Notices by William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)

"It makes perfect sense that a convicted felon and the man who sent the violent mob into the Capitol on his behalf would initiate an American autocracy. ...

Fascists believe you have to destroy to create, and Jan. 6 has already been canonized because of its violence as a foundational moment of the New Era of Trumpism. If authoritarian history is any guideline, Jan. 6 could become a holiday one day."

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #cruelty #violence #crime #corruption
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"Let’s pour one out for all the poor Black Republicans who gave up their dignity and pride for Trump believing it would elevate their careers. Not a single one has been picked by Trump. Senator Tim Scott even got engaged to a real-life, human woman, and so far it’s crickets. (Look at what they make you give, POC for MAGA.)"

~ Wajahat Ali

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #cruelty #violence #crime #corruption
/8

https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/dei-for-white-supremacy-donald-trumps

"Trump has been liberated by the Supreme Court to commit any crimes he likes so long as they involve 'official duties'"….

~ Paul Waldman

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #cruelty #violence #crime #corruption
/9

https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/you-thought-trump-was-corrupt-before

"For the third consecutive day, the Republican Party has been consumed by a frenzy over transgender Congresswoman Sarah McBride (D-Delaware)."

~ Erin Reed

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #cruelty #violence #crime #corruption #SexOffenders #trans
/5

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/congresswoman-mcbride-announces-she

"House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday issued a statement purporting to ban transgender women from women’s restrooms and transgender men from men’s restrooms throughout the Capitol and House office buildings."

~ Chris Geidner

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #cruelty #violence #crime #corruption #SexOffenders #trans
/4

https://www.lawdork.com/p/speaker-johnson-anti-trans-bathroom-ban

"Claiming they have a mandate, Trump’s people have said they are launching 'a hostile takeover' of the American government 'on behalf of the American people.' But as voting numbers continue to come in, Trump’s majority has fallen below 50% of voters, meaning that more voters chose someone else than chose Trump on November 5. These results are far from being in 'mandate' territory."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #cruelty #violence
/6

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-20-2024

"From Fascism onward, authoritarians have believed in violence as the way to move history forward and create new realities to “get things done” when other methods do not succeed. ...

Authoritarianism is the conversion of the rule of law into rule by the lawless."

~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #cruelty #violence #crime #corruption
/6

https://lucid.substack.com/p/jan-6-as-foundational-event-for-the

"Electing a criminal has consequences."

~ Stephen Robinson

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #cruelty #violence #crime #corruption #SexOffenders
/1

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/senate-republicans-wont-save-us-from-trump

"Sex offenders have to look out for each other."

~ Mary Trump

Who knows? If things continue as they're now going, we may even see — horror of horrors — one of two sex offenders on the highest court in the land! /s

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #cruelty #violence #crime #corruption #SexOffenders
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https://www.marytrump.org/p/the-worst-of-the-worst

"The actual Republican response to Trump’s sex-pest appointments has been to organize an unprompted bullying campaign against incoming Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE), who is trans. Grotesque stuff."

~ Brian Beutler

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #cruelty #violence #crime #corruption #SexOffenders #trans
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https://www.offmessage.net/p/ama-thursday-e36

"One of the reasons those of us who’ve been paying attention were devastated by the results of the 2024 election is because we know not only how cruel my uncle and his supporters are, but just how cruel they intend to be. …

In the last two weeks, Donald has made it clear through his cabinet picks that he—and they—intend to cause as much pain as possible to their perceived enemies and to the most vulnerable among us."

~ Mary Trump

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
/15

https://www.marytrump.org/p/cruelty-as-tactic

"Beyond all the hot takes of who was up and who was down compared to the last election, the clearest answer to why Trump will be returning to the White House is that white Christians, more than any other religious group, returned to the polls to put him there."

~ Robert P. Jones

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
/17

https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/the-rest-of-the-story-white-christians

"Trump is … an atavist, inviting citizens to satisfy all of their hungry drives, all of their libidinous instincts: His America is a place for malign energies to express themselves in action. There’s a certain pleasure in that, perhaps, a kind of psychic relief—to lose oneself in a radical movement and to express feelings normally prohibited by society."

~ Elizabeth Bruenig

The cruelty is the point.

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
/16

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/11/maga-trump-psychological-appeal/680722/

"Trump once more owes his victory entirely ... to the votes of white Christian nationalists, people who frankly overwhelmingly favor strong leaders. They want someone to be the victor against evil. They want someone to crush their enemies."

~ Jennifer Rubin

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
/18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lDifr-Fn-g&t=2s

"They want someone to impose their Christian values on the rest of us and they take a dim view, frankly, of the ast 50 or 60 years of progress for women minorities anyone who isn't a white male."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
/19

"The answer to the question on so many Americans’ lips — 'How did we get here?' — is straightforward. That answer won’t be found in the margins of which group shifted toward Trump between 2020 and 2024. It is right in front of us. White evangelical Protestants, along with other conservative white Christians, were the principal actors who baptized, defended, rehabilitated and sustained Trump’s candidacy."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
/21

"The biggest thing mainstream analysis refuses to comprehend is the continued power of a politics of racial grievance and religious nostalgia among white Christian Americans."

~ Robert P. Jones

The media comprehend this. They just do not intend to admit it, because tax cuts for their super-rich owners and managers count more than anything, and admitting the price of getting those tax cuts is shameful.

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
/20

https://www.salon.com/2024/11/15/the-ultimate-answer-to-why-donald-won-christians/

"Explaining the rise of Trump as a consequence of economic forces battering the working class is not a new approach. In 2016, we were told the culprit was globalization and the related 'China shock' that destroyed 1 million or so manufacturing jobs. This analysis pegged generally pro-trade mainstream Democrats (and Republicans) as a gang of cosmopolitan elites uninterested in the fortunes of blue-collar Americans."

~ Eduardo Porter

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
/4

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/11/19/economy-trump-victory/

"For all the polls demonstrating Americans’ grim assessment of the economy, consumers have kept up spending as if they have few worries in the world. For all the gripes about the cost of living, real wages for typical American workers have been rising faster than inflation."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
/6

"Just like today, this analysis misses the forest for the trees. Twice already, more or less half of American voters have elected a guy who promises to overthrow the liberal world order — to do away with democratic institutions, values, and norms, trample on human rights, blow up the economy — and to bend the nation, and the world, to his will."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
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