Morning. You always bring sound observations to my day. One request? Can you continue advising us how to change these things. Like your oo-ed pieces on Community local level actions. #Midterms2022 frighten me. And Im an old curmudgeonly #NavyVeteranKorea retired county sheriff that at my age not much should frighten me anymore.

In addition, Dark MAGA means someone who is so far up the mango Mussolini's butt that it is too dark to see.....

What the hell is happening to America? Watching our southern neighbours from here in Canada is horrifying. How anyone can vote republiCON at this point is beyond me. Hold your nose, if you must and vote blue!

Hey man, Great video. Curious what you think of MAGA president out of Mar-a-lago?? Dark MAGA genuinely believes he is still their president, and that that is their capital now. How serious are you taking this??? Because the 2nd civil war is real to them, and they are acting on it, softly for the most part(kicking progressives out of work, via harassment), and in specific cases violent(Buffalo). Curious what you think?

Just FYI Beau, the title says "Cawthron", and I believe it's "Cawthorn"?

Here in Switzerland there are different grades of dark chocolate. Does same apply? Are we at 64% or more like 92%?

@@dingymon the difference is, dark chocolate is awesome. dark maga, not so much.

@@bobcatblues7766 Will trade dark MAGA for dark chocolate?

It's fascism. There is no bottom to that barrel. There isn't even a graduated slope, slippery or otherwise. There's just a bottomless pit.

@@dynamicworlds1 👍

His word choice, Dark Maga, = ,Evil Maga, ..

@@ljsites So just the same maga we've already been dealing with.

@@josh-oo Only with Far Less Discretion and Control.

What’s with all the “we have enemies to fight”? Is he referring to his fellow countrymen? How can you call yourself a patriot when saying stuff like that?

@@dimwitsixtytwelve they have no idea what patriotism means, they really mean nationalism. Close but not quite.

Thank you

Thank you for doing is all a favor

Way to go!

Totally agree.

Hitler would have no use for him is the sad part

I have to wonder if the accusations he made about sex parties and drugs within the GOP are a real thing. Considering their hypocritical nature, it doesn't seem out of character for this type of behavior...

💯

@@valkyriefrost5301 With how they went after him for those remarks, I'm inclined to believe it's at least partially true. However, I say "partially" because I bet Cawthorn doesn't know every detail about those sex parties, some of which I'm sure the GOP would love to bury forever.

Can he be convicted of inciting violence?

💯 essentially what Maya Angelou said.

no america is fucked move away while you can

I think he will continue to get a pass depending upon which state he is in.

Hopefully...but in reality, probably not.

you dont actually get arrested for that believe it or not... TSA just takes the weapon or denies you entry...

​@@William-Morey-Baker Incorrect, the TSA takes the weapon and holds it in the x-ray machine until the police arrive. This is the police's call whether or not you get arrested, not the TSA. This is the jurisdiction of the police, not the TSA, and it's important to make that distinction. However my TSA friend did tell me that often the police do just keep the gun and let people go and later charge them a big fine unless they come up on a list of known terrorists or something.

I wish! If Cinservatives did that they'd be silent.

Lmfao

he's not a government officials nomore, does that mean i can take him out? heh... just one law pass by our government to deal with treason and traitors with extreme prejudice and impunity. Folks like me just need Operation Faktriots to be greenlight.

I'll gladly lay my life to take out all these fools. My father and grandfather would be proud.

@@Maggie-zr2ow I've been taught violence only respect more violence. Those who have strength to fight must use it to defend the weak, not prey on the weak. Beau told me about rule 303 and I'm ready. I have the strength to do the right thing and I've gladly do it when duty calls.

German gal here. I also give it two thumbs down.

Also a comparison between trump and Napoleon as the article mentioned some of these people have used seems odd as well. Well, he might very well have Napoleon complex.

You forgot to tell us how many stars you would give it.

@@darleneh608 they mentioned all the stars it deserves, though.

