"They were specifically going after Black voters, right? They were specifically upset about Fulton County voters, right? The same way that they were upset about Pennsylvania, but they were really upset about Philadelphia; the same way they were upset about Michigan, but they were really upset just about Detroit."
~ Cliff Albright about how Trump's attempt to overturn the election was re: attacking Black voting rights
#Trump #insurrection #racism
nostr:npub1lzz05275zkk6zwuzel45jusr74ftyyuah8zll8vl09k98w8smy7qedjhl3 bc her strategies were critical in targeting a decisive majority in her state, with canvassing that found new voters (and including the profiles of these new voters)
nostr:npub13smnsg5p9wzep2tyc7zvyvkj7kv5dkyc8tjxkupkpdvyut9r7j0sjx068f As Nicholas Grossman says, the media love to beat the bushes to find heartland Trump voters to interview. They never do the same to find Democratic voters to interview.
nostr:npub1383k9kcwt0lf8lv0l3fazalus8cky635l8282qacn64wr6rlvedqe7frpr It was eye-opening in that he freely admitted to me why he had disappeared behind a curtain in a barbershop with a group of men when he forced me to go on the campaign trail with him. He told me they were Klan members and he was promising to look out for them if they helped elect him a judge. I was not surprised. I knew his views and his deep penchant for corruption. What I also learned is that if one man could be that kidn of judge, there had to be lots of others.
"Right wing violence against Jews, immigrants, ethnic minorities and the LGBTQ+ community is on the rise sharply, fueled in large measure by the words of their racist MAGA cult leader. ...
It is not hyperbole to warn that a return of Trump to the White House could unleash racial violence and bloodshed on a level we haven’t seen since the Civil Rights era."
#racism #violence #Trump #StochasticTerrorism
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"A white, male gunman in tactical gear killed three Black shoppers in a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida on Saturday. Authorities describe the shootings as 'racially motivated.'The killer used an AR-15-style assault rifle and a Glock handgun covered in swastikas and, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff, 'hated Black people.'”
~ Jay Kuo
#racism #violence #Trump #StochasticTerrorism
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Aileen Cannon is a disgrace to the Florida (and US) judiciary, and needs to be called to accountability by her peers.
That needed to happen yesterday and the day before that.
#AlieenCannon #judiciary #disgrace
"Trump’s niece, clinical psychologist Mary Trump, suggests in her excellent The Good In Us Substack newsletter that to get the angry look just right Donald probably practiced it for hours in a mirror. Between that and his claim that he’s 6’ 3” and 215 pounds, his habit of wearing high-heeled/lift shoes and a girdle (and, according to the crew of his former TV show, adult diapers) Trump’s arrest has essentially broken the internet."
~ Thom Hartmann
#Trump #mugshot
https://hartmannreport.com/p/saturday-report-82623-have-scientist
There's a reason Trump appeals wildly to men — and to women who want their men to be "real" men, mean men, menacing men. Like Trump.
Like American men should be.'
What do I see in that mugshot?
That.
#Trump #mugshot #males #violence #MaleEntitlement #gender
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From boyhood forward, I've watched potentially violent men posture, all around me — behavior that's perfectly socially acceptable, because "This Is Just How Men Are." I've watched them walk around, neck drawn in, forehead lowered, eyes glowering upwards — because they think this behavior is intimidating.
It's "masculine."
It's macho.
It's "How Men Are" and "How Men Are Supposed to Be."
#Trump #mugshot #males #violence #MaleEntitlement #gender
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Steven Beschloss asks readers what they see in that mugshot.
Okay, I'll play. Many of us are removed from rural roots and have perhaps never seen an enraged bull about to charge.
I've seen that — but only in a zoo one time. And here's what I saw:
To prepare for the charge, the bull lowered its head, looked menancingly out of the top of its eyes, and then began its charge."
#Trump #mugshot #males #violence #MaleEntitlement #gender
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https://america.substack.com/p/what-does-this-mugshot-say-to-you/comments
Part of the preparation to strike fear into its "enemy" was to intimidate the enemy with that lowered head and that glower out of the tops of the eyes.
