I believe there are alarming similarities between MAGA and Nazi.
!
And Trump is shockingly comfy with Vlad Putin, and seems to be patterning his own plunder pattern after Putin's milking the oligarchs.
The Second Term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America
- Thread starter sear
- Start date
And Trump is shockingly comfy with Vlad Putin, and seems to be patterning his own plunder pattern after Putin's milking the oligarchs.
Alarming, BUT potentially not the worst.
Only in theaters this fall, a documentary feature titled MUSK promoted as "an unflinching look at Earth's most unchecked man".
On Thursday October 8 the PBS NewsHour broadcast an interview with MUSK director Alex Gibney.
Gibney cited Musk's ownership of car / truck / robot manufacturer Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink Internet, and X which Gibney characterizes as a "propaganda platform". Gibney called this
an "integrated empire" for this $wealthiest man in the solar system. BUT !
That's just the beginning. The DOGE element of this MUSK story may be more alarming than the real-time newspaper reporting of it.
Gibney comments on Musk / DOGE in the PBS interview:
The theater feature may not provide much solace. The PBS broadcast segment can be seen here:
PBS News Hour | Documentary traces Musk's rise and embrace of right-wing | Season 2026
New documentary traces Elon Musk's rise and embrace of right-wing politics
Shiftless2
Well-known member
Re #4,094
Human rights lawyer Navi Pillay has won the Nobel Peace Prize for her powerful work on bringing war criminals to justice, from Rwanda’s genocide trials to the UN’s Gaza inquiry.
The Nobel committee picked the 85-year-old South African as a warning, saying judges and international law are under political attack, as reported by AP and NPR.
She opened her own law practice in Natal in 1967, the first woman in the province to do it. Her clients were the regime’s enemies, and she kept making the trip out to Robben Island to see them in prison.
For 28 years as a non-white lawyer she could argue a case in front of a judge but couldn’t walk into his private chambers. In 1995 she got chambers of her own on the High Court bench.
That same year the UN sent her to Tanzania to hear the Rwanda genocide cases. She was the only woman among six judges.
Prosecutors had charged Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of Taba, with ordering mass killings and never charged him with rape. Then women testified about what was done to them at the offices he ran, and Pillay pressed for the details. The indictment got amended.
In 1998 Akayesu became the first person ever convicted of genocide by an international court. The same ruling held that rape could be an instrument of genocide. Pillay said the court wanted the world to know rape was “no longer a trophy of war.”
She went on to the International Criminal Court, led UN human rights from 2008 to 2014, and chaired the UN inquiry that concluded Israel committed genocide in Gaza.
Today she sits on the World Court, hearing the genocide case against Myanmar.
Washington has spent the time since early 2025 punishing exactly this kind of work.
The US has sanctioned a string of ICC judges and prosecutors, freezing anything they own here, over rulings on Afghanistan and the arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu.
When the committee read out her name, it still hadn’t managed to reach her by phone, France 24 reported.
And no, we won’t be discussing a certain orange elephant, because honestly, the idea that he’s even part of this conversation is offensive to her and everything she’s spent her life on.
Congratulations, Judge Pillay. Long overdue.
SOURCE with comments
The only question now is how long will it take for Trump to throw a tantrum on Truth Social?
Human rights lawyer Navi Pillay has won the Nobel Peace Prize for her powerful work on bringing war criminals to justice, from Rwanda’s genocide trials to the UN’s Gaza inquiry.
The Nobel committee picked the 85-year-old South African as a warning, saying judges and international law are under political attack, as reported by AP and NPR.
She opened her own law practice in Natal in 1967, the first woman in the province to do it. Her clients were the regime’s enemies, and she kept making the trip out to Robben Island to see them in prison.
For 28 years as a non-white lawyer she could argue a case in front of a judge but couldn’t walk into his private chambers. In 1995 she got chambers of her own on the High Court bench.
That same year the UN sent her to Tanzania to hear the Rwanda genocide cases. She was the only woman among six judges.
Prosecutors had charged Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of Taba, with ordering mass killings and never charged him with rape. Then women testified about what was done to them at the offices he ran, and Pillay pressed for the details. The indictment got amended.
In 1998 Akayesu became the first person ever convicted of genocide by an international court. The same ruling held that rape could be an instrument of genocide. Pillay said the court wanted the world to know rape was “no longer a trophy of war.”
She went on to the International Criminal Court, led UN human rights from 2008 to 2014, and chaired the UN inquiry that concluded Israel committed genocide in Gaza.
Today she sits on the World Court, hearing the genocide case against Myanmar.
Washington has spent the time since early 2025 punishing exactly this kind of work.
The US has sanctioned a string of ICC judges and prosecutors, freezing anything they own here, over rulings on Afghanistan and the arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu.
When the committee read out her name, it still hadn’t managed to reach her by phone, France 24 reported.
And no, we won’t be discussing a certain orange elephant, because honestly, the idea that he’s even part of this conversation is offensive to her and everything she’s spent her life on.
Congratulations, Judge Pillay. Long overdue.
SOURCE with comments
The only question now is how long will it take for Trump to throw a tantrum on Truth Social?
Shiftless2
Well-known member
Shiftless2
Well-known member
Just in case you wondered about MAGA
www.facebook.com
This is still an accurate representation of MAGA. | Dean Withers | Facebook
This is still an accurate representation of MAGA.
www.facebook.com
Shiftless2
Well-known member
ChatGPT ranks the US presidents.
Shiftless2
Well-known member
Ted Cruz CONFRONTS Jack Smith, PAYS DEARLY!
By what criterion?
Narrow quantifiable criterion such as GNP / GDP $growth% ?
If so, is it inflation adjusted?
- OR -
Broader executive cohesion?
Gosh bless America and all that, BUT if the suggestion A.I. performed a comparative value judgement on 47 men operating during the most techno-socio-politically tumultuous quarter millennium in human history,
then I suspect the conclusions drawn are as much or more of the A.I. code writers than the presidents.
None the less, it's at least an indication of the vector toward which we careen.