"This election is about JD Vance."

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Thad What about Snyder's comment indicates that he imagines law enforcement was every about making all of us feel safe? I don't read him to be saying that at all. I read him to be saying that we maintain — against much evidence, I think he'd say as an informed historian — that law enforcement exists to make all of us safe. And choosing conditions that target some of us while privileging others of us makes us all unsafe — as we've seen time and again in our history.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@mastodonmigration You're exactly right about that.

[compassionnow@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy Lather, rinse, repeat. It’s an exponential curve … the normalization began with Reagan and the change was slow for a long time. In 2016 it started a hockey stick increase. Now … ugh.

[compassionnow@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy *2016*: "In other words, just like the overuse of historical analogies should not make us too quick to embrace them, a search for a perfect ideological replica of interwar Fascism should not blind us to its ugly re-emergence in 2016."

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[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@CompassionNow Yes, that's an excellent observation, I thought, too.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@CompassionNow Well-stated. Excellent.

[ambulard@fanglitch.space]

@wdlindsy Among other things, too many of the people who personally remember Hitler and Mussolini and actually lived through the things they did are gone now. Living memory is a powerful protective force, until it's not.

[zhizhu@newsie.social]

@wdlindsy

Surprised that more isn't being said about Trump calling his own supporters lazy fat pigs that have to be chivvied off the couch to vote. (You'd think they'd be offended, but they applauded. #Weird )

But yeah. That quote from #HeatherCoxRichardson about Trump's increasing incapacity is dead on.

Trump is sundowning, and his handlers are trying to hide it.

#Trump #IsTrumpSenile? #Sundowning #Dementia #Meme #Memes #Quote #Quotes #Politics #USPol

[zhizhu@newsie.social]

@wdlindsy

Trump has been grooming both his followers and the corporate media to accept his unacceptable behavior for years.

It's no surprised that the #media is letting Trump grab 'em by the pussy and not objecting. They've been groomed to accept it. And the media, in turn, grooms the public to accept it.

The #FourthEstate is failing America.

#Trump #News #Press #Journalism #US #USA #USPol #Politics

[nosmaharba@mastodon.world]

@wdlindsy he must not know Jill Stein has her own direct line to Putin

[drwho@hackers.town]

@wdlindsy So, just like last time.

[originlbookgirl@mastodon.online]

@wdlindsy This is why I can't get my head around any Latinos supporting that guy.
#Republicans hate non-white people.
You're dumb as a brick if you vote for people who want to deport you even if you were born in the United States.

[gdtrfb@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy It's what happens when you cut funding to public education

[snigdha@mas.to]

@wdlindsy when your running partner is JD Vance, it's probably best not to mention couches.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@snigdha Touché. Cleverly noted.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@gdtrfb You're absolutely right. That's key to the entire mess the nation is in now. One of our two major parties has sought to dismantle public education for years now, has kept education underfunded, has impeded students' ability to get all the education they want. Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@originlbookgirl I agree.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@drwho Absolutely. Teflon.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@nosmaharba I would think so.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@ZhiZhu Yes.