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"This election is about JD Vance."
~ James Fallows
#Trump #JDVance #age #MentalDecline
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https://fallows.substack.com/p/election-countdown-17-days-to-go
Noting that "it seems clear that a vote for Trump is really a vote for his running mate, Ohio senator J.D. Vance," Heather Cox Richardson says that people had encouraged her to take a day off from writing.
But after Trump's rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, yesterday, she can't do that:
"Trump spoke at a rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, where he told a long, meandering story about golfing legend Arnold Palmer that ended with praise for Palmer’s… anatomy.
He went on to call Vice President Kamala Harris—whose name he deliberately mispronounced— 'a sh*t vice president. The worst. You’re the worst vice president. Kamala, you’re fired. Get the hell out of here, you’re fired. Get out of here. Get the hell out of here, Kamala.'”
"As Trump’s remarks got weirder and weirder, the Fox News Channel cut away and instead showed Harris being cheered at a packed, exuberant, super-charged rally in Georgia. ...
Last night, his advice to an audience in Detroit to vote took its own wild turn: 'Jill, get your fat husband off the couch,' he said. 'Get that fat pig off the couch. Tell him to go and vote for Trump, he’s going to save our country.'"
"'Get that guy the hell off our— get him up, Jill, slap him around. Get him up. Get him up, Jill. We want him off the couch to get out and vote.'
Trump’s performances over the past few days seem to confirm that the 2024 October surprise is the increasingly obvious mental incapacity of the Republican candidate for president."
@wdlindsy@toad.socialThe Five 8 respond to the pretense (pretending as in lying — let's face it: a lot of us love lies and tell lies) that we just don't "know" Kamala, so we can't possibly vote for her.
As the video points out, we absolutely DO know Donald Trump. And these folks want him instead?!
"As an American, and as a historian who writes about forced population movements, I believe that we are not taking the Trump-Vance deportation plan seriously enough.
This failure of imagination could allow extreme repression within our country as well as a fundamental change in its society and politics."
~ Timothy Snyder
"An attempt to rapidly deport twelve million people will also change everyone else. As Trump has said, such an action will have to bring in law enforcement at all levels. Such a huge mission will effectively redefine the purpose of law enforcement: the principle is no longer to make all people feel safe, but to make some people unsafe."
"Such an enormous deportation will requires an army of informers. People who denounce their neighbors or coworkers will be presented as positive examples. Denunciation then becomes a culture. …
The deep purpose of a mass deportation is to establish a new sort of politics, a politics of us-and-them, which means (at first) everyone else against the Latinos."
"There is a reason the term 'fascist' is in such wide circulation as Mr. Trump amps up a campaign increasingly built around nativism, racial resentment, fear and threats, Ms. [Ruth] Ben-Ghiat said.
'It’s a measure of the urgency and sense of emergency that Hillary Clinton and Mark Milley are using this word,' she said. 'It packs a punch.'”
~ J. Weisman
#Trump #JDVance #fascism #racism #WhiteSupremacy
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Gift link from Ruth Ben-Ghiat at her Lucid blog on Substack.
Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Jason Stanley speak with Ali Velshi about how "Trump's campaign rhetoric has become so extreme that analysts and historians are openly comparing him to Hitler and Mussolini. And yet the American public seems to treat him with the same semi-seriousness that has characterized his entire political career."
Noting that Trump's niece Mary Trump is warning us that Trump's mental decline is steep and dangerous for all of us if he's elected, Dean Obeidallah writes:
"Corporate media covered President Biden’s potential cognitive issues non-stop—but when it comes to Trump they are giving him a pass. We know that’s not happenstance, but rather a decision made by corporate media executives—many of whom who are supporting Trump."
#Trump #age #MentalDecline #media #MediaFail
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https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/mary-trump-is-warning-about-donalds
@wdlindsy if Biden had been forced to stand down after taking office, Harris would have taken over and the Republican reactionaries certainly didn’t want that.
But when Trump is declared unfit it will be Vance who takes over which is exactly what they want. Hence the howls of anguish about Biden and the studied silence over Trump..
@peterbrown Yes, so it seems to me — the game plan.
Analysts and historians maybe, but the New York Times, from whom most corporate media take their cues has two young reporters to sanewash everything he does.
If you look at what Michael Bender and Michael Gold have written on Trump it is a remarkable cleansing of his bizarre, profane and erratic behavior. Only when called out and shamed do they in any way report on the reality of Trump's insanity, and then only in euphemisms.
@mastodonmigration You're exactly right about that.
Trump has been grooming both his followers and the corporate media to accept his unacceptable behavior for years.
It's no surprised that the #media is letting Trump grab 'em by the pussy and not objecting. They've been groomed to accept it. And the media, in turn, grooms the public to accept it.
The #FourthEstate is failing America.
@wdlindsy So, just like last time.
@drwho Absolutely. Teflon.
@wdlindsy It's what happens when you cut funding to public education
@gdtrfb You're absolutely right. That's key to the entire mess the nation is in now. One of our two major parties has sought to dismantle public education for years now, has kept education underfunded, has impeded students' ability to get all the education they want. Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind.
@wdlindsy I appreciate the analysis but I think it's remarkably naive to suggest the purpose of law enforcement was ever to make all people feel safe.
I live in a county that elected Joe Arpaio six times. The notion that law enforcement's primary purpose would be to terrorize brown people, with the enthusiastic support of a decisive portion of the electorate, isn't new to me. But seeing it on a national scale is.
@Thad What about Snyder's comment indicates that he imagines law enforcement was every about making all of us feel safe? I don't read him to be saying that at all. I read him to be saying that we maintain — against much evidence, I think he'd say as an informed historian — that law enforcement exists to make all of us safe. And choosing conditions that target some of us while privileging others of us makes us all unsafe — as we've seen time and again in our history.
@wdlindsy The part where it says "Such a huge mission will effectively redefine the purpose of law enforcement: the principle is no longer to make all people feel safe, but to make some people feel unsafe" would seem to imply that the purpose of law enforcement is to make all people feel safe, and if its purpose were to make some people unsafe, that would be a change.
If that's not what he meant, then fair enough.
@Thad To me, the operative word there is "purpose." The purpose for which something is created is often belied and contradicted by the practice to which that something is put. I would think that as an outstanding historian, Timothy Snyder knows very well that in practice, law has often been used in the US in precise contradiction of its purpose. This is why I think he's stressing and defending the purpose for which law exists.
@wdlindsy Perhaps. I would argue that what we like to tell each other the purpose of the police is, and what their purpose actually is, are very different things, that making a portion of the populace feel unsafe is and always has been their purpose and this isn't a change in purpose, just a removal of a fig leaf.
But maybe the distinction doesn't really matter for purposes of this discussion. The end result is the same. Overt white supremacist law enforcement.
@Thad I continue to read Timothy Snyder with great interest because he's a highly informed, thoughtful historian who keeps sounding the siren on behalf of human liberation and against oppression.