The ongoing Dominion saga took yet another dramatic turn Sunday as a National Zero investigation of their corporate website revealed the company owns and operates four nuclear power generating facilities on the East Coast of the United States. The facilities are the Surry and North Anna Nuclear Power Stations in Virginia, the Virgil C Summer Nuclear Station in South Carolina, and the Millstone Power Station in Connecticut, each of them capable of unfathomable destruction.

“It turns out ignoring bedrock environmental laws may not have been the best choice for a multibillion dollar construction project. Photos show former President Trump’s border wall in deep disrepair after summer monsoon rains literally blew floodgates off their hinges.”

“The damage took place near San Bernardino Ranch, a historic site that sits between Douglas, Arizona, and the San Bernardino Wildlife Refuge. Much of the West is suffering through a deep megadrought, but the monsoon rains that have swept across parts of the Southwest this summer have doused the southern half of Arizona with record-setting rains. Douglas has seen nearly double its average monsoon season rainfall so far, including a blast that came through on Monday and unleashed flooding on the Arizona-Sonora border. The National Weather Service data shows 2.15 inches (5.5 centimeters) of rain fell, which in turn funneled into washes and drove flooding. José Manuel Pérez Cantú, the director of the nonprofit Cuenca de Los Ojos, said in an email that six gates were washed out at this location alone. Other gates were also reportedly impacted by the heavy rainfall and flooding. The power and height of the waters can be seen in not just the heavy gates ripped open but the debris that wrapped around intact portions of the wall” – Gizmodo.

“Tropical Storm Henri made landfall at 12:15 p.m. on Sunday near Westerly, Rhode Island, according to the National Hurricane Center, as thousands of people already without power braced for the full effect of the storm,” reports NBCNews.com. “The National Hurricane Center reported 60 mph winds at the time the storm made landfall.”

This essay is a return to the “Unified Theory of Fascism Series”. I took several weeks to address other topics in my weekly blog posts, and will now be continuing with this series for several weeks more. In-text links in this article refer to arguments presented in other articles in this series. References to works by other authors are cited in APA format.

Earlier essays in this series mentioned how conspiracy theories function as “grievance narratives” that appeal to the neurotic authoritarian by providing him with a means of externalizing his feelings of social and economic frustration. Individuals with authoritarian tendencies tend to undergo a “split” between the elements of the psyche, so that the id and the ego ally against the learned values of the super-ego.

“The Hawaii lieutenant governor watched in horror as protesters showed up outside his condo, yelled at him through bullhorns and beamed strobe lights into the building to harass him over vaccine requirements. Since Hawaii announced a mandate earlier this month that state and county workers would have to show proof of vaccination or face weekly tests, 50 to 100 unmasked vaccine opponents have gathered almost nightly outside the downtown Honolulu condominium building where Lt. Gov. Josh Green lives with his wife and two children, ages 14 and 10. Some yell into bullhorns and shine strobe lights into apartment units, Green said. Flyers with his photo and the words ‘Jew’ and ‘fraud’ have been plastered around the neighborhood. Green, who is Jewish, has been tearing them down and turning them over to the state attorney general’s office.”

“He understands the right to protest, but not why demonstrators subject bystanders to such rage. ‘They should protest me at my place of work, where I’m the lieutenant governor,’ Green said. ‘But it’s different than flashing a strobe light into a 90-year-old woman’s apartment or a strobe light into a family’s apartment, where they have two kids under age 4.’ Ironically, Green wasn’t home during a recent intense weekend of protests. He was on the Big Island working on his other job as an emergency room doctor and treating mostly COVID-19 patients during a record surge in coronavirus hospitalizations in the state. ‘I will personally be taking care of these individuals in the hospital as their doctor when they get sick from refusing to wear masks and refusing to be vaccinated'” – AP.

CNN: “The company that conducted Arizona’s sham review of the 2.1 million ballots cast in Maricopa County during the 2020 presidential election is set Monday to deliver a report detailing their findings to the Republican state senators who ordered it up. Elections experts in both parties have said for months that results of the so-called ‘audit’ – conducted by the Florida-based company Cyber Ninjas, which had no experience auditing election results and is led by a man who has repeated wild conspiracy theories about election fraud – will not be credible.”

“The company and its volunteers and subcontractors did not follow standard auditing procedures. Observers from Democratic secretary of state Katie Hobbs’ office have repeatedly noted instances in which those conducting the audit have broken their own rules. And the partisan nature of the audit and its funders – $5.7 million came from outside, conservative sources, compared to just $150,000 from the Arizona state Senate, which ordered the audit – has long cast serious doubt on its credibility. No matter the results of the audit, the reality that Joe Biden is president and won Arizona’s 11 electoral votes last year will not change.”

