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Trump's Metamorphosis Into America's Hitler Is Just About Complete

By Evan Hurst, Via Wonkette

Another day, another revelation about what somebody who worked closely with Donald Trump really thinks about him. This one is particularly timely, though, as Trump enters the homestretch of the campaign by fully completing his transition into America’s Hitler. 

It’s no secret that Mark Milley, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, can’t stand Trump, or that he thinks Trump is dangerously unfit. Trump has been lashing out at Milley and accusing him of treason for years now. 

In Milley’s retirement speech, he called Trump a “tyrant or dictator or wannabe dictator,” without using his name. 

 Now, in Bob Woodward’s new book War, Milley has some of his most unreserved words for Trump yet, about how rotten and evil the man trying to regain power in America really is. 

 Retired Gen. Mark A. Milley warned that former president Donald Trump is a “fascist to the core” and “the most dangerous person to this country” in new comments voicing his mounting alarm at the prospect of the Republican nominee’s election to another term, according to a forthcoming book by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward. 

 “A fascist to the core.” “The most dangerous person to this country.” 

 Here’s a fuller version of that: “No one has ever been as dangerous to this country as Donald Trump,” the general told Woodward. “Now I realize he’s a total fascist. He is the most dangerous person to this country.” 

 Milley told Trump that he has legitimate fears that if Trump wins, Trump will recall him to uniform to be court-martialed for “disloyalty,” based on previous threats he witnessed Trump make about doing that to former Gen. Stanley McChrystal and former Admiral William McRaven, who had spoken out against Trump. (We first learned about those in former Trump Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s book.) 

 “I will order them back to active duty and then I will court-martial them!” Trump yelled, according to Woodward. Esper wrote a similar account of the meeting in his own 2022 book. “He’s saying it and it’s not just him, it’s the people around him,” Milley told colleagues.

 What would Trump want Milley court-martialed for? Among other disloyalties, Trump is still steaming over the fact that after January 6, Milley reassured his counterpart in China that no, the outgoing loser president was not going to try to start a nuke war with them. It unfortunately had to be said, because China was actually getting worried. 

 Milley’s warning comes against a backdrop of a Donald Trump who has, as we said above, almost completed his full turning into America’s Hitler. 

 He sent this tweet Friday, vowing to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to target “vicious and bloodthirsty criminals” — don’t fool yourself, this is just a pretext, he means immigrants in general — to jail them and/or remove them from this country. (Would that include immigrants who are American citizens? Yes. Did he likely get this idea from his Nazi poolboy Stephen Miller? Yes.) 

 He added, “No person who has inflicted the violence and terror that Kamala Harris has inflicted on this community can EVER be allowed to become President of the United States.”

 Does he think Kamala Harris is part of the criminal gangs? Unclear. Trump repeated the promise at his rally in Aurora, Colorado, that day — all his rallies in the final stretch are in states he’ll never win in a million years — to invoke this wartime authority to target immigrants for deportation, without hearings, based on their nationality/race. 

We guess this would mean that all countries where the populations aren’t white would now be enemy nations with whom we’re at war, according to the Hitler-in-Chief. Moreover, in Trump’s sick pudding brain, the lines have disappeared between “everybody who opposes me” and the alleged criminal gangs Trump believes are taking over all the American cities and eating the cats and occupying America and causing all its white women to be both murdered AND mortally wounded. (He’s so breathtakingly stupid.) 

 He told Fox Business rage muppet Maria Bartiromo yesterday that the true threat to America’s election on November is “sick people, radical-left lunatics,” AKA the enemies “from within.” “I think the bigger problem is the enemy from within, not even the people that have come in and destroying our country, by the way, totally destroying our country, the towns, the villages, they’re being inundated, but I don’t think they’re the problem in terms of Election Day, I think the bigger problem are the people from within, we have some very bad people, we have some sick people, radical-left lunatics. And it should be easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military.” 

 It sounds to us like he’s saying that people who don’t support him are the enemies “from within,” and that they should be “handled” by the military. 

 A number of articles are out the past few days about how sharply Trump’s eliminationist Hitler rhetoric toward all his enemies, real, perceived or hallucinated, has risen in recent weeks. 

Politico had this headline this weekend: “We watched 20 Trump rallies. His racist, anti-immigrant messaging is getting darker.” An example, from his Aurora speech: “Kamala [Harris] has imported an army of illegal alien gang members and migrant criminals from the dungeons of the third world … from prisons and jails and insane asylums and mental institutions, and she has had them resettled beautifully into your community to prey upon innocent American citizens,” he said. 

 A new article from NBC News shows how much more prone Trump is these days to declaring that any words uttered against him are, or should be, illegal. 

