Ed Schultz was at CPAC? I guess the realignment is well underway.
Regan: Tear down that wall!
Trump: Walls are big, excellent, I will make the best wall.
Reagan wouldnât recognize what this clusterfuck has become at this point. Even the most basic stuff like tone is totally different. Where Reagan was all about hope and America being great, Trump is all about how everything is crap and we should be afraid.
Trump is the anti-reagan. Heâs the guy who Reagan would stand against.
Whatâs funny is really that I recently read that Boston Globe piece on how the Babyboomers ruined everything, and itâs funny because it fits in with the Trump idea of âMAGAâ. They want to make things great again⌠they want to turn the clock back to the point⌠before they were in charge and fucked everything up.
Most useless generation.
I mean while obviously the article plays things slightly for humor through hyperbole, the core premise is one I absolutely agree with, the evidence is all there.
These groupsâKlansmen, neo-Nazis, white nationalistsâdid more than talk and meet and march. They plotted to turn their hatred into violence. âThey laid plans to attack courthouses, banks, festivals, funerals, schools, mosques, churches, synagogues, clinics, water-treatment plants, and power grids,â reports the Southern Poverty Law Center. âThey used firearms, bombs, C-4 plastic explosives, knives, and grenades.â
This looks interesting:
The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs. On the eve of World War II, Germany was a pharmaceutical powerhouse, and companies such as Merck and Bayer cooked up cocaine, opiates, and, most of all, methamphetamines, to be consumed by everyone from factory workers to housewives to millions of German soldiers. In fact, troops regularly took rations of a form of crystal methâthe elevated energy and feelings of invincibility associated with the high even help to explain certain German military victories.
Drugs seeped all the way up to the Nazi high command and, especially, to Hitler himself. Over the course of the war, Hitler became increasingly dependent on injections of a cocktail of drugsâincluding a form of heroinâadministered by his personal doctor. While drugs alone cannot explain the Nazisâ toxic racial theories or the events of World War II, Ohlerâs investigation makes an overwhelming case that, if drugs are not taken into account, our understanding of the Third Reich is fundamentally incomplete.
Carefully researched and rivetingly readable, Blitzed throws surprising light on a history that, until now, has remained in the shadows.
Gueardian Review: High Hitler: how Nazi drug abuse steered the course of history
The book in question is The Total Rush â or, to use its superior English title, Blitzed â which reveals the astonishing and hitherto largely untold story of the Third Reichâs relationship with drugs, including cocaine, heroin, morphine and, above all, methamphetamines (aka crystal meth), and of their effect not only on Hitlerâs final days â the FĂźhrer, by Ohlerâs account, was an absolute junkie with ruined veins by the time he retreated to the last of his bunkers â but on the Wehrmachtâs successful invasion of France in 1940. Published in Germany last year, where it became a bestseller, it has since been translated into 18 languages, a fact that delights Ohler, but also amazes him.
Itâs not only that he is â as Der Spiegel helpfully pointed out â a non-historian (the author of three novels and the co-writer of the Wim Wenders film Palermo Shooting, this is his first work of nonfiction). Itâs that there was anything new to be said at all. Arrange all the books that have been written about the Nazis end to end and theyâd be longer than the Spree.
âI guess drugs werenât a priority for the historians,â he says. âA crazy guy like me had to come along.â
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The story Ohler tells begins in the days of the Weimar Republic, when Germanyâs pharmaceutical industry was thriving â the country was a leading exporter both of opiates, such as morphine, and of cocaine â and drugs were available on every street corner. It was during this period that Hitlerâs inner circle established an image of him as an unassailable figure who was willing to work tirelessly on behalf of his country, and who would permit no toxins â not even coffee â to enter his body.
Someone deserves a stern wag of the finger for ârivetingly readable.â
Ugh. My keyboard just caught on fire from typing that. Thanks, Britain.
Spencer also said his group had filed the necessary paperwork to operate as a nonprofit in Virginia. But a spokeswoman for the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, which regulates charities in the state, said Monday that the status of Spencerâs group was under review.
The paperwork trouble at the National Policy Institute, which was registered under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, seems to have started shortly after Spencer took over the organization in 2011 and used it as a vehicle for promoting his âalternative rightâ beliefs, which include the need for a separate nation for white people.
The National Policy Instituteâs website says it is âdedicated to the heritage, identity, and future of people of European descent in the United States, and around the world.â
As Spencerâs profile rose on the national stage in recent years, the National Policy Instituteâs nonprofit status allowed his supporters to make tax-deductible donations to support his publications and conferences for white nationalists. One of the National Policy Instituteâs events included a November conference in Washington, where Spencer told a crowd, âHail Trump! Hail our people! Hail victory!â and received Nazi salutes in return.
But as Spencerâs visibility rose on the national stage, there was little corresponding transparency into the National Policy Instituteâs finances because the group had stopped filing its required tax returns with the IRS after 2012.
Such tax records for nonprofits, which are available to the public, generally must be filed each year. The forms show how much money an organization makes, how much it spends, how much it pays its officers and who sits on its board, plus other information intended to provide transparency and accountability. Failing to file for three years in a row results in an automatic loss in tax-exempt status.
But for years, the IRS had apparently misclassified the National Policy Institute and publicly listed the group as not being required to file such forms. (An IRS spokeswoman declined to comment for this story, saying âfederal law prohibits the IRS from commenting on a particular taxpayer or case.â)
The IRS fixed the error in February, and on Monday it updated its records to say that the National Policy Instituteâs tax-exempt status had been stripped retroactively as of May 15, 2016, when the groupâs 2015 tax return would have been due.
Spencer cited the IRS error as the reason his group did not file its tax returns. Tax experts said that was no excuse.
âThey should have known that they should have been filing,â said Philip T. Hackney, a law professor at Louisiana State University who formerly worked for the IRS, specializing in nonprofits. âItâs very clear under the law that if you donât file for three years, you lose your status.â
Steve King. Again.
Fuck you, Congressman.
Remember how that old white vet went off at another vet, a black man, in a restaurant because he knew, he knew blacks couldnât have served in WW2 and of course there hasnât been any wars sinceâŚ
People buy into the narrative they want.
Geert Wilders heading for an ass-kicking in the Netherlands.
As much as I would prefer to see the PvdA win, or D66, I am so glad that Geert lost. I wish it was by more and not to a center right party, but hey, any port in a Nazi stormfrontâŚ
Although the green party got a lot seats this time round.
Apparently the alt right has decided to down vote Amy Schumerâs new routine on Netflix. Because she doesnât like Trump, and is a woman, I guess?
I donât think Netflix works like that. You only see the combined ratings from people relative to things you watch and vote on is my understanding.
They managed to drop its rating down to 1 star currently
Iâm getting the same ranking, for what itâs worth, and we probably donât watch all the same stuff.
Likewise.