Speaker 1: Cool zone Media.
Speaker 2: Welcome to it could happen here. I'm Garrison Davis. Amidst
Speaker 2: attempts by President Trump to seize control of Greenland last
Speaker 2: month during the World Economic Forum, administration officials started posting
Speaker 2: images of a penguin. On January twenty third, the White
Speaker 2: House shared in artificial image of Trump walking hand and
Speaker 2: flipper alongside a penguin holding an American flag across a
Speaker 2: snowy tundra towards mountains bearing the flag of Greenland. The
Speaker 2: caption read, embrace the Penguin. The flags look like poorly
Speaker 2: photoshopped stock images, while the rest of the image appears
Speaker 2: to be generated by AI. Immediately, this post sparked ridicule
Speaker 2: across various online platforms based on the fact that there
Speaker 2: aren't any penguins in Greenland. Erm Penguins don't live in
Speaker 2: the Northern Hemisphere save Zoos and the Glapcos Islands of Ecuador.
Speaker 2: So haha, the foolish Trump has been bested once again
Speaker 2: in the arena of facts and logic. Except this White
Speaker 2: House penguin post was actually in reference to a TikTok
Speaker 2: meme that was currently going super viral in mid January.
Speaker 2: Remixed footage from Werner Herzog's Arctic documentary Encounters at the
Speaker 2: End of the World, featuring a lone penguin breaking off
Speaker 2: from the flock and marching towards some icy mountains, started
Speaker 2: spreading around. TikTok synced to an organ cover of Lemour Tejoure,
Speaker 2: a song which has been adopted by far right anti
Speaker 2: immigration groups in Europe the past few years. This combination
Speaker 2: of music and footage soon spread to other short form
Speaker 2: video platforms like Instagram reels, with the featherless subject being
Speaker 2: dubbed the Lonely Penguin. On January twentieth, a more explicitly
Speaker 2: political version went kind of viral with over twenty thousand
Speaker 2: likes with the addition of a Frederick Nietzsche quote, I
Speaker 2: know of no better life purpose than to perish in
Speaker 2: attempting the great and impossible unquote, with the caption save
Speaker 2: Europe hashtag remigration. That same day, an edit with thirty
Speaker 2: six thousand likes by the TikTok account epic History thirty two,
Speaker 2: captioned do the Hard Thing played the documentary footage with
Speaker 2: herz Aug generation overlaid with images of historical figures and
Speaker 2: pop culture characters like Alexander the Great, Caesar, Joan of Arc,
Speaker 2: King Richard First King Baldwin Fourth, Genghis Khan Aragorn, John
Speaker 2: snow Luke, Skywalker, and Spider Man. An op ed and
Speaker 2: Fox News by the daughter of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy
Speaker 2: referred to these as quote unquote Western heroes. To quote
Speaker 2: this op ed, in the film, Herzog shows a lone
Speaker 2: penguin peeling away from the safety of its colony and
Speaker 2: heading inland towards certain death according to Herzog, but the
Speaker 2: online right saw something else. Users, mostly male, saw the
Speaker 2: penguin as a powerful rebuke of secular modernity. They interpreted
Speaker 2: the penguin not as lost, but as a free thinker.
Speaker 2: To them, he was rejecting the colony. In today's terms,
Speaker 2: that means rejecting secular postmodern orthodoxy and marching toward a
Speaker 2: greater purpose. So though Herzog in this documentary refers to
Speaker 2: this penguin as deranged as a meme, users identified with
Speaker 2: the penguin as a symbol of masculine rebellion against what
Speaker 2: they view as mainstream culture and the solitary trek up
Speaker 2: the mountains as a metaphor for the struggle of individual greatness.
Speaker 2: Clips of men on outdoor adventures and climbing mountains Zarathustra
Speaker 2: style with the caption be the Penguin spread wildly online,
Speaker 2: the most popular reaching four point two million likes, and
Speaker 2: oother penguin themed videos getting hundreds of thousands of likes.
Speaker 2: The Herzog penguin meme piggybacked and partially merged with an
Speaker 2: older right wing penguin based meme video from two years
Speaker 2: ago of a drag queen asking a kid about boys
Speaker 2: wearing makeup. The kid responds that boys can't wear makeup,
Speaker 2: So the drag queen asks the kid who told him that,
Speaker 2: and this confused child looks around and sees a cartoon
Speaker 2: penguin on the wall, points to it and says that
Speaker 2: penguin over there. Six hundred and eighteen thousand likes.
