I really doubt that Tom Kratman (Space Marine!) was ever popular. Or indeed is.
His writing smacks of arrogance, ineptitude, utter unwillingness to accept when he's wrong, and a monumental case of the DKs.

Mixed with his brand of authoritarianism, homophobia, macho power fantasies, misogyny, racism and the usual traits of the Trumpists.

Now, lest I be accusing of bragging the thread OT with Kratman he's been engaging in advocating political violence.
Shortly after (in fact during) the Trumpist attempt at insurrection on 06JAN a sub-forum at the 'Baen's Bar' forum run by Baen Books (the publisher of Kratman and other right-wing milscifi authors) was filled with various right-wing fantasies about a new US civil war,
A writer named Jason Sandford write a piece exposing the Bar's hosting of various attempts to incite violence, and was naturally attacked by the rightists

Kratman himself suggested Trump should
And, more floridly, that:
Another poster (Winterset) claimed that:
:rolleyes:
A forum moderator posted:
and
Others called for the streets to "flow with blood".

A charming bunch of fantasists. :rolleyes:

I see our favorite (and I say that with all the sarcasm in the world) King of Hypocrisy Sen. Ted Cruz is mocking a military recruiting ad saying it's turning our arming into a "bunch of pansies". The soldier featured in the ad is a woman raised by two mothers. The Stars and Stripes had a different viewpoint:
Of course, like Trump, Cruz never served a day in the military yet he thinks he has the right to disparage those who do simply because he doesn't like their sexuality or even, in this case, the sexuality of a soldier's parents. Indeed, to know Cruz is to loathe him.

SDS - Small Dick Syndrome.

It's a good sign that our society has entered the "cultural degeneracy is making us weak in front of our enemies" stage, right? Nothing bad has ever happened because of such things.

Nothing to see here, just a fascist vanguard group attempting to take over a local GOP political apparatus.

https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/p...cerns-2361874/

tbh there's a non-trivial risk that they fail in their attempt on the grounds that local party activists think that their views are a bit wishy-washy.

Historian compares Capitol insurrection to Hitler's beer hall putsch and the following years, during which Nazis learned to take power legally.
https://www.salon.com/2021/05/26/his...arch-to-power/

Thanks for this article. As a former history teacher, I have also seen so many comparisons to the rise of Hitler and what is happening here now but I've been loathe to bring it up. The very mention of Hitler brings out accusations of "Godwin's law" in an attempt to discredit whatever argument may be being made. However, in the case of Trumpism and the Republicans today, I think it is extremely relevant. One only has to look at how the Nazis took over the German government and see what is going on in Congress today by the GOP leadership and Congress members and what they've done to Liz Cheney and those who spoken out against Trump and/or the Jan. 6 truth and how they've embraced the likes of Hawley, Greene, Cruz, et al to see the correlation. It's happening before our very eyes.

Bob001, I think this article deserves an entire thread discussion of its own. Would you please start one? If not, I'd like to.

It's all yours.

OK

There was a high profile Qanon convention in Dallas recently, featuring, among others, General Flynn and Sidney Powell.

In light of the electoral failure of the modern American fascist project, calls for violent overthrow of the state have become increasingly overt. Flynn made headlines by speaking favorably about the idea of a military coup in the US.

What is most striking about this event is that it is not really a fringe meetup. Comparing this Q conference to those even a couple years ago show much more mainstream support.

Several members of the Texas GOP machine were in attendance, as well as Rep. Gosar.

Qanon seems to me to be the esoteric, pseudo-mystical wing of the fascist movement, which is so commonly seen in historical examples of fascism. It's practically a religion into itself, with deified figures and claims of forbidden knowledge.

The GOP is increasingly and more openly embracing this brand of esotericism and fascism. The rhetoric on this group is overtly beligerrent and stresses the importance of a minoritarian segment of "patriotic" Americans to assert authority.

It's really fascinating to see how the party has progressed since the Southern Strategy in the 60s. There seems to be waves of increasingly more extreme "wings" of the party that eventually take it over. Last time it was the Tea Party, and now it's the much more dangerous and insane QAnon.

Tucker Carlson publicly said that white Republican men are white supremacists, although that isn't what he intended.

What President Biden said:
"Terrorism from white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today -- not ISIS, not al-Qaida, white supremacists."

