Fascists to form a government, to become the new Prime Minister and head of the fascists enthusiastically agreed and the Tens Of Thousands of his supporters who he had threatened would March On Rome to seize power in a coup. They didnt March On Rome to seize power. Instead, they marched on rome in a Victory Parade because just the threat of them had made it so that he was handed power bloodlessly. That is how the fascists took power in italy 100 years ago next month. They threatened to take power by force, didnt have to, because they intimidated everybody into giving them power ahead of their march be on rome. Thats the famous March On Rome, october 1922. The centennial of that event next month. What happened in 1922, things in italy changed pretty quickly. Within three years, by 1925, italy was a oneparty state. Within three years after that, by 1928, mussolini abolished elections all together. It was a full on fascist dictatorship. Not to spoil the plot or anything, but as you may kn
he invited the leader of the fascists to form a government, to become the new prime minister and head of the fascists enthusiastically agreed and the tens of thousands of his supporters who he had threatened would march on rome to seize power in a coup. they didn t march on rome to seize power. instead, they marched on rome in a victory parade because just the threat of them had made it so that he was handed power bloodlessly. that is how the fascists took power in italy 100 years ago next month. they threatened to take power by force, didn t have to, because they intimidated everybody into giving them power ahead of their march be on rome. that s the famous march on rome, october 1922. the centennial of that event next month. what happened in 1922, things in italy changed pretty quickly. within three years, by 1925, italy was a one-party state. within three years after that, by 1928, mussolini abolished elections all together. it was a full on fascist dictatorship. not to sp
fascists to form a government, to become the new prime minister and head of the fascists enthusiastically agreed and the tens of thousands of his supporters who he had threatened would march on rome to seize power in a coup. they didn t march on rome to seize power. instead, they marched on rome in a victory parade because just the threat of them had made it so that he was handed power bloodlessly. that is how the fascists took power in italy 100 years ago next month. they threatened to take power by force, didn t have to, because they intimidated everybody into giving them power ahead of their march be on rome. that s the famous march on rome, october 1922. the centennial of that event next month. what happened in 1922, things in italy changed pretty quickly. within three years, by 1925, italy was a one-party state. within three years after that, by 1928, mussolini abolished elections all together. it was a full on fascist dictatorship. not to spoil the plot or anything, but
waiting for the proof of concept, if you will. but they were aiming to hit this thing and they hit it. and who knows if one of the things humankind is ever going to be called upon to do is shoot a spaceship to an astroid that will woolly mammoth us into extinction. if we need it, we should get going on that. this test tonight as to prove the concept we can do it. turns out we can do it. there is a lot of cynicism in the world in our country in particular. a lot of ideological undercutting of the idea that governments can do anything, right? i think we can agree that saving earth from instant death from above would be a good thing to be able to do. so yay for the astroid direct hit tonight. proving we can do something important like that, i mean it s more than its own reward. so let it inspire us in ways large and small. on earth, our own congress,
the point is the survival of life on earth. this is a test to see whether humanity can deflect an as yet undiscovered astroid that god forbid may be heading for our planet whose impact could obliterate life on our planet the way that astroid wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago when it smacked into us. we are awaiting data from the mission to tell us whether the technique worked, whether the moonlet was nudged and would land somewhere else if it were coming at us. waiting for the proof-concept, if you will. but they were aiming to hit this thing and they hit it. and who knows if one of the things humankind is ever going to be called upon to do is shoot a spaceship to an astroid that will woolly mammoth us into extinction. if we need it, we should get going on that. this test tonight as to prove the concept we can do it.