Impeachment Inquiry Underway

[begooode]

26 minutes ago, Little Earl said:

yep, slam dunk to get rejected by the Senate.

 

“Post-truth is pre-fascism.” 

 

“10 Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.” 

 

“You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case.” 

 

 

“As observers of totalitarianism such as Victor Klemperer noticed, truth dies in four modes, all of which we have just witnessed. 
The first mode is the open hostility to verifiable reality, which takes the form of presenting inventions and lies as if they were facts. The president does this at a high rate and at a fast pace. One attempt during the 2016 campaign to track his utterances found that 78 percent of his factual claims were false. This proportion is so high that it makes the correct assertions seem like unintended oversights on the path toward total fiction. Demeaning the world as it is begins the creation of a fictional counterworld. 

The second mode is shamanistic incantation. As Klemperer noted, the fascist style depends upon “endless repetition,” designed to make the fictional plausible and the criminal desirable. The systematic use of nicknames such as “Lyin’ Ted” and “Crooked Hillary” displaced certain character traits that might more appropriately have been affixed to the president himself. Yet through blunt repetition over Twitter, our president managed the transformation of individuals into stereotypes that people then spoke aloud. At rallies, the repeated chants of “Build that wall” and “Lock her up” did not describe anything that the president had specific plans to do, but their very grandiosity established a connection between him and his audience. 

The next mode is magical thinking, or the open embrace of contradiction. The president’s campaign involved the promises of cutting taxes for everyone, eliminating the national debt, and increasing spending on both social policy and national defense. These promises mutually contradict. It is as if a farmer said he were taking an egg from the henhouse, boiling it whole and serving it to his wife, and also poaching it and serving it to his children, and then returning it to the hen unbroken, and then watching as the chick hatches. 

Accepting untruth of this radical kind requires a blatant abandonment of reason. Klemperer’s descriptions of losing friends in Germany in 1933 over the issue of magical thinking ring eerily true today. One of his former students implored him to “abandon yourself to your feelings, and you must always focus on the Führer’s greatness, rather than on the discomfort you are feeling at present.” Twelve years later, after all the atrocities, and at the end of a war that Germany had clearly lost, an amputated soldier told Klemperer that Hitler “has never lied yet. I believe in Hitler.” 

The final mode is misplaced faith. It involves the sort of self-deifying claims the president made when he said that “I alone can solve it” or “I am your voice.” When faith descends from heaven to earth in this way, no room remains for the small truths of our individual discernment and experience. What terrified Klemperer was the way that this transition seemed permanent. Once truth had become oracular rather than factual, evidence was irrelevant...."

 

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/54882949-on-tyranny-twenty-lessons-from-the-twentieth-century

Edited October 15, 2019 by begooode

[rns90]

hey, give Little Earl some credit.  He usually goes on to his whataboutism on Clinton or Obama.

[begooode]

6 minutes ago, rns90 said:

hey, give Little Earl some credit.  He usually goes on to his whataboutism on Clinton or Obama.

 

No credit for copy/paste echo chamber opinions !!  LOL

 

[tgo]

 

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[IsntLifeFunny]

26 minutes ago, tgo said:

 

@LongTimeFan

 

there you go as it concerns the investigations into Biden. 

[begooode]

Yeah, and the lawyer who wrote the letter to congress saying Rudy won't attend is no longer representing Giuliani. LOL.

[Omar]

26 minutes ago, tgo said:

 

Pu him in jail for contempt. He is a private citizen. 

[reo]

12 minutes ago, Omar said:

Pu him in jail for contempt. He is a private citizen. 

 

They've talked about it iirc. I bet they fine first then if they don't comply, they'll escalate it.

[tgo]

 

[freakingeek]

2 minutes ago, tgo said:

 

 

 

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[Starkiller]

5 minutes ago, tgo said:

 

This was a clear emoluments clause case