https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWJVMoe7OY0 Fuck every single one of these people involved in storming the Capitol and the people giving them cover. Watching this little shit show, I cannot help but marvel at the discipline of the Capitol Police and how well they stuck to the rules of engagement, and how this "riot" could have been contained Texas … Continue reading This July 4th, Let’s Remember What Patriotism Isn’t
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Short-Bus People
"The attorney for 'QAnon Shaman' Jacob Chansley says that his client and other accused Capitol rioters were uniquely vulnerable to being misled by former President Trump’s lies, TPM reports.Said Albert Watkins: "A lot of these defendants… they’re all fucking short-bus people. These are people with brain damage, they’re fucking retarded, they’re on the goddamn spectrum.'He … Continue reading Short-Bus People
Edward Norton on Trump’s Hand
https://www.twitter.com/edwardnorton/status/1329728889296355328 Sounds about right. Read the thread.
Mirror, Mirror
Joe Biden is going to win. But what people of color have long understood should be clear to everyone now: Donald Trump is not an aberration, he’s a mirror. And that ugliness we see in him is America’s. https://twitter.com/derekjGZ/status/1323985212964036611
How Many Licks…?
On reflection, I look at the support that Donald Trump received during this year's U.S. election and the inescapable conclusion I find myself coming to: Given the U.S. population, perhaps socialism isn't a good idea and people are right to be against it.
The Road Map Back From Authoritarianism
"Experts in authoritarianism advise keeping a list of things changing, subtly, around you, so you’ll remember. Days after the 2016 presidential election, I started a list. Each week, I chronicle the ways Donald Trump has changed our country. This selection, adapted from more than 34,000 entries — or about 1 percent of the total — … Continue reading The Road Map Back From Authoritarianism
Scalzi on Impeachment
Of course, this is just going to make Trump more, well, Trump. The man has never understood why people wouldn’t just let him be king, and narcissists never react well to blows to the ego. If you think he’s lost his shit and been completely unreasonable before, just you wait. Things are going to get … Continue reading Scalzi on Impeachment
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Leading Marxist Scholar David Harvey on Trump, Wall Street, and Debt Peonage
"I remember watching a speech that Castro gave in which he was talking about, he was lambasting a report by Human Rights Watch, the U.S.-based human rights organization, which often does do the kind of ideological bidding of the U.S. government in the way that it applies its filter to different societies versus the United … Continue reading Leading Marxist Scholar David Harvey on Trump, Wall Street, and Debt Peonage
Is This Fascism?
"'You submit to tyranny,' Snyder writes, 'when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case.'" —Snyder, Timothy. "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century" quoted in Gumbel, Andrew. "Is This Fascism?" Los Angeles Review of Books. July 24, 2017. Interesting discussion throughout regarding the Trump presidency. … Continue reading Is This Fascism?
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