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"Never mind that he was the most pro-union president we’ve ever had. Never mind he is a fundamentally decent man; his character is not in question.
It wasn’t enough apparently. …
Biden didn’t fail America — America failed him."
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"Never mind that his administration has been largely scandal free. Never mind that he surrounded himself with some really competent people. Never mind that he took an economy in shambles and turned it around. Never mind that he restored international relations that had been crippled and turned them around, including NATO expansion. Never mind that the infrastructure bill was an incredible accomplishment given the Congress he had to work with."
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/15
"What is going on?
I am starting to see editorials and analyses that are blaming the second coming of the convicted felon on Joseph Robinette Biden. It seems like there is a determined campaign to trash his legacy. ...
We haven’t reached the point yet, like that seen under Stalin, where history would be rewritten and photos edited to remove unpersons who had fallen out of favor and been purged.
Not yet."
~ xaxnar
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #cruelty #future
/14
dailykos.com/stories/2024/11/9…
What is with all the Biden hate?
What is going on? I am starting to see editorials and analyses that are blaming the second coming of the convicted felon on Joseph Robinette Biden. It seems like there is a determined campaign to trash his legacy. I could believe the idea is to not..Daily Kos
"Joe Biden owned the hardships of the post-pandemic — principally but not only economic — and the public simply rejected his presidency because of that. That’s very similar to what has happened when almost every other incumbent party in the West came up for reelection in the post-pandemic era. ...
Harris and Harris’ campaign are a distraction from this necessary conversation, a form of denial."
Of course, always easier to blame women, no?
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/13
Josh Marshall agrees with a TPM reader who says that "digesting the mechanics of campaigns were sort of beside the point now." As he notes, "The problems and the roots of Democrats’ defeat ran far deeper." And "the recriminations conversation" is a colossal waste of time.
He writes,
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/12
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A Follow Up About Harris
In response to today’s Backchannel, longtime TPM Reader LS wrote in to say that while she generally agreed with my evaluation of Kamala Harris’ campaign…Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
"As Hitler, so Trump; as Nazi, so MAGA. …
Dorothy Thompson made the same mistake many of us, myself very much included, made in her assessment of the resident strongman: she believed the German people would be sophisticated enough to see through Hitler’s grotesque lies, just like we all believed the American people would be sophisticated enough to see through Trump’s."
~ Greg Olear
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/11
"What is true: Trump, and the right, are very good at taking basic respect and empathy for other humans, and portraying that as dangerous: social justice, wokeness, diversity, equity and inclusion have all been converted into terms of mockery. Trump did not win because someone you were on a zoom call with used pronouns, or Latinx, or some college grad corrected you for using the word homeless."
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"This is a lazy pre-existing [corporate media] narrative to be sold, not because of any actual analysis of the electorate. These are writers who for various reasons have committed to an anti-woke narrative. And once you have committed to that narrative, you are determined to force it into every story, no matter how misleading."
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/9
As Don Moynihan notes, while the media and their fellow travelers pile on in a big gloat fest accusing Democrats of losing support because they're too "woke" and promote identity politics,
"You will never guess who did run on trans issues: Donald Trump."
As the Harris campaign bent over backwards to de-emphasize identity politics….
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/8
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Who is allowed to practice identity politics?
When the right does it, its just politicsDon Moynihan (Can We Still Govern?)
"Choosing to write stories that 'blame elitist Democrats' ignores the real story of what happened on Tuesday. That distraction normalizes the grotesque, existential threat of Trump's electoral victory. Trump could not buy more favorable and helpful coverage if he paid for those stories with Elon Musk’s billions."
~ Hubbell, ibid.
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The media have done this persistently for some years now. By trotting out their tired (and mendacious) refrain that the Democrats are out of touch with "real Americans," the media absolve themselves for pre-emptively obeying fascist dictators in the making and abdicate their responsibility to educate us. And they have lots of willing tools among the many pretend-liberals eager to pounce on the Democratic party while pretending fascism is not the real threat.
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"But the media is (again) sane-washing Trump's depravity. Rather than acknowledge—or even mention—his dominant campaign themes in analyzing his victory, the media insists that Trump won because Democrats are ;elitists; who somehow ;alienated' major portions of the electorate or that Democrats lost because Kamala Harris and her advisors refused to run her campaign in the manner demanded by the legacy media."