On Friday, he called Kamala Harris a “criminal” during his Aurora rally. (He in fact has been convicted of 34 felonies, so far.) 

He wants CBS News put in jail for editing one of Harris’s answers in a way he feels made her look better than she deserved. 

 He wants to criminalize people criticizing the (illegitimate partisan hack fucking loser) Supreme Court justices he installed. 

 Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat put it in context: “This is out of the autocratic playbook. As autocrats consolidate their power once they’re in office, anything that threatens their power, or exposes their corruption, or releases information that’s harmful to them in any way becomes illegal,” said Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a historian and professor at New York University who wrote the 2020 book “Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present.” 

 “He’s actually rehearsing, in a sense, what he would be doing as head of state, which is what Orban does, Modi is doing, Putin has long done,” she said, referring to the leaders of Hungary, India and Russia, respectively. 

“Just as there’s a divide now because of this brainwashing about who is a patriot and who is a criminal about Jan. 6, right? In the same way, telling the truth in any area — journalists, scientists, even people like me, anybody who is engaged in objective inquiry, prosecutors, of course — they become criminal elements and they need to be shut down.” 

 Heather Cox Richardson has more in her column today about how this is all Authoritarianism 101. 

He’s even doing a rally in a couple weeks at Madison Square Garden, which Cox Richardson explains is “an echo of a February 1939 rally held there by American Nazis in honor of President George Washington’s birthday.” 

 So this is Trump in the final few weeks of the 2024 campaign. If he wins, it’s almost certainly a preview of the dictator he wants to be on day one. 

 People have been freaking out the past week about the polls, but it’s entirely possible that part of what we’re watching right now is a Trump who is absolutely panicking because Republican internal polling shows him in deep fucking shit, so he’s lashing out and betting it all on driving up turnout from the most easily frightened elements of his pantshitting Nazi MAGA base. 

 Either way, he has to be stopped in his tracks by voters on November 5, so, as Kamala Harris likes to say, we can “turn the page” on this motherfucker once and for all.

Donald Trump: The Most Despicable, Treasonous and Dishonest Politician Ever

  He really is an evil treasonous lying scumball of the highest order

Fox News: The Engine of Disinformation That Shaped and Shattered America

 Really, they are worse than any terror group in the damage they've done to the US.

In the summer of 2001, while President George W. Bush was enjoying a break at his Texas ranch, America’s future was buried in a stack of ignored intelligence reports. Among them, the now-infamous “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” memo. The negligence was catastrophic, leading to 9/11—a tragedy that would forever alter the world. But as the dust settled from the Twin Towers, another kind of threat was taking shape—not through terror, but through information, or rather, disinformation. 

Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News wasn’t merely informing the public; it was systematically bending reality, reshaping the world one half-truth at a time. From the moment it launched, Fox News wasn’t interested in being a conservative counterweight to the so-called liberal media. It set out to create an alternate universe where facts were malleable, and the truth was whatever kept its audience hooked. Think of it as a political reality show, except instead of roses, viewers were handed fear, outrage, and lies. It wasn’t about keeping the public informed; it was about keeping them addicted. 

 

The WMD Lie: Fox’s Role in Selling a War 

Fox News wasn’t just reporting a war—it was crafting one. Doubt the WMD narrative? Question the invasion’s morality? You weren’t just wrong—you were unpatriotic, even traitorous. Anchors like Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly weren’t journalists; they were war salesmen, packaging an invasion as a righteous crusade against evil. Fox’s “Countdown to Iraq” segments, complete with ominous music and dramatic flag imagery, reduced a complex geopolitical conflict into a high-stakes episode of 24. Saddam Hussein wasn’t just a dictator—he was the villain America had to vanquish. And the viewers? They weren’t asked to think; they were told to feel. Fear. Anger. Patriotism. The results were as predictable as they were deadly. Research confirmed that regions with heavy Fox News consumption saw disproportionately higher support for the Iraq War, a direct result of the network’s uncritical amplification of flawed intelligence. But these aren’t just numbers on a page. These are human lives—neighbors, family members—lost to an ideological war where ratings mattered more than responsibility. Over 4,000 American soldiers died. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis perished. And the war, a ratings bonanza for Fox, became one of the most disastrous foreign policy decisions in American history. And the cost? A destabilized Middle East, the birth of ISIS, and a war on terror that left deep scars on the global stage. Fox didn’t stop at reporting—it manufactured consent. As former producer Alex Bronkowski admitted, “We weren’t in the business of informing. We were in the business of fear. Fear sells.” And sell, it did—like a dark rerun of America’s longest-running horror show. 

