Every American should watch this documentary on Netflix titled ‘Hitler and the Nazis: Hitler on Trial’! It is the best doc I’ve ever seen on the subject. It’s also hard to watch.
Devin Pendas, a professor at Boston College, is quoted in this documentary:
“It’s not that a handful of evil men can do evil things, it’s that a handful of evil men can convince a large majority of ordinary men to help them do evil things.”
It's amazing to me how many seemingly ordinary people are teetering on the brink, and only need a slight nudge to be coaxed into the black hole. I know some of these ordinary people and I just don't get it.
The neighbour I've often mentioned who is a full-on Magat - is Puerto Rican. VERY proud of her father who worked very menial jobs up in the Bronx while managing to scrape together funds to buy a previously foreclosed home out here on our cul-de-sac (which WAS an achievement). I wish I could have warned her parents about the previous owner who pulled away the plywood covering the door and squaatted/occupied the house with his dog who had poop problems - destroying the wall-to-wall carpeting. At least he finally pulled that all out, dumping it outside for all to enjoy. Unfortunately, he also decided to 'pay back' the Bank by ripping out the boiler and its chimney through the ceiling before finally vacating, causing the roof to have a major leak, stole the other appliances (which had come with the house) so these poor people who expected an intact home had all these extra expenses from day one AND in bitter cold weather. WE did everything possible to help out. She was already full grown and already an angry person (mine not to question why). She glommed onto us, spending TONS of time over here, which was ok - when we weren't working in Manhattan. We had animals in common, which I appreciated. I found out she graduated from the exact same Manhattan All-girls High School ten years after me. It was a good school when I attended...one history teacher in particular being responsible for getting me through American History after I'd flunked THAT miserably (sailing through every other course at the top of my class but knowing nothing about George Washington OR his fucking cherry tree!) I needed that score to graduate/get into the college I wanted and Mr. Shapiro and his teacher wife...he was this TINY little man whom I adored, forced me to stand up - despite my attempts to hide at the back of the room and to answer EVERY SINGLE QUESTION until I got it right. Other girls would snigger at my zero knowledge of American History, while I could rattle off long lists of British Kings and Queens. SHE seems to have entirely missed not only the history classes there but also any English education. She's lived in NY her entire life yet can't spell or grasp simple concepts I've taken the time to explain over the years - even rewritten her resume helping her get the dream job of correction officer she wanted, to elevate her finances. What a mistake. She became one of those 'nazis' along with some of her co-workers as you talked about today Jeff - telling stories about 'big black mamas trying to stare me down but I showed THEM (as she demonstrated). Ugh & Gad. She's very short - so I guess this was her lifelong wish to be able to intimidate those she looked down upon? This is when she became more and more racist and easily fell into maga-world where she seems forever entrenched - entirely against her own best interests, defending frump to the bitter end. I'll NEVER comprehend this.
THE CHURCH BETTER START TAKING NAZIFICATION SERIOUSLY
Tucker Carlson hosted neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes on his podcast. The stakes are high for American Christians.
CHRISTIANITY TODAY
NOVEMBER 5, 2025
Last week, after Tucker Carlson platformed neo-Nazi apologist Nick Fuentes on his podcast, the Heritage Foundation’s president Kevin Robert (a Catholic)s issued a statement defending Carlson. Roberts denounced what he termed a “venomous coalition” of conservatives who called out the interview because they oppose any “no enemies to the right” posture that includes Nazism. In the days since, some Heritage Foundation staffers have told reporters that the controversy revealed for them how many of the youngest staffers and interns actually agree with Fuentes. This comes only weeks after text messages from multiple Young Republicans groups were leaked, showing racist, antisemitic, and pro-Hitler messages.
This matter is crucial for the future of the country, but the stakes are even higher for the church. It is well past time for the church of Jesus Christ to take this seriously. And the first step to seeing how to do so is to ask, “Why do so many evangelical pastors and leaders not take it seriously now?”
Already some constantly online young men who profess to be evangelicals are winking and nodding with HH references and “noticing things” memes while commending the ideologies of Nazis such as Carl Schmitt. Some older leaders don’t take it seriously because they think the numbers of these young men are so few, and some because they think the numbers are so many.
Those who think the numbers are too few will wave away concerns with phrases like “Online is not real life,” usually pointing out that very few of these social media trolls are preachers or pastors. They will note that those who are preachers are typically in front of tiny congregations and spend most of their time podcasting and posting back-and-forth arguments online all day. That is true—and is utterly beside the point.
Those who say such things do not understand how almost every fad—good, bad, and neutral—that has swept through evangelicalism has taken hold. These trends start out in small groups of people that are not large enough to be taken seriously by “successful” leaders. These small communities then cultivate the fads until a couple people with bigger platforms adopt them. And then, seemingly suddenly, they are everywhere. Power evangelism, prayer walking, seeker-sensitive services, laughing revivals, New Calvinism—all of these (and again, some of these things are good, and some are not) happened that way.
Journalist Jonathan V. Last once described how systems fail: “When the bad guys win, it’s always because they are enabled by the weakness and wishful thinking of people in a position to stop them.”
The greater problem is with the evangelicals who say nothing because they think the numbers are too great. They will pivot the discussion and say that “this is what you get” when some objectionable thing happens elsewhere—as though we were talking about kindergartners. Whatever your theology proposes about the age of accountability, I think we can all agree that a 25-year-old is well past the bar. Others will argue that, though they wouldn’t have done it this way, there’s a vibe shift in this direction that we have to recognize.
During World War II, American journalist Dorothy Thompson described this type as “Mr. B” in her famous essay “Who Goes Nazi.” She wrote, “He fits easily into whatever pattern is successful. That is his sole measure of value—success. Nazism as a minority movement would not attract him. As a movement likely to attain power, it would.”
The mentality which suggests that laughing at sexual abuse or using denigrating slurs for those with disabilities or wink-wink-nod-nod sending around Nazi memes is evidence of a “vibe shift” is perhaps understandable for a pagan who believes the zeitgeist is lord. But for a Christian who has read any page of the Old or New Testament, that’s incomprehensible.
Jesus said, “For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect” (Matt. 24:24, ESV throughout). The description of the Beast of Revelation is of near-universal popularity and success: “Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?” (Rev. 13:4).
When the popular will becomes the standard of truth, we move from silliness in the best of times to cruelty in worse times and to the death camps in the worst of times. This is a call, as Jesus put it, for “endurance and faith” (v. 10). You can call that a “vibe shift” if you want.
The vibe-shift view is precisely what led the Confessing Church of 1934 to stand up against the German Christians, the religious party associated with Adolf Hitler. The Confessing Church’s statement said, “We reject the false doctrine that the Church could and should recognize as a source of its proclamation, beyond and besides this one Word of God, yet other events, powers, historic figures and truths as God’s revelation.” Karl Barth, the primary author of the Barmen Declaration, would write laterto churches in Nazi-occupied France, who seemed to be wobbling in their commitment to resist publicly or forcefully Nazi ideology:
I cannot think that your judgment of today about the fundamental situation between Hitler and the rest of us is different from a year ago just because in the meantime Hitler has had so many good days (vividly reminding us of Job [21] and Psalms [10] and [73]) and France, together with all those other countries, so many bad days.
