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looking for Good Little Germans, Little Eichmanns and the disaster that is a racist country on both sides of the manure pile, and so we got Semen Drip Rapist and Pedophile as Commander in Chief

Paulo Kirk

Feb 21, 2026

MAGA: Inspired by the Holocaust: Stanley Milgram conducted the experiments at Yale to understand how ordinary people could participate in genocide.

  • “Just Following Orders”: The experiment was a direct response to the trial of Adolf Eichmann, aiming to test if Americans would behave similarly under authority.
  • High Obedience Rates: Contrary to predictions that few would comply, a majority of participants continued to the maximum, dangerous voltage.
  • The Power of Context: The study suggested that anyone could act in a “heart of darkness” if placed in the right (or wrong) situation.
  • Replication & Validity: Later studies worldwide confirmed these results, validating that the behavior was not limited to Americans or a specific time period.

And so we got the fucking 130 Jewish Billionaires and millions of Jewish millionaires and the Epstein and Trump and Holly-Dirt and Banker and AI and Tech Fascist classless “class.”

But, then, come on:

  • pickup trucks, MPG 15, and they are all over the roads, and not just some fucking old fucking fart but young folk
  • endless cruise trips, endless backyard Home Depot projects, endless Super Bowl et al parties
  • deer hunting with Duck Dynasty, sure
  • Christian soldiers, book banning, fighting bathroom policies, and 100 million MAGA and some millions in the closet

“Good Germans is an ironic term referring to German citizens during and after World War II who claimed not to have supported the Nazi regime, but remained silent and did not resist in a meaningful way … further used to describe those who claimed ignorance of the Holocaust and German war crimes.”

“Good Genocidaires is an ironic term referring to American citizens during and after the two-year killing spree in Palestine who claim to have voted for Piece/Peace of Shit President but have supported the Nazi regime, i.e., ICE, and the IOF. They have remained lobotomized and fucking consumer-oriented and did not/will not resist in a meaningful way … further used to describe those who claimed ignorance of the Genocide and the Crimes of USA.”

As ye sow, so shall ye reap.
Galations, 6:7

By refusing to acknowledge that most Americans had been bitten by the same bug that afflicted Roosevelt, Lodge, and Beveridge, anti-imperialists were letting the people off the hook and in their own way preserving the American sense of innocence. Unfortunately, the man in the street shared the dreams of world-power status, martial glory, and future wealth that would follow expansion. When the dream soured, the American people neither reacted with very much indignation, nor did they seem to retreat to their cherished political principles. If anything, they seemed to take their cues from their leader in the White House by first putting out of mind all the sordid episodes in the conquest, and then forgetting the entire war itself. The Ghosts of 9-1-1: Reflections on History, Justice and Roosting Chickens

When queried by reporters concerning his views on the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November 1963, Malcolm X famously — and quite charitably, all things considered — replied that it was merely a case of “chickens coming home to roost.”

On the morning of September 11, 2001, a few more chickens — along with some half-million dead Iraqi children — came home to roost in a very big way at the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center. Well, actually, a few of them seem to have nestled in at the Pentagon as well.

The Iraqi youngsters, all of them under 12, died as a predictable — in fact, widely predicted — result of the 1991 US “surgical” bombing of their country’s water purification and sewage facilities, as well as other “infrastructural” targets upon which Iraq’s civilian population depends for its very survival. [See The Secret Behind the Sanctions — How the U.S. Intentionally Destroyed Iraq’s Water Supply, by Thomas J. Nagy, The Progressive, September 2001.]

If the nature of the bombing were not already bad enough — and it should be noted that this sort of “aerial warfare” constitutes a Class I Crime Against Humanity, entailing myriad gross violations of international law, as well as every conceivable standard of “civilized” behavior [See Sanctions and War on Iraq: In 300 words, by Citizens Concerned for the People of Iraq, 17 Aug 2002] — the death toll has been steadily ratcheted up by US-imposed sanctions for a full decade now [See Iraq Sanctions: Humanitarian Implications and Options for the Future, marking the 12th anniversary of sanctions on Iraq, 8/6/02, and the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq, a registered society at the University of Cambridge, England]. Enforced all the while by a massive military presence and periodic bombing raids, the embargo has greatly impaired the victims’ ability to import the nutrients, medicines and other materials necessary to saving the lives of even their toddlers.

