"WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM Presents
With Klaus Kryton the puppet master.
The Self-Anointed Illuminators
Jacinda * Propaganda Princess
Justin Propaganda Prince
Macron Napoleon Complex
Leftist Woke Media
Woke Leftist Academics
Leftist Woke Journalists
Woke Leftist Politicians
All information is disinformation unless we say it and then it is information. We are the way the truth and the light, no one comes to the truth except through us. We will tell you what to think and how to think.
THE HOLLOWGRAMS
All image and no substance
They will be judged by their fruit.
More Homeless
More Crime
High Infation
Cost of Living Crises
House unaffordability
High Interest Rates
And much more to come.
They have been measured and weighed and found wanting. They promise a lot and deliver very little of true value and substance.
*Always leave a sinking ship before it damages your brand reputation.
Only Diverse and inclusive nonbinary left hand puppets were used"
#OrgIntlWEFKlausSchwab
#OrgClassifPPNZNewZealandLabourPartyJacindaArdern
#OrgClassifPPFRRenaissanceREEmmanuelMacron
"Bruno De Wever: 'The Flemish movement was Belgian. But 'The story of Flanders' threatens to create the myth that the initiators of the Dutchification of Flanders were anti-Belgian nationalists.'" #EDUBEGhentUniversityBrunoDeWever #ToponymEuropeBelgiumVlaamsGewest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH0FVU61UGw #OrgClassifPPBEVlaamschNationaalVerbondVNV #PoliticsFascism / #PoliticsNationalismFlemish #1936_
#IRLEducatorBradWeinstein
"Unionize Everything!" ?
Context: #NewspaperUSBrdshtThePhiladelphiaInquirer "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was gifted a hand-cut snowflake at a book-tour stop in Iowa last week. He posed with the artist who made it, grinning. But upon closer look, the paper snowflake had a word embedded within it: 'fascist.'
A photo from the exchange has gone viral on social media, but the artist says she's been doing this to politicians for years.
Julie Ross, a volunteer English teacher based in Davenport, Iowa, who raises monarch butterflies on the side, began attending the Iowa Straw Poll and other local political events in 2012. A self-described progressive, Ross made it a goal to hear both Democrat and Republican candidates speak as often as possible and to ask them questions. In return for their time, she'd leave them with a little souvenir." https://www.inquirer.com/politics/nation/ron-desantis-fascist-snowflake-gift-artist-iowa-20230314.html #ToponymAmericaNorthUSIowa #PoliticsFascism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhHg3MurOEs #OrgClassifPPDEFreieDemokratischeParteiFDPThomasKemmerich i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kemmerich #OrgClassifPPDEAfDAlternativeFurDeutschlandBjornHocke #IRLHistoricalFigurePaulVonHindenburg i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potsdam_Day #PoliticsFascismNaziPartyAdolfHitler
Context: a comment posted underneath YouTube clip reads: "'I was born this way - anti-fascist forever!' Nothing will ever change. 10 years ago I released the song 'Antifascist' with my former band Irie Révoltés to take a stand against fascism and racism. The sad truth is that the situation has gotten even worse since then. The murders of the NSU came to light, the 'angry citizens' of Pegida are roaming the streets, the AfD sits in the Bundestag... Racism is everyday life in Germany. And anyone who thought it couldn't get any worse was wrong: on February 5th, the FDP and CDU in Thuringia broke a taboo and made a pact with the AfD for the first time - I'm at a loss for words. But I cannot and I do not want to remain silent! I wrote a new song against fascism for my solo album 'Résistance Mondiale'. The song 'No Pasaran' was actually supposed to be released with the album. But now we all have to be as loud as we can and stand against fascism!
That's why I'm bringing 'No Pasaran' right now.
NO! A democracy does NOT have to endure fascism and racism! History teaches us how quickly a pact with fascists can destroy a democracy. Even if people are rowing back again now, this breaking of the taboo is an irrevocable step further to the right - one step too many!
Not with us!
'Fight fascism, no matter where and when! No Pasaran!'" #OrgDEFedBundestag #PoliticsFascism
"MAGA is a religious cult that worships a fake past, a mythology of america that never existed and was only used as a weapon for political and economic power. It is dragging us into the fascistic abyss, and we need to understand what fascism really is before it swallows us." #IRLAuthorJaredYatesSexton #PleaMAGA #MetaphorCultReligious #TheoryMyth #PoliticsFascism
Context: #WebsiteActTV "The Trump-dominated corporate-controlled media landscape overpowers progressive voices. Our mission is to create media to empower activists." https://www.act.tv/
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/28/stanley-druckenmiller-sees-hard-landing-in-2023-with-a-possible-deeper-recession-than-many-expect.html #IRLPrivateCitizenElizabethGomes #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyEricAdams #OrgUSFedDptOfJusticeDOJMerrickGarland #IdentityLGBTQIATrans #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyPOTUSBarackObama + #ToponymEastMiddleIran https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/03/01/was-obamas-1-7-billion-cash-deal-with-iran-prohibited-by-u-s-law/ #IRLEducatorKaylaLemieux #LiteralFieldEconomicsInflation #LiteralSubstanceDrugFentanyl i.e. https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2022/08/30/dea-warns-brightly-colored-fentanyl-used-target-young-americans #PhenomnImmigration https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/15/us/politics/immigration-border.html
this is an excerpt (page XX) from #1990_TheNewWorldOrder https://archive.org/details/TheNewWorldOrder_201709 by #IRLConspiracistAnthonyRalphEpperson i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Ralph_Epperson
Context: #TheoryDeclinism #_Focal
Supplementary: the passage includes the conflation of #PoliticsFascismNazi and #PoliticsSocialism #MagazineUSPacificStandardNoahBerlatsky "the conflation of alt-right Nazis with a supposed 'alt-left' gives people like President Donald Trump and former Breitbart Chairman Steve Bannon rhetorical cover to slime their critics as the 'real fascists.' Perhaps even worse, claiming that the left is especially prone to fascist tendencies allows folks on other parts of the political spectrum to ignore their own complicity when actual fascism crawls out of the mud.
