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Hands down one of the best episodes. We need a weekly episode from Krystal, Brandon, & Kyle (K.B.K).

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Everyone In Cheeto’s Regime Wear A Swastika: The Christian Cross

It’s been obvious for several years now that the Christian Nationalist movement modeled after Victor Orban’s political movement in Hungary has nothing to do with Christianity and everything to do with white supremacy and fascistic takeover of the federal government

“We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity. Our movement is Christian.” Adolph Hitler 1928

The Nazi Republicans want to destroy all things that conservatives don’t have control over Not only attack university endowments but also go after the private sector and make them “feel economic pain” The Nazi Republicans feel that the country is in late republican period(meaning the final days of a democratic republic) This link from the Maddow show exposes the intent of the current Nazi regime https://bit.ly/3BrXePA

So the current flaunting of a Christian cross as an accessory at press conferences might as well be wearing a swastika

Kelli Ostergard's avatar

More like North Korea:

North Korea didn’t just censor information; it eliminated competing reality frameworks.

No alternative history

No independent language for dissent

No comparison baseline

People don’t rebel against what they literally cannot conceptualize. If you don’t know other systems exist, “freedom” is just noise. Revolutions require imagination first.

Most dictatorships fall apart at succession. North Korea solved this by turning hereditary rule into sacred myth.

The leader isn’t merely a ruler:

He’s destiny

He’s continuity

He’s cosmology

That removes the most dangerous moment in any authoritarian system: leadership transition. The state becomes a family business with nuclear

Isolation wasn’t imposed—it was internalized.

Limited travel

Controlled vocabulary

Restricted geography

Fragmented social trust

Citizens are isolated from:

the outside world

each other

even their own extended families

This prevents horizontal coordination. People can’t organize if they don’t know who to trust, and they can’t trust if scarcity forces constant self-protection.

4. Scarcity as a control mechanism

This one’s grim but effective.

Chronic scarcity does three things:

Keeps people focused on survival, not politics

Makes the state the gatekeeper of life itself

Turns compliance into a rational survival strategy

When food, housing, and safety are conditional, dissent becomes a luxury item.

Militarization:

The military isn’t just a defense force—it’s the cultural backbone.

Masculinity

Honor

Citizenship

Purpose

This reframes deprivation as sacrifice and obedience as patriotism. When suffering is noble, endurance becomes virtue instead of evidence of failure.

External enemy permanence

The regime never lets the threat expire.

An ongoing external enemy:

justifies repression

explains economic failure

discourages internal blame

Peace would actually be destabilizing. Fear is structurally necessary.

Here’s the part most analyses miss:

North Korea has already survived famine, sanctions, isolation, and leadership deaths.

That creates institutional antibodies:

Informal markets tolerated just enough

Corruption allowed but capped

Brutality calibrated, not random

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Grand overview of tenets of an authoritarian agenda What specifically hits home for the current American democratic republic assault is scarcity because inflation is a real problem due to the loss of the purchasing power of the dollar(in gold terms dollar is worth 6% of what it was in 1971) But fortunately there are enough of us WE the People to be able to weather the coming recession and counter the Nazi Republicans

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HE DID NOT WIN!!! WE DID VOTE!!!! GET THEM ALL OUT!!!!! PLEASE, SHARE EVERYWHERE, except *x*, or twit!!!! You can click the small up arrow, next to the restack button!! THIS MUST END!!! Thank you!!!!

Short election rigging SUMMARY below

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-part-ii-seven-judges-direct

The ENTIRE file folder, below

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/archive

THIS IS HOW THEY PLAN FOR YOU TO DIE!!!!

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/trump-the-trojan-horse-for-authoritarian

The Psychiatrist, Dr Bandy Lee, who warned us BEFORE the election! below

https://bandyxlee.substack.com/p/the-psychiatrist-who-warned-us-that?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2Fbandy%2520lee&utm_medium=reader2

AAA's avatar

HE DID NOT WIN!!! WE DID VOTE!!!! GET THEM ALL OUT!!!!! PLEASE, SHARE EVERYWHERE, except *x*, or twit!!!! You can click the small up arrow, next to the restack button!! THIS MUST END!!! Thank you!!!!

Short election rigging SUMMARY below

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-part-ii-seven-judges-direct

The ENTIRE file folder, below

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/archive

THIS IS HOW THEY PLAN FOR YOU TO DIE!!!!

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/trump-the-trojan-horse-for-authoritarian

The Psychiatrist, Dr Bandy Lee, who warned us BEFORE the election! below

https://bandyxlee.substack.com/p/the-psychiatrist-who-warned-us-that?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2Fbandy%2520lee&utm_medium=reader2

AAA's avatar

HE DID NOT WIN!!! WE DID VOTE!!!! GET THEM ALL OUT!!!!! PLEASE, SHARE EVERYWHERE, except *x*, or twit!!!! You can click the small up arrow, next to the restack button!! THIS MUST END!!! Thank you!!!!

Short election rigging SUMMARY below

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-part-ii-seven-judges-direct

The ENTIRE file folder, below

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/archive

THIS IS HOW THEY PLAN FOR YOU TO DIE!!!!