Maybe Cawthorne likes the clothes. I remember the first time I saw him on stage dressed like a 3rd rate Tom Cruise from "Valkyrie". My gut instantly said "hey, look, a fascist". My brain interjected "wait a minute, you can't just reach a conclusion on how someone... oH, fuck, it IS a fascist!"

👋🌞

Toss in Gaetz, Gosar, Biggs, etc.

I'm sure there are plenty of great opportunities for drunk driving, cross-dressing, neo-nazi, sycophantic zealots at Truth Social.

What's embarrassing is that these people are a reflection of the people who voted for them. Spitting image. At the very least those people see nothing abnormal, they see a familiar face and hear familiar language and ideas.

I guess the same PAC that went after Cawthorne is targeting Boboert next.

"Patriotism is the last Refuge of the Scoundrel." - Samuel Johnson

Also "Christian" and "nice."

So heartily agree. I have the same thought. I'm repulsed by the word.

Exactly

They couldn't define the word patriot with a dictionary in front of them

18th century slave owners

Hear, hear! Neither will I. I'll stand next to you on that one.

Funny thing is, the right wing does an uprising, they lose. They won't beat the Army plus the rest of the not right wing. Most of these idiots have this delusion the American center and left don;t have guns or will just roll over because they're cucklord libtard sheeple or whatever they wanna call them. No, they have guns too and if a bunch of neo-nazis start rampaging, they'll start shooting back and I guarantee people like Cawthorne will crap their pants and start crying when they take a few bullets in their general direction.

🎯🎯🎯🎯☠️ If ain’t no fun with the “targets” shoot back.

Doesn't disturb you at all that the Nazi battalions in Ukraine are the most heavily armed white supremacist movement on Earth? And that they train and radicalized not only their own children but people like the Buffalo shooter? That is #DarkMAGA.

Mr. Gershon , I agree with you whole heartedly , let's not forget the mob that desecrated our Capital building , or the 70+ mil. that voted for this insanity . I too will not go quietly into the night . Shalom

Illnesses spreads.

NO, it's getting weaker, that's why Matty is going away.

@@lsingstock1646 you sweet summer child....

I would say so. Looking at the results, out of 100%, maddie got 31% while the rest of the district filled in the rest of the vote.

The main thing that religion does is it conditions people to cede authority over their own logic and reason to a pastor and a group of other highly superstitious people.

While you're at it, tax the churches!

Thank you. When Beau explained what puppy Maddy had said I couldn't stop myself from laughing out loud at "dark maga." What is he, 12? These people have to go so we can get on with things.

Feed the poor, eat the rich.

I wish but I highly doubt it. Unfortunately, I think we have at least another 20 years of dealing with MAGA people...

@@megatron184 Germans have been dealing with Nazi sympathizers for the last 80 years. About the same amount of time we Spaniards have been dealing with Francoists. I'd love to be wrong, but I'm afraid that your 20 year minimum estimate is extremely optimistic.

Maybe he thinks the jews are using their space laser to fill out votes wrong to swing the election

Yeah, because it couldn’t possibly be how own damn fault - such a sadly self absorbed and yet self-unaware human.

Most likely he doesn't understand the basis of globalism and neoliberal economics - aka republican supply-side reagan-style trickle-down bullshit the right wing laps up like gravy.

Gotta get me one of them thar Jewish Space Lasers, they may be real good for a bunch of things.

@@ronaldsmith2343 I know a Rabi down the street uses his to open mail, just wish he'd stop doing it to my mail...

Just replace it with traitor. There ya go. That’s more honest.

Someone famous once said calling yourself a patriot to justify bad behavior is the desperate act of a a reprobate

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson.

Patriot is like badass, it's cool when someone says it about you but fatally uncool to call yourself.

Definitely throws red flags up. Same as someone who has the need to declare themselves a “good guy” or a “Christian”.

Meals on wheels

Mattie keeps screwing himself over, soon his looks will fade and he'll have nothing left.

