nostr:npub1vd3xxveym093na4xx303tr0l7yrqdxyya28wcv9ne7fu4vm6x0fsjycn5z Well-noted. I very much agree. No adults in the room, in those crowds.
nostr:npub10cms20lv32u62lx7w8v0uwk6qtwwlthff0mtw0usx9m8x3wra5sqc036ex I find the proposition of cutting social welfare programs appalling, too.
nostr:npub1lzz05275zkk6zwuzel45jusr74ftyyuah8zll8vl09k98w8smy7qedjhl3
The Logan Act prohibits unauthorized American civilians from negotiating with foreign governments.
nostr:npub152esxjerx5qc8kqsm8rrmvlfamuh3n6e0q57t9jjhqzx4gx4s0uqlwj2uk Yes, you're right about that.
Mark Sumner on the RNC's night of the long knives:
"Trump’s team officially took over the RNC on Monday, and within hours, the knives came out as the organization fired around 60 existing staff members. As The Guardian reports, this was done to bring the RNC 'under the wing of the Trump 2024 presidential campaign.' As both leadership and contractors were sent packing, one Guardian source described the situation as an 'absolute bloodbath.'”
#Trump #RNC
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/3/12/2228989/-The-RNC-s-night-of-the-long-knives
Yet:
"The Society for American Civic Renewal asks prospective members to discuss 'Christian nationalism' when interviewing them for admission, and defines itself in a mission statement obtained by TPM as believing in a form of Christianity 'not blurred by modernist philosophies.'”
We walk like ducks, quack like ducks, are feathered and fly like ducks. But please do not call us ducks.
#ChristianNationalism
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Josh Kovensky reports,
"A men-only, Christian-only, right-wing secret society with the aim of installing certain kinds of Christians in a future U.S. government does not want to be called Christian nationalist."
#ChristianNationalism
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"Republican politicians and sympathetic media outlets are claiming that America is in the midst of a violent "crime wave," driven in part by undocumented immigrants. New data, however, demonstrates that there was not a spike in violent crime in 2023. Instead, across America, rates of violent crime are dropping precipitously — and the decline is especially pronounced in border states."
~ Judd Legum and Tesnim Zekeria
#migrants #crime #Republicans
This is a shocker: who would ever have imagined? PRRI's polling finds that support for LGBTQ human beings and rights declined from 2022 to 2023.
It declined just as Republicans placed LGBTQ people in their sights and bombarded the nation with anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and initiatives.
Who'd have thought it? Relentlessly target a vulnerable minority community, and it becomes more vulnerable.
#PRRI #LGBTQ #Republicans
https://www.prri.org/research/views-on-lgbtq-rights-in-all-50-states/
And then there's this, a reminder that the problem is not just Trump: the problem is many of us in the US who revel in rage and cruelty and love being told by Trump and many of our churches that the rage and cruelty are righteous and justified. Let this mentality capture more sectors of a society, and it will have a very bleak future, indeed.
#Trump #CrueltyIsthePoint
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"Trump loyalists have been obstructing aid to Ukraine since President Joe Biden asked for it in October 2023. Their insistence that they would not address the national security needs of the U.S. in Ukraine until they were addressed at the border now sure looks like a smokescreen to help Russian president Vladimir Putin take Ukraine," (continued in /2)
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #Putin #Ukraine #NationalSecurity
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-11-2024-monday
"a plan that would explain why Trump urged Republicans to kill the national security supplemental bill even when it included a strong border component that favored Republican positions.
It appears as though Trump is deliberately undermining the national security of the United States."
#Trump #Putin #Ukraine #NationalSecurity
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"Trump loyalists have been obstructing aid to Ukraine since President Joe Biden asked for it in October 2023. Their insistence that they would not address the national security needs of the U.S. in Ukraine until they were addressed at the border now sure looks like a smokescreen to help Russian president Vladimir Putin take Ukraine," (continued in /2)
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #Putin #Ukraine #NationalSecurity
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-11-2024-monday
"But if someone helped him out, then Americans have a right to know who the all-but-certain Republican nominee for president owes $91.63 million worth of favors."
#Trump #crime #EJeanCarroll #SexualAssault #defamation #LawandOrder #bond #media
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"The responsibility falls on the press to ask Trump and the campaign at every turn, until we get an answer, how the bond was obtained. If Trump did it with his own assets, he should be more than willing to bolster his financial reputation by saying so. If he’s unwilling to share details, that should raise red flags."
~ Joyce Vance
#Trump #crime #EJeanCarroll #SexualAssault #defamation #bond #media
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A big reason voters claim to be unaware of Trump's promise to begin functioning as a dictator on day 1 of his presidency is that the corporate media have normalized Trump. While focusing laser intensity on the made-up "problem" of Biden's age, they let Trump say one dangerous thing after another and give him a pass. They have allowed him and the Republicans to whitewash his previous time in the White House. New York Times leads the way.
#Trump #MediaFail #NewYorkTimes
https://newrepublic.com/article/179548/poll-voters-trump-dictator-threats
"The Christian Nationalists’ God is petty, insecure, cruel, authoritarian. Their God, like their favored presidential candidate, demands above all else obedience and loyalty. Their God sees only a few as 'elect': Mike Johnson and his ilk, straight men, blastocysts and frozen embryos. All the others He casts out. Their God is not inclusive; their Paradise, a fascist state."
~ GregOlear
#WhiteChristianNationalism #autocracy #theocracy #cruelty
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https://gregolear.substack.com/p/sunday-pages-paradise-lost-d85
"What Christian Nationalism means by the phrase 'Christian nation,' is a nation dictated by neo-evangelical Christianity, tied to a fundamentalist interpretation of the Bible, which should drive the formation of laws, is deeply entrenched in patriarchy, and is largely white. This vision of a 'Christian Nation' not only excludes other religions and nonreligious people from having an equal voice in our country, but many other Christians as well."
~ Benjamin Cremer
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https://benjamin-cremer.ck.page/posts/how-should-we-talk-about-christian-nationalism
"The Christian Nationalists’ God is petty, insecure, cruel, authoritarian. Their God, like their favored presidential candidate, demands above all else obedience and loyalty. Their God sees only a few as 'elect': Mike Johnson and his ilk, straight men, blastocysts and frozen embryos. All the others He casts out. Their God is not inclusive; their Paradise, a fascist state."
~ GregOlear
#WhiteChristianNationalism #autocracy #theocracy #cruelty
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https://gregolear.substack.com/p/sunday-pages-paradise-lost-d85
"With Trump unvanquished, and hook-or-crook desperate to return to office, it’s essential that the public not forget his disastrous presidency or the danger he poses to freedom in the U.S. and around the world. And to the extent voters have forgotten they need to be reminded."
~ Brian Beutler
#Biden #Trump #SOTU
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https://www.offmessage.net/p/first-part-biden-sotu-important?r=2scyl&utm_medium=email