4 responses to “Famous fact-checker admits famous lie”

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   granville

   11/25/2024

   Rather remarkable, this shift that can only be called a “consolidation” behind Trump. Theres’s another BBC doc series that you’ve probably seen, they aired it on PBS all the time called “The Nazis: A Warning From History.” The first episode traces their crawl to power and how often Hitler was assisted by friends, allies and total strangers. I’m not one for jumping into Third Reich metaphors but it’s pretty amazing to watch the last 15 minutes or so, in which interviews with witnesses are edited to color films of the Nazi’s torchlight marches through Berlin the night Hitler was named chancellor.

   There’s one old man who is ID’d as a former Social Democrat member of the Reichstag, I think, and says through subtitles, “We really thought that once he got in we’d be able to control and stifle him through parliament.” Then he lifts his hands around his head as if it’s radiating waves of pain. “Madness!” he says. “Madness!”

   Another man who was the son of a Jewish revolutionary executed after the Bavarian Soviet Republic was crushed says in British-accented English that many Jewish people pointed out that many stormtroopers had Jewish girlfriends. That it wouldn’t be so bad, because these people had Jewish girlfriends. “Oh it’s heartbreaking,” he says.

   It’s incredible to watch that once a criminal seizes power, everything will fall in line around it, and we shouldn’t really believe they’re going to do what they are repeatedly saying they’re going to do. They just need to win the popular vote, I guess.

   They want to dispatch the military to round up people. They SAY this. The milquetoast officials say, “Well, that’s illegal tho.”

   Madness! Madness!

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      Doug Holland

      11/25/2024

      I watched that PBS show, maybe twice. It’s been years, but it’s what informs my expectations now.

      “Well, that’s illegal, tho.” Ha! It’s like that video Zeke recommended a few days ago, and so much commentary I’m seeing from the “pundit class.” All the points are rational and reasonable, but based on the rules, the law, the tradition, the constitution, and hello? Those things are gone baby gone.

      The constitution won’t protect us, the Democrats are irrelevant, the media is owned by the oligarchy. Seems to me there’s exactly one hope of making it through this with some semblance of the America we’ve lived in all our lives — that Trump doesn’t really mean it, won’t really try it.

      That’s a mighty thin hope, because anything he tries will not be denied him. But it’s the only hope we have.

      Relax, we’ll be fine, if Trump is all bluster. But I don’t think he’s all bluster. I think he means it.

      We’ll find out on 1/20/25.

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   eel paradise

   11/26/2024

   well, it’s time for breakfast, which means it’s time to watch something funny on Netflix (i’m a new recruit to the cult) and laugh!
   hope you’re getting some laughs…

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      Doug Holland

      11/26/2024

      What’s good on Netflix these days?

      It was a marvel and I was a member, back when they were mailing DVDs without due dates, and later, when they had low-price streaming with a fairly wide selection.

      The price went up and the selection narrowed, so these days I sail the high seas, argh and argh…

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