HW Bush took it personally when the NRA called federal agents fascists. Today Republicans tkae it personally when Disney has a black actress in a movie.
I find this fact very funny, since Bush Senior's father, Prescott Bush, literally tried to install a fascist government in the U.S. Look up the Business Plot if you don't believe me.
A saying I've seen around is: "If there’s a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, then you got a table with 11 Nazis." While that is a somewhat simple way of looking at it, the Right sure does seem to have a fuck load of Nazis lately and sure does love defending them...
One of my best friends is German and he gave me some advice, paraphrased I'm sure: "Need to know if you're on the wrong side politically? Look for the presence of Nazis. Are Nazis at your rallies? Sure, maybe they're getting your side's points a bit wrong, but are Nazis attracted to your side at the time for some reason? Left or right, are Nazis showing up? This means you might need to do some thinking."
This is the commentary I'm making here in Australia. If you have Nazi's turning up at your Anti-Trans rally, you can't really say that your not a Nazi sympathiser. Because your rally isn't a safe space for Transgender people and a safe space for Nazi's.
The part they're disavowing isn't trying to violently breach a security perimeter. It's getting caught up in the barricades. They don't resent being associated with the attempt. They resent being associated with a *failed, incompetent* attempt.
Well correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe in the original script Jake empathizes his feelings about Nazis by driving by and telling them to "Stand Down."
Yes but I also remember John Belushi's favorite band being the band FEAR, whose lead singer Lee Ving was very into the idea of starting his own Nazi army in real life.
We also had a long Cold War with the Soviet Union and now so many right wingers are siding WITH Putin trying to rebuild the Soviet Union by force. No level headed and rational Republican pre 2000 would be allowed in the party today.
Your country only fought them because it would have been political suicide not too. Sad reality is morality is never the reason most countries fight wars.
Your father is part of America’s “Greatest Generation”. We thank him and other who fought along side him and won the war to make this world a peaceful and better place. I see that slipping away now and it’s scary.
I think it's funny that a guy they claim is asleep all day whenever he isn't changing his diaper or suffering from dementia is the same guy behind all of these unfortunate events that always seem to be directly tied to the Republican Party. You know, the folks who claim that they are the only ones to have around to protect all of us when the shit goes down. They can't counteract maneuvers from a single sleeping demented man but they can protect a whole ass country from whatever else. Right.
I remember when republican’s slogan was I’d would rather be dead than Red! Now look at their t shirts. I’d rather be Russian than a democrat! That says it all!
As a German I started watching US politics closely in 2016. I always wondered how Hitler happened and now I felt I was watching it in real time. Greetings from Germany.
Welcome to the second Weimar Republic. Our leaders will sell us out. @Remi Maloney I'm more concerned with Canada being closer to Italy after the fall of the 1860 Kingdom. If Hitler returns, so, too, will a Mussolini.
I have felt since 2015 I am living in 1930s Germany here in the US. I know too much history to ignore the parallels. But I know people who voted for Trump twice who were ready for him to shut up and go home before Jan 6 even happened. You won’t hear about them in any headlines. I think there are a lot more of them than these fascist wing nuts.
I am glad my father (WW2 vet) and mother of the Greatest Generation didn’t live to experience January 6th. It would have angered, saddened, and sickened them so terribly.
...to defend the whole world from those ideas...and that set of "ideas" are worse than cockroaches, by the time you see one, it's only after they're done laying eggs🤮
Its funny to me how a group of people scream all day every day about "taking their country back" and yet everytime one of them goes for it all we hear is "that wasn't us" or "false flag".
Take the country back from what? We have two rightwing parties in this country. They literally got what they wanted and they are suffering for it so the people their best thinking put in power are now telling them its "Woke" people (aka people that are culturally aware....or in their mind anything they think is different from them and different equals scary) or the dang gum immagints......We all suffer for their indoctrination...and I have a feeling it will only get worse with this whole billionaire funded no labels because with democrats in office the descent into an even more dystopian capitalist hell hole is slowed slightly and it comes wrapped in a pride flag kneeling in a kente cloth....performative, but better than stochastically terrorising my friends in the gay and trans community
When they start taking credit for it is when that R becomes officially a terrorist organization. They absolutely support this kinda thing (their rhetoric is evident) but don't want the subsequent crackdown from law enforcement.
What gets me about the "taking their country back" folks is they never say who they're taking it back from. Other Americans? The people other Americans elected? Ideologies that support people not like them?
I remember getting my ass chewed out when I was very young for drawing Swastikas. My republican parents gave me a long lecture about concentration camps, gas chambers, family members who died fighting WW2, God and country. My best friends dad would tell us the stories of his days as a paratrooper were just to horrible to tell and he prays to God we never have to experience that. Most of my family left the Republican party when they switched to evangelical control. The US is batshit crazy.
I also left the GOP after extreme evangelical influence was obvious. I was a bit slow though as it took me until Dubya was in office to see it but then i was raising my child and not paying close enough attention to broader scope of politics.
Oh Dennis!! SAME! I was too young to understand the meaning, also-- I had just seen it somewhere & was copying it-- boy, did I get a sit-down!! I was stricken when my Dad explained it all to me! What in the world are people thinking?? 😢
Strangely enough. Arnold Schwarzenegger has a a very telling rant about the Republican party's direction and about his memories of sad and troubled old men in Austria who deeply regretted not speaking out when they had the chance. He also talks about winning votes with policies instead of gaming the system. Pretty powerful message that the modern Republican party could learn a lot from.
I saw that. It's a shame that so many in the right don't have the humility or character to understand lived historical experience, even denying or mocking it. And, it's chilling how much money is going into these extremists coffers.
That was a really powerful speech, he is a true traditional conservative, but he doesn't really fit into the GOP anymore, they've gone way further than that. I wonder if he'd identify more as a democrat nowadays when it comes to actual opinions.
@@TheLumberjack1987 I'm guessing that he was a Biden crossover in 2020. Those memories of his father cast a long shadow over his life. He may still be a fiscal conservative, but he understands human rights.
@@erinmcdonald7781 very possible, I just haven't seen him officially change parties. But he also doesn't really have to and I can totally imagine him just saying "I'm staying in the republican party because I'm a true republican, everyone else should leave instead" if he was asked lol.
As the saying goes, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. If it looks like a Fascist, acts like a Fascist, and talks like a Fascist... It's a Fascist.
I have said from the start that electing him was the worst thing that could have happened. People were saying that I was overreacting, that he had limited power. etc... He almost pulled it off! He had his minions in Congress, an AG in his pocket, and foot soldiers willing to turn against our government. No sir, there are not good people on both sides.
The amount of damage from getting to put in _three_ Supreme Court Justices is something we won't see the length and breadth of for a very long time, but based on what has _already_ happened we can sort of predict just how bad it'll ultimately become. Those three people are going to cause more damage and destruction to our democracy than anything else he will ever be known for - and that's _a lot._
That's because they don't care about hypocrisy just appearing strong or weak. If you make hypocrisy synonymous with being weak then it would have an impact. I mean hypocrisy is a sign of weakness to those with critical thinking skills or integrity but try to convey that to Trumpists.
The days of Daddy Bush are long gone my friend. I'm 56 and seeing what the GOP has become since tRump blows my mind. I'll not be voting red again in this lifetime.
Nixon explicitly started a terror campaign against American citizens. Nixon was also a criminal. Reagan paid Iran to hold Americans hostage. The downfall of the Republican Party was not quick, or unexpected. Having watched it building up to Trump, I left the US in 2009, expecting the post-Obama era to be much like it was.
I'm voting RED every time!! The Democrats are mutilating our children, chemically castration boys, confusing our young children's minds. They are purposly confusing our children in our public schools. They pushed the poisonous vaccine shots. May God protect America and it's Citizens. The Demoncraps sure aren't!
My mom was born in Bremen, Germany in 1928. She met my dad when he was stationed in Germany during the Occupation. After marrying him, she gladly became a U.S. citizen. I cannot tell you how upset she was after the Charlottesville rally. I could see the remembered horror in her eyes. She knew, SHE KNEW that this was the start of how it began.
My friend was born in Germany in 1933. Her kindergarten class went to see Hitler give a speech and christen a battleship. My friend cried because she thought Hitler was nuts and scary but all her teachers said he was a hero. When Trump was running in 2016, my friend saw the similarities right away. She told me "I always knew it could happen again, but I didn't think it would happen here." She also told me to be more afraid of Trump's followers than of Trump himself. She remembers teachers and neighbors being taken away by the GESTAPO. She died of COVID before the vaccine was available.
@Sarah M. I'm in my mid 40s. My entire adult life I have watched various wwII or nazi documentaries. No one had to tell me there were similarities. Between Trump and Hitler. His mannerisms are similar. The way his voice increases and wanes. Even the flow of the speech.
it's hard to believe someone who saw the real thing took that story at face value and can't recognize deeply serious media deception is happening again and is the real lesson from charlottesville and Trump
I’m grateful for the confirmation of those who witnessed that. Being a dirt road leftist, I’m often gaslit by even the “moderates” of the town, sometimes even my family… thank you for passing along the memories and sage warnings.
For those who can't decode: a car with a 19-year-old driver may have intentionally hit the barrier near the White House. About 60,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate, a chemical used as a fertilizer and in explosives, went missing on a rail shipment from Wyoming to California in April and has still not been found, officials said (NY TImes). From Time Magazine: The U.S. Park Police said the man was arrested on multiple charges, including threatening to kill, kidnap or inflict harm on a president, vice president or member of their family; assault with a dangerous weapon; reckless driving; destruction of federal property; and trespassing. The flag was a Nazi flag. "Fash" means Fascism.
Thanks for the information. I was wondering about the explosives Beau mentioned. 60,000 lbs is a serious heist. A couple guys with pick up trucks couldn't do that. That stuff could start showing up all over the nation
You know, if they weren't fascist they would literally be saying "see fascists are bad." The fact that they identify with the fascist is telling on themselves.
@@fortlauderdalegirl "they absolutely know their own audience has no clue". so in your opinion 'the audience', which would be the vast majority of conservatives and Trump supporters, is not fascist. repeat - is not fascist, in YOUR opinion. Good. that's progress. Now just need work on the other bit.
My grandfather was a gun smith. He was an NRA member and left out in the early 1980s not liking the direction of the group. He thought, then, it was too easy to get a gun. His head would spin now.
Me too.I believe 1980 was the first year that the NRA endorsed a political candidate. Now Wayne Lapierre is laundering Russian millions and Nugent is screaming about giving Hillary a crotch ride on his AR 15.
My kid loves Dumbest Criminals. We watched one where the judge, talking to the witness, said "Are the two individuals who committed the crime in this courtroom?" The two defendants raised their hands and said "here." D'oH!
Having been invited to join a chapter of the KKK in the 90s (my silence around a racist not wanting him to take revenge on me was mistaken for support, so he invited me to join, and warned me that the joining initiation is to participate in a lynching), the "turn" of recent wasn't a surprise, and is just the people who always thought that way feeling they didn't have to hide it. This is always who we were. We just liked to pretend differently.
One of my grandmothers grew up in Nazi Germany during WW II. Her mother didn't like Hitler, wouldn't do the heil, and talked bad about him. Fascists put posters up in town with her picture, which said that she was a bad German. Luckily, she was a strong woman who could do the hard physical work that the men who had gone off to fight in the war used to do, so other people in the town who liked her were able to make an exception for her. But she had to keep her thoughts about the Nazis to herself after that. I never met my great-grandmother, but she lived a long life and died when I was 10. I'm only in my early 40s. This did not happen that long ago, and it is trying to happen again here in the U.S.. People need to wake up and stand against these fascists before it's too late.
@@canadianperspective3731 Hell, we don't even teach US history anymore. The conservatives have banned it because they are ashamed of what people with white skin did.
