Via Elie Mystal:

Cdn't be more “on brand” for GOP than to invite a racist comedian to their Nazi rally, claim all the racism is “jokes,” then feign offense at u pting out their racism & calling event a Nazi rally

Only thg missing: Black & brown MAGA validators to claim the racist jokes weren't racist. But Tim Scott, Leveon Bell will b out shucking & jiving soon

..Won’t change sgl vote bc, as has bn made manifest for nearly decade: #Trump supporters are racist, that is why they vote for Trump

Ooops.

Via Politico's Adam Wren:

New: Donald #Trump's two-minute ad that aired during Sunday’s Philadelphia Eagles game and said the country had "gone to hell" during the #Biden and #Harris administration featured an image from a protest during Trump’s presidency, not Biden’s.

Via Chef José Andrés:

This is what #Trump and his people believe about Latinos and Puertoricans…and Haitians and Mexicans and actually about anyone that is not like them…..
Kamala #Harris

TeamKamala will support Latinos and will work hard to be a President for all
Americans!
👇🏼
“There’s a lot going on. I don’t know if you know this but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico”

Via Geoff #HarrisWalz2024 live tweeting:

Just happened at Madison Square Garden:

Played a small portion of Dixie for the music. These were the lyrics played: I wish I was in the land of cotton, Old times there are not forgotten; Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land!

Then they invite Byron Donalds to the stage to speak.

#Trump

FYI- Team #Harris rapid response team is having a field day. They can’t believe the political gifts this klan rally is serving them on a silver platter.

Via Meidas Touch:

Just received this comment on a video we posted about the speakers at #Trump’s event today

Via Justin Baragona:

Just a few hours ago, #JDVance was arguing to Jake Tapper that Trump was being taken out of context and misrepresented.

#Trump: When I say the enemy within the other side goes crazy. They have done very bad things, they are indeed the enemy from within

I can still look my daughter in the eye.

#uspol #trump
@KamalaHarrisWin

Via Pulitzer Prize winner Brent Staples:

The Sunday nyt opinion - for those who have forgotten how it's done

#Trump

🎯
Via Rupar:

Mark Cuban: "This is not a normal world. Donald #Trump is not a normal candidate. And I think it's not a stretch to call Donald Trump a fascist ... he's talking about the 'enemy within' and going after people using the military. He's talked about mass deportations where they will stop people on the street and check their papers. What does that remind you of?"

“Cowardly billionaires at the Wash Post, LA Times have revealed how dictatorship can thrive, in the cynicism that the media and our other institutions can no longer be trusted

Rule No. 1 of fighting fascism — do not obey in advance — crumbles as major newspapers kill endorsements to appease #Trump.

Let's join with the heroes who refuse to obey in advance.”
If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.© & I 🧵it. 1/…
🎁 inquirer.com/opinion/commentar…

Billionaire cowards at Washington Post, L.A. Times show what life under a dictator is really like

Rule No. 1 of fighting fascism — do not obey in advance — crumbles as major newspapers kill endorsements to appease Trump.

^{Will Bunch (The Philadelphia Inquirer)}

"So, why did I cancel my subscriptions?

Because this wasn’t about an endorsement. It was about what it says of these papers’ owners—and a troubling trend among oligarchs more generally. From silent acquiescence to, in the case of Elon Musk, unhinged cheerleading, some of the most powerful people in the world are conspiring in complicity to undermine our country and our democracy."

#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #LosAngelesTimes #PatrickSoonShiong #EconomicElites
/7

"Of all the expectations I had for these final weeks of the election, canceling two of my newspaper subscriptions wasn’t one of them.

I’ve always believed newspapers are essential to our democracy."

~ Elliot Kirschner

#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #LosAngelesTimes #PatrickSoonShiong #EconomicElites
/6

elliotkirschner.substack.com/p…

Canceled Subscriptions

In service of democracy

^{Elliot Kirschner (Through the Fog, by Elliot Kirschner)}

"But here we see billionaires, who own press operations as side businesses, out of their back pocket, as it were, seeming to decide that it’s easier to pull up stakes in advance, get out of the way of the freight train, lay down before Trump has even won the election."

