"I never want to hear the words 'America is better than this' again.

William Lindsey :toad:

"Since 2015, I’ve been saying that America is better than Trump. I’m no longer so sure."

~ Robert Reich

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/4

Who are we?

Friends,

(robertreich.substack.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"I see we are no longer America the beautiful. We have become depraved, selfish, and willfully ignorant. And our enemies are delighted."

~ Susan Nieman

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/5

https://open.substack.com/pub/adchick/p/america-the-not-so-beautiful

William Lindsey :toad:

"America’s long term, festering reactionary racism and white supremacy has threatened democracy throughout US history."

~ Noah Berlatsky

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/6

The global anti-incumbent backlash doomed Kamala Harris

Tragically, the beneficiary happened to be Donald Trump.

(www.publicnotice.co)

William Lindsey :toad:

"The media will be complicit in protecting the majority of white American voters from being labeled as the staunch and bred bigots that they are."

~ Robert P. Jones

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/7

"Because They Think They Are White"

“But this cowardice, this necessity of justifying a totally false identity and of justifying what must be called a genocidal history, has placed everyone now living into the hands of the most ignorant and powerful people the world has ever seen.

(robertjonesjr.substack.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"The majority of white people knew that a vote for Trump would be a vote against Black people, Brown people, Asian people, queer people, trans people, disabled people, poor people, Black and Brown immigrants, Palestinians, children, the rights of women, unions, literature, art, the environment, and democracy."

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/8

William Lindsey :toad:

"Trump’s predictable return to the presidency—in what is the final American presidential election of our lifetimes (a conservative plan decades in the making, with help from liberal complicity masquerading as incompetence)—was nothing more and nothing less than the majority of white voters confirming that they want to live in a country that adheres to the standards of living as expressed in 1824 rather than 2024."

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/9

Pete🎸🎶🐍📽🎞☮🌍🙂😭

@wdlindsy

"no longer America the beautiful"

it's depends on who is setting the beauty standards

by conventional measures, America has been a global tyrant for a long time, since the 1850s, and domestically it has believed in race and justified its racism for longer.

William Lindsey :toad:

"Do not accept percentages and cohorts in response to the simple but profound question, 'Why?'

Racism. Misogyny. White supremacy. Occam’s Razor.

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/10

Day 1: Taking care of one another.

November 7, 2024

(roberthubbell.substack.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"What a devastating indictment of our country."

~ Zach W. Lambert

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/11

Zach W. Lambert (@zachwlambert) on Threads

What a devastating indictment of our country.

Threads (www.threads.net)

William Lindsey :toad:

Erin Reed reminds us of the practice, life-or-death challenges now facing some of us due to the choice made by the rest of us. She's offering advice to trans people and people who care about them:

"I wanted to share some very practical next steps for my trans readers. Here are the things I recommend:"

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/12

Erin Reed in Erin In The Morning

Checking in... Let's talk. Hey y'all. We are one day out, and you've already made it 24 hours. That's good. I am so blessed to have been able to spend what was otherwise a horrific night with the company of all of you. So many of you have reached out to me with stories of your own lives, your own queer and trans experiences, worries, hopes, and fears. I wanted to share some very practical next steps for my trans readers. Here are the things I recommend: - Get your passport. Today. It takes time to come in and getting an updated gender marker will likely be shut down under Trump. - Update every ID your state allows you to. - Make sure you have a supply of medication in case of disruption - If you have a trans kid that is stealth, consider maintaining stealth to get around enforcement of anti-trans laws. - Watch my risk map and newsletter, I'll be tracking the next wave of anti-trans legislation we are sure to see. - Stay in touch and ACTIVE with your local (LOCAL) LGBTQ+ org and mutual aid groups. This can help with supply disruptions. - If you are considering moving to a new state, this is a good time to do so. Not everyone wants to or can move, so respect that. - Change your social security office gender marker. Most people don't realize this is a thing that exists. Do it sooner rather than later. Other than that, check in with each other. And consider this my check in with you, my readers. I'll leave the chat open for the next 24 hours... and maybe will make these chats a regular thing, at least for now.

Erin In The Morning (substack.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"Get your passport. Today. It takes time to come in and getting an updated gender marker will likely be shut down under Trump. - Update every ID your state allows you to. - Make sure you have a supply of medication in case of disruption - If you have a trans kid that is stealth, consider maintaining stealth to get around enforcement of anti-trans laws."

It's going to get very bad for some of us, quickly. Because others have chosen this for us.

