I must once again urge you: please do not record your abortions on the blockchain.
https://mollywhite.net/micro/entry/please-do-not-record-your-abortion-on-the-blockchain
For the 1st time ever, a plurality of swing state voters now think that a #Democrat will win the presidential #election. This month, 46% of voters think #Harris will win, compared to 39% who think it will be #Trump. That is an 11-point swing in Harris’ favor since Aug, & suggests that Harris has been successful in presenting herself as a serious candidate.
#USpol#Authoritarianism#Republicans#Autocracy#Tyranny
#democracy#ProsecutorVFelon#WeAreNotGoingBack#Freedom#HarrisWalz2024
"Project 2025 manages to be more unpopular than JD Vance and Socialism combined. ...
This is entirely the result of his sad attempt to disavow this nearly 1,000-page document and the now-shuttered effort to round up sociopaths to execute the plan for a Christian nationalist monarchy that will ruin YOUR life."
~ Jason Sattler
#Trump #JDVance#Project2025#WhiteChristianNationalism #authoritarianism
https://thecause.substack.com/p/disavowing-project-2025-is-the-worst
#Trump's *vision* for America includes #MassDeportations that will be so extensive that "huge camps" [#ConcentrationCamps] will be needed to detain people. To execute his vision, Trump has proposed the creation of a deportation force pulled from local police & National Guard troops volunteered by "Republican-run states."
#authoritarianism#PoliticalViolence#WhiteNationalism #racism#WhiteSupremacy#Project2025
#imimigration #law#HarrisWalz2024
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-immigrants-plan-bloody-story-b2609092.html
"The effects of the assassination attempt on Trump are so far in line with authoritarian history. Chief among its aftereffects is a boost to Trump’s victimhood persona. He had always told his devoted followers that the 'enemies' were not going after him, but rather going after them, and he was 'just standing in the way.'”
~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat
"The July 13, 2024, assassination attempt will seem to validate that claim in the eyes of Trump’s faithful, especially since a person attending the rally was killed by the shooter and others were injured.
The attack has also brought Trump even more loyalty from followers bonded to him. …
Trump’s campaign has always had vengeance and retribution for those who persecute him, in his telling, as a central theme."
Washington Post does a deep dive into the pressure campaign big-name tech bros mounted with Trump to have him select J.D. Vance as his running mate. These include Peter Thiel, David Sacks, and Jacob Helberg.
"Vance’s most forceful Silicon Valley advocates are euphoric about the former Never Trumper’s rise in the GOP."
See Elena Lacey's drawing at the head of the piece: do you spot any face that's not a white male?
#JDVance#PeterThiel#TechBros #authoritarianism
/22
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/07/28/jd-vance-peter-thiel-donors-big-tech-trump-vp/
"The effects of the assassination attempt on Trump are so far in line with authoritarian history. Chief among its aftereffects is a boost to Trump’s victimhood persona. He had always told his devoted followers that the 'enemies' were not going after him, but rather going after them, and he was 'just standing in the way.'”
~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Is J.D. Vance "just" an opportunist pretending to be radicalized in order to grab power? Or is the radicalization real? Some thought-provoking observations from Noah Berlatsky:
"J.D. started off with a lot of reactionary and invidious ideas about marginalized people; he believed they were immoral, he believed they were irresponsible, he believed that their lack of traditional values led them astray."
#JDVance#PeterThiel#TechBros #racism #authoritarianism
/19
https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/was-vance-sincerely-radicalized-or
David Kurtz looks at the "helpless shrug" Washington Post gave to Trump's ominous statements in Florida and concludes,
"When a former president who tried to stay in office via an auto-coup is now the frontrunner to return to that office and is assuring his most diehard supporters that they only have to make the effort to vote one last time, you should take that as the clarion call it is. No excuses."
#Trump #dictator #media#WashingtonPost
/21
https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/trump-promises-2024-is-the-last-time
Washington Post does a deep dive into the pressure campaign big-name tech bros mounted with Trump to have him select J.D. Vance as his running mate. These include Peter Thiel, David Sacks, and Jacob Helberg.
"Vance’s most forceful Silicon Valley advocates are euphoric about the former Never Trumper’s rise in the GOP."
See Elena Lacey's drawing at the head of the piece: do you spot any face that's not a white male?
#JDVance#PeterThiel#TechBros #authoritarianism
/22
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/07/28/jd-vance-peter-thiel-donors-big-tech-trump-vp/
"Then he marinated in the eugenic ferment of Silicon Valley techbro reaction, and he came away convinced not that he was wrong, but that he hadn’t sufficiently appreciated his own rightness. Trump’s cruelty and contempt had put Vance off; Thiel and company convinced Vance (by argument or example) that he was being too soft. They told him to listen to his own hate. That’s how radicalization works."