Speaker 1: What do you think about men wear who wear makeup?
Speaker 3: To boys who said the penguin? Is there the penguin?
Speaker 2: This video and this figure of the has since been
Speaker 2: used as a symbol for masculine resistance to the LGBTQ agenda,
Speaker 2: and this new penguin meme pertains to tap into a
Speaker 2: uniquely masculine urge, as explained by this TikToker who racked
Speaker 2: up forty two thousand likes.
Speaker 4: I hate to be the one to say it, but
Speaker 4: the penguin didn't make it. But does that mean he
Speaker 4: died in vain? No, his life was not a tragedy.
Speaker 4: It was an inspiration. He left a legacy most of
Speaker 4: us could only hope for. It would be easy to
Speaker 4: quote Nietzsche here, but that wouldn't do it justice. That
Speaker 4: penguin spoke to something inside all of us men, a
Speaker 4: desire for more, to push our limits and see what
Speaker 4: we're truly made of. Sometimes our purpose is the impacts
Speaker 4: that we leave behind.
Speaker 2: On January twenty third, the Department of War Rapid Response
Speaker 2: account posted be a Warrior Embrace the Penguin with NAI
Speaker 2: generated image of five men wearing the uniform of each
Speaker 2: military branch walking towards the mountains alongside a penguin. Secretary
Speaker 2: Kennedy posted a make America Healthy Again edit of the
Speaker 2: penguin meme with the organ music over an AI video
Speaker 2: of RFK Junior and a penguin walking to the mountains
Speaker 2: on screen. Text reads the mainstream made us sick. Choose
Speaker 2: the healthier path. The Health and Human Services government account
Speaker 2: quote tweeted this video with the caption locking in after
Speaker 2: watching that penguin edit unquote, soy occupied Government, an anti
Speaker 2: immigration advocacy account, created a viral aiimage of a large,
Speaker 2: evidently prosperous colony of penguins gathered under the banner of multiculturalism.
Speaker 2: It reads that as a giant banner, juxtaposed to a
Speaker 2: lone penguin facing the mountains and a sign reading remigration
Speaker 2: now across the pond. The London mayor candidate for the
Speaker 2: far right Reform Party in the UK, Lila Cunningham, copied
Speaker 2: Trump's version of the penguin meme with an artificial image
Speaker 2: of her holding hands with a penguin walking towards some
Speaker 2: snowy mountains surrounding the Tower Bridge in London. The caption reads,
Speaker 2: choose a new path for London before it's too late.
Speaker 2: The last penguin post will consider is a video edit
Speaker 2: from the Department of Homeland Security. It starts, like many
Speaker 2: of the viral TikTok and reels videos with footage and
Speaker 2: narration from Herzog's documentary, which I will finally play here.
Speaker 5: But one of them caught our eye. The one in
Speaker 5: the center, he would neither go towards the feeding grounds
Speaker 5: at the edge of the ice nor return to the colony.
Speaker 5: Shortly afterwards, we saw him heading straight towards the mountains,
Speaker 5: some seventy kilometers away. Doctor Ainley explained that even if
Speaker 5: he caught him and brought him back to the colony,
Speaker 5: he would immediately he right back for the mountains. But why.
Speaker 2: After the narration cuts out, the music continues as a
Speaker 2: fan cam style montage plays Trump, military helicopters, swat style
Speaker 2: home raids, and ice and Border patrol arresting people. The
Speaker 2: video is captioned, Americans have always known why. In response
Speaker 2: to Herzog's query, this post from the DHS asserts that
Speaker 2: part of the essence of America is breaking away from
Speaker 2: the herd and forging your own path. Those who don't
Speaker 2: understand Trump's desire to control Greenland at the risk of
Speaker 2: further damaging our geopolitical standing just suffer from heard mentality
Speaker 2: and will never be strong enough to take the kind
Speaker 2: of risks that are core to the existence of this country.
Speaker 2: On January twenty fourth, the White House posted the penguin
Speaker 2: does not concern himself with the opinions of those who
Speaker 2: cannot comprehend. For Trump, Venezuela Greenland imperial expansion is an
Speaker 2: existential mission to achieve some mythic frontier greatness, and only
Speaker 2: true Americans can understand why the Fox News penguin op
Speaker 2: ed by Christian nationalist Sean Duffy's daughter, Wow, that's a
Speaker 2: nightmare sentence reads quote for Trump, the penguin is an
Speaker 2: apt symbol for the President's decade long fight against the
Speaker 2: radical left. Everything Trump does is opposed by the global
Speaker 2: power brokers. Even the President's pushed to obtain Greenland has
Speaker 2: been fanatically opposed by hysterical European elites. America was built
Speaker 2: by penguins, and by that I mean pilgrims, frontier men
Speaker 2: and women, conquistadors and cowboys. We are a nation founded
Speaker 2: by risk takers who left the colony for the mountains.
