Well, most of us who paid attention saw this coming for decades. Unsurprising once Rush Limbaugh, followed by Fox and a host of other liars got the mic.
But it is! As long as I can remember, I could always see Pat and his sister's fascist proclivity. He seemed more like a Bircher than anyone else. No wonder Nixon liked him.
I remember when he came to where I was living to talk in front of our minute man statue. My folks wouldn't go listen. They thought he was a dousch. I was curious. He just sounded like a raving racist. I got to shake his hand and politely tell him to go fuck himself. When I got home my folks asked.
I told them how it was... What I did. My mom high fived me and my dad proudly announced "that's my girl!" They couldn't have been happier with that polite bit of non violent rude self expression. I was like 16 at the time. Normally they hated profanity. But then nope totally cool and warranted.
Before 1992 I'd default-Republican. Changed that after that sonofabitch showed up at the 1992 RNC. Still can't forgive Bush-the-elder for caving like that. (pre-voting-age me remembered 1980 primary candidate Bush...).
Pat spoke with NPR and mentioned that America shouldn't ally itself with others (going into war situations what are not effecting the United States directly) in war. Well, he's in Hell right now watching the United States alienate itself and fuck itself over, so he got what he wanted.
40 years of this shit!!! From AM radio/Rush Limbaugh to the tea party to MAGA, corrupt evil forces have been sucking the blood of the USA. Time to call them out in real time. They overplayed their hand this time.
The rage i feel at this endless gross line of men capturing the brains of the adults in my life. When i was little and knew nothing, it made me feel so unsafe. Thanks adults.
I knew Buchanan pretty well. (He is still around) He had two things Trump doesn't: Actual knowledge (knew a lot of 19th/early 20th century US history, albeit from tendentious angle. And a sense of humor! He could make fun of himself.
Trump is same act with all but the brain stem removed.
Every town across America has remnants of old factories that closed down and went overseas, or to Mexico, starting in the 1980’s/1990’s.
3 in my town.
Pat’s policies would have prevented that.
But manufacturers purposely sent work off shore, so they could pay almost No wages and reap obscene profits. We all knew, at the time, that this would come back to haunt us. It won’t haunt the billionaires, they’re laughing all the way to the bank.
I read an article, may even have posted it, that said manufacturing in the USA is higher than it was 30 years ago. It’s just AUTOMATED. No jobs in manufacturing are coming back. NO JOBS! #DonaldTrumpIsAConArtist
chiming in to correct the anatomy (brain stem = core involuntary functions like respiration, heart rate, peripheral arterial resistance) but more generally I wonder how the "charming/hideous" dichotomy works in politics
Pat on Crossfire/McLoughlin vs 1992 RNC Convention always puzzled me
And his publication The American Conservative was for many years a good place to read intelligent, independent, conservative thought. His "hideous politics" was only one voice of many, even ones that strongly bucked GOP orthodoxy.
If Republicans would have listened to Pat Buchanan back in the 1980’s and 1990’s, they would have saved US manufacturing.
Instead they pushed feee trade policies that allowed US manufacturing to go overseas.
Trump is 40 years too late.
Those factories are not coming back.
Trump does this thing where he pretends to be self deprecating, but we're supposed to congratulate him for alluding to the fact that he might have a combover.
A serious question: Does Pat Buchanan endorse MAGA and Trump's approach to "governance"? I sometimes wonder what Kevin P. or even WFB would be saying about the current circumstances.
Perhaps you should try to interview PB? Does he buy into"The Gospel According to Donald" 100%?
You wanna hear something totally insane? I’m a 59 year old progressive from Arlington. Pat Buchanan is married to my mom’s first cousin Shelly,and they live 10 minutes away in McLean! I even swam in their pool circa 1978.
We were told he wasn’t there and we later saw him on a ride-on mower…
There’s a line between Duke-Buchanan-Trump. The country has become less tolerant and more authoritarian. Perot didn’t fit because his focus was primarily economic and his rhetoric derived from a life in business, not politics and propaganda/sales.