Barth continued,
If that were your attitude, you would have surrendered, not merely to the German arms, but to that German philosophy which in 1933 broke out like a plague among the German people themselves. In that case, Hitler would have conquered not only your country but your souls.
During the years of Nazi domination of Germany, writer Thomas Mann, an expatriate, broadcast a series of radio addresses to his fellow Germans, pleading with them to resist what was happening to their country. Among the atrocities, he included what he said had to be “the strongest and most ghastly phenomena of National Socialism [Nazism].” He described it with a word we don’t use much anymore, vitiate, which means “to debase” or “to corrupt.” Mentioning such glorious words as peace and patriotism, Mann wrote that Nazism “has vitiated all ideas which were supported by the best men in the world and has made them something in which no decent person wants to partake anymore.”
Conservatives alarmed at the steps toward the normalization of Fuentes and a Nazified young right understand this. They know this awful ideology will evacuate all the principles they wish to conserve of the meaning of words like peace and patriotism.
But why do I say the stakes are even higher for the church? After all, the church does not have nuclear codes and cannot build death camps. It can only empower with its support—or its silence—those who do.
The question is whether the gospel of Jesus Christ is true. If it is, as I firmly believe, then what happens if words like evangelical or church or salvationor (I shudder to write) Jesus are filled up with the meanings of an antichrist alt-gospel? In that case, what’s on the line for generations is a matter of eternity.
We have a choice. The Bible will not sit alongside Mein Kampf. The cross will not yield to the swastika. We must ask right now: Jesus or Hitler? We cannot have both.
Russell Moore is editor at-large and columnist at Christianity Today and leads its Public Theology Project.
The Christian Churches could have nipped this in the bud in the 1970s when Jerry Falwell was getting big—but they didn't because Hey, church attendance was down, and this might bring people back to church!
It's like the Republicans who supported Nixon's "Southern Strategy" of leaching the Religious Right Racist Dixiecrat poison out of the Democratic Party after LBJ signed The Civil Rights Act in 1964—or Substack's owners who let The Nazi Bars flourish on here because "free speech rights!"...or something. Thankfully, there are a lot of Leftists on here who took Karl Popper's "Paradox of Tolerance" to heart, and we were sure to chase their asses off our part of Substack with pitchforks and torches (I never go to the Nazi Bar side, but I'm sure it's still there, waiting for its chance).
If the "Good Christians" don't want to be lumped in with "Good Germans" (though they deserve to be for not beating Falwell to a bloody pulp the moment he raised his slimy head!), they'd better SERIOUSLY start attacking and repudiating the KKKhrister Right...Right Now.
Chicago Italians went bat-shit crazy when Columbus statues were removed from public spaces and indigenous people were honored on "Columbus Day". Mussolini lives in the hearts of Americans.
General society was racist as fuck at the time. The idea of treating people from different races and/or religions as equals hadn't penetrated the popular mindset yet. But our knowledge of morality has grown just like our knowledge of science. Pointing out that people centuries ago were racist is just as irrelevant as pointing out that they once believe the Sun revolved around the Earth.
Jeff, I'd just like to remind you, Columbus went against intellectual opinion and managed to convince Isabella that she could gain immense wealth by going west to the Indies. In those days, after Greece and Rome, society was racist, as much as people knew there were African and Asian peoples, which few of them did. The promise of wealth talks (ask t) and that's what got we European immigrants to the Americas, or whatever you want to call them.
It's also worth making it clear that the intellectual objections to Columbus's plans were not because people thought the world was flat as popular mythology portrays the situation. The objections were because Columbus sucked at math and though the world was a third the size it actually was.
Columbus spent much of his life after 1492 in prison, because he was a barsteward even by the standards of his own day. He was not punished for what he did to the natives, of course, but because he was equally cruel with Spaniards.
Nuremberg is out - hopefully a palate cleanser before these MAGA Nazi fucks get summarily executed with the return of the rule of law and primacy of well-formed conscience.
AND wrong about everything else. So WHEN he points to that TINY tidbit of 'fact' his followers will all clamour that he was RIGHT to call out Columbus AND all the others since they can't differentiate fact from LIES (except of course for the Italian-Americans who hold Columbus up as a fucking Saint! That alone will lose him some adherents.
Anyone who thinks Jews are organized has never been in a room full of Jews. We never stop debating. Why are these Nazi dudes so physically ugly? It's in 'em and it's gotta come out? They can kiss my kosher ass.
Scientists among them are even worse: Ask them one question and they’ll test hypotheses that end up answering that one question, and raise two brand new questions
I was once at Boskone, a big SF Con in Boston, MA, when writers Esther Friesner and Josepha Sherman were participating in a version of WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? (a show where people improvise to comical effect), and the host (Michael Burstein, another SF writer) gave them "Questions", where you have to answer a question with a question.
Esther and Jo went on for about fifteen minutes without letup to audience laughter, finally ending with Jo asking the audience, "Did you think two Jewish women couldn't ace this one?"
I heard this explanation of how three Jews will have six opinions: you see, there is the opinion of A when he is arguing with B, and the opinion of A when he is arguing with C...
In our Jewish home, our mother TOLD us what our opinion was. In fact, Jeff, if she had lived long enough, she could have made your Newsletter title her motto!
Bovino's head is too small for his body, and his Nazi cosplay outfit only emphasizes his tiny cranium. Fittingly enough. As for Fuentes--I don't think I ever got such a clear look at him before, and he kinda looks as if a large, Monty-Python-esque foot stepped down hard on his head. Fucker Carlson, of course, looks like vinyl, just like Holy Brother Mike Johnson and Jared Not a Real Boy Kushner.
Doc: All of these a$$holes, mostly guys, are trying to compensate for whatever they think is too small, puny, short, crooked or whatever , some inadequacy they perceive…
Jared K. looks like the Hurd Hatfield who played Dorian Gray in the 1945 version of The Picture of Dorian Gray. My other observation of Jared is that I think he selected his wife because of her body size so he could fit into her 'outfits'. Have I pushed the envelop on that too far?
I hope when we have our equivalent of the Nuremberg trials that Bovino's is held in Chicago. That dude needs to be tarred and feathered and chased out of my city by an angry mob.
I’ve heard people say this about a resulting Nuremberg…. Couple questions as I’m genuinely perplexed about how this happens. I’m also a little Aspergers-y and take things EXTREMELY literally. This Nuremberg thing..will it occur in the U.S. or outside? How does you suppose it will happen in the U.S. when these assholes can just leave the U.S.? The U.S. doesn’t cooperate with ICC. ICC would be involved if it were outside the U.S. the assholes can just stay inside the U.S. to avoid accountability for that scenario. Plus, regardless of deaths or election outcomes, the massive corruption we’re seeing isn’t going to stop. For theUS to go back to what it was 20 years ago, I figure 4 things will have to happen. 1) Lobbying and other legal bribery will have to stop. 2) campaign finance will have to change to: everyone gets $X for their campaign and that’s it. -to prevent more legal bribery 3) ALL corrupt politicians will have to be charged, prosecuted and if convicted, go to jail without the possibility of a pardon from a corrupt or weak president. 4) the SC will, at minimum, need to have corrupt justices removed and then be held to STRINGENT ethics rules. Like if a justice accidentally sees someone in a grocery store who has a case coming up before him , the justice will need to immediately leave the area and then report the encounter. ANY lapse in ethics results in the justice getting his ass kicked to the curb without pensions/gov bene’s. Just the corruption indictments would likely affect 90% of GOP politicians and could be 50% of Dems. Neither party is going to sign on to ANY 1 of these let alone all 4. sadly, I think something really horribly disruptive is going to have to happen to motivate politicians to abandon corruption.
