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"In the closing days of the election, one party and its leading candidate are promising to inflict economic pain on the electorate; stating that they will turn over the top health agencies to one of the country’s leading vaccine skeptics; and pledging to pursue a disruptive, 'massive reform' to the nation’s healthcare system—historically, the sort of move that has proven extremely unpopular."
#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
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"MAGA’s closing pitch to voters: economic pain and health care sorcery:
With days to go, top Trump surrogates are laying out a presidency that they admit will include some suffering."
~ Andrew Egger
#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
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"Because what Trump has to offer men is permission to hate women. Those women.
And the terms of that hate are not 'Women are taking away our precious cultural ideas about manhood!'. It’s pretty much 'Women are taking our jobs and our social power, women are doing better at most of what we have done, women are—without any malice or plan—unveiling the many cases where men have risen to the top on nothing more than mediocrity & a pair of testicles.'"
"So many of the feeder streams into Trumpism well up from springs of reaction to changes in the status of women. Dobbs has made it plain that anti-abortion sentiment is primarily about control of women. Its supporters are indifferent to women dying, women risking death, women enduring pregnancy after rape."
~ Timothy Burke
#Trump #women #gender #abortion #misogyny
/22
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Trump Essentials (5): It's The Gender, Stupid
Trump Has Cruelty and Malice For All, But It's Women That Are His IssueTimothy Burke (Eight by Seven)
"It seems that the men of MAGA feel as entitled to their wives’ votes as they do their reproductive rights."
~ Malcolm Ferguson
#Trump #women #gender #abortion #misogyny
/21
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MAGA Men Are Freaking Out Over Their Wives Secretly Voting for Harris
Fox News’s Jesse Watters is the latest to have a full-blown meltdown over the possibility of his wife voting for Kamala Harris.The New Republic
"FOX News has been losing their collective minds over the ad [by at Vote Common Good telling women they have a right to vote for whom they choose without their husbands instructing them] — accusing Harris of encouraging women to lie to their spouses and equating the wives who vote for Harris with those who commit adultery."
#Trump #women #gender #abortion #misogyny
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Julia Roberts Reminds Us - Your Vote, Your Choice
Julia Roberts reminds us that In the Voting Booth women still have the right to choose. 🔴 Join our Vote Common Good Email List to be part of the Common Good...YouTube
"In the last two days, you may have noticed a strange uptick in right-wing commentators talking about Harris’s 'attack' on the 'sanctity of marriage.' There’s been a bit of a buzz about conservative white women voting for Harris secretly — breaking with their faith communities and perhaps even their husbands to cast a vote against Donald Trump."
~ Diana Butler Bass
#Trump #women #gender #abortion #misogyny
/19
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Halloween at The Cottage - Scary Witch Edition
On Jezebel, leading good wives astray, and gendercideDiana Butler Bass (The Cottage)
"He is the reason women in many states are being forced to have children against their will & cannot get treatment for their miscarriages. Every woman that dies or has her reproductive future decimated because of those laws is his fault. And he will make it worse because regardless of what he says now, he will absolutely use the Comstock laws to make it illegal to mail anything to do with abortion.
No one needs protection by him, but we sure as hell need protection from him."
"Donald Trump, mind you, has been found civilly responsible for rape. He has been accused by multiple women of rape (including his ex-wife Ivana), of sexual assault, of groping. He has bragged about grabbing women by the pussy without asking. He has bragged about being the reason Dobbs was overturned. Because he is the reason Dobbs was overturned."
~ Robyn Pennacchia
#Trump #women #gender #abortion #misogyny
/17
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Trump Once Again Excited To Do Things Whether The Woman Likes It Or Not
Sort of a consistent theme with this one, no?Robyn Pennacchia (Wonkette)
Heather Cox Richardson quotes MSNBC's Katie Phang, who watched Trump's garbage truck shtick and stated,
“Trump stumbles, drags his right leg, almost falls over, and tries at least three times to open the door…. Some transparency with Trump’s medical records would be nice.”
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October 30, 2024
On Friday, October 25, at a town hall held on his social media platform X, Elon Musk told the audience that if Trump wins, he expects to work in a Cabinet-level position to cut the federal government.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
"When Donald Trump gets pouty and shouty, his aides have a repertoire of ways to cheer him up, like telling him his crowds are the biggest, showing him flattering headlines from rightwing outlets, or watching videos of children being taken from their parents at the border in 2018. But to really help him feel better, there’s nothing like letting him sit in a big truck like a big boy!"
~ Doktor Zoom
Overcompensation much?
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Donald Trump Rode Around In A Big Garbage Truck, Vroom-Vroom!
