William Lindsey 

"If Trump wins, it isn’t going to be because Kamala Harris gave a bad answer to a question on The View.

It will be because some large percentage of the American public looked at these two candidates and decided that they wanted Trump."

~ Jonathan V. Last

#Trump #fascism #Republicans #KamalaHarris
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/what-more-do-you-people-want-from-293

What More Do You People Want from Kamala Harris? (Part Deux)

She's done everything voters could reasonably have asked for.

The Bulwark
Oct 29, 2024 at 7:25pmWeb
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Oct 29, 2024

"Attempts to blame Harris or find an alternate reason for why voters didn’t consciously choose an authoritarian strongman will be an exercise in reality avoidance. It will be an attempt to avoid grappling with who, and what, our country is."

#Trump #fascism #Republicans #KamalaHarris
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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Oct 29, 2024

"How is it possible that an indicted insurrectionist, adjudicated sex offender, and convicted felon could very possibly be elected president for the second time?

The news of this past week gives us a clue. Billionaire newspaper owners Jeff Bezos (Washington Post) and Patrick Soon-Shiong (LA Times) each killed an already-approved editorial board endorsement of Kamala Harris."

~ Michael Podhorzer

#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost #Bezos #LosAngelesTimes #SoonShiong
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https://www.weekendreading.net/p/the-john-roberts-election

The John Roberts Election

Politicians in Robes Part II: How the billionaires captured the Court to remake American “democracy” in their own image

Weekend Reading
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Oct 29, 2024

"Billionaire Trump backer Elon Musk – who has top-secret security clearance and 'extraordinary' influence over the federal government through his companies (New York Times) – has been in regular contact with Vladimir Putin since late 2022 (Wall Street Journal), in addition to having started his own career working in this country illegally (Washington Post) despite his own enthusiasm for Trump’s promises of violent mass deportations. "

#Trump #fascism #ElonMusk #Putin
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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Oct 29, 2024

"How did our country get so broken? In short, it broke when the billionaires broke it. Billionaires took over just enough of our legal system, and just enough of our media ecosystem, to give themselves more and more power over our political system while making it harder and harder for the rest of us to take that power back."

#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #LosAngelesTimes #PatrickSoonShiong #ElonMusk #EconomicElites
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Show threadResistor McResistanceFaceOct 29, 2024

@wdlindsy

"♫Proud to Be an American. God Bless the USA♪" - Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, January 21, 2010

Show threadMedea Vanamonde🏳️‍⚧️ ♀Oct 29, 2024
@wdlindsy
Show threadRobert LinkOct 29, 2024
@MishaVanMollusq @wdlindsy Suddenly "Eat the RIch" is less, ah, appetizing.
Show threadRobert LinkOct 29, 2024
@wdlindsy He's a rich, white, male, teevee star. Of course some large percentage of the American public wants him. They are in fact incapable of wanting anything else. #EatTheRich #KillYourTelevision
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Oct 30, 2024
@phaedral Yes.
Show threadDarcyOct 29, 2024

@wdlindsy

No if Trump wins it's because voters looked at these two candidates and decided Fascism was preferable to Democracy.

Show threadWilliam Lindsey Oct 30, 2024
@Mor696 I suspect that may well be what Jonathan V. Last's statement means.