Jay, trump would be tried out of country for international trial. ICC does NOT have jurisdiction over the U.S. HOWEVER, If orange felon steps foot in a country that IS part of the member states he can be taken to the Hague.
Maybe, his pilots on one of air palaces could do us a solid and drop him off somewhere in Scotland, deep in a town where he is most hated by the locals.
I'm glad in Quebec it's the norm to keep one's maiden name - to take your spouse's name requires the paperwork fiasco. My name is German and can be either Jewish or not. As a convert and an immigrant, I was delighted with both of these discoveries.
There was a record album back in the day called "You Don't Have To Be Jewish." Memory fails me as to what many of the quips said. But this one, I remember. A little girl comes rushing home to tell her mother, "Momma, did you hear? The Goldsteins are going to Europe. To which the mother responds, "Big Deal. I was born there!"
And here it is...as funny now as it was back in 1965:
" frozen-fish-stick heir and roasted ballsack aficionado" That will forever be the best description of Carlson. In Missouri, we'd say "That boy aint right." 😂😂
You are so right: "the GOP has been openly embracing Nazi ideas and iconography for years now." They have been working up to this moment for decades. As Lucian Truscott sums it up nicely: "There is no legitimate form of conservatism. They’re all fucking Nazis, and they always have been."
Thank you for mentioning Lucian Truscott IV. He is an excellent writer, a West Point graduate, and the five-time great grandson of President Thomas Jefferson. Check out his Substack -- https://luciantruscott.substack.com/.
Fuentes is deeply mentally ill, probably more so than even Musk, who has multiple diagnoses, a nasty drug addiction, and a total lack of empathy. It's not safe to give any of them even a morsel of oxygen. But the power mongers and famewhores are too busy lining their pockets to see what they have unleashed.
Jeff, it seems the MAGAs party is dialing up the Jew Hate to levels unseen since pre WWII in our country… As a friend and former university professor told me and keeps repeating… “it always comes down to Jews”. Secondly the wiping out the history of our Black soldiers in that cemetery is another element of diminishing the role of POC in our history books… another dictum from P2025 that Donald knows nothing about. Geesh💩Have a relaxing Sunday fellow travelers..we all need it after the shit show last week.
I'm positing the theory that allowing the razing of Gaza and the annexing the WB is part and parcel of the plan to deport American Jews to Israel. How else are they going to be able to be a White CHRISTIAN Nationalist Kleptocracy once all the brown people are gone or relegated to 2nd class status?
I remember, several months ago—which now feels like 1000 years ago—when our heavily eyelinered hillbilly of a vice president traveled to Germany to meet with the Chancellor during their election. He made a point of saying that it was wrong to shut down the Nazi party, (which I believe was comprised of about 20% of Germany’s population), because of their right to free speech. Yeah, free speech is just for Nazis now.
And I was watching Bill Maher on Friday night, where he had Bill O’Reilly on as a guest. 🙄. He was saying (and Bill was agreeing) that the Democratic Party is the party of anti-Semitism, and this sentiment is merely spreading to the Republican Party. I wanted to put my fist through the TV (but why ruin a perfectly good TV…or my fist?) because I guess they’ve all forgotten about the Charlottesville protesters, chanting “Jews will not replace us”, while Trump called them very fine people. Or the fact that the oath keepers, proud boys, and basically all of the white Christian nationalists all vote Republican. And after Kanye threatened the Jews, Trump invited him to the White House for dinner, accompanied by no other than Nick Fuentes— whom Trump pretended to know nothing about (because of course he did). Republicans have been pushing their brand of Nazism for years, and Trump unearthed the scumbags who were previously hiding under rocks. Now that the Palestinians are coming out against Israel, these GOP thugs are dancing in the streets, because they get to call the Dems the Jew- haters. It’s beyond disgusting!
Well first can we just get Bill Maher to fuck right off? I stopped with him years ago when he let some douchebag get away with a lie totally unquestioned. He has all these right wing schtick dreks on and the end result is they get a national, live hearing with sorely limited pushback.
Agreed! He gives low-lives like Steve Bannon platforms to spew their bull shit, with very little pushback. He challenges the Dems who come on his show fat more than he does the far right wing nuts. He conflates criticism of Israel with anti-semitism, and it’s infuriating. I don’t know why I keep tuning in. He’s a comedian who is no longer funny, and it’s time for him to hang up thr mic.
You and me both. Almost every week I walk through the living room and walk right out again, because my husband is watching him. He's taken to watching a taped version after I go to bed, because I'm so unhappy about it.
I don’t know why I keep watching. Every week I think he’s gonna be better. And each time my reaction is anything from disappointment to full-blown rage.
As I keep saying, I want to show conservatives who whine about "antisemitism creeping in" an entire run of The National Review from the 1960s. Or basically anything from around that time from the John Birch Society. They're just fretting because the entire goddamn Right is now Birchers and they can't dismiss these things as "fringe".
Unfortunately for the JBS, it was founded about 60 or 70 years too early. If only they were still active, one of their members could have been POTUS. 🙄
Really. I was worried that they'd be all "the elections were all stolen" after Tuesday, but they've turned on each other more than ever. As Jeff said so eloquently, a party arguing over how Nazi it should be booted out of power.
What's left of the GOP needs to decide how to attract voters and keep them in their fold. Embracing antisemitism makes rational, moral voters run for the hills. My late father back in the early 60's was a GOP committee member. He coordinated with the Goldwater campaign. Barry G was Jewish himself as well as my father. I believe both men would condemn what has happened to the GOP. Dad already was headed that way before he died in 1999. He made statements about George W Bush, saying he was worse than the old man.
The line of succession is pretty bleak. And his supporters are rabid. Unless, they turn out to be like the flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz, and admit they never liked him, I think we’re screwed.
It’s been going on for a while now, the MAGA faithful love MTG, she was definitely a player, long before Tuck intervened Fuentes. Trump had the Nazi over for dinner in 2022, should have been a sign for all those Roberts and the Heritage Foundation fucks Mark!
The human abacus Bessent was asked something to that effect by George Stephanopoulos today. His reply was along the lines of that’s money in the future. Wonder if these shitheads invested it in $melania (no thanks I’d rather not have a whiff) funny money
It’s Remembrance Day here in the UK when we remember all those who gave their lives in World Wars 1&2. I was at my church service this morning and our preacher said they died to give us a better life. One of the taglines for Remembrance Sunday is “Lest We Forget”. But, while many of us remember or have read of the atrocities, particularly in WW2, so many people have forgotten. It’s happening in so many places - Palestine, Ukraine, Sudan, the US and the UK - the “othering” of people, whether by gender/gender identity, by race, by colour, by creed, by ability v disability and convincing as many people as possible that they are the cause of all our problems, when actually, the cause of all our problems have been the political decisions by laissez-faire leaders and those who worship at the altar of money, power and control. It’s truly sickening to hear people like Fuentes in the US and members of the Reform party in the UK dehumanising groups of people and pretending they are superior to the rest of us.
