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Trump, RNC Lose Bid To Disqualify Non-Postmarked Nevada Ballots Received After Election Day - Democracy Docket
In a win for voters, the Nevada Supreme Court upheld the stateās policy of counting mail-in ballots without postmarks received up to three days after Election Day this November.ĀDemocracy Docket
if you ever find yourself wondering "how did crypto bros get all this money to try to take over the government?" a big part of the answer is "the government gave it to them in the form of covid stimulus and PPP loans".
the crypto industry alone is now responsible for roughly half of all corporate money attempting to influence the election. you'd never know it though because their campaigns never mention crypto.
paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfā¦
#Election2024 #2024Election #Trump #DonaldTrump #JDVance #uspol #uspolitics #politics #Kamala2024 #KamalaHarris #GOP #MAGA #MAGAts #Vote #Republicans #RVAT #Democrats #HarrisWalz2024 #VoteBlue #HarrisForPresident #HarrisWalz #VoteHarris #crypto #bitcoin #BTC #Tether #PPP #covid
Uncle Samās Stimulus and Crypto Boom
This study examines the impact of government financial assistance during the COVID pandemic on the demand for crypto assets and its effect on the stated goals opapers.ssrn.com
Via James Singer:
Front Page story in the WSJ:
The #Trump inflation bomb agenda
"Economists and even conservative-leaning advisers worry that the ideas backed by Trump, risk stoking the embers of inflation."
"Prices will go up" under Trump policies.
wsj.com/economy/trump-harris-eā¦
āThe last time the United States launched a mass deportation effort ā¦ U.S. citizens of Hispanic descent were rounded up and sent to Mexicoāa place that many had never been before. The mass deportations that #Trump is proposing would be devastating for our economy and dangerous for American Latinos.ā
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#politics #USpol #immigration #news #fascism #extremism #racism #election2024 #economy
How Mass Deportations Would āDevastateā Texas
The Lone Star State is home to millions of undocumented residents and members of mixed-status families critical to the stateās economic success, yet Texas leaders are cheering on Trump anyway.Francesca DāAnnunzio (The Texas Observer)
Bluff called, Trump:
ā#Harris, responding to #Trump's claims about her IQ, said she would take a cognitive test ā and "would challenge him to take the same one."
"This is what he has resorted to, and I think he actually is increasingly unstable and unhinged and has resorted to name calling because he actually has no plan for the American people," Harris said in an interview with "CBS Evening Newsā
cbsnews.com/news/kamala-harrisā¦
Kamala Harris says she'd take a cognitive test; challenges Trump "to take the same one"
Vice President Kamala Harris, responding to former President Donald Trump's claims about her IQ, said she would take a cognitive test ā and "would challenge him to take the same one."Kaia Hubbard (CBS News)
āPut Them in Traumaā: Inside a Key #MAGA Leaderās Plans for a New #Trump Agenda
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Private #videos reveal Trump adviser Russ Voughtās āshadowā plans for using the #military on protesters, defunding the #EPA and villainizing civil servants.
#News #Politics #Election #Election2024 #Government #Video #DonaldTrump
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Videos Reveal Trump Adviserās āShadowā Plan for Second Administration
Private videos reveal Trump adviser Russ Voughtās āshadowā plans for using the military on protesters, defunding the EPA and villainizing civil servants.ProPublica
Die neue Weltordnung ist sehr Ć¼bersichtlich und klar. NƤchste Woche USA, Ć¼bernƤchste begrĆ¼Ćen wir vermutlich MinisterprƤsidenten Hƶcke in ThĆ¼ringen und im nƤchsten Herbst kommt Deutschland dran.
Dann sind diese BrĆ¼der im Geiste durch mit der Welt.
Auswandern ist dann keine Option mehr.
#uselections #trump #faschismus #demokratie #harris
āThe greatest capitalist in the history of the United Statesā¦ Elon Musk.ā
Says everything you need to say about capitalism.
