The Atlantic is starting to list all the people who very publicly regret voting for Trump, only a month into his latest attempts to destroy America.
…the outrage of some influencers who believed he’d further their causes is a warning: As president, Trump is no longer the vessel into which people can pour their discontent with the status quo. With every disappointment, it will become harder for him to hold together the coalition that delivered him the narrowest popular-vote victory since Richard Nixon’s in 1968.
Gallup suggests he is losing support so fast, already he ranks far below the average for elected Presidents.
…15 points lower than the historical average of all other elected Presidents at this point in their first terms since 1953, according to Gallup’s polling. The poll found a majority of Americans don’t like how Trump is handling the economy…
Notably, we can see the trajectory of lies that breed discontent with the liar. There are hundreds of examples, so here is just one:
“Trump says inflation would vanish if he wins next month”. “In six days I will end inflation…” he promised on the campaign trail, literally saying he needed just six days to end inflation.
“Donald Trump said he owed his victory to Americans’ anger over… inflation, specifically the rising cost of groceries. …he told NBC’s Meet the Press. ‘And I won an election based on that. We’re going to bring those prices way down.'”
“Donald Trump’s victory was secured on an unequivocal promise to stretched American households that he would ‘end inflation‘…”
And then… “Trump says ‘inflation is back’: ‘I had nothing to do with that’”
Nothing to do with that? Next he’s going to tell us that the person he put in charge of DOGE has nothing to do with that.
First, Trump issues a statement “Mr. Musk is not the U.S. DOGE Service administrator”.
Then, Trump goes on stage and says he “put a man named Elon Musk in charge” of DOGE.
Calling MAGA the word police would be an understatement.
Some U.S. Food and Drug Administration scientists have been told to stop using the words “woman,” “disabled” and “elderly” in external communications, two sources familiar with the matter said, part of a list of banned terms that a White House spokesman said had misinterpreted President Donald Trump’s executive order.
A list with the file name “Prohibited words” has been circulating since at least last week….
The White House spokesman told Reuters that… an error may have resulted from FDA officials misinterpreting Trump’s executive order against “gender ideology.”
The White House says it has banned gender ideology, that is all, not the idea of a gender. What’s so confusing about that, right?
Allow me to clarify. Ahem!
The White House insists they’ve only banned “gender ideology,” not gender-related words, which is like when you haven’t banned talking about elephants in the room, you’ve just prohibited mentioning any large gray mammals with trunks. Of course you can still discuss elephants! Just use the only officially approved words “non-hippo pachyderm.”
What is really going on is the White House has banned a list of banned words about banned words – but we won’t be allowed to call it that. The FDA soon will get the official list of banned words on a blank sheet of paper, because to make the list would violate the ban.
The White House has shut down offices for fighting disinformation and fired experts on the basis that any orders restricting speech, even dangerous adversarial attacks, should be seen as a violation of rights.
Next up: disbanding the weather service because predicting rain violates First Amendment rights of factories that pollute toxins into clouds. Meteorologists stand accused of liberal bias pushing a ‘precipitation ideology.’ Sources say rain now must be called only ‘spontaneous sky moistening events’ to avoid offending constitutional rights of the purest white snowflakes.
In spite of vigorous and scathing attacks from liberals and minority groups, between three and six million native-born Protestant white men rushed to join the secret order. At least another half-million women joined the Women of the Ku Klux Klan. Some even claimed that President Warren Harding took the membership oath in a secret White House ceremony.
Map of America First killings of Blacks during the period that Donald Trump, son of a man arrested for being in the KKK, calls their “golden” era
All that America First lynching stuff is so old skool and uncool. These days all the cool kids use MAGA as a reference to their grandpa’s America First.
Racist MAGA is racist America First is racist MAGA is racist America First is…
Cue the Huntington Beach council posting an expensive giant MAGA plaque in black and gold, like an update to the 1916 KKK propaganda film screening at the White House.
Some attendees likened the plaque to political propaganda, while others simply called it tacky. Dozens of emails were also sent to the Council to urge them to drop the plaque design in favor of something less divisive.
“While celebrating the legacy of this vital institution is worthwhile, the wording contained on this plaque does not honor the library’s contributions; instead, it serves as a poorly disguised political statement,” one opposition email reads. “This is inappropriate and an irresponsible use of public resources at a time when our city faces massive budget cuts and a severe deficit crisis.”
“I find it incredibly disrespectful that the city council is attempting to memorialize a political agenda into our library through incorporating a MAGA acronym in the plaque. As a nonpartisan council, it is unacceptable to politicize this public space, especially considering the hypocrisy of the message,” reads another.
Source: Huntington Beach Klavern“Birth of a Nation” was screened in 1915 by President Wilson in the White House to restart the KKK and incite violence across America. By the summer of 1919 over 30 cities saw race riots incited by white supremacist terrorism.
Some residents weren’t having it though, particularly an ex-NFL player Chris Kluwe, who accurately described the council having a Nazi moment. When he spoke the truth in opposition the council quickly had him arrested.
“…it is clear this council does not listen, so instead, I’m going to take my time to say what MAGA has stood for these past three weeks,” Kluwe said. “MAGA stands for trying to erase trans people from existence. MAGA stands for resegregation and racism.” […] Kluwe went on to criticize the president for recent mass firings and budget cuts. “MAGA stands for firing air traffic controllers while planes are crashing. MAGA stands for firing the people overseeing our nuclear arsenal,” he said. “MAGA stands for firing military veterans and those serving them at the VA, including canceling research on veteran suicide. MAGA stands for cutting funds to education, including for disabled children. MAGA is profoundly corrupt, unmistakably anti-democracy, and, most importantly, MAGA is explicitly a Nazi movement. You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat, but that is what it is,” Kluwe said.
He’s not wrong.
“The left is going crazy” shouted the city council, as they crazily unleashed police to suppress basic dissent. Once again, like the “golden” age of KKK, the council showed how and why racist white men suppress freedom. Their hate filled warning was clear, threats and arrests will continue until voting sentiment improves.
At issue is a city plaque that is not merely ‘golden’ letters, but a flashpoint in our ongoing national dialogue infiltrated by the normalization of Nazism. The city council’s insistence on incorporating hateful ‘MAGA’ messaging into public spaces has drawn parallels to tragically violent repressive chapters of American history, when similar tactics were used to embed political messaging in civic institutions meant to deny freedoms.
We’re having another “let’s put up confederate statues” moment from America First, like early 1900sEven controlling for population size and other variables, the number of lynchings was a ‘significant predictor’ of the number of monuments in a given area. Source: PNAS
To put it simply, scientific analysis of American history says where there’s a MAGA plaque the white supremacist terrorism will manifest. It’s like flying a swastika or burning a cross.
After midnight, on April 3, 1924, several automobiles drove onto the Columbia campus at 116th Street. Twenty or so men, cloaked in the white hoods and robes of the Ku Klux Klan, stepped out of the cars and carried a seven-foot-tall wooden cross down onto the grassy lawn known as South Field. They dowsed it with kerosene and set it on fire. The flames of the burning cross could be seen from all the residence halls on the quad, as well as from the windows of neighboring apartments.
…newspaper clips unearthed by VICE contain separate accounts of Fred Trump’s arrest at the May 1927 KKK rally in Queens, each of which seems to confirm the Times account of the events that day. While the clips don’t confirm whether Fred Trump was actually a member of the Klan, they do suggest that the rally—and the subsequent arrests—did happen, and did involve Donald Trump’s father…. A fifth article mentions the seven arrestees without giving names, and claims that all of the individuals arrested—presumably including Trump—were wearing Klan attire.
The Huntington Beach city council’s recent actions follow a concerning pattern. When residents formally objected to the controversial plaque installation, citing both its divisive messaging and questionable timing during a budget crisis, the council responded not with discussion but with an aggressive police response to peaceful protests. This approach to public disagreement – where dissenting voices are treated as adversaries rather than constituents deserving representation – raises serious questions about democratic governance and civic dialogue at the local level. MAGA leaves no room for representation, only homogenization.
Every member of Huntington Beach City Council posed for their swearing-in ceremony on 3 Dec 2024 by wearing very obvious MAGA-like caps, saying “the red hats get conflated with another message, but that’s not really our message”.
This is obviously more than a story about a plaque. From Wilson’s White House screening of “Birth of a Nation” to inspire the KKK’s revival, through Jim Crow laws that were studied by Nazi Germany, to modern MAGA symbolism in Huntington Beach – there’s a continuous thread of how oppressive institutions respond to challenges of their authority. When civil rights activists stood against segregation, they were met with violence and censorship. When residents speak against divisive symbols today, they face arrest rather than dialogue.
The deeper question isn’t about the technical ability to install such messages in our public spaces – it’s about the cost to our civic unity, particularly in a region like southern California with its own complex history of racial tension. As the council’s response to peaceful protest demonstrates, these aren’t just symbols of the past – they’re active choices about who we are as a nation and what values we’ll permit to be normalized in our shared spaces.
The AfD is trying to find out. The Nazis who run this modern Nazi party in Germany seem to relish the idea that their rise to absolute power can easily evade accountability, just like Hitler, using childish tricks and games.
German media and commentators have highlighted how it recalls the phrase “Alles für Deutschland” (Everything for Germany) a banned Nazi-era slogan, engraved on the daggers of Adolf Hitler’s paramilitaries. A state AfD leader, Bjoern Hoecke, has been fined for using those words.
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Weidel’s spokesman Daniel Tapp said the “Alice für Deutschland” phrase is harmless and fitting for a party with a candidate called [Alles]….”
Robert Lambrou, an AfD politician in the state of Hesse, says if the phrase provokes – it does so by highlighting limits on freedom of expression in Germany [were lacking when Hitler rose to power].
Alice would have legally changed her name to Alles if she really believed there was no coincidental harm in the two words having the same pronunciation. If sounding the same is ok, why not spelled the same?
Come on Alice, do it. DO IT. Change the spelling of your name to Alles to show there’s no harm in anyone in calling you Alles für Deutschland.
The dagger with its simple slogan engraved on the blade is hugely symbolic and well known to Nazis. You can find one hanging as celebrated decoration on walls in Italian, Austrian and American homes today but not Germany… unless it misspelled Alles.
