was as clear- as-day obvious for years: the man has the mindset of a hate mongering fascist.

We don’t need fascism in the United States. It never helps. But, it is too late to make a difference two weeks before an election where 99+% must have made up their minds by now. But, holy smokes, one more opportunity for yours truly to use the dreaded F word, lol….

Several good videos in this piece. Glad this is happening, even if it is a meaningless effort, IMO.

Opinion | Don’t ignore John Kelly’s warning about Trump

The retired Marine general and former White House chief of staff knows what he’s talking about when he warns about his former boss’ unfitness for office.

www.msnbc.com

 

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... said Jesse Ferguson, a Democratic strategist involved at the top levels of both the 2016 and 2024 races....

Their authority is a Democratic strategist who was involved in the 2016 campaign where they lost, and now in 2024 where they are losing. That is a great find Fish!

 

[fishonjazz]

But of course.... https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...1&cvid=a75eba23cdce4b60918cf465b22972e2&ei=89

A former deputy Palm Beach County sheriff who fled to Moscow and became one of the Kremlin’s most prolific propagandists is working directly with Russian military intelligence to pump out deepfakes and circulate misinformation that targets Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign, according to Russian documents obtained by a European intelligence service and reviewed by The Washington Post.

The documents show that John Mark Dougan, who also served in the U.S. Marines and has long claimed to be working independently of the Russian government, was provided funding by an officer from the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence service. Some of the payments were made after fake news sites he created began to have difficulty accessing Western artificial intelligence systems this spring and he needed an AI generator — a tool that can be prompted to create text, photos and video.

Dougan’s liaison at the GRU is a senior figure in Russian military intelligence working under the cover name Yury Khoroshevsky, the documents show. The officer’s real name is Yury Khoroshenky, though he is referred to only as Khoroshevsky in the documents, and he serves in the GRU’s Unit 29155, which oversees sabotage, political interference operations and cyberwarfare targeting the West, according to two European security officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence.

The more than 150 documents — which were shared with The Post to demonstrate the extent of Russian interference through Dougan and focus mostly on the period between March 2021 and August 2024 — for the first time expose some of the inner workings of a network that researchers and intelligence officials say has become the most potent source of fake news emanating from Russia and targeting American voters over the past year.

Disinformation researchers say Dougan’s network was probably behind a recent viral fake video smearing Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz, which U.S. intelligence officials said Tuesday was created by Russia. It received nearly 5 million views on X in less than 24 hours, Microsoft said.

Dougan is responsible for content on dozens of fake news sites with names such as DC Weekly, Chicago Chronicle and Atlanta Observer, according to the documents and disinformation researchers. In the months that followed his reboot with the new GRU-facilitated server and AI generator, the sites and fake news videos spread by Dougan and his associates have produced some of the most viral Russian disinformation targeting Harris, according to Microsoft and NewsGuard, including a deepfake audio in August that purported to show Barack Obama implying that the Democrats had ordered the July assassination attempt against Donald Trump.


Most recently, Dougan was the initial source for a false claim behind the viral fake video that alleged Walz abused a student at the high school where he taught, and NewsGuard believes Dougan’s network may be behind its further dissemination. Eleven days before a video appeared with what NewsGuard says was probably an AI-generated persona claiming to be a former Walz student.

Other Kremlin-directed efforts to sway the U.S. presidential election have included the Doppelgänger campaign run by Kremlin political strategists that was recently targeted by the Department of Justice for its cloning of legitimate news outlets, including Fox News and The Post — a Russian operation about which The Post had previously reported. The Justice Department has also accused RT, the Russian state media outlet, of funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to American social media influencers to parrot Kremlin talking points.

Fake news indeed.

 

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Some would prefer to claim these generals turned against Trump because….military industrial complex: these guys are warmongers and know Trump will end wars. Warmongering generals want more war!

That’s a pretty ignorant interpretation. Personally, way too late to be ID’ing Trump as a fascist. Way too late. Hell, I recognized it the very day he descended the escalator in Trump Tower in 2015, and created a scapegoat, migrants from south of the border, upon which disaffected Americans could hang the blame for all their problems. Just a bit too late for Kelly, Milley, and others to be pointing out what was as clear- as-day obvious for years: the man has the mindset of a hate mongering fascist.