Speaker 2: We are descended from men who suffered and died to
Speaker 2: carve civilization out of wilderness. It is our inheritance unquote. Now,
Speaker 2: what this DHS penguin video doesn't include, but has already
Speaker 2: been alluded to by some of the other videos I've played,
Speaker 2: is the actual context of this lone bird's journey and
Speaker 2: its sad fate. We will return to discuss penguin insanity
Speaker 2: after this ad break. We're back, though. The twenty twenty
Speaker 2: six version of the penguin meme was dubbed the Lonely Penguin.
Speaker 2: Earlier meme videos of this documentary foot from years past
Speaker 2: carried the titles deranged penguin or nihilist Penguin. Before the
Speaker 2: footage of this lone Penguin plays in the documentary, Herzog
Speaker 2: asks a penguin expert if they can experience insanity?
Speaker 3: Is there such thing as insanity among penguins? I try
Speaker 3: to avoid the definition of insanity a derangement. I don't
Speaker 3: mean that a penguin in might believe she's lending a
Speaker 3: Napoleon Bonaparte.
Speaker 5: But could they just go crazy because they've had enough
Speaker 5: of their colony?
Speaker 6: Well, I've never seen a penguin bashing his head against
Speaker 6: the rock. They do get disoriented, they end up in
Speaker 6: places they shouldn't be, long way from the ocean.
Speaker 2: The political invocations of this foot largely ignore Verner Herzog's
Speaker 2: own speculation on why the penguin is marching towards the
Speaker 2: mountains in the far off distance and its inevitable fate.
Speaker 5: One of these disoriented, deranged penguins showed up in the
Speaker 5: New Harbor diving camp, already some eighty kilometers away from
Speaker 5: where it should be. And here he's heading off into
Speaker 5: the interior of the vast continent with five thousand kilometers
Speaker 5: ahead of him. He's heading towards certain death.
Speaker 2: The penguin is not the uber match. The penguin will
Speaker 2: not achieve individual greatness at the summit of the mountain
Speaker 2: because it's never going to get there. As Front of
Speaker 2: the Pod Dan Olsen so eloquently put it, the penguin
Speaker 2: is going to die. Though the penguin does not bash
Speaker 2: its head on a rock, this separation from society is
Speaker 2: still an act of suicide. The deranged penguin has literally
Speaker 2: turned its back on food, water, shelter, and the colony
Speaker 2: to die, wandering towards mountains that it will never reach.
Speaker 2: The Trump administration's embrace of this suicidal penguin as a
Speaker 2: that's literally me figure is a shockingly open display of
Speaker 2: fascism's relation to the death drive. It's just so naked
Speaker 2: to make your mascot a symbol of suicidal defiance against
Speaker 2: perceived cultural norms. They're doing a first as tragedy twice
Speaker 2: as farce for fascist death emblems. The Nazis get the skull,
Speaker 2: we get a fucking penguin. But the penguin is not
Speaker 2: the first modern American suicidal folk hero. The Kildozer rampage
Speaker 2: of public destruction, which ended in the suicide of the perpetrator,
Speaker 2: has been a mascot for the libertarian right for over
Speaker 2: two decades, and in twenty eighteen, a twenty eight year
Speaker 2: old airport ground service a named Richard Russell hijacked in
Speaker 2: empty plane at SeaTac to fly over Mount Rainier before
Speaker 2: killing himself by purposely crashing the plane. Very similar to
Speaker 2: Herzog's deranged penguin. Russell left behind a wife of six years,
Speaker 2: but became a sort of nihilistic folk hero to overly
Speaker 2: online young men, especially among the online far right on
Speaker 2: places like four Chan and Telegram, where he was dubbed
Speaker 2: sky King. Last August, a Congressional Republican from Georgia Mike Collins,
Speaker 2: who serves on the Republican Transportation Committee, posted a glowing,
Speaker 2: multi paragraph memorial for Richard Russell on the anniversary of
Speaker 2: his suicide, signing off the message with rest in peace,
Speaker 2: Sky King, but the direct identification of the Trump administration
Speaker 2: with a suicidal penguin is a step farther. The fascist
Speaker 2: appetite for death is well understood, but the death drive
Speaker 2: represents a usually subconscious desire to not only harm or
Speaker 2: kill others, but ultimately yourself, an attempt to ease the
Speaker 2: tensions driving social life by returning to a prior, in
Speaker 2: organic state. This desire can be channeled through the politics