This did not surprise me. My whole life long, as a boy who knew he was "different" and who felt much more at ease with women than with men during much of his boyhood, I've known that certain men — many men — are capable of violence.
#Trump #mugshot #males #violence #MaleEntitlement #gender
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Steven Beschloss asks readers what they see in that mugshot.
Okay, I'll play. Many of us are removed from rural roots and have perhaps never seen an enraged bull about to charge.
I've seen that — but only in a zoo one time. And here's what I saw:
To prepare for the charge, the bull lowered its head, looked menancingly out of the top of its eyes, and then began its charge."
#Trump #mugshot #males #violence #MaleEntitlement #gender
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https://america.substack.com/p/what-does-this-mugshot-say-to-you/comments
"Who were those people who thought this was the man to lead their country? How did the majority let it happen?"
#Trump #Americans #democracy
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"It’s a mistake to think Donald Trump turned the Republican Party into the dangerous anti-democratic movement it is today. The GOP’s descent into fascism was a lengthy process that was well underway when Trump was a young man in the 1970s helping his father discriminate against Black apartment seekers."
~ Marc Jacob
And, of course, Jacob begins with the Southern Strategy.
#Trump #Republicans #racism #WhiteSupremacy #SouthernStrategy #democracy
https://couriernewsroom.com/news/12-ways-the-republican-party-became-this-radicalized/
As Aldous J. Pennyfarthing reports, some of us Americans still see a Sqtorm coming — and the muqshot only proves it's nearing!
#QAnon #Trump #mugshot #BigLie #insurrection #ToxicMythology #MassPsychosis
In her takedown of the current Supreme Court's project of reversing LGBTQ rights in the name of "religious freedom," Marci Hamilton minces no words.
It's based, she states, on "false facts and false history." Those false facts and history are fed to the court dominated by right-wing Catholics by groups such as Becket Fund and Catholic League — who are "burned up about the Obergefell decision."
#SupremeCourt #ReligiousFreedom #LGBTQ
Seamus Jennings' cartoon commentary on Trump's mugshot perfect captures its significance.
#Trump #crime #criminal #BigLie #insurrection #mugshot #InmateP01135809
"The COVID story may be anecdotal for the moment, but when hospitalizations start shooting up in national figures from the CDC and schools start closing within two weeks of reopening for the new school year, and when your own family members a continent away are getting sick at the same time you are, it’s pretty clear something is happening out there, and it isn’t good."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#COVID #vaccination
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/weve-been-here-before-6f1
The packing of the Supreme Court by Republican presidents led that "august" body to knock down provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and in 2020, the Republican party under Trump tried to iinvalidate the votes of millions of Black and brown voters, treating those votes as invalid.
And here we are. Here we've brought ourselves as a nation under the impulse of gross racism and lies.
#Republicans #racism #voting #BigLie #Trump #crime #insurrection
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On the eve of the March on Washington in 1963, Heather Cox Richardson rehearses the history that has gotten us to our current state of national peril.
As she notes, when the Democratic party began standing with Black Americans in their struggle to vote, white voters moved en masse to the Republican party and began spreading absurd lies about voter fraud, to justify curbing Black voting rights.
#Republicans #racism #voting
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On the eve of the anniversary of the March on Washington in 1963, Robert P. Jones uses the story of the murder of Emmett Till as a lens for viewing US history: he writes,
"The dramatic demographic changes the country has undergone over the last twenty years—from a majority white Christian nation to one with no single majority ethno-religious group—has resurfaced a fundamental question that has never fully been resolved:"
#democracy #racism #WhiteChristianNationalism /1
https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/the-story-of-emmett-till-is-the-story
"Are we a divinely ordained promised land for Christians of European descent in which all others have their subservient place, or are we a pluralist democracy in which everyone stands on equal footing as citizens?"
#democracy #racism #WhiteChristianNationalism
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