As someone who grew up on a tobacco farm in Virginia. A gopher stole my dukes of hazard car. My dad used the back hoe to dig it up. He did not succeed. This was a really long time ago. I still like to picture a gopher driving around my dukes of hazard car. I live in the mountains of North Carolina now with a population less than the freshman classes of some high schools in more populated places. How are my neighbors (not that I have neighbors but people who live in a few miles of me) so authoritarian friendly? I don't want a ruler. Also, what is up with rural people shooting strangers? That is not what I grew up with. If you pull into my driveway, you should be concerned, but not for the reason most people would think. A year or two ago a young Mexican guy pulled into my driveway. He was lost and had no celular service because this is in the mountains of North Carolina. I got my cell phone and handed it to him and told him to call his mom so she would know he was OK. Did he have a bottle of water because he needed to stay hydrated. I had some lemon if he did not like to drink water pain. I could make him some tea. We have a wide variety of teas. He called his mom so she would know he was OK. But he was very nervous and left. If he had stuck around for another fifteen or thirty minutes I would have started making food on the barbecue. The way I was raised, if a lost person ends up in your driveway you feed them not shoot them. But that is me and my best friend. We have an expresso machine now. So if you get lost here, I can also make some really good coffee drinks. Everyone else has lost their mind, but my best friend and I hold to southern hospitality.
It's always this way. The pendulum swings back and forth. Don't stress. Your right about Beau, he's wiser than his years belie. Get involved, network, and work towards the future you want your kids to grow up in. Think ahead. Good luck.
But you can tell he is not in good humor talking about nazi's had two uncles in ww2 in different divisions both learned one extremely important lesson. The hard way people lost their lives when capturing a small platoon at the start of the war that the black uniform soldiers weren't to radicalized but had to be housed in different prisons to protect the regular German soldiers because they would attempt to escape by sacrificing their own soldiers by getting them to us a direct attack on armed guards or any other crazy attempt. And as the war went on after 42 the nazi ss had 2 in as many as possible platoons to make sure that the regular German soldiers would fight to the last man if at all possible so the US forces targeted the ss nazi's and then the regular German soldiers would surrender to the overwhelming opposition but if the ss nazi's survived and surrendered thay would cause trouble every time so thay were separated from the regular German soldiers as soon as possible and at the slightest possibility of trouble thay were dealt with in the most harsh form possible .thay would hid hand grenades or very small caliber pistols and try to wound or kill a US soldier and then immediately surrender again and US soldiers were not stupid or acceptable of this practice so it led to a ss nazi's being handled harshly and rightly so
@@gregallen4272 interesting.. I recently read "Blitzed: drugs in nazi Germany" and it's possible that meth played a huge role in the success of the early campaigns (until approx. 1942), the energy, the impredicability and also the cruelty and some downright psychotic behavior.. fascinating book.. My mother's village in Alsace was freed from the Nazi occupants in november 1944
Do you thank them for almost being patriotic? Not to say those who are not/were not in the military are not patriots...just those who say things like that while supporting attacks on the country.
It's incorrect to imply that the American Right has never been fascist before. A large percentage of them were in the '30's and it took a global war against fascism to turn them around. Then there's the fact that the Confederacy was quite fascist in nature even though the term; along with many of the identifying characteristics; was not yet known. This is NOT coincidental.
My grandpa was conservative leaning: Small business owner living in suburbia... but he believed in the Civil Rights movement, that people should not be treated differently because of the color of their skin. He was a WW2 vet and a Nisei. In 2018, a Nazi rally marched right through the center of Detroit Pride. My uncle put it best: "Dad wouldn't necessarily be marching in pride, but he would have rounded up his army buddies and turned that Nazi March into a bloodbath. Because he knew firsthand what letting them march would do, damn the personal consequences."
Respect to your father. And to you sharing this. I am glad my father (WW2 vet) and mother of the Greatest Generation didn’t live to experience January 6th. It would have angered, saddened, and sickened them so terribly.
Your father sounds like a great man. I can listen to and debate fiscal conservatives. Tax codes, employment rules, ect. Social conservatives I can't. Who deserves human rights is something I can't debate.
@@Jake-xe1wuWhen I was growing up, anyone with that symbol on them was swing on site. Every time. Sometimes there weren't even words exchanged, sometimes it was broad daylight, sometimes they were surrounded by other people. But they all ended the same, with someone cracking something off some clown's jaw. I'm not advocating for violence. But I am saying there are far worse traditions to bring back.
I remember when I was 12-13, I was a WW2 buff. I remember having some German pieces. One day I walked into my grandpas house with my collection. Really stoked to show him. When he saw it, and saw that symbol, his face fell, and became very serious. He was a tanker in WW2. The rest of the day was spent being educated on the profundity of our nation and that thousands died fighting against that symbol. It wasn’t even the words that were said, it was the seriousness he was able to convey. No anger, just the importance of the struggle, and the complete defeat of fascism. We now have a political party trying to steal power for themselves, and use the white supremacy movement as muscle. Similar to the SA in Germany. The SA was literally boots on the ground. The precursor to the SS. Oh yeah ironic they had to swear an oath of allegiance to Hitler. Hitler ultimately had people in the SA murdered that he thought could potentially challenge him, or he owed favor to achieve his rise to power. Steve Bannon being a part of Trumps orbit wasn’t enough for folks. Cognitive dissonance empowers the right. They lie and people believe it. White supremacy has no place in America. So many folks don’t realize how deep and wide this weed of fascism has become.
Too bad folks in the US don't leave the churches that preach politics - it's practically ingrained into religion now in America. I support the second amendment and I also support common sense gun control legislation but I will NEVER support the NRA. What a disgusting organization.
@@kennethbrowning5923 There is a difference between information and indoctrination. It's important to know which political party won't vote against unions.
They are not (small case) republican, but they define a republic as a system of government in which those that have it right (them) rule over those who don't (everybody not them) regardless of how few of them there are. Of course, a republic is nothing of the kind.
Your sadness and anger about these people going down a dangerous road without realising the consequences is tangible. Sitting here in Germany and witnessing the political and social developments in the US during the last years is very concerning. I'm rooting for everybody in the US that tries to prevent the country from becoming an authoritarian menace. Good luck and I hope you prevail!
@@old_grey_cat Thank you. It is a shame what we humans are capable of doing to each other. Sometimes I find it hard to grasp how there is potential for so much love and destruction at the same time in us. Greetings to Australia (where I've never been unfortunately)
Thank you. I’m optimistic that we will. It’s just a shame so many are so willingly blind to it. People will rather kill dozens or hundreds of other citizens than to admit they’ve been duped and bet on the wrong horse (metaphorically).
3:23 "Why would somebody with that flag doing something make _you_ look bad?" This has to be one of the most pertinent rhetorical questions I ever heard. Very well asked, Beau.
Beau has hit the most salient point in all of this mess. If you find yourself defending or deflecting nazis, you are doing little more than representing them. Your grandfathers would be ashamed.
When good people say or do nothing to stand up is when evil is allowed to spread. If they talk like fascist and defend people who act like fascist they are fascist.
I have that same hard line between fascists and non-fascists. There are no semi fascists or fascist sympathizers. There are no on the fence fascists. If you are not against fascists then you are one.
Washington D.C. & The 5 U.S. Island Territories need to be granted full statehood & members of Congress already! These are 5 million Americans who pay taxes yet aren't fully represented by the federal Government.
Hi Jesse!😊 Always good to see you commenting. Hope everything is going well for you. I agree. _No taxation without representation._ I seem to remember reading that somewhere.🙄
I feel exactly the same way about the Canadian flag after the "freedom" blockade in Ottawa. I'm proud to fly our flag, but I always wonder if other Canadians think I support the viewpoints and actions of that group. Symbols, just like democracy, can be corrupted. Left or Right, our most dangerous enemies aren't each other, but those who are willing to risk losing democracy just to win at politics.
I don't think that's the worst part … but it is very annoying. My grandfather, who I lived with and cared for at the end of his life, was a WWII vet. When he passed (over a decade ago) I inherited a lot of flag-themed decorations that I enjoyed having around because they reminded me of him. I've taken most of them down because they now remind me of ideologies I cannot endorse-that he himself would never have supported. The US flag has always had baggage, of course. But I do low-key hate the neo-con movement for fetishizing our national symbol and contaminating it with their small-minded view of patriotism.
When I think of the family members who fought in WW2 to stop this kind of fascist behavior; it makes me want to throw up when our politicians defend it, work with it, support it. From the day Trump started running on the hate everybody below the border rhetoric and how he could save everyone an make American great again, I told anyone who would listen that was the same kind of crap Hitler used to gain power. I weep for this country and what we have become and unless we stop it now, what we will become that is even worse. My family members who fought would be so ashamed if they were here to see this garbage.
To paraphrase a very popular, very patriotic, Marvel movie - The character of the emigrant German Dr Erkstein, having a talk before the procedure to a very brave, very young, very skinny and short, Steve Rogers: "What everyone forgets, the first country the Nazis conquered...was their own." Godwin suspended his "law" for a reason; comparisons to Nazis was no longer a failed internet debate tactic, but an all too legitimate observation of where we were/are headed. We have had a clear warning from the past. And Republicans like Ron Desantis are trying to make sure we repeat history by eliminating books and people that might make white students (more accurately, their insecure parents) "uncomfortable" and so that upcoming generations are ignorant and unable to think about the lessons of history, and only are taught the mythology. It's a sad commentary on the current state of affairs, and even sadder that politics makes such strange bedfellows, that we now have to root for Disney to take down Desantis and his cronies, because they are the only ones with enough power to do that, since too many elderly voters are living in the past and not looking towards saving the future.
@@marieroberts5664 And there's your problem - the wealthy corporations and their sitting hierarchy are now the only ones in a position to do anything about it. The wealth consolidation in this country has robbed the people of the hope and vision and tenacity required to be a living and acting democracy. Who supported Hitler? Capitalist industrialists. And those are now the people you are counting on to stop this? Don't hold your breath. The rich love fascism. It's good for the bottom line.
My grandfather was literally in 3 helicopter crashes in 1 day during WW2... he came home disabled and addicted to morphine because of this. He came off the morphine but picked up alcohol and never stopped... he suffered all that and here we are. I am grateful he's not alive to see what his suffering was worth.
We shouldn't call these people Neonazis, because they haven't presented anything new since 1933. That's also why we shouldn't debate them. Everything has already been said.
They have figured out new and exciting ways to get punched in the face. Always remember what Sartre said. You cannot debate these people. Punch them in the damn mouth. Its been past time that we do.
Eh, if you can debate them right and really make them look like idiots, you can sway some of their followers. Of course, to us they already look like idiots, and that's why you need to make them look stupid in a way that even those of their own ideology cant respect them. Make them look weak, petty, and like they cant even answer simple yes/no questions out of fear of conceding on something. Make them look like they dont have any balls. And its very possible to do. Fascism is the most cowardly ideology, they would rather blame their problems on someone else instead of growing a pair and working to fix those problems.
As a "Boomer", I say it started with Tricky Dickie, and the Nation has been moving towards Fascism since....:Fascist Theocracy" defined by Frank Zappa.
Same here. There's a book called "Family Of Secrets" by Russ Baker who goes into some of that but it's mostly about the Bush crime family. Interesting correlation he found between the JFK assassination and Watergate, and where daddy Bush was (or _not_ was) on Nov 22, 1963. ✌😎
I was in high school in the Caribbean when a lovely German girl joined our class. Eventually she told us her grandmother, who was alive during the time of that flag, did not believe any of the crimes proven against that government. I was stunned. We were studying World history. The holocaust was inescapable. But her grandmother, an average, normal woman still supported them. Dangerous indeed. Millions of them. In Germany I believe denying the holocaust is a crime, as well as collecting memorabilia from those persons.
It never ended Beau..it’s ALWAYS been…it was given greater normalization when Trump allowed people with those beliefs like Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller to be ADVISORS in the White House, and now we are battling those views in our local, State and National Goverment, it’s leaders and followers.
yehp and it's been there slowly growing alot of people don't know who taught the original nazi's. Not to mention the US didn't help in WW2 until after it was attacked by japan. They didn't care about the ideology of Germany they believed the same thing. Eugenics is what they believed & have never stopped believing since Darwin's cousin came up with the stupid idea. Half the people that believe the "Great Replacement" nonsense would be sterilized for being (imbecile's) sad they are fighting for their own destruction.
