‘not weird at all, right?’

“We have to tend to this gar­den of democ­ra­cy or else things could fall apart quick­ly … That’s what hap­pened in Ger­many in the 1930s which, de­spite the democ­ra­cy of the Weimar Re­pub­lic and cen­turies of high-lev­el cul­tur­al and sci­en­tif­ic achieve­ments, Adolf Hitler rose to dominate.”
—Pres­i­dent Oba­ma, 5 De­cem­ber 2017
 

Ya know. Nazis.

When they’re not help­ing psy­chos get guns to kill chil­dren, they’re help­ing elect pe­dophiles who mo­lest them. How in the hell could any hu­man be­ing with a shred of com­mon de­cen­cy be a Re­pub­li­can? https://t.co/k1LrVB6PoQ

— Frank Con­niff (@FrankConniff) De­cem­ber 5, 2017

Get mad.

GOP: Two con­sent­ing adult men kiss­ing is an abom­i­na­tion.
Also GOP: You wan­na fuck kids? That’s cool, as long as you vote for our tax plan.

— Sarah (@thetigersez) De­cem­ber 4, 2017

This is how in­sane these peo­ple are.

There are women in Al­aba­ma who HAVEN’T been mo­lest­ed by Roy Moore.

This is the ac­tu­al ar­gu­ment they’re mak­ing now. https://t.co/eZU4jWX7UQ

— Mikel Jol­lett (@Mikel_Jollett) De­cem­ber 5, 2017

Bernie Bros: “Man, Hillary sucked so much she couldn’t even beat Trump. Shoul­da been a slam dunk.” (Cut to a year lat­er and a dude that put child mur­der­ing Klan mem­bers be­hind bars is neck and neck with a mas­sive­ly in­com­pe­tent racist ped­erast.) Yeah, back to the Ayahuas­ca cir­cle with you, Skyye. If we need a mo­ron to talk pol­i­tics with again, we’ll send for you telepathically.

THE RAG­ING HYPOCRISY OF MOD­ERN REPUBLICANISM:

“Pro-life” but shrug at mass shoot­ings.
“Anti-elites” but give tax cuts to the 1%.
“Rule of law” but sup­port child mo­les­ters.
“Sup­port troops” but at­tack Gold Star moms.
“Chris­t­ian val­ues” but strip health­care from the poor and sick.

— Pe­ter Daou (@peterdaou) De­cem­ber 4, 2017

We should have fin­ished the job in 1865 and burned the in­bred shitheels to the ground.

THE RAG­ING HYPOCRISY OF MOD­ERN RE­PUB­LI­CAN­ISM, PART 2:

“Re­spect the flag” but equiv­o­cate on Nazis.
“Pa­tri­ots” but sur­ren­der to Rus­sia.
“Anti-reg­u­la­tion” but con­trol wom­en’s bod­ies.
“Hon­or the Con­sti­tu­tion” but steal a Supreme Court seat.

(h/t @reader_jean, @CaptainSouthend) https://t.co/bZnErRkFcG

— Pe­ter Daou (@peterdaou) De­cem­ber 5, 2017

Sym­pa­thy and em­pa­thy go down, not up. 

If you be­long to a group that vic­tim­izes count­less vul­ner­a­ble class­es my sym­pa­thy is with them – not you – for feel­ing bad about the ‘broad brush’ you lament be­ing paint­ed with.

Trump sup­port­ers are ab­solute­ly the Ger­mans that would help round up peo­ple into camps. 

And that in­cludes your los­er un­cle and your grand­ma who is sweet to you.

“… Each act, each oc­ca­sion, is worse than the last, but only a lit­tle worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shock­ing oc­ca­sion, think­ing that oth­ers, when such a shock comes, will join with you in re­sist­ing some­how. You don’t want to act, or even talk, alone; you don’t want to ‘go out of your way to make trou­ble.’ Why not?-Well, you are not in the habit of do­ing it. And it is not just fear, fear of stand­ing alone, that re­strains you; it is also gen­uine un­cer­tain­ty. Un­cer­tain­ty is a very im­por­tant fac­tor, and, in­stead of de­creas­ing as time goes on, it grows. Out­side, in the streets, in the gen­er­al com­mu­ni­ty, ‘every­one’ is hap­py. One hears no protest, and cer­tain­ly sees none. You know, in France or Italy there would be slo­gans against the gov­ern­ment paint­ed on walls and fences; in Ger­many, out­side the great cities, per­haps, there is not even this. In the uni­ver­si­ty com­mu­ni­ty, in your own com­mu­ni­ty, you speak pri­vate­ly to your col­leagues, some of whom cer­tain­ly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, ‘It’s not so bad’ or ‘You’re see­ing things’ or ‘You’re an alarmist.’

“And you are an alarmist. You are say­ing that this must lead to this, and you can’t prove it. These are the be­gin­nings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don’t know the end, and how do you know, or even sur­mise, the end? On the one hand, your en­e­mies, the law, the regime, the Par­ty, in­tim­i­date you. On the oth­er, your col­leagues pooh-pooh you as pes­simistic or even neu­rot­ic. You are left with your close friends, who are, nat­u­ral­ly, peo­ple who have al­ways thought as you have .…

“But the one great shock­ing oc­ca­sion, when tens or hun­dreds or thou­sands will join with you, nev­er comes. That’s the dif­fi­cul­ty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come im­me­di­ate­ly af­ter the first and small­est, thou­sands, yes, mil­lions would have been suf­fi­cient­ly shocked-if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come im­me­di­ate­ly af­ter the ‘Ger­man Firm’ stick­ers on the win­dows of non-Jew­ish shops in ’33. But of course this is­n’t the way it hap­pens. In be­tween come all the hun­dreds of lit­tle steps, some of them im­per­cep­ti­ble, each of them prepar­ing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.

“And one day, too late, your prin­ci­ples, if you were ever sen­si­ble of them, all rush in upon you. The bur­den of self-de­cep­tion has grown too heavy, and some mi­nor in­ci­dent, in my case my lit­tle boy, hard­ly more than a baby, say­ing ‘Jew­ish swine,’ col­laps­es it all at once, and you see that every­thing, every­thing, has changed and changed com­plete­ly un­der your nose. The world you live in-your na­tion, your peo­ple-is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all un­touched, all re­as­sur­ing, the hous­es, the shops, the jobs, the meal­times, the vis­its, the con­certs, the cin­e­ma, the hol­i­days. But the spir­it, which you nev­er no­ticed be­cause you made the life­long mis­take of iden­ti­fy­ing it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the peo­ple who hate and fear do not even know it them­selves; when every­one is trans­formed, no one is trans­formed. Now you live in a sys­tem which rules with­out re­spon­si­bil­i­ty even to God. The sys­tem it­self could not have in­tend­ed this in the be­gin­ning, but in or­der to sus­tain it­self it was com­pelled to go all the way.”
—Mil­ton May­er, They Thought They Were Free: The Ger­mans 1933–45
 
 

Well­l­ll, GOP Rep Trent Franks re­signed af­ter dis­cussing “sur­ro­gate moth­er­hood” with fe­male staffers.

Trans­la­tion: “Hey, you guys talk­ing about sur­ro­gate moth­er­hood? Wan­na fuck? We can fuck. We can to­tal­ly fuck. Look, here’s my dick. I’ll pull it out. See my dick? We can make a baby in you. With my dick.”
 
 

—ja­son malmberg

Flom­mist Ja­son Malm­berg is a sim­ple man who be­lieves in brown liquor and small dogs. He also makes art some­times. Copy­right © 2017 Ja­son Malmberg.

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