The Skinny: Threats, Fantasies, and Naked Corruption

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Assclown Fascism in America Marches On

News in the Pig Empire this week was dominated by Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and the GOP’s homicidal class war budget; which simultaneously meant that while Donald Trump wasn’t the main character for once, but his odious presence loomed over every story. The New York Times asked if popular children’s entertainer Ms. Rachel was an agent of Hamas, Alina Habba arrested an innocent Democrat Congresswoman to little media fanfare, and Downmarket Mussolini picked a fight with The Boss. The chaos was flying so fast you’d need a Golden Dome missile defense system to survive the barrage, and yet The Skinny was always there to bring you the analysis you won’t find on television. As always you can follow the links below to check out these stories on my Fediverse blog, or simply read them in their entirety on page two by using the navigation buttons at the bottom of this article.

 

May 16th – 23rd, 2025

The Hidden Power of Assclown Fascism

“The thing is, Der Leader didn’t stop typing after he mocked Springsteen’s skin; the President then proceeded to issue a demand for silence and a thinly-veiled threat to punish the again, famous liberal rock star, in unclear ways. Whether you want to talk about using the bully pulpit to try and suppress the constitutionally-protected free speech rights of a prominent critic, or the clear if undefined threat towards that same critic, this is fascist dictator shit and it’s illegal. So why exactly is the lead story in the vast majority of corporate media outlets “ha ha, Trump is such a pathetic narcissist” and not “the fascist President just threatened Bruce Springsteen?”

 

Ratfucking and Genocide Apologia in the NYT

“Sweet mother of christ folks; is there really no bottom for the pro-genocide establishment in the United States? For those of you who don’t know, Ms. Rachel is a children’s content creator who is globally famous for her genuine love for kids, and through her contacts with Palestinian children during again, an ongoing genocide, has started speaking out on her personal social media accounts on behalf of Palestinian child amputees and starving kids in Gaza. To the unhinged Zionist pro-genocide propaganda machine in America this means she must clearly be working for Hamas, and they’ve started a now weeks long smear campaign to declare Mrs. Rachel, basically a terrorist.”

 

Empowering Digital Fascism for the Next Decade

“Look friends, I know that AI technology, for all of its dangers, isn’t inherently evil. But at some point as the evidence that I’m right continues to compile before our very eyes, I’m going to need people to accept that the really-existing AI industry we’re facing down today in the not at all hypothetical world we live in, is being run by billionaire nazi cultists who want to use these programs to destroy critical thinking, turn your kids into fascists, and transform our society into a reactionary hellscape controlled entirely by guys like them. That’s just who these people are, and what they’re trying to do with LLM’s and algorithmic technology.”

 

Political Intimidation in Trump’s Rotten America

“Even if they ultimately drop the charges against McIver, this is still an example of a fascist regime weaponizing the enforcement arm of the state, to intimidate their political opposition. Pam Bondi might not love the Justice Department’s chances in court, but a message is still being sent to opposition party politicians that if they try to interfere with the unlawful “whitening” of America, security forces will be deployed to stop them. When combined with the regime’s threatening rhetoric, and its day to day attempts to erode the oversight of the judiciary so they can do blatantly unconstitutional authoritarian bullshit, effectively creates an unstable political environment where opposition to the regime’s program carries an impossible to calculate degree of personal risk to the critic.”

 

Graft, Militarism, and Sci-Fi Fantasies

“I hate the way the US media reports even Trump’s most unhinged activities through the lens of what a vain, ignorant dipshit he is but sometimes that really is why he does the unhinged shit he does. Downmarket Mussolini has been obsessed with “space war” and upper atmospheric militarization since his first administration, and he’s jealous of Israel’s US-funded “Iron Dome.” The tip-off here is in the name; Gold is after all worth more than Iron. This whole project is basically Trump’s version of the “Star Wars” program Ronald Reagan tried to will into being during the 1980’s, and they’re equally useless and wasteful ideas.”

 

Killing Green Jobs to Torch the Planet

“We’re breaking down the GOP’s homicidal class war reconciliation bill; which has so much nightmare shit inside that it’ll pass into law before analysts get a chance to talk about all of the reasons this is a terrible piece of legislation. Take for example the unhinged and highly-partisan assault the GOP is conducting on green energy initiatives and subsidies. We already know the Trump regime is committed to burning the planet to ash as fast as possible purely as a matter of ideology, but did you know that eliminating everything about Biden’s 2022 Inflation Reduction Act will also increase household costs for everyday Americans and eliminate as many as 830,000 jobs? These guys sure are good at “the economy.”

 

Bloodlessly Reporting Our Descent Into Fascism

“This isn’t bad journalism, this is paving the way for the fascist repression of Trump’s political opponents in real time and whether its a result of cowardice, or open collaboration, is absolutely fucking irrelevant. The United States is speedrunning a descent into a fascist dictatorship run by a brainwormed septuagenarian racist and his openly white nationalist toady Stephen Miller, and these chucklefucks are out here pretending just maybe a Congresswoman should do a couple decades of hard time for bumping into an ICE murderpig while literally being prevented from doing her job; even though we have the entire interaction on fucking video.”

 

Trumpworld, Tariffs, and Insider Trading

“Every day governments in the US make decisions that cause corporations and whole industries to rise and fall in the stock market; sometimes as in the lead up to COVID lockdowns, these decisions are monumental, and sometimes they’re focused on the activities of a small number of unheralded companies, but what all of these policy choices have in common is that they affect the market in predictable ways. Each one of those decisions, policies, and pieces of legislation are ultimately an enrichment opportunity of some kind for people working in the government who are aware of what tomorrow’s economic reality will be in advance, because they’re crafting the laws that will shape that new reality.”

 

 

• Nina Illingworth

 

Anarcho-syndicalist writer, critic and analyst.

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