The racists, bigots, misogynists had their views mocked and ridiculed enough that they knew to keep it to themselves, but they never changed. One of them was my father who died in 2009. My brother and I shamed him loudly and at length as we grew up in the ‘60s, but I’d overhear him in later life chatting over the fence to the other old men in the neighborhood. Tfg came along and let them know it was okay to be evil, they felt empowered to spread their hate.
Forever burned into my memory the J6 attack on our capital and watching it in real time. I will oppose and fight these traitors in defense of our nation by any means needed,
Traditionally, the space between Pro- and Re-gressive is occupied by Conservative. Unfortunately, the language has been being transformed before our very eyes.
If I remember correctly the statement from the NRA that angered President Bush was issued by LaPierre. Instead of the NRA distancing themselves from the inflammatory statement they have elevated LaPierre to their CEO.
It started with Newt Gingrich and the contract with America. That was won the Republican Party decided that winning mattered more than absolutely anything else.
We used to refer to it as the contract ‘on’ America as opposed to ‘with’; because that is what it really was, and Newt really is a fascist, and it really was a contract to destroy American democracy and still is.
It actually goes back to the "Southern Strategy" promoted by the Nixon campaigns. It transformed the south from being mostly conservative Democrats in Congress to almost total Republican.
We used to have them. There were almost 60 foiled domestic attacks just in ther first 10 years following OKC. Or almost one every other month for a decade straight. One specific attack in Texas would've killed upwards of 30,000 people, and it was only stopped when one member got cold feet and reported it. This changed after 9-11 for obvious reasons, and 45 himself sent what remaining funds were keeping an eye on US soil overseas to watch foreign groups instead, leaving domestic groups to grow unchecked. Since our own FBI has been warning about an uptick in domestic right wing violence since 2008, I'm left feeling that sending that money overseas was intentional. That certain folks wanted these domestic groups left alone.
the US has the counter-terrorism program, they just don't take domestic white nationalist groups seriously. that has started to change since Jan 6 2021 but still, they are slow to catching up to where they need to be.
I can’t say for sure when things changed but it sure didn’t help when the ex said there were “very fine people on both sides” after the Charlottesville incident!
the only thing that has changed since day 1 is eras when it's not ok for them to show themselves in the daylight, and eras when civilized society manages to force them back into the quiet shadows.
@@nonyabizness.original Exactly. They're just full mask off now, which is almost a positive (I don't like it when the cowards and trash try to blend in). But this is who they've always been. There were Republican politicians quietly giving talks to groups David Duke and other 'activists' ran in the 80s, and even Duke himself ran for president at one point. This sideshow isn't new, only its openness is.
I couldn't agree more. I've been saying this since 2016. Cheeto gave them carte blanche to hate. And boy have they picked up the (hate) torch and sprinted with it.
In the 1939 Germany census 95% of the population identified themselves as some kind of Christain. Considering who was being murdered if you were being murdered in Nazi Germany chances are good that everyone participating in your murder was a Christain. A much larger group of Christians didn't participate but instead looked the other way, while a very small number of Christians actually apposed the Nazis. There is an historical link between Christian Nationalist and Nazis. If you are a Christian and think that being a Christian is a good thing, then now is the time to stand up.
I am curious what is the source of the census? Also, I hope you are aware that the Nazis were actually vehemently anti-theists and opposed to Christianity writ large. They assuredly were not Christian, and while there were Christians who did look the other way or make the painful associations with the Nazis, many others did not, and strove to hide the Jews and other persecuted groups. Please do not conflate Christianity and the teachings of Christ with Nazis and Facism.
I believe the first international treating Hitler made after seizing power was with the Vatican. Beau has a couple excellent videos of the characteristics of fascism.
Remember that 1 famous quote of a catholic priest who before the war was an anti-semitic Nazi supporter. “First they came…” He spoke up to late, when any potential allies had been rounded up and it was his organization’s turn to be brought under control by the jackboot thugs. As thanks for his many years of tacit support, he got years of concentration camp with the other ‘undesirables’. He was lucky though, because german political prisoners just got the light treatment: concentration camp with low food, slave labor, beatings & piss poor housing. After the war, he spend much of his live warning others: speak up for others when it begins lest there be none left to speak for you at the end.
I still remember seeing the front page of the newspaper after it happened and see the picture of the fireman carrying the baby…. Fuck McVeigh and Fuck Fascists
This sideshow never stops. All that happens is a certain number of people forget it and another comes along and tells people it wasn't really that bad, an's the cycle starts all over again. This is why both education and vigilance are so important.
...filled with fertilizer and deisel fuel, both items easily obtainable from any farm-supply outlet. I remember that one. It was all over the news - and I'm up here in Atlantic Canada. McVeigh was a wing-nut in a small family-type group of wing-nuts. It was only a matter of time before the wing-nuts became a political collective. The combination of Internet echo chambers and Donald Trump is like a fuse for those guys. A scary time right now, for sure.
This year I attended a Dutch Remembrance Day (May 4th) ceremony for the first time, due to my work as a reporter. At some point I wondered when we'd stop with this Day. When will it be okay? The ceremony was in a WW2 cemetery with some 250 servicemen, the vast majority airmen that died in their early 20's. I'm pretty stoic, but man that hit me. Suddenly 78 years is not all that long ago. Remembrance Day is still very necessary. We must stay vigilant and we must not forget the horrors of war, fascism and nazism.
I was around and do remember that. Honor, decency, integrity, civility, good manners, words I certainly would NOT use to describe folks like Matt Gaetz or Josh Hawley. They're more in the entitled little pricks category.
The democrats need to savvy the F' up. Repubs are not their "Esteemed colleagues across the isle". Repubs are their enemies. They were either involved in or fine with a coup that could have killed democrats in our federal government. Most of those republicans are still in office and have suffered no consequences.
Josh Hawley clearly doesn't even believe in the garbage he spouts, he just wants power, the third reich was built by men like that and we're seeing it happen again just in the US this time around...
If the kid had just been marching with the flag back and forth in front of the White House they'd have said "There's our boy! Working hard to make America great again."
Yep. KKK & other fascist sympathizers used “America 1st” to oppose the aid & participation in WW2. Now their ideological descendants want textbooks to revert to calling those people “isolationists”, so our kids won’t know that fascism doesn’t have to include genocidal rhetoric & can happen in a free country.
@@Pistolita221 Not all Americans. POC, LGBTQ women who are p.o.-ed at losing bodily autonomy & everyone who knows what Antifa means, knows it can happen anywhere.
Serbia because they have been shit on a lot in history, use their victimhood as an excuse to ignore self-criticsm and justify anything they want to do. In general it is bad to revel in your victimhood. And that includes lefties.
@Dr. Pennybags This is not nor has it ever been a Christian nation. And the people who want to mix religion and church don't understand the bible either.
Since this has become an issue…my thought has been, “if I EVER find that I am on the same side of a protest with someone carrying a Confederate or Nazi flag, I will leave and seriously question how I came to have views congruent with theirs.”
They've spent too long adamantly believing that it couldn't possibly happen in America. Turns out that if you repeatedly tell your population that they inhabit the greatest country on earth, they become convinced that they are immune from potential problems.
And that is exactly why Republicans in RED states don't want history to be taught truthfully - leave out the parts that would make people think certain types of rhetoric and certain policies are BAD - and NEVER say the word NAZI. Most Republicans can't correctly spell Fascist - but Trump says they're socialists and communists. And of course his idiot MAGA followers believe this. Heaven forbid they would ever open a dictionary and actually check the DEFINITIONS OF THE WORDS BEING USED by their idols.
I'm sorry your dad has passed. We need his generation to be here and stand up and _castigate_ their [R]-voting descendants for literally _becoming_ what your dad risked getting his personal ass shot off over Germany and France to defeat.
I marched on DC in 2008 with a movement that emerged from the American political right. George W Bush was the President and we were marching against fascism specifically under that administration. 5 months later a black man got elected president and that movement immediately forgot the fascist tendencies of the GOP and went all-in on “THE LEFT” conspiracy theories.
My major professor was German. He was a great guy. We used to have beers over dinner sometimes. I once asked him about his experiences as a child. He was a Hitler youth. Had a pocket knife, a little uniform… his response to my question “what was that like?” was - more-or-less - “it’s just what was expected”. I have taken that to heart in my life. When faced with difficult social or ethical situations, I always try to do the unexpected.
I talked to an old man who was a Hitler youth a few years ago (he's dead now). Of course, he had ZERO choice and he said that the best day of his life was when he surrendered to U.S. forces. They treated and fed him FAR better than the Nazis were able to.
I had a German professor (professor OF German, but also German) back in the early 90s who also lived through that time. He looked guilty as he said "die Hitlerzeit" was the happiest time of his childhood. Pre-war, naturally.
So as a youth, your professor didn't know that what he was doing was bad. Pretty much the same with today's MAGATs. Many of them are unaware that they are supporting fascism/autocracy. Their powerful, unerring, "strongman" party leader is in control. What could possibly go wrong?
@@just9911 I don’t think it’s in short supply. I just don’t think it puts itself on parade. I don’t think you see it until it’s needed. Let’s hope it is never needed again. But I am pretty sure it’s around. How many BOT5C subscribers are there? ;-)
My grandfather was an AF gunner in "the bloody 100th" in WW2. He was also a Republican. He'd be ashamed to see his party aligned with the same people that he so heroically fought against😔
@@tylertyler82 there was a swath of Americans that supported the Nazi party in WW2 but those with morals and a sense of patriotism were on the right side of history and fought against fascism and genocide.
Gingrich and Buchanan were the worst things to happen to this country since Reagan. With precious few exceptions, this is exactly who the GOP have been longer than I've been alive.
Buchanan was a garden-variety racist. Not necessarily a fascist. I know that sounds like a weird distinction to make, but Buchanan was an old school conservative who believed in the rule of law. Gingrich, on the other hand, has always been a fascist. Right from the start his campaign was based on name-calling/gaslighting and abuses of power.
@@rickdesper He declared the start of the culture war that's continuing as we speak explicitly to put people of color, the LGBTQ+, and anyone else he didn't like "in their place". There's no such thing as a "garden variety racist" when they're seated in the halls of power.
Thank you for defending the academics, Beau. We get vilified an awful lot at all levels, from preschool to grad school. It’s encouraging to hear this kind of repeated support.
A dear Cambodian friend from college days told me how her father was attacked for being an intellectual. He wore glasses. The family fled & she spent years in a boarding school in Europe, where her family knew she was safe. 😢
@@annem7806 My first mentor was a Cambodian man, a refugee of their Cultural Revolution. He told me about when he was a child, his entire village was brought into the square, and every person over a certain age ("you can't straighten a bent tree once it gets too old" was the excuse) and everyone with glasses was shot on sight. That's when he lost his older brother. I've *never* forgotten that story, or the look on his face as he told me. And I sure as hell won't celebrate the anti intellectualism so much of this country seems to be so proud of.
I'm just going to point this out: they know they are fascists, they just don't care if you are recognizing it or not. The ideology is such that they think Germany had its problems, they were too small to conquer the world, they didn't have a solid military base to draw on to exercise the Nazi will, they weren't already a globe striding empire, but America has all of those things and could conquer it all and win. Bottom line: It isn't about calling them out as fascists anymore. It is about stopping them and giving people the alternative necessary for them to care and want to stop them.
Also, want to point out 2 things: America cannot conquer it all. That is patently false and foolish, in case that needs to be said. This truck incident could be a test run for the big one if these terrorists are really organized enough to pull off that huge of a fertilizer heist. That is concerning.
It's something I often told my children... Looking at Germany: A culture that produced Martin Luther, Mozart, Einstein -- just to name a few... To think that somehow we in the United States are too moral, or cultured or intelligent or sophisticated for something like that to ever happen HERE. Really? Think again. We have a plain view of well documented modern history captured in film and verified literature outlining how this came about -- and the parallels are striking. Yet even as these things continue to unfold, become normalized and even defended by political leaders, we still dismiss it as even a possibility... that it could ever... happen... among... US.