#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #EconomicElites
/5

"A lot of the country is convinced that a second Trump presidency will push America into the kind of elective autocracy we see in degraded democracies like Russia, Turkey and India. That brings with it the standard package of curtailments of press and other civic freedoms."

#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #EconomicElites
/4

"It’s been suggested to me that Jeff Bezos’ decision here may be based on more than just fear. Perhaps carrots are operating in the background as well as sticks. I don’t know if that’s true. But I mention the possibility because I think it’s a critical driver of what I’ve called that climate of bewilderment. The choice has the whiff of decisions or deals made off stage, out of public view."

~ Josh Marshall

#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #EconomicElites
/3

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/t…

Trust, Bewilderment and Billionairedom: Understanding the Backlash Against Bezos

It's part of the stock in trade of liberal American discourse: threatening or claiming to cancel a subscription to this or that once-revered journalistic institution in response to bad behavior…

^{Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)}

“'Trump waited to make sure that Bezos did what he said he was going to do, and then met with the Blue Origin people,' he said on Saturday. 'Which tells us that there was an actual deal made, meaning that Bezos communicated, or through his people, communicated directly with Trump, and they set up this quid pro quo.'”

#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #EconomicElites #RobertKagan
/2

"It is 'vitally important' to learn to spot native fascists, the government said, 'even though they adopt names and slogans with popular appeal, drape themselves with the American flag, and attempt to carry out their program in the name of the democracy they are trying to destroy.'”

To repeat: this warning was issued in 1943. After what happened in Europe in the 1930s. It was issued by the US War Department.

#fascism #Trump #JDVance #Republicans
/6

"'In place of international cooperation, the fascists seek to substitute a perverted sort of ultra-nationalism which tells their people that they are the only people in the world who count. With this goes hatred and suspicion toward the people of all other nations.'

Third, fascists would insist that 'the world has but two choices—either fascism or communism, and they label as ‘communists’ everyone who refuses to support them.'”

#fascism #Trump #JDVance #Republicans
/5

"First, they would pit religious, racial, and economic groups against one another to break down national unity. Part of that effort to divide and conquer would be a 'well-planned "hate campaign" against minority races, religions, and other groups.'

Second, they would deny any need for international cooperation, because that would fly in the face of their insistence that their supporters were better than everyone else."

#fascism #Trump #JDVance #Republicans
/4

The pamphlet warned Army members not to imagine that fascism could not come to the US. Americans had once laughed at Hitler as a funny little man with a mustache, and look at what happened.

"The War Department thought it was important for Americans to understand the tactics fascists would use to take power in the United States. They would try to gain power 'under the guise of
"super-patriotism" and "super-Americanism."' And they would use three techniques:"

#fascism #Trump #Republicans
/3

"“The basic principles of democracy stand in the way of their desires; hence—democracy must go! Anyone who is not a member of their inner gang has to do what he’s told. They permit no civil liberties, no equality before the law.' 'Fascism treats women as mere breeders. "Children, kitchen, and the church," was the Nazi slogan for women,' the pamphlet said."

#fascism #Trump #JDVance #Republicans #democracy #women
/2

Heather Cox Richardson offers a valuable précis of a series of pamphlets the US War Deprtment published in 1943 for for US Army personnel in the European theater of World War II. The series was entitled "Army Talks."

The pamphlets define fascism as “government by the few and for the few. The objective is seizure and control of the economic, political, social, and cultural life of the state.”

#fascism #Trump #JDVance #Republicans
/1

heathercoxrichardson.substack.…

October 26, 2024

Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S.

^{Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)}

"Robert Kagan, who resigned from his position [as editor at large at Washington Post] on Friday after more than two decades at the publication, told the Daily Beast that Trump’s meeting with executives of Bezos’ Blue Origin space company the same day that the Amazon founder killed a plan to support Harris was proof of the backroom deal."

~ Lily Mae Lazarus

#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #EconomicElites #RobertKagan
/1

thedailybeast.com/ex-washingto…

Ex-WaPo Editor: This Is a Straight Bezos-Trump ‘Quid Pro Quo’

Robert Kagan tells the Daily Beast that Donald Trump’s meeting with Blue Origin executives the day its founder Jeff Bezos killed his paper’s Kamala Harris endorsement is proof of a backroom deal.