This really bothers me. I know we didn't get to WWII because there was too much American history to learn, but we had parents and possibly grandparents who served in WWII, and all those war movies. We couldn't forget. This generation had Band of Brothers, but I guess it didn't sink in. I'd like to see three full years of American history in high school, rather than the year and a half I got. Oh, and all those books like Exodus, The Diary of Anne Frank", even "Catch 22". "Lest we forget".
That is an absolute travesty. I grew up reading books about WW2, and Anne Frank’s was a reminder that when those in power start treating people as objects, that’s when evil starts. Are there any libraries that still carry banned books?
My Dad gave me a copy. He was born in November 1939 so his memories of the war were scant, apart from remembering he didn’t see his father till he was 5yo. He lent me many books about the war and the Holocaust, to make sure I knew what had happened. I miss him so deeply. He died in February 💔
I am so sorry about your Dad. Mine left us in 2010, he too was the one who encouraged me to read the book, and watch the movie. I miss him also, everyday!
Thank you so much for writing this so much better than I could ever have. The gall of removing that tribute to the soldiers in a foreign cemetery, WTF.
Let me add how nice it is that Nick Fuentes had his set all decorated in an autumn theme. 🙄Who did that for him? His mom? Did he think that might make his nasty ass speech more palatable? Fuck that guy.
He's 27 years old and sounds like a 15-year old jerkoff incel living in his mom's basement (maybe that's Tucker's room now). So empty of real ideas and life experience he has to pathetically try to co-opt gangsta speak and claims he sounds "bad-ass real." More like Charlie Kirk's squash-faced kid brother who fell out of the tree onto his head too often.
The death of one grifting, misogynistic, homophobic, racist, transphobic, antisemitic, loudmouth with scary gums has left a vacuum for another unfuckable garden gnome who's even worse to take his place.
Susan, you just defined a very real problem we Dems have and it’s all of them waiting on the bench like the baseball team. We’ve talked about the scenario of our dreams if tRamp would up and die like in his sleep for which he is a candidate but then there is the next and the next possibility all bad to worse. For one thing we now have the worst I believe that and with him gone they weaken. This was a good week for beatings dopey received in courts and that was progress.
Interesting argument by the boy Nazi. It’s ok to be despicable because people have been despicable in the past. It’s ok to be racist and mysogynistic because there were many notable racists and misogynists in history, just as were (and are) people who bought and sold other people, and people who beat and exploited women and children. There have been lots of powerful people who invaded their neighbors, killed them and claimed their property. Often kings and dictators have systematically exterminated people for being of a different ethnicity, race or religion.
The fact of the matter is the Fuentes is a sick puppy, apparently so unhappy being himself that he literally has to find reason to hate others.
it should be noted that Nick Fuentes was right about Columbus, he was racist as fuck
Every American should watch this documentary on Netflix titled ‘Hitler and the Nazis: Hitler on Trial’! It is the best doc I’ve ever seen on the subject. It’s also hard to watch.
Devin Pendas, a professor at Boston College, is quoted in this documentary:
“It’s not that a handful of evil men can do evil things, it’s that a handful of evil men can convince a large majority of ordinary men to help them do evil things.”
It's amazing to me how many seemingly ordinary people are teetering on the brink, and only need a slight nudge to be coaxed into the black hole. I know some of these ordinary people and I just don't get it.
I know some too and it shocks me. Not enough people in this country have studied history.
The neighbour I've often mentioned who is a full-on Magat - is Puerto Rican. VERY proud of her father who worked very menial jobs up in the Bronx while managing to scrape together funds to buy a previously foreclosed home out here on our cul-de-sac (which WAS an achievement). I wish I could have warned her parents about the previous owner who pulled away the plywood covering the door and squaatted/occupied the house with his dog who had poop problems - destroying the wall-to-wall carpeting. At least he finally pulled that all out, dumping it outside for all to enjoy. Unfortunately, he also decided to 'pay back' the Bank by ripping out the boiler and its chimney through the ceiling before finally vacating, causing the roof to have a major leak, stole the other appliances (which had come with the house) so these poor people who expected an intact home had all these extra expenses from day one AND in bitter cold weather. WE did everything possible to help out. She was already full grown and already an angry person (mine not to question why). She glommed onto us, spending TONS of time over here, which was ok - when we weren't working in Manhattan. We had animals in common, which I appreciated. I found out she graduated from the exact same Manhattan All-girls High School ten years after me. It was a good school when I attended...one history teacher in particular being responsible for getting me through American History after I'd flunked THAT miserably (sailing through every other course at the top of my class but knowing nothing about George Washington OR his fucking cherry tree!) I needed that score to graduate/get into the college I wanted and Mr. Shapiro and his teacher wife...he was this TINY little man whom I adored, forced me to stand up - despite my attempts to hide at the back of the room and to answer EVERY SINGLE QUESTION until I got it right. Other girls would snigger at my zero knowledge of American History, while I could rattle off long lists of British Kings and Queens. SHE seems to have entirely missed not only the history classes there but also any English education. She's lived in NY her entire life yet can't spell or grasp simple concepts I've taken the time to explain over the years - even rewritten her resume helping her get the dream job of correction officer she wanted, to elevate her finances. What a mistake. She became one of those 'nazis' along with some of her co-workers as you talked about today Jeff - telling stories about 'big black mamas trying to stare me down but I showed THEM (as she demonstrated). Ugh & Gad. She's very short - so I guess this was her lifelong wish to be able to intimidate those she looked down upon? This is when she became more and more racist and easily fell into maga-world where she seems forever entrenched - entirely against her own best interests, defending frump to the bitter end. I'll NEVER comprehend this.
And fewer will now, since this administration doesn't want America's real history taught, only their carefully edited/deleted version. It's sickening.
THE CHURCH BETTER START TAKING NAZIFICATION SERIOUSLY
Tucker Carlson hosted neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes on his podcast. The stakes are high for American Christians.
CHRISTIANITY TODAY
NOVEMBER 5, 2025
Last week, after Tucker Carlson platformed neo-Nazi apologist Nick Fuentes on his podcast, the Heritage Foundation’s president Kevin Robert (a Catholic)s issued a statement defending Carlson. Roberts denounced what he termed a “venomous coalition” of conservatives who called out the interview because they oppose any “no enemies to the right” posture that includes Nazism. In the days since, some Heritage Foundation staffers have told reporters that the controversy revealed for them how many of the youngest staffers and interns actually agree with Fuentes. This comes only weeks after text messages from multiple Young Republicans groups were leaked, showing racist, antisemitic, and pro-Hitler messages.
This matter is crucial for the future of the country, but the stakes are even higher for the church. It is well past time for the church of Jesus Christ to take this seriously. And the first step to seeing how to do so is to ask, “Why do so many evangelical pastors and leaders not take it seriously now?”
Already some constantly online young men who profess to be evangelicals are winking and nodding with HH references and “noticing things” memes while commending the ideologies of Nazis such as Carl Schmitt. Some older leaders don’t take it seriously because they think the numbers of these young men are so few, and some because they think the numbers are so many.
