Joyce Vance quotes Greg Sargent, who says,
"Fact-checking MAGA's vile lie about cat-eating Haitians misses the point. It's an *open* assertion of the power to lie with impunity about immigrants as a prelude to 'bloody' removals of millions."
Then she adds,
"It's not just that the Haitian story is ridiculous. It's not just that it’s a lie."
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia #Nazis #genocide
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https://joycevance.substack.com/p/ebullient-and-somber
Ebullient and Somber
Emotions today, September 11, 2024, run the gamut from the joy at the remarkable experience of watching Kamala Harris mop the floor with Donald Trump in the debate last night to the horrific sadness of yet another commemoration of the 9/11 anniversar…Joyce Vance (Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
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Nicole Parsons
in reply to William Lindsey :toad: • • •Masha Gessen has written extensively on the role egregious lying plays in an authoritarian movement.
1. Firehose of Falsehood propaganda techniques
2. Building societal distrust
3. Growing a sense of impunity in elites
4. Creating information bubbles for a cult of personality
https://sites.miamioh.edu/havighurst/2018/11/14/masha-gessen-on-the-language-of-lies/
https://www.newstatesman.com/world/2018/01/why-donald-trump-and-vladimir-putin-lie-and-why-they-are-so-good-it
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/10/trump-and-putin-strong-connection-lies/
Why Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin lie… and why they are so good at it
Lee McIntyre (New Statesman)Nicole Parsons reshared this.
William Lindsey :toad:
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •William Lindsey :toad:
in reply to William Lindsey :toad: • • •"It is both of those things, but it is more than that; it is also dangerous. Dehumanizing people is what makes inhuman treatment of them possible. It’s how you justify the family separation policy that ripped children from their parents, some of them so young that reunification is still elusive more than five years later."
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia #dehumanization #Nazis #genocide
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William Lindsey :toad:
in reply to William Lindsey :toad: • • •"In extreme cases, dehumanization is a path towards genocide, the way the Nazis called Jews in Germany vermin and claimed that they spread disease and used the blood of non-Jewish children in rituals as prelude to the Holocaust. Trump is using similar language as a prelude to the proposed mass deportations of migrants that both he and Project 2025 (which he claimed last night he’d never read) call for."
#Trump #JDVance #immigrants #Haitians #xenophobia #dehumanization #Nazis #genocide
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William Lindsey :toad:
in reply to William Lindsey :toad: • • •"Trump is using similar language as a prelude to the proposed mass deportations of migrants that both he and Project 2025 (which he claimed last night he’d never read) call for. Trump and Vance are setting up a society where atrocities against other human beings can be justified by dehumanizing them first."
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia #dehumanization #Nazis #genocide
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William Lindsey :toad:
in reply to William Lindsey :toad: • • •As Paul Waldman notes, the toxic and easily disproven lie that Trump chose to spread in the debate — that Haitians in Ohio are eating pets — started with Vance, who got the lie from neo-Nazis:
"It wasn’t until neo-Nazis began spreading a lie about those immigrants eating pets that Vance got people to really pay attention to Springfield."
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia #dehumanization #Nazis #genocide
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https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/trump-and-vance-are-preparing-for
Trump and Vance Are Preparing For a Bloodbath
Paul Waldman (The Cross Section)William Lindsey :toad:
in reply to William Lindsey :toad: • • •"The story is false, but it ricocheted through right-wing social media, quickly being promoted by Elon Musk, various Republican members of Congress, and Vance himself, who was all too eager to spread it far and wide."
Waldman writes,
"The fake story reveals a deeper, more essential truth that it’s important for people to believe. And what is that supposed truth?"
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia #dehumanizatiion #Nazis #genocide #ElonMusk
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William Lindsey :toad:
in reply to William Lindsey :toad: • • •"Is it that we should be concerned about the effects of immigration on housing prices or school resources? No no no. It’s that immigrants must be seen as sub-human. Who eats dogs and cats? Humans don’t do that.
The accusation is meant to evoke fear and disgust; it’s closely related to the ancient blood libel against Jews, which said they were kidnapping Christian children to kill them and use their blood in dark rituals."
#Trump #JDVance #immigrants #Haitians #xenophobia #BloodLibel
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William Lindsey :toad:
in reply to William Lindsey :toad: • • •"JD Vance is no dummy; he is very conscious of the way he is kneading the clay of racist lies to arrive at what he believes is a more elemental truth. ...
