GOP LIES AND CRUELTY: It’s Okay To Call It Fascism
Compiling the evidence so we can “do something about it ruthlessly”
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“Even now, there are those who say it cannot happen here in America. But it can. It can happen here! It can happen anywhere, unless you do something about it ruthlessly. The secret of these so-called supermen is bluff; their potent formula is to weaken through fear. Call their bluff… they are only men, cruel men, power-greedy men; and they can be disposed of the way any band of criminals is disposed of.
“We who have lived through this in Germany perhaps feel it more keenly than you do. Yet there was a time when we were as you, when the gangsters had not yet made us prisoners, when the bullies had not yet cowed us. That would have been the time to stop them there. And now is the time to stop them here.”—Bella Fromm, New York City, 1943
I am deeply disturbed by my Rumble investigation findings. Seeing the depth of anti-semitism and Russian influence operations given safe harbor on Rumble, a video platform funded by JD Vance and Peter Thiel, and observing the number of views these influence operations are garnering, I can only see the site itself as an act of war.
It is so clear why Vance and Musk are hiding behind the words “censorship” and “free speech” — they are using their social media platforms to wage war on a democracy ill-equipped to defend itself from this type of constant battery.
If the US is a battleship, we’re being nuked by technofascists.
Each day brings with it another onslaught of lies — about immigrants, natural disasters, weather — and understand, lying is the message and the cruelty is the point. The GOP is attempting to overthrow democracy by demolishing reality.
It’s okay to call this fascism — it’s a cruel and effective playbook, nothing new, just modernized. I have been documenting the evidence for years, culminating in what I believe are my best reports to date.
I want you to have the key reports in one post, so you can access them on an as-needed basis.
Name it, and shame it.
As Timothy Snyder says, “Freedom is not just the absence of evil but a presence of good.”
A return to goodness — a demand for decency — is an action we take at the ballot box. Nothing less than total repudiation will do.
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