Those who think the numbers are too few will wave away concerns with phrases like “Online is not real life,” usually pointing out that very few of these social media trolls are preachers or pastors. They will note that those who are preachers are typically in front of tiny congregations and spend most of their time podcasting and posting back-and-forth arguments online all day. That is true—and is utterly beside the point.
Those who say such things do not understand how almost every fad—good, bad, and neutral—that has swept through evangelicalism has taken hold. These trends start out in small groups of people that are not large enough to be taken seriously by “successful” leaders. These small communities then cultivate the fads until a couple people with bigger platforms adopt them. And then, seemingly suddenly, they are everywhere. Power evangelism, prayer walking, seeker-sensitive services, laughing revivals, New Calvinism—all of these (and again, some of these things are good, and some are not) happened that way.
Journalist Jonathan V. Last once described how systems fail: “When the bad guys win, it’s always because they are enabled by the weakness and wishful thinking of people in a position to stop them.”
The greater problem is with the evangelicals who say nothing because they think the numbers are too great. They will pivot the discussion and say that “this is what you get” when some objectionable thing happens elsewhere—as though we were talking about kindergartners. Whatever your theology proposes about the age of accountability, I think we can all agree that a 25-year-old is well past the bar. Others will argue that, though they wouldn’t have done it this way, there’s a vibe shift in this direction that we have to recognize.
During World War II, American journalist Dorothy Thompson described this type as “Mr. B” in her famous essay “Who Goes Nazi.” She wrote, “He fits easily into whatever pattern is successful. That is his sole measure of value—success. Nazism as a minority movement would not attract him. As a movement likely to attain power, it would.”
The mentality which suggests that laughing at sexual abuse or using denigrating slurs for those with disabilities or wink-wink-nod-nod sending around Nazi memes is evidence of a “vibe shift” is perhaps understandable for a pagan who believes the zeitgeist is lord. But for a Christian who has read any page of the Old or New Testament, that’s incomprehensible.
Jesus said, “For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect” (Matt. 24:24, ESV throughout). The description of the Beast of Revelation is of near-universal popularity and success: “Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?” (Rev. 13:4).
When the popular will becomes the standard of truth, we move from silliness in the best of times to cruelty in worse times and to the death camps in the worst of times. This is a call, as Jesus put it, for “endurance and faith” (v. 10). You can call that a “vibe shift” if you want.
The vibe-shift view is precisely what led the Confessing Church of 1934 to stand up against the German Christians, the religious party associated with Adolf Hitler. The Confessing Church’s statement said, “We reject the false doctrine that the Church could and should recognize as a source of its proclamation, beyond and besides this one Word of God, yet other events, powers, historic figures and truths as God’s revelation.” Karl Barth, the primary author of the Barmen Declaration, would write laterto churches in Nazi-occupied France, who seemed to be wobbling in their commitment to resist publicly or forcefully Nazi ideology:
I cannot think that your judgment of today about the fundamental situation between Hitler and the rest of us is different from a year ago just because in the meantime Hitler has had so many good days (vividly reminding us of Job [21] and Psalms [10] and [73]) and France, together with all those other countries, so many bad days.
Barth continued,
If that were your attitude, you would have surrendered, not merely to the German arms, but to that German philosophy which in 1933 broke out like a plague among the German people themselves. In that case, Hitler would have conquered not only your country but your souls.
During the years of Nazi domination of Germany, writer Thomas Mann, an expatriate, broadcast a series of radio addresses to his fellow Germans, pleading with them to resist what was happening to their country. Among the atrocities, he included what he said had to be “the strongest and most ghastly phenomena of National Socialism [Nazism].” He described it with a word we don’t use much anymore, vitiate, which means “to debase” or “to corrupt.” Mentioning such glorious words as peace and patriotism, Mann wrote that Nazism “has vitiated all ideas which were supported by the best men in the world and has made them something in which no decent person wants to partake anymore.”
Conservatives alarmed at the steps toward the normalization of Fuentes and a Nazified young right understand this. They know this awful ideology will evacuate all the principles they wish to conserve of the meaning of words like peace and patriotism.
But why do I say the stakes are even higher for the church? After all, the church does not have nuclear codes and cannot build death camps. It can only empower with its support—or its silence—those who do.
The question is whether the gospel of Jesus Christ is true. If it is, as I firmly believe, then what happens if words like evangelical or church or salvationor (I shudder to write) Jesus are filled up with the meanings of an antichrist alt-gospel? In that case, what’s on the line for generations is a matter of eternity.
We have a choice. The Bible will not sit alongside Mein Kampf. The cross will not yield to the swastika. We must ask right now: Jesus or Hitler? We cannot have both.
Russell Moore is editor at-large and columnist at Christianity Today and leads its Public Theology Project.
Evangelical "Christians" have been worshipping Antichrist for years.
The Christian Churches could have nipped this in the bud in the 1970s when Jerry Falwell was getting big—but they didn't because Hey, church attendance was down, and this might bring people back to church!
It's like the Republicans who supported Nixon's "Southern Strategy" of leaching the Religious Right Racist Dixiecrat poison out of the Democratic Party after LBJ signed The Civil Rights Act in 1964—or Substack's owners who let The Nazi Bars flourish on here because "free speech rights!"...or something. Thankfully, there are a lot of Leftists on here who took Karl Popper's "Paradox of Tolerance" to heart, and we were sure to chase their asses off our part of Substack with pitchforks and torches (I never go to the Nazi Bar side, but I'm sure it's still there, waiting for its chance).
If the "Good Christians" don't want to be lumped in with "Good Germans" (though they deserve to be for not beating Falwell to a bloody pulp the moment he raised his slimy head!), they'd better SERIOUSLY start attacking and repudiating the KKKhrister Right...Right Now.
Way too many where we live. 😳
Unfortunately the Americans who need to be watching it will not.
Stopped clocks and all that...
Touché Alison!
OH, YES! Thank you Alison. Now I can breathe again - or let out the breath I was holding, rather.
As Rick Perry said, a stopped clock is right three times a day, there's the AM, and the PM, and... I forget the other, OOPS
Evidently, Columbus is a hero in Spain. 🤷🏼♀️
He is a hero to a
Lot of fascists here, too.
Chicago Italians went bat-shit crazy when Columbus statues were removed from public spaces and indigenous people were honored on "Columbus Day". Mussolini lives in the hearts of Americans.
Mary, I live in Chicago. I thought it was comical that the Italians made the big fuss about someone who never stepped foot on this land! 🤦🏻♀️
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There are few things that Dick Fuentes was right on
Practically none, they're that few.
General society was racist as fuck at the time. The idea of treating people from different races and/or religions as equals hadn't penetrated the popular mindset yet. But our knowledge of morality has grown just like our knowledge of science. Pointing out that people centuries ago were racist is just as irrelevant as pointing out that they once believe the Sun revolved around the Earth.
Jeff, every word that you wrote is perfection! You are absolutely, positively right on the money!
Jeff, I'd just like to remind you, Columbus went against intellectual opinion and managed to convince Isabella that she could gain immense wealth by going west to the Indies. In those days, after Greece and Rome, society was racist, as much as people knew there were African and Asian peoples, which few of them did. The promise of wealth talks (ask t) and that's what got we European immigrants to the Americas, or whatever you want to call them.
It's also worth making it clear that the intellectual objections to Columbus's plans were not because people thought the world was flat as popular mythology portrays the situation. The objections were because Columbus sucked at math and though the world was a third the size it actually was.
