"•in 2023, House Republicans wearing AR-15 lapel pins on the floor of Congress; Representative Don Bacon (R-NE) saying his wife slept with a loaded gun after he voted against Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) for House speaker; or Republican representatives sending Christmas cards showing the whole family toting guns;"
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 05:09:22 JST William Lindsey :toad: "•the October 2022 tweet by Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. mocking then–House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul after a home intruder hit him in the head with a hammer; or Georgia representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s 2022 campaign video in which she promised to “blow away the Democrats’ socialist agenda” as she took aim with a rifle;"
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 05:09:21 JST William Lindsey :toad: "•in 2024, the Kansas Republican Party’s March fundraiser where attendees could donate to kick and punch an effigy of President Biden; or Don Jr.’s reposting an image of Biden bound and gagged in the back of a pickup truck;
•or Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson of North Carolina, who is running for the governorship and who is scheduled to speak at the Republican National Convention starting tomorrow, saying just two weeks ago: 'Some folks need killing! It’s time for somebody to say it.'”
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 05:09:20 JST William Lindsey :toad: "We might be tempted to think that violence against one side must come from the other side. But the bloody genie, once unleashed, often stays close to home. Those who have made violence normal are especially vulnerable, because they will always have colleagues or followers who think they have not gone far enough."
~ Timothy Snyder
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 05:09:20 JST William Lindsey :toad: "Fascism feasts on violence. In the years since his own supporters attacked the Capitol to overturn the 2020 election—many of them threatening harm to Speaker Pelosi and Vice President Mike Pence—Trump has championed the invaders, would-be kidnappers, and would-be murderers as martyrs and hostages. He has vowed to pardon them if returned to office. His own staffers have testified to the glee with which Trump watched the mayhem on television."
~ David Frum
#violence
/8https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/07/donald-trump-democracy-dictator/679006/
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 05:09:19 JST William Lindsey :toad: "Nothing in recent American political life resembles Trump’s call for 'Second-Amendment people' to kill Hillary Clinton, his mockery of Paul Pelosi after an attempted murder, his belittling of Gretchen Whitmer after a kidnapping attempt, the stochastic violence he directs against critics to intimidate them and against his fellow Republicans to keep them in line, the brutal language of his rallies since 2016,"
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 05:09:18 JST William Lindsey :toad: "It’s just Orwellian to say that you’re emboldening violence by trying to stop someone from overthrowing liberal democracy and turn the country into an authoritarian state. And yet that is what the Republicans are saying in this terrible, terrible frightening moment. I don’t know that I can remember another moment in my adult life where I felt things were this bleak. But here we are."
~ Peter Beinart
https://peterbeinart.substack.com/p/calling-trump-an-authoritarian-doesnt
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 05:09:18 JST William Lindsey :toad: "his vocal admiration for leaders known to be mass killers, and his violent attempt to overthrow constitutional rule in January 2021."
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 05:09:17 JST William Lindsey :toad: "Two years ago, Congress considered banning 18-20 year-olds from buying AR-15s and other semi-automatic rifles after the Uvalde massacre, and some Republicans were briefly open to doing so but ultimately blocked including a ban in the bipartisan gun bill signed by Biden."
~ Steven Dennis quoted by Greg Dworkin
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 05:09:16 JST William Lindsey :toad: "The reason MAGA loyalists such as J.D. Vance are targeting people who have called out Trump as authoritarian, calling them 'fascists' and blaming them for the shooting, is because those call-outs have educated Americans effectively to recognize the danger we are in.
So the last thing we should be doing now is silencing ourselves."
~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat
#Trump #violence #Republicans #JDVance
/14https://lucid.substack.com/p/silence-enables-the-autocrat-talk
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 05:09:15 JST William Lindsey :toad: "See the Reichstag fire; or Mussolini’s use of street violence; or the American tradition of bloody-shirt politics. This is what authoritarian movements do. They promote violence and chaos—and then use the spread of violence as a justification for their illiberal aims."
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 05:09:15 JST William Lindsey :toad: "Authoritarian movements thrive on political violence for a number of reasons.
1. It intimidates ordinary people who might otherwise resist.
2. It destabilizes institutions that are supposed to act as guardrails.
3. Because authoritarian movements are not bound by honor or norms, they can exploit any violence for their own ends.
4. Chaos is a ladder."
~ Jonathan V. Last
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 05:09:14 JST William Lindsey :toad: "The news media proclaim the image of him with fist raised 'iconic,' begging us to behold him in all his majesty:"
~ Paul Waldman
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 05:09:13 JST William Lindsey :toad: "We have to remain clear-eyed about where the real threat to our security and democracy lies. Today, that threat disproportionately lies with Trump’s MAGA movement, which has taken over one of our two political parties, and with Vance who is now aiding and abetting it. These conclusions are backed up by clear evidence."
~ Robert P. Jones
#Trump #violence #fascism #MAGA #Republicans
/19https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/we-cant-let-political-violence-be
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 05:09:13 JST William Lindsey :toad: "Why would an assassination attempt make a candidate more popular. Because we live in a country where many people’s entire philosophy of life can fit on the front of a t-shirt."
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#Trump #violence #fascism #media
/18https://kareem.substack.com/p/the-trump-assassination-attempt-and
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 02:55:00 JST William Lindsey :toad: "Judge Cannon has been sitting on the motion to dismiss for 144 days. Yet she issued her ruling on the first day of the Republican National Convention? This smells like legal mischief. She is raising her hand for a quid pro quo appointment to a higher bench during a possible second Trump administration."
~ Jay Kuo
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jul-2024 23:52:52 JST William Lindsey :toad: "Like many Supreme Court cases in recent years, the key to reading Cannon’s opinion is to refuse to engage with it as a piece of serious legal analysis.
Instead, it should be read as what it is: an expression of pure power, the kind that knows there’s no consequence for its misuse. That’s why Cannon can breezily dispose of decades of precedent about special counsel appointments: Who’s going to stop her?"
~ Lisa Needham
#Trump #AileenCannon #ClarenceThomas #corruption
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/aileen-cannon-jack-smith-unconstitutional
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jul-2024 23:52:51 JST William Lindsey :toad: "She looked at the law and went 180 degrees from it to rule in Trump’s favor. She assessed the issue here in a way that no other court to consider the constitutionality of appointing a special counsel has. And although she wrote that her ruling applied only in this case, that’s not how precedent works."
~ Joyce Vance
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jul-2024 23:52:50 JST William Lindsey :toad: "In any other country, we would recognize Cannon’s actions—dismissing a major criminal case against a presidential candidate on the first day of his party’s convention—to be part of an ongoing constitutional coup. Even more so if that judge had been placed on the court by the defendant after he had lost his re-election bid…."
~ Michael Podhorzer
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jul-2024 23:52:49 JST William Lindsey :toad: "Judge Aileen Cannon is not smart enough to come up with the idea of ignoring controlling precedent to hold that special counsel Jack Smith’s appointment violates the Constitution. Instead, she received not-so-subtle tutoring from six reactionary justices on the US Supreme Court who have signaled that judicial precedent has the binding force of fairy tales…."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #AileenCannon #ClarenceThomas #corruption
/4https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/the-education-of-aileen-cannon