There’s been a lot of chatter lately about how Conservative intellectuals’ (and pseudo-intellectuals’) contempt for America the way it is now is kind of turning into contempt for America altogether. From Tucker Carlson’s smash hit weeklong stand in autocrat Viktor Orban’s Hungary, to American Greatness dickweed Chris Roach’s recent column gushing over the 20th century fascism-lite Salazar regime in Portugal, to all sorts of other evidence hyperbole like “MAGA Reich” isn’t so hyperbolic anymore, it’s clear these dudes are starting to warm up to the idea that Democracy is incompatible with a secure White Christian hegemony over American politics and culture.

And we totally understand. Losing is hard. Like a kid who throws his Xbox controller at the dog just because he got pwned in Fortnite by some 27 year old incel who plays 15 hours a day or a crowd of angry “patriots” who savagely beat and even maim dozens of cops in a desperate attempt to stop an election from being certified, there’s a human tendency to act out in response to defeat and want to change the system. Every day since November 2020 and January 2021 these guys have been hurting emotionally over the loss of a GOP White House and Senate, and admitting they’d be happier in an autocracy is their way of coping. If that conclusion is wrong, then we welcome anyone to us what they think we’re supposed to take away a sentence like “To survive, we need to be committed to acquiring and using power in the service of a counterrevolution.”

At this point it’s more than safe to say fanboys like Kurt Schlichter, Michael Anton, Sohrab Ahmari, and their ilk aren’t being merely provocative anymore with this “fascism is cool man” talk.

You know what’s even cooler though? Xenomorphs.

“Two weeks ago, only two or three children a day would come into Dr. Nick Hysmith’s hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, with Covid-19, usually ones who were admitted for other reasons, like broken bones. This week, he is seeing as many as 28 children under 18 a day, some of them landing in the intensive care unit. Around the country, child hospitalizations for Covid-19 have increased to levels not seen since January, when U.S. cases and deaths were at their highest levels, according to the latest government data. Doctors in the hospitals hardest hit by the recent surge say the situation is worse than it was in January. As of Wednesday, U.S. hospitals were tending to an average of more than 1,200 children a day, twice the number from the end of July and four times from the start of July, according to an NBC News analysis of data released this week by the Department of Health and Human Services. The data show the U.S. facing another peak in child hospitalizations as the delta variant of the coronavirus hits communities hesitant to get vaccinated. And while unvaccinated adults are filling ICUs in parts of the South, minors in those areas are filling up the pediatric wings at an alarming pace” NBC News reports.

Making matters worse, Republican governors are doing everything they can to fight vaccine and mask mandates in their states. Anti-vax and anti-mask protests are growing violent in some parts of the country, and many local police departments that are heavily infiltrated by MAGA officers who are refusing to do their jobs and step in to stop the violence. Even when right wing extremists are arrested for crimes such as murder, they are often let out on bail and allowed to roam around the country, ignoring the terms of their pretrial release without penalty.

“Thank you Lord. I appreciate you not giving those sick people the good time they were looking for, and don’t deserve. Love you.”

– The current top comment on the Gateway Pundit article: “New York City’s ‘Homecoming’ Concert Abruptly Canceled Due to Lightning – 60,000 People Evacuated” posted Saturday night.

The Atlantic: “The best way to think about the Republican opposition to COVID-19 precautions might be as another manifestation of the surging feeling in the American conservative movement that it represents an embattled minority that needs to use the power of government to defend its independence. Public opinion consistently shows majority support for mask mandates and vaccine requirements, but several states, all of them GOP-led, have prohibited them. The minority’s insistence on opposing masks and vaccines privileges the individual rights of the few Americans who don’t want to take these steps over those of the collective mass of their compatriots who don’t want themselves or their loved ones to get sick. Although it might come as a surprise from reading news coverage, Americans actually broadly agree on many COVID-19 precautions. An Axios/Ipsos poll released Tuesday finds 69 percent of Americans support mandatory masking in schools, and 64 percent back mask requirements in public places.”

“Republicans are turning to government as a force to impose their will in situations where they have already lost the battle for popular opinion. The fight over COVID-19 echoes previous battles over preemption, such as gun regulation, transgender bathrooms, and immigration enforcement. Donald Trump thrust minority rule into the center of the Republican Party. He was elected president in 2016 with a minority of the popular vote, but has always purported to represent the true consensus of authentic Americans. (‘Silent majorities’ are, it turns out, just minorities.) When he was defeated in 2020 by an even larger popular-vote margin as well as in the Electoral College, his reaction – supported by many members of his party – was to attempt to have votes thrown out, and to allow the minority to override popular will. Many observers have interpreted support for Trump, even among those unlikely to concretely benefit from his policy positions, as a gesture of resentment: They are angry at someone (elites, liberals, the government, the establishment) for telling them how they ought to live. Trump might not materially improve their position, but he’s willing to stick it to those groups – and if that requires antidemocratic means, so be it.”

West is “beyond livid” with Dallas PD after his wife Angela was arrested for driving while intoxicated with a child passenger, which is a “state jail felony” in Texas. West claims Angela had only water and lemonade with her dinner at PF Chang’s and had been driving home with her grandson when she was pulled over in Dallas, adding he supports cops but “this is crap”. “Sounds like a political hit job to me, Allen” says the current top comment on the Instagram video.

