"We are a country that just elected – that just willfully chose – one of the most cruel, unscrupulous and transparently self-serving political figures in modern history to be president. Again."

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
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"Trump is very much part of who we are. Nearly 63 million Americans voted for him in 2016. Seventy-four million did in 2020."

~ Carlos Lozada

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
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nytimes.com/2024/11/06/opinion…

"Since 2015, I’ve been saying that America is better than Trump. I’m no longer so sure."

~ Robert Reich

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
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robertreich.substack.com/p/who…

Who are we?

Friends,

^{Robert Reich}

"I see we are no longer America the beautiful. We have become depraved, selfish, and willfully ignorant. And our enemies are delighted."

~ Susan Nieman

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
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open.substack.com/pub/adchick/…

America, the not so beautiful

My country has finally destroyed itself.

^{Susan Niemann (Susan Speaks)}

"America’s long term, festering reactionary racism and white supremacy has threatened democracy throughout US history."

~ Noah Berlatsky

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
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publicnotice.co/p/kamala-harri…

The global anti-incumbent backlash doomed Kamala Harris

Tragically, the beneficiary happened to be Donald Trump.

^{Noah Berlatsky (Public Notice)}

"The media will be complicit in protecting the majority of white American voters from being labeled as the staunch and bred bigots that they are."

~ Robert P. Jones

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
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robertjonesjr.substack.com/p/b…

"Because They Think They Are White"

“But this cowardice, this necessity of justifying a totally false identity and of justifying what must be called a genocidal history, has placed everyone now living into the hands of the most ignorant and powerful people the world has ever seen.

^{Robert Jones, Jr. (Witness)}

"The majority of white people knew that a vote for Trump would be a vote against Black people, Brown people, Asian people, queer people, trans people, disabled people, poor people, Black and Brown immigrants, Palestinians, children, the rights of women, unions, literature, art, the environment, and democracy."

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
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"Trump’s predictable return to the presidency—in what is the final American presidential election of our lifetimes (a conservative plan decades in the making, with help from liberal complicity masquerading as incompetence)—was nothing more and nothing less than the majority of white voters confirming that they want to live in a country that adheres to the standards of living as expressed in 1824 rather than 2024."

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
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"Do not accept percentages and cohorts in response to the simple but profound question, 'Why?'

Racism. Misogyny. White supremacy. Occam’s Razor.

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
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roberthubbell.substack.com/p/d…

Day 1: Taking care of one another.

November 7, 2024

^{Robert B. Hubbell (Today's Edition Newsletter)}

"What a devastating indictment of our country."

~ Zach W. Lambert

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/11

threads.net/@zachwlambert/post…

Zach W. Lambert (@zachwlambert) on Threads

^Threads

Erin Reed reminds us of the practice, life-or-death challenges now facing some of us due to the choice made by the rest of us. She's offering advice to trans people and people who care about them:

"I wanted to share some very practical next steps for my trans readers. Here are the things I recommend:"

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substack.com/chat/994764/post/…

Erin Reed in Erin In The Morning

Checking in... Let's talk. Hey y'all. We are one day out, and you've already made it 24 hours. That's good. I am so blessed to have been able to spend what was otherwise a horrific night with the company of all of you.

^{Erin In The Morning}

"Get your passport. Today. It takes time to come in and getting an updated gender marker will likely be shut down under Trump. - Update every ID your state allows you to. - Make sure you have a supply of medication in case of disruption - If you have a trans kid that is stealth, consider maintaining stealth to get around enforcement of anti-trans laws."

It's going to get very bad for some of us, quickly. Because others have chosen this for us.

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"With the election of Donald Trump, our fellow citizens are about to get exactly what they want. There is nothing that God, man, or the Constitution can do about it, because we did it to ourselves. …

The American people, which is all of us, got together on Tuesday and chose everything that’s coming for close to the next decade."

~ Charles Pierce

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esquire.com/news-politics/poli…

With the Election of Donald Trump, Our Fellow Citizens Are About to Get Exactly What They Want

There is nothing that God, man, or the Constitution can do about the fact that we elected Trump, because we did it to ourselves.

^{Charles P. Pierce (Esquire)}

"America was given the opportunity to let a Black and Asian American woman move us beyond a decade of Trump’s racist, sexist, and toxic form of grievance politics with a broad agenda grounded in joy, compassion, and opportunity. And America, specifically the majority of white Americans, said: 'No thanks. We’re good.'”

~ Kimberly Atkins Stohr

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/15

bostonglobe.com/2024/11/06/opi…

Opinion | For Black women, the sting of Trump's presidential win

My job may be to sort out what the election means for the Supreme Court, reproductive health care, and the guardrails of our democracy. And I’ll get to that.

^{The Boston Globe}

"They knowingly voted to once again tear families apart and put babies in cages and commit what will almost certainly be horrific human rights abuses against immigrants. They voted to make life harder for me and my daughters because based on their conveniently misogynistic and bigoted interpretation of the Bible. ...

I am done being nice to people just because we are related."

~ tonyahky

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
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dailykos.com/stories/2024/11/6…

Cancelling Thanksgiving this year

This year, I have decided to cancel Thanksgiving dinner at my house. I see little to be thankful for this year after seeing that the majority of Americans willfully chose fascism—including a lot of my family members. Every year, I have been the cook.

^{Daily Kos}

“'The Confederacy won,' says [Carol] Anderson, a professor of African American studies at Emory University. 'It paints a picture of what Americans are willing to embrace,' says [Michele] Goodwin, a professor of constitutional law at Georgetown and an expert on healthcare law…."

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democracynow.org/2024/11/6/car…

“The Confederacy Won”: Why Donald Trump’s Reelection Is a Win for White Supremacy, Xenophobia & Hate

Donald Trump has been reelected president of the United States. Ahead of Kamala Harris’s expected concession speech, we speak to professors Carol Anderson and Michele Goodwin to discuss Harris’s historic campaign — and historic loss.

^{Democracy Now!}

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"81 percent. EIGHTY ONE FUCKING PERCENT. Of white evangelicals STILL voted for this deranged, dumbass, depraved, demented demon.

'Because abortion.'"

~ Holly Berkeley Fletcher

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hollyberkleyfletcher.substack.…

Not today

Pure rage is all I've got

^{Holly Berkley Fletcher (A Zebra Without Stripes)}

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"The reason this felt so much worse than 2016 was because it was impossible to say Americans didn’t know what they were voting for."

~ Emma Brockes

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theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Trump’s win is so much worse this time. Americans knew what they were voting for

Even after a failed coup and numerous legal wranglings, many men could not bring themselves to vote for a woman, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

^{Emma Brockes (The Guardian)}

"Our mistake was to think we lived in a better country than we do. …

The principal problems that got us to this bleakest moment in American history are intertwined. They are the crisis of masculinity, the failure of the news media and the rise of Silicon Valley, and in a way they are all the same problem."

~ Rebecca Solnit

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/22

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Our mistake was to think we lived in a better country than we do

Americans will be stuck cleaning up after Maga’s destructive streak because men like this never clean up after themselves

^{Rebecca Solnit (The Guardian)}