Notices by A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck ? (juliusgoat@mastodon.social), page 3

@MaierAmsden This is a really dumb thing to say.

I don't trust any publication that won't call a Nazi rally a Nazi rally, and won't call people who organize one Nazis.

@MaierAmsden Historical and philosophical and rhetorical and general ignorance, mixed with a useless pettifogging about grave matters.

If millions and millions of the American people are racist, then America might be a supremacist nation, and if we started saying that America was a supremacist nation, then we would have to deal with that fact.

And you'll have to ignore the fact that Trump and his party are demonizing racial minorities as subhuman vermin, using vile lies in order to foment violence against them as an entrée to fomenting much more violence against many more people on the basis of even worse lies.

In order to accept the story's invitation, though, you'll have to enter an intricate and multi-layered ignorance—about the fact that Nazi support for Trump (and vice versa) runs broad and deep throughout Trump's political career, to begin with.

The story I read is at pains to point out that this was only one boat among hundreds flying Nazi gear, and that the boat organizer called the Nazis "scum," so if you want to believe that this event was a one-off sort of oddity, you're invited by the story to do so.

They flew their swastikas and delivered the usual slogans and salutes and slurs. They have a more honest version of the Trump hat that they sell, which says MAKE AMERICA WHITE AGAIN. There aren't many stories about it. "Ho-hum, Nazis at a Trump event" is the thinking I suppose.

Now, if you're somebody who isn't into ignorance, you might find it odd that anyone organizing a pro-Trump boat show would object to the presence of Nazis at a rally in support of a clearly Nazi-aligned candidate for the presidency. You might pursue that angle.

f you want to ignore those things, the story about the Nazi boat show—one of the few stories about the event—has got your your back. It largely ignores them, too, and leads off and closes with rationales for minimizing the clear implications.

And you'll have to ignore the fact that Trump's rhetoric and policy positions have always been near to Nazism and now are completely indistinguishable from it.

And you'll have to ignore many other things—too many to list.

And you'll have to ignore proposals like using the military against "the enemy within" or deploying white supremacist paramilitary gangs to purge the ethnic minorities "poisoning the blood" of the country, and the fact that Trump is now only lucid when delivering Nazi rhetoric.

Trump's brain resembles an accordion blind door in that it was never hinged in the first place, but he's observably batshit now, and millions and millions of people seem to not know or care.

Yesterday Donald Trump, whose brain is actively melting like a slice of Velveeta atop an Arizona Cybertruck, waxed rhapsodic to his crowd about Arnold Palmer's apparently giant penis, which isn't the most lunatic thing he's done this month, it's just the most recent.

It's almost as if people are more interested in finding a way to not know things that are difficult to ignore than they are in simply looking around and knowing.

It's almost like most people in our media and many in our country are more committed to telling comforting fictions than to observing the actual swastika that's actually flapping around.

Now this is extraordinary for a lot of reasons.

There is the idea that Donald Trump, who is clearly a virulent racist, isn't a racist, no no—he has been accused of using racist tropes.

Kamala Harris sat for an interview on CBS' news program 60 Minutes the other day, as is traditional. Donald Trump skipped it, as is not traditional.

Harris is the one who continues to face accusations of ducking the media.

But never mind. This exchange caught my notice.

Those who don't know might be forgiven. There's a main effort in headlines and stories to normalize with headlines like "Trump seems energetic in a scattered speech" and lines like "Trump told the crowd golf stories."

There are exceptions, but ignorance is always on the menu.

And it's never asked, is it, that since millions and millions of Americans hate Donald Trump, that Harris is actually *in* touch rather than *out* of touch? Supremacist Americans are normal, is the unspoken frame, and whoever they support must be normal, too.