Well this country has been more fascist than the fascists for most of history. You do realize that Hitler was inspired by the Jim Crow south and Henry Ford’s capitalist tycoon vision

Especially as most people will end up in camps if it gets going. Yes, *most* people, as one must be pure in all ways to participate in an Authoritarian Regime - and most people are impure enough in at least one area to fail the purity tests that Fascism demands of its devotees.

2016 fascism won. 2020 fascists nearly ended democracy. And those responsible for holding them accountable have done nothing. Right now Democrats are busy throwing away their own majority so they can stop Progressives getting seats while Republicans increase and solidify their control. 2022 seems like the year fascism wins and America dies. And the American people are too stupid to stop it even though they have the chance to.

Idiocracy comes to my mind for this nation, ya its just sad and scary

Haven't seen the European mirrors of this yet. They probably even scare the magaboys.

V for Vendetta comes to mind to me ever since tRump won the Republican Convention & started asking Putin to help him openly at his Apprentice Style Rally's to keep his Cult going who loved to watch him tell ppl your FIRED, than changed over to Lock her up!!

Deadzone for sure.

Welcome to my country in 1928 up to 1945. Good luck. We all will need it. Unlike Germany at the time, who ever gets to play Adolf role...will have nukes and a capable and overequipped military, including the economy to fund it.

Well looking bat what already happened and is still happening you can leave NEVER out of that famous last line

Sinclair Lewis wrote It Can't Happen Here about a fascist takeover of the US in 1935.

@@faithworldleader6891 I wrote a term paper in 1975 on that book. Just a few years later, we entered the Reagan years and I started watching it unfold and tried to talk about it with friends. Was told I took that book way too seriously. Unfortunately the friends of my youth are all wearing red hats now. Wish they had read the book... now they probably want to burn it.

Now his best hope to staying relevant is to butter up to Trump, hope he wins in 24, then get a cabinet position

Yes, 85% of churches here in the South are devout Trumpists. You open the Bible and there’s tRump’s picture. They even pray to him.

How do you propose we find them?

TAX THEM ALL!

@@Nortarachanges it's very easy they all brag on their Sunday service which most all of them are online. Very easy to find

@@susanc257 unfortunately you are absolutely right

And moscow mitch!

They should suffer in prison.

M.T. Head... I mean Greene... Is espousing, starving babies from poor families.

Perjury Traitor Greene should be the next person to get primaried

Mangy Treason Goblin.

Ronald Reagan was certainly not that. The funny thing is that a very controversial president like George W. Bush, even with all the neo-con transgressions he and his party was responsible for, suddenly comes across as a decent and ethical leader when directly compared to Trump. Trump is a protofascist, or a fascist by opportunity. The next guy might be a true fascist. I wonder if U.S. voters still will be more afraid of waking up in a communist USA, which in itself is an absurdity beyond comprehension.

Make a note that those two, Reagan and ttump**, were television actors. What a joke!

@@fibiandcuphead5042: jokes are funny, this is not.

They are burning books and demanding education to include only their religion 🤦🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

@@nickpacitti3247 you’ll learn what the we say the good good book says and nothing else! WTF is wrong with people. I’d say “these days” but humans have been this way for far too long.

And make higher education free or affordable for all.

It wouldn’t do any good in cawthorn’s case because his mother home schooled him.

Yeah, but sadly the USA has about 50 years of a dumbing down educational system to correct ...

Get better "friends".

@@eleSDSU Notice I said "had." I'm fine with having friends that disagree with my. Since MAGA, that doesn't seem possible--why it is dark.

Let me guess; thwy are boomers who do zero exercise and have never considered the fact that military veteran liberals also have means to protect themselves?

What's truly stunning is that in an early stat on the people arrested for crimes in the insurrection, 45% were professionals (doctors, lawyers, accountants, managers).with families. 🤯🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Yep. I just debated with a guy who just openly admitted to being radicalized and called himself a fed up patriot who said if I disagreed with him I was against America.

