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Would You Choose Communism or Fascism?
by TDB - Wednesday, Jan 20, 2021 - 7:56
By Joe Jarvis via The Daily Bell
In 1936, a young German journalist named Konrad Heidan wrote a book called, Hitler: A Biography.
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In it, he described the street fighting between the communists and Nazis which characterized much of early 1930s Germany.
But one interesting thing he mentioned about the paramilitary Nazi S.A. known as the Brownshirts or Stormtroopers, was that:
âThere were large numbers of Communists and Social Democrats among them; many of the storm troopers were called âbeefsteaksâbrown [outside] and red within. Jest were retailed such as the following: one S.A. man says to another: âIn our storm troop there are three Nazis, but we shall soon have spewed them out.â
Some historians surmise that a lot of these young men just liked to fightâ they didnât really care much who they were fighting, or for what cause.
They were angry at the establishment and for good reason. Germany was left in horrible shape by WWI and the disastrous monetary policies of the Weimar Republic. The people who felt left behind were going to express their rage in any way they could.
When the seat of German government, the Reichstag Building, was set aflame in 1933, the Nazis accused communist agitators of setting the fire.
In reality, itâs likely that the Nazis burned the Reichstag themselves, and scapegoated the Communists to justify a brutal crackdown.
Before I go further, let me just say that the United States in 2021 is not the same as Germany in 1933.
And even if the US was on a similar trajectory, we havenât even seen the Weimar inflation yet, which would put us sometime around 1921.
Prior to World War I, one US dollar was worth 4.2 German marks. But the Germans owed massive debts to pay back the other nations for the war,. With no way to come up with the money, they simply printed more and more marks.
By 1923, a single US dollar was worth 4.2 TRILLION marks.
Did you get your stimulus check yet?
But that is also what is so concerning. All this unrest, and we havenât even witnessed widespread economic devastation yet. It seems like only the beginning.
People are angry. People have good reason to be angry, whether it is over unjust police killings, or a completely corrupt political process.
People feel no agency or control over their own situation, or their government. And people want to take that control back.
But in Germany, if power hadnât gone to the Nazis, it would have gone to the communists, funded by Soviet Russia which had a much higher death count than Nazi Germany.
There comes a point where there is no political solution, no good party to throw your support behind, no collective action that can right the ship.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2021-01-20/would-you-choose-communism-or-fascism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR32lQlFMH8
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Would You Choose Communism or Fascism
Take the absurd trillion dollar COVID âreliefâ bill that Congress passed before the holidays that handed out billions of dollars to foreign governments like Sudan, Vietnam, $33 million to Venezuela for âdemocracy programs,â $10 million to Pakistan for gender studiesâŚ
I was shocked to actually agree with AOCâ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezâ when she said, âThis isnât governance, this is hostage taking.â Well guess what, she voted for the bill anyway.
The president also heavily criticized the bill⌠and then signed it into law.
Call me crazy, but I thought politicians debasing the currency to hand out billions of dollars to foreign governments was a bigger assault on our country than a bunch of idiots rioting.
If politicians arenât afraid of being torn apart by an angry mob, is this even America?
And by the way, I also enjoyed watching the police precinct in Minneapolis burn this summer.
AOC, the queen Bolshevik herself, said around that time that protests are supposed to make people uncomfortable.
Well as Congress cowered in fear from the people, that was a nice change from the people having to fear their government.
Too bad they could face 10 years in prison under a national monuments protection executive order that Trump signed when protesters against police brutality were tearing down statues this past summer.
No meaningful change is coming to Washington, even if we could hold a free and fair election.
Antifa and right-wingers will keep battling in the streets, likely only intensifying.
Weâll see more Occupy Seattle CHAZ takeovers, police stations like the precinct in Minneapolis set on fire, and more violent protests surrounding government buildings.
Really ask yourself, and be realistic: what would it take for everything to settle down and go back to normal? Flipping the page on the calendar to reveal a new digit at the end of the year, shockingly, didnât do the trick.
This does not end well.
Keep in mind that the party of the woke-mobsters just took control of Congress and the Whitehouse. Higher taxes, more draconian COVID response, and more regulation is a given.
But they could also wield enormous power to punish their political enemies.