No subtle metaphor there.Doktor Zoom (Wonkette)
Obeidallah focuses on what happened recently in Neptune, Florida, where a group of teens waving Trump flags gathered at an early voting site to harrass voters, with one teen, Caleb James Williams, pulling out a machete and brandishing it at two female voters.
And in South Carolina, a man has just verbally assaulted Black women working at the polls.
"This week we have seen two deeply alarming incidents of violence, threats and abuse directed by Donald Trump’s male supporters against women at polling locations. And tragically this will likely not be the last given a core theme of Trump’s “bro vote” strategy has been amplifying sexism and misogyny—as we saw again at his rallies this week."
~ Dean Obeidallah
"Jesse Watters said that he would consider his wife voting for Kamala Harris the same as if she was having an extramarital affair.
The Fox News co-host told panelists on The Five that if he discovered second wife, Emma DiGiovine, was secretly backing the vice president, it would be 'D-Day' for their marriage."
~ David Gardner
As Sean Craig reports, MAGA bros are freaking out because so many women are voting.
"Two of former president Donald Trump’s most prominent backers in the right wing influencer sphere [Mike Cernovich and Charlie Kirk] fretted Wednesday after early votingnumbers showed massive early turnout among women that could imperil their candidate’s path to victory."
#Trump #women #gender #abortion
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MAGA Bros Are Freaking Out Because So Many Women Are Voting
“Unless this changes, Kamala Harris takes PA and it’s over,” tweeted right wing gadfly Mike Cernovich.Sean Craig (The Daily Beast)
"More than 60% of evangelical pastors (the vast majority of whom are men) plan to vote for a sexual predator on November 5. Roughly 80% of their congregants tell pollsters they plan to do the same. Religious people, and specifically church-attending men, are casting their ballots so that the Secretary of Education will report to someone who shouldn’t be allowed within 500 feet of a school."
#Trump #women #gender #evangelicals #SexualAbuse
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Kristin Du Mez looks at the reluctance of men in evangelical churches to speak out against sexual abuse of vulnerable people by pastors. It's almost always women who speak out about this, she notes. And she then looks at the choice of those same men to vote for a known, convicted sexual predator as president.
She writes,
"I get it. It puts church-going men in an awkward position."
#Trump #women #gender #evangelicals #SexualAbuse
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"Charlie [Kirk] is deeply concerned—he said yesterday in an interview with Megyn Kelly—that women may 'undermine their husbands' by letting them think they’re with them, side-by-side, seated comfortably on the Trump train."
William Kristol
#Trump #women #gender #abortion
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Polio in Every Pot; Smallpox in Every Garage
Team Trump isn’t quietly enabling RFK Jr.’s vaccine lunacy. They’re enthusiastically embracing it.William Kristol (The Bulwark)
"Across battlegrounds, there is a 10-point gender gap in early voting so far: Women account for roughly 55 percent of the early vote, while men are around 45 percent, according to a Politico analysis of early vote data in several key states."
~ Megan Messerly and Jessica Piper
"At a rally this evening near Green Bay, Wisconsin, Trump said his team had advised him to stop talking about how he was going to protect women by ending crime and making sure they don’t have to be 'thinking about abortion.”'
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #women #gender #abortion
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October 30, 2024
On Friday, October 25, at a town hall held on his social media platform X, Elon Musk told the audience that if Trump wins, he expects to work in a Cabinet-level position to cut the federal government.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
"Donald recently called America 'the garbage can of the world,' and this is what he had to say about actual human beings back in September:
'The people that surround [Kamala Harris]—they’re Scum. They’re scum. And they want to take down our country. They are absolute garbage.'
Good to know.
We’re five days out. The media keeps getting it wrong."
~ Mary Trump
#NewYorkTimes #WashingtonPost #Trump #garbage #MediaFail
/15
Lincoln Project helpfully provides us with a beaucoup of times when the Garbage Can Man Trump has called Kamala Harris' supporters — and America itself — garbage.
I'm continuing to hashtag New York Times and Washington Post as I post this item because both media outlets should be royally shamed, though they're evidently well beyond shame.
#NewYorkTimes #WashingtonPost #Trump #garbage #MediaFail
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The Garbage Can Can
Take a shot every time Trump calls Americans who don't support him “garbage."YouTube
"But you want to know something that is true? Just last month, Donald Trump declared at a rally that 'the people that surround [Harris], they’re scum—they’re scum—and they want to take down our country. They’re absolute garbage.'
That really did happen.
And you know who just analogized America—the entire United States—to a 'garbage can' in his 'closing argument' to voters?
If you guessed Donald Trump, you’re right."
