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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
/11
"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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snyder.substack.com/p/the-stro…
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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americaamerica.news/p/3-snapsh…
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)
Alaina Demopoulos points to Jamisen Casey, a 21-year-old student in California who is registered to vote in her home state of Tennessee, On Tik Tok, she says i a video, “My absentee ballot on its way home to cancel out my ex boyfriend’s vote." The video shows her dancing with her mail-in ballot in hand.
#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
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theguardian.com/us-news/2024/n…
The women ‘cancelling out’ their Trump-loving partners’ votes: ‘No one will ever know’
Trend underlines vast gender divide as election approaches, as experts say some women face pressure to ‘toe the line’ politically at homeAlaina Demopoulos (The Guardian)
"Just to be clear, if Donald Trump wins, the people who will be most happy about it are people who do not think women should have the right to vote."
~ Robyn Pennacchia
#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
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"Trump is closing his campaign by having literal Nazi rallies and predator-splaining to women that he’s going to 'protect' them ;whether they like it or not.'”
~ Evan Hurst
#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
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evanhurst.substack.com/p/maga-…
MAGA Men VERY MAD At Wives Secretly Voting For Kamala. Stop Laughing, It's Not Funny!
Oh no! Is somebody being DISOBEYED?Evan Hurst (The Moral High Ground)
"Trump chose five days before Election Day to tell women that he is going to exert control over them 'whether the women like it or not.'"
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
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"Trump's closing argument is all about demeaning women."
~ Jamison Foser
#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
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findinggravity.net/p/trump-dem…
Trump's closing argument is all about demeaning women
"Locker room talk" might finally be his undoingJamison Foser (Finding Gravity)
"The 2024 election is in part about whether women can be free and equal citizens of this republic. Right now too many cannot. …
[MAGA men furious that their wives may vote independently of their control] want marriage to be an inherently unequal relationship with a subordinate wife and an entitled husband, a cozy little authoritarian regime at home."
~ Rebecca Solnit
#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
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#Musk wants to rule USA by proxy.
He had clear delusions of grandeur and will become way to powerful with Trump.
#Trump is a useful fool who doesn't realise the oligarchs are playing him. Ultimately USA could go the way of Russia except Trump is no Putin. There will be a void at the top once the oligarchs have broken the US system of government. Musk is Sth African and can't be elected... unless of course there are enough cronies to break the Constitution so he can become the Dark Lord.
Elon Musk May Be An Illegal Immigrant!
Musk Could Have US Citizenship Revoked If He Lied on Immigration Forms
The richest man in the world appears to have worked in the US without authorization. According to experts, if he did so and lied about it as part of the immigration process, he could be denaturalized.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews #Trump #Musk #Twitter #x #Fediverse #socialmedia
What a total idiot.
Via Carl Quintanilla:
“Article 25.”
#Trump: She gave one answer that was so incompetent you would have her examined under article 25.
Via Spiro's Ghost:
OMG HE TOLD THE TRUTH! 🤯🤯🤯
#Trump: Nothing is more dangerous than to give immense power to a weak and not very smart person
2/ More, original reference, via Klasfeld:
New Filing
#JackSmith urges Judge #Chutkan to reject #Trump’s challenge of his appointment as special counsel, noting #Cannon’s “unpersuasive out-of-circuit” opinion and Thomas’s concurrence aren’t binding on her.
But the DC Circuit is. 🔗 storage.courtlistener.com/reca…
Double shade-age! 😎
Via Emptywheel:
Days short of the election, #JackSmith is throwing a bit of shade.
storage.courtlistener.com/reca…
MOAR SHADE!😎
![Paradoxically, when arguing that the Special Counsel is a principal officer, the defendant has claimed that the Special Counsel has too much independence. See ECF No. 270 at 22. 👉🏼The defendant’s position on this issue can most charitably be described as fluid.👈🏼 While litigating in the Southern District of Florida, the defendant claimed that the Special Counsel was neither a principal nor inferior officer, and instead referred to the Special Counsel as “[a]t best . . . an employee.” Florida Case, ECF No. 326 at 3,](https://plantroon.com/photo/preview/640/347181 "Paradoxically, when arguing that the Special Counsel is a principal officer, the defendant has claimed that the Special Counsel has too much independence. See ECF No. 270 at 22. 👉🏼The defendant’s position on this issue can most charitably be described as fluid.👈🏼 While litigating in the Southern District of Florida, the defendant claimed that the Special Counsel was neither a principal nor inferior officer, and instead referred to the Special Counsel as “[a]t best . . . an employee.” Florida Case, ECF No. 326 at 3,")
WARNING! Both hilarious and cringeworthy statue of Trump...nakies!🍄
Via Julia Terruso:
Someone has constructed a naked 50 ft statue of Donald #Trump on Kensington Ave in Philly. Big police presence here.
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Via Emptywheel:
Hey @ HillaryClinton? Do you have an opinion about how well this guy would deal with that 3AM phone call you once warned us about?
Business Insider's Bryan metzger:
#JDVance says on Rogan he thought #Trump was killed when he saw the vid of him being shot in Butler, PA.
Says he went into "fight or flight mode," left the mini-golf place where he was with his kids, went home, loaded all his guns, and stood "like a sentry" at his front door.
Via Angry Staffer:
This.
If they had better data, they’d be sharing.
Dan Pfeiffer:
I have written a lot of "internal memos" that were really just fodder for the press, but this is 1 of least subtle I have ever seen.
Idea that #Trump's pollster is using RCP average to make his case instd of campaign data is a real tell
Axios:Trump is told in internal memo by his chief pollster (Subj line: "PRES TRUMP IS ON THE VERGE") that he's in radically better position than he was rt before 2020 elec
No, not from the Onion. This includes Megyn Kelly, btw. Pics are on the hellsite. They're actually wearing garbage bags.
Via Ron Filipkowski:
Dark Brandon got #Trump supporters to walk around wearing garbage bags now.
👀
Via @emptywheel:
#Trump's handler checks in.
This bromance (and Orbán's tie to Project 2025) is what the media should have been covering instead of doing a 2735th Joe Biden Old story.
But the snot-nosed horde has their priorities.
#Orbán Viktor
@PM_ViktorOrban
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4h
Just got off the phone with President @realDonaldTrump . I wished him the best of luck for next Tuesday. Only five days to go. Fingers crossed
It’s beyond maddening that #Trump just has to win an election while we have to win and then fend off another Insurgency of Dunces.
It’s a safe bet that people will get killed this time around too.
#Election2024 #harris
Lol.
Via Melanie D'Arrigo:
If you were going to choose a metaphor for the 2024 Republican Party, a garbage truck chauffeuring around a billionaire traveling around in circles and going nowhere, all for a photo op, is pretty spot on.
davegreenidge57:
He’s just out on the tarmac having someone drive him around in circles. Why do I feel like this will become the defining meme for his entire campaign?
MAGA TERRORISM 🚨
Florida Trump Supporter arrested for terrorizing early voters with a machete!
Caleb James Williams, 18, was taken into custody after two women reported that he threatened them with the weapon while standing in the polling station’s parking lot.
Witnesses observed Williams posing for photos with the machete alongside a group of supporters chanting in favor of Trump.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #breaking #breakingnews #trending #Trump
dailyboulder.com/machete-wield…
Machete-Wielding Trump Supporter Arrested For Voter Intimidation in Florida
A Florida man was arrested on Tuesday after allegedly brandishing a machete to intimidate voters at an early voting site in Duval County.Staff Writer (The Daily Boulder)
“#Trump is considering halting federal grants to police that decline to participate in mass deportations
Sources close to the Trump campaign said the tactic would survive legal challenges and pressure law enforcement agencies in blue states to take part in mass deportations” nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elec…
Trump is considering halting federal grants to police that decline to participate in mass deportations
As Trump promises the largest mass deportation of undocumented immigrants in US history if re-elected, his team is considering withholding federal police grants from local law enforcement agencies that decline to take part in the deportations.Julia Ainsley (NBC News)
Via Medias Touch:
This is a pretty horrific thing to say about Americans.
Oct 11
#Trump: It is the enemy from within, all the scum that we have to deal with.. that’s a bigger enemy than China and Russia