Columbus spent much of his life after 1492 in prison, because he was a barsteward even by the standards of his own day. He was not punished for what he did to the natives, of course, but because he was equally cruel with Spaniards.
All of this Nazi talk is leading me to dial up “Inglourious Basterds” as a palate cleanser.
Nuremberg is out - hopefully a palate cleanser before these MAGA Nazi fucks get summarily executed with the return of the rule of law and primacy of well-formed conscience.
AND wrong about everything else. So WHEN he points to that TINY tidbit of 'fact' his followers will all clamour that he was RIGHT to call out Columbus AND all the others since they can't differentiate fact from LIES (except of course for the Italian-Americans who hold Columbus up as a fucking Saint! That alone will lose him some adherents.
AND he was Jewish!
Anyone who thinks Jews are organized has never been in a room full of Jews. We never stop debating. Why are these Nazi dudes so physically ugly? It's in 'em and it's gotta come out? They can kiss my kosher ass.
there's a quip that goes something like "ask two jews, get three opinions"
You beat me to it. Just like any family dinner when I was growing up.
Ask a Jew a question & you get a question 😉
Scientists among them are even worse: Ask them one question and they’ll test hypotheses that end up answering that one question, and raise two brand new questions
Yes Kristy, there are a lot of people like that. I usually answer with “Who’s question was that?”.
" Have you had lunch ?"
Jewish person- " I should starve ? "
😉 " Are you going to the movies ?"
J.P. - " I should stay home , bored ?"
😁
😂
"Ask a Jew a question & you get a question 😉"
I was once at Boskone, a big SF Con in Boston, MA, when writers Esther Friesner and Josepha Sherman were participating in a version of WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? (a show where people improvise to comical effect), and the host (Michael Burstein, another SF writer) gave them "Questions", where you have to answer a question with a question.
Esther and Jo went on for about fifteen minutes without letup to audience laughter, finally ending with Jo asking the audience, "Did you think two Jewish women couldn't ace this one?"
😂😂
An entire religion based on discussion, imagine that! Reading books and discussing things! Whoever heard of such a thing? 😸
Is that really a thing ? בהתייחסות לשפה היהודית
Indeed. It might even be more like "two Jews, ten opinions" on certain topics.
My Hebrew fluency is pretty solid. But there are shaman elements that I didn’t get out of my masters.
Wow never heard that one 😏‼️ thx
I heard this explanation of how three Jews will have six opinions: you see, there is the opinion of A when he is arguing with B, and the opinion of A when he is arguing with C...
In our Jewish home, our mother TOLD us what our opinion was. In fact, Jeff, if she had lived long enough, she could have made your Newsletter title her motto!
Came to say exactly that haha
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Bovino's head is too small for his body, and his Nazi cosplay outfit only emphasizes his tiny cranium. Fittingly enough. As for Fuentes--I don't think I ever got such a clear look at him before, and he kinda looks as if a large, Monty-Python-esque foot stepped down hard on his head. Fucker Carlson, of course, looks like vinyl, just like Holy Brother Mike Johnson and Jared Not a Real Boy Kushner.
Bovino is also short. he's overcompensating with the Nazi getup
I enjoy the fact that the coat is too big for him. He looks like a pile of Nazi laundry.
It’s hard to find Nazi gear in the “tween” section.
😂
🤣
I had a buddy who shopped at a place called Napoleon's Closet. Maybe Bovino could go find a Waterloo get-up.
The SS had way better tailoring.
Sadly, we know where their tailors ended up. God, I hate it here in our country right now.
You’re not alone!
LOL!!!
Small Dick Energy is the theme of these assholes
Doc: All of these a$$holes, mostly guys, are trying to compensate for whatever they think is too small, puny, short, crooked or whatever , some inadequacy they perceive…
Somebody should tell him it’s not working you’re still short.
Or at least point out the fashion fact that long clothing on short people makes them look even shorter.
I’d love to tell him that.
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Columbine chic, Trench Coat Posse.
Tiny dick energy
Jared always looks like he just had a facial at Elizabeth Arden.
Jared always looks as if he just got sprayed with sealant.
Yes!
LOL!!
lol
Jared K. looks like the Hurd Hatfield who played Dorian Gray in the 1945 version of The Picture of Dorian Gray. My other observation of Jared is that I think he selected his wife because of her body size so he could fit into her 'outfits'. Have I pushed the envelop on that too far?
No.
Too far???
Jared looks like an eleven year old.
Only one in a Stephen King novel.
Jared always looks like he needs to take a dump too. And his voice will always be Gilbert Gottfried’s. Always.
It appears he gets his face waxed. Or too little testosterone to grow facial hair. Come to think of it his voice is rather thin and high pitched.
What do you mean? Of course he just stepped from a beauty salon.
t looks the way he does because he does his own makeup. If it was professionally done, I think he'd look better, but he's the best at everything.
😂
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I hope when we have our equivalent of the Nuremberg trials that Bovino's is held in Chicago. That dude needs to be tarred and feathered and chased out of my city by an angry mob.
I’ve heard people say this about a resulting Nuremberg…. Couple questions as I’m genuinely perplexed about how this happens. I’m also a little Aspergers-y and take things EXTREMELY literally. This Nuremberg thing..will it occur in the U.S. or outside? How does you suppose it will happen in the U.S. when these assholes can just leave the U.S.? The U.S. doesn’t cooperate with ICC. ICC would be involved if it were outside the U.S. the assholes can just stay inside the U.S. to avoid accountability for that scenario. Plus, regardless of deaths or election outcomes, the massive corruption we’re seeing isn’t going to stop. For theUS to go back to what it was 20 years ago, I figure 4 things will have to happen. 1) Lobbying and other legal bribery will have to stop. 2) campaign finance will have to change to: everyone gets $X for their campaign and that’s it. -to prevent more legal bribery 3) ALL corrupt politicians will have to be charged, prosecuted and if convicted, go to jail without the possibility of a pardon from a corrupt or weak president. 4) the SC will, at minimum, need to have corrupt justices removed and then be held to STRINGENT ethics rules. Like if a justice accidentally sees someone in a grocery store who has a case coming up before him , the justice will need to immediately leave the area and then report the encounter. ANY lapse in ethics results in the justice getting his ass kicked to the curb without pensions/gov bene’s. Just the corruption indictments would likely affect 90% of GOP politicians and could be 50% of Dems. Neither party is going to sign on to ANY 1 of these let alone all 4. sadly, I think something really horribly disruptive is going to have to happen to motivate politicians to abandon corruption.
P.S. Scotland IS a member country 😉
Jay, trump would be tried out of country for international trial. ICC does NOT have jurisdiction over the U.S. HOWEVER, If orange felon steps foot in a country that IS part of the member states he can be taken to the Hague.
Maybe, his pilots on one of air palaces could do us a solid and drop him off somewhere in Scotland, deep in a town where he is most hated by the locals.
Anastasia, I’ll volunteer to help with that! ✋🏼
Tiny little wannabe bad asses, the lot of them Joyce!
His head must be really tiny, considering how short he is.
Came here to say that. TY.
😂👍🏼 You are correct…mini-head -mini brain
This made me laugh out loud and I'm home alone. Oh, and I'm a Jew.