The main argument for Horseshoe Theory is that both the far left and the far right are opposed to the centrist, neoliberal/capitalist status quo. Communists and fascists in the 1930s criticized the aging imperial democracies of Britain, France, and the United States as weak, corrupt, and--post-Great Depression--as hurtling toward a final collapse. More recently, the argument goes, left-wing radicals opposed centrist Hillary Clinton and France's Emmanuel Macron. By doing so, they offered de facto (and sometimes more than de facto) aid to racist, nationalist opponents like Trump and Marine Le Pen. We are told that left and right both want to destroy democratic norms and the sensible center. Therefore, Horseshoe Theory says, they work together. ...
the anti-left rhetoric around political correctness--in which student left protesters with minimal power are presented as the 'real' totalitarians--is widely popular among figures as diverse as Angela Nagle, Jonah Goldberg, Chait, David Frum, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Trump himself. When you demonize leftists, it's the fascists who benefit--and there are a lot of people in American politics, of every political stripe, who like to demonize leftists." https://psmag.com/social-justice/an-end-to-horseshoe-theory #TheoryHorseshoe #IRLPhilosopherJeanPierreFaye #1939_MolotovRibbentropPact #PoliticsFascismNaziNeoFarRightAltRightRadicalRight #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #IRLPoliticalStrategistSteveBannon #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyHillaryClinton #OrgClassifPPFRRenaissanceREEmmanuelMacron #PoliticsCentrism #PoliticsCommunism #PoliticsFascism #TauntLeftThe #IRLAuthorAngelaNagle #IRLActivistChelseaManning #IRLCommentatorJonathanChait #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesRossDouthat #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyJoeManchin #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPLisaMurkowski #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPJeffSessions #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPaulRyan #OrgUSFedFBI #TheoryMarxism i.e. #OtheringHateAntisemiticCanardJudeoBolshevism #PoliticsFascismNaziPartyAdolfHitler #PoliticallyCorrectPC #IRLJournalistJonahGoldberg #IRLCommentatorDavidFrum #IRLIdeologueMiloYiannopoulosAKAMiloAndreasWagner #TheoryFishHook #NewspaperUSTabloidNewYorkPostSalenaZito #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyDickDurbin #MagazineUSJacobinConnorKilpatrick i.e. http://v2.jacobinmag.com/author/connor-kilpatrick #OrgClassifPPFRRassemblementNationalRNMarineLePen #MagazineUSGrist: https://grist.org/climate/grist-acquisition-pacific-standard/
#CatchcryDivision "Oh, you don't need to fight them - you just need to convince the pitchfork people that the torch people want to take away their pitchforks." #CaricaturistDaveCoverly #ComicStripSpeedBump
"Der ist Schuld am Kriege!" [Who is to blame for the war!]" #PoliticsFascismNazi #OtheringHateAntisemitism #PhenomnPropaganda
Context: "Poster shows a hand extending from above with finger pointing accusingly at a man wearing a top hat and with a yellow Magen David labelled 'Jude' on his coat." https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003675449/ #CaricaturistHansSchweitzerAKAMjolnir
#ToponymEuropeUkraine #PoliticsFascism #PoliticsNationalismUkrainian #OrgUAAzovBattalion
Addendum: #PhenomnPropagandaDisinformation presumably intended as justification for #ToponymRussia.n #2022_InvasionOfUkraine and their supposed #NarrativeDenazification aim.
#2022_FastForwardToFascism i.e. https://rtd.rt.com/films/fast-forward-to-fascism/ #NMRURussiaTodayRT "One of its main goals was to form an ideology that would dehumanize Russians and break all ties that existed for decades before. Initially, Russians weren't seen as a minority in Ukraine, but the anti-Russian sentiment gradually became overwhelming. The communication war on social media against Russia is meticulously planned with the help of Western curators. The nationalist Azov-affiliated children's camps teach kids to fight and equate a Soviet soldier to the SS. Their red-and-black flag means blood and soil - the words engraved on the knives given to Hitlerjugend. Stepan Bandera was proclaimed a national hero, with torch marches regularly happening in his honor ever since. So, how is Ukrainian nationalism once again becoming the central ideology?" https://doezelfnormaal.nl/news/snel-vooruit-naar-het-fascisme-oekraiens-nationalisme-in-de-maak-russia-today-documentaire/ #PoliticsFascismNazi #IRLHistoricalFigureStepanBandera
#MetaphorVersusManyFew / #MetaphorDissenterRebelOutsider and anti #PoliticsFascism
Context: responding to tweet about a #NMUKBBCStephenNolan interview with #IRLScreenwriterGrahamLinehan - who wrote #TVFatherTed and who is supposedly anti #IdentityLGBTQIATrans
#OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyPOTUSJoeBiden cast as the architect of #ToponymRussia's #2022_InvasionOfUkraine (enabled through #OrgEU ) and #OrgClassifPPRUSUnitedRussiaVladimirPutin as symbolic #NarrativeDenazification liberator of #ToponymEuropePolandOswiecimAuschwitz / anti #PoliticsFascism
#IRLHistoricalFigureStepanBandera
Context: "For his supporters, the fact that Bandera fought to prevent the Soviet occupation of Ukraine is more significant than his collaboration with the Nazis. Since the 2014 Euromaidan revolution, Bandera has been a rallying cry for many Ukrainian nationalists, particularly after the Russian annexation of Crimea and the backing of separatist movements in eastern Ukraine. 'The main thing for the people following Bandera today is that he fought for an independent Ukraine. They ignore that his organization cooperated with the Nazi regime, that they were anti-Semitic, and that Bandera was also anti-Polish,' said Jakubin. 'After Euromaidan, some people have tried to create a new image of Bandera as a person fighting the Soviets for Ukrainian independence.'" https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2021/03/19/in-ukraine-stepan-bandera-s-legacy-becomes-a-political-football-again #PoliticsFascismNazi #2013_Euromaidan #PoliticsNationalismUkrainian #ToponymEuropeUkraineCrimea #OtheringHateAntisemitism #ToponymEuropePoland #PhenomnHolocaustShoah #OrgClassifPPRUSUnitedRussiaVladimirPutin #NarrativeDenazification
"Pretty funny to see that the Russian army uses the letter Z and wants to oppose fascism. Even in Russia woke wins." #OrgRUAFM #PoliticsNationalismRussianZSymbol
Context: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/07/why-has-the-letter-z-become-the-symbol-of-war-for-russia
"Toen Niet Nu Niet Nooit Meer Fascisme [Then Not Now Not Never Again Fascism]" #MetaphorGenerationGenZ #PoliticsFascism
Context: #2022_InvasionOfUkraine https://www.npr.org/2022/03/09/1085471200/the-letter-z-russia-ukraine?t=1646904678594
#TheorySociologyIntersectionality #PoliticsFascismNazi #PoliticsFascism #SlurWhiteSupremacy #OrgUAAzovBattalion i.e. #PoliticsNationalismUkrainian
Supplementary: this seems to be singing from the same #NarrativeDenazification hymn-sheet.
