#Trump Says He’ll Fight for Working-Class Americans. His First Presidency Suggests He Won’t.
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From cutting children's #disability benefits to allowing employers to pocket workers' tips, Trump tried to slash protections for the working poor in ways that have been forgotten by many.

#News #Politics #Government #Election #Election2024 #Workers #DonaldTrump

propublica.org/article/donald-…

What Trump’s Record Suggests About How He’ll Fight for Working-Class Americans

From cutting children's disability benefits to allowing employers to pocket workers' tips, Trump tried to slash protections for the working poor in ways that have been forgotten by many.

^ProPublica

Amen.

Sen. Warnock in Atlanta: "I want you to hear the tragic irony of a man guilty of sexual assault saying he's going to do something for women whether they like it or not. America, pay attention. That's the language of a predator. And we don’t need a predator in the White House." #Trump #Georgia

"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."

#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
/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."

#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
/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)

#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
/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."

#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
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"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

#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
/8

newrepublic.com/article/187783…

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.'”

#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
/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

#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
/13

project2025istheocracy.substac…

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)

#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
/14

newsletter.tnr.com/index.php?a…

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."

#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
/15

thebulwark.com/p/its-the-gende…

It’s the Gender Gap, Stupid!

Why that’s good for Kamala Harris.

^{Daniel McGraw (The Bulwark)}

BREAKING NEWS 🚨

Trump White House Official Calls for Donald Trump to Be Arrested for Threatening Republican Liz Cheney: He 'Just Violated the Conditions of His Bail'
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump #BreakingNews #Breaking

latintimes.com/trump-white-hou…

Via Rupar:

Timothy Snyder: "If you put the text side by side, the things that were said on Sunday at the #Trump rally are just as chilling as the things that we're said in February 1939."

Rupar:

for the second straight day #Trump says #RFKJr will "take care of women's health." He's serious about this.

Another day, another worker stiffed by Trump

Via Rupar:

#Trump makes his closing pitch to blue collar workers: "These mic guys. I'm telling you I'm having a lot of problems with mics lately. I'm not happy. Get yourself a new contractor please. And don't pay the bill for this contractor ... when they don't do a good job, don't pay your damn bill."

Via Marc Elias:

Here is the "secret" strategy:

Kamala #Harris will win the election.
Donald #Trump will lie about it.
His lawyers will file frivolous lawsuits.
They will lose.
Republicans will spend the next four year concocting crazy conspiracy theories.

Via Rupar:

for the second straight day #Trump fantasizes about people pointing guns at Liz #Cheney: "If you give Liz Cheney a gun and put her into battle facing the other side with guns pointing at her, she wouldn't have the courage or the strength or the stamina to even look the enemy in the eye."

😂
Via Eric Columbus:

No one has ever pined for an ex like Trump does for Biden

Acyn:

While #Trump is rambling about #Biden, a supporter yells “who cares”

Via Farhad Manjoo:

The way #Trump has been telling it in recent rallies: he made a deal with #RFKJr to allow RFK to have full control of public health and in return RFK Jr won’t protest oil drilling in environmentally sensitive areas. “Let me be in charge of the liquid gold” Trump says.

substack.com/home/post/p-15102…

#DanielPinchbeck

..."I find the #Biden/Harris approach significantly better and less dangerous than #Trump’s approach. The #world is definitely getting increasingly dangerous right now. We need the most sane #leadership we can get at the moment.
...
Trump is a sociopathic narcissist with decreasing impulse control who intends to surround himself with abject followers who will do whatever he says. Personally, I do not want this person near any form of military power,"...