Donāt blame us, weāre totally incompetent!
āA Trump adviser said the speakersā remarks werenāt vetted by the campaign.ā
#Election2024 #fascism #msgrally #trump
"Elon posted his MAGA hat which uses the Fraktur font, popular in nazi Germany. He wore this at a rally meant to evoke the 1939 nazi rally at Madison Square Garden.
He's telling you who he is." @esqueer
I wondered where I've seen that font before! Then I remembered, it was on the book #Hitler wrote in prison, #MeinKampf
BTW, Steve Bannon couldn't attend the rally, he was still in prison working on his own book. My Struggle.
#Nazi #MadisonSquareGarden
#Trump #ElonMusk #MyStruggle
Via Ammar Moussa:
Donald #Trumpās closing argument rally is an absolute disaster.
Carl Quintanilla:
Headlines rolling in.
axios politico nytimes RollingStone
Via Victor Shi:
This is huge. Jennifer Lopez also just posted VP #Harrisās plan to help Puerto Ricans to her 250 MILLION followers on Instagram ā on the same day that #Trumpās ilk insulted Puerto Ricans. This will cost the Trump campaign big time.
Via Yashar Ali:
...two Puerto Rican superstars, Bad Bunny and Ricky Martin, have posted about the 2024 election.
Bad Bunny shared Kamala Harrisās video about Puerto Rico with his 45 million followers.
#Doonesbury: "What am I supposed to do about it, lock him up?"
OGODYES.
Entire strip here: gocomics.com/doonesbury/2024/1ā¦
" #DonaldTrump has described at length the dangerous and disturbing actions he says he will take if he wins the presidency.
...These statements are so outrageous and outlandish, so openly in conflict with the norms and values of #American #democracy that many find them hard to regard as anything but empty bluster.
We have two words for American voters: Believe him."
nytimes.com/interactive/2024/1ā¦
#Trump #Fascism #GOP #Politics #USPol #USA #News #Press #Media #Election2024 #Vote #VoteBlue
Opinion | What Donald Trump Would Do, in His Own Words
The former presidentās most disturbing statements are not bluster. They are a road map to what he will do if elected again.The Editorial Board (The New York Times)
"The record shows that #Trump often pursues his stated goals, regardless of how plainly they lack #legal or moral grounding... that many of his most reckless efforts in his first administration were stymied only because of others in his administration who blocked, delayed or watered down his aims...
For this reason, Americans would be wise to see this language as a genuine threat, not simply Trump on a tangent."
#GiftLink
nytimes.com/interactive/2024/1ā¦
#Election2024 #Vote #VoteBlue #USA #News
Opinion | What Donald Trump Would Do, in His Own Words
The former presidentās most disturbing statements are not bluster. They are a road map to what he will do if elected again.The Editorial Board (The New York Times)
Via Pulitzer Prize winner Brent Staples:
The Sunday nyt opinion - for those who have forgotten how it's done
Texas State Representative James Talarico, currently also in the seminary, has some thoughtful, cautionary words for Christians voting for Trump.
#evangelicalsforharris #jamestalarico #trump #HarrisWalz2024 #HarrisForPresident #KamalaForPresident #KamalaHarris
"Robert Kagan, who resigned from his position [as editor at large at Washington Post] on Friday after more than two decades at the publication, told the Daily Beast that Trumpās meeting with executives of Bezosā Blue Origin space company the same day that the Amazon founder killed a plan to support Harris was proof of the backroom deal."
~ Lily Mae Lazarus
#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #EconomicElites #RobertKagan
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Ex-WaPo Editor: This Is a Straight Bezos-Trump āQuid Pro Quoā
Robert Kagan tells the Daily Beast that Donald Trumpās meeting with Blue Origin executives the day its founder Jeff Bezos killed his paperās Kamala Harris endorsement is proof of a backroom deal.Lily Mae Lazarus (The Daily Beast)
āCowardly billionaires at the Wash Post, LA Times have revealed how dictatorship can thrive, in the cynicism that the media and our other institutions can no longer be trusted
Rule No. 1 of fighting fascism ā do not obey in advance ā crumbles as major newspapers kill endorsements to appease #Trump.