That’s why I said it was a bizarre charisma I don’t get it. He’s not charismatic to me, but he obviously is to some people. And, he’s definitely full of shit, and snake oil.
Buchanan beat Trump for the Reform Party nomination in 2000, so he stole his act. Trump already shared Buchanan's protectionism/isolationism, but was NOT a social conservative at that time.
While many believe Ted Cruz’s actual father is the Zodiac Killer, I’m thinking he’s really Pat’s secret love child with a Latina groupie he met after a rally in Texas.
A man named Joe Kent is Tulsi Gabbard’s chief of staff. He’s run twice here in Washington state and has gotten nowhere… lots of ties to white nationalists. His relationship with Gabbard seems quite “close” … check it out
Underestimate at your own risk. Unlike Buchanan, Trump got elected, twice. Trump has loaded up SCOTUS with conservatives. Take the threat seriously and you can succeed. Play games and you will lose. Don't bring a knife to a gunfight.
This unholy alliance - tech wealth married to religious nationalism - represents democracy's most insidious challenge precisely because it operates through seemingly disparate forces
15 DAYS
January 20, tramp signed an executive order declaring a state of emergency at the United States southern border.
90 days after, on
April 20, Trump will constitutionally — through the Insurrection Act — be allowed to deploy the military against American civilians....also known as MARTIAL LAW.
"We are going to institute a 6 p.m. curfew. You might ask, Ross, what am I going to do after 6 p.m.? Well I suggest you rest up for the 5 a.m. wake-up siren."
I remember with odd clarity a MAD Magazine bit about a support group for survivors of Ross Perot speeches who’d been affected by trying to figure out his insane expressions.
“It’s like we’ve got a crazy grandmother in the basement! Now we’ve got to check under her hood, America!”
White supremacy, segregationism and racism never required intelligence. The only thing Trump did was make it okay for he and his cronies to not wear the white robes.
It is no longer constitutionally possible to do both.
Do you choose American Democracy, or the forever rule of a dictator hell bent on entrenching an oligarchy for the rich and rich alone, and the destruction of freedoms your forefathers died defending?
Post Obama. White men and women didn't want POC to become the majority in this country. That wasn't very real until we had a black POTUS. Finally, stagnant wages when compared to rising costs. Price of housing, medical, and food squeeze middle and working class.
To be so fragile that to think that one black man can make you fear something so ridiculous it says something very bad about the culture of many white people in America
Some of the same people who voted for him. It wasn't just being racist. When people are doing worse, they look for old scapegoats. Dems know they didn't make changes quickly during enough Obama's terms. Biden made them quicker but took too long to implement. Desperate people make stupid choices.
That’s what I mean. Complacent types keep talking about “Trumpism.” It’s just conservatism, Republicanism. A very logical and inevitable progression of long standing right wing themes. Trump is a symptom, he’s not the disease.
I'm gonna give you the breakdown. For the resistance to work, this nonviolent step must be taken. It's not pointless. It is the beginning of what could end it, but most likely of many steps to go. Don't dismiss this work before the next part comes.
I never said it was pointless. It is absolutely necessary and protests need to continue. Just saying not to get overly excited because they won't change anything or remove him
I think most of us know this is a first step. My feeling is that protest is a muscle that needs to be exercised. Once people realize that getting off their ass and showing up isn’t hard they’ll be more willing in the future. Destroying the Tesla brand, boycotting Target all helps.
Only of the protests are outside the Whitehouse when Trump is inside. . I was there at the Arab spring and people went outside the palace in thousands before Mubarak resigned.
Big difference. Pat was a man of principle who truly, although in my view mistakenly, believed his world view was in the best interest of America. Trump believes only in what personally benefits himself.
Agree or disagree with Pat Buchanan, he was a good man with principles and integrity.
If GOP did what Pat wanted to do back in the 80’s and 90’s we would have not lost any US manufacturing overseas.
All those empty factories in every town would still be employing US workers.
