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   William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 23:19:25 JST William Lindsey :toad:

   "When the dust settles, I expect the people who assess elections will tell us disinformation was key in 2024. It wasn’t the economy, it was the disinformation about the economy. ...

   It requires education and discernment to separate fact from fiction, and often that's lacking. That’s the problem: educating people so they can make judgments about what’s true."

   ~ Joyce Vance

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   https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-importance-of-information

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 23:19:23 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     'An important lesson from Nazi Germany: Dumb people are more dangerous than evil people. Ignorance will destroy America like it destroyed Germany during the Nazi era."

     ~ Oliver Markus Molloy

     Molly quotes W.E.B. DuBois:

     "Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States."

     #Trump #Republicans #fascism #cruelty #future
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     https://badchoicesmakegoodstories.substack.com/p/an-important-lesson-from-nazi-germany

     bhaugen, anderbill and Warner Crocker repeated this.
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 23:19:23 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "The defining feature of Trump's campaign was its appeal to racism, misogyny, and white supremacy. He pushed those themes despite pleas from his advisers to focus on the economy. Having campaigned on themes of hate and division, he won decisively. The most compelling inference from those facts is that Trump's campaign themes appealed to a broad swath of the voters who supported him."

     ~ Robert B. Hubbell

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     https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/sunday-morning-break

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 23:19:24 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     A lot of people who chose to vote for Trump are now in for a rude awakening. They made their choice thinking that only someone else is going to be hurt.

     They're about to find out otherwise. And this includes all those superior beings who think want to waste time now pretending that the Democratic party is the problem, and not the party determined to bring us fascism and the voters who have chosen to give the party free rein.

     #Trump #Republicans #fascism #cruelty #future
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 23:19:40 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "But the media is (again) sane-washing Trump's depravity. Rather than acknowledge—or even mention—his dominant campaign themes in analyzing his victory, the media insists that Trump won because Democrats are ;elitists; who somehow ;alienated' major portions of the electorate or that Democrats lost because Kamala Harris and her advisors refused to run her campaign in the manner demanded by the legacy media."

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 23:19:40 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     The media have done this persistently for some years now. By trotting out their tired (and mendacious) refrain that the Democrats are out of touch with "real Americans," the media absolve themselves for pre-emptively obeying fascist dictators in the making and abdicate their responsibility to educate us. And they have lots of willing tools among the many pretend-liberals eager to pounce on the Democratic party while pretending fascism is not the real threat.

     #Trump #Republicans #fascism
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 23:20:08 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     As Don Moynihan notes, while the media and their fellow travelers pile on in a big gloat fest accusing Democrats of losing support because they're too "woke" and promote identity politics,

     "You will never guess who did run on trans issues: Donald Trump."

     As the Harris campaign bent over backwards to de-emphasize identity politics….

     #Trump #Republicans #fascism #cruelty #future
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     https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/who-is-allowed-to-practice-identity

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 23:20:09 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "Choosing to write stories that 'blame elitist Democrats' ignores the real story of what happened on Tuesday. That distraction normalizes the grotesque, existential threat of Trump's electoral victory. Trump could not buy more favorable and helpful coverage if he paid for those stories with Elon Musk’s billions."

     ~ Hubbell, ibid.

     #Trump #Republicans #fascism #cruelty #future
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 23:20:28 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "What is true: Trump, and the right, are very good at taking basic respect and empathy for other humans, and portraying that as dangerous: social justice, wokeness, diversity, equity and inclusion have all been converted into terms of mockery. Trump did not win because someone you were on a zoom call with used pronouns, or Latinx, or some college grad corrected you for using the word homeless."

     #Trump #Republicans #fascism #cruelty #future
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 23:20:29 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "This is a lazy pre-existing [corporate media] narrative to be sold, not because of any actual analysis of the electorate. These are writers who for various reasons have committed to an anti-woke narrative. And once you have committed to that narrative, you are determined to force it into every story, no matter how misleading."

     #Trump #Republicans #fascism #cruelty #future
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 00:13:57 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "From now on, there are no more excuses, no apologies, nothing. A good half of American voters did it again, fully aware, enlightened and well-informed: They re-elected Donald J. Trump as president of their country, knowing everything they needed to know about this man.

     ~ Thomas Assheuer

     #Trump #Republicans #fascism #cruelty #future
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     https://worldcrunch.com/eyes-on-the-us/nationalism-democracy-germany-trump

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 00:13:58 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "Never mind that his administration has been largely scandal free. Never mind that he surrounded himself with some really competent people. Never mind that he took an economy in shambles and turned it around. Never mind that he restored international relations that had been crippled and turned them around, including NATO expansion. Never mind that the infrastructure bill was an incredible accomplishment given the Congress he had to work with."

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 00:13:58 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "Never mind that he was the most pro-union president we’ve ever had. Never mind he is a fundamentally decent man; his character is not in question.

     It wasn’t enough apparently. …

     Biden didn’t fail America — America failed him."

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 00:13:59 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "What is going on?

     I am starting to see editorials and analyses that are blaming the second coming of the convicted felon on Joseph Robinette Biden. It seems like there is a determined campaign to trash his legacy. ...

     We haven’t reached the point yet, like that seen under Stalin, where history would be rewritten and photos edited to remove unpersons who had fallen out of favor and been purged.

     Not yet."