Let's join with the heroes who refuse to obey in advance.ā
If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.Ā© & I š§µit. 1/ā¦
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Billionaire cowards at Washington Post, L.A. Times show what life under a dictator is really like
Rule No. 1 of fighting fascism ā do not obey in advance ā crumbles as major newspapers kill endorsements to appease Trump.Will Bunch (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
"'In place of international cooperation, the fascists seek to substitute a perverted sort of ultra-nationalism which tells their people that they are the only people in the world who count. With this goes hatred and suspicion toward the people of all other nations.'
Third, fascists would insist that 'the world has but two choicesāeither fascism or communism, and they label as ācommunistsā everyone who refuses to support them.'ā
#fascism #Trump #JDVance #Republicans
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"First, they would pit religious, racial, and economic groups against one another to break down national unity. Part of that effort to divide and conquer would be a 'well-planned "hate campaign" against minority races, religions, and other groups.'
Second, they would deny any need for international cooperation, because that would fly in the face of their insistence that their supporters were better than everyone else."
#fascism #Trump #JDVance #Republicans
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The pamphlet warned Army members not to imagine that fascism could not come to the US. Americans had once laughed at Hitler as a funny little man with a mustache, and look at what happened.
"The War Department thought it was important for Americans to understand the tactics fascists would use to take power in the United States. They would try to gain power 'under the guise of
"super-patriotism" and "super-Americanism."' And they would use three techniques:"
#fascism #Trump #Republicans
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"āThe basic principles of democracy stand in the way of their desires; henceādemocracy must go! Anyone who is not a member of their inner gang has to do what heās told. They permit no civil liberties, no equality before the law.' 'Fascism treats women as mere breeders. "Children, kitchen, and the church," was the Nazi slogan for women,' the pamphlet said."
Heather Cox Richardson offers a valuable prƩcis of a series of pamphlets the US War Deprtment published in 1943 for for US Army personnel in the European theater of World War II. The series was entitled "Army Talks."
The pamphlets define fascism as āgovernment by the few and for the few. The objective is seizure and control of the economic, political, social, and cultural life of the state.ā
#fascism #Trump #JDVance #Republicans
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heathercoxrichardson.substack.ā¦
October 26, 2024
Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
"It is 'vitally important' to learn to spot native fascists, the government said, 'even though they adopt names and slogans with popular appeal, drape themselves with the American flag, and attempt to carry out their program in the name of the democracy they are trying to destroy.'ā
To repeat: this warning was issued in 1943. After what happened in Europe in the 1930s. It was issued by the US War Department.
#fascism #Trump #JDVance #Republicans
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šTrump is schizophrenic:š
"#Trump describes political opponents as posing a bigger threat to the nation than North Korea."
mastodon.social/@rightardia/11ā¦
AND
*"...šthe Trump-Kim Love Lettersš
What the 27 mostly unpublished missives tell us about the future of U.S.-North Korean diplomacy."*
foreignpolicy.com/2021/08/13/nā¦
(*By Robert L. Carlin, non-resident scholar at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.)
What the Trump-Kim Love Letters Tell Us About Future U.S.-North Korean Talks
Robert L. Carlin (Foreign Policy)
Trump Escalates Threats In Dark Final StretchTrump describes political opponents as posing a bigger threat to the nation than North Korea.
politicalwire.com/2024/10/26/tā¦
Trump Escalates Threats In Dark Final Stretch
"A campaign marked by Donald Trumpās apocalyptic extremes has turned even darker in its final days," the New York Times reports.Political Wire
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Michelle Obama just laid into Donald Trump like no one has before.
Retoot to make sure all Americans see this takedown.