Speaker 2: of fascism, which allow for violent, paranoid manifestations of repressed
Speaker 2: internal contradictions which attempt to be resolved through death. But
Speaker 2: fascism itself is a contradiction between a primitive war machine
Speaker 2: and a stable state apparatus, and the way that tension
Speaker 2: is released is also self destruction. In the second volume
Speaker 2: of Capitalism at Schizophrenia A Thousand Plateaus by philosopher Jills
Speaker 2: to Lose and psychoanalyst Felix Squatterri, they discuss the ways
Speaker 2: in which fascism and toutlitarianism differ. They write that totalitarianism
Speaker 2: is a state affair made up of of material components
Speaker 2: that over manage society. Quote. Even in the case of
Speaker 2: a military dictatorship, it is a state army, not a
Speaker 2: war machine that takes power and elevates the state to
Speaker 2: the totalitarian stage. Totalitarianism is quot essentially conservative. Fascism, on
Speaker 2: the other hand, involves a war machine. When fascism builds
Speaker 2: itself a totalitarian state, it is not in the sense
Speaker 2: of a state army taking power, but of a war
Speaker 2: machine taking over the state unquote. This analysis from Deluze
Speaker 2: and Guatairie is building off of an essay by the
Speaker 2: French writer Paul Verilio called The Suicidal State, where Virilio
Speaker 2: argues that in fascism, the state is far less to
Speaker 2: talitarian than it is suicidal. An evolution of this state
Speaker 2: that quote no longer pretends to be guided internally by
Speaker 2: reason and progress, but rather non progress and terror, founded
Speaker 2: on the repulsion and fear of all development in this
Speaker 2: civil domain. This repulsion and fear were manifested in the
Speaker 2: accelerated destruction of state institutions during the first few months
Speaker 2: of Trump's second term and Doge's scorched earth approach to
Speaker 2: slashing government agencies. Verilio writes that during the disappearance of
Speaker 2: public service quote, infrastructures of service are reduced as the
Speaker 2: wire taps of the Hmacht are restored colonial geometry of decolonialization,
Speaker 2: so as the federal government rescinds public services, the everyday
Speaker 2: presence of the federal government is reduced to masked armed
Speaker 2: agents in the streets, disappearing our neighbors and shooting civilians,
Speaker 2: while the president fights in court for the ability to
Speaker 2: deploy the military against American citizens within our own territory.
Speaker 2: During the tension of total war or total peace, Rilio says,
Speaker 2: the system expands and reproduces itself, a material process without
Speaker 2: an end, but no longer without limits. To quote the
Speaker 2: Brazilian philosopher of Vladimir's Foughtley, the suicide state quote, is
Speaker 2: not just a manager of death. It is rather the
Speaker 2: ongoing agent of its own catastrophe, the maker of its
Speaker 2: own explosion. To be more precise, This new state mixes
Speaker 2: the death management of entire sectors of its own population
Speaker 2: with an ongoing and risky flirtation with its own self
Speaker 2: destruction unquote. Rilio's idea of the suicidal state emerges as
Speaker 2: this new mode of governing to solve the crisis of
Speaker 2: post war liberalism in Germany after World War One, as
Speaker 2: well as risked by the United States after each of
Speaker 2: our many wars. Quote. One of the keys to the
Speaker 2: present situation is, on one side, the overly informed status
Speaker 2: of experts of the system, and on the other the
Speaker 2: underinformed status of all those who are supposedly thinking outside
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 3: Quote.
Speaker 2: Verlio says that the experts no longer know how to
Speaker 2: use their hordes of information except to gain money and
Speaker 2: status by continually adding to their body of work. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: the outsiders produce the political and cultural undercurrent of modern
Speaker 2: folklore and ordinary life. But this limp dichotomy cannot last
Speaker 2: for very long on its own. Soverareali proposes the new
Speaker 2: emergence of a third category of people who make use
Speaker 2: of information for an end, the ultimate end the directors
Speaker 2: of the suicidal state, while the outsiders, ideologues and artists
Speaker 2: simply try to simulate Catharsis. Quote. By contrast, the third category,
Speaker 2: the suicidal state it self produces a feeling for the
Speaker 2: real better it aims to retain the exclusivity of its production.