So just looked it up and to my surprise Ohio has more registered Democrats than Republicans. The 6.1 million unaffiliated voters must be what constantly swings us back and forth like a child exploiting divorced parents. 🤔

Texas isn't any better . A lot of people in a lot of states, (some you wouldn't expect) feel this way and I fear the US may be forever changed and not for the better. 😒

The scarier part is that you Gringos still don't get it...Muh'rica didn't change, you've always been fascist imperialist racists, the only thing that sort of changed is that your fascism finally started to affect your white middle class population directly. In other words none of y'all had any issues when the peoole affected by your fascism were just poor Latin Americans, Middle Easterners or Asians you didn't had any issues with your gov strangling democracies, murdering people, installing genocidal dictators, etc. but as the saying goes, the chickens have come home to roost and even though I wish upon you nothing but good luck in your fight against fascism, I would be lying if I didn't admit that watching you fascist fucks get some of your own "medicine" isn't great. Hopefully your country will crash, burn along with the fascism it has perpetuated since birth.

There's a reason his niece called him a dangerous man and tried to warn everyone.

Upstate NY is crawling with trumpers 🥺😓🤮

2)got caught by a honey pot. 3) killed his career by running his mouth. 4) with his recent history is looking a permanently losing his drivers license and ending up on the no fly list.

Yeah - the US Naval Academy should sue him for slander, after claiming they rejected his application for admission AFTER the accident that broke his back - NOT beforehand. THEY didn't want him on board their ship EITHER, even WITH functional legs. It was likely his nonfunctional brain they didn't find acceptable.

That was not the only thing he lied about. He lied about almost everything in his bio except his name.

To be fair, he didn’t just break his legs. To also be fair, his moral compass was broken long before he accused the friend who his own parents say rescued him from a burning car, of “leaving him to die”.

he's the monster that he wanted other moms to raise their sons to be

That's the sign I made and hung a black flag on Jan 20, 2017. It stayed up all 4 years.

We can achieve that massive voter turnout, but it won't be easy. Somehow we have to find a way to get people to understand what's at stake. They have to be able to recognize the threat and realize they can do something about it.

Evangelicals live to be told what to do and how to think.

It's maddening to hear this defeatist talk of "well the midterm loss is inevitable" only if you don't show up and vote! How or why can you just roll over. The votes were there in 20 the talk should be to bring in more this year.

With the number of state legislatures that have passed laws allowing them to override the votes of any county they deem suspect, this ship has sailed.

. . . and they don't want to either.

My guess is lots of people in the US don't want to believe it, lots believe in US exceptionalism and others are just not well educated on the matter because US education system doesn't spend much time on these matters.

Part of the problem is that if you acknowledge what the right is trying to do-- and what Americans need to be prepared to do in response-- you risk arrest. Can't do anything to protect yourself and your country if you're already in prison. :/

...even though we've spent the last six years counting to 14 (points of fascism) over and over again. Literally hundreds of articles asking if it's fascism, pointing out the parallels to fascism, giving examples of explicit fascist policies, but never, ever saying it straight out. Unearned benefit of the doubt, anyone?

Gringos love fascism as they always have, they just don't like being affected by it themselves. I don't remember this anger against fascism before Trump, but the US has had fascist, imperialist, racist, etc. policies for the past 200+ years...I guess it was easy to be on the fascist team when the ones being oppressed were in Latin America, Asia or the Middle East, alas the chickens have come home to roost...🍿

It actually showed its inception early in the 1980s. ... and surprisingly in, ... and by our once noble and respected Republican party!

George Carlin was light years ahead of his time!

@@anitraahrens905 *It's a big club, and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club.* "Ordo Ab Chao"

I could be an anti-Semetic dog whistle?

Or Gestapo and gazpacho.

@@oldauntzibby4395 wha...uh... _snort_ rofl

Or Baltic and Balkans.

"We love the poorly educated. They are the smartest people...." DJT

I mean he did say he made a "pilgrimage" to Hitler's old vacation home and refered to himself as "the furher" All just a joke, obviously

I am sorry for your profound loss.

I am so sorry. May their memory be blessed. We can't let it happen again.....

Thank you for telling us about the horror your family experienced. More people here need to understand what they are facing

Yes it does. I'm sorry for your family

GOP and Trump fit every mark of fascism already in 2016!