Questions from a Reader

On the United States as an imperial power in the world

^{Daniel Pinchbeck (Daniel Pinchbeck’s Newsletter)}

“In many ways, #Trump has won the policy argument at the border. Joe #Biden and Kamala Harris have both embraced versions of his bottleneck strategy and hope to choke off asylum access between official ports of entry. But, for the 11 million undocumented already in the country, the distinction between the parties remains bright.” texasobserver.org/editors-lett…

#immigration #election2024 #activism #future #politics #USpol #Harris #News

Editor's Letter: Introducing Our November/December Issue

A note from the interim editor-in-chief

^{Gus Bova (The Texas Observer)}

@Npars01
So after writing this 👆 last night...
An article appeared this morning in Guardian about the election being in the hands of the #oligarchs. They are the ones pulling the strings on Puppet Trump who is their #VeryUsefulIdiot.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

#RJK #Murdoch #Bezos et al all on the phone to him "persuading" him to do their bidding for their particular area of influence: oil coal media pharma finance tech ...

And there, at the top of the pile, with his batteries, cars, X, Space-X and direct phoneline to Putin, is #Musk. Grinning his stupid grin, jumping his stupid jumps, waving his stupid waves.
Hes ready to join a Trump government in charge and in control of industry cutbacks (of course he is) But remember he's also in charge of a space programme that can control satellites that control the function of global business and finance. He can shut us down and shut businesses out at any time he wishes.

And Musk's next big foray will be into AI - so he won't need little ppl on production lines. And if he's working with Putin he won't need #Trump or the American Constitution.

#usapol #usafascistshitshow #usapolitcs #TrumpIsALaughingStock #globalpolitics #oligarchy

This Lincoln Project Ad, "Do you hear him now?" trying to wake people up to really HEAR what Trump is saying, is really fitting given the racist hateful fascist MAGA event of yesterday. And it chills me to the bone. #USPol #Facists #Trump

youtube.com/watch?v=fMjhl9jxru…

Quotes

You’ve heard Trump say these things before. But not like this.The Lincoln Project is a leading pro-democracy organization in the United States — dedicated to...

^YouTube

"It’s difficult to convey to people how much the GOP has radicalized, how much the power centers of conservative politics are in the hands of extremists, how much the rightwing intellectual sphere is dominated by some really radical ideas that are being pushed into the mainstream."

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/18

"One of the most frustrating things about U.S. politics is that people who aren’t engaging with it much will look at you like you are some kooky leftist propagandist if you simply outline what the Republican Party is doing wherever it is in charge and explicitly promises to be doing in the future."

~ Thomas Zimmer

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/17

thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/it…

It Could Definitely Happen Here

Many Americans struggle to accept that democracy is young, fragile, and could actually collapse – a lack of imagination that dangerously blunts the response to the Trumpist Right

^{Thomas Zimmer (Democracy Americana)}

"It’s easy to look back at the Trump years and declare, “We survived!”—unless you’re one of the thousands of Americans whose death from COVID might have been avoided if not for Trump’s mismanagement, demagoguery, selfishness, penchant for conspiracy theories, and incompetence. There’s no guarantee that any of us, in the next crisis, will be lucky again."

~ Cathy Young

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/16

thebulwark.com/p/the-next-cris…

Trump’s COVID Response: A Preview of Disasters to Come

Based on his past record, Trump should not be anywhere near American government during the next national emergency.

^{Cathy Young (The Bulwark)}

“'By my calculations he will need 58,201 flights in fully loaded Boeing 737-800s to fly them all out' and five large-scale staging grounds the size of Houston, Porter reports, concluding that it is an impossible enterprise and Trump will fail, not before creating immeasurable hardship."

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/15

"When the goal is to crash the economy and cause widespread despair and ruin, depriving America of a labor force necessary for our productivity is just part of the plan. Here is the assessment of Washington Post economic columnist Edoardo Porter based on a 'reduced' proposal by Trump to deport 'only' 11 million 'unauthorized immigrants' from the U.S."

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/14

washingtonpost.com/opinions/20…

"If Trump returns to the White House, his plans for mass deportation would unfold on 'an incomprehensible scale,' as Melissa Gira Grant writes in an excellent essay for The New Republic. Removing 15 million people is equivalent to emptying out the populations of entire countries such as Belgium or Bolivia."

