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#Hegseth #Nazis #history #FreedomOfThePress
"No Tab Pete Punches Down: Hitler’s 1942 Pivot as Hegseth’s Domestic Agenda
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The 'myth' of Rommel is a perfect example. Montgomery broke him by November 1942 and he was flown out of Tunisia in March 1943 with Torch closing from the west. The arrogant, impatient Nazi general was outsmarted and outclassed, losing badly. For two more years he was used a propaganda asset, until the regime demanded he commit suicide and staged his state funeral as killed by enemy wounds.
What followed for three and a half years was a regime that could no longer win a battle against an army, so it instead punched down like a bully who fixated on people who could not fight back. Sound familiar?
Europe-wide extermination was on the table by December 9, 1931, when the Münchener Post printed the Nazi party’s leaked plan for the Jews and its own word for the end state, Endlösung. The Nazis answered by destroying the paper and sending its reporters to Dachau. Historians who date the 'decision' to autumn 1941, at the peak of 'perceived victory' propaganda, are dating the moment the regime believed it could carry out what it had already published.
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On August 21 Hegseth’s Pentagon fired the editor of Stars and Stripes for insubordination after he called censorship a red line, four months after removing the ombudsman Congress installed to keep brass out of the newsroom. The paper that prints the plan gets shut first. Shocking but true fact, I have found zero Germans today who say they have heard of Münchener Post, or why Hitler called it a poison kitchen (Giftküche) and sent the publishers to concentration camps.
Pete’s purged Pentagon has performed the first two Nazi platform procedures in Iran: no fire discipline, 'max lethality', and a depleted magazine.
The third procedure is on the domestic side, and it was prepared before the Iran war. It was clearly Nazi doctrine as well, in preparation for the punching down that comes next.
In 2025 the administration sent 7,000 troops into American cities over the objections of their governors, put active duty Marines into Los Angeles during the immigration crackdown, and told the generals at Quantico that American cities were the training ground.
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The obvious hurdle is the November election. Trump said on May 12 he would not rule out troops at polling places. Hegseth, asked in April whether he would follow an order to seize ballots, called the question a 'gotcha hypothetical'.
It’s not a hard question, yet no tab Pete struggled to answer. Federal law since 1865 bars armed federal forces at the polls except to repel armed enemies of the United States, an exception no president invoked even during two world wars."
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In the First Amendment, the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government’s power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.
Hugo Black (1886–1971) American politician and jurist, US Supreme Court Justice (1937–71)
New York Times Co. v. United States 403 U.S. 713, 717 (1971) (concurring)More about this quote: wist.info/black-hugo/36400/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hugoblack #scotus #censorship #firstamendment #fourthestate #freepress #freedomofthepress #government #journalism #media #meme #priorrestraint #SCOTUS #tyranny #watchdog
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RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/117181483436647924
The Trump regime is scared of facts. They need #propaganda only.
#Fascism #Authoritarianism #FreedomOfSpeech #FreedomOfThePress #Midterms #ElectionInterference #Censorship
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"State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship'"
"On Wednesday, the State Department announced it would require H-1B visa applicants and their dependents to set their social media profiles to "public" so they can be reviewed by U.S. officials."
#censorship #immigration #visas #StateDepartment #USStateDepartment #MarcoRubio #FactCheckers #Reporter #FreedomOfThePress #MAGA #Trump #Technology #SocialMedia
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/04/nx-s1-5633444/trump-content-moderation-visas-censorship
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Gee, I wonder why the LAPD is asking a judge to temporarily suspend the court order forbidding them from using force against the press?
__________________Ahead of this Saturday’s No Kings protests, the Los Angeles Police Department has filed an emergency motion asking a judge to lift an injunction that restricts the use of force against the press.
The injunction creates “undefined and operationally impracticable standards that expose the city and its officers to contempt for good-faith actions taken to protect the public,” according to lawyers for the city, including City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto, and the police department.
#LosAngeles #ACAB #FirstAmendment #LAPD #UseOfForce #LosAngelesPoliceDepartment #Protests #Press #FreedomOfThePress #FirstAmendment
https://laist.com/news/politics/lapd-use-of-force-against-press-no-kings-protests
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De Zweedse journalist Joakim #Medin is vandaag dus tot 11 jaar cel veroordeeld voor het beledigen van Erdogan.
Het lijkt mij dat de Zweedse autoriteiten alles op alles zetten om hem vrij te krijgen.
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🗞️ LIBERTÀ DI STAMPA E DI INFORMAZIONE:
cosa dovrebbe fare la politica per sostenere questo pilastro della democrazia?[ENG]
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS AND INFORMATION:
What should politics do to support this pillar of democracy?#freedom #news #politics #press #Freedom #libertà #informazione #stampa #libertàdistampa #fakenews #politica #attualita #freedomofthepress #notizie #conoscenza #divulgazione
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A Reminder from Carl Sagan: Why Charlatans Succeed
#freedomofthepress #truth #TruthOverLies #charlatan #CarlSagan #history #histodons #america #AmericanHistory