#NMUKGBNewsMarkSteyn #IRLHistoricalFigureWilliamJoyceAKALordHawHaw #OrgUAAzovBattalion i.e. #PoliticsNationalismUkrainian #IRLHistoricalFigureWilliamJoyceAKALordHawHaw #ToponymEuropeUkraine #NarrativeUtopiaWokeLiberal #PoliticsFascism #OrgUAAzovBattalion
Supplementary: this seems to be singing from the same #NarrativeDenazification hymn-sheet.
#MetaphorDeathDyingAngelOfGrimReaper #SymbolEmblemFlagUS #SymbolEmblemFlagIL (Israeli flag depicted on the scythe dripping in blood) i.e. #OtheringHateAntisemiticCanardWarmonger #MetaphorBloodOnYourHands #ToponymEuropeSerbia #2003_IraqWarConflictInvasion #ToponymAfricaNorthLibya #ToponymAfricaNorthLibya #ToponymEastMiddleSyria #ToponymEuropeUkraine
Context: https://antisemitism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Antisemitic-imagery-July-2020.pdf
#OrgIntlNATOOTAN #PoliticsFascismNazi #NMDEDeutscheWelleDW "The International Court of Justice in The Hague has declared that Kosovo's independence is in line with international law. The ruling is a blow to Serbia but has been welcomed by Germany and the US." https://www.dw.com/en/international-court-rules-that-kosovo-independence-is-lawful/a-5826328 #ToponymEuropeKosovo #ToponymEuropeSerbia
"France is one of the oldest U.S. allies, dating to 1778 when the French monarchy recognized the independence of the United States. French military and economic assistance during the American War of Independence (1775-81) was crucial to the American victory. Since then, relations between the two countries have remained active, despite periods that have tested this long friendship." https://history.state.gov/countries/france #PoliticsFascismNaziPartySwastika
"@jasonintrator @nytimes The New York Times has about 3 or 4 columnists who write specifically about woke issues, but not one who writes specifically about global fascism." #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimes #PoliticsFascism #EDUUSYaleUniversityJasonStanley: https://twitter.com/jasonintrator/status/1497566634839396360?s=20&t=6oDTrGjVNkmh28bwj7pvPw
Supplementary: #2025_WeStudyFascismAndWereLeavingTheUS https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/opinion/yale-canada-fascism.html #EDUUSYaleUniversity #ToponymAmericaNorthCanada #IRLScholarMarciShore #IRLScholarTimothySnyder #PoliticsGeoExceptionalismAmerican #PhenomnShowPageantry
#NMUSPublicBroadcastingServicePBSAmanpourAndCompany
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKAdujuHvuQ #PoliticsAuthoritarianism #CatchcryFreedomAcademic #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump47thPresident
"The true face of 'awakening' WOKE"
#IdentityLGBTQIAPrideFlag #SymbolFasces i.e. https://www.livius.org/articles/concept/fasces/
Context: #AdvocacyUSTheAtlasSocietyTAS https://www.atlassociety.org/about And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Atlas_Society "promotes the philosophy of" #IRLHistoricalFigureAynRand". Presumably, 'Atlas' here is a reference to Rand's #1957_AtlasShrugged
"Every era has its fascism. Today Breivik also passed by. Norwegian criminal law and detention law can inspire us here (also for psychopaths without political recruitment), but political alertness for this sometimes seems woke and only something for a Gutmensch" #PoliticsFascism #IRLMurdererAndersBreivikAKAFjotolfHansen #TauntDoGooderGutmensch i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutmensch
Supplementary: #WebsiteCommuneAndrewWoods "In 2010, the intellectual historian Martin Jay wrote a short and illuminating column for Salmagundi on the increasing popularity of a right-wing conspiracy theory known as 'Cultural Marxism.' Various paleoconservatives and fascists allege that Frankfurt School theorists, such as Theodor Adorno, Erich Fromm, and Herbert Marcuse, emigrated to the United States of America in the 1930s to implant the 'Marxist' ideologies of political correctness, multiculturalism, and feminism. Jay traces the origin of this xenophobic and antisemitic conspiracy theory to a 1992 article called 'The New Dark Age: The Frankfurt School and Political Correctness' by Michael J. Minnicino, who wrote and worked for the notorious Trotskyist-turned-fascist cult leader Lyndon LaRouche. Yet, back in 2010, 'Cultural Marxism' seemed to be little more than just another amusing instance of right-wing intellectual quackery.
