{"id":8320,"date":"2022-09-12T12:25:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T19:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8320"},"modified":"2022-09-13T12:00:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T19:00:54","slug":"rewind-fascist-checklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8320","title":{"rendered":"Rewind: Fascist Checklist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We&#8217;re taking another brief detour from our review of insane, Arizona GOP, Trumphumper candidates to<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" talk about President Biden's recent speech on the MAGA Republicans embracing 'semi-fascism' (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/think\/opinion\/biden-speech-last-night-called-trump-fascism-good-rcna46000\" target=\"_blank\"> talk about President Biden&#8217;s recent speech on the MAGA Republicans embracing &#8216;semi-fascism&#8217;<\/a>. We thought it was mostly correct but &#8216;semi-fascism&#8217;? Really? <strong>Because the Republicans have been embracing full on fascism for some time now.<\/strong> And now they&#8217;ve been openly proving it every day since TFG took office in 2017 and then incited an insurrection on Jan. 6th 2021 because they didn&#8217;t win. In their typical whiny, cry-baby manner, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Republicans wailed that Biden was being divisive (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/biden-speech-jan6-fascism-trump-satan-hitler-1234586365\/\" target=\"_blank\">Republicans wailed that Biden was being divisive<\/a> while forgetting about how Trump vilified anyone who disagreed with him during his excruciating tenure as CEO\/Dictator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also thought it was interesting that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/abc\/broadcast-networks-carried-king-charles-iii-speech-friday-not-president-bidens-urgent-address\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"no major networks like ABC, NBC or CBS covered Biden's important speech (opens in a new tab)\">no major networks like ABC, NBC or CBS covered Biden&#8217;s important speech<\/a>. This reminds us of other occasions like <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"when Obama gave a speech about his executive order on immigration in December 2014 and nobody bothered to cover it (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3892\" target=\"_blank\">when Obama gave a speech about his executive order on immigration in December 2014 and nobody bothered to cover it<\/a>. <strong>If the media were truly liberal like the conservative Republicans always claim, then all those networks would have covered Biden&#8217;s speech. Liberal Media My Ass!!! It&#8217;s just more hypocrisy and deception from the well funded propaganda machine operated by corporate conservative Republicans.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a courtesy we&#8217;re reposting a photo-toon from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"December 15, 2015 post (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=4422\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>December 15, 2015 post<\/strong><\/a> which depicts a checklist comparing the fascists of the NSDAP(Nazis) party of 1930&#8217;s Germany and the 21st century Republican party (or more appropriately, crime syndicate!). As you can see, there&#8217;s not much difference and hey, looky there . . . both had a well funded propaganda machine. So if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck . . .  We repeat folks; <strong>the Republicans are full on fascists and every TFG enabler running for office needs to be voted out of office or we will lose our democracy just like Germany lost theirs in the 1930s!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"499\" height=\"800\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/fascistconservativechecklist.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4424\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/fascistconservativechecklist.jpg 499w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/fascistconservativechecklist-187x300.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 85vw, 499px\" \/><figcaption>The Republican Party has some eerie similarities to a certain right wing conservative fascist party from 20th century Germany.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re taking another brief detour from our review of insane, Arizona GOP, Trumphumper candidates to talk about President Biden&#8217;s recent speech on the MAGA Republicans embracing &#8216;semi-fascism&#8217;. We thought it was mostly correct but &#8216;semi-fascism&#8217;? Really? Because the Republicans have been embracing full on fascism for some time now. And now they&#8217;ve been openly proving &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8320\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rewind: Fascist Checklist&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,60,2320,8,68,85,963,3,2307,198],"tags":[2106,1356,1358,2103,1206,1575,2002,252,22,20,389,27,664,914,915,9,258,663,2143,2144,199,1225,1019,1224,98,296,2250,19,1656,47,48,2332,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8320"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8320"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8327,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8320\/revisions\/8327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}