Trump and his cultist supporters own all of this.
Let's hope that decent Americans reject this cesspool of hate, racism, misogyny and vulgarity on November 5.
🧵 Reactions from Puerto Rican celebrities so far...@Residente shares this video on his Instagram calling on Puerto Ricans to please not endorse these people https://t.co/aKZEOCDtbb
— Reynaldo Leaños Jr. (@ReynaldoLeanos) October 27, 2024
Tonight, Trump:
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 28, 2024
—Once again said Americans who don’t support him are “the enemy within”
—Announced that Americans should “get ready” for him to bring back laws from the 1700s
—Attacked journalists as “enemies” and fantasized about “decapitating” a reporter
—Denigrated America… pic.twitter.com/mBFI9ScwmY
Trump rally speaker: “And these Latinos, they love making babies too. Just know that. They do. They do. There’s no pulling out. They don’t do that. They come inside. Just like they did to our country.” pic.twitter.com/ZV0Q3VtUJ8
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) October 27, 2024
And there we have it: pure Fascism. https://t.co/n9SpvDkh1n
— Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@ruthbenghiat) October 27, 2024
Aaaannnd... there it is. Just got to the part of the MSG neo-Nazi rally where they compare the Vice President of the United States to a hooker.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) October 27, 2024
This rally is likely the ugliest political event held in America this century.
Yes, this is a man giving the middle finger at a rally. pic.twitter.com/lCA3guc7PP
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Remembering William Butler Yeats and "The Second Coming", I offer this update:
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Dulled and lulled by lying leaders and platitudes
Numbing us all and clouding our thoughts with
Monotonous tired clichés and trivial drivel
When mendacity ascends, something worse is sure to follow
Decency and reason are soon cast aside
Deceit, blame, anger and hate are unleashed
And together they rage across the land
Distorted vision darkens souls with bitter resentment
And a stand for truth draws wrath from the believers of lies
David Frum
@davidfrum
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Pro-Trump talkers express concern that the Madison Square rally's rage, disdain, and thuggery is distracting from the Trump campaign's core message of rage, disdain, and thuggery.
Excellent, Dave!
Here are verses from that poem that resonate today:
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."
[skip]
"The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"
Laurence Tribe
@tribelaw
Stephen Miller’s chant at Sunday’s MSG 1939-like rally that “America is for Americans and Americans only” deliberately echoed Adolf Hitler’s boast that "Germany is for Germans and Germans only.”
The Puerto Rico garbage joke wouldn't have been funny if it hadn't contained a kernel of truth! Jes sayin'!
That awful "comedian" didn't learn that a joke isn't funny when you punch down and ridicule a minority that's already been mercilessly ridiculed by people in power. You obviously don't understand that. Do you laugh at jokes about physically impaired people? Old widows and widowers? Orphans? Burn victims? You can tell jokes about all of those categories. But decent people don't. Even if there is a kernel of truth in any of the jokes.
Decent people don't do that.
IMO, MAGA are ghoulish, indecent, deplorable creeps who find joy in ridiculing minorities.
I thought I figured out a lot about you as a human being, but then you come here and defend the indefensible again, and I learn even more disagreeable things about you.
PS. When that comedian called Puerto Rico "garbage," he was calling Americans garbage. Puerto Ricans are Americans.
That's how stupid Trump and his people are. They think it's funny to call Americans garbage as a closing argument to get people to vote for them.
The guilt-pride that forms the basis for woke "moral decency" is being abandoned. It's too patronizing. We're going to be treating everyone as equals from now on, not 'victims that must be forever shielded from the harassment of living".
We can learn to embrace "moral decency." I don't care if you call that "woke" or not. You're living in a fantasy world if you actually think majorities will be decent to minorities. You forget we're descended from the great apes. I suggest you study our close relatives, chimpanzees, to understand why there will be hierarchical conflicts in human relationships for a long time to come.
Will we ever overcome it? I don't know. I do know that the MAGA movement has set us back generations. Just re-watch last night hate-fest and listen to the derogatory remarks aimed at minorities at MSG by the MAGAs!
The MSG event was as close to a Nazi rally as they can get without flying the swastika.
You're missing the point. Guilt-pride leads to "forever/ eternal" debts. Not forgiven debts. Not reparations that can ever be paid off. Germany is doing backflips to defend israel's latest war because they feel permanetly obligated to defend Israel. Such an obligation is not in Germany's long-term interest. The same holds true for Southern Democrat slave owners.
It's time to start treating people as equals, not someone owed a permanent social debt. History isn't keeping score. People are. There is no "Big Other" and "elites" don't deserve moral bonus points for keeping score for history in the vain attempt to win guilt-pride intersectional based totemic social capital points.
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