This fictional barbarity, Trump and Vance are saying, must be met with genuine barbarity of our own. These are not humans but monsters, and if we have to spill their blood to purify our nation, it will be a righteous and glorious pogrom."
#Trump #JDVance #immigrants #Haitians #xenophobia #BloodLibel #antisemitism #pogroms
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William Lindsey :toad:
in reply to William Lindsey :toad: • • •"There are monsters in this story, but they aren’t the immigrants trying to build a better life for themselves and their families. They’re the neo-Nazis, the right-wing influencers, the ghoulish amen chorus online and on Fox, and most of all, Donald Trump and JD Vance. They’re seeding the ground for something truly horrifying, and no one should mistake it for anything else."
#Trump #JDVance #immigrants #Haitians #xenophobia #BloodLibel #antisemitism #pogroms
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William Lindsey :toad:
in reply to William Lindsey :toad: • • •"Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance attacked the moderators and doubled down on the lie that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating their neighbors’ pets, despite statements from Springfield police and the town manager that there is no evidence for such a statement."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-11-2024
September 11, 2024
Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)William Lindsey :toad:
in reply to William Lindsey :toad: • • •"Observers correctly noted that the racist trope of immigrants eating pets dehumanizes marginalized people who are already vulnerable, putting them in danger. While posters and media have repeatedly pointed out that the Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are there legally and have revitalized the city, making fun of those sharing such a stupid lie has a different kind of potential to defang it."
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia
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William Lindsey :toad:
in reply to William Lindsey :toad: • • •"The story was thoroughly debunked even before the debate. But examining how it got laundered from the fringes of the internet to Trump’s lips during a debate watched by tens of millions of people perfectly illustrates the hollowness at the center of the Trump movement, and indeed in modern conservatism itself."
~ Liz Dye
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia
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https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-haitian-pet-hoax-meme-debate-ohio
Trump's racist pet hoax exposes weirdo meme culture to normies
Liz Dye (Public Notice)William Lindsey :toad:
in reply to William Lindsey :toad: • • •"He is trying to stir up hatred. It’s the politics of hate that I wrote about in Hatemonger. He wants people to believe that all of their problems are due to immigrants, and to create this — you know, an environment that is extremely unsafe for immigrant families, mixed-status communities, people of color across this country."
~ Jean Guerrero
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia #hate #PoliticsofHate
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William Lindsey :toad:
in reply to William Lindsey :toad: • • •"This racist lie designed to divide American and stoke hatred towards immigrants and racial minorities — exactly the kind of lie that has in the past resulted in violence against marginalized communities. things they’re saying are false."
~ Jamison Foser
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia #hate #PoliticsofHate
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https://www.findinggravity.net/p/trump-continues-to-embrace-foreign
Trump continues to embrace foreign autocrats, and other debate observations
Jamison Foser (Finding Gravity)William Lindsey :toad:
in reply to William Lindsey :toad: • • •"The Trump-Vance campaign isn’t 'backtracking' from it because this is who they are. They want people to hate immigrants, they want to encourage violence. They don’t give a damn that the things they’re saying are false."
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia #hate #PoliticsofHate
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William Lindsey :toad:
in reply to William Lindsey :toad: • • •"A campaign built on populist demagoguery has nowhere else to go especially when slipping in the polls. It is based on an 'us versus them' binary where the 'us' has to constantly be rallied and riled against the 'them.' Fear mongering and resentment—American carnage—is baked into the cake. And it will be served up nonstop between now and November—and perhaps beyond."
~ Shikha Dalmia
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #xenophobia #PoliticsofHate
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https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/maga-wants-to-evade-accountability
MAGA Wants to Evade Accountability for Trump's Campaign of Lies and Fear Mongering
Shikha Dalmia (The UnPopulist)William Lindsey :toad:
in reply to William Lindsey :toad: • • •"Trump and Vance are lying about this fabricated allegation about immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, eating pets because their main goal is to generate the emotion of disgust toward a target group of people, to make immigrants subhuman. Straight out of the fascist, authoritarian playbook and a primer for violence toward that group."
~ Robert P. Jones
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia #hate #PoliticsofHate
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https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/how-dangerous-is-trumps-white-christian
How Dangerous is Trump's White Christian Nationalist Vision for the Country?