Six months after the publication of Jay's column, the far-right terrorist Anders Behring Breivik carried out a series of murderous and explosive attacks in Norway to publicize his 1,500-page manifesto: 2083--A European Declaration of Independence. His screed blames 'Cultural Marxism' for the mass migration of Muslims into mainland Europe, and even contains a reference to Minnicino's essay. In the aftermath of Breivik's attack, Minnicino--a now ex-member of the LaRouche movement--issued a public apology to disown his earlier work. He admitted that his research on the Frankfurt School had been 'hopelessly deformed by self-censorship and the desire to in some way support LaRouche's crack-brained worldview.'" https://communemag.com/the-american-roots-of-a-right-wing-conspiracy/ #IRLHistorianMartinJay #PoliticsConservatismPaleo i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoconservatism #ConspiracyTheoryCulturalMarxism #PhenomnFrankfurtSchool #IRLPhilosopherTheodorAdorno #IRLPsychologistSocialErichFromm #IRLScholarHerbertMarcuse #PoliticallyCorrectPC #PhenomnMulticulturalism #CauseFeminism #IRLAuthorMichaelMinnicino #1992_TheNewDarkAgeTheFrankfurtSchoolAndPoliticalCorrectness i.e. https://archive.schillerinstitute.com/fidelio_archive/1992/fidv01n01-1992Wi/fidv01n01-1992Wi_004-the_new_dark_age_the_frankfurt_s.pdf #IRLConspiracistLyndonLaRoucheJr i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_LaRouche #ToponymEuropeNordicScandinaviaNorwayOslo #OtheringHateAntisemiticCanardJudeoBolshevism
#OrgNOHolocaustSenteret "There is a Party Tonight and We're going to Pick up the Small Packages This Time
This code sentence meant that the Jewish children would be arrested the next day, November 26, 1942. When they heard these words, Sigrid Helliesen Lund from the Nansen relief organization and child psychiatrist Nic Waal immediately thought of the Jewish orphanage in Oslo. Nic Waal went straight there together with the orphanage supervisor Nina Hasvold and made the children put on their best clothes, two sets. The children sneaked out the back door carrying their boots in their hands. Nic Waal drove the children to Gerda Tanberg in 1 Veslekroken at Ullern. Prior to the next Jewish deportation, some of these children were moved to other secure locations in Oslo. Sigrid Helliesen Lund contributed to the escape with food and other essentials.
Taxi driver Martin Solvang brought the children to the border. Ola Rauken and Ola Breisjøberget took them across the border. Fourteen children from the orphanage were thus saved and lived in Alingsås in Sweden until the end of the war." https://www.hlsenteret.no/utstillinger/qr/artikler/english_23.html
#1942_
#ToponymAsiaEastNorthKorea #PhenomnGroupthink #PlatformSMTwitterTWTRJackDorsey #PlatformSMTwitterTWTRParagAgrawal #PhenomnCensorshipOfSocialMedia
Supplementary: #PlatformSMTwitterTWTRShadowBanning
"A moderation technique first popularized in bulletin boards and early web forums, shadowbans block users or individual pieces of content without letting the offending user know they've been blocked. To a shadow-banned user, the site continues to function as normal -- they can still make posts and engage with other people's posts -- but to others, the user appears to have gone silent. " https://builtin.com/marketing/shadowban
#MetaphorDeceitUnmasking #PoliticsFascism #TauntWokeism
Supplementary: 'Unmasking the Pandemic: Masks as a Visual Metaphor of COVID-19'
#IRLHistoricalFigureMarcelCachin i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Cachin #IRLHistoricalFigureEdouardHerriot i.e. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Herriot
"Affiche de 1936 du Centre de propagande des républicains nationaux dénonçant les expériences cartelliste (1924), néo-cartelliste (1932) et de Front populaire. Est particulièrement visée la figure du radical Herriot." https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_de_propagande_des_r%C3%A9publicains_nationaux
"How one man took down America... John. D Rockefeller":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N91F9pZwNY
Supplementary: #1979_RockefellerMedicineMen Brown, E. Richard, 'Rockefeller Medicine Men: Medicine and Capitalism in America' (1979). University of California Press. https://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/the-rockefellers/37/ #PhenomnMedicineEvidenceBased
De XXIIIe IJzerbedevaart - 23 augustus 1942. Leden van de NSJV aan de voet van de IJzertoren. [24/8/1942] [Frei gegeben durch zensur] i.e. https://www.belgiumwwii.be/nl/belgie-in-oorlog/artikels/vlaamse-beweging.html #PoliticsFascismNaziPartyAdolfHitler #PoliticsFascismNazi #1942_
#OrgIntlNATOOTAN
#IRLActivistJulianAssange
Context: ? "This, Cardiff researchers say, was one of 18 recent stories on the fall of Kabul that were produced using reader comments in the UK and US, supporting Russia's narrative about the end of liberal democracy, the failure of Nato or made a link to the willingness to support Ukraine." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58441662
"Fascism is when you are successfully persuaded that your health is at stake." #ConspiracyTheoryCOVID19PandemicDenialHoax #PoliticsFascism #OrgIntlWEFGreatReset #IRLActivistJulianAssange
Context: (translated from German) "The statement in this poster that disabled people are of no value, only cause high costs, but do not bring any benefit, bears witness to one of the most disgusting chapters of the Nazi era. It is the systematic killing of women, men and children with mental illnesses, mental or physical disabilities, who were considered 'unworthy of life' according to the National Socialist racial and ethnic community ideology. Between 1939 and 1941, around 70,000 patients from sanatoriums and nursing homes in the six killing centers in Bernburg, Brandenburg, Grafeneck, Hademar, Hartheim and Pirna-Sonnenschein were murdered by gas. #OtheringUnhealthy
Public protests, e.g. by the Bishop of Münster, Count von Galen, then led to the end of the extermination program. The personnel from the killing centers, who were now specialized in killing people, were transferred to the Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka extermination camps in order to participate in the 'final solution to the Jewish question'. " http://museen-sh.de/Objekt/DE-MUS-067310/lido/2015-26 #PoliticsFascismNaziUntermensch #OtheringDenialDehumanization
Supplementary: "The mass murder of helpless people begins in the Grafeneck killing center and other facilities.
