"Max Raabe and his Palast Orchester have played a significant role in reviving and preserving German cabaret, jazz, and popular music from the 1920s and 30s, much of which was composed by Jewish artists and banned as "degenerate" by the Nazis.

By performing these works, they reintroduce the elegant, ironic style lost after Hitler came to power.

Revival Efforts: Raabe and his orchestra discovered original, forgotten arrangements in flea markets and bookstores to recreate the sound of the era.

Cultural Significance: Their performances bring attention to the "lost" culture of pre-war German cabaret and the creators who were silenced by the Nazis."

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Their actions are directly opposed the concept that is Christianity, lol.

However you want to categorize religions, or make a categorization errors about them, MAGA ain't it, and on that we can agree.

They don't care what anyone says, except for those who have a lot money that they can beg, borrow, or steal.

The point is that their actions are anti-Christian, not pro, and their usurpation of the name should not continue.

"While the right has organized some Christian denominations into a powerful voting bloc and Christian nationalism has grown in recent years, Rashid argues that it is not true Christianity:

"Christian nationalism is fascism and authoritarianism decorated with Christian symbolism. It is a racist, xenophobic, authoritarian, fascistic ideology that gets sold as Christianity."

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"Two-thirds of Americans are either skeptical of or against Christian nationalism. And most of America's millions of Christians, from various backgrounds and denominations, have never been all in on Trump:

according to Pew Research polling from February, white Evangelicals "are the only large religious group in which a clear majority approve of Trump's job performance".

Most Americans don't see him as religious at all, according to recent Pew Research polling."

{article emphases the long history of Christian social justice efforts in the US)

Ethical Bots United might just decide that fleshbags are just too violent to live.

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"Iran is ranked as the 5th most resource-rich country globally, with an estimated $27.3 trillion in total natural resources, primarily driven by its massive oil and gas reserves.

It holds the world's 2nd largest natural gas reserves and 4th largest crude oil reserves. Iran also possesses significant mineral wealth, including large deposits of coal, copper, iron ore, and zinc."

"Among the actions taken are readopting the lethal injection protocol utilized during the first Trump Administration, expanding the protocol to include additional manners of execution such as the firing squad, and streamlining internal processes to expedite death penalty cases," the Justice Department said in a statement."

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Trumpism is a Death Cult.

(see the Chris Hedges thread article on Back Page)

Liars of a feather F up the country together.

The one he sold prolly went to Vlad... on credit.

Said it before, but he will be lucky to get the deal of Obama's that he tore up, and he's already given the Straits to Iran, which they didn't have before.

"The Democratic Republic of Congo, a Central African country where the Afghans have no ties, is experiencing one of the world's worst humanitarian crises, with more than 600,000 refugees there already after decades of armed conflict.

VanDiver accused the Trump administration of intentionally offering the Afghan refugees an alternative so bad that they would choose to return to Afghanistan even if it means risking their lives.

"This is insane," he told NBC News in an interview, noting in a separate statement that "you do not solve the world's number one refugee crisis by dumping it into the world's number two."

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Making America Great Again around the world!

"Other countries love me... I mean, America. We are the greatest. We could whip Hulk Hogan, you know, when he was great! The Congo loves us, and the Afghan Families who we promised to bring here if they helped us... they love me, too! They'll love the Congo! It's like a Paradise there. Or Greenland, we could send them there! They'll be a US state, soon! Thank you for your attention to this message."

Pretty funny, really. And he's making more money than he did at the Scam Call Center in Dehli.

#26

"The exception proves the rule" means that the existence of an exception confirms the existence of a general rule, rather than invalidating it.

It originates from a Latin legal principle where highlighting a specific exclusion implies a general rule exists for all other cases."

The Painless Pole... traded in BBQ'd kielbasa for the Cult of Trump, sighs.

Gone, but not forgotten; like Johnny Rotten.

#44

There should be a Sadly Stupid Flag.

He ran away from the other thread on this subject, after having been shown to be foolish tool.

He would have Taco'ed on Kissinger, and tried to date Jane Fonda.

These charges are a bad joke; the kind of Lawfare Jbellyache whines about so much... as proven here:

- And people here running around screaming "White Supremacist were America's greatest threat" were brain washed
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Hilarious, really.

"White supremacist and white nationalist ideologies are consistently identified by major U.S. law enforcement and research organizations as the primary and most lethal source of domestic violent extremism.

While specific data points shift year-to-year, the broader trend over the last decade shows these groups are responsible for the highest number of domestic terrorist attacks and fatalities in the U.S." FBI, DHS

from the above link:

"It is very thin, (and) does not adequately allege in my judgment any violation of the mail or wire fraud statutes (which are the indictment's key allegations)," said John C. Coffee Jr., a professor at the Columbia University Law School, in a statement.

"SPLC was under no duty to disclose to the world that it was paying secret agents to advise it about the activities of violent organizations. That it paid agents to inform it does not imply that it was supporting these organizations, even if the agents (with mixed motives) gave some of the payments to the organization."

Robertson said that organizations, including the government, regularly use confidential informants because it is an important tool to collect information about groups that actively withhold information about their activities.

In the indictment, the DOJ alleged several instances of wire fraud. But Robertson said "it doesn't seem to me there was any criminal intent at all."

"When you are paying an informant who is deeply embedded in a group that is engaged in violent activity, whether it is terrorism or others, you don't want to risk their lives by making it clear they were receiving payments," she said.

Robertson said the indictment doesn't even go as far as to allege any criminal intent to defraud financial institutions. The allegations were that SPLC tried to hide its activity from its donors.

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"That seems really problematic to me," Robertson said. "I don't believe the donors were, in any way, misled."

In the end, Robertson said the government will likely have a difficult time proving its case.

"I would be surprised if this case made it very far in the process," she said. "I would be absolutely shocked if it went all the way to a conviction. I think it will get dismissed earlier in the process."

"Legal experts skeptical of DOJ's criminal case against Southern Poverty Law Center

One said the 11-count indictment against the civil rights organization amounted to an abuse of the criminal law.'

"The conduct at the core of the indictment, paying confidential sources inside violent extremist groups to gather intelligence, is something federal law enforcement does as a matter of course," said Cassandra Burke Robertson, director of the Center for Professional Ethics at Case Western Reserve University law school.

"Charging a civil rights organization criminally for doing the same thing, in this political context, strikes me as an abuse of the criminal law."

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"The manifesto also argues the atomic age is ending and the next era of deterrence will be built on AI.

That makes it essential, the authors claim, that American tech companies build AI weapons and don't give in to protesters, because America's adversaries "will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates" about whether they should build advanced AI weapons.

The argument is aimed squarely at employee resistance that has troubled Palantir and others.

Google declined to renew its Project Maven AI military contract in 2018 after employee protests; Palantir took it on.

Last year, 13 former Palantir employees also wrote an open letter criticizing the company's work with the Trump administration."

Is there any war Trump can win?

I mean other that his War on the American People...