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"As the fantasy of strongman rule fades into everyday dictatorship, people realize that they need things like water or schools or Social Security checks. Insofar as such goods are available under a dictatorship, they come with a moral as well as a financial price. When you go to a government office, you will be expected to declare your personal loyalty to the strongman."
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #violence #economy #garbage
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"Quite a few Americans like the idea of strongman rule. Why not a dictator who will get things done? ...
Strongman rule is a fantasy. Essential to it is the idea that a strongman will be your strongman. He won't. …
Unaccountable to the law and to voters, the dictator has no reason to consider anything beyond his own personal interests."
~ Timothy Snyder
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #violence #economy #garbage
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The Strongman Fantasy (text and audio)
And Dictatorship in Real LifeTimothy Snyder (Thinking about...)
"Many potential Trump voters are probably unaware of what’s in store and imagine that Trump would just snap his fingers and 'fix' what he insists is a terrible economy. The reality, however, is that America’s economic performance under the Biden-Harris administration has been very good, especially compared with that of other countries."
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #violence #economy #garbage
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"Some of this will involve the frightening reality of authoritarianism; if you think you’ll be unaffected by a second Trump presidency because you aren’t undocumented or Puerto Rican or a Democratic politician, I encourage you to reassess."
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #violence #economy #garbage
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"Do you know this widely cited meme, introduced in a 2015 tweet?
'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party.
It’s hard to explain why this is perfect, but it is. If Donald Trump wins, there will eventually be a lot of sobbing among people who voted for him."
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #violence #economy #garbage
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"The Justice Department, the FBI, the IRS and maybe others will focus on harassing Trump’s enemies in the media and in politics. Whole branches of the federal government will be farmed out to cronies who will build kleptocracy on a new scale."
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #violence #economy #garbage
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"And if Trump wins? He and the people around him have already told us what they will do. They will seek to transform the federal government into a loyalty machine that serves the interests of himself and his cronies. This was the essence of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, and it will become reality."
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #violence #economy #garbage
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"With just a few days to go, let me step back and make the case, once again, for why Trump’s language, and Trump’s propaganda, matter so much. Do note that, despite the criticism, it has not stopped. Right up until the final moments of the campaign, Trump was still casting his opponents as 'enemies,' as was everyone around him."
~ Anne Applebaum
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #violence #economy #garbage
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"Four Days until Election Day and Donald Trump if fantasizing about killing those who oppose him."
~ James Singer quoted by Greg Dworkin
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #violence #economy #garbage
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dailykos.com/stories/2024/11/1…
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: How To Win With Less
Ron Brownstein /The Atlantic: The Democratic Theory of Winning With Less This election will be decided not by another big popular vote but by ...Daily Kos
A thread of statements addressing the closing arguments of the Trump campaign:
"It’s a fitting end to the filthy outpouring that is the Donald Trump campaign that he thought he was so smart by climbing into a garbage truck."
~ Steven Beschloss
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #violence #economy #garbage
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3 Snapshots: The Garbage Man, Women Standing Up, An Inspiring Message
Three quick takes on these final days of the 2024 electionSteven Beschloss (America, America)
ABOUT GEORGE W. BUSH
Dubya's grandda, Prescott, most likely bought his way out of a life in prison when his bank was closed down by FDR because he was the main banker to the Nazis.
this from the Guardian, back in 2004:
"How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power"
theguardian.com/world/2004/sep…
the Senator for Connecticut got away with it and that ushered the era of USA nazis hiding in plain sight, in and outside the government.
The Bushes are literal architects of American #Fascism
How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power
Rumours of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still being felt by today's…Duncan Campbell (The Guardian)
Normalization in a time of madness, on behalf of a population dedicated to not knowing terrible things. Bearing witness in a supremacist nation on the verge of a Nazi takeover
Nazism is on the ballot this year, and people who consider themselves Nazis know it, even if so many of the rest of us seem not to want to. So it came to pass that Nazis came to the pro-Trump boat show in Jupiter Florida last week.
the-reframe.com/this-has-to-be… #nazism #fascism #USelection
This HAS To Be Normal
Normalization in a time of madness, on behalf of a population dedicated to not knowing terrible things. Bearing witness in a supremacist nation on the verge of a Nazi takeover.A.R. Moxon (The Reframe)
Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday was alarming for many reasons, not least for its overt #fascism and #racism, but it was also, as The New York Times accurately reported, a “carnival” of “#misogyny”—one directed at Kamala Harris in particular.