@@GunnarLof I agree. I saw the signs as early as at that time, too and then, throughout the former guy's presidency.

A burning cross!

I knew the US had taken a rather fascist turn when it created the Department of Homeland Security. "Homeland"?!? Are you for effing real? Ooh, with uniforms and special snooping powers!

2015: "If I don't win the election, it was stolen" --Trump I don't think that's how democratic elections work. But what do I know, I'm just a Canadian Socialist. I'll go back to my $600 /year universal healthcare.

they may vary in strength, but all of them are brewed with the same homegrown BS instead of hops.

I am hoping SNL will do a Maga Dark beer commercial tonight similar to Margot Robbie's "The Librarian" skit.

Sadly, true!

You are so right ..We’re fighting a war in both places😢😢😢

An evil force around us.

Also looks what Putin, Trump's tutor, is doing in Russia. Donny can't wait to bring that decent into darkness here to America.

Like what?

@@lantrick please read it. It is easy to read and you understand very fast what rumdog 117 is talking about.

@@lantrick Restrictions: Abortion Mixed marriage Gay people Gay marriage Private sex acts in home Education Protesting Birth control Unmarried couples living together Women baring breast in public even for breastfeeding ECT Things they are good with Rape of a spouse Parental rights of rapist Underage marriage Forcing child incest victims to have babies Women being fired for heavy period leak ECT. In many cases these laws are still on the books and as has been shown, can be enforced in a heartbeat if the supreme court makes a ruling even though it is supposed settled law. Also throw in how women are treated in the work place if they get pregnant. Lack of advancement, no accomodations for them when they are given to non pregnant employees, and just plain being fired due to getting pregnant. Yes there are a lot of things in The Handmaid's Tale that are real in this country.

Gilead. Under his eye. Terrifying

He's a sore loser and he really is going to to prison if he doesn't take a step back, because even conservative judges aren't going to try to save him.

Timothy McVeigh declared their war already.

@@PhilLesh69 : Conservative-capitalism is itself an all out war against humanity, against life itself. These fascists just speed up the process. Ironically, the rise of fascism is also caused by conservative-capitalism added to other existing forms of bigotry.

The declaration was made much earlier than Cawthorn's statement. I would argue the most blatant clarion call was Jan.6.

@@PhilLesh69 And the Fools, Buffoons, and Idiots (FBI) CHOOSE TO IGNORE that the Reich Wing has declared WAR ON THEM, because The Morons WANT TO BE on their side. Even though they are the "Big Authoritarian Government" That the MAGA Crowd HATES... Because they won't let MAGA Lynch the ni... (Easter egg to Mel Brooks, here)

True. It might have been less dangerous if Cawthorn had won. We've swapped the guy who says the quiet part out loud with a guy who has probably learned to keep his mouth shut and play fascist ball.

Duh, Republican. They all want an Oligarchy. Even Cheney and Kinzinger vote party line. Violence is all they want. #StopFascistGOP

I checked his voting record in his own state. Edwards has mostly been trying to silence teachers, regulate women's bodies, etc.

Hopefully "Dark MAGA" will run it's own canidents for the General Elections in November and split the Repugnacan't voters and give Democrat canidents a path to victories, even in very Red states.

Yes you are right

More than vote we can't just vote and sit back. Leadership has not shown it's self resilient to this or other threats. We need to build strong community networks to care for and protect each other, resist violence and build resiliency and the world we want to see.

Vote? Like WV voted for Mancin? Like Arizona voted for Sinema? Vote while current politicians are gerrymandering and curtailing voting rights? Voting is just two wolves and a sheep casting a ballot over what's for dinner.

@@roverwanderernomadvagabond6392 VOTE. Apathy will not help this situation . We need to call on the ancestors. The women who fought for their right to vote and the ancestors of color who fought for a voice at the ballot box . We need to cast our votes in gratitude to those that did it the hard way . To whine from our couches is not going to help the situation and disgraces the gift our ancestors gave us. Vote .

