Cliff Burton's NotesJan 27, 2023
Seth Cotlar
In 1961 a group of middle class white "patriots" gathered for target practice in someone's suburban basement to prepare for the day when they'd have to fight off the liberals, Marxists, and bureaucrats who sought to impose an "anti-fascist People's Democracy" on America.
Jan 27, 2023 at 5:28amMetatext
Show threadSeth CotlarJan 27, 2023
The source. The name of my political program is “Make the John Birch Society Irrelevant Again.”
Show threadmf MD Jan 27, 2023
@sethcotlar 35cents worth..... wow
Show thread⁰FisherTX14Jan 27, 2023

@sethcotlar

Crazy. Worth reading. Another one in addition to the insurrectionists in the Maddow podcast.

The #fascists are not creative. #StephenMiller read him the playbook but he went full #Mussolini after the mini series. He does watch TV.

https://www.pbs.org/tpt/dictators-playbook/

The Dictator's Playbook | PBS

Explore how dictators, from Mussolini to Saddam Hussein, seized, held and fell from power.

Dictator's Playbook
Show threadGeoff with an irish last nameJan 27, 2023

@sethcotlar

Fun to see that they were fans of Ozarks' ol' Rev. Gordon "everyone I don't like is Jewish, especially my grandkids' dads so I'll kidnap them" Winrod.

yerfff.
https://wwrn.org/articles/9693/

Judge Sentences Supremacist Pastor in Abduction of Grandchildren | WWRN - World-wide Religious News

Show threadGeoff with an irish last nameJan 27, 2023

@sethcotlar

holy shit! That butthole is still alive and looks like he's in North Dakota...
https://www.kvrr.com/2017/08/16/anti-semitic-cult-leader-purchases-former-school-kulm-n-d/

Anti-Semitic Cult Leader Purchases Former School In Kulm, N.D. - KVRR Local News

FARGO (KFGO) – The daughter and son-in-law of Gordon Winrod, an anti-semitic cult leader from Missouri who kidnapped five grandchildren from their home near Edgeley, N.D. has purchased a former school in Kulm, N.D. That’s according to Shannon Maresh, whose three brothers and two sisters were kidnapped and brainwashed by Winrod in the 1990’s. In an interview with KFGO News,...

KVRR Local News
Show threadSeth CotlarJan 27, 2023
@artburn Wow. Did you know Gordon’s dad was the figure known as “the Jayhawk Nazi?” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Burton_Winrod
Gerald Burton Winrod - Wikipedia

Show threadGeoff with an irish last nameJan 29, 2023

@sethcotlar

Oh shit. I hadn't heard that name in decades and even back then never put that together that they were related.
What a weird timeline we're on.

Show threadCliff Burton's NotesJan 27, 2023
@sethcotlar hmm… is the origin of the “republic not a democracy” a Bircher thing?