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The Republican Reich is moving at full speed to consolidate power as the Fuhrer makes appointees to its cabinet.  I’ve covered Bannon’s Nazi views before, but there a lot more you ought to know about him.  The position he will be occupying is the same one held by the infamous Karl Rove in the GW Bush Reich.  OMG!  I’m going to miss Rove Rat!

Anyone holding out hope that Donald Trump would govern as a uniter — that the racism, sexism, anti-Semitism and nativism of his campaign were just poses to pick up votes — should think again.

In an ominous sign of what the Trump presidency will actually look like, the president-elect on Sunday appointed Stephen Bannon as his chief White House strategist and senior counselor, an enormously influential post.

Many if not most Americans had never heard of Mr. Bannon before this weekend, and for good reason: He has kept a low profile, even after taking over Mr. Trump’s campaign in August. Before that, he worked as the executive chairman of the Breitbart News Network, parent company of the far-right website Breitbart News [Breitfart delinked], which under Mr. Bannon became what the Southern Poverty Law Center has called a “white ethno-nationalist propaganda mill.”

Mr. Bannon himself seems fine with that description, telling Mother Jones last summer that Breitbart was now “the platform for the alt-right,” a loosely organized group of mostly young men who believe in white supremacy; oppose immigration, feminism and multiculturalism; and delight in harassing Jews, Muslims and other vulnerable groups by spewing shocking insults on social media…

From <NY Times>

The Gray Lady as barely scratched the surface.  Rachel Maddow dissects his hateful background for us in horrifying detail!

I have only one word sufficiently vile for me to describe this evil monster.  Bannon is a Republican.

We have all seen how Vladimir Putin (R-RU) used his propaganda network, RT, to disseminate propaganda against Hillary Clinton, which was echoed by the seditious Jill Stein, the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, and eventually, the MSM, to influence the election.  We have documented that the Russian government not only admits, but crows about, their regular contacts with and assistance to the Trump campaign.  However, the coming Republican Reich also was aided through even more foreign interference.

It’s an eight-year-old story by now, but it bears repeating.  Many ignorant and profoundly naïve Americans actually thought racism was expunged from the population because a majority of the people elected an African American man to be their President in 2008. By now everyone except the conservatives on the Supreme Court realize that President Obama’s election brought the raging racial animus toward all people of color out in the open and gave white supremacist hate groups a newfound raisin  d’être; and a priceless recruitment tool to grow their ranks quickly.

After nearly eight years, those white supremacists found they had a racist champion running for the presidency and after 56-million other dirty white supremacists helped groups like the Ku Klux Klan put the man of their dreams in the White House there is an inspired, emboldened and grateful group of racists celebrating and thanking the people that contributed to America’s march toward repeating the atrocities of 1930’s Germany. And no, this column knows better than to make a comparison between the fascist American racists just voted for and the fascist responsible for World War II. It is never too late to begin conditioning oneself for the impending abolition of the 1st Amendment’s freedom of speech or the press.

It was not too surprising that the Ku Klux Klan is planning to celebrate the election of a racist as president by organizing a victory parade. A well-publicized parade is a newsworthy public form of gratitude to the American people who collectively took an important first step towards transforming the United States into an Aryan Christian paradise. What was slightly surprising was who first person an avowed racist and former Grand Wizard of the KKK thanked after losing his bid for the United States Senate.

Whatever disappointment he experienced at being rejected by voters, because David Duke is a dirty racist and white supremacist, was overshadowed by the ultimate thrill of learning that a fellow racist, white supremacist, and fascist had won the election for the White House. However, as reported by Snopes,  the first person David Duke expressed heartfelt gratitude to was not his fellow racists in the Klan or the so-called “alt-right Nazis” for their hard work and valuable assistance during the long Trump campaign, or the official KKK newspaper for a ringing endorsement for the racist Republicans chose to best represent the Party and the American people’s character. No, the first person David Duke thanked was a foreigner (Australian)…  that racist Duke supported and Assange helped install in the White House.

David Duke thanked Julian Assange for his hard work for the Trump campaign, but he stopped short of extending any gratitude to Russian Vladimir Putin… [emphasis added]

From <PoliticusUSA>

Now that we know about the close association between Assange and the Republican Reich, we must take everything from Wikileaks  with a grain of salt, and everything from Assange with a ton of shit.  Frankly, I hope the Ecuador, infamous for harboring Nazi criminals, has their London embassy turn him over to the Swedish authorities.

Gwen Ifill, a longtime PBS News anchor, died on Monday, November 14, WETA president and CEO Sharon Percy Rockefeller has confirmed. She was 61.

"I am very sad to tell you that our dear friend and beloved colleague Gwen Ifill passed away today in hospice care in Washington," Rockefeller wrote in an email to staff on Monday, Politico reports. "I spent an hour with her this morning and she was resting comfortably, surrounded by loving family and friends … Earlier today, I conveyed to Gwen the devoted love and affection of all of us at WETA/NewsHour. Let us hold Gwen and her family even closer now in our hearts and prayers."

The prominent African-American journalist, who moderated two vice president debates in 2004 and 2008, as well as a primary debate between Senator Bernie Sanders and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton earlier this year, took a leave of absence last week during the election and in May due to health issues related to cancer.

"Gwen was a standard bearer for courage, fairness and integrity in an industry going through seismic change. She was a mentor to so many across the industry and her professionalism was respected across the political spectrum. She was a journalist's journalist and set an example for all around her," PBS NewsHour executive producer Sara Just said in a statement to Politico. "So many people in the audience felt that they knew and adored her. She had a tremendous combination of warmth and authority. She was stopped on the street routinely by people who just wanted to give her a hug and considered her a friend after years of seeing her on TV. We will forever miss her terribly."

Ifill, who graduated from Simmons College in Boston, worked for The Washington Post, The New York Times and NBC before she first became a moderator for PBS’ Washington Week in Review in 1999. Ifill, who also penned best-selling book The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama, was scheduled to receive the 2016 John Chancellor Award from Columbia University on Wednesday, November 16.

All of the above is actually quoted from US Weekly.  This touches me personally as I have liked her for so long.  But it's also a grief that, at a time when there are so few journalists, we are losing one of the best.  My condolences to her family and everyone who knew and worked with her, particularly to Sharon Percy Rockefeller, with whom I resided in the same dorm when we were freshmen at Stanford.  I'm so sorry.

Cross posted to Care2 at http://www.care2.com/news/member/101612212/4021124