These are the same people who’ve just had time to devolve further into Orcs. They’re breeding and handing down their emotional trauma. They’re twisted dark people. These Christian Crusaders remain filled with the hate their ancestors carried. They’re oblivious to the truth of their toxic history.
Hey Chris - much respect.
Peruse The Stages Of Moral Development ( Kohlberg).
Might provide some insight as to how preachers/priests, etc. formulate, whether purposely or otherwise, their messages to their audiences
Hint: He describes 7 levels. Organized religion rarely exceeds level 4
When I first heard Trump was interested in annexing Canada and Greenland I remembered that he proposed this in the '90s. 👇 And I can't believe I'm saying this, but at least Buchanan didn't propose absorbing Canada and Greenland against their will by force if necessary like Trump.
'They' knew they had to get the moral majority and family focus crowd on their side. I laughed so hard the first time I saw this on 30 Rock (it was a scoffing laugh -- I grew up in a fundie Repub household -- ick)
Trumpism is only about Trump enriching Trump. He doesn’t care about the other billionaires either. What he really wants is to make them lose money while he makes money thereby increasing his relative wealth, until he has more then the rest. It is a small, petty goal by a small, petty, ignorant man.
Why aren’t more ppl running around with their hair on fire?! Lots of good orations about the chaos but on a global scale the USA has upset the Apple cart and folks aren’t running down street crazy yet? Where is the “coup” when ya need them to handle things to knee jerk us back to reality?
If Republicans would have listened to Pat Buchanan back in the 1980’s and 1990’s, they would have saved US manufacturing.
Instead they pushed feee trade policies that allowed US manufacturing to go overseas.
Trump is 40 years too late.
Those factories are not coming back.
Not even going to touch your Buchanan statement but Krasnov is creating a racist oligarchy under guise of bringing domestic manufacturing home. It is a farce.
My point is that Krasnov is a fn fraud so it has nothing to do with your Buchanan point. Buchanan should have been exiled like Nixon. He was and is a proven racist
Pat Buchanan ... the original gaping assh-le. The Republican Party has been planting the seeds for their toxic garden for generations. trump is their special little ragged flower.
We saw this coming for decades. We were surrounded and did nothing. Now, right wing talons are deeply embedded in all aspects of this country to the point where it only took a few months for DJT to bend universities and law firms to his will. This is who we are.
April 2nd at the Springfield ma postal service, they were told to stop 3rd shift. Nobody knew it was coming. That’s phase one, phase 2 is coming.. can you let US know what Trump is doing to OUR Postal Service?!?!
Please?
The conservative project in America has had a single goal for the past 80 years.
Erase FDR's Legacy and all of the progress that flowed from it.
They hate America
I am actually friends with a catholic priest who withheld communion from Pat Buchanan many years ago in Washington DC because of what a horrible human being he is. There are only two Catholic priests that I have ever known who I actually respect and he’s one of them.
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My message to #Democrats: wake up and preach democracy, free enterprise, freedom and prosperity on every street corner, starting now.
Also, fuck Pat Buchanan!
* Bat shit crazy
Trump is same act with all but the brain stem removed.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/12/ode-to-the-letters-of-hunter-s-thompson/600808/
Thanks . I needed that‼️
Both were really clever and entertaining writers who knew a lot.
It became clear that, in D&D terms, they were high Intelligence, low Wisdom, Lawful Evil paladins.
About a lot of things.
He would have saved US manufacturing.
Every town across America has remnants of old factories that closed down and went overseas, or to Mexico, starting in the 1980’s/1990’s.
3 in my town.
Pat’s policies would have prevented that.
Republicans, that is, the NeoCons, supported “free trade” and mass immigration at that time.
My Dad would say “cheap TV’s” and “who will pick the lettuce”.
Trump changed that in 2016.
Only after Trump’s age deteriorated his brain was he unable to fake being normal.
Pat on Crossfire/McLoughlin vs 1992 RNC Convention always puzzled me
it was rancid enough that my spouse remembers, which is notable as a kind of political high tide
Instead they pushed feee trade policies that allowed US manufacturing to go overseas.