My maiden name is Cohen. Shoulda kept it.
There may be enough here for a minyan. :)
I'll bring the cholent and schmaltz herring!
Sorry to be late, but I'm here! Did I miss the oneg?
We just elected a Cohen to our city council. AND she's an Orthodox Jew. Trump will hate us now. (He does anyway: this city voted 80% for Harris.)
I'm glad in Quebec it's the norm to keep one's maiden name - to take your spouse's name requires the paperwork fiasco. My name is German and can be either Jewish or not. As a convert and an immigrant, I was delighted with both of these discoveries.
Gosh, Canada is so advanced.
There was a record album back in the day called "You Don't Have To Be Jewish." Memory fails me as to what many of the quips said. But this one, I remember. A little girl comes rushing home to tell her mother, "Momma, did you hear? The Goldsteins are going to Europe. To which the mother responds, "Big Deal. I was born there!"
And here it is...as funny now as it was back in 1965:
https://youtu.be/uil9jjO-EWQ
UPDATE: listening to it now, I see I got it slightly wrong; still, it's a hoot.
" frozen-fish-stick heir and roasted ballsack aficionado" That will forever be the best description of Carlson. In Missouri, we'd say "That boy aint right." 😂😂
You are so right: "the GOP has been openly embracing Nazi ideas and iconography for years now." They have been working up to this moment for decades. As Lucian Truscott sums it up nicely: "There is no legitimate form of conservatism. They’re all fucking Nazis, and they always have been."
I asked the question yesterday. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/fucker-carlson-dick-fuentes-have-support-and-this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things
Great piece and all truths..The heritage foundation just shot itself in the foot...
If it had only been in the head.
I like that!
Exactly
Maybe it will speed up their demise
I’m just shocked to read that anyone from the Heritage Foundation had a moral compass.
I still remember the 70 or so emails that existed in the Ashley Madison op that happened a few years back
Wendy the Druid, I've been sharing that one around the world...
Some classic Jeff there🤣
Thank you for mentioning Lucian Truscott IV. He is an excellent writer, a West Point graduate, and the five-time great grandson of President Thomas Jefferson. Check out his Substack -- https://luciantruscott.substack.com/.
He's excellent for sure.
Indeed, and they all fucking suck!😡
Groypers included Susan!
Loved that one, too!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The GOP really needs to stop calling itself the “party of Lincoln.”
Fuentes is deeply mentally ill, probably more so than even Musk, who has multiple diagnoses, a nasty drug addiction, and a total lack of empathy. It's not safe to give any of them even a morsel of oxygen. But the power mongers and famewhores are too busy lining their pockets to see what they have unleashed.
Truth!
┗(•ˇ_ˇ•)―→ 𝕗𝕒𝕞𝕖𝕨𝕙𝕠𝕣𝕖𝕤 = perfect name calling.
Nick's not mentally ill. He's evil. He CHOOSES to be a bigot.
Also, the famewhores, starfuckers and power mongers DON’T CARE!
Jeff, it seems the MAGAs party is dialing up the Jew Hate to levels unseen since pre WWII in our country… As a friend and former university professor told me and keeps repeating… “it always comes down to Jews”. Secondly the wiping out the history of our Black soldiers in that cemetery is another element of diminishing the role of POC in our history books… another dictum from P2025 that Donald knows nothing about. Geesh💩Have a relaxing Sunday fellow travelers..we all need it after the shit show last week.
I'm positing the theory that allowing the razing of Gaza and the annexing the WB is part and parcel of the plan to deport American Jews to Israel. How else are they going to be able to be a White CHRISTIAN Nationalist Kleptocracy once all the brown people are gone or relegated to 2nd class status?
Ingathering of the exiles, anyone? 🤷♀️
I remember, several months ago—which now feels like 1000 years ago—when our heavily eyelinered hillbilly of a vice president traveled to Germany to meet with the Chancellor during their election. He made a point of saying that it was wrong to shut down the Nazi party, (which I believe was comprised of about 20% of Germany’s population), because of their right to free speech. Yeah, free speech is just for Nazis now.
And I was watching Bill Maher on Friday night, where he had Bill O’Reilly on as a guest. 🙄. He was saying (and Bill was agreeing) that the Democratic Party is the party of anti-Semitism, and this sentiment is merely spreading to the Republican Party. I wanted to put my fist through the TV (but why ruin a perfectly good TV…or my fist?) because I guess they’ve all forgotten about the Charlottesville protesters, chanting “Jews will not replace us”, while Trump called them very fine people. Or the fact that the oath keepers, proud boys, and basically all of the white Christian nationalists all vote Republican. And after Kanye threatened the Jews, Trump invited him to the White House for dinner, accompanied by no other than Nick Fuentes— whom Trump pretended to know nothing about (because of course he did). Republicans have been pushing their brand of Nazism for years, and Trump unearthed the scumbags who were previously hiding under rocks. Now that the Palestinians are coming out against Israel, these GOP thugs are dancing in the streets, because they get to call the Dems the Jew- haters. It’s beyond disgusting!
Well first can we just get Bill Maher to fuck right off? I stopped with him years ago when he let some douchebag get away with a lie totally unquestioned. He has all these right wing schtick dreks on and the end result is they get a national, live hearing with sorely limited pushback.
Agreed! He gives low-lives like Steve Bannon platforms to spew their bull shit, with very little pushback. He challenges the Dems who come on his show fat more than he does the far right wing nuts. He conflates criticism of Israel with anti-semitism, and it’s infuriating. I don’t know why I keep tuning in. He’s a comedian who is no longer funny, and it’s time for him to hang up thr mic.
He is disgusting and has always been so. He was never funny.
He was dead to me after he palled around with Ann Coulter, back when she still had power to do evil.
I think he secretly wanted to bang her.
Ummm, I think he did, and it wasn’t a secret.
Well, that would be difficult. Isn't she trans? she certainly looks trans and we know how them maggots hate trans people.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure she had/has a penis. She probably had to show it to Bill to stop him from hitting on her.
I used to pay for HBO just so I could watch his show, but now I wouldn't cross the street to see him live for free. I fking loathe him.
You and me both. Almost every week I walk through the living room and walk right out again, because my husband is watching him. He's taken to watching a taped version after I go to bed, because I'm so unhappy about it.
I don’t know why I keep watching. Every week I think he’s gonna be better. And each time my reaction is anything from disappointment to full-blown rage.
Find a good book to read. Maybe Mark Twain. He's actually funny.
Fuck Maher. What the fuck with him? He has some Jewish ancestry.
He does. And somehow he thinks that supporting Israel while ignoring Nazis is showing he cares about Jews. WTAF!
𝔹𝕚𝕝𝕝 𝕄𝕒𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕤𝕦𝕔𝕜𝕤.
┗(•ˇ_ˇ•)―→ what a self-obsessed asswipe.
Maher is President of the He-Man Women Haters Club.
As I keep saying, I want to show conservatives who whine about "antisemitism creeping in" an entire run of The National Review from the 1960s. Or basically anything from around that time from the John Birch Society. They're just fretting because the entire goddamn Right is now Birchers and they can't dismiss these things as "fringe".
Unfortunately for the JBS, it was founded about 60 or 70 years too early. If only they were still active, one of their members could have been POTUS. 🙄
A MAGA civil war would be most excellent.