ā via ACYN
#MichelleObama #trump #voteblue for #kamalaharris
nothing to see here, just #JDVance actively encouraging the breaking of laws and the harassment of poll workers in a swing state.
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#Election2024 #2024Election #Trump #DonaldTrump #JDVance #uspol #uspolitics #politics #Kamala2024 #KamalaHarris #GOP #MAGA #MAGAts #Vote #Republicans #RVAT #Democrats #HarrisWalz2024 #VoteBlue #HarrisForPresident #HarrisWalz #polls #swingState #Pennsylvania #Michigan #Wisconsin #Virginia #VoteHarris
she has to be flawless?
No.
She has to at least not be an imbecile that can barely seem to string two sentences together. That's not a high bar. And somehow the Democratic Party decided, without consulting its members, to nominate a person who can barely get over that low bar.
She doesn't have to be flawless. She has to be better than Trump. And she struggles to be better than Trump.
I'm sorry, Harris is terrible. Our party should have nominated someone better. We need to hold the party accountable for that.
We're not looking for flawless, we're looking for not terrible, and the Democratic Party settled on a terrible person as their nominee.
"The Real #Trump Problem: Cognitive Decline?
Donald Trump, [is] showing potential signs of cognitive decline, may not be able to perform the duties of the presidency for a full term. We believe he should release his medical records, as Vice President Harris has done, to provide transparency about his health."
#Harris #RVAT #Politics #News #USA #2024Election #Vote #Polls #Kamala #Walz @KamalaHarrisWin #Fascism #Authoritarianism #MAGA #GOP #Democrats #Dictator
nationalinterest.org/blog/poliā¦
The Real Donald Trump Problem: Cognitive Decline?
As physicians, we are deeply concerned that Donald Trump, showing potential signs of cognitive decline, may not be able to perform the duties of the presidency for a full term.The National Interest
"This is a rather monstrous abdication of responsibility in the face of the very real fascist threat that looms over us allāespecially those of us who arenāt billionaires. It is yet another stark and troubling instance of the failures of our corporate media to do its job."
~ Mary Trump
#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos
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"This is cowardice, a moment of darkness that will leave democracy as a casualty."
~ Marty Baron, former executive editor of Washingon Post quoted by D. Earl Stephens
Stephens adds,
"When a newspaper with the logo 'Democracy Dies in Darkness' fails to endorse the candidate that stands up for that Democracy, they are not being accurate or credible.
They in fact are completely worthless.
Dead."
#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost
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BREAKING: The Washington Post Has Died
Its stunning refusal to endorse Kamala Harris is the end of the venerable newspaper ...D. Earl Stephens āļø (Enough Already)
"The editor of the editorial page had already drafted the paperās endorsement of Kamala Harris when publisher Will Lewisāwho is a new hire, hailing from the Rupert Murdoch journalism treeāquashed it and then released a CYA statement about how the paper was 'returning to its roots' of not endorsing candidates. The Post itself reported that the decision was made by the paperās owner, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos."
#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #Murdoch
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thebulwark.com/p/bezos-kills-wā¦
The Guardrails Are Already Crumpling
Jeff Bezosās decision to pull a Washington Post endorsement of Harris is foreboding. But not necessarily for the reasons you think.Jonathan V. Last (The Bulwark)
"Our corporate media, run by billionaires, are abdicating their duty and fidelity to democracy by proactively bending the knee to Trump and his dictatorial ambitions. The people must resist."
~ Wajahat Ali
"Will Lewis should be ashamed, if shame is an emotion he is capable of feeling. What an empty shell of a leader. What an embarrassing decline for a once-venerated news organization.
This decision wonāt impact the outcome of the election in eleven days. But it will have a lasting impact on how people think of the Washington Post."
~ Dave Karpf
#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #RupertMurdoch #WillLewis
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davekarpf.substack.com/p/a-sugā¦
A suggestion for the Washington Post's new motto: "Obey in Advance"
A study in willful incompetenceDave Karpf (The Future, Now and Then)