Thats what i think should by why natsers should be shown as human, wring, but human. And the monsters as monsters i guess. Because that are just people mostly and that happened. Thats why we should never forget. Becauwe how easy that can happen.
Well said. Now is not the time to be silent. They are targeting small, vulnerable and victimized groups of individuals, starting with children. 45 ignored the varied legitimate reasons federal executions had been put on hold. This was after taking out full page ads calling for executions of the now Exonerated Five in NYC. He executed 13 people during his only term - 5 AFTER HE LOST THE 2020 ELECTION, INCLUDING ONE OF THE RARE WOMEN on death row. His "rioters" on January 6th did not chant "Hang Mike Pence" and erect a gallows for no reason. Wake UP America!
IMHO they've been going down this road since Reagan. Trump wasn't an outlier--he beat them at their own game. He took them further and faster than they thought possible--but they were headed there anyway. Lee Atwater tells you all you need to know. It was a plan. th-cam.com/video/X_8E3ENrKrQ/w-d-xo.html
As a teen learning about WWII, I always figured it could never happen again, anywhere. That the world was mostly sickened by all that went on, and learned a lesson. That after our brush with McCarthyism, and seeing how something like that sweep through the nation, and how quickly it can get out of hand, that no undemocratic BS could happen here. That we were smarter or more alert to how this happens. But these days I think it can happen here, in fact is happening right now. With every law that the right openly or quietly makes, every law or norm that they break without consequences. It's happening. Some people aren't paying attentio/think it's not really going to get bad, some don't know what they can do to stop it. And unfortunately some are actively pushing/voting for it. They think it will somehow bring back the 'good ole day's ' that bad things will only happen to others, not to them, because they're white, Christian, and conservative. They don't realize that once their authoritarian/fascist government gets entrenched, they won't need their votes/backing anymore. That they'll be told to sit down and shut up just like everyone else, except those that are in power.
I remember the Bush Sr. move. I left the circle of the NRA because they stopped being concerned primarily with marksmanship and safety! I didn't discard my diplomas. I moved away from the GOP when they found excuses for joining in on the anti-catholic rhetoric spewed at candidate John F. Kennedy.
I remember when republicans would say; "I might not agree with what you say, but I would fight to the death for your right to say it." The republican party is in a sad state of affair.
I remember trump saying about people coming across the US border “they are not sending their best, they are sending rapists, gangsters, and bad hombre’s”. His base believed him. When I saw a bus full of immigrants on tv, unloading at a bus stop in NewYork (because Abbot thinks the rest of Texan’s are ‘better’ than them) I saw a bunch of very normal people. I saw little kids, I saw adults, some looked happy, and some looked nervous.
after the invasion of Poland in 1939 Lindberg made a speech about fascists and industry - a leading columnist exclaimed "God Damn IT! they've just discovered that Hitler is a good republican!"
Within 80 years, your country went from one whose "Greatest Generation" fought against fascism to a country with a way too large number of people who think that fascism is what would bring your country greatness.
Agree! Beau is accurate, well-informed, educational, & gives calm, thoughtful opinions/responses. He doesn't catastrophize or 'selectively' choose what details to share based on his own personal political bias. All of these (but especially the 'not catastrophizing' part, my anxiety over this stuff is terrible enough) are why he's one of the very few people I trust & can listen to on these subjects.
HW Bush took it personally when the NRA called federal agents fascists. Today Republicans tkae it personally when Disney has a black actress in a movie.
They get upset because a Black actress was playing a mermaid, because, you know, in real life mermaids are always White.
I’m sure they would’ve not had a problem with a black Ursula stealing the pretty white mermaid’s voice and man.
I find this fact very funny, since Bush Senior's father, Prescott Bush, literally tried to install a fascist government in the U.S. Look up the Business Plot if you don't believe me.
Sad but true.
I felt the same indignation when some were calling ICE agents Concentration Camp guards.
if you don't want to be called a nazi, don't act like one or hang out with them
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If there are nazis at your protest and you don’t make them leave, you are at a nazi protest
Same applies to political parties
Or defend them.
A saying I've seen around is: "If there’s a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, then you got a table with 11 Nazis."
While that is a somewhat simple way of looking at it, the Right sure does seem to have a fuck load of Nazis lately and sure does love defending them...
Never ever walk in the same parade as them, never ever.
One of my best friends is German and he gave me some advice, paraphrased I'm sure: "Need to know if you're on the wrong side politically? Look for the presence of Nazis. Are Nazis at your rallies? Sure, maybe they're getting your side's points a bit wrong, but are Nazis attracted to your side at the time for some reason? Left or right, are Nazis showing up? This means you might need to do some thinking."
This is the commentary I'm making here in Australia. If you have Nazi's turning up at your Anti-Trans rally, you can't really say that your not a Nazi sympathiser. Because your rally isn't a safe space for Transgender people and a safe space for Nazi's.
What about if Communists are showing up? How many people killed by communism in the last century?
Solid advice 👌
The GOP base is not made up of thinking people. Much like the Nazi Party was in the early 30's. They were made up of angry people.
Yep. That's a pretty easy dummy-check. Hell, it shouldn't even have to be said, but here we are nonetheless. Fuck.
How to tell me you're a Nazi without telling me you're a Nazi. "They're making us look bad!" Dear gods...
They're working 7/24 to look bad
They are PROUD to be bad little nazi boys and girls. Should lock them all up.
"Why would somebody with that flag doing something make you look bad?" Priceless rhetoric - best ever!
The part they're disavowing isn't trying to violently breach a security perimeter. It's getting caught up in the barricades.
They don't resent being associated with the attempt. They resent being associated with a *failed, incompetent* attempt.
@@nodisalsi Really is brilliant statement
Remember back in the day when the Blues Brothers could safely say they hated Illinois Nazis without immediately offending a quarter of the audience?
"I hate Nazis".
Indian Jones
Well correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe in the original script Jake empathizes his feelings about Nazis by driving by and telling them to "Stand Down."
Stand back and stand by
:) But they were just good ol' boys...
Yes but I also remember John Belushi's favorite band being the band FEAR, whose lead singer Lee Ving was very into the idea of starting his own Nazi army in real life.
This just breaks my heart, as the daughter of a WWII veteran who flew as a tail gunner on D-Day. We fight Nazis, we don't embrace them.
Thank you! Why some people refuse to recognize what they are supporting is incomprehensible to me, specifically bc of WW II.
Yes lost a uncle and grandfather fighting natzis
We also had a long Cold War with the Soviet Union and now so many right wingers are siding WITH Putin trying to rebuild the Soviet Union by force. No level headed and rational Republican pre 2000 would be allowed in the party today.
Your country only fought them because it would have been political suicide not too. Sad reality is morality is never the reason most countries fight wars.
Your father is part of America’s “Greatest Generation”. We thank him and other who fought along side him and won the war to make this world a peaceful and better place. I see that slipping away now and it’s scary.
Biden doesn't need to make the GOP look bad. They do it all by themselves.
Rumor has it they're running low on Aquanet, tho🤔
I think it's funny that a guy they claim is asleep all day whenever he isn't changing his diaper or suffering from dementia is the same guy behind all of these unfortunate events that always seem to be directly tied to the Republican Party. You know, the folks who claim that they are the only ones to have around to protect all of us when the shit goes down. They can't counteract maneuvers from a single sleeping demented man but they can protect a whole ass country from whatever else. Right.
Ohh you beat me to it!
Yes, and unfortunately that lowers the bar for the Democrats. It's not good competition, it's bad competition.
@@Robert-ki7bz Lowers the bar for candidates, raises the stakes for voters (and maybe their attention level)
I remember when republican’s slogan was I’d would rather be dead than Red! Now look at their t shirts. I’d rather be Russian than a democrat! That says it all!
Yep remember that well. You must be close to my age.
Disgusting, ain't it?
I want to be Democrat, not russian.
Underrated comment! (y)
Apparently, they’d rather be Nazis than antifascists, too. So much for honoring the Greatest Generation!
As a German I started watching US politics closely in 2016. I always wondered how Hitler happened and now I felt I was watching it in real time.
Greetings from Germany.
The day after Trump's election, my Canadian ass felt very much like an Austrian after Hitler was elected.
Me too, and I'm in it..
Welcome to the second Weimar Republic. Our leaders will sell us out.
@Remi Maloney I'm more concerned with Canada being closer to Italy after the fall of the 1860 Kingdom. If Hitler returns, so, too, will a Mussolini.
I have felt since 2015 I am living in 1930s Germany here in the US. I know too much history to ignore the parallels. But I know people who voted for Trump twice who were ready for him to shut up and go home before Jan 6 even happened. You won’t hear about them in any headlines. I think there are a lot more of them than these fascist wing nuts.
@@thebec8853 Ditto here.
Our fathers and grandfathers fought and died to defend us from these horrible ideas. To believe in them spits on these brave men.
I am glad my father (WW2 vet) and mother of the Greatest Generation didn’t live to experience January 6th. It would have angered, saddened, and sickened them so terribly.
@@vanguard9067 Ditto here.
Well said!
...to defend the whole world from those ideas...and that set of "ideas" are worse than cockroaches, by the time you see one, it's only after they're done laying eggs🤮
@@vanguard9067 Make 'em proud, do the right thing, and keep your head up.🤘
Its funny to me how a group of people scream all day every day about "taking their country back" and yet everytime one of them goes for it all we hear is "that wasn't us" or "false flag".
I came here just to write that. Don't they brag all day long about overthrowing "the commies"?
THIS. THIS right here.
Take the country back from what? We have two rightwing parties in this country. They literally got what they wanted and they are suffering for it so the people their best thinking put in power are now telling them its "Woke" people (aka people that are culturally aware....or in their mind anything they think is different from them and different equals scary) or the dang gum immagints......We all suffer for their indoctrination...and I have a feeling it will only get worse with this whole billionaire funded no labels because with democrats in office the descent into an even more dystopian capitalist hell hole is slowed slightly and it comes wrapped in a pride flag kneeling in a kente cloth....performative, but better than stochastically terrorising my friends in the gay and trans community
When they start taking credit for it is when that R becomes officially a terrorist organization. They absolutely support this kinda thing (their rhetoric is evident) but don't want the subsequent crackdown from law enforcement.
What gets me about the "taking their country back" folks is they never say who they're taking it back from. Other Americans? The people other Americans elected? Ideologies that support people not like them?
I remember getting my ass chewed out when I was very young for drawing Swastikas. My republican parents gave me a long lecture about concentration camps, gas chambers, family members who died fighting WW2, God and country. My best friends dad would tell us the stories of his days as a paratrooper were just to horrible to tell and he prays to God we never have to experience that.
Most of my family left the Republican party when they switched to evangelical control. The US is batshit crazy.
Good ❤
I also left the GOP after extreme evangelical influence was obvious. I was a bit slow though as it took me until Dubya was in office to see it but then i was raising my child and not paying close enough attention to broader scope of politics.
Oh Dennis!! SAME! I was too young to understand the meaning, also-- I had just seen it somewhere
& was copying it-- boy, did I get a sit-down!! I was stricken when my Dad explained it all to me! What in the world are people thinking?? 😢
Strangely enough. Arnold Schwarzenegger has a a very telling rant about the Republican party's direction and about his memories of sad and troubled old men in Austria who deeply regretted not speaking out when they had the chance. He also talks about winning votes with policies instead of gaming the system. Pretty powerful message that the modern Republican party could learn a lot from.
Just stop calling them Republicans that Party No longer EXISTS..The Magatts have Destroyed any remnant of Sanity..
I saw that. It's a shame that so many in the right don't have the humility or character to understand lived historical experience, even denying or mocking it. And, it's chilling how much money is going into these extremists coffers.
That was a really powerful speech, he is a true traditional conservative, but he doesn't really fit into the GOP anymore, they've gone way further than that.
I wonder if he'd identify more as a democrat nowadays when it comes to actual opinions.
@@TheLumberjack1987 I'm guessing that he was a Biden crossover in 2020. Those memories of his father cast a long shadow over his life. He may still be a fiscal conservative, but he understands human rights.