What Tucker Carlson said:
"It’s always the same people, those white Republican men. The very ones that, just today, Joe Biden warned us are more dangerous than Isis."

No, I think it was completely deliberate. Carlson intentionally and repeatedly makes the connection between Republican, White and Good. This is no mistake.

They've weaponized the Fake Freudian Slip.

Oopsies I accidently said this. Oopsies I accidently said that. Oopsies I accidently made a Nazi salute on stage. Oopsies oopsies oopsies.

Even Carlson lets the truth slip out once in a while.



http://www.internationalskeptics.com...909a711f82.jpg

He's also playing the game: the more outrageous his comments are the more publicity he gets and the better his program is for it.

I'm curious to know how Carlson's paycheck has been affected by his increasingly outrageous show. I'd bet it's gone up. Considerably. Slime pays.

Reporters are claiming that Trump believes he will be reinstated as the real president before August.

Seems like a great way to repeat the fascist violence of Jan6. Promise to the unhinged base that right wing power is in fact going to reign supreme, then watch as chaotic violence breaks out when nothing happens at the pivotal moment.

Trump and his sycophants are going to keep baiting his extremist base into acts of violence.

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status...07794375426051


These "audits" are eventually going to wrap up and release completely unsupported, sweeping claims of election fraud and then... nothing is going to happen. The right wing media will continue to repeat the lie that the election was stolen but there will be no recourse for what the extreme right will sincerely believe is an injustice. Violence is the inevitable response.

Which is why FB has announced that Trump is suspended from it and Instagram until at least Jan. 2023. That gets up past the 2022 elections. At that time, they will reassess his suspension. I expect them to keep the suspension for another two years (Jan 2025) to get past the 2024 elections because we all know Trump is not going to stop his insane and incendiary rhetoric. He can't.

Just get on with it and ban him for life.

They are, just using salami tactics.

So I wonder what FL is planning on doing about FB deplatforming Trump?

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56952435

Wow, they really don't care about the free market unless it's convenient to them, do they?

Well, that's pretty much true for everything when it comes to the GOP.
That kind of hypo.....oops...almost used the 'h' word!

The what?

Trump considers running for congresshttps://www.newsweek.com/trump-sugge...esting-1597823

Steve Bannon had pretty much the same idea as your article says:

These guys are NUTS. I've never seen people idolize someone so obviously nuts and authoritarian and so willing to give up their democracy since well.....see my The Rise of Hitler and The Age of Trump thread.

:popcorn1

Impeaching Biden, even if Trump was Speaker of the House (*shudder*), would not make the Kremlin Gremlin President.
Only a "2nd Amendment Solution" to both Joe and Kamela would.

But not even the GOP is stupid enough to put Trump into an actual position of Power in Congress - because of his ineptitude, Dems would run circles around him.

I imagine FB is going to ignore them.

Wasn't sure where to put this:

Rudy Giuliani did a MyPillow commercial:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rudy-...b001ebd4704692

Rudy will do anything for money. If anyone thinks he sleeps on a Motel 6 quality pillow (which is what My Pillow is), they're as dumb as a Trumper...

Good call having him pitch your crap pillows, Lindell! You know your market.

If he had any Sense of Humor, he's do one for coffins and dildos.

Rudy does have a sense of humor:

Rudy Giuliani: "President Trump is an honest man, and he’s done nothing wrong."
Fox and Friends, Aug 13, 2018

It's really weird how this incompetent imbecile managed to get such a cult following. Can't they find a decent person who at least looks like a good Christian to follow?

Problem is, a decent person cannot fill the bill. If the definition of "decent" I learned prior to upside-down world got established still holds.

Exactly. A party that overwhelmingly supports the cretin that is Trump couldn't possibly support a "decent Christian" because they are diametrically opposed beings It would be like asking why the party that nominated and people that elected Barack Obama and Joe Biden couldn't find a nice KKK member to follow.

Well, to be fair there were democrats that were suggesting something similar with Hillary, having her run in 2018, be made Speaker of the House, and then impeaching both Trump and Pence to put her into the Presidency.

The difference is that those suggesting it were on the fringes and it was never taken seriously by anyone of note in the Democrat Party, especially Hillary herself who pretty much went for a walk in the forest and vanished for 6+ months after the election.

It's not the same at all given the bolded.

Just because some idiot mentioned it makes your "to be fair" bull ****, don't you think?