McCarthy was a raging alcoholic,died age 48. I read about him but should do it again as here we go. I remember my parents talking about McCarthyism in the 60’s even though he died in 1957.He ruined many lives. Time also to watch The Crucible, which Arthur Miller wrote as an allegory to McCarthyism.
Well, Trump’s mentor, Roy Cohn, was chief counsel for McCarthy at the Army hearings, so there’s actually a direct link. It’s not just two groups of people who both happen to be assholes.
When I was a boy,
Senator Joseph McCarthy
warned us all about
the dangers of
communist totalitarianism.
The right-wingers still
hate commies,
but they have taken
a second look at
totalitarianism &
find it mighty sweet.
This involves acts of disloyalty or betrayal against one's country, such as engaging in warfare against the nation, giving aid and comfort to its enemies,or attempting to overthrow the government #STEPHENMILLER #PAMBONDI #TRUMP #JDVANCE #MIKEJOHNSON #KASHPATEL #ACTUP
A lot of bad history we grew up thinking was of another age and we were too enlightened for now. Turns out history repeating really is a cliche for a reason.
And there's a weird Kennedy twist in it as well. Bobby Kennedy's kid is in the witch hunters' peer group; Bobby was a legal counsel to Joseph McCarthy.
I had a similar horrible revelation in the early odds when the US invaded Iran, the pretext being a different version of the domino theory that got us into Vietnam 40 years earlier.
You forgot the Tea Party Patriots. Those morons gave us the obstruction of everything that Obama tried to do. And they opposed universal healthcare. That was their big fight. Healthcare.
I have an estranged brother who thinks he’s a patriot because he thinks he knows the constitution. My retired attorney husband has finds it hilarious. My husband is a liberal. He knows the Constitution. He says it was written by lawyers for lawyers.
They’re going to die on that hill defending the worst piece of garbage to ever enter the White House. Until it personally affects them they will stand by him
I have 3 dick brothers who are trumpaholics. My only liberal beautiful brother passed away in January 😭
History repeats itself we uneducated people are easily swayed by racism and believe their failings are due to others and vote for what we ended with, an orange turd. 💩
Check out Rachel Maddow's podcast series ULTRA. it traces the history of Mccarthyism and shows how it has been a conduit for Nazism since the 30s.
Mccarthyism's anti-communism was mostly a cover for its pro-nazism.
it's wild to me that mccarthy was in his mid-40s in this picture, and miller is 39 now, and they both look terrible - and here i am, in my late 40s, looking spry and swell. a lesson, perhaps, that cruelty and evil age you real bad.
Evil ages you QUICK!! I think people's true character shows up on the outside, and the more evil you are, the faster it happens. Granted, plastic surgery and fillers and such can keep it away for a time, but it definitely shows. tRump is mean, and so are his mininons. Miller is EVIL. PURE EVIL.
Sadly, cirrhosis is coming for more than a few of these MAGA folks.
If you are fully under the spell and a True Believer you can follow MAGA (and make excuses daily for their constant new makings of unhinged unreality) as sober...
But many are reconciling MAGAmadness by drinking lots of alcohol..😔
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“I’ve never done anything to feel ashamed about” he replied from his altar in Heaven.
Ugh
https://bsky.app/profile/schooley.bsky.social/post/3lo5c5d24jc2l
No sense of decency.
Exhuming McCarthy -Michael Stipe/REM
Senator Joseph McCarthy
warned us all about
the dangers of
communist totalitarianism.
The right-wingers still
hate commies,
but they have taken
a second look at
totalitarianism &
find it mighty sweet.
This involves acts of disloyalty or betrayal against one's country, such as engaging in warfare against the nation, giving aid and comfort to its enemies,or attempting to overthrow the government #STEPHENMILLER #PAMBONDI #TRUMP #JDVANCE #MIKEJOHNSON #KASHPATEL #ACTUP
https://bsky.app/profile/thomashoman.bsky.social/post/3lo5eighacs2z
And I think that’s why T*rump loves him. The resemblance and the obnoxiousness.
The funny thing is that my tem paper in "American History, the 1900s" in college was on McCarthyism.
I recognized Trump's scam back in 2018.
I have 3 dick brothers who are trumpaholics. My only liberal beautiful brother passed away in January 😭
Mccarthyism's anti-communism was mostly a cover for its pro-nazism.
We beat the original America First
We beat the House Un-American Activities Committee
MAGA, you're next...
Right from the top, he was learning from the worst of the worst humans alive.
🧵thread
https://bsky.app/profile/edhirsch.bsky.social/post/3lo3bs55gvs2y
If you are fully under the spell and a True Believer you can follow MAGA (and make excuses daily for their constant new makings of unhinged unreality) as sober...
But many are reconciling MAGAmadness by drinking lots of alcohol..😔
The County Alcoholics Anonymous near the offices where i work look like the parking lot of a Trump rally.