^{Lily Mae Lazarus (The Daily Beast)}

Via Adam Cochran:
..unsealed in #JackSmith filing:

-#Trump used a burner phone, routed thru foreign country to contact MI house speaker.

-He tried to pressure speaker in this off bc call.

-McCarthy knew about burner phone line.

-Phone showed up as “Spam Risk Egypt” on caller ID

If TFG thought his attempt to overturn election & forge elector docs were legit “official acts” why was he using insecure, foreign routed burner phone?
1/2

2/ This speech.. my god. This speech.

Wonderful, thoughtful, brutal, heartwrenching, deeply heartfelt, you name it.

Please watch.

#MichelleObama #Harris #Trump

October 26th and October 27th.

Related?

#Election2024 #media #bezos #trump #fascism

yahoo.com/news/extreme-danger-…

“Extreme Danger”: #Harris Earns a Stunning #Endorsement Over #Trump
Edith Olmsted

..."“Some of us have lost many family members in #Gaza and #Lebanon. We respect those who feel they simply can’t vote for a member of the administration that sent the bombs that may have killed their loved ones,” the letter continued. “As we consider the full situation carefully, however, we conclude that voting for Kamala Harris is the best option for the #Palestinian "...

Trump sells himself as a Protector as all Tyrants have done .

Plato “This and no other is the root from which a Tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a Protector “

#Uspoli #Uspol #Cdnpoli #Election #Trump
#Protector #Fascist #Tyrant

nothing to see here, just #JDVance actively encouraging the breaking of laws and the harassment of poll workers in a swing state.

x.com/DanteAtkins/status/18503…

#Election2024 #2024Election #Trump #DonaldTrump #JDVance #uspol #uspolitics #politics #Kamala2024 #KamalaHarris #GOP #MAGA #MAGAts #Vote #Republicans #RVAT #Democrats #HarrisWalz2024 #VoteBlue #HarrisForPresident #HarrisWalz #polls #swingState #Pennsylvania #Michigan #Wisconsin #Virginia #VoteHarris

Those who think it’s okay to allow a convicted felon like trump to become a fascist dictator have only lived in a free society.

Those same people will be the first to panic and wonder why nobody stopped trump as they begin to systematically lose their rights and freedoms and standard of living.

#fascism #republicans #trump #election2024 #election #democracy #voteblue #harris

Because everything #Trump says is projection/confession, it's fair to assume that he is the enemy from within.

#HarrisWalz2024
#Fascism
#Authoritarianism

🚨 🚨 🚨 BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨

Michelle Obama just laid into Donald Trump like no one has before.

Retoot to make sure all Americans see this takedown.
— via ACYN

#MichelleObama #trump #voteblue for #kamalaharris

!

Michelle Obama: "Can someone tell me why we are once again holding Kamala to a higher standard than her opponent? We expect her to be intelligent and articulate. To have a clear set of policies. To never show too much anger. To prove time and time again that she belongs. But for #Trump, we expect nothing at all."

Small undersized Trump 🍄

Michelle Obama on #Trump: "When the American people fired him from a job that was too big for him to begin with, he tried to steal it. Egging on a violent mob that breached our nation's Capitol."

Via Kyle Griffin:

This passage from Michelle Obama:

"I hope you'll forgive me if I'm a little frustrated that some of us are choosing to ignore #Trump's gross incompetence while asking Kamala to dazzle us at every turn. I hope that you'll forgive me if I'm a little angry that we are indif to his erratic behavior. His obvious mental decline. His history as a convicted felon . All of this while we pick apart Kamala's answers from interviews that he doesn't even have the courage to do, y'all."

No. He doesn’t. Clearly.

Michelle Obama on the overturning of Roe: "Do you think Donald #Trump is thinking about the consequences for the millions of women who will be living in medical deserts? Does anyone think he has the emotional maturity and foresight to come up with a plan to protect us?"

Ogodyes.

Michelle Obama: "I am asking y'all from the core of my being to take our lives seriously. Please do not put our lives in the hands of politicians, mostly men, who have no clue or do not care about what we as women are going through ... Please do not hand our fates over to the likes of #Trump, who knows nothing about us. Who has shown deep contempt for us. Because a vote for him is a vote against us. Against our health. Against our worth."