JD Vance: People are calling me a racist and weird.
Trump: Here, hold my beer.
JD Vance: People are calling me a racist and weird.
Trump: Here, hold my beer.
Know what that is in that photo?
It's a dumpster full of books —mostly LGBT stuff but others too— heading to the landfill.
Know what *that* is?
It's goddamned fascism.
This is what hate looks like.
This is what hate does.
#USpol #USnews #DeSantis #Republicans #GOP #ChristianNationalism #Fascism #BookBurning #LGBTQIA
https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/education/2024/08/15/new-college-of-florida-throws-away-hundreds-of-library-books-diversity-lgbtq/74814756007/
#NewCollege of #Florida tosses hundreds of #library #books, empties #gender #diversity library
h/t to @alexwild and @futurebird
"While I understand and agree with those who say that no child should be mocked for being proud of their dad, I also think that Gus Walz’s neurodivergence does matter here. Republican partisanship, hate, and misogyny in this instance were also linked to, and I think triggered by, ableism."
~ Noah Berlatsky
#GusWalz #TimWalz #Republicans #cruelty #neurodivergent #ableism
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https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/gus-walz-was-bullied-at-the-dnc-because
Trump’s sentencing for his hush money convictions has been delayed until after the election.
It’s now pretty hard for trump and the #Republicans to say his conviction was politically motivated or election interference.
Joyce Vance quotes Greg Sargent, who says,
"Fact-checking MAGA's vile lie about cat-eating Haitians misses the point. It's an *open* assertion of the power to lie with impunity about immigrants as a prelude to 'bloody' removals of millions."
Then she adds,
"It's not just that the Haitian story is ridiculous. It's not just that it’s a lie."
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia #Nazis #genocide
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To be fair, she is more mature.
"Donald Trump Says He ‘Hates' Taylor Swift. She Hasn't Mentioned His Name."
"The pop star has focused her messaging on encouraging fans to register to vote -- and hasn't attacked him personally."
#GOP #Republicans #Trump #TaylorSwift #Swifties #Harris #Election
I’ve heard it said that if you don’t vote with whichever party then you are a coward. I think that’s exactly backwards, and even reflects poorly all the person making that argument. It doesn’t take much courage to go with the group.
Instead I go the other way: no matter which party you might prefer in general, it takes courage to say they nominated a moron, and fortunately the other party also nominated a loser, so no matter what the US is going to slog through these next few years.
In my opinion the courageous position is to say no, you nominated a moron, and I’m not going to give you my vote. We’re going to be okay I guess, whether you win or not, but I’m not going to let you assume that you have my vote if you insist on nominating a moron. You should have nominated someone better. You should have nominated someone worthy of my vote. Do better next time.
That’s the state of #USPolitics . As South Park said, big douche versus turd sandwich. So screw both #Democrats and #Republicans. Neither of you managed to nominate someone worth voting for, so I’m voting for my dog.
To give either party our votes is to sign on to their nomination of garbage people. Let’s not. Let’s say that they need to actually nominate worthwhile administrators.
But more practically, let’s focus on #Congress. No matter who wins this election, they’re going to suck, but we can still express ourselves through our representation in Congress, and that’s honestly how it should be anyway.
Check out your representatives. See how they have actually been voting, and vote them out if they have been letting you down. That’s really where our focus should be anyway.
Not on which jerk ends up in the Oval Office.
(But thank God #Biden is on his way out, as he has been terrible for #science in the US, which has not gotten nearly enough attention from the press.)
THE #INSURRECTIONISTS NEXT DOOR
#AshliBabbitt’s mother & the wife of a notorious #Jan6 rioter are at the center of a new mythology on the #right. They are also my neighbors.
By Hanna Rosin
#radicalization #DomesticTerrorism #extremism #MAGA #Republicans #PoliticalViolence #Insurrection #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories #Trump
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/10/jan-6-capitol-attack-ashli-babbitt-dc-residents/679563/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxcAtglrydgqNGsTv5vo8OhU&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share