Is Today's Trumpist GOP Fascist?

[Mark B]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

The weakness in all this: Ex President Carter once referred to a certain country as an apartheid state and he was hammered for doing so.

Nearly 20 years on it's clear that former President Carter was correct about Israel.

[finnbow]

Trump announced today that as president he will have DOJ and DOE take over school discipline of students: “When troubled youth are .. going wild, we will stop it. The consequences are swift, certain and strong, and they will know that.”

https://twitter.com/i/status/1627827857211752448

Nah, not a fascist.

[finnbow]

A Republican in Florida's Legislature has filed a bill that, if enacted, would eliminate the Florida Democratic Party.

“The Ultimate Cancel Act,” filed Tuesday by state Sen. Blaise Ingoglia, would require the state’s Division of Elections to “immediately cancel” the filings of any political party whose platform had “previously advocated for, or been in support of, slavery or involuntary servitude.”

The bill, called SB 1248, would require Florida officials to notify all registered voters who belong to any canceled parties that their parties no longer exist. It would also change their voter registrations to “no party affiliation” and “provide procedures” for those voters to update their affiliations to “an active political party.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...arty-rcna72917

Nah, not fascist. No, sirree.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

This from the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. A warning from history--the Holocaust was not just Jews. Just in case anyone is wondering why Trump and DeSantis are whipping it up against the LGBTQ+ folks, it's because Trump fascists are Nazi fascists. There is no difference.

https://youtu.be/Qlj5kQQYOWo

I think this, from Robert Reich, is spot on.

Why Republicans are obsessed with pedophilia, gender identity, gay people, and abortion

On March 28, Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill banning kindergarten through third-grade public school teachers from talking about sexual orientation or gender identity, calling it an “anti-grooming bill” and accusing opponents of wanting to groom young children for sexual exploitation.

The Republican Party, once a proud proponent of limited government, has turned itself into a font of sexual innuendo and legal intrusion into the most intimate aspects of personal life. Protecting children from predators is a worthy aim, to be sure, but the GOP is obsessing about all aspects of sex. Why?

First, it’s part of their culture war, and culture wars sell with voters (and the media) eager for conflict and titillation. A culture war over sex sells even better. It lets Republicans imply that Democrats are somehow on the side of sexual “deviants” who endanger the “natural order.”

Also, by focusing on sex, Republicans can court both the evangelical right and the rightwing extreme QAnon vote (with its the loony “Pizzagate” conspiracy claim that Hillary Clinton was a pedophile).

An infant devouring cannibal, in some of the more fringy right wing circles.

On a MAWA/Q-ANON forum where I have spent some time since the beginning of the pandemic, there has been a focus on a specific case of a middle school social worker who was helping out a gender questioning girl student, which included providing resources for elastic wraps that are being used by pre-adolescent girls in social and school setting to diminish the appearance of their breasts. So...the social worker is a "pedophile groomer" and anybody who supports confidentiality rights for children (over the age of 12 in most states) is also a "pedophile groomer". So the parents are suing the school district and and social worker and school psychologist for not violating state confidentiality laws and disclosing this to the parents. Specifically, the social worker advised the girl that she did not have to disclose anything about their meetings, nor would the parents be provided any information from the worker.

And I took a considerable amount of heat from the assholes on that forum for my support of confidentiality rights of children between the ages and 12 and 18 years...also being tagged as a "pedophile groomer" social worker. Why call it an "anti-grooming" bill...for just this reason, anbody who opposes the Desantis bill supports the "grooming" of children. as Reich points out in the article.

Finally, we all know that the most likely place that a young girl in this country will experience grooming and molestation is in the middle of the night in her own bedroom by her own daddy. And anybody who says mommy doesn't know what's going on is a fucking liar.

And I apologize in advance for use of the binary term "girl" in this post. and not more appropriate pronouns.

[Chicks]

GOP Rep. Who Spoke At Pro-Hitler Event Goes After Ilhan Omar Because Of ‘Anti-Semitism’
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/paul-...b01e9288701e00

Whell’s World

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Chicks

GOP Rep. Who Spoke At Pro-Hitler Event Goes After Ilhan Omar Because Of ‘Anti-Semitism’
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/paul-...b01e9288701e00

Whell’s World

Nazi is absolutely not hyperbole for the GOP, it's plain fact.

[finnbow]

The Republican governor of Virginia, Glenn Youngkin, appears to have thwarted an attempt to stop law enforcement obtaining menstrual histories of women in the state.

A bill passed in the Democratic-led state senate, and supported by half the chamber’s Republicans, would have banned search warrants for menstrual data stored in tracking apps on mobile phones or other electronic devices.

Advocates feared private health information could be used in prosecutions for abortion law violations, after a US supreme court ruling last summer overturned federal protections for the procedure.

But Youngkin, who has pushed for a 15-week abortion ban to mirror similar measures in several Republican-controlled states, essentially killed the bill through a procedural move in a subcommittee of the Republican-controlled House.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...rual-histories

In case any of you thought that characterizing today's GOP as fascist was hyperbole.

[donquixote99]

Well, that's a different problem than I imagined, and you have a point. Not a great one, the argument against fascism is perfectly good. It's more an argument against the soft touch.

[finnbow]

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Florida Sen. Jason Brodeur (R-Lake Mary) wants bloggers who write about Gov. Ron DeSantis, Attorney General Ashley Moody, and other members of the Florida executive cabinet or legislature to register with the state or face fines.

The Brodeur proposal, Senate Bill 1316: Information Dissemination, would require any blogger writing about government officials to register with the Florida Office of Legislative Services or the Commission on Ethics.

https://www.wfla.com/news/politics/f...ith-the-state/

Nope, not fascist.

[bobabode]

I'm hoping those glaciers will hurry up and fall into the sea. Just eight or ten feet of sea level rise and the late, great state of Floriduh will be smaller than Rhode Island.