@@erinmcdonald7781 very possible, I just haven't seen him officially change parties.
But he also doesn't really have to and I can totally imagine him just saying "I'm staying in the republican party because I'm a true republican, everyone else should leave instead" if he was asked lol.
As the saying goes, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck.
If it looks like a Fascist, acts like a Fascist, and talks like a Fascist... It's a Fascist.
If it steps like a goose...
SO TRUE
@@Kaotiqua HA!
Maybe it's a democrat
@@mike-ws3jl anything is possible.
I have said from the start that electing him was the worst thing that could have happened. People were saying that I was overreacting, that he had limited power. etc... He almost pulled it off! He had his minions in Congress, an AG in his pocket, and foot soldiers willing to turn against our government. No sir, there are not good people on both sides.
The amount of damage from getting to put in _three_ Supreme Court Justices is something we won't see the length and breadth of for a very long time, but based on what has _already_ happened we can sort of predict just how bad it'll ultimately become. Those three people are going to cause more damage and destruction to our democracy than anything else he will ever be known for - and that's _a lot._
"I hate Illinois Nazis." - Jake Blues
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Jake blues was a truly independent thinker….thank god.
I am from Illinois and I approve of this message!
Left that outhouse 10 years ago!
@@hushmoney2058 yes, js bad, you big brain thinky thinker you.
Doesn’t change that the right is now the party that defends nazis. That’s who you are
There was a time when hypocritical behavior meant the end of a politician’s career. Now it’s a badge of honor.
That's because they don't care about hypocrisy just appearing strong or weak. If you make hypocrisy synonymous with being weak then it would have an impact. I mean hypocrisy is a sign of weakness to those with critical thinking skills or integrity but try to convey that to Trumpists.
They have no honor.
The Republican party no longer has any code of ethics or rules of honor, just denial and deflection.
@@ryanb7186 when you're right, you're right.
Lack of integrity used to be punished, I agree.
The days of Daddy Bush are long gone my friend. I'm 56 and seeing what the GOP has become since tRump blows my mind. I'll not be voting red again in this lifetime.
Nixon explicitly started a terror campaign against American citizens. Nixon was also a criminal.
Reagan paid Iran to hold Americans hostage. The downfall of the Republican Party was not quick, or unexpected. Having watched it building up to Trump, I left the US in 2009, expecting the post-Obama era to be much like it was.
I'm voting RED every time!! The Democrats are mutilating our children, chemically castration boys, confusing our young children's minds. They are purposly confusing our children in our public schools. They pushed the poisonous vaccine shots. May God protect America and it's Citizens. The Demoncraps sure aren't!
Don't vote blue either, see how biden is destroying our country
My mom was born in Bremen, Germany in 1928. She met my dad when he was stationed in Germany during the Occupation. After marrying him, she gladly became a U.S. citizen. I cannot tell you how upset she was after the Charlottesville rally. I could see the remembered horror in her eyes. She knew, SHE KNEW that this was the start of how it began.
My friend was born in Germany in 1933. Her kindergarten class went to see Hitler give a speech and christen a battleship. My friend cried because she thought Hitler was nuts and scary but all her teachers said he was a hero. When Trump was running in 2016, my friend saw the similarities right away. She told me "I always knew it could happen again, but I didn't think it would happen here." She also told me to be more afraid of Trump's followers than of Trump himself. She remembers teachers and neighbors being taken away by the GESTAPO. She died of COVID before the vaccine was available.
@Sarah M. I'm in my mid 40s. My entire adult life I have watched various wwII or nazi documentaries.
No one had to tell me there were similarities. Between Trump and Hitler. His mannerisms are similar. The way his voice increases and wanes. Even the flow of the speech.
it's hard to believe someone who saw the real thing took that story at face value and can't recognize deeply serious media deception is happening again and is the real lesson from charlottesville and Trump
I’m grateful for the confirmation of those who witnessed that. Being a dirt road leftist, I’m often gaslit by even the “moderates” of the town, sometimes even my family… thank you for passing along the memories and sage warnings.
@Blair i didnt know "dirt road leftist" was a thing, but holy shit im making myself a tshirt this weekend lmao
For those who can't decode: a car with a 19-year-old driver may have intentionally hit the barrier near the White House. About 60,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate, a chemical used as a fertilizer and in explosives, went missing on a rail shipment from Wyoming to California in April and has still not been found, officials said (NY TImes). From Time Magazine: The U.S. Park Police said the man was arrested on multiple charges, including threatening to kill, kidnap or inflict harm on a president, vice president or member of their family; assault with a dangerous weapon; reckless driving; destruction of federal property; and trespassing. The flag was a Nazi flag. "Fash" means Fascism.
Thanks for the information. I was wondering about the explosives Beau mentioned. 60,000 lbs is a serious heist. A couple guys with pick up trucks couldn't do that. That stuff could start showing up all over the nation
@@michaelburk9171 Which is the concerning part.
What's going t obe the bomb that actually goes off?
Wow. A bit smarmy. Not a good look talking down to people like that. Full of self-importance.
@@larindanomikos He seems to have hit a nerve if you react like that….
@@larindanomikos Beau has to be vague so that TH-cam won't demonitize his videos
You know, if they weren't fascist they would literally be saying "see fascists are bad." The fact that they identify with the fascist is telling on themselves.
they don't identify with fascist. they understand that dopes like you equate them with fascists.
Get's 'em all together, maybe they'll learn, maybe they'll get deported🤔🤘
Afrkkkaner Musky and several R traitors .
Honey, they tell on themselves all the time! They just don’t think we know it and they absolutely know their own audience has no clue.
@@fortlauderdalegirl "they absolutely know their own audience has no clue". so in your opinion 'the audience', which would be the vast majority of conservatives and Trump supporters, is not fascist. repeat - is not fascist, in YOUR opinion. Good. that's progress. Now just need work on the other bit.
My grandfather was a gun smith. He was an NRA member and left out in the early 1980s not liking the direction of the group.
He thought, then, it was too easy to get a gun. His head would spin now.
Me too.I believe 1980 was the first year that the NRA endorsed a political candidate. Now Wayne Lapierre is laundering Russian millions and Nugent is screaming about giving Hillary a crotch ride on his AR 15.
Black powder? They take so long to load, and you only get one shot at an unsuspecting target, takes a steady hand and a quiet demeanor...
Good on your gramps. 1980 was *the* time to leave the NRA. I think it was in 1978 when their leadership got taken over by fasc.
@@jasonbrown372 The upside of black powder is they could only kill *one* grade schooler and then the rest could flee.
@@havable The upside is the shooter would probably miss, or it backfires and makes his face into a Rorschach blot💥😶🌫🤪
Bit like a rapist stating there was no way their DNA was found because they wore a condom.
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My kid loves Dumbest Criminals. We watched one where the judge, talking to the witness, said "Are the two individuals who committed the crime in this courtroom?"
The two defendants raised their hands and said "here."
D'oH!
"she isn't my type"
Damn! Good comment.
I am not ashamed of admitting that I no longer recognize my country and I am terrified.
Having been invited to join a chapter of the KKK in the 90s (my silence around a racist not wanting him to take revenge on me was mistaken for support, so he invited me to join, and warned me that the joining initiation is to participate in a lynching), the "turn" of recent wasn't a surprise, and is just the people who always thought that way feeling they didn't have to hide it.
This is always who we were. We just liked to pretend differently.
Same. It’s horrifying.
It is very frightening to see our country in danger from a big section of our own citizens. We've lost them to a cult!
@@marc21256 fkn wow... a black man in the white house pushed them over the edge 😢
One of my grandmothers grew up in Nazi Germany during WW II. Her mother didn't like Hitler, wouldn't do the heil, and talked bad about him. Fascists put posters up in town with her picture, which said that she was a bad German. Luckily, she was a strong woman who could do the hard physical work that the men who had gone off to fight in the war used to do, so other people in the town who liked her were able to make an exception for her. But she had to keep her thoughts about the Nazis to herself after that.
I never met my great-grandmother, but she lived a long life and died when I was 10. I'm only in my early 40s. This did not happen that long ago, and it is trying to happen again here in the U.S.. People need to wake up and stand against these fascists before it's too late.
Those that don’t know their history are condemned to repeat it. Now if only the US had the foresight to teach history beyond US history...
@@canadianperspective3731 Hell, we don't even teach US history anymore. The conservatives have banned it because they are ashamed of what people with white skin did.
@@canadianperspective3731 And to teach their own history accurately and honestly!
i will take stuff that never happened 👆for 500$ alex
Thank you for sharing your story, it’s heartening to hear of people who didn’t just fall in line.
As a non-American, I'm always grateful when Beau says "If you don't know what I'm talking about" and then tells us. Thank you Beau.
As a non American, there’s so much that happens there, it’s hard to keep up!
As a non-American, taking in Beau's daily chats, gives me a good all-round unstanding of whats happening in the USofA
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As a non American, I know way, way too much about America..
@@Denidrakes69 well if anyone is going to wipe us out it going to be them, right? Instinct is to keep tabs on it.
@@robertsmith-williams5255 absolutely. Also listening out for rhetoric over there being used where I am..
As someone who grew up on a tobacco farm in Virginia. A gopher stole my dukes of hazard car. My dad used the back hoe to dig it up. He did not succeed. This was a really long time ago. I still like to picture a gopher driving around my dukes of hazard car. I live in the mountains of North Carolina now with a population less than the freshman classes of some high schools in more populated places. How are my neighbors (not that I have neighbors but people who live in a few miles of me) so authoritarian friendly? I don't want a ruler. Also, what is up with rural people shooting strangers? That is not what I grew up with. If you pull into my driveway, you should be concerned, but not for the reason most people would think. A year or two ago a young Mexican guy pulled into my driveway. He was lost and had no celular service because this is in the mountains of North Carolina. I got my cell phone and handed it to him and told him to call his mom so she would know he was OK. Did he have a bottle of water because he needed to stay hydrated. I had some lemon if he did not like to drink water pain. I could make him some tea. We have a wide variety of teas. He called his mom so she would know he was OK. But he was very nervous and left. If he had stuck around for another fifteen or thirty minutes I would have started making food on the barbecue. The way I was raised, if a lost person ends up in your driveway you feed them not shoot them. But that is me and my best friend. We have an expresso machine now. So if you get lost here, I can also make some really good coffee drinks. Everyone else has lost their mind, but my best friend and I hold to southern hospitality.
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Amen.
God bless your kindness and generous heart!!!
Beau is a calm and logical voice in a demented and divided world.
It's always this way. The pendulum swings back and forth. Don't stress. Your right about Beau, he's wiser than his years belie. Get involved, network, and work towards the future you want your kids to grow up in. Think ahead. Good luck.
But you can tell he is not in good humor talking about nazi's had two uncles in ww2 in different divisions both learned one extremely important lesson. The hard way people lost their lives when capturing a small platoon at the start of the war that the black uniform soldiers weren't to radicalized but had to be housed in different prisons to protect the regular German soldiers because they would attempt to escape by sacrificing their own soldiers by getting them to us a direct attack on armed guards or any other crazy attempt. And as the war went on after 42 the nazi ss had 2 in as many as possible platoons to make sure that the regular German soldiers would fight to the last man if at all possible so the US forces targeted the ss nazi's and then the regular German soldiers would surrender to the overwhelming opposition but if the ss nazi's survived and surrendered thay would cause trouble every time so thay were separated from the regular German soldiers as soon as possible and at the slightest possibility of trouble thay were dealt with in the most harsh form possible .thay would hid hand grenades or very small caliber pistols and try to wound or kill a US soldier and then immediately surrender again and US soldiers were not stupid or acceptable of this practice so it led to a ss nazi's being handled harshly and rightly so
@@gregallen4272 interesting.. I recently read "Blitzed: drugs in nazi Germany" and it's possible that meth played a huge role in the success of the early campaigns (until approx. 1942), the energy, the impredicability and also the cruelty and some downright psychotic behavior.. fascinating book.. My mother's village in Alsace was freed from the Nazi occupants in november 1944
It probably requires a lot of efforts to remain that calm ..
