This is exactly what more than two-thirds of Americans wanted and exactly what more than two-thirds of Americans voted for.

PATRICIA ROBERTS-MILLER
Demagoguery and Democracy

We don't have demagoguery in our culture because a demagogue has come to power; when demagoguery becomes the normal way of participating in public discourse, then it's just a question of time until a demagogue arises.

It took several hours to finally investigate what this Cracker Barrel nonsense was all about. 

It took a few seconds to start losing grey matter.

I shit you not. 

This is what the half-wit MAGAt snowflake manufactured outrage machine went apoplectic about today.

This is what biologically adult men are melting down over today.

This is what is on the mind of incels today.

MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
Fascism: A Warning

Why, per Freedom House, is democracy now "under assault and in retreat"? Why are many people in positions of power seeking to undermine public confidence in elections, the courts, the media, and - on the fundamental question of earth's future - science? Why have such dangerous splits been allowed to develop between rich and poor, urban and rural, those with a higher education and those without? Why has the United States, at least temporarily, abdicated its leadership in world affairs? And why, this far into the twenty-first century, are we once again talking about Fascism?

One reason, frankly, is Donald Trump. If we think of Fascism as a wound from the past that had almost healed, putting Trump in the White House was like ripping off the bandage and picking at the scab.

You do you, little boy.

When Donnie D-Cup's christians try to think.

Poor Lil' Gunther should have just kept his mouth full of tiny mushroom dick.

Every MAGA. Every republican. Every evangelical.

Christians love pedophilia and child rape (and incest).

Read their goddamned book.

Christianity defined by a one-word tweet by a sitting member of Congress.

Sometimes, for a moment, one can truly wish hell is a real place. Just for evil cunts like Swaggart.
 

BENJAMIN CARTER HETT
The Death of Democracy

Alongside the viciousness of much of German politics in the Weimar years was an incongruous innocence: few people could imagine the worst possibilities. A civilized nation could not possibly vote for Hitler, some had thought. When he became chancellor nonetheless, millions expected his time in office to be short and ineffectual. Germany was a notoriously law-abiding as well as cultured land. How could a German government systematically brutalize its own people?

German Jews were highly assimilated and patriotic. Many refused to leave their homeland, even as things got worse and worse. "I am German and am waiting for the Germans to come back; they-have gone to ground somewhere," Victor Klemperer wrote in his diary-he was the son of a rabbi and a veteran of the First World War who chose to stay, and miraculously survived.

Few Germans in 1933 could imagine Treblinka or Auschwitz, the mass shootings of Babi Yar or the death marches of the last months of the Second World War. It is hard to blame them for not foreseeing the unthinkable. Yet their innocence failed them, and they were catastrophically wrong about their future. We who come later have one advantage over them: we have their example before us.

The batshit crazy that is Marjorie Taylor Greene:

4:17 PM - Before DJT started a war with Iran

7:42 PM - After DJT started a war with Iran

2025. 

DJT 2.0.

Trying to reach the level of shit stain.

Even failing at that.

First Amendment to The Constitution of the United States of America

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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Anything short of utter condemnation of Karoline Leavitt and her tweet is complicity and compliance.

And to the dude who said in the comments that you "understand needing to delete a post" because you once got hate for saying you prefer Labradors over Goldens...

Are you okay now? Do I need to call the paramedics?

When you graduate from manchild cult member to batshit insane manchild for a few rubles.

Christians.

Land of the free.

BERTRAND RUSSELL
Why I Am Not a Christian

That is the idea -- that we should all be wicked if we did not hold to the Christian religion. It seems to me that the people who have held to it have been for the most part extremely wicked. You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs. In the so-called ages of faith, when men really did believe the Christian religion in all its completeness, there was the Inquisition, with all its tortures; there were millions of unfortunate women burned as witches; and there was every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.

You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world.

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

You may think that I am going too far when I say that that is still so. I do not think that I am. Take one fact. You will bear with me if I mention it. It is not a pleasant fact, but the churches compel one to mention facts that are not pleasant. Supposing that in this world that we live in today an inexperienced girl is married to a syphilitic man; in that case the Catholic Church says, "This is an indissoluble sacrament. You must endure celibacy or stay together. And if you stay together, you must not use birth control to prevent the birth of syphilitic children." Nobody whose natural sympathies have not been warped by dogma, or whose moral nature was not absolutely dead to all sense of suffering, could maintain that it is right and proper that that state of things should continue.

That is only an example. There are a great many ways in which, at the present moment, the church, by its insistence upon what it chooses to call morality, inflicts upon all sorts of people undeserved and unnecessary suffering. And of course, as we know, it is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in the world, because it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness; and when you say that this or that ought to be done because it would make for human happiness, they think that has nothing to do with the matter at all. What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is to not make people happy.

An abusive parent/partner didn't start abusing when you came into their life. They were always abusive. It's who they are by nature, at the core.

DJT's followers were not brainwashed. They were always these people. It's who they are by nature, at the core.

To call them brainwashed is to enable and to encourage their behavior.

The hypocrisy is off the charts, but Christians do loathe every word Jesus ever said.

Artist: Michael de Adder