Really. I was worried that they'd be all "the elections were all stolen" after Tuesday, but they've turned on each other more than ever. As Jeff said so eloquently, a party arguing over how Nazi it should be booted out of power.
Margins 😏⁉️‼️
What's left of the GOP needs to decide how to attract voters and keep them in their fold. Embracing antisemitism makes rational, moral voters run for the hills. My late father back in the early 60's was a GOP committee member. He coordinated with the Goldwater campaign. Barry G was Jewish himself as well as my father. I believe both men would condemn what has happened to the GOP. Dad already was headed that way before he died in 1999. He made statements about George W Bush, saying he was worse than the old man.
Maybe come to a compromise, somewhere between extreme Nazi snd mild Nazi, and settle on midrange Nazi.
Nazi Lite?
It begins as soon as the old bastard finally goes to sleep and never wakes up.
I had a dream this morning that the news had gone out on Twitter. I immediately woke up and was very tempted to check the Internet, just in case.
Many of us are having that dream.
The line of succession is pretty bleak. And his supporters are rabid. Unless, they turn out to be like the flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz, and admit they never liked him, I think we’re screwed.
As long as they keep it to themselves
Amen, Amykk.
With you 100000%
It’s been going on for a while now, the MAGA faithful love MTG, she was definitely a player, long before Tuck intervened Fuentes. Trump had the Nazi over for dinner in 2022, should have been a sign for all those Roberts and the Heritage Foundation fucks Mark!
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/where-the-fuck-is-our-90-billion-dollars
So where the fuck is the 90 billion in tariff revenue we’ve earned already ?
That might have to be returned.
I sure hope so. Those f-ing tariffs have ruined our relationship with the whole world!
Welp, ole donny boy just said he was going to send everyone $2,000. I won't hold my breath to get my rebate on the tariffs I paid.
He's going to send us our own money HE TOOK FROM US. Genius. Sheer genius. 🤬
The human abacus Bessent was asked something to that effect by George Stephanopoulos today. His reply was along the lines of that’s money in the future. Wonder if these shitheads invested it in $melania (no thanks I’d rather not have a whiff) funny money
$40 billion to Argentina
An offshore account of course
Or being funneled to World Liberty Financial and Kushner's investment fund
In Talking Yam's crypto account. It's his runaway money.
It’s in the Treasury, where it’s available for essential purchases like Ice Barbie’s personal jets and Trump’s golfing weekends in Florida.
Show me the money!!!!
Is there at anytime an audit of Government monies?
It’s Remembrance Day here in the UK when we remember all those who gave their lives in World Wars 1&2. I was at my church service this morning and our preacher said they died to give us a better life. One of the taglines for Remembrance Sunday is “Lest We Forget”. But, while many of us remember or have read of the atrocities, particularly in WW2, so many people have forgotten. It’s happening in so many places - Palestine, Ukraine, Sudan, the US and the UK - the “othering” of people, whether by gender/gender identity, by race, by colour, by creed, by ability v disability and convincing as many people as possible that they are the cause of all our problems, when actually, the cause of all our problems have been the political decisions by laissez-faire leaders and those who worship at the altar of money, power and control. It’s truly sickening to hear people like Fuentes in the US and members of the Reform party in the UK dehumanising groups of people and pretending they are superior to the rest of us.
This really bothers me. I know we didn't get to WWII because there was too much American history to learn, but we had parents and possibly grandparents who served in WWII, and all those war movies. We couldn't forget. This generation had Band of Brothers, but I guess it didn't sink in. I'd like to see three full years of American history in high school, rather than the year and a half I got. Oh, and all those books like Exodus, The Diary of Anne Frank", even "Catch 22". "Lest we forget".
Except "Anne Frank" has been banned!
That is an absolute travesty. I grew up reading books about WW2, and Anne Frank’s was a reminder that when those in power start treating people as objects, that’s when evil starts. Are there any libraries that still carry banned books?
Oh gee, and my parents gave it to me for my 12th Christmas...in the early Sixties.
I still have a copy, they can pry it from my cold, dead hands!
My Dad gave me a copy. He was born in November 1939 so his memories of the war were scant, apart from remembering he didn’t see his father till he was 5yo. He lent me many books about the war and the Holocaust, to make sure I knew what had happened. I miss him so deeply. He died in February 💔
I am so sorry about your Dad. Mine left us in 2010, he too was the one who encouraged me to read the book, and watch the movie. I miss him also, everyday!
Yes, I still have my copy too.
Thank you so much for writing this so much better than I could ever have. The gall of removing that tribute to the soldiers in a foreign cemetery, WTF.
Well said, Suze. Thank you
Worth remembering that Hegseth was booted outta his company because of his white supremacist tats.
And in this outrage machine in which we have been forced to live, I completely forgot about that. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuu………
You took the word right outta my mouth.
Let me add how nice it is that Nick Fuentes had his set all decorated in an autumn theme. 🙄Who did that for him? His mom? Did he think that might make his nasty ass speech more palatable? Fuck that guy.
He's celebrating the " FALL "
of democracy.
😂😂😂😂
He was definitely amped for decorative gourd season.
He was. Someone needs to post McSweenys classic now. 😂
lol 😂
FUCKIMM!!!
"organized Jewry"
thanks that's my band name now
😂😂
I love it!
Awesome name for a band.
The only thing that surprises me about Fuentes(well,2 things, first, that
he doesn't know he is NotWhite) and second, is he still starts his own car.
Him, Miller, Enrico Tarrio.
He's 27 years old and sounds like a 15-year old jerkoff incel living in his mom's basement (maybe that's Tucker's room now). So empty of real ideas and life experience he has to pathetically try to co-opt gangsta speak and claims he sounds "bad-ass real." More like Charlie Kirk's squash-faced kid brother who fell out of the tree onto his head too often.
100% THIS!
He's somebody's SON! ffs. Where is his family? I hope they've at least tried to condemn his actions publicly.
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The death of one grifting, misogynistic, homophobic, racist, transphobic, antisemitic, loudmouth with scary gums has left a vacuum for another unfuckable garden gnome who's even worse to take his place.
Susan, you just defined a very real problem we Dems have and it’s all of them waiting on the bench like the baseball team. We’ve talked about the scenario of our dreams if tRamp would up and die like in his sleep for which he is a candidate but then there is the next and the next possibility all bad to worse. For one thing we now have the worst I believe that and with him gone they weaken. This was a good week for beatings dopey received in courts and that was progress.
Interesting argument by the boy Nazi. It’s ok to be despicable because people have been despicable in the past. It’s ok to be racist and mysogynistic because there were many notable racists and misogynists in history, just as were (and are) people who bought and sold other people, and people who beat and exploited women and children. There have been lots of powerful people who invaded their neighbors, killed them and claimed their property. Often kings and dictators have systematically exterminated people for being of a different ethnicity, race or religion.
The fact of the matter is the Fuentes is a sick puppy, apparently so unhappy being himself that he literally has to find reason to hate others.
Fuentes clearly thinks highly of himself, as if he’s some Nazi Socrates. He should skip to the last part and down a nice warm cup of hemlock.
Or a Luger to his own noggin
Just like his dear Führer. Follow his example, you bastards!
My thought, exactly! Break out the cyanide kool-aid!