"Right-wing strategist Steve Bannon, who once pledged to make the world 'as exciting as the 1930s,' promotes the ideas of the Italian Traditionalist Julius Evola, who wrote: 'We would like a more radical, more intrepid Fascism, a really absolute Fascis...

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"He also confirmed to The Atlantic that Trump had said he wished his military personnel showed him the same deference Adolf Hitler’s Nazi generals showed the German dictator during World War II, and recounted the moment."

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #fascism #JohnKelly
/8

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"If Harris wins, it’s because just enough voters accept the rule of law and reality itself. That’s probably why we remain so nervous about the outcome. The election won’t merely determine the next president. It’ll define who we are as a nation."

~ Stephen Robinson

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #fascism
/9

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/harris-trump-how-the-hell-is-this-close

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"The mystery that will provide full employment for generations of historians is why so many Americans willingly embraced the con and spread the hate that fuels Trump's campaign."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #fascism
/10

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/harriswalz-campaign-in-overdrive

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"He has now gone all-out demagogue and promised his supporters that he would have no qualms about ordering our military to execute his opponents. Which has left men like John Kelly with few options but to be honest about who Trump is."

~ Brian Tyler Cohen

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #fascism
/11

https://plus.briantylercohen.com/p/leaving-it-all-on-the-field

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"When you’re so undisciplined that you can’t control yourself for the final TWO WEEKS of the campaign, imagine if Trump was unburdened by another election, with his official immunity gifted from the Supreme Court he stacked, his brain cooked, all guardrails removed, and nobody to hold him accountable."

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #fascism
/12

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

“It says everything you need to know about the U.S. media that Trump’s clown show at the McDonald’s gets more attention than his former defense secretary and chair of the Joint Chief of Staff warning that Trump is a dangerous fascist with no respect for democracy.”

~ Dean Baker quotes by Margaret Sullivan

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #fascism #media #MediaFail
/13

https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/a-media-call-to-action-fcb

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

It all begins, always, with coercion. It begins with bullying and acts of accelerating violence. It begins with demonstrations that "we" have power over "you" and intend to expand and use that power to put you in your place. To hurt you.

It begins with brownshirts, and moves on to worse and worse things.

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #fascism #thuggery #bullying #coercion #violence
/14

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

This election cycle, there are reports from all over the place of widespread stealing of Harris-Walz signs. Here's one (see the link below) from Springfield, Missouri.

This is coercion and bullying, widespread stealing of signs designed to shut people up and tell them what they'll get if they don't comply. It's violence. It's a prelude to fascism that will unleash more violence.

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #fascism #thuggery #bullying #coercion #violence
/15

https://www.mediaite.com/election-2024/watch-missouri-woman-tracked-stolen-harris-walz-campaign-signs-and-confronted-the-thieves-on-camera/

[locksmithprime@infosec.exchange]

@wdlindsy

And none of those warnings hurt the orange man. He loses not one vote, whereas in normal situations and/or countries, he would be finished long time ago. He and republicans are not even hiding those statements anymore, as they learn the darker they get, the more support they obtain.

[justrosy@universeodon.com]

@wdlindsy He has also threatened campaign donors and voters who he thinks are "unAmerican" and "vermin" and, if I recall correctly, "liberal leftists" and "marxists" and so he thinks we don't have a right to vote in the elections, even though we were born in the USA. What MAGA doesn't seem to care about is that people have a right to disagree with them and to vote in favor of someone other than their dear felon leader, Con-Don.

I'm grateful that our ballots are secret. A lot of GOP women haven't been voting because their husbands told them not to, but they're starting to find ways around that. I applaud them for doing so. Regardless of who they vote for, their voices are being heard, many for the first time. I have a suspicion they are voting for Kamala and other Democrats, because the GOP is against women entirely.

Black people are also turning out in record numbers, despite all the GOP tricks to suppress the vote! Kinda think they're voting in their best interests too.

[phreba@shakedown.social]

@wdlindsy yup, happened in my small town in CT. Someone posted about signs being stolen and as you can expect, there were maga trolls laughing at the person etc. This man, this deeply flawed thing, has torn this nation to pieces. It’s all so sad.

[kraemer_hb@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy It's even hard to keep track on which former official has said which terrible things about Trump:
John F. Kelly, Chief of Staff: Trump meets the definition of a fascist.
Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Trump is fascist to the core and the most dangerous person ever.
James Mattis, Defense Secretary: what Milley said
Mark Esper, Defense Secretary after Mattis: Trump is unfit for office, a national security threat and a threat to democracy.

[myerman@toot.bldrweb.org]

@wdlindsy I hope the little bastard gets one year in jail for each sign he stole.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Myerman It would be mere justice, wouldn't it. And that mother of his! What piece of work she is in her cameo performance on the video.

[myerman@toot.bldrweb.org]

@wdlindsy yeah. Total assholes. We lived in Austin for 22 years and had countless democrat signs stolen from our yard. I set up cameras and contemplated electrifying the signs or maybe lying in wait with a baseball bat.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Kraemer_HB It's hard, indeed. And none of this makes a dent in his cult followers, who seem to be at least a third and maybe more of Americans.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Phreba Deeply sad. I know signs have been taken in the past, perhaps by people from every political stripe — but not in the blatant, contemptuous way I am seeing (and hearing reports about) in this election cycle, as Harris-Walz signs are taken all over the place.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@JustRosy Thank you for this good summary of reasons to maintain hope. When I recently posted on my Facebook page a quote (in graphic form) by Jess Piper reminding white women that their ballots are secret and their husbands have no right to instruct them how to vote, Facebook immediately took that posting down.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@locksmithprime Yes, you're right. And, yet, we have no option except to keep sounding the warning bell, with so much at stake.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Myerman I can well imagine. The neighbors who live catty-cornered across the street from us in Little Rock have had their Harris-Walz signs pulled up twice and thrown on the ground. The second time, they were torn. And we live in the most liberal-voting neighborhood in the whole state, where there are Harris-Walz signs galore and I've seen only two Trump signs. The contempt for people's free speech in putting up political signs this election cycle is astonishing and troubling.