What a week! Richard Spencer spoke at Texas A&M and the world went mad. The press melted down when its analysis of the term Lügenpresse fell apart under further scrutiny. Forces within the American government are claiming that Donald Trump was elected because of a Russian hack whose description is both vague and unconvincing. Austria failed to go far-right, and Italy begins its exit from the wealth transfer and Americanization program known as the European Union. Nigel Farage is still cooler than cool, Donald Trump is still a moderate who believes in economic nationalism or limited protectionism including immigration restrictions, and Western Civilization is still in decline… and yet a new will appears to be born, one to not only patch up the existing System, but throw it out entirely and go back to a more organic way of life, paving the way for a salvation, restoration and advancement of Western Civilization. We have hope in the work of our hands, and faith in each other, again. Achtung!
To drive home his assertion, Weitz then tweeted out the symbol of Star Wars’ Rebellion movement with a safety pin attached — basically identifying the movie’s good guys with the social justice warriors opposing Trump. He captioned it, “Star Wars against hate. Spread it.â€
…Making the new Star Wars suffer at the box office over the attempts by its writers to inject an anti-Trump message into it would send a message to producers that alienating red states is not a profitable move. – “Why You Should #DumpStarWars,” by Scott Greer
Franks erroneously asserted that the term, which translates to “lying press,†was “coined in Nazi Germany,†when the word appeared in the title of a book as early as 1914, but is known to have been used for decades before this, even going back as far as the 1840s. – “Kassam Hits Back at BBC’s Nazi ‘Lugenpresse’ Revisionism,” Breitbart
From “Most Germans Think The Press Is Lying To Them About Refugees,” Der Spiegel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZIEkhboDxM
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