At Madison Square Garden, Trump abandoned all pretense. He said to those who call him a fascist, “Yes I am, and I’m so sure my voters want it that I’ve gathered the greatest collection of profane, nasty, lying authoritarianism-lovers ever assembled. I’ll ride it to November 5 and as far beyond as necessary to get what I’m owed.”
After that fascist jamboree, Trump’s mouthpieces spent the next day doing damage control: the “joke” about Puerto Rico being garbage “doesn’t represent our views,” his campaign tested. But it does. They’d seen and approved that guy’s script, removing only one word. Also, recall that Trump delayed help for two years after Hurricane Maria devastated the island. When he finally showed up, he tossed paper towels like dropping pennies into a beggar’s bucket. That’s what represents his views.
The day after the Garden’s cesspool of nonstop negativity, Trump ignored the Puerto Rico insult and called it “a lovefest.” Team Trump selected each of those speakers, including the scumlord whose profane, foul screed against Hillary Clinton (is she running?) ought to have offended at least some of the cultists in attendance. Instead, there were cheers of delight.
None of the participants disavowed the unending invective. Trump upped the pollution with his usual lies about FEMA, Kamala Harris, immigrants, and voting, adding his Hitlerian “enemies within” incitement. Plus attacks on the press and promises to prosecute anyone who disagrees with him.
It’s unimaginable that that hate-filled display attracted undecided voters. Aimed strictly at his base, it wasn’t intended to. Hopefully, it turned away not only Puerto Rican Americans but anyone with at least a thimbleful of decency.
The degrading offensiveness of that rally, not coincidentally held in the same venue as an overtly Nazi one in 1939, should have repulsed all Americans. The latter was attended by the ideological fringe, while thousands of citizens protested outside. Its swastikas were overt, not implied. Nor was it organized and promoted by a former “president” of the United States, the convicted criminal re-choice of a once-respectable, not-fringe political party.
If that celebration of rage, racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and torrential lies didn’t nail, screw, and padlock the coffin of Trumpism; if he’s elected or, like last time, “elected,” the America envisioned by its Founders no longer exists, and deserves everything that will follow: an economy wrecked by Trump’s reckless tariffs, except for companies willing to pay him tribute for exceptions; inflation worse than the post-Covid era, back to normal now under President Biden; handing the world, our allies, to global adversaries; trade wars; actual -- not made-up by time-wasting, performance-preferring House Republicans -- weaponization of government; malicious mistreatment of immigrants, legal or not; abuse of minorities and women; Project 2025 theocracy; loss of healthcare for millions; unsustainable increases in wealth inequality at the cost of helping anyone below millionaire status; and the adverse effects of losing millions of long-standing, hard-working, tax-paying, community-supporting but undocumented residents.
My grandchildren don’t deserve it, though. Trumpists’ grandchildren don’t, either. Yet it’s they who’ll suffer. For Trump, as he said about the possible hanging of Mike Pence, it’d be another “So what?” That he’s the best today’s Republicans can offer ought to dishearten everyone who considers themselves conservative. Or patriotic. Not to mention Christian. Or decent.
That rally was an ineradicable stain on America. Contrast it with Vice President Harris’ positivity and inclusivity, Tuesday, on the National Mall, attended by 75-thousand people, cheering for decency, not its opposite.
Am I angry? Damn right! It’s my country, too. Republicans used to be better than this. Americans used to reject authoritarians and their lies. With Vice President Harris, we might get it back. If Trump wins, it’s over. His venomous hate-fest at MSG removed any doubt.
On the other hand, the democracy we’re trying to save might not exist anyway. Not since our McConnell-packed Supreme Court handed elections to the ultra-richest and neutered the Voting Rights Act. Not since America’s oligarchs concluded crossing Trump would be unprofitable, whereas there’d be no retaliation from a President Harris, because she honors the idea of America. And they know how to get anything they want from Trump.
To wit: we’ve learned that the billionaire owners of the LA Times and the Washington Post, the latter being Jeff Bezos, who does much business with the government, overrode their papers’ intentions to endorse Vice President Harris. It’s a window to the future, where political cowardice before a bully leads to totalitarianism. In the darkness of a cowardly press, democracy dies. Trump has been working it since before day one.
We’ve also learned that Elon Musk, whose PAC just ran an ad saying “We can’t have a ‘C-word’ in the White House,” is in regular contact with Vladimir Putin. Gifting China at Putin’s request, Elon shut down his Starlink communication satellites over Taiwan. Imagine what else he – and Putin, Xi, and Kim -- would get away with under Trump, so easily manipulated by fake flattery from more powerful men.