We don’t need fascism in the United States. It never helps. But, it is too late to make a difference two weeks before an election where 99+% must have made up their minds by now. But, holy smokes, one more opportunity for yours truly to use the dreaded F word, lol….

Several good videos in this piece. Glad this is happening, even if it is a meaningless effort, IMO.

Opinion | Don’t ignore John Kelly’s warning about Trump

The retired Marine general and former White House chief of staff knows what he’s talking about when he warns about his former boss’ unfitness for office.

www.msnbc.com

That is great except that he was already President for four years and nothing like 1930's Italy or Germany happened. We are actually closer to world war now than we were when Trump was in office and everyone knows it. Thanks Democrats.

 

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But of course.... https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...1&cvid=a75eba23cdce4b60918cf465b22972e2&ei=89

A former deputy Palm Beach County sheriff who fled to Moscow and became one of the Kremlin’s most prolific propagandists is working directly with Russian military intelligence to pump out deepfakes and circulate misinformation that targets Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign, according to Russian documents obtained by a European intelligence service and reviewed by The Washington Post.

The documents show that John Mark Dougan, who also served in the U.S. Marines and has long claimed to be working independently of the Russian government, was provided funding by an officer from the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence service. Some of the payments were made after fake news sites he created began to have difficulty accessing Western artificial intelligence systems this spring and he needed an AI generator — a tool that can be prompted to create text, photos and video.

Dougan’s liaison at the GRU is a senior figure in Russian military intelligence working under the cover name Yury Khoroshevsky, the documents show. The officer’s real name is Yury Khoroshenky, though he is referred to only as Khoroshevsky in the documents, and he serves in the GRU’s Unit 29155, which oversees sabotage, political interference operations and cyberwarfare targeting the West, according to two European security officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence.

The more than 150 documents — which were shared with The Post to demonstrate the extent of Russian interference through Dougan and focus mostly on the period between March 2021 and August 2024 — for the first time expose some of the inner workings of a network that researchers and intelligence officials say has become the most potent source of fake news emanating from Russia and targeting American voters over the past year.

Disinformation researchers say Dougan’s network was probably behind a recent viral fake video smearing Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz, which U.S. intelligence officials said Tuesday was created by Russia. It received nearly 5 million views on X in less than 24 hours, Microsoft said.

Dougan is responsible for content on dozens of fake news sites with names such as DC Weekly, Chicago Chronicle and Atlanta Observer, according to the documents and disinformation researchers. In the months that followed his reboot with the new GRU-facilitated server and AI generator, the sites and fake news videos spread by Dougan and his associates have produced some of the most viral Russian disinformation targeting Harris, according to Microsoft and NewsGuard, including a deepfake audio in August that purported to show Barack Obama implying that the Democrats had ordered the July assassination attempt against Donald Trump.


Most recently, Dougan was the initial source for a false claim behind the viral fake video that alleged Walz abused a student at the high school where he taught, and NewsGuard believes Dougan’s network may be behind its further dissemination. Eleven days before a video appeared with what NewsGuard says was probably an AI-generated persona claiming to be a former Walz student.

Other Kremlin-directed efforts to sway the U.S. presidential election have included the Doppelgänger campaign run by Kremlin political strategists that was recently targeted by the Department of Justice for its cloning of legitimate news outlets, including Fox News and The Post — a Russian operation about which The Post had previously reported. The Justice Department has also accused RT, the Russian state media outlet, of funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to American social media influencers to parrot Kremlin talking points.

Fake news indeed.

Why is every story you post from MSN? I'm not meaning to demean or offend, but do you get news from other sources?

 

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MSN

www.msn.com

A majority of Americans think it would be “wrong” for Donald Trump to have the Justice Department drop federal charges against him if he wins back the White House.

Legal observers say there's no chance a Trump Justice Department would continue the two federal cases he has asked judges to dismiss as a "witch hunt" led by a prosecutor he calls "deranged." But nearly 58% of likely voters who responded to the poll said it would be "wrong" for Trump to direct the department to drop the charges, compared to 30% saying it would be the "right" thing to do.

It doesn't matter. If Trump wins the election to become the President, that would be his second term which means he can't run again and doesn't need to worry about things like approval rating. He should do what is right and stomp out the politically motivated corruption of the DOJ.