As much as I enjoy watching politicians cower in fear of the voters, whatever truly happened at the storming of the Capitol, it will be used as an excuse for increased government surveillance, new policing powers, more weapons regulations, controls on free speech, and who knows whatever else the Bolsheviks think up.
I never want to be alarmist, but if this isnât a neon sign flashing that it is time to take action, I donât know what is. And I donât mean vote harder, or join the protests.
Get your rock solid Plan B in order starting today, so that as tensions continue to escalate, you have optionsâ from protecting your savings from inflation, to a foreign residency where you can exit to.
Because clearly, this is not going away.
It should be obvious by now: 2020 is the elite's big move.
We are entering the climax of a long planned crisis. Your family, your community, and your countrymen need honest leaders to guide them out of the elite's traps.
Learn how to turn the elite's own tactics against them, divert their attacks, and grow your own sphere of power.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2021-01-20/would-you-choose-communism-or-fascism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR32lQlFMH8
The Question CNN Never Asks Normal People: Why Do Americans Hate the Media?
by TDB -Wednesday, Jan 20, 2021 - 8:44
by Ben Bartee via The Daily Bell
2020 was brutal for the elite mediaâs approval ratings. 2021 probably wonât be any better.
The corporate news made the bed they currently lie in. It was CBS, CNN and MSNBC who gladly handed their platforms over to Trump during his meteoric 2015-2016 rise to GOP primary stardom.
Executives in charge of programming generated billions for themselves by showcasing what they viewed as essentially a carnival act in the form of Trumpâs boisterous campaign rallies. In total, they handed $2 billion in free airtime â essentially free ads â to Trump because, at the time, he generated revenue for them.
The corporate press enthusiastically rode that ratings hog all the way to the bank. In a February 2016 interview, Leslie Moonves, CEO of CBS at the time, celebrated the freakshow his network put on:
âIt may not be good for America, but itâs damn good for CBS⌠Man, who would have expected the ride weâre all having right now? ⌠The moneyâs rolling in and this is fun⌠Iâve never seen anything like this, and this going to be a very good year for us. Sorry. Itâs a terrible thing to say. But, bring it on, Donald. Keep going.â
-Leslie Moonves, CBS CEO, 2016
Back in the waning days of the Obama administration, MAGA was all fun and games. Neither Leslie Moonves nor any other leading figure of the establishment feared that the ad revenue-fueled circus they had created would come back to haunt them.
As Moonves so clearly laid out, sacrificing the interests of a functioning society is just the cost of doing business so long as the profits are rolling in and everyone in the boardroom is comfortable.
In short, in the estimation of US media, âthis isnât good for Americaâ is and always has been a footnote to the headline of âWeâre Raking in Cash.â
Double-standards and position-flipping on a dime come so naturally to these people that keeping up with the changing goal posts is an impossible task.
Watching a mere ten minutes of CNN coverage without being treated to a sad, slow violin swan song about the lamentable decline in their viewership is nearly impossible.
The press cheer-leaded the Patriot Act, internet censorship, and the prosecution of real journalists like Julian Assange â all for cynical institutional gain in the service of power.
Just to be clear: the claim the Americans hate the media at large is a conflation the CNN and the New York Times make intentionally to obfuscate the issue.
If media apologists can lay the claim unchallenged that Americans simply hate the media, the blame for the problem â and onus for fixing it â falls squarely on an illiterate, ungrateful, anti-intellectual rabble that canât appreciate the dressings of high-brow society such as civic participation.
A sober assessment of blame, in fact, points the finger directly back at the Manhattan academic/DC think-tank class: Americans hate the Bezos-owned Washington Post and Buzzfeed â not the media as a whole or the practice of journalism itself.
The same people who hate CNN used Parler before Amazon cut off its server access at the behest of the ruling class. They read Drudge Report and ZeroHedge. They frequent InfoWars and Whatfinger.com.
Itâs not the media as a unified entity that the working class and crumbling middle class hate.
Rather, their ire is directed very specifically at the very upper echelons of elite media, which is entirely run by and for the interests of the ruling class.
https://www.thedailybell.com/all-articles/news-analysis/the-question-cnn-never-asks-normal-people-why-do-americans-hate-the-media/
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2021-01-20/question-cnn-never-asks-normal-people-why-do-americans-hate-media