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Authoritarian Coups Are Gradual then Sudden
 Meanwhile, all across social media, the word is spreading: "The storm is upon us." In 1926 Ernest Hemmingway published his novel The Sun Also Rises, which has this extraordinary bit of dialogue about how change happens in most aspects of life — and how governments rise and fall. "How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked.
"Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly."
"What brought it on?"
"Friends," said Mike. "I had a lot of friends. False friends."For some unfathomable reason, Democrats insist on calling their Republican colleagues their "friends." They are not friends. They are systematically destroying American democracy with the clear objective of replacing it with strongman authoritarianism, a new and American version of what Benito Mussolini called fascism. Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
Friday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Authoritarian Coups Are Gradual then Sudden - Meanwhile, all across social media, the word is spreading: "The storm is upon us."
Tweet: " "We have reached the book-burning stage of rightwing American authoritarianism."
My opening monologue tonight on the threat we now face in America, from overturning elections to threats against schoolboards to the censorship of history. [video]" by Mehdi Hasan. Tweet: " Portland Oregon. The Governor of Oregon should deploy the State Police and the National Guard to arrest on site any heavily armed Paramilitary forces who are operating without ID's, Badges and snatching Americans off of the street and stuffing them into unmarked vehicles. 1" by Steve Schmidt. Speech: " Madison Square Garden Speech", President Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 31, 1936. " They are unanimous in their hate for me-and I welcome their hatred"
How corporate power is the real driving force behind inflation
Hour Two: Trump's Depravity for Defending "Hang Mike Pence" - Gradual...Then Sudden
Man Arrested For Threatening GOPer That Voted For Infrastructure Bill - Gradual...Then Sudden
Bible: " I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him - Revelation 6:8.
Hour Three: Extreme Expert Decodes "Doublespeak" Charlottesville Nazis - Gradual...Then Sudden
Anything Goes...What's On Your Mind? Thom Takes Your Calls..
Article: " Augustus" (Octavian) by Wikipedia. Article: " Contempt of Congress" (inherent contempt, criminal contempt, civil contempt) by Wikipedia. Tweet: " Combat Veteran with the facts.
Kenneth Ray McCain
combat veteran here...just a perspective: if you arrive armed to a place where violence is happening, prepared for violence, and you engage in violence, there is no self defense..." by Walter Masterson. |
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