Grant Cardone, a self-styled business guru, likened the Democratic nominee for president to a #prostitute, saying that “her pimp handlers will destroy our country.” Another speaker called Harris “the devil” and “the #Antichrist.” And Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host, mocked her racial identity and repeated Trump’s insult that Harris, a former district attorney, state attorney general, senator, and now a vice president, was “#low IQ.”
The overt #sexism throughout the night, even by the standards of Trump’s nearly decade-long political career, was astonishing.
Less surprising, given the campaign he’s run this year, was the figurative #crotch-grabbing on display. When Trump running mate JD Vance mentioned Tim Walz, his Democratic counterpart, the crowd erupted into “#tampon Tim” chants—to which Vance laughed.
(Explainer here, if you need one.) And the “comedian” who opened the rally, Tony Hinchcliffe, said that Latinos “love making babies. There’s no pulling out. They come inside, just like they do to our country.”
These were not simply off-the-cuff remarks;
they were very deliberate.
It’s all part of Trump’s electoral strategy to Make America #Masculine Again.
He knows he’s losing women by massive margins, so he’s going after the men
—especially, but not exclusively, aggrieved young men who feel they’ve been robbed of their male #birthright to #power.
Trump is giving them license to say whatever they want about women, and his campaign is an implicit promise to give them control over women, including their bodies.
This is the pop-culture definition of toxic masculinity, and the crudest, most aggressive misogyny we’ve seen from Trump
—which is truly saying something, given that he’s an adjudicated #rapist who was caught on tape bragging that he can grab women’s vaginas without consequence.
But this, perhaps even more than his reprehensible immigrant bashing and fascist overtones, is Trump’s closing argument:
to put women back in their place and restore men to total supremacy in America.
newrepublic.com/article/187419…
Trump’s Promise to Young Men: I Am Your Retribution Against Women
He and his MAGA allies are ramping up the sexism and misogyny as part of a closing message that they will restore men to their rightful place—of total control over women.The New Republic
I think we all knew this was happening—why else overpay by $25b?—but I guess confirmation is good.
Imagine being the kind of chump who clings to Zombie Twitter because “that’s where the conversation is” only to have your work throttled while everyone is guaranteed to see Catturd’s latest insights.
wapo.st/4fmNIvF
#elonmusk #trump #Election2024 #media #fascism
"Even if [a Harris presidency] isn’t far better, I still think it will be better than a Trump presidency because one thing we have learned to our horror over the last year is that as terrible as things are, they can get worse. They can get much worse. They can get worse there in Palestine and Israel, and they can certainly get much worse here."
"I want to explain why, if I lived in a swing state, I would vote for Kamala Harris. And I say this as somebody who thinks that Joe Biden and some of his top advisors should be brought before international courts as war criminals for their role in the utter destruction of the Gaza Strip."
~ Peter Beinart
#Israel #Gaza #Biden #KamalaHarris #Trump #fascism
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If I Lived In a Swing State, I’d Vote for Harris
The Consequences of a Trump Presidency Are Simply Too DirePeter Beinart (The Beinart Notebook)
"There’s too much at stake and far too many communities, both in the United States and abroad, that will suffer if Trump is re-elected. The desire to 'punish' Joe Biden and Harris for Gaza and vote instead for Trump or a third party vote, which just helps Trump in swing states, is like punching ourselves in the face."
~ Wajahat Ali
#Israel #Gaza #Biden #KamalaHarris #Trump #fascism
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Yes, I think Democrats are complicit in genocide. But Trump would be far worse
There is simply no moral argument for allowing the former president to win in the name of opposing genocideWajahat Ali (The Guardian)
In a #WashingtonPost OpEd, Jeff #Bezos spins some #bullshit in an attempt to excuse his #acquiescence to #Trump’s threats to perceived enemies & a #FreePress.
#billionaire #SelfInterest #WaPo #FourthEstate #democracy #fascism #tyranny
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“Immigrants exist across our economic spectrum. They’re everywhere. They’re us.”