#NewYorkTimes #WashingtonPost #Trump #garbage #MediaFail
/13
"As ever, all the money in the situation laid on the side of the lie, not the truth. The occasional independent media publication—The Drudge Report and, if it can be said, Proof—getting to the truth of the matter notwithstanding, it really seems as though the truth of any matter is currently the least valuable currency in America."
#NewYorkTimes #WashingtonPost #Trump #garbage #MediaFail
/12
"All this, finally, is why America may soon collapse. Because a POTUS who said a very reasonable thing had that thing transmogrified into contemptible disinformation by two unscrupulous far-right billionaires, and a bunch of corporate media outlets under the thumb of unscrupulous billionaires ran with what they saw as a very lucrative non-story-cum-story."
~ Seth Abramson
#NewYorkTimes #WashingtonPost #Trump #garbage #MediaFail
/11
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FACT CHECK: No, President Biden Didn’t Call Donald Trump Supporters “Garbage”
The viral lie—spread to hundreds of millions by Trump and Elon Musk and the subject of a bizarre publicity stunt by Trump aimed at making voters forget what happened at Madison Square Garden—is silly.Seth Abramson (Proof)
"As the election approaches, the reporting gets worse — policy issues are pushed aside, the most ludicrous micro-controversies are given front-page treatment, more and more attention is paid to increasingly useless polls and pointless speculation, and they ride into election day on a wave of triviality. ...
The most disheartening thing about all this is how it shows our elite media have learned nothing."
#NewYorkTimes #WashingtonPost #Trump #garbage #MediaFail
/10
"Nobody tells the elite reporters that they’re terrible at their job, and they think their job is to report the same thing all the other news outlets are reporting."
#NewYorkTimes #WashingtonPost #Trump #garbage #MediaFail
/9
~ Paul Waldman
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The News Media Have Learned Nothing
The election is just days away, and reporters are making the worst possible choices.Paul Waldman (The Cross Section)
Kurtz quotes New York Times Pitchbot, which writes,
"Biden calling Trump supporters 'garbage' in a webcam interview is a moral outrage. Here’s why Trump calling Harris supporters 'garbage' at a rally is not."
"In the final week of the presidential campaign, the country’s two most prominent newspapers extended into a second day their credulous coverage of Republicans’ fake outrage over President Biden’s 'garbage' comment.
The NYT and WaPo each made it a front-page story in Thursday’s editions, with above-the-fold, prime-real-estate treatment."
~ David Kurtz
#NewYorkTimes #WashingtonPost #Trump #garbage #MediaFail
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Major News Media Fall For Fake GOP Outrage Yet Again
INSIDE: Donald Trump ... Elon Musk ... John RobertsDavid Kurtz (Morning Memo)
"Independent analysts such as Edison Research said in March that X’s usage in the United States dropped 30 percent since last year. Fidelity this month estimated that X’s value has plunged by about 80 percent since Musk’s takeover."
~ Robert Reich
#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #ElonMusk #Twitter #EconomicElites #Trump
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"He doesn’t just hate Puerto Ricans. He hates all of us. If you don’t flatter Trump and end up needing anything from him, he will throw paper towels at you, then turn on you like a rabid dog. Puerto Ricans, and all Americans, deserve better."
~ Noah Berlatsky
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #violence #economy #garbage
/16
~ Noah Berlatsky
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Trump actually treats Puerto Rico like garbage
The disastrous "joke" was more than that.Noah Berlatsky (Public Notice)
Robert Reich issues a salient reminder of what the previous Trump presidency was ACTUALLY like — as he reminds us that another one would be infinitely worse. Reich has compiled a list of 101 of the worst things about the Trump presidency.
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #violence #economy #garbage
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"Now, with a right-wing Supreme Court doing Trump’s bidding and the potential for a compliant, MAGA-controlled Congress, only a galvanized, engaged electorate, supported by resilient, pro-democracy grassroots movements, can prevent autocracy from coming home to roost."
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #violence #economy #garbage
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"The U.S. government has far too often undermined democracies abroad, leading to dictatorships or military regimes, from Iran to Guatemala to Congo to Chile."
~ Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #violence #economy #garbage
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Hatred and Racism: Trump’s Ominous Closing Argument
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Donald Trump made his “closing argument” at a Madison Square Garden rally in New York. The spectacle was an orchestrated, six-hour orgy of hate.Democracy Now!
"One reason demagogues are so dangerous is that their moral sickness is contagious."
~ William Kristol
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #violence #economy #garbage
/12
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When You Thought He Couldn’t Sink Lower
Once more, with feeling: When Trump tells you who he is, believe him.William Kristol (The Bulwark)