USING THE F WORD (RE: TRUMP)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Milley repeated the word 'fascist' more than once. He exclaimed, 'We have got to stop him! You have got to stop him!" Woodward says 'by "you" he meant the press broadly.' ...

Media outlets often hesitate to apply the word 'fascist' to a leader's actions or attitudes, and for good reason, given the historical connotations."

#Trump #JDVance #fascism #fascist
/3

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"The best answer, as always, is to report it out. Gather examples. Interview experts. Show the evidence. Yesterday on 'The Lead,' Jake Tapper showed several clips of Trump's anti-immigrant and authoritarian language, then read a dictionary definition of fascism aloud. 'You can be the judge,' he said, 'as to whether General Milley's characterization sounds like what Mr. Trump is proposing out there on the stump.'"

#Trump #JDVance #fascism #fascist
/4

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Jake Tapper read Trump's comments to Glenn Youngkin and asked the governor of Virginia to condemn Trump's remarks. In a tortured five minutes, Youngkin refused, repeatedly claiming that Tapper was 'misinterpreting' Trump's remarks. When Tapper repeatedly said, 'I am reading his comments verbatim, let me show you the video,' Youngkin refused to condemn the comments and suggested that Trump didn’t mean what he said."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #fascism #fascist
/5

Don’t be Glenn Youngkin. History will remember.

October 15, 2024

(roberthubbell.substack.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

Here's a link to the Jake Tapper video with Glenn Youngkin referred to in /4 and /5 above, in which Tapper read Youngkin the dictionary definition of fascism then read Trump's words to Youngkin, with Youngkin claiming Tapper was "misinterpreting" Trump and Tapper replying that he was reading Trump verbatim.

#Trump #JDVance #fascism #fascist
/6

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"As we veer toward Election Day in just three weeks, Donald Trump’s increasingly fascistic rhetoric is setting himself up to declare any ensuing victory to be a broad mandate for disregarding the rule of law, making unprecedented misuse of the power of the state to punish his political enemies, and targeting people of color and migrants."

~ David Kurtz

#Trump #JDVance #fascism #fascist
/7

Listen Closely Because What Donald Trump Is Saying Is Worse Than Ever

INSIDE: Mark Milley ... Mike Flynn ... Kamala Harris

(morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"The rise of Nazism was fueled by a blood libel that Jews abducted children to steal their blood. In Trump’s made-up version of America, immigrants want to invade your kitchen and slit your throat. If Trump wins the White House based on this type of racist rhetoric, immigrants will be in severe danger. ...

Without shared truths, democracy is impossible. MAGA Republicans are lying because they want democracy to be impossible."

~ Mark Jacob

#Trump #fascism #fascist
/8

Trump will keep lying as long as journalists enable it

News outlets need better countermeasures to defend the public from disinformation.

(www.stopthepresses.news)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Jack Posobiec has declared the enemies of Trump to be 'un-humans', using the sort of demonizing language that usually precedes a genocide. He is not an outlier. JD Vance blurbed Posobiec’s book 'Unhumans.'"

~ Don Moynihan

#Trump #JDVance #fascism #fascist
/9

Enemies Lists, Then and Now

How open records requests are weaponized by authoritarians

(donmoynihan.substack.com)

[wood5y@mastodonapp.uk]

@wdlindsy Re Trump verbatim, as a linguist (translator) I feel sorry for interpreters who have to transpose his incoherent ramblings into their own languages. It must be a nightmare.

Interpreters were commenting on this back as early as 2016 & Trump hasn't improved with age, unlike decent cheese and wine.

[maxg@theblower.au]

@wdlindsy Lifted from any one of Hitler's tirades!

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

Since I posted recently critical commentary about how Jill Stein and her supporters are not even pretending to hide their hope to throw the election to Trump by siphoning off Democratic votes and some Stein supporters jumped all over me for posting that commentary, these wise words of Timothy Snyder in his recent essay about how to stop fascism have been much in my mind:

#Trump #JDVance #fascism #fascist #solidarity
/10

How to Stop Fascism (audio)

Five Lessons from the Nazi Takeover

(snyder.substack.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Coalitions are necessary. In 1932, in the crucial German election, the far left and the center left were separated. The reasons for this were very specific: Stalin ordered the German communists to oppose the German social democrats, thereby helping Hitler to power."

#Trump #JDVance #fascism #fascist #solidarity
/11

[cheesewz@universeodon.com]

@wdlindsy Jill Stein is a Russian asset.

[stephaniemoore@mastodon.online]

@wdlindsy Youngkin really does make my skin crawl

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"To be sure, the American political spectrum is very different, as are the times. Yet the general lesson does suggest itself: the left has to hold together with the the center-left, and their energies have to be directed at the goal rather than at each other."

The American left makes itself impotent over and over by refusing to build solidarity. The left tears away at its own, doing the work of the right for it.

#Trump #JDVance #fascism #fascist #solidarity #Hitler #Nazis
/12

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

Ridiculous purist hard lines are drawn between this and that group that leans to the left, separating group from group and weakening the broad coalition sorely needed at this point in history to turn back the tide of fascism.

Some of us in the US simply will not learn, because our notion of solidarity is weak to non-existent — and that makes us easy prey for those who need to divide us in order to conquer us.

#Trump #JDVance #fascism #fascist #solidarity
/13

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@StephanieMoore Mine, too — all that faux smarm and faux civility hiding a core of really mean-spirited right-wing ideology emanating from his right-wing religious universe.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@cheesewz Yes, so it seems to a lot of us.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@MaxG Indeed.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@wood5y A very good point to raise here. I simply cannot imagine trying to make sense of this nonsense. Even listening to his voice makes my skin crawl, let alone trying to make sense of the torrent of stupidity pouring from his maw.

[tafkak@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy What I see is Tapper having this lying fascist on, knowing he will lie, and lets him blather on and on, repeated (because repetition is in the fascist playbook) about the dangers of immigrants (particularly of the brown skin variety) and then, for comic relief, he counters by saying Trump wants to use the military to lock Adam Schiff up. Is there anything there that a Trumper wouldn’t love to hear?