The Skinny: Building A Patchwork Enabling Act

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Lies, Ideology, and Malevolent Supremacy

As Trump and his fascist regime slide towards oblivion in the polls, the Pork Reich is becoming more aggressive about trying to lock in their authoritarian power before the peasants start revolting. Going after education, media, and their political opposition, the regime has started cribbing a disturbing amount of material from Adolf Hitler and the German Nazi Party. This week saw America inches away from mandatory goose-stepping in the streets, and The Skinny was there to bring you all the horrifying details. As always you can follow the links below to check out these stories on my Fediverse blog, or simply read them in their entirety on page two by using the navigation buttons at the bottom of this article.

 

May 1st – 7th, 2025

 

Civil Rights But Just For Nazis

“Weaponizing Title VI and IX of the 1964 Civil Rights act to fight bogus “anti-white discrimination,” seize control over educational institutions to protect a US-backed genocide in Gaza, and persecute trans people is a gross, fascist perversion of the entire purpose of those laws, and I have no doubt that doing so actively delights the cracker nazis running the Trump administration. Forcing a white nationalist framework onto American life through the very same mechanisms that were installed to fight rampant white supremacy in our society is the ultimate fascist troll job, and the “how’s my ass taste” aspect of this initiative is probably just as important to the regime as its actual efforts to create a de facto white ethnostate.”

 

Trump, Ideological Policing, and Public Broadcasters

“I confess that on some level it’s probably amusing to picture Trump sitting in front of a TV and getting big mad when it tells him Black and trans people exist, he shouldn’t bully overweight people, and the abortion bans he facilitated are hurting American women. The reality here however is that in signaling what the president doesn’t want to see in publicly-funded media, he’s effectively articulating a Christian Nationalist agenda. As we’ve discussed numerous times on this blog, the regime is not just fighting a material war to install a fascist dictatorship in our society; they’re also fighting an authoritarian cultural war on our discourse, our history, and who is allowed to matter in our media entertainment complex.”

 

Erasing Climate Legislation By Fiat

“It’s hard to really drill down here and find the biggest problem with all of this because virtually everything about this executive order is itself an existential crisis. The planet is literally on fire, climate crisis is real, and billions of (mostly poor) people’s lives hang in the balance; the last thing anyone needs is for Trump to empower extractivist mass murder companies to rip more fossil fuels we shouldn’t even be burning out of the ground because they’re greedy, and Trump wants to pretend he can drive gas prices down and create an American economic utopia by drilling more oil as the world turns to ash.”

 

Harvard, Yarvin, and War on the Cathedral

“There is however a deeper layer of fascist fuckery going on here, because Trump’s war on higher education also aligns perfectly with noted fascist theorist Curtis Yarvin’s proposed “Butterfly Revolution” to transform America into a fascist dictatorship; part of which revolves around destroying or taking control of “the Cathedral” which Yavrin defines as the mainstream media, prestigious American universities, and important cultural institutions. I doubt Trump has ever read The Butterfly Revolution, but VP JD Vance certainly has. He’s a devoted follower of Yarvin’s expressly “neo-fascist” teachings, as are key billionaire TechBro Trump donors and supporters like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Marc Andreessen.”

 

The Term “Billionaire Nazi Cultists” Is Literal

“Yeah, I wasn’t ready to process the idea that some of the richest, most powerful nazis in the world literally believe AI will create god, and humanity has no value except in however the species can assist in creating that god, the first time I read it either. The amazing part is this AI as god delusion is only one aspect of the TESCREAL rabbit hole; rich fascists plugged in to what many observers have described as “the dominant ideology in the US Big Tech sector” believe a whole bunch of other weird supervillain shit too.”

 

A Fake Democratic One Party State

“The fact is the Democratic Party should be dead serious about impeaching Trump because he’s literally a lawless fascist who is governing by nazi conspiracy theories, and has set the country on the path towards a Christian Nationalist dictatorship in direct violation of so many laws and constitutional amendments I don’t have time to list them all here. If ever the concept of impeachment had a purpose in American government, it would be to remove a president like Trump here in his second term; so whether or not the Klepto Kaiser is lying about the Democratic Party being united in removing him is really not the fucking point here.”

 

Cruelty, SCOTUS, and the Anti-trans Pogrom

“If I had my way, there would be no military for trans service members to be banned from. But this ruling isn’t about banning military service for everyone, it’s about banning military service for trans people specifically because the government has legally declared that trans people don’t exist, while simultaneously implying that being trans is a type of mental illness that makes folks unsuitable for employment by the Department of Defense. In that regard then, this ruling is a part of the Trump regime’s ongoing anti-trans pogrom and the larger fascist right’s open attempts to drive trans people out of American public life.”

 

Lake Begins Building Trump State Media With OAN

“While it may be hard to imagine now, if we project Trump’s media suppression policies and actives out a couple of years, it’s not hard to see how Voice of America could easily become much more popular domestically as Trump delegitimizes, censors, and revokes the broadcast licenses for news organizations that won’t promote his deceptions, regime, or cult positively. In other words, this is the kind of small move that’s easy to ignore, but remains part of a much larger plan to control the American media environment and use that control to prop up the Trump regime and its fascist agenda.”

 

Trumpism Searches for Its Horst Wessel

“The depiction of Peters as a courageous political prisoner unjustly being punished for her belief that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, which is itself a piece of false fascist propaganda often referred to in the media as “the big lie” in a nod to statements by Joseph Goebbels, is extremely reminiscent of interwar period Nazi propaganda about the purported persecution of violent Nazi street activists convicted of breaking German laws to further Hitler’s cause. The portrayal of Peters’ prosecution as a vast political conspiracy, and the conflation of Trump’s center-right opposition with a “radical” (and presumably dangerous) left is also pretty much exactly how the Nazis portrayed opposition efforts to hold them accountable on their way to absolute power.”

 

 

• Nina Illingworth

 

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