Trump’s Not Hitler He’s Stalin. We’re Back In the USSR

I’m afraid to even look at the news these days. I feel like somebody in a submarine. They put up the periscope to check out what’s topside and if it’s this level of Through The Looking Glass weirdness, they retract it back down again and dive, all dive. At least that’s what I feel like doing. Just dive under the covers and stay there. But we do have a few rare moments of good news so let us take a look at them.

Would you believe that The Onion has purchased InfoWars out of bankruptcy and they intend to make it a parody of itself? Yes. You can’t make this shit up.

Conspiracy mega-site Infowars, whose founder and main host Alex Jones has become the face of monetized suspicion in America, has been acquired at a bankruptcy auction by the satirical news company The Onion. They plan to relaunch Infowars as a parody of itself, with backing from Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit that advocates for gun law reform. The news was first reported by the New York Times.

On Thursday morning, Jones broadcast a flabbergasted and defiant monologue, calling the news “insane” saying he wouldn’t go off air until someone came in and forced him out with a court order. “They’re in the control room,” Jones said on air. “Imperial Troops are through the glass.”

“It is a distinct honor to be here in defiance of the tyrants,” Jones declared at one point.

In an interview with the Times, Collins didn’t disclose how much The Onion paid for Infowars but said it would re-launch in January making fun of “weird internet personalities” like Alex Jones. He also said the Sandy Hook families were “supportive,” as the Times put it, of the bid.

If the Sandy Hook families have any comfort from anywhere, I say hallelujah, after what Jones put them through. Now we move on to the central story today, which is of course the Adderalled Autocrat. He’s flying high and going wild. Elon Musk is now talking to the Iranian Consulate, and RFK, Jr. the crazy anti-vaxxer is going to bring back measles, polio, all miseries that we left behind as head of HHS. So I hope when the MAGA children are sick and or crippled it was worth it all to stick it to the libs. Right now the only cold comfort I can find is that Harold Meyerson at the American Prospect has the same thoughts about which insane dictator we’ll be living under as I do:

I know that many on the left are going through what might be termed Late Weimar Tremors, but for whatever it may be worth, yesterday’s spate of spite from the incoming president didn’t really put me in mind of Hitler.

Actually, it put me in mind of Stalin.

Consider, for instance, the executive order prepared for Trump by his transition team, on which The Wall Street Journal just reported. It would establish a “warrior board” of retired generals and admirals with the power to recommend the sacking of any current generals and admirals whom it deems soft on wokeness, or just meh on Trump. It would thereby bypass altogether the military’s promotion, demotion, and dismissal processes. The sacking of multiple top military leaders for presumed lack of personal loyalty to the president (and reluctance to send the Army against American citizens) is without precedent in American history.

It has ample precedent in Soviet history, however. As Stalin’s executions of most other Communist political leaders wound down in 1938, due largely to the shortage of remaining political leaders, he refocused his attention on the country’s Communist military leaders. In short order, he executed Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky, who had led the transformation of the Red Army into a sizable and well-led fighting force, as well as most other Soviet generals. By the time the purge was done, 35,000 officers had been discharged, many of them sent to the gulag and several thousand to their deaths. In consequence, the Soviet army was shellacked by the Finnish army when it invaded Finland in 1939, and was a largely leaderless sitting duck when Germany invaded the USSR in June of 1941.

But the part that I love is Trump wanting a Russian asset to head DNI.

Consider, now, the case of Tulsi Gabbard, whom Trump nominated yesterday to be the director of national intelligence, the post in charge of the nation’s 18 spy agencies. We have no Venona Files on Gabbard, of course, but she has publicly expressed admiration for Vladimir Putin and support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, with whom she met in 2017 after he’d killed numerous fellow Syrians with poison gas. Whatever she may be, Gabbard is no mole; her affinities for blood-drenched anti-American dictators are completely out in the open.

The American people have decided that it would be real shits and giggles to reelect Trump to a second term and play with fire. When they’re burned and there’s no personnel in the hospital to treat them and no supplies to treat them with, then maybe they’ll realize what they have done.

We are in the School Of Hard Knocks now and fools will learn in no other.

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