But occurrences like the one he's talking about can cause him to work very hard to remain calm.
I will give Trump supporters credit: They love to tell me how they "almost joined the Marines."
The worst thing in the world is a wannabee.
They also like to tell the story how the south "almost won". They seem to have a love for participation trophies.
@@meinelust Oooh nice burn 😂
"Chairborne Rangers" from Ft. Livingroom
Do you thank them for almost being patriotic?
Not to say those who are not/were not in the military are not patriots...just those who say things like that while supporting attacks on the country.
It's incorrect to imply that the American Right has never been fascist before. A large percentage of them were in the '30's and it took a global war against fascism to turn them around.
Then there's the fact that the Confederacy was quite fascist in nature even though the term; along with many of the identifying characteristics; was not yet known.
This is NOT coincidental.
We've NEVER been the good guys
My grandpa was conservative leaning: Small business owner living in suburbia... but he believed in the Civil Rights movement, that people should not be treated differently because of the color of their skin.
He was a WW2 vet and a Nisei.
In 2018, a Nazi rally marched right through the center of Detroit Pride.
My uncle put it best: "Dad wouldn't necessarily be marching in pride, but he would have rounded up his army buddies and turned that Nazi March into a bloodbath. Because he knew firsthand what letting them march would do, damn the personal consequences."
Respect to your father. And to you sharing this.
I am glad my father (WW2 vet) and mother of the Greatest Generation didn’t live to experience January 6th. It would have angered, saddened, and sickened them so terribly.
Your father sounds like a great man.
I can listen to and debate fiscal conservatives. Tax codes, employment rules, ect.
Social conservatives I can't.
Who deserves human rights is something I can't debate.
I'm just curious when killing nazis went out of style and more importantly when it'll come back.
@@michaelburk9171 exactly.
@@Jake-xe1wuWhen I was growing up, anyone with that symbol on them was swing on site. Every time. Sometimes there weren't even words exchanged, sometimes it was broad daylight, sometimes they were surrounded by other people. But they all ended the same, with someone cracking something off some clown's jaw.
I'm not advocating for violence. But I am saying there are far worse traditions to bring back.
Y'all don't need help making you look bad, GOP.
They're doing pretty good on their own.
Oops, all Nazis.
Exceptional.
They should engage in some honesty and call themselves Reich Wing.
GOP wouldn't vote to state that nazis as terrorists. All of flavors of nazis should be considered as terrorists.
I remember when I was 12-13, I was a WW2 buff. I remember having some German pieces. One day I walked into my grandpas house with my collection. Really stoked to show him. When he saw it, and saw that symbol, his face fell, and became very serious. He was a tanker in WW2. The rest of the day was spent being educated on the profundity of our nation and that thousands died fighting against that symbol. It wasn’t even the words that were said, it was the seriousness he was able to convey. No anger, just the importance of the struggle, and the complete defeat of fascism. We now have a political party trying to steal power for themselves, and use the white supremacy movement as muscle. Similar to the SA in Germany. The SA was literally boots on the ground. The precursor to the SS. Oh yeah ironic they had to swear an oath of allegiance to Hitler. Hitler ultimately had people in the SA murdered that he thought could potentially challenge him, or he owed favor to achieve his rise to power. Steve Bannon being a part of Trumps orbit wasn’t enough for folks. Cognitive dissonance empowers the right. They lie and people believe it. White supremacy has no place in America. So many folks don’t realize how deep and wide this weed of fascism has become.
Remember Trump's 'Loyalty Oaths' ? This is frightening.
I left the NRA when they tried to tell their members who to vote for. Yeah, 50 years ago.
Me too
Me too.
So do unions. They send out lists of “approved” candidates for every major election.
Too bad folks in the US don't leave the churches that preach politics - it's practically ingrained into religion now in America. I support the second amendment and I also support common sense gun control legislation but I will NEVER support the NRA. What a disgusting organization.
@@kennethbrowning5923 There is a difference between information and indoctrination. It's important to know which political party won't vote against unions.
Maybe he wasn’t a NAZI, maybe he was delivering a flag to Clarence Thomas so he could gift it to Harlan Crow before getting lost in DC🤷♂️.
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Can we just call them Regressive instead of Republican? Seems like it would be effective.
This.
They are not (small case) republican, but they define a republic as a system of government in which those that have it right (them) rule over those who don't (everybody not them) regardless of how few of them there are. Of course, a republic is nothing of the kind.
Great idea and very appropriate.
They are AINO's - American in Name Only
I have alternated between "Repulsican" and "Repressive," and your choice works as well.
Your sadness and anger about these people going down a dangerous road without realising the consequences is tangible. Sitting here in Germany and witnessing the political and social developments in the US during the last years is very concerning. I'm rooting for everybody in the US that tries to prevent the country from becoming an authoritarian menace. Good luck and I hope you prevail!
Well said. The same from Australia.
@@old_grey_cat Thank you. It is a shame what we humans are capable of doing to each other. Sometimes I find it hard to grasp how there is potential for so much love and destruction at the same time in us.
Greetings to Australia (where I've never been unfortunately)
@@llutac Thank you for your concern. But what goes around, comes around. Just take a look at our history.
Thank you. I’m optimistic that we will. It’s just a shame so many are so willingly blind to it. People will rather kill dozens or hundreds of other citizens than to admit they’ve been duped and bet on the wrong horse (metaphorically).
Agreed. The same from UK
3:23 "Why would somebody with that flag doing something make _you_ look bad?" This has to be one of the most pertinent rhetorical questions I ever heard. Very well asked, Beau.
Remember the stink the right made when Wolfenstein came out five years back, protesting about being unfairly targeted?
Beau has hit the most salient point in all of this mess. If you find yourself defending or deflecting nazis, you are doing little more than representing them. Your grandfathers would be ashamed.
When good people say or do nothing to stand up is when evil is allowed to spread. If they talk like fascist and defend people who act like fascist they are fascist.
Updated for 2023: When good people don't shut down their Twitter accounts, evil is allowed to spread.
If it steps like a goose....
I did something today
I have that same hard line between fascists and non-fascists.
There are no semi fascists or fascist sympathizers. There are no on the fence fascists.
If you are not against fascists then you are one.
@@derkeheath5172 100%
Washington D.C. & The 5 U.S. Island Territories need to be granted full statehood & members of Congress already! These are 5 million Americans who pay taxes yet aren't fully represented by the federal Government.
Yes! Or independence for any territories that would prefer that to statehood. There is no legitimate, non-racist reason to deny territories statehood.
@@cbpd89 Ah well, you gotta make a shitload of new flags then, they don't grow on trees, you know ;) Money is always a reason, especially in the USA.
I always see your comments and I really appreciate them. You have a good head on your shoulders.
@@Dave1507 😊
Hi Jesse!😊 Always good to see you commenting. Hope everything is going well for you.
I agree. _No taxation without representation._ I seem to remember reading that somewhere.🙄
It's called integrity and honor- nowhere to be found in the Republican party now.
The right wingers don't need Biden to make them look bad. They do a fine job of that on their own.
It's like hiding your face to disappear. Magic! Horrible how childish they really are.
Yes, and unfortunately that lowers the bar for the Democrats. It's not good competition, it's bad competition.
The worst part of MAGA, is the fear of being associated with them just by displaying the American flag.
I've been having fun telling them I'm a little to the left of Jesus.
They get snowflake level offended. 😂❤
Flags are cloth, identity is from the🫀 , our United States still have some 🧠, and maybe the 🌎 isn't ⌛.🗽,🤘.
I feel exactly the same way about the Canadian flag after the "freedom" blockade in Ottawa. I'm proud to fly our flag, but I always wonder if other Canadians think I support the viewpoints and actions of that group. Symbols, just like democracy, can be corrupted. Left or Right, our most dangerous enemies aren't each other, but those who are willing to risk losing democracy just to win at politics.
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
I don't think that's the worst part … but it is very annoying. My grandfather, who I lived with and cared for at the end of his life, was a WWII vet. When he passed (over a decade ago) I inherited a lot of flag-themed decorations that I enjoyed having around because they reminded me of him. I've taken most of them down because they now remind me of ideologies I cannot endorse-that he himself would never have supported.
The US flag has always had baggage, of course. But I do low-key hate the neo-con movement for fetishizing our national symbol and contaminating it with their small-minded view of patriotism.
When I think of the family members who fought in WW2 to stop this kind of fascist behavior; it makes me want to throw up when our politicians defend it, work with it, support it. From the day Trump started running on the hate everybody below the border rhetoric and how he could save everyone an make American great again, I told anyone who would listen that was the same kind of crap Hitler used to gain power. I weep for this country and what we have become and unless we stop it now, what we will become that is even worse. My family members who fought would be so ashamed if they were here to see this garbage.
To paraphrase a very popular, very patriotic, Marvel movie -
The character of the emigrant German Dr Erkstein, having a talk before the procedure to a very brave, very young, very skinny and short, Steve Rogers:
"What everyone forgets, the first country the Nazis conquered...was their own."
Godwin suspended his "law" for a reason; comparisons to Nazis was no longer a failed internet debate tactic, but an all too legitimate observation of where we were/are headed.
We have had a clear warning from the past. And Republicans like Ron Desantis are trying to make sure we repeat history by eliminating books and people that might make white students (more accurately, their insecure parents) "uncomfortable" and so that upcoming generations are ignorant and unable to think about the lessons of history, and only are taught the mythology.
It's a sad commentary on the current state of affairs, and even sadder that politics makes such strange bedfellows, that we now have to root for Disney to take down Desantis and his cronies, because they are the only ones with enough power to do that, since too many elderly voters are living in the past and not looking towards saving the future.
@@marieroberts5664 beautifully said and so true.
America is fast asleep. Completely unconscious.
@@marieroberts5664 And there's your problem - the wealthy corporations and their sitting hierarchy are now the only ones in a position to do anything about it. The wealth consolidation in this country has robbed the people of the hope and vision and tenacity required to be a living and acting democracy. Who supported Hitler? Capitalist industrialists. And those are now the people you are counting on to stop this? Don't hold your breath. The rich love fascism. It's good for the bottom line.
My grandfather was literally in 3 helicopter crashes in 1 day during WW2... he came home disabled and addicted to morphine because of this. He came off the morphine but picked up alcohol and never stopped... he suffered all that and here we are. I am grateful he's not alive to see what his suffering was worth.
We shouldn't call these people Neonazis, because they haven't presented anything new since 1933. That's also why we shouldn't debate them. Everything has already been said.
They have figured out new and exciting ways to get punched in the face. Always remember what Sartre said. You cannot debate these people. Punch them in the damn mouth. Its been past time that we do.
Eh, if you can debate them right and really make them look like idiots, you can sway some of their followers. Of course, to us they already look like idiots, and that's why you need to make them look stupid in a way that even those of their own ideology cant respect them. Make them look weak, petty, and like they cant even answer simple yes/no questions out of fear of conceding on something. Make them look like they dont have any balls. And its very possible to do. Fascism is the most cowardly ideology, they would rather blame their problems on someone else instead of growing a pair and working to fix those problems.
That's why they are called "new nazis". Their ideas are straight out of 1930s and 1940s germany.
If they had something new, there might be a new name for them.
They haven't presented anything new for three thousand years.
As a "Boomer", I say it started with Tricky Dickie, and the Nation has been moving towards Fascism since....:Fascist Theocracy" defined by Frank Zappa.
Same here. There's a book called "Family Of Secrets" by Russ Baker who goes into some of that but it's mostly about the Bush crime family. Interesting correlation he found between the JFK assassination and Watergate, and where daddy Bush was (or _not_ was) on Nov 22, 1963. ✌😎
Listen to Rachel Maddow's excellent podcast series "Ultra."
Hitler took notes from the Jim Crow laws in the USA.
It wasn't "just" in the South either.
Reagan and his policies started this mess. He HATED anybody that wasn't rich.
"Why would someone with that flag, doing something, make you look bad?"
Mic drop.
Speaking of Oklahoma City, people should REALLY compare notes from Timothy McVeigh's manifesto with the entirety of the current GOP's manifesto
But do they even have one? I thought it was just "Whatever trump wants trump gets".