~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/13

lucid.substack.com/p/trumps-ma…

Trump's Mass Deportation Machine in the Making

Trump's migrant detention system while president rehearsed his plans to turn the state into a mass deportation machine on an epic scale

^{Ruth Ben-Ghiat (Lucid)}

"Some people talk about Trump’s economic plans; others about his intention to undo the rule of law. In this five-minute video, I try to explain how the two relate: how lawlessness will wreck the economy."

~ Timothy Snyder

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/12

snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-l…

Trump's Lawless Crash (video)

Ending the Rule of Law Brings Down the Economy

^{Timothy Snyder (Thinking about...)}

Jay Kuo says that :Trump wants to destroy our government institutions, and he's recruited just the team to do it."

Kuo provides a list of Trump's proposed wrecking crew, led by Elon Musk and RFK Jr. He concludes,

"Fascism thrives in chaos and misery, and that is what a second Trump term expressly seeks to create."

~ Jay Kuo

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/11

thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p…

Trump's Second Term Plan To Empower Musk, RFK Jr. To Undermine Institutions

Donald Trump wants to destroy our government institutions, and he's recruited just the team to do it.

^{The Big Picture}

"This campaign is fueled by hate—hate for diversity, for progress, for women, for democracy, for expertise, for facts, for the truth itself. At its center is a pathetic, egotistical would-be dictator, fueled by his own petty, self-serving hatreds."

~ Elliot Kirschner

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/10

elliotkirschner.substack.com/p…

I Hate Hate

Sadly, it's on display

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

"Elon Musk could never have got himself elected into office in the US. But as the cost-cutting tsar, a made-up role Trump has promised him, he would exert extraordinary power to cause pain, with the only choice left to citizens being whether or not to hug it."

~ Zoe Williams

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/9

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

An excess of billionaires is destabilising politics – just as academics predicted

Politicians have always courted the wealthy, but Elon Musk and co represent a new kind of donor, and an unprecedented danger to democracy, writes Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

^{Zoe Williams (The Guardian)}

"If Trump wins, we’re entering uncharted territory where private actors with vast wealth and power join with a corrupt president to pursue their own ends and not those of the people of the United States. Welcome to oligarchy, American style."

~ Mona Charen

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/8

thebulwark.com/p/donald-trumps…

Donald Trump’s American Oligarchy

The billionaires are lining up to get their bread buttered.

^{Mona Charen (The Bulwark)}

Boddie quotes Jake Tapper of CNN:

"Just a reminder, RFK Jr has no medical license, and has made wildly inaccurate claims about all sorts of medicines. Frankly, this is what he said — kind of a deranged remark — about coronavirus."

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/7

"'I'm gonna let him go wild on health,' Trump said this week, referring to Kennedy. 'I'm gonna let him go wild on the food. I'm going to let him go wild on medicines.'"

~ Maya Boddie

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/6

alternet.org/tapper-trump-rfk/

CNN’s Tapper slams Trump and RFK Jr’s plan: 'There aren’t even words to describe what hackery that is'

CNN host Jake Tapper on Wednesday blasted Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s plan to join forces to take over medical government agencies. "I'm gonna let him go wild on health," Trump said this week, referring to Kennedy.

^{Maya Boddie (Alternet.org)}

"Last night, antivax crank Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—a man who once said Covid was possibly a bioweapon that had been 'deliberately targeted' to spare Ashkenazi Jews—told a group of supporters on a video call obtained by CNN that Trump had promised him 'control' over America’s public health agencies."

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/5

"And on Monday, he replied to an X account predicting 'markets would tumble' thanks to an 'initial severe overreaction in the economy' if Trump followed through on his mass-deportations strategy, before ultimately resulting in 'a healthier, sustainable economy.'

'Sounds about right,' Musk replied."

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/4

"Elon Musk, Trump’s richest and loudest backer and his 'secretary of cost-cutting'-to-be, has repeatedly suggested that the opening act of a second Trump presidency could be a period of serious economic turbulence. On a call last Friday, he warned that 'some temporary hardship' would be necessary to put America back on a sustainable fiscal course."

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
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