This is why you DO NOT trade verbal darts with people who play sports. You'll never out chirp them.
ReplyDeletePop's levels the playing field and leaves nobody standing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5cK8qAWH-M
Really strong piece brother.
ReplyDelete"That he’s the best today’s Republicans can offer ought to dishearten everyone who considers themselves conservative. "
That's it. Our better self tries to differentiate. We bend over backwards to single out the bad from the good. Not wanting to lump anyone in. Lest they be labeled a facist.
Guess what? Sometimes a lump is a lump. I think you summed that up very well.
Another great point
ReplyDelete"For Trump, as he said about the possible hanging of Mike Pence, it’d be another “So what?”"
"They're not here to hurt me"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYaHsPVhedI
Hey girls! How 'bout you?
ReplyDeleteSheryl Crow - Woman In The White House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5Ehcd__kpQ
oKAY...sO?????
ReplyDeleteAre you gunnuh give her the beating of a lifetime is she votes for someone you disapprove of?
"Cheney has emerged as the key figure to urge Republican women to vote against Trump, and it is becoming increasingly clear that Trump’s reelection is in trouble in part because white women are abandoning him. The early hints that this is happening, like the huge gender gap showing up in early voting, have sparked a right-wing frenzy of attempts to restore the power of white men over the women in their lives. Right-wing men are insisting that wives should vote as their husbands do, or that women should lose the ability to vote altogether.
Trump’s suggestion that Cheney should face a firing squad seems to be a general expression of the anger of white men accustomed to dictating the terms of public life when faced with the reality that they can no longer count on being able to cow the people around them."
What we have all found to be true. After only a few knew it to be from day one. Trump is a Hitler 2.oh?
The dude has been dog whistle to blow torch in public. Yet I got a ration for calling him and his followers, The Brown Shirts. I was wrong. Black and gold was the colors.
It'll be a landslide for that reason. It's all the rest that will fall one by one. The whole thing is tiresome to keep up with. Too hard to make people continue to believe stupid shit as real. It all has a shelf life before it's put back in the closet.
I don't know what's in store for America the day after the election. That's largely up to the losers.
But the winners will continue regardless of what the losers do. That I do know.
Y'all need to understand what's going on here.
ReplyDeleteThe rescue effort is over. Trump is in recovery now.
He's lost the election and he knows it.
He can't violently overthrow the government either. He knows this.
So why all the violent fascist shit suddenly? Seems like he's sinking his ship with everyone but the most ultra Christian Nationalist types. The true believers. I am not talking the malcontents.. Whether it's a "militia" member who cosplays. The Teen to 35 year old incels. The uneducated. Poverty stricken Trumpers. Those types. They will assimilate to the next thing. That is clear. They are followers/lo-fi voters.
The religious zealots who just are Jonestown level lost. It's those idiots. The Bundy Bunch types. "Sovereign Citizen's" Proud Pee Pees...Corrupt cops and politicians. Billionaires. Foreign countries who suck.
THOSE are the ones left standing after America's Momala moves her Glock into the peoplez "hiz'ouse".
What's left after that, is these assholes who are butthurt snowflakes. Looking for any way to lash out. Preferably not getting caught.
That's where Cheetolini and Miller comes in. Bannon and Stone's ilk as well. Plus shitty lawyers. Lots of shitty lawyers.
Why? Because Cheeto knows he's going to jail. He's John Gotti w/o all thew John Gotti-ness. Marlon Brando is closer to a mobster than Trump ever could be. Trump is a loser. If not for his Dad? He'd be nothing. He'd be in the welfare, Medicaid system and SSI at this point. Seriously. I am not kidding. Those are the stats for his stats.
Cheeto is trying to stay out of jail. He thinks that violence will separate him from a prison cell. Send him to Mara Lardo hoarders HQ with a bracelet. I want to see him in jail. And he will go to jail. He's been convicted of a shit ton already. There's a shit ton more to go. I am fully expecting him to go to Russia or Turkey. N. Korea...lol I see him eying that dweebs evil sister. He wants to be the King of N. Korea and have his own nukes.
