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“Christians, get out and vote! Just this time! You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what? It will be fixed, it will be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians. I love you, Christians. You got to get out and vote. In four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good, you don’t have to vote.”
~ Trump at Turning Point Action Believers’ Summit yesterday
#Trump #dictator #WhiteChristianNationalism
/1
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trump-finally-said-it-out-loud-he
This chilling statement comes after Trump praised autocratic Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán in his speech at the Republican National Convention last week and then publicly praised China’s president Xi Jinping for being 'brilliant' because he 'controls 1.4 billion people with an iron fist.'”
~ Heather Cox Richardson
"It should also be read against the backdrop of the Supreme Court’s decision in Donald J. Trump v. United States that a president cannot be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of his 'official duties.'”
A.R. Moxon says that, with the pretense of being "neutral," corporate media chose to pretend that Trump is a "unifier" when he spoke at the RNC. Moxon writes,
"It's one of the most chilling things I've ever seen; the legacy media abandoning even their false neutrality to create a totally alternate reality, for the direct benefit of the worst person imaginable."
#Trump #fascist #authoritarian #media #MediaFail #BothSides
/4
https://www.the-reframe.com/the-seagulls-descend/?ref=the-reframe-newsletter
" It was an open capitulation to accept the fascist demand that media enter their misinformation stream and report on whatever it is they want said as if it were real. And it created permission for low-information people, who don't give a shit for anything beyond their own ease, to ignore reality; false equivalence where a more principled neutrality would delineate the differences."
#Trump #fascist #authoritarian #media #MediaFail #BothSides
/5
"One side has a vision; the other side sees visions."
~ Charles Pierce
"We haven’t yet realised that misogyny is one of the most dangerous weapons on Earth. The best friend of authoritarians and oligarchs. The handmaiden of tyrants.
Worst of all, we haven’t yet realised that misogyny represents the most urgent and pressing threat to global security."
~ Carole Cadwalladr
"Because it’s misogyny – networked misogyny across multiple global platforms that will earn their tech bro owners billions upon billions of dollars – that is going to decide the 2024 election.
And it’s misogyny that’s going to dictate the future of Nato, the outcome of the war in Ukraine, whether we have peace in Europe or more war."
"The only medical information the Trump campaign has released [after Trump was allegedly shot] comes from the disgraced Jackson, who was demoted by the Navy after a Defense Department report found he drank on the job, among other misbehavior. Jackson was not Trump’s attending physician immediately following the shooting."
~ Joan McCarter
#Trump #shooting #gun #shrapnel #RonnyJackson
/9
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/7/26/2258360/-We-deserve-to-know-more-about-Trump-s-injury
"Furthermore, he reportedly no longer has a valid medical license and is certified only to provide emergency treatment or to practice on military bases.
The lack of information around Trump’s injury is troubling. In what universe is a presidential candidate shot and the hospital doesn't make a statement about the treatment? More information should be public knowledge by now."
@wdlindsy@toad.social"Media: this should be *the* A1 story. I have studied dictatorship for decades and this is it-'you won't have to vote anymore.' Trump will never leave office if he wins in November."
~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat as quoted by Greg Dworkin
"Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign smashed all kinds of records in the first 48 hours, and the momentum—and record-breaking—hasn’t flagged since. ...
It started with Win with Black Women on Sunday, with 44,000 participants and $1.6 million raised. Then on Monday, Win With Black Men built on that with over 40,000 participants, netting about $1.3 million."
~ Joan McCarter
#KamalaHarris #Trump
/12
"On Thursday night, 'White Women: Answer the Call' literally broke Zoom with 164,000 participants handing over more than $2 million in just an hour. Not to be outdone, White Dudes for Harris, who 'aren’t going to sit around and let the MAGA crowd bully other white guys into voting for a hateful and divisive ideology' will have their call next Monday."
#KamalaHarris #Trump
/13
"Since Sunday, more than 100,000 people have signed up to volunteer for the Harris campaign, and more than 2,000 people applied for campaign jobs by Wednesday. That includes 6,600 new sign-ups in Florida, 3,000 in Michigan, 4,000 in Pennsylvania, more than 1,300 in Arizona, and more than 1,000 in Wisconsin, ready to start knocking on doors this weekend. ...
And finally, she still doesn’t have any criminal convictions."
#KamalaHarris #Trump
/14
" If you are on Ukrainian social media, you are dealing with Russian bots and trolls saying that Harris is unpopular in America and can’t win. In the United States, the Russian bots and trolls are spreading racism and misogyny. The Russian demobilization serves the same goal: to stifle any hope for something good in both countries."
~ Timothy Snyder
#KamalaHarris #Trump #Ukraine #Russia #disinformation #propaganda
/15
"Stories about Vance tend to focus on his hardscrabble Ohio roots, but his relationship with Thiel—and his stint in San Francisco—are key to understanding his politics. Vance owes his meteoric rise to Thiel, who largely bankrolled it.
Vance is a Thiel creation."