@@incufish23 agreed .🏵️

@@blackthornsloe8049 Absolutely agree. I'm voting like my life depends on it because at this point I believe it does. 💙✊

The ones who don't see it are facists

Because others are either aligned with them or don't want to admit what it is because they want to avoid doing what they would have to admit needs done if they did.

You're not alone. It's just that the horrible people are louder and talk more.

This is the way Germany turned fascist. Encouraging rage and promising retribution to poorly educated masses while the rest of the country is in denial that such a thing could come to pass.

fascist - I happen to like your face!

Unfortunately, I think they look up to Palpatine as a role model. In their view I’m sure he was the most successful politician of all time.

No need to bring in a fictional character, there's plenty of real dictators to choose from.

His priorities seem perfectly clear to me. Getting back into power through bloodshed.

@@darkiee69 Most of the time THEY are the ones identifying with fictional characters. The amount of right-leaning people with Empire stickers on their cars is baffling. Literally siding with the bad guys.

Isn't it just _fascinating_ that all the reich-whinge types who have so much to say about CNN never mention this: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g9yFl9x_0NWcfIU.html

We can make the argument for the truth about the fascists' agendas on social media and in our daily lives. Plant seeds, and move on, some with grow. Support others pointing out, who has actually passed legislation that helps people. If we all do a little a lot gets done.

The F-word

A few years ago when I used the F-word, a fascist family member pointed out that the left has been calling conservatives fascists for years so it is just meaningless exaggeration. It is true that is has been overused. And maybe since an element of fascism is hatred of intellectualism and academia, there isn't much of a formal definition to go on. On the other hand, it was used a lot to describe the personality of fascists, those that would take to it like a duck to water which indeed the family member has. Personally, I still use the fascist to describe Cawthron and what he believes because as best as anyone can make out the meaning of the word, it is the right word. However people will generally take it figuratively like using m-f if it were used to describe someone who does indeed have perverted relations with their mother.. I suspect that is why it isn't used by major journalists even when appropriate. Or maybe it just violates their official style guide.

The problem is that the entire country knows what fascism is, and they know where it’s coming from. The issue is that we get so distracted by these cheeky media moments of theirs that we get burnout from our outrage and then don’t do a thing about it, except maybe vote. Sometimes. When it’s convenient for us, or when they allow us to. Because, fascism. 😒

So true. And just like with the Nazis, trump could come back even worse. If you want to see where America is heading, watch The Handmaid's Tale.

@@rumdog117, I think I've read and re-read the book three times in the past year and a half.

In highschool, I always wondered how the people in Germany could've been caught up by h's hate and insanity, never thought I'd get an answer. I missed the onset, but I'm not letting this slide. I'm glad to see that there's a community here that feels the same way. 💙✊ #Democracy #VoteBlue

nationalism, xenophobia, racism, anti-Semitism-McCarthyism redux

Most Americans dont know the difference between corporatcracy, socialism ( what flavor), communism, representative democracy, fascism, ...seems ppl have been dumbed down waaaay down.

Too polite on the fascist side, and not enough "no, you're the fascists!" energy. 6-10

The night of the long knives had half the Nazis killing the other half. It didn't slow them down at all.

@@BadOompaloompa79 Yes, that is precisely what Cawthorn is calling for -- a Night of the Long Knives.

@@albirtarsha5370 Yep, gotta "purify" the party so they can violently restore the nation to its mythic past.

@@BadOompaloompa79 it got the survivors into line behind their Leader - which was the explicit designed intent.

I hope they all get pregnant 💖

I wondered that myself.

Gingrich pffft try the POS Harvey LeRoy Atwater!

So you are happy to live in a burning bin? Whataboutism and voter apathy are the tools of potential authoritarians.

Yeah, that horse has left the barn, jumped the corral fence, trotted into town and has been eating apples out of the bin at the supermarket for well over 2 decades now. But the Democratic Party thinks calling it from the porch will get it to come home. And won't get out of the way.

My thoughts exactly when he said that