{"id":40620,"date":"2018-11-17T08:08:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T13:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40620"},"modified":"2018-11-17T08:08:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T13:08:24","slug":"barack-von-obamenburg-herr-donald-and-big-capitalist-hypocrisy-on-how-fascism-happens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40620","title":{"rendered":"Barack von Obamenburg, Herr Donald, and Big Capitalist Hypocrisy: On How Fascism Happens"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/11\/16\/barack-von-obamenburg-herr-donald-and-big-capitalist-hypocrisy-on-how-fascism-happens\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Barack von Obamenburg, Herr Donald, and Big Capitalist Hypocrisy: On How Fascism Happens<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<p><strong>Caravan of Lies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Never underestimate the disingenuousness of top U.S.-American politicos. \u00a0\u00a0They truly have no shame.<\/p>\n<p>Notice how little the fascistic president Donald Trump has to say any more about the big bad Central American Caravan that was supposedly menacing the United States with a great criminal \u201cinvasion\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. military \u201cheroes\u201d sent down at great taxpayer expense to \u201cdefend our border\u201d will be missing Thanksgiving with their families thanks to this fake threat to \u201cnational security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gee, what happened? It was all a dog-wagging, white-nationalist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2018\/11\/1\/18041710\/migrant-caravan-america-trump-epistemic-crisis-democracy\">ruse<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>The bogus peril was transparently concocted by the neo-Know Nothing president to rally his \u201cblood and soil\u201d electoral base for the midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s standard, crudely duplicitous procedure for the pathological liar Trump, who has spent years casting doubt on the reality of global warming (a \u201cChinese hoax\u201d) even as he has <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/144338\/trump-flood-protection-me-none-thee\">built walls to protect his golf courses from rising seas<\/a> resulting from the climate crisis he has acted as president to exacerbate.<\/p>\n<p>The malicious racist family-separator and Arpaio-pardoner Trump is so used to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2018\/09\/13\/president-trump-has-made-more-than-false-or-misleading-claims\/?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.29e594904254\">falsifying fact<\/a> and canceling reality that he may not even have known he was doing it when he called his and fellow Republicans\u2019 arch-plutocratic, deficit-boosting tax reduction for the wealthy few a \u201cmiddle-class tax cut\u201d that was going to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/statements\/2017\/nov\/30\/donald-trump\/will-gop-tax-bill-cost-donald-trump-fortune-no\/\">cost me a fortune<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How did he come up the other day with the bit about the people who <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2018\/11\/15\/trump-with-no-proof-says-democrats-wore-disguises-to-vote-multiple-times\/\">don disguises to vote multiple times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Orange Truth Crush is a funny guy. He\u2019s a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/10\/21\/498804666\/clinton-trump-trade-barbs-at-al-smith-dinner\">regular laugh riot<\/a>. He\u2019s a one-man caravan of canard.<\/p>\n<p>Just ask <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/minutes\/140347\/donald-trump-give-frederick-douglass-white-house-job\">Frederick Douglass<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cTo Tend to This Garden of Democracy\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s Trump\u2019s predecessor, Barack Obama, a more elegant and polished kind of liar.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack von Obamenburg, Herr Donald, and Big Capitalist Hypocrisy: On How Fascism Happens Caravan of Lies Never underestimate the disingenuousness of top U.S.-American politicos. \u00a0\u00a0They truly have no shame. Notice how little the fascistic president Donald Trump has to say any more about the big bad Central American Caravan that was supposedly menacing the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3306,5493,204,7844,1491,15269,827],"class_list":["post-40620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-barack-obama","tag-counterpunch","tag-democracy","tag-donald-trump","tag-fascism","tag-paul-street","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40621,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40620\/revisions\/40621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}