“When former President Donald J. Trump’s longest serving chief of staff said the other day that his old boss “falls into the general definition of fascist,” Mr. Trump let loose with the insults, assailing his onetime right hand as a “total degenerate,” a “LOWLIFE” and a “bad General.”

What Mr. Trump did not do, at least at first, was actually deny that he was or aspired to be a fascist.

Any other politician might consider that a damning denunciation worth rebutting. Only when asked days later did he directly dismiss the idea. But in the nine years that he has been running for or serving as president, Mr. Trump has regularly evoked the language, history and motifs of fascism without hesitation or evident concern about how it would make him look.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/27/us/politics/trump-fascism.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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Anonymous wrote:I love how John Kelly finally says something two weeks before the election. All the generals (Mattis, milley, Kelly) have no credibility. They worked for the guy and have done nothing to prevent him a second time. Get a backbone.

He said something two weeks because it’s a complete lie. It’s astonishing anyone buys this entire story given the timing. He would have been screaming from the rooftop long before today if this were true, and the people that were there would be corroborating his story rather than disputing it ever happened.

He said something in reaction to Trump's assertion to use the US Military to go after the "enemy from within" which includes democrats, journalists, immigrants - anyone "Daddy" determines.

+1. People who actually listen to Trump’s words find him scary as hell…

Republicans don’t listen to Trump talking. None of them do. That’s how they can stand to defend him.

This is incredible

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Anonymous wrote:I love how John Kelly finally says something two weeks before the election. All the generals (Mattis, milley, Kelly) have no credibility. They worked for the guy and have done nothing to prevent him a second time. Get a backbone.

He said something two weeks because it’s a complete lie. It’s astonishing anyone buys this entire story given the timing. He would have been screaming from the rooftop long before today if this were true, and the people that were there would be corroborating his story rather than disputing it ever happened.

He said something in reaction to Trump's assertion to use the US Military to go after the "enemy from within" which includes democrats, journalists, immigrants - anyone "Daddy" determines.

+1. People who actually listen to Trump’s words find him scary as hell…

Anonymous wrote:How? Legally how?

He can just call whatever facisty thing an “official act”, and the SCOTUS will be a-ok with it!

#2 in Republican House leadership:

Corroburation

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Anonymous wrote:I love how John Kelly finally says something two weeks before the election. All the generals (Mattis, milley, Kelly) have no credibility. They worked for the guy and have done nothing to prevent him a second time. Get a backbone.

He said something two weeks because it’s a complete lie. It’s astonishing anyone buys this entire story given the timing. He would have been screaming from the rooftop long before today if this were true, and the people that were there would be corroborating his story rather than disputing it ever happened.

Why would I believe Kelly is lying and Trump is telling the truth? That makes no sense whatsoever except in bizzaro world.

Barack Obama alternated between mocking Donald Trump and warning against returning him to the White House — reflecting a strategy to disqualify the former president in the closing weeks of the campaign.

Obama, speaking at a Kamala Harris rally in Atlanta, repeatedly brought up former Trump chief of staff John Kelly, who said the former president would rule like a dictator if reelected and spoke approvingly of Hitler.

“A good rule of thumb is — don’t say you want to do anything like Hitler,” Obama said.

Obama told the crowd that he’d served with Kelly and former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, who has called Trump fascist, and noted they “are not quote-unquote woke liberals.

The reason they’re speaking up is because they have seen that in Donald Trump’s mind, the military does not exist to serve the Constitution or the American people. He doesn’t see being commander-in-chief as a solemn, sacred responsibility, just like everything else, he thinks the military exists to do his bidding, to serve his interests,” Obama said. “Unlike the first time, he won’t have people like John Kelly around to stop him. He’ll be surrounded by people who are just as looney as he is.”

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Anonymous wrote:I love how John Kelly finally says something two weeks before the election. All the generals (Mattis, milley, Kelly) have no credibility. They worked for the guy and have done nothing to prevent him a second time. Get a backbone.

He said something two weeks because it’s a complete lie. It’s astonishing anyone buys this entire story given the timing. He would have been screaming from the rooftop long before today if this were true, and the people that were there would be corroborating his story rather than disputing it ever happened.

Note - Trump hasn't denied saying it.

so you all are blindly carrying his water and you have no idea whether it is true or not, and yet you are taking the word of someone with thousands of documented lies - who has not said he didn't say it - over someone with a multi-decade record culminating as a 4 start general. Pretty much the top rank/honor someone can reach in our armed services.

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Anonymous wrote:I love how John Kelly finally says something two weeks before the election. All the generals (Mattis, milley, Kelly) have no credibility. They worked for the guy and have done nothing to prevent him a second time. Get a backbone.

He said something two weeks because it’s a complete lie. It’s astonishing anyone buys this entire story given the timing. He would have been screaming from the rooftop long before today if this were true, and the people that were there would be corroborating his story rather than disputing it ever happened.

He said something in reaction to Trump's assertion to use the US Military to go after the "enemy from within" which includes democrats, journalists, immigrants - anyone "Daddy" determines.

Anonymous wrote:I love how John Kelly finally says something two weeks before the election. All the generals (Mattis, milley, Kelly) have no credibility. They worked for the guy and have done nothing to prevent him a second time. Get a backbone.

He said something two weeks because it’s a complete lie. It’s astonishing anyone buys this entire story given the timing. He would have been screaming from the rooftop long before today if this were true, and the people that were there would be corroborating his story rather than disputing it ever happened.

I love how John Kelly finally says something two weeks before the election. All the generals (Mattis, milley, Kelly) have no credibility. They worked for the guy and have done nothing to prevent him a second time. Get a backbone.

Imagine if you are hiring someone to head a large corporation and you reach out to former colleagues of the applicant for their feedback. Now imagine if up to half of them say they don’t recommend the applicant or say “no comment.” Would you assume they’re all “disgruntled,” or would you be concerned that there might be something potentially problematic there?

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Anonymous wrote:Echoing Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly’s misgivings, a phalanx of former Trump officials sounded alarms about what they described as the former president’s fascistic impulses and fixation with Hilter and his generals.

“Does he have authoritarian tendencies? Yes,” Elizabeth Neumann, a former senior Homeland Security official in the Trump administration who has endorsed Harris, told POLITICO. “Is he kind of leaning towards that ultra-nationalism component? Absolutely. That is kind of his brand, right? He’s made nationalism the new definition of the Republican Party.”

In her CNN town hall Wednesday evening, Harris called Kelly’s warnings a “911 call to the American people.”

Trump, predictably, took the bait, lashing out at the storyline in a Truth Social post, calling Kelly “a LOWLIFE, and a bad General, whose advice in the White House I no longer sought, and told him to MOVE ON!”

Trump said he had "only the best people." Yet somehow virtually ALL of them weirdly turned out to be "lowlives."

Maybe they were all fine and it was Trump who was the lowlife all along. 40 out of 44 of his hand picked "only the best" former Cabinet officials refuse to endorse him. The common problem factor there is Trump.

No, half of his cabinet has endorsed him. You only focus on the handful of malcontents.

No, half of his cabinet has not endorsed him!! You are a liar.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/interactive/2024/trump-cabinet-endorsements/

Many who worked with the President speak positively about him. Yet, you only focus on a. Few malcontent deep state actors who were let go because they were doing a poor job.

A lot of those people were not in the cabinet. even the Washington Post got it wrong.