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"Craig & Buettner have written a #book, âLucky Loser: How #DonaldTrump Squandered His Fatherâs Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success.â It shows in meticulously documented detail how âeven when Trump appeared to be at his best, he was failing,â with massive losses on his core business.
The authors prove that without his fatherâs support, #Trump would have been nothing."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/09/17/lucky-loser-donald-trump-finances-susanne-craig-russ-buettner-review/
#Fraud #Lies #TrumpLies #GOP #Republicans #Politics #USPol #US #USA #News #Books #BookReview
Donald Trumpâs financial failures are stunning. âLucky Loserâ has the receipts.
Susanne Craig and Russ Buettnerâs book is much more than an excavation of the former presidentâs tax returns.Bethany McLean (The Washington Post)
"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 campaignâs strategy hinges on polluting the information environment with lies about vulnerable groups that Republicans want to blame for the countryâs problems."
~ Adam Serwer
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia #hate #PoliticsofHate
/18
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/09/trump-tv-haitians-immigrants-eating-cats/679788/
Trump Will Believe Anything
The former president will believe anythingâeven wild rumors about immigrants killing and eating petsâas long as itâs cruel, politically expedient, and on TV.Adam Serwer (The Atlantic)
"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
/17
https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/how-dangerous-is-trumps-white-christian
How Dangerous is Trump's White Christian Nationalist Vision for the Country?
It's pub week for The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy, now in paperback.Robert P. Jones (White Too Long by Robert P. Jones)
"The Trump-Vance campaign isnât 'backtracking' from it because this is who they are. They want people to hate immigrants, they want to encourage violence. They donât give a damn that the things theyâre saying are false."
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia #hate #PoliticsofHate
/15
"This racist lie designed to divide American and stoke hatred towards immigrants and racial minorities â exactly the kind of lie that has in the past resulted in violence against marginalized communities. things theyâre 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
Kamala Harris eviscerated Trump last nightJamison Foser (Finding Gravity)
"He is trying to stir up hatred. Itâs 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 â 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
/13
"The story was thoroughly debunked even before the debate. But examining how it got laundered from the fringes of the internet to Trumpâs 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
/12
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-haitian-pet-hoax-meme-debate-ohio
Trump's racist pet hoax exposes weirdo meme culture to normies
It's a case of suicide by meme.Liz Dye (Public Notice)
"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
/11
"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 neighborsâ 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
/10
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-11-2024
September 11, 2024
Todayâs fallout from last nightâs presidential debate between Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican nominee former president Donald Trump has shown Harris solidifying her dominant position.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
"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 itâs 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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As Paul Waldman notes, the toxic and easily disproven lie that Trump chose to spread in the debate â that Haitians in Ohio are eating pets â started with Vance, who got the lie from neo-Nazis:
"It wasnât 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
What their racist lie about immigrants eating pets is supposed to accomplish.Paul Waldman (The Cross Section)
"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 heâd 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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"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. Itâs 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
/2
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 itâs 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 anniversarâŚJoyce Vance (Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)