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"The defining feature of Trump's campaign was its appeal to racism, misogyny, and white supremacy. He pushed those themes despite pleas from his advisers to focus on the economy. Having campaigned on themes of hate and division, he won decisively. The most compelling inference from those facts is that Trump's campaign themes appealed to a broad swath of the voters who supported him."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
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'An important lesson from Nazi Germany: Dumb people are more dangerous than evil people. Ignorance will destroy America like it destroyed Germany during the Nazi era."
~ Oliver Markus Molloy
Molly quotes W.E.B. DuBois:
"Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States."
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/3
A lot of people who chose to vote for Trump are now in for a rude awakening. They made their choice thinking that only someone else is going to be hurt.
They're about to find out otherwise. And this includes all those superior beings who think want to waste time now pretending that the Democratic party is the problem, and not the party determined to bring us fascism and the voters who have chosen to give the party free rein.
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"When the dust settles, I expect the people who assess elections will tell us disinformation was key in 2024. It wasn’t the economy, it was the disinformation about the economy. ...
It requires education and discernment to separate fact from fiction, and often that's lacking. That’s the problem: educating people so they can make judgments about what’s true."
~ Joyce Vance
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"Misogyny was so core to his campaign and that appealed to many people and I guess didn’t bother enough other people (including many women) for it to be the winning message of the day. That’s a hard thing to know about your fellow citizens."
~ Emily Tamkin
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/2
"Margaret Atwood’s 'The Handmaid’s Tale,' a novel set in a totalitarian society, has shot to the top of Amazon’s bestselling books list following Donald Trump’s reelection."
~ Erika Tulfo
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#DonaldTrump2024 #Trump #USAElection2024 #HarrisWalz #Harris #USA2024 #democracy #Republicans #Democrats #WhiteHouse – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
As she calls for a media reckoning, Parker Molloy speaks truth that will resonate with a lot of us, I suspect:
"For years, major news outlets have twisted themselves into knots trying to appease critics on the right. In the process, they've alienated not just the left but anyone who cares about honest, fearless journalism."
#media #MediaFail #Democrats #Republicans #KamalaHarris #DonaldTrump
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It's Time for a Media Reckoning—No Matter Who Wins Tomorrow
For too long, legacy media outlets have only responded to right-wing criticism. That needs to change.Parker Molloy (The Present Age)
I prefer Presidents who don’t bungle the response to a deadly pandemic costing 88,000 American lives.
#election2024 #election #vote #kamalaharris #democrats #republicans
"And so women are treated as hate objects, of course, in that discourse, and that discourse has become mainstream and is certainly a key part of the Republican Party today."
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/12
(continued from /10) "that the women’s only place is in making babies to replace the race essentially; that they shouldn’t have a voice within the white supremacist community; and that feminism itself is part of the problem and part of the reason why this 'great replacement theory' is working."
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/11
"One of the really interesting things in the research that I’ve done on the neo-Nazi community, white supremacist community, is the way that they linked anti-feminism to their neo-Nazi and white supremacist ideals. If you go back to Daily Stormer in 2014, 2015, they’re saying arguments about anti-feminism as being essential to understanding white supremacy;" (continued in /11)
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/10
"There’s a really smart researcher on authoritarianism, Karen Stenner, and she had retweeted that—what she said was, Pay attention to how he says the word women. And if you listen to it, it’s really interesting because of so much visceral anger and hatred just dripping off of his tongue as he says the word women. That’s very indicative of Trump’s approach to women in general."
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/9
"Despite best practices, despite all of the consultants opinions, Donald Trump is fearlessly being misogynistic. I don’t know if that message is going to convince any women to vote for him, but it certainly will resonate with men."
~ Jennifer Mercieca
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/8
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Brutal New Ad Nukes Trump—With His Own Ugly, Hateful Attacks on Women
As Kamala Harris hits Trump hard over his misogyny, a scholar of political communications explains how Harris is tapping into a level of cultural energy among women we are underestimating.The New Republic
“'It’s really hard to know that there are men out there who want to vote against reproductive rights, even though they shouldn’t have a say in it at all,' Casey, who voted for Harris, said. She doesn’t think she could date someone who doesn’t share her views again. 'As a political science major, I made a decision that I don’t want to put myself in that position.'”
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/7
"People are saying this is the Abortion Election. I believe it is the Female Personhood Election. ...
A vote for Republicans is a vote to deny women female personhood."
~ Andra Watkins
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/13
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Recap: The Republican War on Women
Female personhood is on the ballot (Scroll to the end to listen)Andra Watkins (How Project 2025 Will Ruin YOUR Life)
"The media have obsessed over Black people and Latinos turned off by Harris and various other #Demsindisarray narratives. The enthusiasm of women for Harris is a storyline that has been entirely unexplored."
