@davidaugust Bezos has to wait for a complaint against WaPo for alleged in kind donations to understand how fascist bullies work? Was the MBS bone saw murder of one of his employees too subtle for him?

Apparently young women who were 10 or 12 eight years ago when Trump's "Grab em by the pussy...they let you" tape was first released are hearing it for the first time on tiktok and they are "WTF" and they are pissed, and angry, and they are voting.

@lauren Their stupidity is evident. Trump will come after them, no matter what, because he loves (to torment) fearful cowardly supplicants. Ask Hang Mike Pence.

@GottaLaff No wonder Elon is sure he's jailed if Trump remains a loser, Trump and Musk report to the same boss, Herr Putin.

On a wholly separate note, Kamala Harris gives a really good sermon. She is an inheritor to Jimmy Carter's legacy of faith inspired good works. She's an actual good person. One more reason I'm super proud to have already voted for her.

Trump has penis envy.

He girl-fanned gossip about Arnold Palmer's penis. He is humiliated by Stormy publicly description of Trump's own very tiny mushroom penis. His mind never let go of his mental image of Arnold's penis, so much so that he had to brag about that dead man's penis at a public (non-penis) rally. Disinhibition is a sign of cognitive decay.

@wdlindsy Hmm. Curious you felt defensive about my comment or felt the need to defend Mr Griffen who would immediately identify with my comments as a targeted person who has witnessed privileged inaction by silent bystanders. It's the work. It also reflects the social sciences studies on the bystander effect on prejudice.

I cannot compare the personal violence or threats made to me directly by avowed gun flashing KKK, Nazis (including jumping in a ditch to escape a car full of racist young men trying to run us down, being hit, shoved, spit on, threatened, etc), and garden variety racists to the violence endured by my brother Mr Griffen, but we've both been targets for just walking on the street. My post was to point out the need for those whose white privilege allows them to remain silent, to understand that talk without action is another variant of racist privilege, not much different than the guy who spit in my face and called me a Chink and told me to go back where I came from.

To tell you the truth, I expected empathy not defensiveness from you, my brother. I follow you and boost you because I find you a kindred ally, and what you post as a critical act of the necessary and the good.

As a person who faces intersectional prejudice and hate even within my own diverse (POC, lgbtq, women, elderly) communities, I know we, myself included, all harbor biases even as we are also victimized by bias. My critique of the failure and hypocrisy of good (white) people is particularly intense at this moment as Trump rallies those who would destroy us all, and the majority of white people continue to vote for hate, even as they do so unchallenged by their white friends and family.

If you took umbrage, okay, I hear you; my truth may not be yours. And if you feel you have led an anti-racist life without failure, you're doing better than me. I still have to find courage every day, because I am given no other choice.

@wdlindsy Sadly, I've experienced direct and unrelenting racial targeting while good progressive white people stood shocked and fearful saying and doing nothing, then coming up afterward, once the racist left, to commend me for my bravery in confronting racism alone. I thought "I wasn't alone, this was in public, and every single one of you self-identified "anti-racists" who witnessed it all stood perfectly still and silent and did nothing in the shelter of your shining white privilege."

Good thing I still believe in hope & change. But for gods sake people, Do Something.

@wdlindsy This means you and me, well-meaning people. You don't have to confront the bully, but you MUST boldly and publicly stand WITH the person WHILE they are being bullied and not silently abandon them to abuse alone, and not wait until it's safe for you to offer support - that's not allyship, that's self-serving self-justifying cowardice and collusion, imo. If we are in this together, act like it.