After the Second World War was unleashed, the Nazi regime ordered the murder of ' hereditary and mentally ill ' who had been classified as ' unworthy of life ' . Because this crime - euphemistically referred to by the Nazis as ' euthanasia ' - was organized from a villa in Berlin's Tiergartenstrasse 4, it is still referred to as ' Action T4 ' to this day . As early as autumn 1939, experts used registration forms from all German sanatoriums and nursing homes to determine which patients were considered ' unworthy of life ' according to the Nazi definition.have to apply. The number determined is around 70,000. The actual murder operation began in January 1940. The first killing center that was selected and converted for this purpose was Schloss Grafeneck in Württemberg - others soon followed. The people whose death sentences have been sealed are brought to the institution in buses and brutally murdered in gas chambers disguised as shower rooms. The bodies are cremated. The true cause of death is kept secret so as not to arouse public dislike. (al)" https://www.baden18-45.de/filter/1940-01-vernichtung-lebensunwerten-lebens-der-beginn-der-euthanasie-aktion-t4/
"The National Socialists referred to persons as 'antisocial elements', who 'refused to fit into the order of the national community' and considered them 'alien to the community'. This included beggars, homeless people, the 'work shy', prostitutes, non-conforming youths but also 'gypsies and vagabond itinerant people'. 'Antisocial' also became a general term for people from lower social strata that were considered inferior, who did not work or did not work sufficiently or lived a lifestyle deemed incompatible with the regime. Several large-scale raids were performed across the Reich, e.g. the beggar raids in September 1933 and the 'National Action against the Workshy' in April 1938. People who were considered 'antisocial' were frequently sterilised against their will, based on the explanation that they suffered from 'hereditary feeble-mindedness', as it was a general presumption that 'antisocial' characteristics were passed on among 'antisocial ethnic groups'. The Criminal Police compiled files on these individuals and labelled them as 'anti - social elements', these people could be systematically observed by the police and even taken in 'preventive custody' and interned in concentration camps. People considered 'antisocial elements' had low chances of survival in the concentration camps. They were marked with a black triangle and kept mostly isolated from the other prisoners." https://museenkoeln.de/ns-dokumentationszentrum/default.aspx?s=780#abs14956
Supplementary: #IRLActorArnoldSchwarzenegger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYn5t0tuuAk&t=315s #2017_UniteTheRightRally
#PoliticsFascismNaziBlutUndBoden #PowerControlPopulationEugenicsForcedAndCoercedSterilization https://wellcomecollection.org/works/vzzcqeyx/ And https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/3600653.pdf #OtheringHateEliminationism i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliminationism #OtheringDenialPseudospeciation
Supplementary: #OrgILYadVashem "During the 1870s, the new political antisemitism was compounded with 'racial' antisemitism. Based on the new ideas on evolution, posited by the English naturalist Charles Darwin--who himself never meant them to leave the realm of science--Jew haters began declaring that Jews were an inferior 'race' on the evolutionary scale. Since their problem was physical or genetic, it could never be changed, despite assimilation. Included in this new form of antisemitism, was the idea that Jews were responsible for the world's troubles because of their race and genetic composition." https://www.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%205742.pdf #IRLHistoricalFigureCharlesDarwin #MetaphorPurityRace #MetaphorContinuumLinearScaleEvolutionary #OtheringHateAntisemitismDeicide
"Propaganda slide produced by the Reich Propaganda Office #PoliticsFascismNazi showing the opportunity cost of feeding a person with a hereditary disease. The illustration shows that an entire family of healthy Germans can live for one day on the same 5.50 Reichsmarks it costs to support one ill person for the same amount of time. Dated #1936_.
Nazis defined individuals with mental, physical, or social disabilities as "hereditarily ill" and claimed such individuals placed both a genetic and financial burden upon society and the state." https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/photo/propaganda-slide-showing-the-opportunity-cost-of-feeding-a-person-with-a-hereditary-disease #PowerControlPopulationEugenicsRaceSuicide ? i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_suicide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37N0aFmO19o #IRLAuthorGeorgeOrwell #1949_NineteenEightyFour1984 #TheoryDystopianism #OrgClassifPPCALiberalPartyJustinTrudeau #PoliticsCollectivism #PoliticsSocialism #PoliticsCommunism #PoliticsNationalism #PoliticsFascism #PoliticsAuthoritarianismAutocracyTotalitarianism #TheoryCentralisation #PoliticsCapitalism #TauntLeftist #PoliticsSocialismDemocratic #PhenomnWealthInequality #CatchcryFreedomOfSpeechFreeSpeech #TheoryOligarchicalCollectivism #IRLHistoricalFigureChairmanMaoZedong #TheoryHedonism #PoliticsCapitalismConsumerism #IRLAuthorAldousHuxley #1932_BraveNewWorld #IRLAuthorNeilPostman #1988_TheyLive #1985_AmusingOurselvesToDeath #MetaphorBigBrother
#OrgIntlSovereignCitizenMovementSovCits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_citizen_movement #OrgUSFirstAmendmentAudit1AAuditsAKAFrauditor i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_audit #LegislationUS1789ConstAmendment1AFirst #PhenomnUnemployed #OtheringOutGroupAntiVaxxer #CatchcryRepealSecondAmendmentRepeal2A #LegislationUS1791ConstAmdt2RightToBearArms #ConspiracyTheoryFlatEarth #TauntNutJob #OtheringOutGroupIncel #SlurGenderCriticalFeminismTERF #PoliticsFascism #TauntCultureCancel #OtheringHateAntisemitism #PoliticsPatriotism #CharacterisationInsurrectionist i.e. presumably, a reference to #2020_CapitolSiege ? #PoliticsLibertarianism
Supplementary: #AdvocacyUSSouthernPovertyLawCenterSPLC "The sovereign citizen movement continued to see membership growth in 2022. The QAnon conspiracy theory that initially brought new people into the movement has remained a gateway into sovereign citizenship. A new group, which calls itself Life Force Network, is a fusion of Q-centric conspiracy theories, science fiction and fake alternative governments and courts called sovereign citizen 'assemblies.' The organization's main villain is 'The Order,' which they describe as an international group that has 'dominion over the governments' and is made up of regular antigovernment bogeymen such as the Rockefellers, the Rothchilds and seemingly fictional characters such as the Annuanake, and Dragon Families." https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/sovereign-citizens-movement #ConspiracyTheoryCabalLifeForceNetwork #ConspiracyTheoryCabalQAnon #2022_ #ConspiracyTheoryNewWorldOrderNWO ? #OrgUSRockefellerFoundation #ConspiracyTheoryCabalRothschildDynasty #FictionalCharacterAnnuanake i.e. https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Annunake
#TauntFlagWaving UK #PoliticsPatriotism identity #OrgUKBAF
tweet responding to #MagazineUKTheSpectatorDouglasMurray promoting his #WebsiteUnHerd article https://unherd.com/2021/06/the-hatred-behind-stop-funding-hate/ criticising #CauseStopFundingHate for their attacks on #NMUKGBNews.