Our top story: Unauthorized workers form the backbone of crucial sectors; in the construction industry, up to 50 percent of laborers building the state are undocumented. texasobserver.org/how-mass-dep…
#immigration #Trump #fascism #extremism #democracy #WorkersRights #HumanRight #labor #politics #USpol #news #election2024
How Mass Deportations Would ‘Devastate’ Texas
The Lone Star State is home to millions of undocumented residents and members of mixed-status families critical to the state’s economic success, yet Texas leaders are cheering on Trump anyway.Francesca D’Annunzio (The Texas Observer)
“The last time the United States launched a mass deportation effort … U.S. citizens of Hispanic descent were rounded up and sent to Mexico—a place that many had never been before. The mass deportations that #Trump is proposing would be devastating for our economy and dangerous for American Latinos.”
texasobserver.org/how-mass-dep…
#politics #USpol #immigration #news #fascism #extremism #racism #election2024 #economy
How Mass Deportations Would ‘Devastate’ Texas
The Lone Star State is home to millions of undocumented residents and members of mixed-status families critical to the state’s economic success, yet Texas leaders are cheering on Trump anyway.Francesca D’Annunzio (The Texas Observer)
"The last time there was an
'America First' rally at Madison Square Garden, in 1939:"
~ Tristan Snell
#Trump #fascism #Nazis #MadisonSquareGarden
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Tristan Snell on Substack
The last time there was an "America First" rally at Madison Square Garden, in 1939:Substack
"Before Mr. Trump had even taken the stage, warm-up speakers had called Puerto Rico an 'island of garbage,' referred to Ms. Harris as 'the devil' and 'the Antichrist,' and made racist or derogatory remarks about Latinos generally, African Americans, Palestinians and Jews."
~ Erica L. Green
"With just over a week before Election Day, speakers labeled Puerto Rico a 'floating island of garbage,' called Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris 'the devil,' and said the woman vying to become the first woman and Black woman president had begun her career as a prostitute."
#Trump #fascism #WhiteSupremacy #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #MadisonSquareGarden
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"Donald Trump hosted a rally featuring crude and racist insults at New York's Madison Square Garden Sunday, turning what his campaign had dubbed as the event where he would deliver his closing message into an illustration of what turns off his critics."
~ Jill Colvin and Michelle L. Price
#Trump #fascism #WhiteSupremacy #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #MadisonSquareGarden
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"I've seen privileged people of awareness cheer themselves that if Trump and his Republican Nazis win, then at least the people in the red states, who did not vote as we did, will feel the most harm first—ignoring that the harm in these places will come first to those who were already most threatened, the same people whose lives we have, from our yard signs and bumper stickers, claimed matter."
~ A.R. Moxon
the-reframe.com/out-damned-spo…
Out Damned Spot
Reasons and excuses, position and fault, responsibility and blame, inheritance and elections. Seeking cheap absolutions and blameless ignorance from the heart of the empire.A.R. Moxon (The Reframe)
"It is the staging and the theatrics that he most cares about: the form rather than the content. He knows that everyone watching and attending knows that he is re-enacting a Nazi show."
"Having a rally at Madison Square Garden, in the Nazi tradition, is a sure way for Trump to drive media attention to himself at a time when he is low on energy, incoherent, and falling asleep at his own events —and thus more desperate and dangerous than ever."
~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat
#Trump #fascism #MadisonSquareGarden
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lucid.substack.com/p/trump-cha…
Trump Channels Nazism's Aesthetics, Führer Cult, and WorldView
From Waco, Texas to Madison Square Garden, evoking and normalizing Fascism is the goal.Ruth Ben-Ghiat (Lucid)
"It’s wild to me that Trump’s fascism is only now breaking through as a major news story. Trump’s ideology has been evident from the start, and in every election cycle, his closing argument always comes down to white supremacy, fascism, hate, and white male grievance.
~ Melissa Ryan
#Trump #fascism #WhiteSupremacy #hate #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy
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The F-Word
It took nearly a decade but we’re finally ready to call a fascist politician out for being one.Melissa Ryan (Ctrl Alt Right Delete)
They held a fascist rally at Madison Square Gardens.
Right now, my grandfather and tens of thousands of soldiers who lost their lives fighting the Nazis during WWII are turning over in their graves.
#madisonsquaregarden #fascism #republicans #nazis #trump
#election #election2024 #voteblue #vote #democracy
"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
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"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
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Canceled Subscriptions
In service of democracyElliot 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
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"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
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"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
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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)