Comments by "wily wascal" (@wilywascal2024) on "Is President Trump Fascist? | NYT Opinion" video.

  1. “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities” ~ Voltaire
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  2.  @Iriamu-Guillermo  ~ "The secret of freedom is educating the people, whereas the secret of tyranny is keeping them ignorant." ~Robespierre “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities” ~ Voltaire "There can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet." ~Abraham Lincoln “If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.” ~ Ulysses S. Grant, 1875 “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence." ~ Charles Bukowski ~ "Everybody has a right to their opinion, but nobody has a right to be wrong in their facts." ~ Bernard Baruch, quoted in 1946 AP article. “It's easier to fool people than it is to convince them that they have been fooled.” ~ Mark Twain “It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” ~ James A. Baldwin "When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent." ~ Isaac Asimov "When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” ~ Typically misattributed to Sinclair Lewis, the original source of this quote is unknown, but likely derived from labor activist Eugene V. Debs 1917 quote, "Every robber or oppressor in history has wrapped himself in a cloak of patriotism or religion, or both." Before World War II, Charles Lindbergh typified American heroism with his daring flights, including the first solo transatlantic flight, and his celebration of new technology. He parlayed his fame and heroic stature into a leading role in the America First movement, which opposed America’s entrance into the war against Nazi Germany. In 1939, in an essay entitled “Aviation, Geography, and Race,” published in that most American of journals, Reader’s Digest, Lindbergh embraced something close to Nazism for America: "It is time to turn from our quarrels and to build our White ramparts again. This alliance with foreign races means nothing but death to us. It is our turn to guard our heritage from Mongol and Persian and Moor, before we become engulfed in a limitless foreign sea." The America First movement was the public face of pro-fascist sentiment in the United States at that time. In the twenties and thirties, many Americans shared Lindbergh’s views against immigration, especially by non-Europeans. The Immigration Act of 1924 strictly limited immigration into the country, and it was specifically intended to restrict the immigration of both nonwhites and Jews. In this era, the likes of Toxic Trump and Marginalized Greene have become the face of the new "America First" fascist movement built up over the last four decades by the GOP, Reich-wing plutocrats, demagogues, and media. But, as with Lindbergh, the American people gradually come to recognize their dysfunctional poison and reject it. Most Americans want competent leaders who speak truth, who strive to unite, who are not corrupt, who care about them. So, it should come as no surprise that President Biden is already receiving high marks from the public, while Toxic Trump never managed to rise above even a 50% approval rating. To conclude where begun, the following quotes are submitted for further reflection: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." ~ George Santayana "History doesn't repeat itself. But it does rhyme. ~ Mark Twain "That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history." ~ Aldous Huxley "If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern which shines only on the waves behind." ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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  3. The Republican cult listens to and follows false GOP prophets, worships a false golden Toxic Trump God whom they place upon a pedestal. They know this at some level, just don't CARE. Which is what makes them so dangerous.
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  4.  @Iriamu-Guillermo  ~ Big fan of Twain, and that quote of his you cite is certainly pertinent to the QOP of today (formerly GOP). Am familiar with this quote of his, since have probably read all of his works, even obscure collections of his that included speeches and the like. It is also similarly said that a lie will travel six times around the globe before the truth can catch up. Anyway, given how you had expressed an interest in using the quote in our comment, thought perhaps you'd appreciate the expanded quote selection and commentary we had replied here to you with, which was even more on point with this video. The quotes are correctly attributed and, as always, folks are encouraged to freely share or repost any of my original commentary--no accreditation even necessary! Recognition, popularity, subscribers, or profit is of no concern. Upvotes are fine, but only because they may facilitate the message reaching a wider audience. The singular goal is to educate, enlighten, and provoke thought. So, should I see one of my comments reposted by another somewhere, am not offended in any way--indeed, consider it an honor.
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  5. The Republican-Russian wrecking-ball fascist racist racket...a violent smash-and-grab affair leaving a trail of American corpses, broken families and nation, suffering, and tears.
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  6. GOP been keeping the embers of hate burning for decades, creating a tinder box, preparing for a President Nero to pour the gasoline.
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  7. You just KNEW the nation would become a raging, blazing inferno when corrupt GOP installed Putin's pawn, President Nero, to be their Dear Leader. Real shame that we all must suffer the evil which they sowed and nourished to fruition.
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