~ Gil Duran
#JDVance #PeterThiel #CurtisYarvin #authoritarianism
/16
https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrifying-techno-authoritarian-ideas
"And like his billionaire benefactor—who once wrote, 'I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible'—Vance embraces a radical ideology hell-bent on destroying government as we know it. And they got these ideas, at least in part, from [Curtis] Yarvin.
Yarvin is the chief thinker behind an obscure but increasingly influential far-right neoreaction, or NRx, movement, that some call the 'Dark Enlightenment.'”
As Rachel Maddow reports, J.D. Vance is entirely Peter Thiel's creature. Thiel got Vance a job at San Francisco biotech firm when Vance graduated from law school. He also donated $15 million to a super PAC that managed Vance's Senate campaign.
"Maddow argued that Vance’s political success is more attributable to Thiel’s backing than personal merit."
~ Christopher Wiggins
In short, Vance got where he is via DEI.
https://www.advocate.com/politics/maddow-jd-vance-peter-thiel
Lucian K. Truscott has posted a link to video of Trump's statements to the Turning Point Action Believers’ Summit in Florida yesterday. The link is in Truscott's posting below.
I'm also very grateful to reader Godfrey642 for posting this same link in the thread above.
#Trump #dictator #WhiteChristianNationalism
/19
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/link-to-video-trump-is-going-to-fix
"What it sounds like to me is Trump is absolutely terrified of Kamala Harris. He is literally begging people to vote for him, with promises that they will never have to vote again. 'Just do it this once, I promise, I will make sure you never have to do it again.'”
~ Scptt Dworkin
#Trump #dictator #WhiteChristianNationalism
/20
https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-is-desperate-begging-for-votes
"This election is not just about Trump and him wanting to be a dictator. It is also about the abomination known as Project 2025, the cult members who would be in the White House, and the fact Trump is a convicted felon set to be sentenced in his first of four criminal trials in September.
The choice this November could not be clearer. It’s the prosecutor—Kamala Harris—versus the felon—Donald Trump."
"Project 2025 isn’t just anti-abortion. It attacks surrogacy, IVF, contraception. The right’s 922-page policy agenda for a Trump presidency offers an extremist plan for rolling back reproductive rights."
~ Eleanor J. Bader
As we evaluate what Trump told extremist white nationalist Christians yesterday — that the fix will be in for him to be dictator — we must keep Project 2025 in sight.
#Trump #Project2025 #WhiteChristianNationalism #authoritarianism #autocracy
/22
As D. Earl Stephens reports, though Trump told extremist white nationalist Christians yesterday that if they elect him, the fix will be in so they will never have to vote again, mainstream media outlets are almost totally silent re: what Trump said.
"While we, the voters, can never, ever underestimate the gravity of this moment, our corporate media has made it clear as day they could really care less."
#Trump #Project2025 #WhiteChristianNationalism #dictator #media
/23
https://dearlstephens.substack.com/p/in-four-years-you-dont-have-to-vote
"This is how the New York Times covered Trump’s apparent desire to cancel all future presidential elections if he wins in 2024. It’s included as part of a series of short wrap-up pieces under the gang-headline, 'Election Live Updates.' …
Note how The Times refers to former president Trump as 'President Donald J. Trump' while our current Vice President is referred to as 'Ms. Harris.'”
~ L. Truscott
#Trump #Project2025 #WhiteChristianNationalism #dictator #media
/24
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/oh-boy-oh-boy-the-new-york-times
"Last night Trump made appallingly clear the stakes of this election. There was no parsing, no pretending to just be a dictator for a day: His goal is to end our democracy, to end elections and stay in power if he gets back in office."
~ Steven Beschloss
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #dictator
/25
https://www.americaamerica.news/p/will-the-people-save-democracy-in/comments
"He is a threat to everything you love. He wears makeup and a wig like a clown, but the clownishness itself is part of the plausible deniability. Even his fiercest critics feed that power by assuming there must be some harmless explanation for his laser focus on dividing and conquering America. There’s not.
You’re just part of the normalization of this lunacy."
~ Jason Sattler
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #dictator
/26
https://thecause.substack.com/p/trumps-superpower-is-plausible-deniability
Hani Almadhoun is a Palestinian-American who has lost 150 family members in Israel's attacks on Gaza. He states,
“The only person [i.e., government official] that reached out while my family was being genocided was Vice President Kamala Harris.”
Prem Thakker adds,
"Harris had spoken with Almadhoun in mid-November. She also wrote to him after his brother was killed, which he says he appreciated."
#KamalaHarris #Israel #Palestinians #Gaza
/27
https://zeteo.com/p/kamala-only-official-to-call-palestinian-america
@wdlindsy He makes Mike Pence seem like a centrist!
@nichni Absolutely so.
@wdlindsy a good question is WHERE ARE OL' PETER'S EYEBROWS?
@justajason You know, I hadn't even noticed that detail. Now I can't unsee it!
@wdlindsy@toad.social
If your feelings about DEI are other than "you have two, equally-good candidates, so you select the one from a historically marginalized group," then "sure".
@wdlindsy
Maybe reconsider trying to make DEI a zinger? There is not turning things around on people with no shame.
@unikitty My audience in making that connection isn't the shameless people for whom appeals to shame mean nothing. It's the people reading the thread who may find the connection interesting, due to the ironic light it casts on Vance's ugly attack on Kamala Harris.
Revertron @wdlindsy 150 family members???
And 500 of them women and children, I suppose?
@Sfwmson That's an outstanding comment — and I'm boosting.
@wdlindsy that's Madame Vice President to you NYT morons
@samiamsam Thank you.
@wdlindsy
Calling Trump "president" is obviously wrong. But Harris has been correctly titled as "vice-president" even in the snippet given. The title was only given in the first mention. As they did for the fascist too. He was "Mr Trump" thereafter
@energisch_
@lostgen @energisch_ Thanks for noting that.
@wdlindsy
How was that line about 'vote this once - I promise you'll never have to vote again' not made into a huge headline? I couldn't believe there were people who thought that was a positive thing. I'm just not understanding the level of stupid we have achieved.
@lolonurse I ask that same question. As a number of commentators have noted, of major English-language newspapers, it's only London's The Guardian that featured a full-length article about Trump's statements. U.S. corporate media: shamefully silent, in sharp contrast to how they dealt with Biden's age until they hounded him to step down.
@wdlindsy
Indeed. The MAGAts, billionaires (aren't they odd bedfellows), "investigative reporters" & "journalists" (it seems standards have plummeted), and TFG somehow have completely warped reality. Or the semblance of it. I've become an anxious, stressed old hippie. I'd like to send all those people to a remote, desolate, mountainous island (so no planes can go there)...with no internet or phone service.
@wdlindsy
Ah yes - I saw this multiple times on MSNBC. One of my cousins, who is TFG's age, called me, spitting fire. He was beside himself that this was being given free air time, and it wasn't causing a (forgive me...) furor.
@lolonurse I'm with your cousin!
@wdlindsy
Trump and Vance will rapidly tire of each other.
Trump will hate Vance's ability to speak for and about himself. Narcissist Trump only wants minions who adore him.
Vance is puffed up with self importance and will get exasperated with Old Man Trumps buffoonery. Vance wants his own limelight. (And isn't he modelling himself on the Commanders in Handmaid's Tale??)
I predict IF Trump were to win (which hopefully now he won't) there will be a massive issue btwn them before midterms. Guaranteed.
@Godfrey642 I suspect you're right. A narcissist always destroys his/her closest supporters. My last boss in full-time work was like a clone of Trump, and she did this routinely, bringing supporters and friends on board to assist her and then knifing them in the back one after another. The harder they worked to make her succeed, the more she feared someone would see their excellence and not put her center-stage, and she had to destroy them.
@wdlindsy
Exactly.
Trump might "knife" Vance even b4 the election. He's dragging Trumps numbers down.
@Godfrey642 Yes. This will be an interesting show to watch.
@wdlindsy
via •reverse• DEI: hiring unqualified people to •decrease• diversity
@inthehands Absolutely.
Clear and present danger...
@wdlindsy Ugh, Curtis Yarvin again. Would love to hear from his classmates at Brown about this living shtstain
@Edgar I'd be interested in their testimony, too.
@wdlindsy Shannon Watts of Moms Demand Action was on Nicolle Wallace yesterday - she organized the call. This is so epic...it gives me chills I haven't had since 2008. Let's GO! And her campaign is on it....I gave in the 1st 48 hrs and they called me to volunteer within 48 hrs. The phone banker was a 1st time phone banker.....has grown kids who are so excited now!
@BlueWaver22 Thanks for this report — information I hadn't read. Yes, let's GO!
@wdlindsy I am still wondering who the organizers were. Nothing on the website identified anyone and even WHOIS gave no info. Same with the White dudes thing.
@Nonya_Bidniss The organizers of the Zoom calls, do you mean?
@wdlindsy yes, I didn't feel good about it because I really tried to identify who was behind it to ensure it was genuine but I couldn't. I hope the money went to an authentic PAC , ActBlue or...
@Nonya_Bidniss I've seen nothing that would suggest to me it didn't go to an authentic PAC.
@wdlindsy I've seen nothing 
. I'm sure it's fine and they were just avoiding harassment & death threats from the MAGA terrorists but who knows
@Nonya_Bidniss Shannon Watts (founder of Moms Demand Action) was one of the organizers of the White Women one. I signed up because I trust her. Also the link they gave went directly to Harris' ActBlue page.
@msglincoln How did you find out that she was a founder? Hearsay? I'm just wondering because I went to the site when it was first started and there was no about page or contact info, no one's name on the site or the site registration. I thought that seemed unusual. I looked at her twitter because someone else said her name and didn't see anything there either.
@Nonya_Bidniss No you're right there was no info on the web page. I looked, too because I wanted to check before I signed up. Honestly I don't remember how I found out she was involved. I don't look at Twitter so it couldn't have been that; it had to have been something here. Sorry I'm definitely having a senior moment about it.
@wdlindsy
This is the clip from Palm Beach
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1817007890496102490
@Godfrey642 Thank you. I had not seen it.
@wdlindsy
Absolutely terrifying