 

COVID-19: The Deadly Cost of Disinformation 

With lessons learned from Iraq, Fox turned its attention to a new battlefield: the global pandemic. In 2020, as the world locked down to fight COVID-19, Fox was busy opening the floodgates of misinformation. This time, the enemy wasn’t a foreign dictator—it was science. Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham, the network’s stars, led the charge against masks, vaccines, and lockdowns. Carlson, with his trademark smirk, called lockdowns “the greatest infringement on personal liberty since slavery” (yes, really), while Ingraham downplayed the efficacy of vaccines, even as body counts rose. Behind the scenes, Fox’s hypocrisy was breathtaking. Inside their own offices, strict COVID protocols were enforced. Rupert Murdoch quietly got vaccinated—one of the first to do so. The very people spreading vaccine skepticism to millions of Americans were protecting themselves, leaving their viewers to roll the dice with their lives. The result? The regions most loyal to Fox News saw higher COVID-19 deaths, with vaccine hesitancy rampant. Take Joe Joyce, a Brooklyn bar owner who took Fox at its word, dismissed COVID as media hype, and refused to wear a mask. He died from the virus not long after. His daughter said, “He trusted them. Now he’s gone.” Stories like Joe’s never made it to air. Instead, Fox promoted figures like Robert LaMay, a Washington state trooper who refused the vaccine and became a folk hero for defying mandates—until COVID took his life. After he died, Fox moved on. His defiance was useful; his death, not so much. But these aren’t just tragic anecdotes. Research confirmed that COVID death rates were higher in counties dominated by Fox News viewers. Once again, Fox had blood on its hands—not because of bombs, but because of lies.

 

The Big Lie: How Fox Fueled an Insurrection 

From weaponizing fear during wartime to stoking deadly pandemics, Fox’s disinformation machine was far from finished. Its most dangerous act of all was perpetuating the Big Lie following the 2020 election. As Donald Trump railed against the results, Fox amplified his baseless claims of voter fraud. Internal communications revealed during the Dominion lawsuit showed that Fox knew the election wasn’t stolen. But truth? That didn’t matter. Ratings did. Rupert Murdoch said it himself: “It’s not about red or blue—it’s about green.” Fox turned Trump’s lie into its central narrative, legitimizing conspiracy theories and whipping up anger among Trump’s base. They weren’t just reporting on the election—they were laying the groundwork for the January 6th insurrection. Trump supporters, radicalized by months of disinformation, stormed the Capitol in a desperate attempt to overturn the results. And Fox? They had the audacity to report on it as if they hadn’t been complicit in inciting it. Former Fox News analyst Chris Stirewalt later testified, “Fox didn’t just mislead the public—they weaponized the truth, and we all saw the result on January 6th.” This wasn’t just a crisis of political legitimacy—it was a reality crisis.

 

Undermining America: Fox’s Legacy of Mistrust 

Fox News isn’t just a media outlet—it’s the sharpest cultural weapon ever wielded in American politics. It didn’t just fracture families; it reshaped the very DNA of the nation, turning neighbors into enemies and citizens into foot soldiers for disinformation. Fox News has left an indelible mark on America’s psyche, undermining trust in the very institutions that hold the country together. Scientists? They’re shills. The government? Corrupt. The media? The enemy of the people. Fox has turned collective action—whether it’s tackling climate change or improving healthcare—into a dirty word, equating it with government overreach and the loss of personal liberty. And here’s the thing: Fox knows exactly what it’s doing. It has conditioned an entire segment of the population to live in a state of perpetual grievance and distrust, tuning in night after night for their daily fix of outrage. America’s real problems—like wealth inequality, systemic racism, and the existential threat of climate change—take a back seat to the latest culture war Fox chooses to manufacture. And for what? As Rupert Murdoch himself admitted during the Dominion lawsuit: “It’s not about what’s true—it’s about what sells.” And Fox, in the end, is in the business of selling fear. Conclusion: The Fight for Truth The fight for truth in America isn’t just a political battle—it’s an existential one. Fox News, from its earliest days, has waged a war on reality itself. It has turned half-truths into profits and misinformation into power. The stakes couldn’t be higher. Stronger fact-checking, transparency, and accountability for those who knowingly spread lies are the bare minimum steps forward. Rupert Murdoch’s legacy isn’t that of a media mogul. It’s that of an architect of a disinformation empire, a man who wielded the power of the press not to inform, but to deceive. And the fallout? We’re only beginning to see the full cost. The next battlefield won’t just be in Washington or Baghdad—it will be in the minds of Americans, where the line between truth and fiction grows ever thinner.

20 Years Blogging Here

 What a journey... 