     ~ xaxnar

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     https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/11/9/2284913/-What-is-with-all-the-Biden-hate

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 00:14:00 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "Joe Biden owned the hardships of the post-pandemic — principally but not only economic — and the public simply rejected his presidency because of that. That’s very similar to what has happened when almost every other incumbent party in the West came up for reelection in the post-pandemic era. ...

     Harris and Harris’ campaign are a distraction from this necessary conversation, a form of denial."

     Of course, always easier to blame women, no?

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 00:14:01 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "As Hitler, so Trump; as Nazi, so MAGA. …

     Dorothy Thompson made the same mistake many of us, myself very much included, made in her assessment of the resident strongman: she believed the German people would be sophisticated enough to see through Hitler’s grotesque lies, just like we all believed the American people would be sophisticated enough to see through Trump’s."

     ~ Greg Olear

     #Trump #Republicans #fascism #cruelty #future
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     https://gregolear.substack.com/p/sunday-pages-who-goes-nazi

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 00:14:01 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     Josh Marshall agrees with a TPM reader who says that "digesting the mechanics of campaigns were sort of beside the point now." As he notes, "The problems and the roots of Democrats’ defeat ran far deeper." And "the recriminations conversation" is a colossal waste of time.

     He writes,

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     https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-follow-up-about-harris

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     MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘 (mugsysrapsheet@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 00:21:03 JST MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘

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     @wdlindsy
     "Stupidity is the same as Evil if you judge by the results." - Marget Atwood of "The Handmaid's Tale"

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 01:24:48 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "It’s not just the election. It’s broader than that. It’s that a permanent propaganda campaign has been supercharged in the last two years, in ways that weren’t even true when Fox News relentlessly tried to take down Hillary and her spouse in the 1990s. And that propaganda campaign has played a key role in leading people to distrust and eschew 'reality,' including the reality that Joe Biden was better for the economy and Trump is unashamedly corrupt."

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 01:24:49 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "Given the larger dynamic of the race — that politics worked where it was done, but propaganda worked far better — Democrats would be far better to use the two months they’ve got to inventory their tools (one of which is that down ballot resilience), breathe, and think about how to counter the propaganda, because Trump will be in a position to keep doing what he just did unless Democrats find a way to counter the propaganda."

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 01:24:50 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     Some of us are ALREADY receiving text messages instructing us to return to slavery.

     Yet the Democrats are the problem?

     What if the problem is your lack of solidarity — your insulation by privilege that is so thick you think you have the luxury to play ugly rhetorical games — while others of us are being targeted, and you could use that wasted energy to stand with us against the real enemy and not the pretend one?

     #Trump #Republicans #fascism #cruelty #future
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 01:24:50 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "Democrats are already at each others’ throat over whether politics could have worked better — who is to blame. Some idiots are arguing that Democrats lost because they’re too 'woke,' as if they don’t know that 'wokeness' was a propaganda creation the entire time, propaganda created by men waging cultural war on behalf of aggrieved men."

     ~ Marcy Wheeler

     #Trump #Republicans #fascism #cruelty #future
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     https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/11/10/two-elections-the-rules-were-that-you-guys-werent-going-to-fact-check/

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 01:24:51 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     Some of us have the luxury to play those armchair political games. Some of us may even pretend that when the crackdown begins after he takes office, it won't affect us.

     Some of us have no choice except to face what's coming, and for us, the armchair game-playing is a huge distraction from reality. It demands privilege and insulation we can only dream of having.

     Some of us are ALREADY being taunted with chants of "Your body, my choice."

     #Trump #Republicans #fascism #cruelty #future
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 01:24:52 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     Speaking as a woman, that is to say, someone who will be right in the sights of the Trump regime when it takes office, Jess Piper writes,

     "I have been listening to what the opposition has in store for us in the next few years. I don’t need to make up scenarios. I have read Project 2025. I am not wearing a tin-foil hat or espousing conspiracy theories. I am reading and listening."

     #Trump #Republicans #fascism #cruelty #future
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     https://jesspiper.substack.com/p/barbie-and-the-beast

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 01:24:52 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "This must be a difficult time for the historians.

     You’re not crazy. Neither am I.

     Kamala. Kamala. Kamala.

     What did she do wrong? What did the Democrats do wrong? Why is this her fault and how can we prove it is her fault rather than seeing the angry and often ignorant electorate that is staring us back in the face.

     I’m tired of it. I don’t want to hear one more person talk about what she could have done."

     #Trump #Republicans #fascism #cruelty #future
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 01:24:53 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "They knew he was a convicted criminal, a nefarious liar, a miserable rabble-rouser and a vindictive demagogue, as well as an advocate for the rich and powerful. The land of the free has elected an enemy of freedom; a putschist who cheered the storming of the Capitol and kneels before despots.

     Yes, the truth is brutal. Trump was not an industrial accident, not an episode in the history of the United States. He came to stay."

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 01:33:41 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     Clay Jones' cartoon commentary on what the US elections have shown us about who many of us are and what many of us choose.

     #Trump #Republicans #fascism #cruelty
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     https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/11/10/2284118/-Cartoon-Make-America-Gross-Again

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 01:33:42 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "I can see the appeal of Ireland since they famously banished all the snakes from the island instead of letting them form a political movement."

     ~ Andrew Fleming

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     https://www.wonkette.com/p/requiem-for-a-dream-of-coming-to

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