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/trump-the-trojan-horse-for-authoritarian

The Psychiatrist, Dr Bandy Lee, who warned us BEFORE the election! below

https://bandyxlee.substack.com/p/the-psychiatrist-who-warned-us-that?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2Fbandy%2520lee&utm_medium=reader2

arias's avatar

Thanks KBK. BTW if you check out John Kennedy's (R-LA) pedigree he's clearly no dummy. HS Valedictorian/Venderbilt triple major/Juris Doctor and editor of UVA Law Review/BCL with first class honors from Oxford the guy was an academic rockstar and a Democrat for the first 20 years of his political career. He switched in 2007 out of political expedience so he could stay competitive in the post-Katrina reddening demographics of his state. In other words he knows exactly what he's doing, he's the consummate machiavellian political operator who has to dumb down his act and downplay his background to stoop to the level of his devout maga constituents stateside to stay relevant. It allowed him to finally break through in his 3rd bid for senate in 2016 seceding retiring diaperman David Vitter as he rode the maga wave. So yeah don't let him fool you into thinking he's just a dumbass maga senator a la tommy tuberville, that's just an act. Once in a while you might catch a glimmer of his old self like being the only senate republican to grill trump judicial nominees publicly in their appointment hearings and make them look silly. But I do actually think he wasn't aware of the chicanery at DHS to deprive paid up immigrants of their citizenship right to entry because he lives in the right wing bubble like they all do.

AAA's avatar

HE DID NOT WIN!!! WE DID VOTE!!!! GET THEM ALL OUT!!!!! PLEASE, SHARE EVERYWHERE, except *x*, or twit!!!! You can click the small up arrow, next to the restack button!! THIS MUST END!!! Thank you!!!!

Short election rigging SUMMARY below

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-part-ii-seven-judges-direct

The ENTIRE file folder, below

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/archive

THIS IS HOW THEY PLAN FOR YOU TO DIE!!!!

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/trump-the-trojan-horse-for-authoritarian

The Psychiatrist, Dr Bandy Lee, who warned us BEFORE the election! below

https://bandyxlee.substack.com/p/the-psychiatrist-who-warned-us-that?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2Fbandy%2520lee&utm_medium=reader2

Nole Rednegsic's avatar

Love K&K but just fatigued that they seem to spend a huge chunk of their time focusing on other content creators. It’s too much! We have enough to overcome without hearing about the so-called “pivots” of bad faith actors.

This is why I stopped listening to their podcast!

Christina Gurchinoff's avatar

Congress - Democrats and Republicans have thrown their hands up and have told us they will not do the job we hired them to do. We are continuing to pay salaries, benefits like Full medical coverage, 12 or more. more paid holidays and 2 and 3 + paid vacation days. Add into that all the time off MAGA Mike has sent everyone home for weeks on end. Add to that the already paid “recesses” they automatically get. These fuckers are living large while we fight for clean air and water and attention from a doctor.

The freeloading needs to stop. Vote all of them out with the exception of Bernie, AOC and Jasmine Crockett. Maybe a few others. They checked out over 12 months ago. Have we had enough yet?

Nole Rednegsic's avatar

JASMINE IS A CORPORATE DEMOCRAT! Are you a new listener?

AAA's avatar

Sadly, most of the Dem party has abandoned us!! Stern speeches have NEVER worked!!! Get Schumer out, but there are more!!!

HE DID NOT WIN!!! WE DID VOTE!!!! GET THEM ALL OUT!!!!! PLEASE, SHARE EVERYWHERE, except *x*, or twit!!!! You can click the small up arrow, next to the restack button!! THIS MUST END!!! Thank you!!!!

Short election rigging SUMMARY below

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-part-ii-seven-judges-direct

The ENTIRE file folder, below

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/archive

THIS IS HOW THEY PLAN FOR YOU TO DIE!!!!

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/trump-the-trojan-horse-for-authoritarian

The Psychiatrist, Dr Bandy Lee, who warned us BEFORE the election! below

https://bandyxlee.substack.com/p/the-psychiatrist-who-warned-us-that?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2Fbandy%2520lee&utm_medium=reader2

AAA's avatar

HE DID NOT WIN!!! WE DID VOTE!!!! GET THEM ALL OUT!!!!! PLEASE, SHARE EVERYWHERE, except *x*, or twit!!!! You can click the small up arrow, next to the restack button!! THIS MUST END!!! Thank you!!!!

Short election rigging SUMMARY below

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-part-ii-seven-judges-direct

The ENTIRE file folder, below

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/archive

THIS IS HOW THEY PLAN FOR YOU TO DIE!!!!

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/trump-the-trojan-horse-for-authoritarian

The Psychiatrist, Dr Bandy Lee, who warned us BEFORE the election! below

https://bandyxlee.substack.com/p/the-psychiatrist-who-warned-us-that?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2Fbandy%2520lee&utm_medium=reader2

Eddie's avatar

Calling trump fat doesn't accomplish anything because he'd be just as bad and evil if he was super fit, it wouldn't change my opinion on him

Kelli Ostergard's avatar

Look deeper into the buyer of Zorro Ranch, Texas wannabe election comptroller Hussines. THIS IS WILD. He has a financial and administrative role in a medical research company called “SecretTomes” that uses FETAL HEART TISSUE for development of rejuvenation products and technology. ‼️ How to “stay young” products. His company NEEDS dead or aborted fetuses for its experiments and innovations. Combine this with Zorro Ranch and you have one sick F!

AAA's avatar

HE DID NOT WIN!!! WE DID VOTE!!!! GET THEM ALL OUT!!!!! PLEASE, SHARE EVERYWHERE, except *x*, or twit!!!! You can click the small up arrow, next to the restack button!! THIS MUST END!!! Thank you!!!!

Short election rigging SUMMARY below

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-part-ii-seven-judges-direct

The ENTIRE file folder, below

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/archive

THIS IS HOW THEY PLAN FOR YOU TO DIE!!!!

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/trump-the-trojan-horse-for-authoritarian

The Psychiatrist, Dr Bandy Lee, who warned us BEFORE the election! below

https://bandyxlee.substack.com/p/the-psychiatrist-who-warned-us-that?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2Fbandy%2520lee&utm_medium=reader2

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The people love Brandon! Give me more Brandon, they say