The tweet references https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/06/16/brexit-boycott-gb-news-big-business-has-made-fatal-error-declaring/ #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphAllisterHeath about potential consequences for #TauntBigBusinessCorporateCorporations of them demonstrating their #TheoryPerformativeCorporateAllyship
#TheoryInstrumentalism argument where the overt acts of those behind GBNews (namely #NMUKGBNewsAndrewNeil's declaration of a 'war on woke', which is commonly understood to be justification for attacking liberal and progressive values) are seen as inconsequential to their future efforts and that efforts to stall the spread are condemned as being #PoliticsFascism. The argument against the supposed #TauntVirtueSignalling of so-called #TauntLefties is a #MetaphorDavidAndGoliath one i.e. seeking to imbue GBNews with allusions related to newborn innocence and frailty against the unjust challenge of StopFundingHate activism.
Context: "GB News has secured £60m in funding in order to make it to the airwaves. Of this, £20m came from the American media company Discovery (the people behind such channels as Discovery Channel, Science Channel, TLC, Food Network and Animal Planet). The remaining money came from two other sources; British hedge fund manager Paul Marshall, and Legatum, a private investment firm which is based in Dubai." https://metro.co.uk/2021/06/16/gb-news-who-is-funding-the-channel-and-how-does-it-make-money-14782333/ #BrandATTWarnerMediaDiscovery #IRLBusinesspersonPaulMarshall #AdvocacyAELegatumInstitute
Supplementary: "GB News backer and hedge fund tycoon Sir Paul Marshall is set to be announced as the new owner of the 'bible' of the Conservative Party, The Spectator magazine, within the next week according to Politico.
Marshall, who also founded the online magazine UnHerd and is a major investor in GB News, has been in exclusive talks to acquire the publication for about a month, Politico reported on Tuesday (3rd September)." https://bylinetimes.com/2024/09/03/the-bored-millionaire-buying-up-britains-right-wing-media-paul-marshall-set-to-buy-the-spectator/ #2024_ #MagazineAUTheSpectator #OrgClassifPPUKConservatives #WebsitePolitico #AdvocacyAELegatumInstituteChristopherChandler i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Chandler_(businessman)
#1941_EscapeFromFreedom
"of these arguments has become apparent. We have been compelled to recognize that millions in Germany were as eager to surrender their freedom as their fathers were to fight for it; that instead of wanting freedom, they sought for ways of escape from it; that other millions were indifferent and did not believe the defense of freedom to be worth fighting and dying for. We also recognize that the crisis of democracy is not a peculiarly Italian or German problem, but one confronting every modern state. Nor does it matter which symbols the enemies of human freedom choose: freedom is not less endangered if attacked in the name of anti- Fascism than in that of outright Fascism."
#PoliticsDemocracy
#ToponymEuropeGermany
#ToponymEuropeItaly
#PoliticsFascism
#NarrativeWarWWII
Supplementary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_from_Freedom
#1982_TheWall #MetaphorConformitySheepSheeple? #PoliticsFascism? uniformity?
Context: "Pink Floyd - The Wall is a 1982 British live-action/animated psychological horror musical film directed by Alan Parker, based on the 1979 Pink Floyd album The Wall. The screenplay was written by Pink Floyd vocalist and bassist Roger Waters." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Floyd_%E2%80%93_The_Wall
#NarrativeWarWWII #1944_ #CharacterisationWeaknessHypersensitivity #CharacterisationWeaknessFragility #PowerControlMicrofascismMicroaggression #OtheringHateXenophobia #PhenomnBigotry #PoliticsFascismNazi #IdentityLGBTQIATransTranny #PoliticsFascism
Context: the tweeter seems to have a bit of a #TheoryPoliticsOfFearPersecutionComplex I note that they equate voting to 'leave' in the #2016_ #PhenomnBrexit referendum as #PoliticsPatriotism identity.ic
Supplementary: given this, I wonder what their perspective is on #IRLHistoricalFigureWinstonChurchill given his ardent support for a 'United States of Europe' i.e. https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1946-1963-elder-statesman/united-states-of-europe/ AND https://europeanmovement.eu/churchill-a-founding-father-of-the-european-union-would-vote-to-remain/ AND https://europa.eu/european-union/sites/default/files/docs/body/winston_churchill_en.pdf
"Troops from the 101st Airborne with full packs and a bazooka, in a C-47 just before take-off from RAF Upottery Airfield to Normandy, France for 'Operation Chicago'. June 5, 1944."
