This chilling statement comes after Trump praised autocratic Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán in his speech at the Republican National Convention last week and then publicly praised China’s president Xi Jinping for being 'brilliant' because he 'controls 1.4 billion people with an iron fist.'”

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #dictator #WhiteChristianNationalism
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-26-2024

July 26, 2024

Yesterday, U.S.

^{Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)}

"It should also be read against the backdrop of the Supreme Court’s decision in Donald J. Trump v. United States that a president cannot be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of his 'official duties.'”

#Trump #dictator #WhiteChristianNationalism
/3

A.R. Moxon says that, with the pretense of being "neutral," corporate media chose to pretend that Trump is a "unifier" when he spoke at the RNC. Moxon writes,

"It's one of the most chilling things I've ever seen; the legacy media abandoning even their false neutrality to create a totally alternate reality, for the direct benefit of the worst person imaginable."

#Trump #fascist #authoritarian #media #MediaFail #BothSides
/4

https://www.the-reframe.com/the-seagulls-descend/?ref=the-reframe-newsletter

The Seagulls Descend

Living in a shadow future vs. engaging with the present, and creating unmistakable, effective differentiators—both for ourselves and for our nation's low-information voters.

^{A.R. Moxon (The Reframe)}

" It was an open capitulation to accept the fascist demand that media enter their misinformation stream and report on whatever it is they want said as if it were real. And it created permission for low-information people, who don't give a shit for anything beyond their own ease, to ignore reality; false equivalence where a more principled neutrality would delineate the differences."

#Trump #fascist #authoritarian #media #MediaFail #BothSides
/5

"One side has a vision; the other side sees visions."

~ Charles Pierce

#KamalaHarris #Trump #Democrats #Republicans #BothSides
/6

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a61688537/cynic-presidential-election-2024-trump-biden-harris/

The Cynic and the Two Nations

It’s been twenty years since then–state senator Obama assured us there was not a liberal America and a conservative America. In that time, a new country has been building with fearful momentum.

^{Charles P. Pierce (Esquire)}

"We haven’t yet realised that misogyny is one of the most dangerous weapons on Earth. The best friend of authoritarians and oligarchs. The handmaiden of tyrants.

Worst of all, we haven’t yet realised that misogyny represents the most urgent and pressing threat to global security."

~ Carole Cadwalladr

#KamalaHarris #Trump #misogyny
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/27/misogyny-emergency-huge-outpouring-kamala-harris-us-electionction

This is a misogyny emergency. A huge outpouring is coming in the runup to the US election

This time Kamala Harris will be the target for the social media platforms that promote prejudice

^{Carole Cadwalladr (The Guardian)}

"Because it’s misogyny – networked misogyny across multiple global platforms that will earn their tech bro owners billions upon billions of dollars – that is going to decide the 2024 election.

And it’s misogyny that’s going to dictate the future of Nato, the outcome of the war in Ukraine, whether we have peace in Europe or more war."

#KamalaHarris #Trump #misogyny
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"The only medical information the Trump campaign has released [after Trump was allegedly shot] comes from the disgraced Jackson, who was demoted by the Navy after a Defense Department report found he drank on the job, among other misbehavior. Jackson was not Trump’s attending physician immediately following the shooting."

~ Joan McCarter

#Trump #shooting #gun #shrapnel #RonnyJackson
/9

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/7/26/2258360/-We-deserve-to-know-more-about-Trump-s-injury

We deserve to know more about Trump's injury

Rep. Ronny Jackson, the former White House doctor for Donald Trump, is spitting mad about what FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress on Wednesday about the July 13 attempt on Donald Trump’s ...

^{Daily Kos}

"Furthermore, he reportedly no longer has a valid medical license and is certified only to provide emergency treatment or to practice on military bases.

The lack of information around Trump’s injury is troubling. In what universe is a presidential candidate shot and the hospital doesn't make a statement about the treatment? More information should be public knowledge by now."

#Trump #shooting #gun #shrapnel #RonnyJackson
/10

"Media: this should be *the* A1 story. I have studied dictatorship for decades and this is it-'you won't have to vote anymore.' Trump will never leave office if he wins in November."

~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat as quoted by Greg Dworkin

#Trump #dictator #media
/11

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/7/27/2258314/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-It-s-Kamala-Kamala-s-the-one

Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: It's Kamala. Kamala's the one.

Dan Shafer/ ”The Recombobulation Area” on Substack: In West Allis, Kamala Harris electrified the crowd in her first campaign rally as presumptive Democratic nominee "I haven’t felt anything ...

^{Daily Kos}

"Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign smashed all kinds of records in the first 48 hours, and the momentum—and record-breaking—hasn’t flagged since. ...

It started with Win with Black Women on Sunday, with 44,000 participants and $1.6 million raised. Then on Monday, Win With Black Men built on that with over 40,000 participants, netting about $1.3 million."

~ Joan McCarter

#KamalaHarris #Trump
/12

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/7/26/2258312/-Harris-campaign-enjoys-record-breaking-first-week

Harris campaign enjoys record-breaking first week

Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign smashed all kinds of records in the first 48 hours, and the momentum—and record-breaking—hasn’t flagged since. The grassroots is energized.

^{Daily Kos}

"On Thursday night, 'White Women: Answer the Call' literally broke Zoom with 164,000 participants handing over more than $2 million in just an hour. Not to be outdone, White Dudes for Harris, who 'aren’t going to sit around and let the MAGA crowd bully other white guys into voting for a hateful and divisive ideology' will have their call next Monday."

#KamalaHarris #Trump
/13

"Since Sunday, more than 100,000 people have signed up to volunteer for the Harris campaign, and more than 2,000 people applied for campaign jobs by Wednesday. That includes 6,600 new sign-ups in Florida, 3,000 in Michigan, 4,000 in Pennsylvania, more than 1,300 in Arizona, and more than 1,000 in Wisconsin, ready to start knocking on doors this weekend. ...

And finally, she still doesn’t have any criminal convictions."

#KamalaHarris #Trump
/14

" If you are on Ukrainian social media, you are dealing with Russian bots and trolls saying that Harris is unpopular in America and can’t win. In the United States, the Russian bots and trolls are spreading racism and misogyny. The Russian demobilization serves the same goal: to stifle any hope for something good in both countries."

~ Timothy Snyder

#KamalaHarris #Trump #Ukraine #Russia #disinformation #propaganda
/15

https://snyder.substack.com/p/ukraine-and-harris

Ukraine and Harris

And Ukrainian-Americans and the Ukrainian Future

^{Timothy Snyder (Thinking about...)}

"Stories about Vance tend to focus on his hardscrabble Ohio roots, but his relationship with Thiel—and his stint in San Francisco—are key to understanding his politics. Vance owes his meteoric rise to Thiel, who largely bankrolled it.

Vance is a Thiel creation."

~ Gil Duran

#JDVance #PeterThiel #CurtisYarvin #authoritarianism
/16

https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrifying-techno-authoritarian-ideas

Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas

Yes, Peter Thiel was the senator’s benefactor. But they’re both inspired by an obscure software developer who has some truly frightening thoughts about reordering society.

^{The New Republic}

"And like his billionaire benefactor—who once wrote, 'I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible'—Vance embraces a radical ideology hell-bent on destroying government as we know it. And they got these ideas, at least in part, from [Curtis] Yarvin.

Yarvin is the chief thinker behind an obscure but increasingly influential far-right neoreaction, or NRx, movement, that some call the 'Dark Enlightenment.'”

#JDVance #PeterThiel #CurtisYarvin #authoritarianism
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