I started here with the goal of trying to stop GW Bush to get a 2nd term and 20 years later, I'm trying to keep an even worse president from getting a 2nd term (yes, the orange turd himself, Donald J Dickface)...

I know I have almost no readers here at this point, but I have enjoyed posting here and interacting with various people along the way.... and TRYING to sort out the biggest crime of my life, the 9/11 attacks.

Key anomalies for the official flight 93 story

1) lack of major plane debris around crash crater 

2) one engine found one mile away, very unlikely for it to fly that far on impact

3) strange phone calls

4) discrepancies for time of crash (10:03 vs 10:06) 

5) evidence for a 2nd flight 93

6) plane debris found up to 8 miles away from official crash site

7) incomprehensible official story for how plane exploded upon impact but also completely burrowed into the ground and shredded at the same time

8) ACARS evidence showing flight 93 continued flying after crash

9) missing human remains (supposedly all official people accounted for but only tiny amounts of each body found)

10) geometry of official crater doesn't make sense for official story of inverted Boeing 757 crash

11) pristine bandana shown as evidence, supposedly worn by one of the hijackers, supposedly survived burning crash.

12) plane tail and wingtips should have broken off in large pieces but are completely absent from the debris field

Ultimately none of the official story makes sense and we can only speculate what really happened with the public evidence presented. 

My best guess is that there was a second flight 93 and two crash sites. One flight involved a hijacking "drill" or exercise with the hijackers and a few passengers and the other flight was the regular commercial flight with the other passengers. How the crash crater in Shanksville was formed is hard to understand but certainly doesn't fit the official story of a Boeing 757 crash. I have tried very hard to make the official crash story make sense to me but I just can't. On the other hand, it's impossible to know exactly how it would have been faked. Absent new evidence, the public will never know the true story or be able to make sense of the crash site.

The Flight 93 Crater Suggests The Plane Was Tilted As It Went In But This Doesn't Make Any More Sense Than Anything Else About The Flight 93 Crash Crater

 Pic 1

 

Pic 2

This is hard to explain, but I think the pictures above show the idea that, assuming a plane crashed there, the plane didn't strike such that both engines hit at the same time or levelly, but rather the plane was tilted to one side, so one engine hit first, maybe the western side first (to the right in the top pic and to the left in the lower pic). This is most clearly hinted at by the off-kilter tail print, such that it's not at a 90 degree angle to the wings but off at an angle (see Pic 2). But you can also see that the black smears where the "engines" hit, trail a bit off to the western side, not straight forward out of the crater. And of course the huge explosion into the forest is at a skewed angle from the wing marks, not straight forward out of the crater.

The official flight path however is 90 degree perpendicular angle to the wing imprints, so this doesn't really add up.

It's hard to show in a diagram-- but if the plane is tilted to one side as it hits, there's simply NO WAY it can make the impact imprint shown if there is a 90 degree perpendicular angle of the wings to the flight path. 

And in my mind, if the plane is really going 563 mph as it hits, it impacts in a fraction of a second. There's no way there's time for it to tilt once it impacts, not to mention the incredible momentum of the high speed object is just going to drive every part of the plane straight on the path it was going on once it impacts.

This yet one more oddity to the crash crater and it shows that either the official flight path is quite off or the whole thing was faked...

About Those Black "Engine Spots" on Each Side of the Flight 93 Crater

There are two blackened spots on the ground that apparently (supposedly) correspond to where the engines of the plane hit the ground, they are separate holes next to the main crater. You can see in the 3rd pic that the "engines" created their own little craters.

Close up of the crater. You can see the black spot on the eastern (left side) of the crater is much bigger than the other side, for unclear reasons. 

 

So what exactly caused these black spots? 

The obvious explanation is that fuel burned intensely there from the engine that hit there. OK. Maybe. I don't have any other real explanation for these dark spots.

Now supposedly, one of the engines bounced away from the crash site and OFFICIALLY landed ONE MILE AWAY, which is truly absurd for a plane that went in the ground the way it is supposed to have.

We don't know which of the black engine spots was made by the engine that "bounced away". Maybe the less black spot?

Still I don't know why the engine that bounced away would cause a spot. 

But the other issue is we have this photo of one of the engines they dug up from the crater. It's a bit absurd that the engine fragment is only 2 feet below the surface, max, considering that the rest of the plane is much deeper and the engine is very heavy with huge thrust.

Anyway, why isn't the soil black all around the engine and why isn't the engine covered black soot?

Also, where is the rest of the parts of the engine, like the cowling? There should be remnants all around this part if it was really found here.

BUT ultimately nothing here really makes sense. There are two black spots here and we don't know why and no one else seems interested in this.