USING THE F WORD (RE: TRUMP)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Coalitions are necessary. In 1932, in the crucial German election, the far left and the center left were separated. The reasons for this were very specific: Stalin ordered the German communists to oppose the German social democrats, thereby helping Hitler to power."

#Trump #JDVance #fascism #fascist #solidarity
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[cheesewz@universeodon.com]

@wdlindsy Jill Stein is a Russian asset.

[stephaniemoore@mastodon.online]

@wdlindsy Youngkin really does make my skin crawl

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"To be sure, the American political spectrum is very different, as are the times. Yet the general lesson does suggest itself: the left has to hold together with the the center-left, and their energies have to be directed at the goal rather than at each other."

The American left makes itself impotent over and over by refusing to build solidarity. The left tears away at its own, doing the work of the right for it.

#Trump #JDVance #fascism #fascist #solidarity #Hitler #Nazis
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[wdlindsy@toad.social]

Ridiculous purist hard lines are drawn between this and that group that leans to the left, separating group from group and weakening the broad coalition sorely needed at this point in history to turn back the tide of fascism.

Some of us in the US simply will not learn, because our notion of solidarity is weak to non-existent — and that makes us easy prey for those who need to divide us in order to conquer us.

#Trump #JDVance #fascism #fascist #solidarity
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[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@StephanieMoore Mine, too — all that faux smarm and faux civility hiding a core of really mean-spirited right-wing ideology emanating from his right-wing religious universe.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@cheesewz Yes, so it seems to a lot of us.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@MaxG Indeed.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@wood5y A very good point to raise here. I simply cannot imagine trying to make sense of this nonsense. Even listening to his voice makes my skin crawl, let alone trying to make sense of the torrent of stupidity pouring from his maw.

[tafkak@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy What I see is Tapper having this lying fascist on, knowing he will lie, and lets him blather on and on, repeated (because repetition is in the fascist playbook) about the dangers of immigrants (particularly of the brown skin variety) and then, for comic relief, he counters by saying Trump wants to use the military to lock Adam Schiff up. Is there anything there that a Trumper wouldn’t love to hear?

[stevefelten@mastodon.online]

@wdlindsy The argument would be stronger if there were any mechanisms to influence the DNC.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@stevefelten I'm aware of a lot of mechanisms to influence the DNC. I'm also aware that I can't, as an individual, snap my fingers and make them do exactly what I want them to do at any given moment. But that's the reality of the real world.

My focus is more on the problem that is the RNC — and I'm not inclined to tear away at fellow Democrats and do the work of the RNC for it, given the threat we're facing with the RNC.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@tafkak I see and hear Tapper directly challenging the lying fascist, and I am reading many reports which say the same.

[darwinwoodka@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy

anyone voting for Stein wants Trump to win. They're Russian loving fascists.

[beingreal@mastodon.world]

@wdlindsy

Divisions of the left are universal.
The problem 'the left' has is that it encompasses dozens of causes and millions of ideas.
The animal rights lobby, for example, want action, they've no truck with progressive politics, of trying to fit. The unions want individual rights with less governmental interference. Every cause has a group. Every group has a list of demands.
Unity is impossible.

The right want tax cuts and the unlimited control that fascism brings.
Unity is money.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"I don’t think it’s a coincidence that at a Trump boat parade in Palm Beach, Florida, not far from Mar-a-Lago, a crew showed up on a craft adorned with swastikas. …

The water is boiling, and it is essential that the press cover it as such. In large part, they are failing to do so."

~ Elliot Kirschner

#Trump #JDVance #fascism #fascist #Hitler #Nazis #media
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Dear Press, Trump Is Not Okay

The frog is set to boil

(elliotkirschner.substack.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"That befuddlement [of corporate media in 2016 at Trump's Teflon candidacy] was inexcusable then, and it’s doubly so now, as Trump runs on an explicitly fascist platform that proposes overhauling the entire federal government under the dictates of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025."

~ Chris Lehmann

#Trump #JDVance #fascism #fascist #media
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The Press Needs to Start Taking Trump Literally

The Nation Magazine

The Nation (www.thenation.com)

[mickymorse@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy MSM, X, and Meta are complicit in spreading the GOP fascist agenda, and hardly a fact check.

[doesntexist@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy
If #Trump gets elected, everyone will be in real danger, immigrants and LGBTQ+ people first, but everyone.

Everyone forgets a large group of people who died under Hitler:

Nazis. By the millions.

And who, eventually, did Hitler blame for his failures?

Nazis.

America's current fascists don't get it -- too dumb to learn that lesson.

They die too.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Yes, Donald Trump is a fascist. There's no longer any point in mincing words. …

At this moment, with just three weeks to go before election day, there is no better or more useful term to describe him and the threat he presents.

Whatever a 'fascist' is, Trump is that."

~ Paul Waldman

#Trump #JDVance #fascism #fascist
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Yes, Donald Trump Is a Fascist

There's no longer any point in mincing words.

(paulwaldman.substack.com)