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LAS14

(13,783 posts)
Tue Nov 29, 2022, 12:23 PM Nov 2022

I hope all the MSM follows Rachel's example.

We've all heard about Trump's Thanksgiving dinner guests, but until last night, when Rachel played what felt like a lengthy set of clips of what Fuentes has said I didn't realize that I could still be shocked, and that the "ultra far right" was as crazy and vicious as he was. We should all understand the content of what he is espousing. It can't be conveyed second hand.

I wish I knew how to get URLs to clips of TV shows. If anyone can point us to that bit from last night's show, please do.

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onetexan

(13,043 posts)
8. omigosh while listening to Rachel's show highlights this morning i was so sickened by this bigot i
Tue Nov 29, 2022, 02:05 PM
Nov 2022

had to mute him. It was so upsetting the horror he was spewing in public. And this is the guy whom the con invited to dinner. Such fine people!

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onecaliberal

(32,863 posts)
4. I posted clips yesterday of that animal. I was shocked.
Tue Nov 29, 2022, 01:14 PM
Nov 2022

People need to see that video of him saying that we need to be made to comply. This is really bad.

Prairie_Seagull

(3,329 posts)
5. And unfortunately the "ultra far right" is inching maybe jogging toward the center.
Tue Nov 29, 2022, 01:17 PM
Nov 2022

Hard to run while dragging knuckles.

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
7. He believes the govt should FORCE people to BELIEVE in his religion.
Tue Nov 29, 2022, 01:47 PM
Nov 2022

You must be Catholic.
You should get married as a teenager and make lots of babies because no birth control.
Women cannot vote.
Women cannot work.
No LGBTQ.

Hekate

(90,714 posts)
10. And the dear boy self-identifies as an incel. I notice he's sure all up in other people's business.
Tue Nov 29, 2022, 03:06 PM
Nov 2022

Hekate

(90,714 posts)
9. Jon Stewart invented this method when he anchored The Daily Show, to spectacular effect...
Tue Nov 29, 2022, 03:04 PM
Nov 2022

Once I discovered him back during the Bush/Cheney admin, he became must-watch news for me. On the Comedy Channel, of all places.

I hoped like anything that the “real news” would pick up on it, and some finally did — after years. Some of the best practitioners are people like Nicolle Wallace and Rachel Maddow.

Lonestarblue

(10,011 posts)
14. I stopped being shocked by people like this a few years ago when Milo Yiannopolous was invited
Tue Nov 29, 2022, 03:43 PM
Nov 2022

to speak at CPAC. He is a truly depraved individual, just as Fuentes is. In case you don’t recall, Yiannopolous gained fame for his white supremacy but also for claiming that sex between adult men and minors was perfectly healthy and should be legal. He has faded away more recently, though he’s probably still active in radical right-wing circles. He also claimed that statutory rape was impossible so long as a minor had “mature” sex organs.

Unfortunately, too many people in this country regard those like Fuentes as fringe people whose ideas will never be acted on—just as they dismissed fringe ideas that the SC would overturn Roe v. Wade. If enough people choose to buy their heads in the sand, those ideas can and will be acted on. Hitler didn’t achieve power just from people who actively supported him. A lot of Germans just did not see—or chose not to see—the threat until it was too late.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
15. Note that they chose not to show Fuentes' comments on Jews.
Tue Nov 29, 2022, 03:46 PM
Nov 2022

They really are so vile they make the ones she did show comparatively decent and restrained.

Btw, for those who don't know it, there is no Jewish race -- race is a hate meme used to jet-fuel its virulence. Jewish religion spread across the continents, and among the races, of Europe, Asia and Africa thousands of years ago, just as the Christian and Muslim religions did when they developed later.

We were rather disappointed to discover that my Jewish husband's genetically apparently entirely European, a bit of a damper on romantic imaginings of forebears traveling the world's trade routes long before Marco Polo set out for China.

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