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David Hogg: They've Tried To Kill Me Seven Times
“Like, oh, your house got SWAT-ted. You got a call from the police saying someone said that everyone in your family had been killed and that you are being held hostage for $100,000. Right? That becomes part of daily life. It’s just something that you have to get through. But I mean, what am I going to do? Stop?” – Parkland activist David Hogg, speaking to the Washington Post.
[link:https://www.joemygod.com/2019/06/david-hogg-theyve-tried-to-kill-me-seven-times/|
Seriously? I mean, seriously?
Will there ever be an end in sight?
The Politics of Paranoia in the Far Right World of Trump.
You know the poem? History repeats itself. Has to. No-one Listens, (Steve Turner) well, never is a truer word spoken when the far right gets a whiff of power and so we witness the present far right implementing strategies from the playbook of yester year Nazi's.
Fifty years ago Professor Hofstadter coined the phrase ‘The Paranoid Style’ to describe the type of politics that Trump so gleefully engages with:
I call it the paranoid style simply because no other word adequately evokes the sense of heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy that I have in mind. In using the expression “paranoid style” I am not speaking in a clinical sense, but borrowing a clinical term for other purposes……. In fact, the idea of the paranoid style as a force in politics would have little contemporary relevance or historical value if it were applied only to men with profoundly disturbed minds. It is the use of paranoid modes of expression by more or less normal people that makes the phenomenon significant
Donald Trump gets his support, in the main, from white, native born, working class men, who don’t have a lot of education and who feel that they have been marginalised by the rapid economic changes of the last few decades. If you look back through history it seems that this is the go-to co-hort, if you want to stoke up fear and irrational thought. Fear of change and fear of other is the natural bed fellow of some communities who feel that their way of life is under threat. The Politics of Paranoia plays into and stokes those fears, always to the advantage of the politician, rather than to the advantage of those left trembling with fear and anger from the rhetoric they have been exposed to.
One could argue that in any political system – in any Western country – there is a degree of paranoia in the body politic. However, it is about degree, relativism and application. Going to back to the Middle Ages people have used fear of other to control the narrative, along with using paranoia to normalise persecution. In the American tradition we need look no further than McCarthy or Goldwater, and the irrational stoking of fear against other – even though the other was the chap next door – to see how the politics of paranoia can work.
Trump is a master of this style, maybe because he is not playing in quite the same way. Maybe because there is real paranoia there? Either way, he is a real and present danger to the mental well being of the planet..
WATCH: The Mueller Report Star-Studded Video (Live Streamed Monday)
The players included Annette Bening, Kevin Kline, John Lithgow, Frederick Weller, Ben McKenzie, Michael Shannon, Noah Emmerich, Justin Long, Jason Alexander, Gina Gershon, Wilson Cruz, Joel Grey, Alyssa Milano, Kyra Sedgwick, Alfre Woodard, Piper Perabo, Zachary Quinto, and Aidan Quinn.
The live reading, titled The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts, was written by Robert Schenkkan and presented by Law Works Monday night.
[link:https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2019/06/watch-the-mueller-report-star-studded-live-stream-video/|
Genius!
GOOD GRIEF...One-Third Back Preemptively Nuking North Korea
More than 1 in 3 Americans would back a preemptive nuclear strike on North Korea if the nation tested a missile capable of reaching the U.S., according to a poll conducted by YouGov and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
“For many of these hawks, support for an attack, even in a preventive war, does not significantly decrease when the story says that the United States would use nuclear weapons that are expected to kill 1 million North Korean civilians,” researchers wrote.
The poll also found that while only 33 percent of respondents would prefer a nuclear strike that killed as many as 15,000 civilians, 50 percent would approve if one actually occurred. Fewer respondents said they would approve such a strike if it only had a 50-50 chance of preventing retaliation.
[link:https://www.joemygod.com/2019/06/poll-one-third-back-preemptively-nuking-north-korea/|
I think we all know which third.... you literally cannot make this shit up!
Ya Think?
Oh look…almost like he had a crystal ball…or was just a bloke who was blinking and breathing and witnessing the havoc that Trump wrought every day.
Everyone knew what would happen….and still here we are….
Why It Matters How Powerful Men Treat Women
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Male violence at the highest levels of government has been tolerated for a very long time. Unfortunately for these men, women are no longer quite so willing to keep their mouths shut about it as they once were. This means that even voters who don’t really care about male politicians assaulting women know that on some level they should care, which is why so many double down on frantic excuses. Meanwhile, the accused themselves behave as though accountability is for the little people.
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Let’s be honest with ourselves for a second, here. Let’s admit that nobody votes for a Trump or a Johnson believing their candidate to be a sincere and morally upstanding specimen of humanity. All that is required from these spoiled thugs is all that has ever been required of them: the absolute bare minimum of plausible deniability, just enough of a flimsy fig leaf for browbeaten gatekeepers to feel OK about letting them off the hook, like they were always going to, whether the offense is a hilarious, totally innocuous—definitely not racist—crack about Africans or, you know, raping someone in a changing room.
[link:https://newrepublic.com/article/154274/matters-powerful-men-treat-women?utm_content=buffer06c00&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer|
Excellent article. Worth a full read
Could these f*ckers be any more tone deaf?
https://twitter.com/TheDailyEdge/status/1143315513428385792Melania Trump
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Looking forward to collaborating with all of our #BeBest Ambassadors. Delighted to be working alongside so many people both inside and outside of government to better the lives of children everywhere!https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/first-lady-melania-trump-expands-initiative-addition-20-best-ambassadors/ …
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Until we #CloseTheCamps, I really don't care about #BeBest, do u?
7 year olds, caked w/snot and tears, care for infants they’ve just met. Toddlers without diapers are relieving themselves in their pants. Teen mothers' clothes are stained with breast milk. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/21/us/migrant-children-border-soap.html …
At this point it is just insulting....
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