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Insightful interview https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-trumps-rhetoric-compares-to-historic-fascist-language
"I think Trump has been conditioning Americans since 2015 to see violence as something justified in certain cases and even patriotic.
He’s been conditioning them to see other Americans as enemies, as diseased, as dirty. And what we have to remember is that authoritarians might initially target one group, and he’s been talking mostly about immigrants. But he’s also calling the enemy within the political opposition.
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And this is part of an authoritarian projection mechanism. I call it the upside-down world of authoritarianism, where, ever since Mussolini, he was the first to call democrats the real tyrants and fascism was going to be freedom. Fascism was going to make Italy great again. That was a slogan, as was drain the swamp. Trump took that from Mussolini as well."
“I hope that you will forgive me if I’m a little angry that we are indifferent to his erratic behavior, his obvious mental decline, his history as a convicted felon, a known slum lord, a predator found liable for sexual abuse — all of this while we pick apart Kamala’s answers from interviews that he doesn’t even have the courage to do, y’all,” she said.
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/26/nx-s1-5166173/michelle-obama-kamala-harris-donald-trump-abortion
15·8 months agoSource and important video documenting the events of Jan 5 and 6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI6as3zkQA8
As stupid as that sounds for him, what’s even worse for me is that he is trying to make the case that all immigration in America is essentially criminals and insane asylum monsters. Even when he knows full well he himself married several immigrants, he comes from immigrant families, his kids have immigrant mothers, and so on.
He’s trying to tell a nation built by immigrants that immigrants are all criminals and monsters.
More info and source
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-explains-why-he-keeps-praising-hannibal-lecter-1930009
During his Wednesday rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, Trump appeared to explain why he keeps praising the character, saying it was because they are “real stories.”
“They go crazy when I say the late, great Hannibal Lecter. They say, ‘Why would he mention Hannibal Lecter? He must be cognitively in trouble.’ No. These are real stories. Hannibal Lecter from ‘Silence of the Lamb,’ is a lovely man. He wants to have you for dinner,” he said.
JD Vance said he was able to cure himself of couch chlamydia using a home remedy he invented that involved tree sap and some indian spices he found in his wife’s kitchen spice rack.
When he was then spotted showing couch chlamydia symptoms, he claimed that he got reinfected a second time, but this time it was from Democrat secret agents that infected him for political persecution.
Dear America, Please stop trying to shoot Donald Trump. He’s got like 100 years of prison coming up in 2025. If you shoot him you make him a martyr and deny us the long crushing process of justice.
It’s Trump. Here is another angle https://news.sky.com/story/laura-loomer-the-far-right-conspiracy-theorist-seen-with-donald-trump-13214428
It seems the lighting was bad in that room and the media were a bit far back, because most of the shots I see online are low quality and zoomed in.
Entire debate (video) and transcript on the ABC website https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542
Trump is such a clown that when he speaks the internet is left talking about how he sounds like an angry idiot toddler. But he ends up getting a pass on his asinine policies because we are too busy talking about the insane stuff like “eating dogs” and him choosing to be Putin’s bitch.
Let’s not forget that his vision for “the economy” is also BS. His policy ideas are all bankrupt. The health care plan is not coming in 2 weeks. His administration inflicted on America’s budget the most insane deficit and debt of any single presidential term: https://www.propublica.org/article/national-debt-trump
His ideas on tariffs are insane and debunked by serious economists. The whole thing is bananas. His plan for tariffs would hurt American workers. And in typical GOP fashion, the pain hits harder on the working class.
For anyone that wants to read a real economics analysis, here is a detailed study from the Peterson Institute for International Economics,
Why Trump’s Tariff Proposals Would Harm Working Americans
BTW, PBS Newshour just reported on their daily broadcast
“As the campaign enters the final 2 months sprint, voting can officially begin as the first absentee ballots hit mailboxes in North Carolina today”
Are you the mod here messing with my account? because I want to file a formal complaint with whatever the systems are on this platform. It’s one thing to correct people or ask for clarification or edits, it’s another to start nuking people’s posts and comments without asking and making stuff just disappear.
Why was my comment deleted? WTF
The schedule for N.C. was to begin sending out mail ballots this Friday. I learned this fact from listening to NPR and made the meme planning for this day. Today apparently there is some temporary delay due to some RFK.jr nonsense, but N.C. is going to continue with the election, it’s not like RFK.jr can stop us from voting.
You are taking some pedantic position to call my post “misinformation”. There is little being added by your comments. While my comments and posts are getting deleted without regard, and I’m still waiting for an apology for mods deleting my last post and messing with my comments here.
WTF is up with the moderation in this place. Let’s see how long it takes for this comment to get deleted too.
My data is from AP https://apnews.com/article/trump-harris-gender-gap-votecast-05672b6426cb5965c446ae2871d97eaf
I have no idea what you mean by “20% swing in gender.” There’s an 8% gap between men and women supporting Trump, and the AP said: “the gender voting gap was unremarkable by recent historical standards.”
Also, AP reported that Biden had 55% of the women vote, meaning that the gender gap today is narrower than the 2020 election.
“Harris had the advantage among women, winning 53% to Trump’s 46%, but that margin was somewhat narrower than President Joe Biden’s in 2020, according to the survey. In 2020, VoteCast showed Biden won 55% of women”