Robert P. Jones (White Too Long by Robert P. Jones)William Lindsey :toad:
in reply to William Lindsey :toad: • • •"This falsehood, directed at a community that has done nothing wrong besides being from a different place than the surrounding residents, shows how much the Trump campaign’s strategy hinges on polluting the information environment with lies about vulnerable groups that Republicans want to blame for the country’s problems."
~ Adam Serwer
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia #hate #PoliticsofHate
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/09/trump-tv-haitians-immigrants-eating-cats/679788/
Trump Will Believe Anything
Adam Serwer (The Atlantic)JoD
in reply to William Lindsey :toad: • • •Nicole Parsons
in reply to JoD • • •@jodmentum
Harlan Crow, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's patron, owns a "data broker" that price fixed rents around the country. RealPage.
Rising rents aren't caused by immigrants, they're just a convenient scapegoat for GOP megadonors.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/6/5/2244971/-FBI-raid-on-real-estate-company-linked-to-Harlan-Crow-s-RealPage-rental-price-fixing
Rising home prices were triggered by another GOP megadonor: Steven Schwarzman of Blackstone Group.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/26/blackstone-group-accused-global-housing-crisis-un
https://fortune.com/2023/11/28/blackstone-steve-schwarzman-plans-spend-billions-buying-commercial-real-estate/
https://www.businessinsider.com/blackstone-inflation-rents-rising-real-estate-stephen-schwarzman-jon-gray-2022-1
https://amp.theguardian.com/business/2022/sep/29/blackstone-rebellion-how-one-country-worlds-biggest-commercial-landlord-denmark
UN accuses Blackstone Group of contributing to global housing crisis
Patrick Butler (The Guardian)Nicole Parsons reshared this.
DRBLD2009
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •@wdlindsy Here is the Problem all five of them too much money not enough brain cells.
Nicole Parsons
in reply to DRBLD2009 • • •@DRBLD2009 @jodmentum
The inability & refusal of the wealthiest to see the consequences of their actions.
Their perspective that consequences are other people's problems & their own personal safety is guaranteed.
The oil industry knew for decades what climate change meant, & instead funded climate denial.
Harlan Crow knew what RealPage does & bought a Justice instead.
Schwarzman knows what Blackstone is doing & continues to do it while funding authoritarians for public office.
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Nicole Parsons
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •@DRBLD2009 @jodmentum
US monetary policy is apparently determined by Blackstone?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-11/blackstone-finance-chief-chae-says-us-inflation-is-at-target
Homelessness rates are set by Blackstone?
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/aug/13/blackstone-sells-homes-pension-fund-uss-shared-ownership
#TranslatedFromTheRepublican
Pension funds invest in AI boondoggle & profligate energy hogs: data centers.
Looting the economy can resume now that interest rates are due to fall...
https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/blackstone-buy-australias-airtrunk-16-billion-deal-2024-09-04/
MAGA's like "picket-fence" dentistry from impoverished supporters
https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2024/09/12/deca-dental-group-blackstone-ideal-dental.html
Blackstone sells 3,000 homes worth £405m to UK’s biggest pension fund
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DRBLD2009
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •Nicole Parsons
in reply to DRBLD2009 • • •Sorry!
Info dumping is a personal flaw, I know.
DRBLD2009
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •William Lindsey :toad:
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •William Lindsey :toad:
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •Osteopenia Powers
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •Wow, who could imagine that landlords were facing a disadvantage bargaining against renters?
Nicole Parsons
in reply to Osteopenia Powers • • •@Osteopenia_Powers @jodmentum
These hypocrites pontificate about "free markets" yet collude to fix prices and manipulate markets.
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2017/04/07/profit-at-any-cost/
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/sep/20/ruthless-private-equity-firms-gobble-up-property-wreak-havoc-on-tenants-lives
https://www.levernews.com/every-door-you-open-ultimately-leads-to-blackstone/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/16/business/blackstone-real-estate-acquisition.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/magazine/wall-street-landlords.html
Profit at any cost - Yale Daily News
David Yaffe-Bellany (Yale Daily News)Nicole Parsons reshared this.
DEDGirl
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •Nicole Parsons
in reply to DEDGirl • • •The oldest psychological manipulation technique on the planet is flattery.
Putin strokes Trump's ego and he betrayed the nation for that.
Clarence Thomas has been gulled into thinking these people are "friends & allies" by letting him play with the big boys.
They think of him as a "useful idiot" whose utility is nearing an end and its time to throw him under the bus to shield their other corrupt Supreme Court justices.
The young ones especially.
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