"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...

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"It is the staging and the theatrics that he most cares about: the form rather than the content. He knows that everyone watching and attending knows that he is re-enacting a Nazi show."

#Trump #fascism #MadisonSquareGarden
/3

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"I've seen privileged people of awareness cheer themselves that if Trump and his Republican Nazis win, then at least the people in the red states, who did not vote as we did, will feel the most harm first—ignoring that the harm in these places will come first to those who were already most threatened, the same people whose lives we have, from our yard signs and bumper stickers, claimed matter."

~ A.R. Moxon

#Trump #fascism
/4

Out Damned Spot

Reasons and excuses, position and fault, responsibility and blame, inheritance and elections. Seeking cheap absolutions and blameless ignorance from the heart of the empire.

The Reframe (www.the-reframe.com)

[jodmentum@apobangpo.space]

@wdlindsy Pastor Niemoller is watching.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Donald Trump hosted a rally featuring crude and racist insults at New York's Madison Square Garden Sunday, turning what his campaign had dubbed as the event where he would deliver his closing message into an illustration of what turns off his critics."

~ Jill Colvin and Michelle L. Price

#Trump #fascism #WhiteSupremacy #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #MadisonSquareGarden
/5

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"With just over a week before Election Day, speakers labeled Puerto Rico a 'floating island of garbage,' called Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris 'the devil,' and said the woman vying to become the first woman and Black woman president had begun her career as a prostitute."

#Trump #fascism #WhiteSupremacy #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #MadisonSquareGarden
/6

[havvyhh2@mas.to]

@wdlindsy ….a Nazi rally….in NYC….in 2024…..unbelievable, disgusting nightmare

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Before Mr. Trump had even taken the stage, warm-up speakers had called Puerto Rico an 'island of garbage,' referred to Ms. Harris as 'the devil' and 'the Antichrist,' and made racist or derogatory remarks about Latinos generally, African Americans, Palestinians and Jews."

~ Erica L. Green

#Trump #fascism #WhiteSupremacy #MadisonSquareGarden
/7

nytimes.com

(www.nytimes.com)

[piousunyn@universeodon.com]

@wdlindsy Compassion is not allowed on the stage with Trump.

[tribune@union.place]

@wdlindsy

In 2016, Trump was elected on a #GOP platform that advocated "the right of the United States citizens of Puerto Rico to be admitted to the Union as a fully sovereign state." [*]

After the Republicans took both houses of Congress and the Presidency, Mitch McConnell denounced proposals for #PuertoRico statehood as "full bore socialism."

[*] "Republican Platform 2016,"
p.30 https://prod-cdn-static.gop.com/media/documents/DRAFT_12_FINAL[1]-ben_1468872234.pdf

[greenroc@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy Ew, so against anyone not like them. The lack of compassion makes me sick.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"The last time there was an
'America First' rally at Madison Square Garden, in 1939:"

~ Tristan Snell

#Trump #fascism #Nazis #MadisonSquareGarden
/8

Tristan Snell on Substack

The last time there was an "America First" rally at Madison Square Garden, in 1939:

Substack (substack.com)

[notersichtlic@ioc.exchange]

@wdlindsy
This quote applies to this post.

[pawsplay@dice.camp]

@wdlindsy I called him a fascist in 2015 and I was accused of hyberbole and cheapening the term.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"I stand corrected. I thought this year’s October surprise was the reality that Trump’s mental state had slipped so badly he could not campaign in any coherent way.

It turns out that the 2024 October surprise was the Trump campaign’s fascist rally at Madison Square Garden, a rally so extreme that Republicans running for office have been denouncing it all over social media tonight."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #fascism #WhiteSupremacy #MadisonSquareGarden
/9

October 27, 2024

I stand corrected.

(heathercoxrichardson.substack.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"The headlines were brutal. 'MAGA speakers unleash ugly rhetoric at Trump's MSG rally,' read Axios. Politico wrote: 'Trump’s New York homecoming sparks backlash over racist and vulgar remarks.'
'Racist Remarks and Insults Mark Trump’s Madison Square Garden Rally,' the New York Times announced. 'Speakers at Trump rally make racist comments, hurl insults,' read CNN."

#Trump #fascism #WhiteSupremacy #hate #MadisonSquareGarden
/10

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"But the biggest sign of the damage the rally did was the frantic backpedaling from Republicans in tight elections, who distanced themselves as fast as they could from the insults against Puerto Ricans, especially. The Trump campaign itself tried to distance itself from the 'floating island of garbage' quotation, only to be met with comments pointing out that Hinchcliffe’s set had been vetted and uploaded to the teleprompters."

#Trump #fascism #WhiteSupremacy #hate #MadisonSquareGarden
/11

[mugsysrapsheet@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy
If I were the #Harris Campaign, I'd be assembling quotes from #OrangeHitler's #MSG rally for a National TV ad, adding:

"If you vote for T****, you're supporting this #racist hatred." #HeIsAFascist

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"'Forget about October surprise — instead maybe call it the October reveal,' Mark Follman of Mother Jones wrote. 'Trump's hate fest at Madison Square Garden has put the whole thing on grand hideous display… perhaps a nail in the coffin of his campaign? We'll see.'"

~ Mark Follman as quoted by Brian Stelter

#Trump #fascism #WhiteSupremacy #hate #MadisonSquareGarden
/12

(view.newsletters.cnn.com)

[johnelalamo@mcr.wtf]

@wdlindsy Well, what a surprise!

[tcatinreality@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy
Counterpoint (courtesy of AOC)

Perhaps it's better to see the MSG event, not as a campaign event (as it obviously failed as a vote getting mechanism) and instead see it as a rally organising the post-loss insurrection movement (where grievance and lies are central)

#MSGRallyIsInsurrectionPartTwo