"This past weekend, Trump turned his violent and dehumanizing rhetoric up to 11, proclaiming during an event in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, that migrants 'will walk into your kitchen, they’ll cut your throat.'"
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"On Saturday, Donald Trump delivered an hour-long rant of lies and hate with Vice President Kamala Harris and immigrants as the target of his bile."
#Trump #JDVance #PoliticsofHate #fascism #Hitler #immigrants
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
"I used to think that Trump’s rallies and speeches should not be shown live because that only gave him a media megaphone for his propaganda. I believed, and often wrote, that such coverage should only come later, accompanied by plenty of fact-checking and context. But I’m not so sure any more."
~ Margaret Sullivan
#Trump #JDVance #PoliticsofHate #fascism #Hitler #immigrants
/10The three phases of normalizing Trump's attack on Harris in Wisconsin
The media did what it always does, and it's not good enough
(margaretsullivan.substack.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"Maybe, in order to get across how unhinged and offensive this really is, it needs to be seen in its full live form, complete with the red-capped faithful cheering on his every ugly insult."
Sullivan concludes that what the media are doing to expose and counter Trump's toxic lies is "not good enough," and that the media are effectively normalizing him and the serious danger he poses.
#Trump #JDVance #PoliticsofHate #fascism #Hitler #immigrants
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"Even if Harris wins, the fact that so many Americans seem prepared to vote for Trump makes me worry for the future of my country."
~ Robert Reich
#Trump #JDVance #PoliticsofHate #fascism #Hitler #immigrants
/12How the hell can Trump be running neck-and-neck with Harris? Let me tell you.
And why I remain optimistic
(robertreich.substack.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"But treating these lines as mere volleys in a larger political back and forth does them, and the voters, a disservice. Trump’s not leveling attacks; he’s outlining a strikingly dark worldview, with strikingly dark implications for the country.
We’re at risk of not recognizing this because of our inclination to apply horse-race coverage to the election."
~ Sam Stein
#Trump #JDVance #PoliticsofHate #fascism #Hitler #immigrants
/13Our Time for Choosing
World events and dark anti-immigrant zealotry have made it all the more important for leaders to get off the sidelines.
(www.thebulwark.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
"Trump is running the most nativist, xenophobic campaign in modern times. The bigger picture is what matters here. We should be clear and honest about it."
#Trump #JDVance #PoliticsofHate #fascism #Hitler #immigrants
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Sy Hoekstrareplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy This is all awful, but I appreciate you taking the time to lay it out and share the links
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"The past week has shown us that the death penalty can and will be carried out, even in questionable circumstances, when an executive wishes to do so — and the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservatives will not stop it.
That’s important to think about as Donald Trump fights to get back in the White House."
~ Chris Geidner
#Trump #Republicans #ProLife #DeathPenalty #CapitalPunishment
/15Donald, death, and immunity
Donald Trump likes the death penalty, and he wants to be president again — with the immunity decision to back him. Also: A deadly wellness check. And: Closing my tabs.
(www.lawdork.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"Marcellus Williams was killed by lethal injection on Tuesday, not long after the Republican super-majority, partially engineered by Donald Trump, denied Williams’ request for a stay of execution. The three liberals on the court vehemently dissented."
#Trump #Republicans #ProLife #DeathPenalty #CapitalPunishment #MarcellusWilliams
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
"[Dahlia] Lithwick and [MarkJoseph] Stern marvel at the degree to which the right-wing justices were 'obsessed with due process and judicial review and the possibility of vindictive prosecution' when it came to Donald, but they gave no such consideration to Marcellus Williams."
#Trump #Republicans #ProLife #DeathPenalty #CapitalPunishment #MarcellusWilliams
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Wickergaanks regretfullyreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
Normals: Haven’t we as a civilization moved beyond nativist xenophibia by now?
Red hatters: GIT R DUN
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"It’s not just the death penalty, of course. The Republican Party no longer seems to value human life. We’re all expendable in the service of helping them prove a point.
From their indifference to gun deaths, especially from mass shootings at our children’s schools, to the unnecessary and avoidable deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans because of Donald’s malicious mishandling of COVID, they just don’t care."
#Trump #Republicans #ProLife #DeathPenalty #CapitalPunishment
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"In order to save an embryo, they are willing to allow women to die. In fact, women are dying even when the fetuses they carry are unviable. And to prove their moral superiority, they’ll even sacrifice the lives and bodies of girls impregnated through rape and incest."
#Trump #Republicans #ProLife #DeathPenalty #CapitalPunishment #abortion #ReproductiveRights #women #healthcare
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
Meanwhile, this weekend Vance appeared with Lance Wallnau, who claims that Kamala Harris is possessed by the devil.
As Judd Legum and Noel Sims report, in 2020, Wallnau hawked a $45 Trump-branded coin. He told buyers that the coin was a “point of contact” so that their prayers for Trump could be combined with those of other Christians to multiply them.
#JDVance #LanceWallnau #KamalaHarris #ToxicReligion
/20Vance appears at conference hosted by preacher who says Harris is possessed by the devil
Over the weekend, Republican Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance was a featured speaker at a conference, the Courage Tour, hosted by radical preacher Lance Wallnau.
(popular.info)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"Now his Courage Tour outfit is selling stem-cell therapy at a cost of $3,500 to $6,500 and the promise that this cure "could be what you have been praying for.”
The grift goes with the pseudo-religion. Always.
The "back" to which they want to take us is to a dark period when people babbled about demons and witches and believed talismans would cure what ailed them.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Wickergaanks regretfully last edited by
@Kierkegaanks That about sums it up in a nutshell.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Sy Hoekstra last edited by
@SyHoekstra Thank you for sharing.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to AkaSci 🛰️ last edited by
@AkaSci I think it has influence on the some 47% of Americans who incline authoritarian, and I think the strategy is to inflame enough of them to get them to the polls and eke out a narrow victory. How to get people back to reality? I honestly don't know. When people do not want facts, truth, education, but prefer toxic lies and in many cases rancid religion, what do you do?
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Joseph Meyerreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy
I have thought up until recently that U.S. executions should be broadcast on national television, maybe even having the jurors or victims push a button to initiate the killing process, so citizens would be confronted by what our justice system is doing instead of sanitizing the execution process behind brick walls. Should it not be done in the light as the Bible says? Doing it in the full light of day might cause shame and lead to the rapid abolishment of capital punishment in the United States of America, I thought. But seeing what MAGA Republicans will tolerate or even celebrate, I now doubt it would cause them to feel any shame. Instead, it might just make me feel even greater disgust toward my fellow citizens. -
William Lindsey :toad:replied to Joseph Meyer last edited by
@JosephMeyer I fear you're right. Public executions would only delight very many citizens — as they did in the past. Lynchings were not executions per se, though they were touted as such. They were acts of barbaric violence targeting a minority community. But people brought children to lynchings, picnics, took photos and even barbaric souvenirs of body parts of the lynched person — and then in many cases, went to church the following day.