Our fascist First Lady

CNN reports that Melania Trump thinks women alleging sexual crimes need to provide "really hard evidence."

Setting aside the double entendre, a woman of discernment would have avoided that topic. Because we remember that Melania Trump charged that Barack Obama was born in Kenya without hard evidence or any other kind.

Amerikanische gleichschaltung

Several times in Trump's first year as fuehrer RtO warned that his initial move to turn America fascist would be the same as Hitler's first move: gleichschaltung, sometimes translated as "coordination."

Or, as some prosecutors say it,"Harmonization."

The Post has the story. Nut graf:

In a July 2017 Justice Department bulletin to 94 U.S. attorney offices nationwide, Oregon federal prosecutor Gregory R. Nyhus said that federal criminal statutes and civil immigration laws “are reconcilable” and that “courts should be encouraged to harmonize these statutes rather than focusing on [one] to the complete exclusion of the other.”

If you read the story, you'll see that he is arguing for a legal pipeline into konzentrationslager (concentration camps).

Condemned out of his own mouth

RtO has often had harsh things to say about Christians (and about other religionists but more about Christians because I know them better) but never anything as bad as this:

Falwell Jr said the Democratic party and its supporters were “no longer liberals – they’ve become fascists, they’re Brownshirts. You believe like them or you’re out.

“Poor Kanye West,” he said, referring to criticism of the star for wearing a Make America Great Again baseball cap. “He dared to have his own opinions and look what they did to him.”

He added: “The most intolerant people in the country are those that preach tolerance.”

As someone who grew up surrounded by evangelicals -- but not an evangelical myself --  this is hilariously obtuse.

I was not at all surprised that Falwell, the evangelical demigod, would describe Trump a a moral man. Trump really does embody almost all of the moral values that evangelicals actually live by: lying, fornicating, stealing, cheating, self-praising.

Roman Catholicism preaches that the greatest, almost unforgivable sin, is pride. That is about the only doctrine of Catholicism I still consider valid. No identifiable group is more prideful than evangelicals.

Grassley thinks you are stupid

And if you are a rightwinger, he's right.

Grassley and Kavanaugh kept saying that the FBI 'does not draw conclusions.' That is true only in a jesuitical sense.

But also irrelevant, because United States attorneys do draw conclusons, based on FBI report. That is why Kavanaugh was so panicked every time anyone mentioned 'FBI investigation.'

Hard choice for him: lie to the FBI or give up in his appointment.

As a judge, he of course knows this, which confirms that he was lying. 


 

The stability of fascism

My move to Sykesville is complete, although I do not yet have reliable Internet, so I am planning to get RtO moving again.I hope old readers will check back and resume lurking.

About current Washington dustups, nothing for the moment but just some comments about the background of the events that were newsworthy during the weeks that RTO was mostly silent.

First, there's been a great deal of angst about the rise of movements called populism or strident nationalism in Europe, allegedly as a result of large immigration into the continent. Immigration into Europe is not large by the standards of any other part of the world so that is bogus.

More to the point, this is not populism or strident nationalism, it's fascism. Europe has always been mostly fascist (it has to do with religion). Even before Germany went to war in September 1939 almost all of Europe had gone fascist voluntarily. That included all of Central Europe with no exceptions, the same place where fascism is making its strongest gains again.

Fascism had taken over all of Iberia and there had been an attempted fascisst coup in France in 1934 that was beaten back just barely as well as one in Austria that was beaten back temporarily that same year. In Norway the Netherlands and Belgium there were powerful fascist movements -- not powerful enough to attempt government overthrows but just waiting for the support of a big power to take over.

Fascism is pretty close to the default attitude of the European public, certainly closer than anything that would be called liberal democracy.

The Trump Diet

The Trump Diet consists of feeding his followers crap until they gag till they gag, They never do,

We have seen the Republican political establishment from Romney on down consume unlimited quantities of crap and say it tastes good.

Coal miners love to crap eat crap.

The farmers say they don't like the taste of crap but they chow down on it all the same,

And now we have the active military and the retired, We'll see how much crap they want. If they don't respond to Trump's studied insult to McCain, they will have to eat the crap that he's put on the table for them.

I predict they will salute it and eat it,

Crimes

(I have not been posting recently because I am busy pulling up stakes on Maui and moving to Maryland. RTO will continue as usual once I get resettled.)

Because everyone must make it stand, let me say here that everyone involved in the kidnapping, abuse and incarceration of children should be tried for kidnapping, conspiracy and child-abuse and that includes the president,  the head of The Department of Homeland Security, everyone in ICE and the Border Patrol who's been involved in stealing these children, everyone from the janitors up to the presidents of the private corporations running the child jails.

Being near Trump notoriously destroys the reputations of anyone so incautious as to go that close. Now the contagion of his criminal regime has stretched out to include people far from him physically though close to him spiritually. According to polls most Republicans agree with kidnapping and child-abuse.

I am not surprised and I am disgusted.