@@sheelfjohnson Then compare the notes between "Whatever Trump wants" with "Whatever Timothy McVeigh wants" and see which parts align
Inconvenient truth
They'll find a lot in common. McVeigh robbed banks for the Klan prior to getting famous.
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“it was a red flag…” literally and figuratively
Well it wasnt all red./s
I was in high school in the Caribbean when a lovely German girl joined our class. Eventually she told us her grandmother, who was alive during the time of that flag, did not believe any of the crimes proven against that government. I was stunned. We were studying World history. The holocaust was inescapable. But her grandmother, an average, normal woman still supported them. Dangerous indeed. Millions of them. In Germany I believe denying the holocaust is a crime, as well as collecting memorabilia from those persons.
It never ended Beau..it’s ALWAYS been…it was given greater normalization when Trump allowed people with those beliefs like Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller to be ADVISORS in the White House, and now we are battling those views in our local, State and National Goverment, it’s leaders and followers.
Thank you! It’s NEVER ENDED !!!!
yehp and it's been there slowly growing alot of people don't know who taught the original nazi's. Not to mention the US didn't help in WW2 until after it was attacked by japan. They didn't care about the ideology of Germany they believed the same thing. Eugenics is what they believed & have never stopped believing since Darwin's cousin came up with the stupid idea. Half the people that believe the "Great Replacement" nonsense would be sterilized for being (imbecile's) sad they are fighting for their own destruction.
@@denisemcdougal6445 Very true. This was boiling underneath the surface for years.
The racists, bigots, misogynists had their views mocked and ridiculed enough that they knew to keep it to themselves, but they never changed. One of them was my father who died in 2009. My brother and I shamed him loudly and at length as we grew up in the ‘60s, but I’d overhear him in later life chatting over the fence to the other old men in the neighborhood. Tfg came along and let them know it was okay to be evil, they felt empowered to spread their hate.
Forever burned into my memory the J6 attack on our capital and watching it in real time. I will oppose and fight these traitors in defense of our nation by any means needed,
Collect everything you need before the 2024 election--things most likely will get ugly.
What is the opposite of a progressive? A Regressive.
Exactly
This is *precisely* the word to use when describing Repugnican't fascist politics. Good on ya, call a spade a spade.
Traditionally, the space between Pro- and Re-gressive is occupied by Conservative. Unfortunately, the language has been being transformed before our very eyes.
Like the old joke......What's the opposite of Progress? Congress!!
Never more true that now.
If I remember correctly the statement from the NRA that angered President Bush was issued by LaPierre. Instead of the NRA distancing themselves from the inflammatory statement they have elevated LaPierre to their CEO.
Isn't Lapierre the one whose aim was so bad he literally couldn't hit an elephant at close range? Or am I thinking of a different NRA stooge?
@@were-owlinwisconsin4441 the very same
They honestly could not have chosen a annoying human being to be their CEO and spokesman
It started with Newt Gingrich and the contract with America. That was won the Republican Party decided that winning mattered more than absolutely anything else.
I think the Southern Strategy was when the Republicans really decided to win regardless. 🤔
We used to refer to it as the contract ‘on’ America as opposed to ‘with’; because that is what it really was, and Newt really is a fascist, and it really was a contract to destroy American democracy and still is.
It actually goes back to the "Southern Strategy" promoted by the Nixon campaigns. It transformed the south from being mostly conservative Democrats in Congress to almost total Republican.
Don’t forget Barry Goldwater.
And Lee Atwater!
Used to be you could tell the character of a person by the ideologies they support - Today you can also tell by the ideologies they don't refute.
I keep saying we need a serious counter-terrorism program against domestic groups. Today's Germany doesn't screw around with nazis in their country.
We used to have them. There were almost 60 foiled domestic attacks just in ther first 10 years following OKC. Or almost one every other month for a decade straight. One specific attack in Texas would've killed upwards of 30,000 people, and it was only stopped when one member got cold feet and reported it.
This changed after 9-11 for obvious reasons, and 45 himself sent what remaining funds were keeping an eye on US soil overseas to watch foreign groups instead, leaving domestic groups to grow unchecked. Since our own FBI has been warning about an uptick in domestic right wing violence since 2008, I'm left feeling that sending that money overseas was intentional. That certain folks wanted these domestic groups left alone.
the US has the counter-terrorism program, they just don't take domestic white nationalist groups seriously.
that has started to change since Jan 6 2021 but still, they are slow to catching up to where they need to be.
I can’t say for sure when things changed but it sure didn’t help when the ex said there were “very fine people on both sides” after the Charlottesville incident!
That has basically flying a swastika on the white house flag pole.
the only thing that has changed since day 1 is eras when it's not ok for them to show themselves in the daylight, and eras when civilized society manages to force them back into the quiet shadows.
@@nonyabizness.original Exactly. They're just full mask off now, which is almost a positive (I don't like it when the cowards and trash try to blend in). But this is who they've always been. There were Republican politicians quietly giving talks to groups David Duke and other 'activists' ran in the 80s, and even Duke himself ran for president at one point. This sideshow isn't new, only its openness is.
It's started, well actually it got supercharged when Agent Orange came down that gold escalator shouting hateful racist rhetoric.
I couldn't agree more. I've been saying this since 2016. Cheeto gave them carte blanche to hate. And boy have they picked up the (hate) torch and sprinted with it.
@@ckcox Your torch analogy couldn't be more accurate and Republicans throw anything they see as fuel to keep them burning.
Hell, that was just the culmination of what he's talking about here.
I Agree
Yeah...the moment a guy that wasn't allowed to be punched started spewing that stuff the rest got emboldened.
Remember when this country was scared to death of Al Qaeda what they would do to all of us? Those days seem practically adorable now.
Sharia and old testament mosaic law are virtually identical in their brutality
The rotten elements realized they could BE the made up terrorists in real life D:
Not terribly cute when you realize it's all the same fear and bigotry driven strategy.
And now we've got yallqaeda.
There's no bottom once fear and bigotry are at the helm. I was side eyeing the fear seemingly everyone was spreading then just as much as I am now.
Gone are the days of honourable and respectful Republicans.
I have to agree 😢
I hope and pray that the 15% of the right that watch your channel realize and see the damage the right is doing.
don't count on it.
Same. When someone has to qualify that they aren't fascist, we have to wonder why they keep getting confused for fascists Dx
It would be nice if they cared about the damage they're doing
My father is no longer a rational human being due to fox entertainment
@@sixfigureskibum Sorry to hear this.
When did the right-wing in the US become the Reich-wing? Good question...
Maybe they always have been, and trump was just the dude to lift the lid.
November 2016
They've been on this slide for a long time
Good old Ronnie made the turn, covered in the American flag.
2016
I grew up with authoritarian parents. I hated it. I do not see why people would want that type of government.
In the 1939 Germany census 95% of the population identified themselves as some kind of Christain. Considering who was being murdered if you were being murdered in Nazi Germany chances are good that everyone participating in your murder was a Christain. A much larger group of Christians didn't participate but instead looked the other way, while a very small number of Christians actually apposed the Nazis. There is an historical link between Christian Nationalist and Nazis. If you are a Christian and think that being a Christian is a good thing, then now is the time to stand up.
I am curious what is the source of the census? Also, I hope you are aware that the Nazis were actually vehemently anti-theists and opposed to Christianity writ large. They assuredly were not Christian, and while there were Christians who did look the other way or make the painful associations with the Nazis, many others did not, and strove to hide the Jews and other persecuted groups. Please do not conflate Christianity and the teachings of Christ with Nazis and Facism.
I believe the first international treating Hitler made after seizing power was with the Vatican.
Beau has a couple excellent videos of the characteristics of fascism.
Remember that 1 famous quote of a catholic priest who before the war was an anti-semitic Nazi supporter.
“First they came…”
He spoke up to late, when any potential allies had been rounded up and it was his organization’s turn to be brought under control by the jackboot thugs. As thanks for his many years of tacit support, he got years of concentration camp with the other ‘undesirables’. He was lucky though, because german political prisoners just got the light treatment: concentration camp with low food, slave labor, beatings & piss poor housing.
After the war, he spend much of his live warning others: speak up for others when it begins lest there be none left to speak for you at the end.
@@JABN97 There is also another Christian figure of note, Dietrich Bonhoeffer. His acts of resistance served to inspire Martin Luther King Jr.
@Dr. Pennybags … religion and murder have nothing in common? Did you type that with a straight face?
As an Oklahoman, this hits very close to home. The OKC bombing used a rental truck ...
McVeigh was at Waco selling merch, he was a fan of koresh
I still remember seeing the front page of the newspaper after it happened and see the picture of the fireman carrying the baby…. Fuck McVeigh and Fuck Fascists
This sideshow never stops. All that happens is a certain number of people forget it and another comes along and tells people it wasn't really that bad, an's the cycle starts all over again. This is why both education and vigilance are so important.
...filled with fertilizer and deisel fuel, both items easily obtainable from any farm-supply outlet. I remember that one. It was all over the news - and I'm up here in Atlantic Canada. McVeigh was a wing-nut in a small family-type group of wing-nuts. It was only a matter of time before the wing-nuts became a political collective. The combination of Internet echo chambers and Donald Trump is like a fuse for those guys. A scary time right now, for sure.
Yep, I was here in OKC that day. This is my first thought when I heard this.
This year I attended a Dutch Remembrance Day (May 4th) ceremony for the first time, due to my work as a reporter. At some point I wondered when we'd stop with this Day. When will it be okay? The ceremony was in a WW2 cemetery with some 250 servicemen, the vast majority airmen that died in their early 20's. I'm pretty stoic, but man that hit me. Suddenly 78 years is not all that long ago. Remembrance Day is still very necessary. We must stay vigilant and we must not forget the horrors of war, fascism and nazism.
I was around and do remember that. Honor, decency, integrity, civility, good manners, words I certainly would NOT use to describe folks like Matt Gaetz or Josh Hawley. They're more in the entitled little pricks category.
The democrats need to savvy the F' up.
Repubs are not their "Esteemed colleagues across the isle". Repubs are their enemies. They were either involved in or fine with a coup that could have killed democrats in our federal government.
Most of those republicans are still in office and have suffered no consequences.
Josh Hawley clearly doesn't even believe in the garbage he spouts, he just wants power, the third reich was built by men like that and we're seeing it happen again just in the US this time around...
If the kid had just been marching with the flag back and forth in front of the White House they'd have said "There's our boy! Working hard to make America great again."
And I thought "MAGA" meant "Make America Grope Again" !!!!!!!!!!!!
Yep. KKK & other fascist sympathizers used “America 1st” to oppose the aid & participation in WW2. Now their ideological descendants want textbooks to revert to calling those people “isolationists”, so our kids won’t know that fascism doesn’t have to include genocidal rhetoric & can happen in a free country.
“Make Attorneys Get Attorneys!”
My wife is German. We met when I was stationed there. Her and her family is very concerned about some of the things they're seeing over here.
Former Yugoslavian history should be taught, it was alarming how fast it went from hosting the Olympics, too the siege of Sarajevo and the Medak.
Yes. Michael Ignatieff's book Blood and Belonging has an excellent chapter on the Yugoslav civil war.
Americans think they're special, it could never happen here
@@Pistolita221 Not all Americans. POC, LGBTQ women who are p.o.-ed at losing bodily autonomy & everyone who knows what Antifa means, knows it can happen anywhere.
Serbia because they have been shit on a lot in history, use their victimhood as an excuse to ignore self-criticsm and justify anything they want to do.
In general it is bad to revel in your victimhood. And that includes lefties.
@Dr. Pennybags This is not nor has it ever been a Christian nation. And the people who want to mix religion and church don't understand the bible either.
every once in a while Beau drops a video that deserves an award. This is one of them.
It definitely deserves some discussion, too.🤘
Since this has become an issue…my thought has been, “if I EVER find that I am on the same side of a protest with someone carrying a Confederate or Nazi flag, I will leave and seriously question how I came to have views congruent with theirs.”