Speaker 2: This feeling is a contempt for and hatred of the
Speaker 2: every day Unquote, to paraphrase Virilio, the fascist project exploits
Speaker 2: man's alienation from his environment through pollution, economic insecurity, emotional insecurity, desocialization,
Speaker 2: and seeks to replace any legitimate grievance he has with
Speaker 2: society with a more repulsive and expressive force, the fear
Speaker 2: of society, which is superimposed on a new military schema
Speaker 2: of total war and internal invasion, all towards a nihilistic
Speaker 2: end of dropping the bomb on ourselves. The oscillation of
Speaker 2: external and internal destruction epitomized by the death Drive is
Speaker 2: mirrored by the imperial boomerang, where the violence of colonial
Speaker 2: expansion is forced to return to its homeland. Once home,
Speaker 2: the drive remains, resulting in a war on society directly
Speaker 2: or through other means. But this is a war on
Speaker 2: its own people. Whereas Trump would say the enemy within,
Speaker 2: to quote a paragraph from a Thousand Plateaus, so called
Speaker 2: total war seems less a state undertaking than an undertaking
Speaker 2: of a war machine that appropriates the state and channels
Speaker 2: it into a flow of absolute war whose only possible
Speaker 2: outcome is the suicide of this state itself. There is
Speaker 2: in fascism a realized nihilism, unlike the ttalitarian state, which
Speaker 2: does its utmost to seal all possible lines of escape.
Speaker 2: Fascism is constructed on an intense line of escape, which
Speaker 2: it transforms into a line of pure destruction and abolition.
Speaker 2: It is curious that from the very beginning the Nazis
Speaker 2: announced to Germany what they were bringing at once, wedding
Speaker 2: bells and death, including their own deaths and the death
Speaker 2: of the Germans. They thought they would perish, but that
Speaker 2: their undertaking would be resumed all across Europe, all over
Speaker 2: the world, throughout the Solar system. And the people cheered,
Speaker 2: not because they did not understand, but because they wanted
Speaker 2: that death through the death of others, like a will
Speaker 2: to wager everything you have every hand to stake your
Speaker 2: own death against the death of others. Unquote in a
Speaker 2: Thousand Plateaus, De Luze and Guatai quote an excerpt from
Speaker 2: Klaus Man's nineteen thirty six novel Mefisto, which contains fascist
Speaker 2: speeches and ordinary conversations from Nazi Germany. The quote they
Speaker 2: include is eerily similar to the visuals of Trump as
Speaker 2: the suicidal penguin quote. Heroism was something that was being
Speaker 2: ruled out of our lives. In reality, we are not
Speaker 2: marching forward. We are reeling, staggering. Our beloved fear is
Speaker 2: dragging us toward the shades of darkness and everlasting nothingness.
Speaker 2: How can we poets who have a special affinity for
Speaker 2: darkness and lower depths not admire him unquote. Delus in
Speaker 2: Guatrie then write, suicide is presented not as a punishment,
Speaker 2: but as the crowning glory of the death of others.
Speaker 2: The insufficiency of economic and political definitions of fascism does
Speaker 2: not simply imply a need to tack on vague so
Speaker 2: called ideological determinations. We prefer to inquiry into the precise
Speaker 2: formation of Nazi statements, which are just as much in
Speaker 2: evidence in politics and economics as in the most absurd
Speaker 2: of conversations. They always contain the stupid and repugnant cry
Speaker 2: long live death. Even at the economic level, where the
Speaker 2: arms expansion replaces growth in consumption, and where investment veers
Speaker 2: from the means of production toward the means of pure
Speaker 2: destruction unquote. Verilio calls this a psychosis which governs its
Speaker 2: entire politics of production, and he writes that the replacement
Speaker 2: of the American industries of the automobile and the cinema
Speaker 2: with the military industrial complex quote does not involve a rational, functional,
Speaker 2: or useful choice, but rather entirely psychological, or rather psychopathological.
Speaker 2: It stems from contempt for an abandonment of productive rapport
Speaker 2: with the million you every investment is made to escape
Speaker 2: from it unquote. For contemporary reference, go check out the
Speaker 2: stock price of Pallanteer. And on the larger economic and
Speaker 2: international level, Trump's tariffs, his trade wars, and the self
Speaker 2: destruction of the United States geopolitical standing are all expressions
Speaker 2: of this suicidal state in action. Filio claims the state
Speaker 2: of total war, where the economy of war has become
Speaker 2: the economy of peace, is facilitated by a transformation in
Speaker 2: the American sense of freedom, where quote unquote, the free
Speaker 2: as a subject as in the Land of the Free
Speaker 2: quote is no longer properly spoken of as a citizen.
