"It’s wild to me that Trump’s fascism is only now breaking through as a major news story. Trump’s ideology has been evident from the start, and in every election cycle, his closing argument always comes down to white supremacy, fascism, hate, and white...

GStuart

@wdlindsy I hope and pray that David Rothkopf is correct in his analysis of the impact this disgusting event will have on next week's Presidential election.

Galen Strickland

@wdlindsy I wish I could believe it so, but he was already on the verge of winning at least the electoral vote, and I doubt any in his cult will drop out.

Pamela

@wdlindsy Any group at the butt of Trumpie jokes should take notice. The NAZIS didn't start with the ovens they started with the jokes that targeted those that ended up in the oven! First comes ridicule, next comes blame, next comes dehumanizing labels, then the roundups begin and camps are set up while the ovens get constructed! Trumpie is already on the round up phase. He's let his flunkies do the first phases along with the help of our Media.

🇺🇸Vaniaji

@wdlindsy Wow…the rally showed the world there is no doubt…the convicted felon and his followers are lower than primordial slime…they must enjoy rolling in their own filth.

Damkina

@wdlindsy I certainly hope so!

Greengordon

@wdlindsy

Pretty sure Trump is planning to cheat his way back into office, and certainly he'd be happy for some violence to help hi get there.

"Trump may be thinking the rally will help him mobilize thugs to violence when he contests his loss and we should be wary of that."

Martin Vermeer FCD

@wdlindsy Ah, Springtime for Hitler 🤎

John Maxwell

@wdlindsy - That'd be nice.

Martin Vermeer FCD

@wdlindsy "In 1939, as about 18,000 American Nazis rallied inside Madison Square Garden, newspapers reported that a crowd of about 100,000 anti-Nazis gathered outside to protest. It took 1,700 police officers, the largest number of officers ever before detailed for a single event, to hold them back from storming the venue."

Didn't know that. I knew about one other American...

https://allthatsinteresting.com/meyer-lansky-punch-a-nazi

JustRosy

@wdlindsy The fact that Trump both thought it would work and tried to lure in liberals at the end, combined with his low campaign fundraising amounts, shows how desperate he really is. What his staff allowed to be said about Puerto Rico just cost him millions of votes, and no only from those who are of Puerto Riccan heritage. So many hateful things were said. Jesus never talked nor acted that way. Trump came off sounding like s drunk uncle at Thanksgiving who won't shut up -- or that drunk guy driving home from a bar who needs to be pulled over. Kinda think that's where the "weaving" came from. He's weaving in and out of political traffic and has no idea what he's doing. I actually do suspect he was drunk off his ass yesterday. Either that, or on some kind of drug.

William Lindsey :toad:

@templetongate I think what David Rothkopf is referring to is that Trump and the other people on stage deliberately alienated a whole set of voters, e.g., Puerto Rican and Latino ones, who may now go into backlash against Trump as a result.

Kyle Memoir 🍉

@wdlindsy

Meanwhile, Cuba looks to the Chinese for help as economic hardship imposed by longstanding myopic US foreign policy brings nationwide blackouts.

The quid pro quo?

Chinese access to Cuban nickel deposits.

The island over which we nearly came to nuclear blows with the Soviets.

So much for American supremacy generally, let alone the white racist variety.

Just need to remind ourselves none of it need make any sense.

It never does in the long run.

William Lindsey :toad:

Parker Molloy does a run-down of coverage of Trump's hate rally at Madison Square Garden, and concludes:

"It looks like major news outlets have finally decided to call things as they are—at least for now. Over the weekend, reporting on Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden marked a significant shift in how the press portrays political events, particularly those that descend into hate-filled spectacle."

#Trump #fascism #WhiteSupremacy #hate #MadisonSquareGarden
/25

https://www.readtpa.com/p/no-more-euphemisms-media-gets-real

William Lindsey :toad:

"At his Madison Square Garden rally, Trump’s argument was hate and fear. ...

As an encapsulation of what Trump stands for as a candidate, and what he would bring to office, the rally was an effective medium for his closing message."

~ David A. Graham

#Trump #fascism #WhiteSupremacy #hate #MadisonSquareGarden
/26

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-madison-square-garden-rally/680424/

William Lindsey :toad:

"This, perhaps even more than his reprehensible immigrant bashing and fascist overtones, is Trump’s closing argument: to put women back in their place and restore men to total supremacy in America."

~ Susan Milligan

#Trump #fascism #WhiteSupremacy #hate #MadisonSquareGarden #misogyny #MaleEntitlement
/27

https://newrepublic.com/article/187419/trumps-promise-young-men-retribution-against-women

GVF 🇨🇦

@wdlindsy And $DJT soars.

William Lindsey :toad:

"Drawing frequent comparisons to the pro-Nazi rally held there in 1939, the rally was filled with racist, crude, and incendiary rhetoric. ...

And yet, around half of Americans plan to vote for him.

Even more troubling, 82% of white evangelicals plan to vote for this."

~ Kristin Du Mez

#Trump #fascism #WhiteSupremacy #hate #MadisonSquareGarden #misogyny #MaleEntitlement #WhiteEvangelicals
/28

https://kristindumez.substack.com/p/courage-to-stand

William Lindsey :toad:

"Ironically, extremist movements within secure democracies are usually the ones actually destined for the garbage heap. That results from a simple fact: In order to keep the show going and the money flowing, extremism has to keep out-extreming itself. In an attention economy like this one, the effect can be even more pronounced."

~ Jay Kuo

#Trump #fascism #WhiteSupremacy #hate #MadisonSquareGarden
/29

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/punching-your-own-maga-face

William Lindsey :toad:

"None of us needed this rally to understand what MAGA is about. We know it’s a hate movement. Trump’s closing message in this campaign is identical to his opening message when he slithered down the escalator at Trump Tower to launch his 2016 campaign. It’s hate, divisiveness, anger and sexism."

~ Dean Obeidallah

#Trump #fascism #WhiteSupremacy #hate #MadisonSquareGarden #misogyny #MaleEntitlement
/30

https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/we-didnt-need-trumps-rally-at-msg

George Snorewell

@wdlindsy
Reminder that apartheid in South Africa was the invention of White Evangelicals.

America needs to come to terms with its understanding of White Evangelicals.

The KKK consists of White Evangelicals, for example. The Confederacy saw a massive uptick in the evangelical movement among its soldiers during the Civil War.

White Evangelicals are not the good guys. Never have been. Never will be. 82% voting Trump isn't "troubling," alarming, surprising, or anything other than on-brand.