All told, Iraq has a population of about 18 million. The 500,000 kids lost to date thus represent something on the order of 25 percent of their age group. Indisputably, the rest have suffered — are still suffering — a combination of physical debilitation and psychological trauma severe enough to prevent their ever fully recovering. In effect, an entire generation has been obliterated.

“There is an element of chaos right now,” said Andrea Bonior, a Georgetown University psychology professor who sees patients in the D.C. area. “A sense of not knowing what’s coming and not being able to control what’s coming is really hard on the stress response.”

  • “As humans, we don’t love uncertainty. It’s something that we don’t tend to tolerate well. And then when we’re anxious, it’s excruciating.”

The record speaks for itself: The “Most Peace-Loving Nations” has engaged in brutal military campaigns in every corner of the globe, unceasingly, since its inception. In attempting to forever alter Americans´ false self-concept, Ward Churchill has meticulously chronicled both U.S. military campaigns – domestic and foreign – 1776 to the present and U.S. attempts to violate, obstruct, and/or subvert International Law from 1945 to the present. The two chronologies, exhaustively researched and annotated, illustrate a heartwrenching history of senseless butchery and democracy deterred. In this context, the only fitting question for a nation still reeling from the wake-up call of September 11th is, “How can they not hate us?” In the newest offering, Churchill demands that the American public shake off its collective unconscious and take responsibility for the criminality carried out in its name.

As of early 2026, many Americans report feeling overwhelmed, with roughly 71% feeling the country is “out of control” and 58% dissatisfied with the state of democracy, reflecting a high level of civic exhaustion or being “checked out”. This sentiment is driven by economic anxiety, including high, tariff-driven costs of living, with 6 in 10 Americans viewing the economy as weak.

Key insights on the sentiment and economic situation include:

  • Economic Strain: Trump’s tariffs have cost the average American household roughly $1,000 to $1,200, with some estimates suggesting a higher burden as consumers bear a significant portion of these costs.
  • Widespread Dissatisfaction: Beyond politics, 7 in 10 Americans report that the cost of living in their area is unaffordable.
  • Political Exhaustion: Confidence in leadership and institutions has dipped, with a majority of Americans feeling the country is on the wrong track.
  • Financial Struggle: A significant number of families are struggling with rising costs, with over 1 in 4 Americans falling behind on bills in the past year.

Farmers —often seen as part of Trump’s base—are among those now bearing heavy emotional burdens.

Veterans, too, are grappling with a deep sense of betrayal. Under the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative, sweeping layoffs gutted the Department of Veterans Affairs, eliminating over 80,000 job s. These cuts have strained the system’s ability to provide healthcaremental health services, and employment for former service members.

  • If you think that the person causing the uncertainty is on your side, you could still be off balance, but you can kind of have general certainty that the changes are in your best interest,” said Kurt Gray, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of North Carolina who’s studied how moral judgments stem from feeling threatened or vulnerable.
  • There’s a school of thought that chaos can breed creativity, and that tearing down old

Donald Trump has never been one to shy away from the grandiose. “I like thinking big. To me, it’s very simple: if you’re going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big,” he wrote in “The Art of the Deal”. He did a lot more than think in the first three months of his second stint as US president.

Trump’s first 100 days were record breaking. He signed over 140 executive orders, more than any other president at that point in their term—including Franklin D. Roosevelt during the second world war. The Trump administration faces a record number of lawsuits too, shattering the president’s own benchmark from his first term. His April 2nd mass tariff announcement alone destroyed as much as $10trn in stock values in less than a week, equivalent to around half the GDP of the European Union.

Consequences be damned, Trump is doing big things. And he is doing them quickly, in domestic and foreign policy. The transatlantic relationship is not exempt. The first quarter of 2025 saw an onslaught on European interests: the indiscriminate tariffs, the pressure on Ukraine to accept land losses, the support for nationalist voices in Europe. This is not to mention the neo-imperial coveting of Greenland (and Canada). My ECFR colleagues Majda Ruge, Jeremy Shapiro and I had anticipated some of these disruptions. But the scope, speed and brutality with which the new administration is implementing its agenda is astonishing.

In a mere three months, European citizens have come to barely recognise their biggest ally. —- MAGA goes global: Trump’s plan for Europe

In the year of our lord, 2025, something far more insidious is going on in Silicon Valley. Leaders of Meta, Tesla, Google, Amazon and even Apple were all front and center at Trump’s Inauguration. Peter Thiel, a member of an iconic founders posse known as the PayPal Mafia, is the de facto mentor of Vice President JD Vance. Marc Andreessen, the founder of one of the world’s most influential VC Firms, went on The Joe Rogan Experience to share how happy he was with the 2024 election results.