“Things aren’t looking good for Germany’s conservative alliance just five weeks before election day, as it plunged to record lows in a new poll. In a poll released early Sunday, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Christian Social Union (CSU) conservative alliance dropped three percentage points, putting it neck and neck with the Social Democrats (SPD) – both at 22 percent. The INSA poll, conducted for the German publication Bild, is the lowest the alliance has ever fallen in the polling company’s analysis. It comes as Chancellor Angela Merkel joined fellow conservative Armin Laschet at a Berlin campaign event Saturday in an attempt to halt the alliance’s polling slide.”

“Laschet is hoping to replace Merkel as chancellor following the September 26 election, but his SPD opponent, Finance Minister Olaf Scholz, has been gaining ground in recent weeks. Merkel’s appearance Saturday was announced more than a week ago, following a survey putting the CDU/CSU alliance at 23 percent, down from 30 percent in less than a month. During her speech, Merkel called Laschet the ‘future federal chancellor'” – Politico EU.

Civil rights leader and former presidential candidate Jesse Jackson has been hospitalized in Chicago after being diagnosed with coronavirus.  Jackson’s 77-year-old wife, Jacqueline, is also hospitalized with the virus.

The 79-year-old Jackson has received a full-dose of coronavirus vaccination, the Chicago Tribune reports.

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The rally in the town of Klanston, Alabama, population: mostly related to each other, is being held in support of terrorist-sympathizer Mo Brooks’ Senate run, but expect less Brooks-related talk and more stolen election blah blah blah from the Orange God Emperor to his faithful.

Foam reselling empresario Mike Lindell, who claimed that Donald Trump would be reinstalled on at least four different dates, now claims the non-Constitutional reinstallation will happen sometime in 2022, likely during the midterm elections.

Phil Valentine, a conservative Nashville-based radio host whose program was broadcast on more than 100 stations nationwide, died Saturday of coronavirus six weeks after he announced that he had contracted the virus but that he was “on the other side” of the infection, Rolling Stone reports

Valentine announced July 11th that he had contracted the coronavirus, but stated about ten days later that he had recovered.  “I think I’m on the other side of it,” Valentine said of the virus during a brief return to his radio show July 22nd, as he described coughing, congestion, and fatigue that “hurts like crap.”  One day later, he was readmitted to the hospital and put on a ventilator.

The 61-year-old radio host had frequently dismissed the danger of the pandemic, and crafted a parody song called “The Vaxman” to demean the vaccine.  The parody featured the line, “Let me tell you how it will be, and I don’t care if you agree, Cause I’m the Vaxman, yeah I’m the Vaxman. If you don’t like me coming round, be thankful I don’t hold you down.”

Philadelphia Inquirer: “Pennsylvania Republicans are feuding anew over their pursuit of an Arizona-style partisan review of the 2020 election, with a top GOP lawmaker criticizing a leading election denier in the state and saying he remains committed to the kind of probe that former President Donald Trump has long demanded. Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman on Friday lashed out at fellow Sen. Doug Mastriano, a top proponent of the review. Corman said Mastriano failed to get the job done and that he will tap another senator to take up the cause.”

“Corman’s rebuke came a day after Mastriano said on Facebook that ‘the powers that be’ had stopped him from pursuing an investigation. And Mastriano told the pro-Trump outlet OAN this week that Republican leaders in Harrisburg have ‘done nothing but stonewall me.’ Mastriano, a likely candidate for governor, sent letters to three counties last month demanding they turn over election-related equipment and ballots for the 2020 general election and 2021 primary. Each refused to comply, and Mastriano had said he planned to issue subpoenas through the committee he chairs. But weeks went by without a committee hearing, and the intra-party fight spilled into public view this week. Mastriano told OAN he tried to convene a meeting of the Senate Intergovernmental Operations Committee on Aug. 6, but Senate leadership canceled his reservation for a room in the Capitol. Mastriano said Corman also threatened to strip him of his chairmanship and fire his staff if he moved forward with a review. Jason Thompson, a spokesperson for Corman, said Mastriano’s ‘story about the committee room drama is little more than a contrived fairy tale.’ He said Mastriano’s Capitol staff “has been temporarily reassigned since Mastriano is more concerned with grandstanding than actually getting things done.’ On Friday, Corman said it was ‘deeply disappointing that Sen. Mastriano has retreated from conducting a forensic investigation of the election in Pennsylvania, and it is discouraging to realize that he was only ever interested in politics and showmanship and not actually getting things done.’

https://twitter.com/US_FDA/status/1429050070243192839

“Local sources in the northern Afghan province of Baghlan on Saturday said that public uprising forces had retaken three districts from Taliban control. The districts are Pul-e-Hesar, Banu and Deh Salah,” reports TOLO News. “Sources said there are reports of heavy casualties on both sides. This is the first instance of such fighting after the Taliban took control of Kabul following the fall of 33 out of 34 provinces.”