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Thomas Hurt

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June 18, 2018

How are thee fascist let me count the ways....No. 14

14. Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. Newspeak was invented by Orwell, in 1984, as the official language of Ingsoc, English Socialism. But elements of Ur-Fascism are common to different forms of dictatorship. All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning. But we must be ready to identify other kinds of Newspeak, even if they take the apparently innocent form of a popular talk show.


Umberto Eco Ur-Fascism (1995)
June 16, 2018

FYI...IG Report download

www.justice.gov/file/1071991/download

June 16, 2018

Animal Farm and our Pig

What does everyone think. Is The Pig more like Squealer or Napoleon? Both?

June 16, 2018

How are thee Fascist, let me count the ways....#10

10. Elitism is a typical aspect of any reactionary ideology, insofar as it is fundamentally aristocratic, and aristocratic and militaristic elitism cruelly implies contempt for the weak. Ur-Fascism can only advocate a popular elitism. Every citizen belongs to the best people of the world, the members of the party are the best among the citizens, every citizen can (or ought to) become a member of the party. But there cannot be patricians without plebeians. In fact, the Leader, knowing that his power was not delegated to him democratically but was conquered by force, also knows that his force is based upon the weakness of the masses; they are so weak as to need and deserve a ruler. Since the group is hierarchically organized (according to a military model), every subordinate leader despises his own underlings, and each of them despises his inferiors. This reinforces the sense of mass elitism.


Umberto Eco Ur-Fascism 1995
June 16, 2018

After this morning, it will no longer be addressed as anything but "The Pig"

not to be confused with the pig, as in swine.

June 15, 2018

So, am I getting this right....

Trump is now saying that he was right to fire Comey because of how unfairly he treated Hilary Clinton....and we are supposed to believe that bee ess?

May 31, 2018

So what is the sitting fascist thinking here...

screw over all our regular trading partners so that we are forced to remove sanctions on Russia?

manipulation of the markets for personal gain?

absurd overkill to take cheap shots at foreign leaders who he thinks have slighted him in some manner?

May 9, 2018

So about this miraculous turn around in North Korea....(sniff, sniff)

Does anyone...(sniff, sniff) smell anything? It smells like....hmm....that's it!

It smells almost like Iran Contra...

May 4, 2018

Reality check on the Manafort judge...thing...panic...what have you.

Anyone know what happens if he rules in favor of the sitting fascist?

Manafort's case dismissed?
No jeopardy attaches?
Judge can't shut down Mueller?
Make Mueller refer the case to a US Atty Office?

Obviously the optics suck, but the fascist has been and will continue with that propaganda campaign.

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