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/13

William Lindsey :toad:

"With the election of Donald Trump, our fellow citizens are about to get exactly what they want. There is nothing that God, man, or the Constitution can do about it, because we did it to ourselves. …

The American people, which is all of us, got together on Tuesday and chose everything that’s coming for close to the next decade."

~ Charles Pierce

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/14

I’m Absolutely Sure America Is About to Get Exactly What It Wants

There is nothing that God, man, or the Constitution can do about the fact that we elected Trump, because we did it to ourselves.

Esquire (www.esquire.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"America was given the opportunity to let a Black and Asian American woman move us beyond a decade of Trump’s racist, sexist, and toxic form of grievance politics with a broad agenda grounded in joy, compassion, and opportunity. And America, specifically the majority of white Americans, said: 'No thanks. We’re good.'”

~ Kimberly Atkins Stohr

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/15

The most disrespected person in America is still the Black woman - The Boston Globe

My job may be to sort out what the election means for the Supreme Court, reproductive health care, and the guardrails of our democracy. And I’ll get to that. But first, I have to get past the sting of, once again, feeling like the nation that I love and believe in just backhanded me.

BostonGlobe.com (www.bostonglobe.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"They knowingly voted to once again tear families apart and put babies in cages and commit what will almost certainly be horrific human rights abuses against immigrants. They voted to make life harder for me and my daughters because based on their conveniently misogynistic and bigoted interpretation of the Bible. ...

I am done being nice to people just because we are related."

~ tonyahky

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/16

Cancelling Thanksgiving this year

This year, I have decided to cancel Thanksgiving dinner at my house. I see little to be thankful for this year after seeing that the majority of Americans willfully chose fascism—including a lot of my family members. Every year, I have been the cook. I...

Daily Kos (www.dailykos.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

“'The Confederacy won,' says [Carol] Anderson, a professor of African American studies at Emory University. 'It paints a picture of what Americans are willing to embrace,' says [Michele] Goodwin, a professor of constitutional law at Georgetown and an expert on healthcare law…."

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/17

“The Confederacy Won”: Why Donald Trump’s Reelection Is a Win for White Supremacy, Xenophobia & Hate

Donald Trump has been reelected president of the United States. Ahead of Kamala Harris’s expected concession speech, we speak to professors Carol Anderson and Michele Goodwin to discuss Harris’s historic campaign — and historic loss. “The Confederacy won,” says Anderson, a professor of African American studies at Emory University. “It paints a picture of what Americans are willing to embrace,” says Goodwin, a professor of constitutional law at Georgetown and an expert on healthcare law, who warns of the public health dangers of a second Trump administration and discusses the election’s implications for reproductive rights.

Democracy Now! (www.democracynow.org)

William Lindsey :toad:

"81 percent. EIGHTY ONE FUCKING PERCENT. Of white evangelicals STILL voted for this deranged, dumbass, depraved, demented demon.

'Because abortion.'"

~ Holly Berkeley Fletcher

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/18

Not today

Pure rage is all I've got

(hollyberkleyfletcher.substack.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"Fuck your pathetic, made-up, morally simplistic, manipulative, dishonest litmus tests that allow you to pat yourselves on the back and avoid your own fear and failure and take a nap in your spiritual easy chairs, watching your North Korean style TV, without ever using your damn brains or searching your damn hearts."

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/19

William Lindsey :toad:

"You have literally empowered the type of man who necessitates so many abortions rather than doing anything meaningful for the unborn babies you claim to love well enough to excuse you from considering fully formed human beings, who annoyingly refuse to stay in utero. And anyway, there are more abortions now than there were before you subjected us to this conduit of catastrophic cowardice that you think will save you."

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/20

William Lindsey :toad:

"The reason this felt so much worse than 2016 was because it was impossible to say Americans didn’t know what they were voting for."

~ Emma Brockes

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/21

Trump's win is so much worse this time. Americans knew what they were voting for | Emma Brockes

Even after a failed coup and numerous legal wranglings, many men could not bring themselves to vote for a woman, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"Our mistake was to think we lived in a better country than we do. …

The principal problems that got us to this bleakest moment in American history are intertwined. They are the crisis of masculinity, the failure of the news media and the rise of Silicon Valley, and in a way they are all the same problem."

~ Rebecca Solnit

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/22

Our mistake was to think we lived in a better country than we do | Rebecca Solnit

Americans will be stuck cleaning up after Maga’s destructive streak because men like this never clean up after themselves

the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)