~ Michael Tomasky
Hmm. Wonder why that would be? What is it about the media (and who owns and controls the media?) that would cause the media to ignore this? (/s)
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Men are hopeless, but don’t worry: Women will save America. As usual.
Fighting Words. What got me...newsletter.tnr.com
"THE 'GENDER GAP' MATH IS UNDER-APPRECIATED in coverage of the race. More women will likely show up to vote than they did in 2020, and they will be supporting Harris more than they did Biden four years ago. Trump may be making gains with men. But he’s going to have to turn out a lot more of them if he wants to keep up."
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/15
Our top story: Compared to 2022, there’s less bullishness now about a coming wave, but the Republican Party still sees the region as part of the party’s future and is continuing its outreach there. In response, #Democrats, along the same lines as Vice President Kamala Harris, are now appealing to the moderate and undecided. texasobserver.org/rio-grande-v…
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In the Rio Grande Valley, a Humbled GOP Battles with Democrats for the Center
Trumpian Republicans run left on abortion, border Dems sound more like national politicians, and both ignore crucial grassroots issues.Gaige Davila (The Texas Observer)
As is the biennial ritual, many in the state and at the national level are asking: Will #Texas turn blue (whatever that means)? Or, more specifically, can Colin Allred become the first Democrat to win a statewide election in Texas in 30 years? texasobserver.org/cruz-allred-…
#Democrats #Republicans #news #politics #USpol #Texas #election2024 #ColinAllred #TedCruz
A Real Race or a Red Redux?
In Cruz v. Allred, a few tantalizing polls have Democrats hopeful (again) despite little evidence suggesting an upset is on the way.Justin Miller (The Texas Observer)
“It pushes my line of what is appropriate, right? And so if I’m offended, it’s usually a good sign.”
A new satirical theatrical experience stretches the boundaries of good taste, while creating a moment of catharsis for the #Democrats of Texas: texasobserver.org/young-greg-a…
#politics #USpol #Texas #culture #musical #GregAbbott #theater #music #Austin #Republicans
‘Fuck You Greg Abbott’—the Musical
A satirical show about the Texas governor in his youth offers a giant Ann Richards puppet, dancing Matthew McConaughey heads, and a moment of catharsis.Kit O'Connell (The Texas Observer)
Alaina Demopoulos points to Jamisen Casey, a 21-year-old student in California who is registered to vote in her home state of Tennessee, On Tik Tok, she says i a video, “My absentee ballot on its way home to cancel out my ex boyfriend’s vote." The video shows her dancing with her mail-in ballot in hand.
#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
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The women ‘cancelling out’ their Trump-loving partners’ votes: ‘No one will ever know’
Trend underlines vast gender divide as election approaches, as experts say some women face pressure to ‘toe the line’ politically at homeAlaina Demopoulos (The Guardian)
"Just to be clear, if Donald Trump wins, the people who will be most happy about it are people who do not think women should have the right to vote."
~ Robyn Pennacchia
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"Trump is closing his campaign by having literal Nazi rallies and predator-splaining to women that he’s going to 'protect' them ;whether they like it or not.'”
~ Evan Hurst
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MAGA Men VERY MAD At Wives Secretly Voting For Kamala. Stop Laughing, It's Not Funny!
Oh no! Is somebody being DISOBEYED?Evan Hurst (The Moral High Ground)
"Trump chose five days before Election Day to tell women that he is going to exert control over them 'whether the women like it or not.'"
~ Robert B. Hubbell
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"Trump's closing argument is all about demeaning women."
~ Jamison Foser
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Trump's closing argument is all about demeaning women
"Locker room talk" might finally be his undoingJamison Foser (Finding Gravity)
"The 2024 election is in part about whether women can be free and equal citizens of this republic. Right now too many cannot. …
[MAGA men furious that their wives may vote independently of their control] want marriage to be an inherently unequal relationship with a subordinate wife and an entitled husband, a cozy little authoritarian regime at home."
~ Rebecca Solnit
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Federal authorities have deployed monitors for decades. But #Republicans have begun denying them entry to polling sites. The DOJ’s ability to monitor local jurisdictions for #VotingRights irregularities on Election Day, already curtailed by #SCOTUS, is facing a new hurdle: opposition from #Republicans who are seeking to block federal authorities from polling sites.
#law #illiberalism
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