"The year is 2024 and I have yet to see a major story or report commissioned by a cable news show, newspaper, or magazine that demands that Trump voters go to urban diners and talk to Democratic voters.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
Michele Hornish is another of those who refuse to play the let's-pretend and let's-make-nice game this Thanksgiving and sit at table with relatives who voted for Donald Trump, knowing full well exactly what he is and what he intends to do to people she loves.
She gave them the benefit of the doubt in 2016, she says, and assumed they just didn't know who he is and what he intended – hadn't troubled to inform themselves.
#Trump #family #Thanksgiving
/3A Holiday Apart: In Defense of a Solitary Thanksgiving
The first post-election holiday
(michelehornish.substack.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"But not this go-round – they knew full well and deliberately chose to hurt people she loves:
"When I cast my vote, I considered the safety and security and future of everyone in our family. That includes the members of our family that are disabled, those that would be uninsurable without the ACA, those that need special services, and those that draw on social security."
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"It includes the young members who will never be able to compete in a kleptocracy, the old members who after contributing to society their whole lives deserve respect – not the insinuation that they’re
'takers,' and the middle-aged ones like me who are looking at the younger and older generations and wondering how we are going to hold them both up without falling below the waves ourselves." -
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"When I voted, I chose our family – every single member of our family – above politics.
And now, I’m choosing myself.
So no, I will not be hosting a holiday dinner this year. I will not smile sweetly and make small talk as my stomach churns. I will not twist myself into knots preparing a house and cooking a dinner to give thanks when I am anything but grateful."
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"my husband has just called certain family members to inform them that I will not be cooking a full ass meal on Thanksgiving for people who voted for Donald Trump.
I did it in 2016 for my mother in law. She’s no longer with us. And I kept doing it because that’s what women do. We try to keep peace and make nice holidays because its easier.
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@wdlindsy
A reeducation initiative along the lines of postwar Germany's de-nazification will have to be part of any effective response. This means a radical rethinking of liberalism's attitudes towards tolerance.But first we have to get these guys out of power.
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@wdlindsy Working as intended.
What I'm trying to figure out is why even media sources that (presumably) didn't want to see Trump win worked as hard as they possibly could to help him win. Are they really so far gone and so lacking in self-awareness they didn't realize their part in it? My favorite was that time Trump declared he wanted to have people he considered to be an enemy executed and media was just harping on about Biden's age instead of the sheer terror that this meant.
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@wdlindsy Have you seen any evidence of appetite among Republicans for such a thing?
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@wdlindsy I think it's good, stop pretending those that voted for Trump haven't shown their true colors. It was perfectly ok to elect a convicted FELON, a convicted sexual assaulter, and a man who has promised through force to round up and deport 15 million immigrants??? You know that means anyone of brown to black skin will be hassled to prove they are citizens! My question is, if you were stopped and accused of being an illegal, could you prove your citizenship on the spot? It's evil!
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Pete Gontier last edited by
@integerpoet No.
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@luv_wins I think about that often — If I were stopped and accuses of being an illegal, could I prove my citizenship then and there? With the kind of abuse of power that would come with roundups employing military folks, I can envisage lots of abuses in which people who are not even immigrants are targeted in just that way.
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@nazokiyoubinbou I'm not so sure they did not want to see him win — as in "they," the people who own and are top managers of corporate media.
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@JoeChip So it seems to me, too. Educastion is so essential.
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@wdlindsy No no. I know the rich people who owned the media wanted Trump to win. All they can see is the short term that he promises them lower taxes, fewer regulations, etc and not the fact that even the rich ultimately will suffer.
But then even the article writers chose to focus on stupid crap like Biden being almost three years older than Trump which apparently makes all the difference somehow and just ignore Trump's own slipups or when he says stuff like that he's going to execute people
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@nazokiyoubinbou Yes, you're right. Robert Reich offers some good commentary today on those points:
Where to find the truth?
As we enter the darkness of the Trump regime, it’s more important than ever that we have access to the truth
(robertreich.substack.com)
