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John Lewis-Dickerson
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BS Ga. Tech, JD Mercer U. ■ ''Here is a place of disaffection... Not here the darkness, in this twittering world. Descend lower...'' ~ Burnt Norton, by T. S. Eliot
Fetterman is a nutter!
December 17, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Fetterman is a nutter!
December 17, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Fetterman is a nutter!
December 17, 2025 at 5:33 AM
HANNAH ARENDT: "The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility: he can never admit an error..... Mass leaders in power have one concern which overrules all utilitarian considerations: to make their predictions come true." ~ from The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)
December 17, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Donald Trump on Sunday appeared to endorse the discredited conspiracy theory that Venezuela’s leadership controls electronic voting software worldwide and caused his 2020 election defeat to Joe Biden.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump hints support for fringe theory that Venezuela rigged 2020 election
President’s comment implies hostility to Venezuela may be based on unfounded election-rigging conspiracy theory
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:14 AM
"It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise." ~ Joseph Goebbels
December 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
ARENDT: "The outstanding negative quality of the totalitarian elite is that it never stops to think about the world as it really is... Its most cherished virtue, correspondingly, is loyalty to the Leader, who, like a talisman, assures the ultimate victory of lie and fiction over truth and reality."
December 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM