Trump proudly declares himself and his Republican Party to be fascists

 On September 22 the president signed an executive order designating “Antifa” as “a major terrorist organization,”  What is Antifa?  It is a shortened word meaning Anti-Fascist. So, who would be afraid of anti-fascists? Oh, fascists would be afraid of and attack anti-fascists.

Then he sent the MAGA military into Portland, to attack anti-fascists. 

It’s what actual fascists do.  Say it out loud, they are fascists and proud.  

Lordy, he really is demented

Much to the humiliation of the United States of America, its elected leader rambled on ludicrously for an hour scolding the U.N. and making silly, childish claims. Here are some of the low lights:

First, just make believe…”It’s too bad that I had to do these things instead of the United Nations doing them,” Trump said. “I ended seven wars, dealt with the leaders of each and every one of these countries, and never even received a phone call from the United Nations offering to help in finalizing the deal.” 

Then bragging about his ignorance … “belittling climate change as “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world”

And glorying in cruelty… “The president praised El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, for keeping deportees from the U.S. in “terrorist prisons.”

And bragging about his war crimes… “Trump also boasted about his extrajudicial strikes on suspected Venezuelan drug cartels”

And wrapping it up like a six year old child… “During the campaign they had a hat, the best-selling hat ‘Trump was right about everything,’” he told the gathered world leaders while discussing climate change. “And I don’t say that in a bragging way but it’s true. I’ve been right about everything”

Sorry world. We tried to warn and warn and warn, but they were told not to listen to us. So they voted for him. 

So, it was rage at hatred against transgender women

 Well, it looks now like the Kirk killer was not a nihilistic Groyper who killed him because he was not conservative enough. It now looks like he was romantically involved with a transgender woman and“…had enough of his hatred”.  

“ Yesterday, a Utah court filing refuted a theory popular on the left: that the suspect in the murder of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk was a right-winger. “I had enough of his hatred," the suspect, Tyler Robinson, wrote in a text message to his romantic partner, according to a transcript of their exchange released by the prosecutors. “Some hate can’t be negotiated out.” An assassin to the right of Kirk, irritated by Kirk’s moderation, would have criticized him for being insufficiently hateful. The other charging documents describe Robinson’s recent drift to the political left. Robinson’s romance with a trans person, and decision to kill Kirk just as he was speaking about transgender mass shooters, strongly suggests that the alleged killer felt special zeal for the cause of trans rights, which is itself closely identified with the left.”

Frighteningly, this killing seems to be giving MAGA’s move into fascist rule an excuse to escalate their desires, where Stephen Miller, Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff, called the Democratic Party a “domestic extremist organization.  As usual, MAGA’s accusations sound a lot like confessions.

There is no stupider organism on the planet than an adolescent with his friends watching.

 Listening to the War Room podcast with Al Hunt and James Carville, they were interviewing two experts on crime on how to reduce crime.  One of them, I think it was David Kennedy, said when he is addressing a room of people, men and women, in an at risk neighborhood to violent crime, he says to the women "You know that there is no stupider organism on the planet than an adolescent with his friends watching." Which the women apparently agree to from their own hard experience. I think this is the quote most germane to so much today.  By the way, this principle also applies to overgrown adolescents, as indeed it looks to me like the Trump Administration is filled with adolescent brains of all ages.

This deeply dysfunctional killer of Kirk, if I understand the Groyper world correctly, was performing a violent act to impress and amuse his young man nihilistic Groyper audience. Boom, murder, horrible consequences for the country.

The criminologists on the podcast were saying that every city today knows that the terrible crime they face comes from a very small number of young men who are in blood feuds, and the way to reduce the crime is intervention at the local level to pull them out of the cycle of violent retaliation.  And these programs are remarkably effective and violent crime, although always too high, has dramatically dropped as a result of targeted social intervention.  As one of them said, the police know you cannot arrest your way out of the problem. It takes targeted social intervention to give them a way out of the retaliation cycle.

So, I take this truth about the cycle of retaliatory violence and apply it to the assassination of Charlie Kirk by a 22 year old young man lost in the dark world of Groyper nihilism.  Trump, and Stephen Miller, and JD Vance, and Fox News are doing the exactly wrong thing: they are calling for an escalation of violence by Their Gang against who they falsely claim are their Enemy Gang - liberals.  

This will only escalate the violence, of course.  And that is what Trump and Vance want: more violence so that they can declare martial law and suspend the 2026 elections and stay in power, because they know they will lose in 2026 due to their amazingly harmful and unpopular policies of their Big Beautiful Bill, and due to the exposure of their deeply corrupt and criminal natures as they try to suppress the Epstein evidence, rake in billions in government created crypto scams, and endless violations of the rule of law and the Constitution.

The Gang in the White House and Congress needs to rouse its gang all across the country to attack and destroy the "enemy gang" - Democrats and liberals of all stripes.

We are in a dangerous time.  I give no real credit to the Orange Bully for strategy, I think his life long operating principle is simple - "What benefits me?" and "I get to do whatever the hell I want to do."

But, his MAGA movement includes people who are very aware of the tried and tested strategies to end democracy and establish a fascist police state - crush all forms of resistance - Congress, Courts, Education, News, Entertainment, Culture - all forms of Free Thought.  

They are clear that they want only one law of the land - "You Shall Obey!"

Kirk’s killer - Young man nihilism?

 In 1987 I read Alan Bloom’s “The Closing of the American Mind”.  It was a a complex book but what I remember are two points that he made. First, kids were showing up at the University of Chicago with no background at all in thinking deep thoughts, questions about good and evil, what makes a good life, how to live a meaningful life, what’s right and wrong? These kinds of questions used to present themselves to earlier generations through religion, reading good literature, philosophy, etc.  What he saw was kids believing that right and wrong were relative, that there was no right and wrong. But they were wrong. There are things that are right and wrong. Not everything is subjective and arbitrary. 

He then expanded that idea into the Germans and Nietzsche’s Death of God famous quote and his warning that without a God, without actual right and wrong the world could collapse into nihilism, the belief that life is meaningless, truth could not be known, and the world would spiral into ever greater violence and annihilation. And, indeed, with the rise of Nazism that is exactly what the Germans did, and also did the Fascist Mussolini Italians and Fascist Franco Spanish. 

So, the killing of extremist provocateur, Charlie Kirk?  It appears that the killer was a neo-Nazi Groyper, a young man, among millions of young men, whose minds have been warped on social media into believing that life isn’t worth living, it is all just a big joke, and they are dedicated to creating chaos, destruction.  It appears they are lost inside the deranged void of nihilism. He saw Kirk as a fraud. And he killed him as a joke, since all of life is just a big meaningless joke, in order to cause pain just to see the pain, in order to make his nihilistic social media world laugh, and maybe that’s all it was. Just show up a fake, and make his world laugh. 

I am old, liberal, and am not familiar with the despairs and coping strategies of young men lost in nihilism. To me the question was whether he was a right wing nut or a left wing nut. But maybe he’s just a violent nihilistic troll. 

This is a shock to me. Hoping that this isn’t our future. It did not work out well for the Germans, nor the world. 

Although there are determined people wanting more destruction, I choose to believe in the Better Angels of our natures. I choose to believe we will emerge from these terrible mistakes and renew ourselves. 

Charlie Kirk killing - two reactions - MSNBC and Fox News

 MSNBC fired Matthew Dowd for saying that Charlie Kirk, right wing extremist activist, was in part responsible for his own killing - "“Hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions,” Dowd said, adding: “You can’t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and then not expect awful actions to take place.”  Wrong.  Gone.  Thank you MSNBC.

Fox News has no problem with Jesse Watters calling for violence in response to the Charlie Kirk killing - "“We are sick. We are sad. We are angry. And we are resolute,” he said. “And we are going to avenge Charlie’s death in the way that Charlie wanted to be avenged.”  Fox News allows this, apparently.

See the difference?

By the way, at this time we don't know who the shooter was and whether politics were involved.  Likely a left wing nutcase, but let's wait and discover more.

Update, 9/12/2025. The killer was turned in by a family friend and he is a Mormon 22 year old whose parents are Republicans, and he is registered as independent, and he dressed up in a Trump costume in 2017 - in other words, he is not a hate filled Marxist, regardless of how the Right Wing Media Industry wants him to be. Also, he is not Trans -- 

"A report in the conservative Wall Street Journal yesterday claimed that a law enforcement source had revealed that ammunition with "transgender" ideology carved into it had been recovered at the site of the Kirk shooting.

While it hasn't been officially confirmed, some gun experts have suggested that the bullets may have been produced by Turan Ammo. Such bullets are stamped with the manufacturer's mark "TRN." If such bullets were used by the shooter, it's possible that an overeager bigot saw "TRN" and interpreted it as "trans" instead of "Turan."

Will Fox News, Bannon, Musk and the profiteers of hate apologize and call for calm? I wish they would but that is not how they become rich and powerful.

Oh well...

Update 9/13/2025 - Now it appears that the killer is a Groyper Nazi follower of Nick Fuentes, American Nazi. Cult of violence. It is not unusual for right wing extremists to turn on each other, the obvious precedent is the Night of Long Knives in 1934 Germany where Hitler eliminated his rivals - violent purge ordered by Adolf Hitler from June 30 to July 2, 1934, to consolidate his power within the Nazi Party. "Nazi paramilitary forces, the Schutzstaffel (SS) and Gestapo, murdered the leadership of the Sturmabteilung (SA) (the Brownshirts), including its leader Ernst Röhm, who was a rival to Hitler."

Thank goodness we are a long way from Hitler's Germany but extremists purging others in their movement for lack of purity is just how it goes, it appears.

Look at Nancy Mace's face

Look at Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace's face.  It says all we need to know about the depraved abuse that Epstein, and his elite compadres (Donald Donald Donald J J J Trump Trump Trump - best buddies with Epstein, "party" buddy with Epstein) did to these women when they were children - children - children.

Nancy Mace is a hard core MAGA South Carolina "Republican".  Her famous quote was "I am Trump in high heels".  Well, this may be where the political opportunist worm turns.  I want ANGER by Mace, by Republicans, by Democrats, by all of America.  This is the Pedo ring that Qanon was trying to expose for years.  And I refuse to allow the MAGAs to ignore the central debauched predator, Trump.  He has long bragged about his celebrity allowing him sexual assault, how his money buys everybody off.  I want him at the top of the list.  If Clinton and Gates and Prince Andrew go to prison, fine.  Prison for all of them.

Why is this so important?  Because the only real hope for America and the world is the removal of Trump from office, and slammed into prison for life, with no ability to terrorize and bully the Republican Party to continue to destroy America and the world from afar.  Impeachment by the House and conviction by the Senate are the cleanest way for that to happen, and only MAGA can do that.  Only the Republicans can impeach and convict Trump.  He has them terrified. Expose, beyond any denials by the Sexual Predator in Chief, his debauchery and cruelty.  Turn the stomachs of MAGA.  

The only other two options are the 25th Amendment (he is coo coo coco puffs - or a debilitating stroke) - both possible.  But it would be best if his sins are what ended his reign of terror.

Look at Nancy Mace's face...horror

Trump says "This is a Democrat hoax..."  Oops, time for a Very Very Big Thing to capture the headlines for a long time - troops into Chicago? Nuclear war? This maniac is cornered and dangerous