Trump is 40 years too late.
Those factories are not coming back.
Perhaps you should try to interview PB? Does he buy into"The Gospel According to Donald" 100%?
"The Mind of the State vs. the State of the Mind"
They got all Irish after each shot and got bombed with college students!
We were told he wasn’t there and we later saw him on a ride-on mower…
Shocker.
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https://www.plagueisland.com/p/silicon-valleys-unholy-alliance-how
Donald Trump and his oligarchs
are “playing” the old Republican Party
and the MAGA party
that replaced the Republican Party
are too “QAnon ignorant”
to realize what is “happening”.
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January 20, tramp signed an executive order declaring a state of emergency at the United States southern border.
90 days after, on
April 20, Trump will constitutionally — through the Insurrection Act — be allowed to deploy the military against American civilians....also known as MARTIAL LAW.
Who knows what scumbags are in the pipeline? Don Jr, Barron Trump, Elon's snotty little brat?
The civilised world can no longer afford to shoulder the heavy burden of the idiotic American electorate. We're sick to death of you TBH
Project 2025 (actually, A Mandate for Leadership) has been made and modified by Heritage Foundation since 1980.
It's completely unincredible, in fact.
"We are going to institute a 6 p.m. curfew. You might ask, Ross, what am I going to do after 6 p.m.? Well I suggest you rest up for the 5 a.m. wake-up siren."
“It’s like we’ve got a crazy grandmother in the basement! Now we’ve got to check under her hood, America!”
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/donald-trump-comes-out-of-iowa-looking-like-pat-buchanan/
That’s why Trump latched onto Republicans & Evangelicals and they to Trump. Remember he was a staunch Democrat before running for office.
There isn’t an attack on religion, it’s just that the more you’re educated the better you smell the bullshit.
It is no longer constitutionally possible to do both.
Do you choose American Democracy, or the forever rule of a dictator hell bent on entrenching an oligarchy for the rich and rich alone, and the destruction of freedoms your forefathers died defending?
https://youtu.be/uWw6dvyUtsk?si=_BO9nCo2F6SCuyzf
Agree or disagree with Pat Buchanan, he was a good man with principles and integrity.
If GOP did what Pat wanted to do back in the 80’s and 90’s we would have not lost any US manufacturing overseas.
All those empty factories in every town would still be employing US workers.
Peruse The Stages Of Moral Development ( Kohlberg).
Might provide some insight as to how preachers/priests, etc. formulate, whether purposely or otherwise, their messages to their audiences
Hint: He describes 7 levels. Organized religion rarely exceeds level 4
2017
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/06/donald-trump-roy-cohn-relationship
and wow. fucking true.
Clearly Pat was a good contrast for Rachel. And she always knew what he would say. He was a caricature.
https://skywriter.blue/pages/jeetheer.bsky.social/post/3lfidh5kgak26
The pardon of Nixon has had disastrous consequences.
Instead they pushed feee trade policies that allowed US manufacturing to go overseas.
Trump is 40 years too late.
Those factories are not coming back.
Tariffs enacted before US manufacturing left would have prevented US manufacturing from leaving in the first place.
Now it’s too late.
Tax policy, not tariffs, is how you restore US manufacturing.
Policies aside, Buchanan was a man of principle and integrity.
Ignorant comment.
Pat Buchanan was right about protecting American manufacturing, illegal immigration, foreign intervention and ending all wars.
Republican NeoCons prior to Trump supported the opposite.
Free trade, nation building, and open immigration.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/climate-lab/more-details-surface-in-trump-administration-plan-to-cut-national-forests/
Nazis are in control. They love inflicting pain because cruelty is always the point.
April 2nd at the Springfield ma postal service, they were told to stop 3rd shift. Nobody knew it was coming. That’s phase one, phase 2 is coming.. can you let US know what Trump is doing to OUR Postal Service?!?!
Please?
Erase FDR's Legacy and all of the progress that flowed from it.
They hate America