History repeats itself when you don’t learn from it. Looks like Americans need another lesson now.
From the 911 / Jan.6th Anti-American Domestic Terrorists ?
They've spent too long adamantly believing that it couldn't possibly happen in America. Turns out that if you repeatedly tell your population that they inhabit the greatest country on earth, they become convinced that they are immune from potential problems.
we're running out of times we can learn those lessons.
I wish they'd just google it (and, you know, read beyond the headlines).
And that is exactly why Republicans in RED states don't want history to be taught truthfully - leave out the parts that would make people think certain types of rhetoric and certain policies are BAD - and NEVER say the word NAZI. Most Republicans can't correctly spell Fascist - but Trump says they're socialists and communists. And of course his idiot MAGA followers believe this. Heaven forbid they would ever open a dictionary and actually check the DEFINITIONS OF THE WORDS BEING USED by their idols.
As bad as it sounds, I'm glad my Dad has passed. After missions over France and Germany, he would be very disappointed in where we are.
Think of some collaboration or protest that would make him proud of YOU, then do it twice.🤘
Our parents fought against Hitler and have passed on now. The torch was passed to us. We must fight against authorianism in our country.
I have been to more protest rallies from 2016-20 then during all of the 60's.
I'm sorry your dad has passed. We need his generation to be here and stand up and _castigate_ their [R]-voting descendants for literally _becoming_ what your dad risked getting his personal ass shot off over Germany and France to defeat.
I marched on DC in 2008 with a movement that emerged from the American political right. George W Bush was the President and we were marching against fascism specifically under that administration.
5 months later a black man got elected president and that movement immediately forgot the fascist tendencies of the GOP and went all-in on “THE LEFT” conspiracy theories.
My major professor was German. He was a great guy. We used to have beers over dinner sometimes. I once asked him about his experiences as a child.
He was a Hitler youth. Had a pocket knife, a little uniform… his response to my question “what was that like?” was - more-or-less - “it’s just what was expected”.
I have taken that to heart in my life. When faced with difficult social or ethical situations, I always try to do the unexpected.
I talked to an old man who was a Hitler youth a few years ago (he's dead now). Of course, he had ZERO choice and he said that the best day of his life was when he surrendered to U.S. forces. They treated and fed him FAR better than the Nazis were able to.
@@just9911it's probably unknown how many Germans resisted the rise of the Nazis. Cause they died, fled, or kept their activities secret.
I had a German professor (professor OF German, but also German) back in the early 90s who also lived through that time. He looked guilty as he said "die Hitlerzeit" was the happiest time of his childhood. Pre-war, naturally.
So as a youth, your professor didn't know that what he was doing was bad. Pretty much the same with today's MAGATs. Many of them are unaware that they are supporting fascism/autocracy. Their powerful, unerring, "strongman" party leader is in control. What could possibly go wrong?
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I don’t think it’s in short supply. I just don’t think it puts itself on parade. I don’t think you see it until it’s needed.
Let’s hope it is never needed again. But I am pretty sure it’s around.
How many BOT5C subscribers are there? ;-)
My grandfather was an AF gunner in "the bloody 100th" in WW2. He was also a Republican. He'd be ashamed to see his party aligned with the same people that he so heroically fought against😔
It was always there boiling beneath the surface.
@@tylertyler82 there was a swath of Americans that supported the Nazi party in WW2 but those with morals and a sense of patriotism were on the right side of history and fought against fascism and genocide.
Beau the most level headed American to listen to. Thank you for always giving a great view of the events taking place.
Apparently, we are all going to have to suffer whatever degree of evil it takes to get through the thickest of skulls among us. Hang on tight.
At this point, I don't have much hope for reaching them through their thick skulls. We just have to outnumber them.
Beau, it started way earlier. Back when Pat Buchanan ran for president, he was making apologetics for the Nazis back then.
But he was viewed as a wing nut by most Republicans - in fact ALL the ones I know - now...
Gingrich and Buchanan were the worst things to happen to this country since Reagan. With precious few exceptions, this is exactly who the GOP have been longer than I've been alive.
Buchanan was a garden-variety racist. Not necessarily a fascist. I know that sounds like a weird distinction to make, but Buchanan was an old school conservative who believed in the rule of law.
Gingrich, on the other hand, has always been a fascist. Right from the start his campaign was based on name-calling/gaslighting and abuses of power.
@@rickdesper He declared the start of the culture war that's continuing as we speak explicitly to put people of color, the LGBTQ+, and anyone else he didn't like "in their place". There's no such thing as a "garden variety racist" when they're seated in the halls of power.
@@rickdesper dig deeper on Buchanan. He said plenty things making apologetics for Hitler and the Nazis.
When you described the flag, my entire body broke out in the bad kind of goosebumps. This is like a damn nightmare.
As a German: you got it right!
Thank you for defending the academics, Beau. We get vilified an awful lot at all levels, from preschool to grad school. It’s encouraging to hear this kind of repeated support.
So many assumptions about what we believe, do, and stand for, with so little understanding.
Like we seeing now, distrust and vilafacation of academics and experts is a big part of right wing propaganda.
A dear Cambodian friend from college days told me how her father was attacked for being an intellectual. He wore glasses. The family fled & she spent years in a boarding school in Europe, where her family knew she was safe. 😢
@@annem7806 My first mentor was a Cambodian man, a refugee of their Cultural Revolution. He told me about when he was a child, his entire village was brought into the square, and every person over a certain age ("you can't straighten a bent tree once it gets too old" was the excuse) and everyone with glasses was shot on sight. That's when he lost his older brother.
I've *never* forgotten that story, or the look on his face as he told me. And I sure as hell won't celebrate the anti intellectualism so much of this country seems to be so proud of.
I am so glad my father is no longer around to see this sh*t happening. He would be ANGRY. So many men died fighting this in WWII ! Wtf???
I'm just going to point this out: they know they are fascists, they just don't care if you are recognizing it or not. The ideology is such that they think Germany had its problems, they were too small to conquer the world, they didn't have a solid military base to draw on to exercise the Nazi will, they weren't already a globe striding empire, but America has all of those things and could conquer it all and win.
Bottom line: It isn't about calling them out as fascists anymore. It is about stopping them and giving people the alternative necessary for them to care and want to stop them.
Germans in WWII could not have conquered the world. But damn they killed a lot of people trying
@@michaelburk9171 And these fascists would like for America to try the same, with the exact same result.
Also, want to point out 2 things:
America cannot conquer it all. That is patently false and foolish, in case that needs to be said.
This truck incident could be a test run for the big one if these terrorists are really organized enough to pull off that huge of a fertilizer heist. That is concerning.
Absolutely true and they are happy to be so. They will do anything to get what they think is “their country “ back
That's why Putin needs the power of the WH...
It's something I often told my children...
Looking at Germany:
A culture that produced Martin Luther, Mozart, Einstein -- just to name a few...
To think that somehow we in the United States are too moral, or cultured or intelligent or sophisticated for something like that to ever happen HERE.
Really?
Think again.
We have a plain view of well documented modern history captured in film and verified literature outlining how this came about -- and the parallels are striking.
Yet even as these things continue to unfold, become normalized and even defended by political leaders, we still dismiss it as even a possibility... that it could ever... happen... among... US.
We think we are special. In reality we are a very young country and hopefully will make it past trumpville.
Thats what i think should by why natsers should be shown as human, wring, but human. And the monsters as monsters i guess.
Because that are just people mostly and that happened. Thats why we should never forget. Becauwe how easy that can happen.
Well said.
Now is not the time to be silent.
They are targeting small, vulnerable and victimized groups of individuals, starting with children.
45 ignored the varied legitimate reasons federal executions had been put on hold. This was after taking out full page ads calling for executions of the now Exonerated Five in NYC. He executed 13 people during his only term - 5 AFTER HE LOST THE 2020 ELECTION, INCLUDING ONE OF THE RARE WOMEN on death row. His "rioters" on January 6th did not chant "Hang Mike Pence" and erect a gallows for no reason.
Wake UP America!
IMHO they've been going down this road since Reagan. Trump wasn't an outlier--he beat them at their own game. He took them further and faster than they thought possible--but they were headed there anyway.
Lee Atwater tells you all you need to know. It was a plan.
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As a teen learning about WWII, I always figured it could never happen again, anywhere. That the world was mostly sickened by all that went on, and learned a lesson. That after our brush with McCarthyism, and seeing how something like that sweep through the nation, and how quickly it can get out of hand, that no undemocratic BS could happen here. That we were smarter or more alert to how this happens. But these days I think it can happen here, in fact is happening right now. With every law that the right openly or quietly makes, every law or norm that they break without consequences. It's happening. Some people aren't paying attentio/think it's not really going to get bad, some don't know what they can do to stop it. And unfortunately some are actively pushing/voting for it. They think it will somehow bring back the 'good ole day's ' that bad things will only happen to others, not to them, because they're white, Christian, and conservative. They don't realize that once their authoritarian/fascist government gets entrenched, they won't need their votes/backing anymore. That they'll be told to sit down and shut up just like everyone else, except those that are in power.
I remember the Bush Sr. move. I left the circle of the NRA because they stopped being concerned primarily with marksmanship and safety! I didn't discard my diplomas.
I moved away from the GOP when they found excuses for joining in on the anti-catholic rhetoric spewed at candidate John F. Kennedy.
I remember when republicans would say; "I might not agree with what you say, but I would fight to the death for your right to say it." The republican party is in a sad state of affair.
Now it's "I don't agree with what you say, so you don't get to say it anymore in the name of "free speech!"
It was only ever words lmao
Yeah I remember when they claimed to disagree with Nazis too. Now they just skip to "I will defend your right to say that".
Small government, Libertarianesque Republicans were a real thing, but they've been shrinking and sidelined for twenty or so years now.
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Simply because an actual small government wouldn't allow the current day Republicans the necessary power to dictate their subjects.
Having to go back to and using Bush Sr. as the best example says all that needs to be said about the republican party today.
Especially considering Prescott Bush was a Nazi sympathizer who conspired to overthrow our democracy in 1933.
I remember trump saying about people coming across the US border “they are not sending their best, they are sending rapists, gangsters, and bad hombre’s”. His base believed him. When I saw a bus full of immigrants on tv, unloading at a bus stop in NewYork (because Abbot thinks the rest of Texan’s are ‘better’ than them) I saw a bunch of very normal people. I saw little kids, I saw adults, some looked happy, and some looked nervous.
And I don’t understand why Latino people would support any republican candidate or cause
"Why would someone with that flag, make you look bad" love it
Glad President Biden was not in residence at that time.
Trumpski’s black-shirts are itching for a re-run of Jan 6.
Sadly, I feel like it's going to happen again.
Even is Biden had been in, the security team did their job, and the guy was not able to get close enough to be a real threat.
@@DZADangerousme too
Those 911 / Jan.6th Anti-American Domestic Terrorists !
Did a bunch of "Patriot" Front clowns jump out of the truck and run away?
I remember it starting with Gingrich discovering the power of the 'big lie' in the middle to late 90s.
That's not just a thought Beau, that's shots fired - and you're 100% correct
after the invasion of Poland in 1939 Lindberg made a speech about fascists and industry - a leading columnist exclaimed "God Damn IT! they've just discovered that Hitler is a good republican!"
Within 80 years, your country went from one whose "Greatest Generation" fought against fascism to a country with a way too large number of people who think that fascism is what would bring your country greatness.
Beau, I’m very appreciative of your calm, reasoned discourse on the state of our nation. You deserve a MUCH larger audience. Thank you.
Agree! Beau is accurate, well-informed, educational, & gives calm, thoughtful opinions/responses. He doesn't catastrophize or 'selectively' choose what details to share based on his own personal political bias. All of these (but especially the 'not catastrophizing' part, my anxiety over this stuff is terrible enough) are why he's one of the very few people I trust & can listen to on these subjects.
“If you have no idea what I’m talking about…” = always me. Thanks for keeping me informed and educated, Beau!
Same.
Beau: "If you have no idea what I'm talking about..."
Me: "Nope, but I trust you'll tell me."
"I barely know the guy".
Agreed