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Pledge of DeSantis

July 29, 2022 Buck Banks

I pledge allegiance to DeSantis and the Benighted Stratocracy of Amerika, and to the Repression for which it stands, one nation un-woke, indoctrinated, with suppression and injustice for most.

Bannon a Big Fan of Mussolini

March 16, 2018 Buck Banks

“He was clearly loved by women. He was a guy’s guy. He has all that virility. He also had amazing fashion sense, right, that whole thing with the uniforms. I’m fascinated by Mussolini.”

— Stephen Bannon, in an interview with the Spectator.

Mussolini Believed in ‘Corporatism’

March 16, 2018 Buck Banks

“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”

Italian dictator.

Lawmakers in Five States Introduced Legislation to Criminalize Peaceful Protests

January 23, 2017 Buck Banks

5

Number of states where Republican lawmakers have introduced legislation to criminalize peaceful protests. The Intercept: “On Saturday, the Women’s March on Washington will kick off what opponents of the incoming administration hope will be a new era of demonstrations against the Republican agenda. But in some states, nonviolent demonstrating may soon carry increased legal risks — including punishing fines and significant prison terms — for people who participate in protests involving civil disobedience. Over the past few weeks, Republican legislators across the country have quietly introduced a number of proposals to criminalize and discourage peaceful protest.”

Trump’s Hidden Threat

May 23, 2016 Buck Banks

To say ‘Well, he would not really have the power to accomplish that’ is to misunderstand the nature of thin-skinned authoritarians in power. They do not arrive in office and discover, as constitutionalists do, that their capabilities are more limited than they imagined. They arrive, and then make their power as large as they can.

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Pledge of DeSantis

Bannon a Big Fan of Mussolini

“He was clearly loved by women. He was a guy’s guy. He has all that virility. He also had amazing fashion sense, right, that whole thing with the uniforms. I’m fascinated by Mussolini.”

— Stephen Bannon, in an interview with the Spectator.

Mussolini Believed in ‘Corporatism’

“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”

Lawmakers in Five States Introduced Legislation to Criminalize Peaceful Protests

5

Trump’s Hidden Threat

— Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

— Rick Wilson

— Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) on the “resign or be fired” ultimatum from the GOP’s Freedom Caucus just 174 days into his tenure as sp[eaker, reported by Punchbowl News.

“Trump’s head slowly dropped, his eyes closed. It jerked back upward. He adjusts himself. Then, his head droops again. He straightens up, leaning back. His head droops for a third time, he shakes his shoulders. Eyes closed still. His head drops. Finally, he pops his eyes open.”

— Law360 reports from the second day of Donald Trump’s “hush money” criminal trial.

— Jonathan Last

“He’s f**king crazy! The press often will ask me if I think Donald Trump is crazy. And I’ll say it this way: I don’t think he’s so crazy that you could put him in a mental institution. But I think if he were in one, he ain’t getting out!”

— New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R), quoted by the Associated Press two years ago. Sununu is now backing Trump for president.

Numerati

$71.1 million to $45.2 million

56% to 37%

270,000

50 of 96

New York Times: “Of the 96 possible jurors brought into the room, more than 50 raised their hands to say they couldn’t be fair. They were immediately excused.”

20%