Why are these billionaire men so enraptured with Trump?

What do they have in common with MAGA’s white, working-class base?

And how exactly do their views reconcile with Trump allies like Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller? As Detective Benoit Blanc once said–

“It makes no damn sense… it compels me though.”

AI costs A LOT.

While AI is technically software, it is trained on something called a GPU Server. These GPUs require land, water, and electricity to function. This is why NVIDIA became so dominant. As they say, during a Gold Rush, sell shovels. A single GPU Server costs as much as a house, and it takes hundreds of servers to train just one AI model. The upfront investment is massive. Plus, the resources to build servers are scarce and require delicate international trade agreements. So a lot needs to happen for Silicon Valley 3.0 to actually work.

One of the great ironies regarding the figure of Donald Trump is his positioning on the conventional notion of the political spectrum. While the current president appears to be extreme in many ways, the reality is that in both of his electoral victories, he actually received crucial support because a portion of the voting population saw him as less so than his opponent. It would certainly be audacious to consider Trump a moderate: his language and political behavior are anything but restrained, and his political base has proven willing to challenge both societal norms and the law to pursue its aims. Yet the backlash against movements such as “wokeness” and DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) opened the door for the Republican Party to claim the center in American cultural discourse. Less visible, however, is the emerging shift in national identity proposed by the MAGA wing of the party today.

History shows otherwise, but this shift toward a “blood and soil” view dovetails nicely with the campaign to expel foreigners, serving as justification for action against whomever isn’t “one of us”. A worrying example comes from a recent article by John Daniel Davidson, senior editor at the conservative publication The Federalist. He writes that “Our government exists to secure natural, unalienable rights for American citizens,”… not for others, claiming that noncitizens do not have the same rights.

Jackson honored the responsibility of telling the truth about the pain of Black America — and forced members of the Black elite and the white political establishment to listen even when they preferred not to hear.

For his dedication, Jackson faced endless attempts throughout his career by both centrists and conservatives to paint him as too race-driven and too radical, and tacit suggestions that Black America might benefit from supporting a more docile, reasonable voice. Undeterred, Jackson continued advocating for social justice and economic equality through efforts such as Operation Breadbasket and groups such as the Rainbow PUSH Coalition.

Jackson is arrested in 1993 after blocking 5th Avenue as part of a group protesting against the Clinton administration’s policy of maintaining a detention camp for Haitian political refugees who were HIV positive

Jackson sits atop a horse while visiting the protest camp against the Dakota Access oil pipeline outside Cannon Ball, North Dakota in October 2016

The Rev Al Sharpton (left) talks with Jackson before they go onstage at the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago in 2024

Jackson’s strategic legacy was that no vote is captive to a party that has not earned it, and that marginalized and overlooked voters are best heard when coalitions that prioritize their common social and economic stakes challenge the party where their electoral margins for victory are the most vulnerable. Jackson’s campaign was audacious because it was never really about him as a candidate but, rather for taking the reins back on an electoral process that wanted Black votes without including Black people.

It was a rebellion masked as a campaign. As the Harvard political theorist Brandon Terry wrote,

“Jackson’s campaigns were, at bottom, a remarkable attempt to merge symbolic and structural politics … His campaign helped refound a Democratic party whose internal corruptions and hierarchies had been the target of civil rights activism. That blend of charisma and concrete party reform is all-too-rare in American history. ”

Forty-one years later, “Run Jesse Run” hasn’t run out of relevance for how those who have been historically deprived of the most power can move swiftly to reclaim it.

1. Fused identity

2. Moral self-righteousness

3. The right to dominate other groups

4. Aggressive followership

“Acid rain is coming from the top down,” said Jackson, per the the Memphis Commercial Appeal. “The ignorance and hate and fear and violence in Virginia is being fed from the top down. The incitement to violence is very apparently coming from the White House.”

Criticizing Trump’s proposed immigration litmus tests, Jackson said in a speech to the National Action Network’s Ministers March for Justice in 2017:

“Trump says you must be able to speak the language of English, qualified, and have a job skill,” as reported by the Christian Post. “Jesus would not qualify to come in Trump’s country, he would not qualify to get into Jesus’ kingdom.”

In 2018, the civil rights leader criticized Trump for reported comments about some immigrants to the U.S., saying they had come from “s***hole countries.”

“The language of Donald Trump has been a source of shame for our nation,” he said. “Humiliation and untruth.”

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