Notices by William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social), page 2

"Trump’s cabinet appointments are agents of his contempt, rage and vengeance. … Wrecking the government is not only Trump’s technique for gaining submission and compliance, but is his ultimate purpose."

~ Sidney Blumenthal

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/20/trump-cabinet-picks-contempt-rage-vengeance

Once institutions like the media get on board what that claim and spread it further through the population, people begin to think that what really drew them to the shock-and-awe spectacles — their rejection of norms, their frank celebration of cruelty — was all about economics in the first place.

It's never about the thrill of cruelty, of targeting demeaned others. It's always about the price of eggs.

But, of course, it's not about that at all.

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
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And normalization proves surprisingly easy as institutions like the media, educational institutions, religious bodies, corporations and the business community, get on board with what they see happening — the wave of the future, they tell themselves, the winning side.

One way fascism normalizes itself — always — is by pretending to be all about the economic betterment of economically oppressed people.

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A theme running through much testimony by eyewitnesses as Hitler's fascist movement rose to power in Germany was that the Nazis initially represented only a limited percentage of Germans.

But once it was clear that their star was ascending, people began to applaud the movement and the shock-and-awe spectacles it mounted to excite people.

A key project of fascism is always to normalize itself as it rises.

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
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@AnneTheWriter1 The rush to BlueSky has surely been interesting to watch. I'm not on BlueSky and haven't felt any impulse to go there. But it's clear there's a big move there from X after the election, isn't it?

@jnye You may find Benjamin Wittes' commentary this morning of interest:

https://www.dogshirtdaily.com/p/thoughts-on-the-bluesky-explosion

What is being planned:

"[To] ederalize state national guard personnel and deploy them for immigration enforcement, including sending troops from friendly Republican-governed states into neighboring states with governors who decline to participate."

#Trump #fascism #immigrants #deportation #MassDeportation #cruelty #violence
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"Donald Trump said on Monday that his administration would declare a national emergency and use the US military to carry out mass deportations of undocumented immigrants."

~ Jem Bartholomew

#Trump #fascism #immigrants #deportation #MassDeportation #cruelty #violence
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/19/fi

"Using the military domestically — absent any crisis remotely needed to prompt or justify such a move — would break with centuries of practice in the United States, giving a President who has promised to deploy troops against the 'enemy from within' the most powerful, and potentially unconstrained, tool in the federal arsenal."

~ Josh Kovensky

#Trump #fascism #immigrants #deportation #MassDeportation #cruelty #violence
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-reminds-everyone-he-wants-us-soldiers-in-us-streets

"Under Trump's plan, immigrants awaiting resolution of their cases would remain in hastily constructed 'vast holding facilities for years'.”

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #fascism #immigrants #deportation #MassDeportation #cruelty #violence
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/we-must-build-our-own-media-ecosystem

Annie Lowery thinks that the young bros who are now gung-ho on online sports betting, day-trading, and crypto, emboldened by Trump's victory, are likely in for a hard fall. Her advice to them:

"Beware the bro-economy," which she defines as "a volatile, speculative, and extremely online casino, in which the house is already winning big."

#Trump #manosphere #brosphere #YoungMen #crypto #OnlineGaming #sports
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/11/trump-cryptocurrency-growth-men/680662/

"Young American adults are increasingly getting their news from social media influencers, a majority of whom are men and lean to the right, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center."

~ Liam Reilly

#Trump #manosphere #brosphere #YoungMen #disinformation
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https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/18/media/news-influencers-social-media-conservative-study/index.html

"Trump’s demand for recess appointments is a way of breaking the Senate early on. Once they’ve bypassed the Constitutional dictate that they confirm the president’s appointees, there is no standing on principle to insist on strict adherence to the Constitution."

~ Joyce Vance

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
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https://joycevance.substack.com/p/what-letting-trump-use-recess-appointments

"Let’s not make the mistake of thinking the only reason Trump wants to use recess appointments is to get his team of deplorables confirmed. He’s not even back in office, but he’s already at work manipulating elected officials into a position where the Constitution can be tossed aside at will."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
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"Kennedy has devoted his life to destroying public health. He’s obsessed with a confused, quasi-fascist idea of purity, which leads him to attack medical interventions like fluoride, pasteurization, and vaccines, as well as perceived outsiders like Asians and Jewish people. That makes him a good fit for Trump and Trumpism. It also makes him a massive danger to the US and to the world."

~ Noah Berlatsky

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future #RFKJr
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https://www.publicnotice.co/p/rfk-jr-public-health-threat-vaccines

"Today Trump confirmed that he intends to bypass normal legal constraints on his actions by declaring a national emergency on his first day in office in order to launch his mass deportation of undocumented migrants."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #fascism #immigrants #deportation #MassDeportation #cruelty #violence
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-18-2024

"While the Congressional Budget Office estimates this mass deportation will cost at least $88 billion a year, another cost that is rarely mentioned is that according to Bloomberg, undocumented immigrants currently pay about $100 billion a year in taxes. Losing that income, too, will likely have to be made up with cuts from elsewhere."

#Trump #fascism #immigrants #deportation #MassDeportation #cruelty #violence
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"Palestinian groups and leftwing NGOs in Israel have been shocked by Trump’s appointment of outspoken supporters of the projects of far-right Israeli activists and say the government of Benjamin Netanyahu has been emboldened by Trump’s victory."

Maybe this article can be picked up by newspapers serving the Palestinian communities in places like Michigan, where many voters "punished" Harris by voting for Trump? They're now finding out….

#Trump #Netanyahu #Israel #Palestinians #Gaza
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"Rightwing settlers and extremist nationalist Zionists in Israel have described top officials in Donald Trump’s new administration as a 'dream team' which will offer a 'unique and special opportunity' to expand Israel’s hold on occupied territory and permanently end any prospect of a Palestinian state."

~ Jason Burke

#Trump #Netanyahu #Israel #Palestinians #Gaza
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/17/rightwing-settlers-in-israel-welcome-dream-team-of-trump-and-his-hardline-appointments

Timothy Snyder zeroes in on the Russian-generated psyops the Republican party used in this campaign to suppress Harris votes:

"'The entire goal of the campaign was to push her numbers down,' as a top Trump advisor said. This was achieved by the familiar phantom combination: oligarchical money + psychographic information about individuals + social media delivery system + demotivational message."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #ElonMusk #Putin
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https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-phantom-campaign