Context: #OrgUSFedAFMArmy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/101st_Airborne_Division #OrgCAFCanadianArmy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Canadian_Parachute_Battalion
Supplementary: #IRLColouristMarinaAmaral https://marinamaral.com/dday-75-in-color-june-6-1944/
"British paratroops of the 6th Airborne Division aboard an aircraft en route to their drop site during the D-Day Invasion of Normandy, World War II, June 6, 1944." #OrgUKBAFBritishArmy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th_Airborne_Division_(United_Kingdom)
#CatchcryDisagreementIsTreason #IRLJournalistIainOverton https://bylinetimes.com/2021/02/12/ur-fascism-the-parliamentary-language-that-defines-the-uk/ #PhenomnRhetoricPolitical #PoliticsNationalism #IRLScholarUmbertoEco #EDUUKUniversityOfHuddersfield https://hansard.hud.ac.uk/site/index.php #OrgUKGovParliamentHouseOfCommonsHoC #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesTories #PoliticsFascism #IdentityBritish #_Focal
Supplementary: #WebsiteTheConversationAurelienMondon and #WebsiteTheConversationAlexYates "Calling the far right 'populist' keeps us in our inertia. To activate the appropriate sense of urgency needed to defeat these trends, we must be honest about the kind of politics that we see in front of us. If the far right proudly wears the badge of 'populism', we must ask how it helps them. They know it grants them legitimacy. Why, then, should we play into the hands of extremists whose loathing of democracy has been repeatedly demonstrated?" https://theconversation.com/the-word-populism-is-a-gift-to-the-far-right-four-reasons-why-we-should-stop-using-it-224488 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/02633957211007053 #PhenomnPopulism #PoliticsFascismNaziNeoFarRightAltRightRadicalRight #PhenomnIdeologicallyMotivatedViolentExtremismIMVE
#PhenomnPopulism #PhenomnCensorship
Supplementary: "The concept of populism has in recent years inspired much debate and much confusion. It has been described variously as a pathology, a style, a syndrome and a doctrine. Others have raised doubts as to whether the term has any analytical utility, concluding that it is simply too vague to tell us anything meaningful about politics. Drawing on recent developments in the theoretical literature, it is argued that populism should be regarded as a 'thin' ideology which, although of limited analytical use on its own terms, nevertheless conveys a distinct set of ideas about the political which interact with the established ideational traditions of full ideologies." Stanley, B. (2008). 'The thin ideology of populism.' Journal of Political Ideologies 13(1): 95-110. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569310701822289
#EDUUSYaleUniversityJasonStanley #MetaphorWarfareCultureLiberalEducation #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianTomMcCarthy "The normalization of the fascist myth 'makes us able to tolerate what was once intolerable by making it seem as if this is the way things have always been', Stanley writes. 'By contrast the word 'fascist' has acquired a feeling of the extreme, like crying wolf.'" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/15/how-fascism-works-jason-stanley-review-trump #PoliticsFascism
#TauntLeftwaffe #OrgClassifPPUKLabour
The use of BLM protests to illustrate #PoliticsFascism expresses the #TheoryAffectiveResponsePanic that #PoliticsConservatismSocialSoCon.s feel about #IdentityIndigenousBlackPeopleOfColourBIPOC having rights/being accepted as equals clearly evokes a #OtheringDiscriminationRacism narrative. #SlurAntiWhite
This is a wake up call for #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOP.s by #IRLFilmmakerMatthewCooke #2020_CapitolSiege
#TauntProgressivesRespond to #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump's #ConspiracyTheoryStolenElectionBigLie about the supposed 2020 US electoral fraud and misconceptions about #CauseAntifa etc. #PoliticsFascism + #OrgClassifGrpMilitiaUSProudBoys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qud-CiuJTnI
Supplementary: #WebsiteDemocracyNowAmyGoodman and #WebsiteDemocracyNowNermeenShaikh talk to #IRLScholarNoamChomsky i.e. https://www.democracynow.org/2021/12/30/noam_chomsky_on_rising_fascism_in #PoliticsFascismNaziNeoFarRightAltRightRadicalRight #PhenomnSkepticismScience #PoliticsFascismProto
#BrandValuetainmentPatrickBetDavid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za34H-dT8I0 #IRLActivistYeonmiPark #ToponymAsiaEastNorthKorea #OrgClassifPPKPWorkersPartyOfKoreaKimJongUn #PoliticsFascism #PoliticsCommunism #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump
Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Bet-David
#PoliticsFascismNaziPartySwastika
Context: "Members of the League of German Girls wave Nazi flags in support of the German annexation of Austria, in Vienna, March 1938" https://www.thejewishstar.com/stories/vienna-hs-recalls-harsh-shoah-truth,17169 #ToponymEuropeAustriaVienna #1938_ #PoliticsFascismNaziBundDeutscherMadelBDM i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_German_Girls
#FictionalCharacterTylerDurden is a fictional character (narrator) in the #1999_FightClub book/film. #FictionalCharacterTylerDurden #MetaphorDissenterRebelOutsider
#MetaphorVersusRightWingLeftWing
#PhenomnRhetoricMetaphor #IRLPhilosopherPaulRicoeur
http://artsandfaith.com/index.php?/topic/31289-examples-of-cinematic-parables/
#CharacterisationOversimplification / #ReasoningFallacyFalseEquivalence
#MetaphorDivideAndConquer
#PhenomnPolemic
#PoliticsCommunism
#PoliticsFascism
#PoliticsFascismNazi
#PoliticsFascismNaziPartyAdolfHitler
#IRLDictatorJosephStalin
Meme source: #WebsiteTheFreeThoughtProject i.e. https://TheFreeThoughtProject.com/about-us/
#AphorismLearningFromHistory #PoliticsCommunism #PoliticsSocialism #TauntLeftHardFar
Addendum: the tweet implies a #MetaphorVersusRightWingLeftWing dichotomy through attributing the consequences of #OrgClassifPPCNChineseCommunistPartyCCP #PoliticsAuthoritarianismAutocracyTotalitarianism exclusively to #TauntLeftThe interests (as if actual #PoliticsFascism is impossible).
