Didn't she just get a new contract .? And the Olympics will be on for the next month. Is bag man the story of George Soro's money men .
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Didn't she just get a new contract .? And the Olympics will be on for the next month. Is bag man the story of George Soro's money men .
Now that Biden is in power, Nazi terms are becoming the norm once again, but there needs a degree of accuracy still and on Rachel Maddow's show, with guest host Ali Velshi in her chair, some rake-stepping took place. Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia under Barack Obama Michael McFaul was a guest, and he fumbled as he tried to explain Hitler and ethnic Germans, and really he should have backed away. Also, that applies to the producers. On the Twitter account for the show, they paraphrased McFaul, and then the deleted tweets began.
- "One difference between Putin and Hitler is that Hitler didn't kill ethnic Germans, German-speaking people. Putin slaughters the very people he said he has come to liberate."
McFaul later tried to clarify things for the record, and he bungled that as well, leading to him deleting THAT tweet as well. Considering that Gina Carano was removed from the cast of "The Mandalorian" over far more innocuous content, this should tell you just how bad this whole episode became.
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Funny, while sitting in my bed after cervical fusion Monday evening I was surfing the few channels (premium package hadn't kicked in yet) and came across the first few minutes of this and turned the channel. As I understand it.
1. There was no coverage in that area.
2. Ukraine asked SpaceX to turn it on just for this.
3. Someone, not sure who, had concerns that if any of those vessels had nukes, it could spark a wider war or place SpaceX into a pretty bad legal place.
4. Evidently, nobody is saying if State or some other part of the US government stepped in and advised.
1. There was no coverage in that area.
2. Ukraine asked SpaceX to turn it on just for this.
3. Someone, not sure who, had concerns that if any of those vessels had nukes, it could spark a wider war or place SpaceX into a pretty bad legal place.
4. Evidently, nobody is saying if State or some other part of the US government stepped in and advised.
Forget Hamas! Sharpton Asks Maddow to Explain How Trumpism Looks Like Fascism
MSNBC may have benched its al-Jazeera veterans as hosts, but they left Rev. Al Sharpton, whose inflammatory remarks against "white interloper" Jews live in New York infamy. On Saturday's Politics Nation, Sharpton brought on fellow MSNBC host Rachel Maddow to promote her book Prequel, which draws a strong line between American Nazi sympathizers in the World War II period and Trump supporters, especially the election-denying rioters.
The liberal book reviewers at Kirkus touted the thesis: “America beat fascism once. Maddow’s timely study of enemies on the homefront urges that we can do so again.” But Maddow played coy on Saturday when the analogy was Trump and Hitler. October 7 makes this whole thesis a little dicey.
Lord of the Rings is FAR RIGHT According to Rachel Maddow...
JD Vance Likes Lord of the Rings and Knows Peter Thiel - LorT is ALT Right and Nazi
Does the Left Really Want to Argue That Enjoying Lord of the Rings Is ‘Far-Right’?
This week, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow welcomed J. R. R. Tolkien’s fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings to the fellowship of things, such as patriotic flags and, uh . . . physical fitness, that are now bad because the “far right” likes them. Maddow reacted to Donald Trump’s selection of J. D. Vance as his running mate by noting Vance’s connections to tech billionaire Peter Thiel, and finding fault in their affinity for Tolkien’s work:
Maddow’s snide rant towers to such absurd heights as to resist being taken seriously. But let’s try. It is true that Thiel, like some of his professional peers, enjoys naming things after The Lord of the Rings (even though, in his case, he appears not to understand the text). But do you know who else likes The Lord of the Rings? Basically everyone. Exact figures are hard to pin down, but at least 150 million copies of the work (divided into three entries) have been sold; it has been translated into more than 40 languages. Works in the same legendarium, such as The Hobbit and The Silmarillion, have also sold astonishingly well. And Peter Jackson’s two trilogies of movies based on Tolkien’s work (the first of which is a true theatrical delight) have made about $6 billion in box-office receipts worldwide.
That level of success is difficult to achieve with a narrowly cast partisan appeal. Yes, there are conservative fans of Tolkien. He wrote in a letter to a priest discussing emerging affection for the work among Catholics that The Lord of the Rings “is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.” But there are fans of Tolkien on the left as well. In fact, in the ’60s and ’70s, the emerging counterculture found much to love in The Lord of the Rings (much to Tolkien’s supposed bemusement). Tolkien’s work deals in transcendent and timeless themes — heroism, good vs. evil, resistance to false authority, corruption, friendship, the importance of nature — that need not have a partisan valence.
Tolkien would also scoff at Maddow’s apparent contention that “Narya,” the elvish ring of power after which Vance named a venture-capital firm, has some connection to Aryan racial mythology. In 1938, Tolkien entered discussions for The Hobbit to be published in German. The German publisher he was working with wondered whether he was “Aryan.” Speaking to his English publisher, Tolkien wondered whether the country’s “lunatic laws” required confirmation that he was, and, if so, preferred no German translation appear at all if it meant “giving any colour to the notion” that he “subscribed to the wholly pernicious and unscientific race-doctrine.”
He also wrote directly to the Germans. A portion of his reply is worth quoting at length: