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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.”
heathercoxrichardson.substack.…
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
/14
youtube.com/watch?v=ZLvr7KfJPg…
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
sethabramson.substack.com/p/fa…
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
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the…
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
/7
morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.…
Major News Media Fall For Fake GOP Outrage Yet Again
INSIDE: Donald Trump ... Elon Musk ... John RobertsDavid Kurtz (Morning Memo)
"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
publicnotice.co/p/trump-puerto…
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
/15
"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
/14
"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
/13
democracynow.org/2024/10/31/ha…
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
thebulwark.com/p/when-you-thou…
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)
"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
/9
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
/8
"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
/7
"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
/6
"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
/5
"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
/4
"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
/3
"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
/2
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
/1
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)
“If you were to choose a metaphor for the 2024 #RepublicanParty , a #garbage truck chauffeuring around a #billionaire traveling around in circles and going nowhere, all for a #PhotoOp , is pretty spot on.” 🎯
Trump’s closing rally at #Madison #Square #Garden on the second to last Sunday before the election was a release of #rage at a political and legal system that impeached, indicted and convicted him,
a vivid and at times #racist display of the dark energy animating the #MAGA movement.
A comic kicked off the rally by dismissing Puerto Rico as a “floating island of #garbage,” then mocked
Hispanics as failing to use birth control,
Jews as cheap and
Palestinians as rock-throwers,
and called out a Black man in the audience with a reference to #watermelon.
Another speaker likened Vice President Kamala Harris to a prostitute with “pimp handlers.”
A third called her “the Antichrist.”
And the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson mocked Ms. Harris
— the daughter of an Indian mother and a Jamaican father
— with a made-up ethnicity, saying she was vying to become “the first Samoan-Malaysian, low IQ former California prosecutor ever to be elected president.”
By the time the former president himself took the stage, an event billed as delivering the closing message of his campaign,
with nine days left in a tossup race, had instead become a carnival of #grievances, #misogyny and #racism.