Archive for far-right
[fa]rage against the mankind
Posted in Books, Kids, Statistics, Travel with tags anti-immigrant mob, Brexit, Brexit Party, Britain, councillors, England, Enoch Powell, Europe, far-right, far-right ideology, local elections, Nigel Farage, rage against the machine, The Guardian, UK, UK politics, UKIP, xenophobia on May 11, 2026 by xi'an
with allies like these, no need for enemies
Posted in Books, pictures, Travel with tags Donald Trump, electoral posters, embezzlment, EU, European Parliament, far-right, France, French elections, French politics, JD Vance, justice, Marine Le Pen, National Front, populism, Russian invasion on April 5, 2025 by xi'an
“More and more European capitals are going down the path of trampling over democratic norms. Of course, we do not want to interfere in France’s internal affairs, we have never done so… But in general, our observations of European capitals show that they are not at all reluctant to go beyond democracy during the political process.” Dmitry Peskov
“I know all about it and a lot of people thought she wasn’t going to be convicted for anything. She was banned for five years and she was the leading candidate. That sounds like this country, that sounds very much like this country.” Donald Trump
“I don’t know Marine Le Pen, but do appreciate how hard she worked for so many years. She suffered losses, but kept on going, and now, just before what would be a Big Victory, they get her on a minor charge that she probably knew nothing about – Sounds like a ‘bookkeeping’ error to me. It is all so bad for France, and the Great French People, no matter what side they are on.” Donald Trump
“[Marine Le Pen] is leading in some sociological surveys and they are trying to put her in prison for a very minor charge, which, by the way, concerns her employees, not Marine Le Pen herself. They want to put her in prison and remove her from the elections. Is this democracy?” JD Vance
“When the radical left can’t win via democratic vote, they abuse the legal system to jail their opponents. This is their standard playbook throughout the world [sic].” Elon Musk
“Je suis Marine!” Viktor Orban
“No one who truly believes in democracy can rejoice over a sentence that strikes the leader of a major party down, depriving millions of citizens of their representation.” Giorgia Meloni
“I am shocked by the incredible [sic] tough verdict against [Marine Le Pen]. I support and believe in her for the full 100% and I trust she will win the appeal and become President of France.” Geert Wilders
“The choice to dismiss an elected official should only belong to the people.” Jean-Luc Mélanchon
“Those who fear the judgment of the voters often find reassurance in the judgment of the courts. In Paris they condemned Marine Le Pen and would like to exclude her from political life. A bad film that we are also seeing in other countries such as Romania.” Matteo Salvini
1984 or 2025 [newspeak]
Posted in Books, pictures, Travel with tags 1984, AfD, anti-abortion organisations, Chornobyl, conservatism, democracy, Чорнобиль, far-right, George Orwell, JD Vance, Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz, MSC 2025, Munich, Munich Security Conference, Newspeak, nuclear power plant, reproductive rights, safety zones, Scotland, Solidarity with Ukraine, Stand Up To Trump, The Guardian, Trump administration, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, welcome to Scotland on February 28, 2025 by xi'an
[Quotes from J.D. Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference, on 14 Feb 2025, a perfect Orwellian achievement in newspeak!]
“It looks more and more like old entrenched interests hiding behind ugly Soviet era words like misinformation and disinformation, who simply don’t like the idea that somebody with an alternative viewpoint might express a different opinion, or, God forbid, vote a different way, or, even worse, win an election”
“…when we see European courts cancelling elections and senior officials threatening to cancel others, we ought to ask whether we’re holding ourselves to an appropriately high standard. (…) If your democracy can be destroyed with a few hundred thousand dollars of digital advertising from a foreign country, then it wasn’t very strong to begin with”
“There is no room for firewalls [against the far-right AfD] People dismissing voters’ concerns, shutting down their media, protects nothing. It is the most surefire way to destroy democracy.”
“I look to Brussels, where E.U. Commission commissars warn citizens that they intend to shut down social media during times of civil unrest the moment they spot what they judge to be ‘hateful content,’ or to [Germany], where police have carried out raids against citizens suspected of posting anti-feminist comments online as part of ‘combating misogyny.’”
“in Britain and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat (…) the United Kingdom backslide away from conscience rights has placed the basic liberties of religious Britons in particular in the crosshairs”
“The Scottish government has begun distributing letters to citizens whose houses lay within so-called safe access zones, warning them that even private prayer within their own homes may amount to breaking the law. The government urged readers to report any fellow citizens suspected guilty of thought crime in Britain and across Europe.”
Blitzkrieg [gegen Demokratie]
Posted in Books, pictures, Travel with tags 06 January 2021, anti-abortion organisations, BJP, blitzkrieg, democracy, far-right, federal agencies, Federal Government, federalism, Narendra Modi, National Prayer Breakfast, nationalism, Project 2025, religious right, riots, The Guardian, The New York Times, Trump administration, US Constitution, US elections 2024, US politics, White House on February 15, 2025 by xi'an
“The stream of transparently lawless executive orders — to make it easier to fire federal officials, to freeze spending that the president cannot freeze, to take away a right to citizenship that is written into the Constitution, to name just three — tell us in no uncertain terms that this administration has no intention of respecting the law or the Constitution.” NYT Feb 07
The frantic and unhindered pace at which the Trump regime is drifting away from democratic principles is both shocking despite the low expectations attached to the elected President, and terrifying. The demolition of the rules of law and of the Federal Government services seems to proceed like a bread-knife through butter.
“But it is important to understand that the anti-democratic movement is not monolithic. In fact, it isn’t even coherent. One part of the program answers to the oligarchs (…) Another part of the program is the work of fanatics (…) The Christian nationalist ideologues who supply much of the rest of the ideology of the movement are no less extreme.” NYT Feb 07
Every aspect of society and most of the planet are impacted, from the disengagement from international institutions and treaties, to the utter disregard for nation sovereignty (beside the USA!, of course) and the right of people to choose their own way. Making the Orange Menace turning more and more into the past and current fascist leaders he admires so much. By cancelling one way or another legal counter-powers, sapping all levels of federal administrations and agencies, buying out media or threatening them by a flurry and fury of frivolous suits, releasing and pardoning rioters, forcing entry into and sometimes deleting crucial or confidential data, turning the army into an auxiliary police force, in scapegoating more and more categories.
“The executive order is meant to reverse what it calls an `egregious pattern of targeting peaceful Christians, while ignoring violent, anti-Christian offenses’ under President Joseph R. Biden Jr. It cited the convictions of anti-abortion demonstrators for blocking access to abortion clinics.” NYT Feb 07
The most recent attempt at specifically “protecting” Christian activists (announced during the National Prayer Breakfast!) is yet another illustration of the Trumpian multi-tiered vision of the society, where different groups get different rights, some being “more equal than others”, under the pretence of protecting those groups. This is very similar to the argument used by Modi and the BJP in India.
What Just Happened in France Is Astounding [reposted]
Posted in Kids, pictures with tags abstention, cohabitation, diversity, Emmanuel Macron, far-right, French parliement, French politics, Frente Popular, Front National, inclusion, National Assembly, national unity, nationalism, NYT, opinion, populism, République, snap elections, snap vote, The New York Times on July 9, 2024 by xi'an