#ToponymAsiaChinaBeijingTiananmenSquare #1989_TiananmenSquareMassacre #OrgIntlAmnestyInternational
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpFjw6b_yak
"It has been over 33 years since hundreds if not thousands of unarmed peaceful pro-democracy protesters were killed in Beijing and the arrest of tens of thousands of demonstrators in cities across China.
The protesters, based in Tiananmen Square in central Beijing, were peacefully calling for political and economic reform. In response, the Chinese authorities responded with overwhelming force to repress the demonstrations.
Military units were brought in and unarmed protesters and onlookers were killed en masse. The Chinese government has never acknowledged the true events surrounding the Tiananmen massacre. It remains a contentious topic in China, with authorities banning all mention of the protest even today.
The Chinese authorities want everyone to forget that they killed hundreds, if not thousands, of unarmed peaceful pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989." https://www.amnesty.org.uk/china-1989-tiananmen-square-protests-demonstration-massacre (18 May 2023).
#IRLPhotographerStuartFranklin
Context: #NMUSCNN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeFzeNAHEhU&t=13s
"A CNN crew covering the June 5, 1989, protests in Beijing recorded a man stopping a Chinese tank in Tiananmen Square."
#LiteralWeaponTank
#ToponymAsiaChinaBeijing
#AdvocacyUSRANDCorporationChristopherPaul and #AdvocacyUSRANDCorporationMiriamMatthews, The Russian 'Firehose of Falsehood' Propaganda Model: Why It Might Work and Options to Counter It. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2016. https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html #TheoryAlternativeFacts #MetaphorDeceitLugenpresseFakeNews #MetaphorDeceitFakeReality #TheoryFirehoseOfFalsehood
Context: #IRLScholarTimothySnyder https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1844108355590 #ConspiracyTheoryStolenElectionBigLie #TheoryPeriodizationPostTruth Pre #PoliticsFascism #IdentityLGBTQIATransTranny #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #PhenomnCoupDEtatPutsch #TauntImpeachment #TheoryAffectiveResponseIncitementOfInsurrection #OtheringDiscriminationRacism #PoliticsNationalism #OtheringLegitimacyQuestioning #PoliticsGeoExceptionalismAmerican #CauseEquality #_Focal
Supplementary: In this fallacy one argues, 'I feel it, so it must be true. My feelings are valid, so you have no right to criticize what I say or do, or how I say or do it.' This latter is also a fallacy of stasis, confusing a respectful and reasoned response or refutation with personal invalidation, disrespect, prejudice, bigotry, sexism, homophobia or hostility. ...
'Alternate Facts' work to 'put you off balance,' 'control the story,' and 'make you think you're crazy,' and she notes that 'presenting alternate facts is the hallmark of untrustworthy people.' The Alternative Truth fallacy is related to the Big Lie Technique. See also Gaslighting, Blind Loyalty, The Big Brain/Little Brain Fallacy, and Two Truths https://utminers.utep.edu/omwilliamson/ENGL1311/fallacies.htm #IRLPhilosopherHannahArendt #ReasoningFallacyAffective #TauntGaslighting #MemeSmallBrainYellingAtBigBrain #OtheringDenialPrejudice
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/01/28/bullshit-asymmetry-principle/
#NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesEzraKlein
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8QLgLfqh6s&t=17s #NMUSPublicBroadcastingServicePBSFrontline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm5xxlajTW0&t=5205s (17 March 2019). #IRLPoliticalStrategistSteveBannon
#TauntWoke use to denote #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated (or some other confused description). #IdentityWhite #IdentityClassBlueCollar #IdentityLGBTQIA #TheoryDeclinism #PhenomnAccountSuspension
Supplementary: nostalgiaic, #TheoryRevisionismHistorical, which #IRLScholarBasilBernstein understands: retrospective "identities use as resources narratives of the past which provide exemplars, criteria, belonging and . ... This provides for an unambiguous, stable, intellectually impervious, collective identity. This consumes the self in all its manifestations and gives it a site outside of current and future instabilities, beyond current ambiguities of judgement, relation and conduct" (Basil Bernstein 2000, p.74). http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=535 #TheoryRetrospectiveIdentities
Bernstein, Basil. (2000). 'Pedagogy Symbolic Control and Identity, Theory Research Critique'. Oxford, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Addendum: #PoliticsFascismUltraPalingenetic i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palingenetic_ultranationalism ?
Context: using the Roman #SymbolFasces i.e. a bound bundle of wooden rods surrounding an axe. The symbol appears on the US Mercury dime, which was struck between 1916 to 1945. It's worth noting that the symbol was the inspiration for #PoliticsFascism. #SymbolEmblemFlagUSBetsyRoss
[screen name not defined]: This blatant #Hypocrisy from his base is maddening- anyone who votes for #trump is the least bit #woke.. #trump is definitely getting his moves from the #meinkampf playbook and the throngs of ignorants are very easily bought and swayed. This is sad to watch https://t.co/ol87BSkGEO
Criticism of the #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump's appropriation of #IdentityAmericanBlackAndAfrican civil rights symbolism i.e. #TauntWoke. In doing so, referring to #1925_MeinKampf and the Trump campaign's manipulative/deceptive counter-narratives used to persuade those who were critical of #PoliticsFascism e.g. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/03/how-nazi-propaganda-encouraged-the-masses-to-co-produce-a-false-reality.html #PoliticsFascismNazi #PoliticsFascismNaziPartyAdolfHitler
'sell-out' claim used as a scarcity tactic to promote campaign merchandise sales.
Sales pitch designed to provoke Trump supporters to purchase a #PleaWoke2020 #LiteralBaseballCap as an expression of their support for his presidential campaign.