November 1, 2024
Heather Cox Richardson
"Trump’s comments to right-wing media figure Tucker Carlson last night at an event in Glendale, Arizona, about former representative Liz Cheney (R-WY), coming as they have after the extraordinary racism and sexism of Trump’s Sunday event at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, have have highlighted the centrality of the campaign's attack on women."
All it is is to gin up the worst of the worst (see aboves the worstest). Why? When the Secret Security "SS" drops from duty as a convicted felon. He needs new SS muscle for him AND his puppet masters. Trump being the puppet of all puppets. Much like Stone and the Proud Pee Pee's.
“She’s a radical war hawk,” Trump told Carlson, “Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face.”
This is about the consolidation of the most sick and evil. Knowing the rest won't go along for that ride. This whole process has weeded out the weak. They now have pure distilled hate in America. The mailing lists of the naughty and nice. The infrastructure is built. Billionaires will keep it alive.
How we handle them is our next biggest task. Like after the Civil War. Only this time? They have truly lost. America's promise is close at hand. The Nazi's know the hour is late, and the situation dire. Expect violence. Whether they win or lose.
Kamala on SNL!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Funs6yyEw
Trumps' imps need to justify their cruelty. So as usual, they provide an excuse. "People are saying"
ReplyDelete"And I don't have a piece of glass there ... But all we have really over here is the fake news. And to get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news, and I don't mind that so much. I don't mind that."
What they're saying: "President Trump was stating that the Media was in danger, in that they were protecting him and, therefore, were in great danger themselves, and should have had a glass protective shield, also," Trump Campaign Communications Director Steven Cheung said in a statement.
"The President's statement about protective glass placement has nothing to do with the Media being harmed, or anything else. It was about threats against him that were spurred on by dangerous rhetoric from Democrats," the statement said."
His voters are a sick, twisted bunch of white supremacists
ReplyDelete"And I don't have a piece of glass there ... But all we have really over here is the fake news. And to get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news, and I don't mind that so much. I don't mind that."
What they're saying: "President Trump was stating that the Media was in danger, in that they were protecting him and, therefore, were in great danger themselves, and should have had a glass protective shield, also," Trump Campaign Communications Director Steven Cheung said in a statement.
"The President's statement about protective glass placement has nothing to do with the Media being harmed, or anything else. It was about threats against him that were spurred on by dangerous rhetoric from Democrats," the statement said.
I'm good to go!
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My wife theorizes that Trump has become increasingly negative, profane, hateful and incendiary in order to increase the likelihood that he'll actually lose the race. He's been president and knows that, despite the power that it brings, there would still be significant guardrails and furture lawsuits that would limit or prevent him from achieving greater power and wealth. Trump is fundamentally lazy. He doesn't like working; all he really he wants is money, fame and adoration.
ReplyDeleteThere may be some truth there, but I think a stronger motive that supports her thinking is Trump not wanting to spend four years as a potential target.
If he wins and has both the Senate and House, and, given the corrupt hard-right SCOTUS, the idea of guardrails becomes fantasy, I'd say.
DeleteI think the likelihood of him having all 3 is low, but were it to happen, I really fear the worst.
We are the right party. That piece of garbage only wishes.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-44sTirPGDs
Plus, we have the meats.
DeleteThis is how we celi on the hill...lol
ReplyDeletehttps://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2024/11/election-night-on-capitol-hill-voters-fill-the-broadway-drop-box-as-cops-bust-up-demonstrators-outside-the-east-precinct/
we are fucked
ReplyDeleteDavid gets it
ReplyDeleteDavid Ignatius: The presidential election is a character test for the candidates, but also for the country, and this election makes me realize how little I understand the American character in 2024.
It would appear Seattle will be more progressive.
ReplyDeleteWe don't know America like we think we do. It is a mean divisive place where violence is glorified and women and children are terrified.
He's got 4 years and so do we. This is a shame on us all. We lost Democracy. Congo Rats to the people who've been voting this way since Reagan. You own America's black hearts.
Am remembering a movie where a semi-circular axe-head at the end of a pendulum swings back'n'forth over the unfortunate who gets cut in half, the head moves down small amounts with each swing. It's been in more than one movie.
ReplyDeleteIt's from Edgar Allen Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum", the Wikipedia article on it is excellent summary.
This sure seems to be the political process in our country for the last few decades. And now we get him back? WTF?!
We need a better strategy four years from now, or we'll continue to be cut in half, one slice at a time. This one was a resounding error in all courts: electoral college, popular vote, Senate, House!? Good grief, can it be any worse? We were drugged, drubbed and quartered!