Discussion of the overt fascism now promoted openly by one of the two major parties in the US continues — because of course.

William Lindsey :toad:

"A sheriff in Tennessee on Wednesday said witnesses reported seeing a group of armed people harassing hurricane relief workers in his county last weekend.

Carter County Sheriff Mike Farley told The Associated Press (AP) that no arrests were made, but witnesses said they saw FEMA workers in some type of altercation with armed individuals."

~ Jon Jackson

#Trump #fascism #violence #disinformation #lies #FEMA
/11

Tennessee sheriff says witnesses saw armed group harassing FEMA workers

Carter County Sheriff Mike Fraley said witnesses felt the armed group was wanting to cause trouble for the relief workers.

Newsweek (www.newsweek.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"William Jacob Parsons, who was arrested Saturday on charges of making threats against Federal Emergency Management Agency employees, is publicly defending alleged actions that disrupted the agency’s efforts to help Hurricane Helene victims. …

Parsons said he was motivated by social media reports claiming that FEMA was withholding supplies from hurricane victims in western North Carolina."

~ Maxine Joselow and Samuel Oakford

#Trump #disinformation #lies #FEMA
/12

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/10/16/fema-threats-arrested-hurrricane-helene/

William Lindsey :toad:

"Three out of four election officials say that threats to them have increased; in some states, the danger will be just as bad the day after the election as it was the day before, or maybe even worse."

~ Anne Applebaum

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy #threats #ElectionInterference
/13

A Citizen's Guide to Defending Democracy

What you can do, NOW

(anneapplebaum.substack.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"With less than a month to go before the 2024 election, fear among election workers is palpable. Statistics show that threats to local election officials are surging, up 73 percent since the same time in 2022."

~ Kim Wehle

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy #threats #ElectionInterference
/14

‘We’re Going to Hang You’: Threats to Election Workers on the Rise

And the threats—which endanger our democracy—are overwhelmingly coming from one side.

(www.thebulwark.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"CBS also interviewed Kim Wyman, a top election official at the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security (CISA), who said that she’s received threats like 'we’re going to hang you' and 'I hope somebody puts a bullet in your head.'”

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy #threats #ElectionInterference
/15

William Lindsey :toad:

"Mass deportations, using a 151-year-old law as a national abortion ban, privatizing the National Weather Service, sending the military after the 'radical left': These are some of the policies, proposed by Trump or his supporters, that have made headlines in recent months."

~ Heather Souvaine Horn

#Trump #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
/16

How Trump’s policies would affect your food

A weekly reckoning with...

(newsletter.tnr.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"But in the past week, reporters have increasingly been looking into the ways that Trump-proposed policies could have far-reaching effects on another big part of the country: its food supply.

Trump’s anti-immigration policy is the most obvious example. 'The role of immigrants in the American food system is difficult to overstate,' Frida Garza and Ayurella Horn-Muller write for Grist and El País."

#Trump #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
/17

MoiraEve

@wdlindsy Most Western governments do not appear to think of themselves as being at war with Russia. Russia, however, is at war with the West. “That’s for sure—we are saying that openly,” the Russian representative to the United Nations recently declared. trump—a presidential candidate—declares himself “smart” for working w/ Putin to undermine American values, and is openly a fascist. #VoteBlue

William Lindsey :toad:

Who will do all their work when they round up the immigrants and deport them? I keep asking myself. Have they really thought through what they're proposing to do to THEMSELVES as they vent their hate for a targeted minority community?

This is the problem with bigotry and hate: it makes people drunk, as it were, drunk with elation at finally being able to show open contempt for people they despise.

#Trump #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
/18

William Lindsey :toad:

And in intoxicating themselves with that unholy elation, they blind themselves to the harm that they always do to THEMSELVES by venting hatred against targeted minority groups.

Heather Souvaine Horn (see /16) notes that rounding up and deporting millions of immigrants would have devastating effects on the US food supply.

#Trump #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
/19

William Lindsey :toad:

It would affect US. It would seriously affect the very people jubilant about the idea of deporting millions of Americans.

I think about this as my husband and I walk daily past the house of an extremely rich Republican neighbor who had Trump signs in front of her house in 2016 and 2020, though I see none this year. Maybe they're still to come.

#Trump #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
/20

William Lindsey :toad:

As we walk past her house daily, we often see crews of gardeners working in her beautiful gardens. They are ALL Hispanic men. Or we see a car full of Hispanic women parking, the women getting out of the car with cleaning supplies to go into the huge mansion and clean it.

My spouse makes a point always of stopping to talk to these folks in Spanish, greeting them, talking about the weather, asking how they are.

#Trump #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
/21

William Lindsey :toad:

And as we walk on after those conversations take place, I always ask myself, Who do they think will tend these gardens and clean these houses when they have all those workers rounded up and deported? Who will repair our streets? Who will put new roofs on our houses? Who will take down trees and climb up and cut out diseased limbs in trees?

#Trump #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
/22

William Lindsey :toad:

For that matter, who will provide medical care for us? A large percentage of my doctors and my dentist, too, are all foreign-born immigrants, highly skilled people whose services we sorely need — just as we need the hard labor of those folks cleaning our houses, doing our garden work and yard work, repairing our streets, putting roofs on our houses, doing tree work.

#Trump #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
/23

William Lindsey :toad:

Who will do all these things for us when we vent our rage, drunk with the elation of hurting other people — and when we hurt ourselves badly in the process?

Maybe we should think about this before we get drunk on hate.

#Trump #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
/24

William Lindsey :toad:

@MoiraEve Well-stated. These are excellent points. I agree. There are also well-documented very strong ties between Putin and the hard-right of US Christianity.

Stevielee

@wdlindsy we must never allow this to happen. Vote

MoiraEve

@wdlindsy Yes, Putin and US Christians share common values—chief among them, hatred of LGBTQ. That alone is a strong motivator for the US RW to vote for trump and to herald trump’s support of Putin. Another common interest of many US evangelicals and Putin—the subjection of women to 2nd class citizens.

cwicseolfor

@wdlindsy Those with all the money aren't on the same team in the fallout as their "useful idiots." They know the price of labor would skyrocket, they recognize that most people won't be able to afford basics. They know that will plunge many of their average voters down into the depths of working poverty, whence they'll be willing to take the roles formerly occupied by the immigrants they ousted. But the money, power, prestige will have concentrated to fewer hands: the real goal.

Hamish Buchanan

It is astonishing how much some people hate those they depend on to make the world they enjoy possible.

@wdlindsy