"I never want to hear the words 'America is better than this' again.

William Lindsey :toad:

"The media will be complicit in protecting the majority of white American voters from being labeled as the staunch and bred bigots that they are."

~ Robert P. Jones

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/7

https://robertjonesjr.substack.com/p/because-they-think-they-are-white

William Lindsey :toad:

"The majority of white people knew that a vote for Trump would be a vote against Black people, Brown people, Asian people, queer people, trans people, disabled people, poor people, Black and Brown immigrants, Palestinians, children, the rights of women, unions, literature, art, the environment, and democracy."

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/8

William Lindsey :toad:

"Trump’s predictable return to the presidency—in what is the final American presidential election of our lifetimes (a conservative plan decades in the making, with help from liberal complicity masquerading as incompetence)—was nothing more and nothing less than the majority of white voters confirming that they want to live in a country that adheres to the standards of living as expressed in 1824 rather than 2024."

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/9

Pete🎸🎶🐍📽🎞☮🌍🙂😭

@wdlindsy

"no longer America the beautiful"

it's depends on who is setting the beauty standards

by conventional measures, America has been a global tyrant for a long time, since the 1850s, and domestically it has believed in race and justified its racism for longer.

William Lindsey :toad:

"Do not accept percentages and cohorts in response to the simple but profound question, 'Why?'

Racism. Misogyny. White supremacy. Occam’s Razor.

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/10

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/day-1-taking-care-of-one-another

William Lindsey :toad:

"What a devastating indictment of our country."

~ Zach W. Lambert

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/11

https://www.threads.net/@zachwlambert/post/DCBOEuvOpDz

William Lindsey :toad:

Erin Reed reminds us of the practice, life-or-death challenges now facing some of us due to the choice made by the rest of us. She's offering advice to trans people and people who care about them:

"I wanted to share some very practical next steps for my trans readers. Here are the things I recommend:"

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/12

https://substack.com/chat/994764/post/89164a20-5afe-4fc0-a4ff-aa351390f592

William Lindsey :toad:

"Get your passport. Today. It takes time to come in and getting an updated gender marker will likely be shut down under Trump. - Update every ID your state allows you to. - Make sure you have a supply of medication in case of disruption - If you have a trans kid that is stealth, consider maintaining stealth to get around enforcement of anti-trans laws."

It's going to get very bad for some of us, quickly. Because others have chosen this for us.

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/13

William Lindsey :toad:

"With the election of Donald Trump, our fellow citizens are about to get exactly what they want. There is nothing that God, man, or the Constitution can do about it, because we did it to ourselves. …

The American people, which is all of us, got together on Tuesday and chose everything that’s coming for close to the next decade."

~ Charles Pierce

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/14

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a62828684/donald-trump-elected-2024/

William Lindsey :toad:

"America was given the opportunity to let a Black and Asian American woman move us beyond a decade of Trump’s racist, sexist, and toxic form of grievance politics with a broad agenda grounded in joy, compassion, and opportunity. And America, specifically the majority of white Americans, said: 'No thanks. We’re good.'”

~ Kimberly Atkins Stohr

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/15

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/06/opinion/trump-president-black-women/

William Lindsey :toad:

"They knowingly voted to once again tear families apart and put babies in cages and commit what will almost certainly be horrific human rights abuses against immigrants. They voted to make life harder for me and my daughters because based on their conveniently misogynistic and bigoted interpretation of the Bible. ...

I am done being nice to people just because we are related."

~ tonyahky

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/16

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/11/6/2283776/-Cancelling-Thanksgiving-this-year

William Lindsey :toad:

“'The Confederacy won,' says [Carol] Anderson, a professor of African American studies at Emory University. 'It paints a picture of what Americans are willing to embrace,' says [Michele] Goodwin, a professor of constitutional law at Georgetown and an expert on healthcare law…."

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/17

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/11/6/carol_anderson_michele_goodwin_2024_trump

William Lindsey :toad:

"81 percent. EIGHTY ONE FUCKING PERCENT. Of white evangelicals STILL voted for this deranged, dumbass, depraved, demented demon.

'Because abortion.'"

~ Holly Berkeley Fletcher

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/18

https://hollyberkleyfletcher.substack.com/p/not-today

William Lindsey :toad:

"Fuck your pathetic, made-up, morally simplistic, manipulative, dishonest litmus tests that allow you to pat yourselves on the back and avoid your own fear and failure and take a nap in your spiritual easy chairs, watching your North Korean style TV, without ever using your damn brains or searching your damn hearts."

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/19

William Lindsey :toad:

"You have literally empowered the type of man who necessitates so many abortions rather than doing anything meaningful for the unborn babies you claim to love well enough to excuse you from considering fully formed human beings, who annoyingly refuse to stay in utero. And anyway, there are more abortions now than there were before you subjected us to this conduit of catastrophic cowardice that you think will save you."

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/20

William Lindsey :toad:

"The reason this felt so much worse than 2016 was because it was impossible to say Americans didn’t know what they were voting for."

~ Emma Brockes

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/21

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/07/us-elections-donald-trump-win-worse-americans-knew

William Lindsey :toad:

"Our mistake was to think we lived in a better country than we do. …

The principal problems that got us to this bleakest moment in American history are intertwined. They are the crisis of masculinity, the failure of the news media and the rise of Silicon Valley, and in a way they are all the same problem."

~ Rebecca Solnit

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/22

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/07/us-progressive-election-trump-maga

William Lindsey :toad:

"Presented with a choice between electing the first black, female president on a promise of a sunnier future, and a racist, misogynist, twice-impeached convicted felon hawking hatred and retribution, they picked Mr Trump."

~ The Guardian

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/23

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/06/the-guardian-view-on-the-return-of-president-trump-a-bleak-day-for-america-and-the-world

William Lindsey :toad:

@pete https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/113441785862083214

William Lindsey :toad:

"We are perched on the precipice of meme-ing ourselves into authoritarian dystopia, handing unchecked power to a narcissistic criminal demagogue because the price of bacon increased. ...

We are the only species capable of clinging to ideological zealotry. And we are the only ones who can make ourselves extinct."

~ Brian Klaas

#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/24

https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-tattered-republic