Speaker 2: He has an anonymous organism, without culture, without society, and
Speaker 2: without memory. This figure has no historical precedent. Assistance has
Speaker 2: become survival non assistance, a condemned to death. All liberation
Speaker 2: henceforth has for him invariably the appearance of death of
Speaker 2: the end suicide or murder unquote. This sort of freedom
Speaker 2: from social services, freedom from this state, freedom from assistance
Speaker 2: as a movement of the death drive also provides insight
Speaker 2: into people's willingness to and even desire to vote against
Speaker 2: their own material interests, especially when their political struggle has
Speaker 2: turned against society itself. Only in transformation of ordinary social
Speaker 2: life into the horrific in the minds of the populace
Speaker 2: can the fascist quote find their surest means of governing.
Speaker 2: The legitimization of his politics and military strategies, and right
Speaker 2: up to the end, far from weakening the repulsive nature
Speaker 2: of his powers, the ruins, the hoarders, the crimes, the
Speaker 2: chaos of total war will generally own only increase in scope.
Speaker 2: In Hitler's nineteen forty five telegram seventy one, he writes,
Speaker 2: if the war is lost, may the nation perish. Here
Speaker 2: Hitler decides to join forces with his enemies in order
Speaker 2: to complete the destruction of his own people by obliterating
Speaker 2: the last remaining sources of its life support system civil
Speaker 2: reserves of every kind, put up a water fuel provisions.
Speaker 2: This is the normal outcome of the politics of dialectical
Speaker 2: retreat from the man who had written the idea of protection,
Speaker 2: haunts and fulfills life. Fascism hijacks the mechanism of evolutionary
Speaker 2: and revolutionary escape and reverts it into a mechanism of destruction.
Speaker 2: Instead of resolving crises, it produces constant crisis for it
Speaker 2: to feed off of forming, as del and Guatris say,
Speaker 2: a war machine instead of resonating in a state apparatus,
Speaker 2: A war machine that no longer had anything but war
Speaker 2: as its object and would rather annihilate its own servants
Speaker 2: than stop the destruction. To quote a thousand plateaus, this
Speaker 2: is war not for conquest or revolution, but war as
Speaker 2: its own end. The hollowing out of public institutions and
Speaker 2: social services, the divestment from the milieu of life, leads
Speaker 2: people to turn towards the suicidal state as the only
Speaker 2: force of movement, resting on, as Filio says, quote, the
Speaker 2: advanced exploitation of our instincts for death. A new totalitarian
Speaker 2: state defined by the constant ascent of statistics toward planetary death.
Speaker 2: Crime and madness will no longer be the defects. The
Speaker 2: madman and the assassin are the legitimate children engendered and
Speaker 2: recognized by the suicidal state unquote. And what phenomenon has
Speaker 2: risen in the United States the past few years the Conspiracy,
Speaker 2: Theorist and the Assassin. The embrace of total war and
Speaker 2: the campaign of civil fear necessitates a break from sanity
Speaker 2: and the bizarre strangeness of means that inevitably result in
Speaker 2: a self destructive end. Vrillio claims there is an insanity
Speaker 2: at the heart of the fascist project. The imaginary potential
Speaker 2: of the fascist state arises quote from a finished world
Speaker 2: where insanity has become the goal of order, the very
Speaker 2: product of organization. Unquote. There's a quote from Goebels to
Speaker 2: one of his aides, Prince Frederick Christian. The world in
Speaker 2: which Hitler moves is a world of absolute fate, a
Speaker 2: world in which even success makes nos sense. It's not
Speaker 2: a mistake that the White House has cast itself as
Speaker 2: a lost penguin marching to its own death. They know
Speaker 2: the absurdity of their replies. They know the world looks
Speaker 2: upon them as insane. They know that they'll never reach
Speaker 2: the make America Great Again mountain. The self destruction ice,
Speaker 2: the tariffs, the broken treaties are not for any greater purpose.
Speaker 2: The means are the end. This is total war, the
Speaker 2: psychological purpose of which is terror, which for the fascist
Speaker 2: is synonymous with peace. But let's not forget how Hitler
Speaker 2: and Goebbels finally resolved their contradictions.
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