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July 26, 2024

'Depths of depravity': Experts sound alarm about 'corruption' on grand scale if Trump wins

'Depths of depravity': Experts sound alarm about 'corruption' on grand scale if Trump wins = Rawstory

The 2024 election, Harris and her supporters argue, is a choice between the United States continuing as a democratic republic under a Democratic administration in 2025 or sliding into authoritarianism under... Trump.

George Conway, one of Trump's most scathing critics on the right...told attendees, "Everything is about him — the government is about him — (and) pleasing him and his glory and his power at any given moment. People don't take him seriously because they find the depths of his depravity too difficult to comprehend."

* note: Not I. Frankly I think he'd give the world's worst despot(s) a run for the money.

The Never Trumper warned that if Trump returns to the White House in 2025, "What we will see is corruption on a scale like we've never seen before in this country."

Ben-Ghiat warned, "It is MAGA dictatorship or American democracy. It is repression — the iron (fist) coming down on us — (or) freedom. I've seen what happens to societies when corrupt leaders and their allies gain power based on division or hatred, and Project 2025 is a recipe for mass chaos, abuses of power and dysfunction in government."
July 26, 2024

Missouri Supreme Court halts release of man with overturned conviction as he was about to go free

Missouri Supreme Court halts release of man with overturned conviction as he was about to go free - KOB

Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey has been fighting Dunn’s release.

Steven Puro, professor emeritus of political science at St. Louis University, said Bailey is in a highly competitive race for the attorney general position with the primary quickly approaching on Aug. 6.

“Bailey is trying to show that he is, quote, ‘tough on crime,’ which is a very important Republican conservative position,” he said. “Clearly, he’s angering members of the judicial system that he will have to argue before in the future. But he’s making the strategic notion that he needs to get his name before the voters and try to use that to win the primary election.”


fkn Republicans, eh?
July 26, 2024

John Deere is the latest company to turn its back on Black people, the LGBTQ+ community, and women

John Deere is the latest company to turn its back on Black people, the LGBTQ+ community, and women - Advocate

In a disheartening move that echoes Tractor Supply Company’s recent actions of stepping away from Pride events, John Deere, the iconic farm equipment maker, has abandoned its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, effectively turning its back on its Black,LGBTQ+, and women employees and customers. The Tuesday announcement states that the company will no longer support “social orcultural awareness” events and will audit its training materials to ensure they are free of “socially motivated messages.”
July 26, 2024

IN TRUMP'S FASCIST AMERICA: Neo-Nazis are filmed hurling disgusting racist slurs at black children as young as eight

Neo-Nazis are filmed hurling disgusting racist slurs at black children as young as eight in downtown Nashville - Daily Mail The incident was caught on camera in Nashville, Tennessee, on July 14 and showed the group, who play music in the city, being abused by a group of men belonging to the Goyim Defense League.

White Supremacist Arrested In Alleged Plot To Attack New Jersey Electrical Substation, Feds Announce - Newsone This isn't the first time suspected hate group members were arrested for allegedly trying to attack a power grid.

Expert details antisemitism’s role in Trump’s assault on democracy: Perfect scapegoat - Alternet.org

On February 8, 2021, the Anti-Defamation League's (ADL) Los Angeles branch published an op-ed headlined "The Link Between Donald Trump and Antisemitism."

In an interview with Salon's Chauncey DeVega published on July 12, Sharon Nazarian — the ADL's former senior vice president of international affairs — detailed the role antisemitism plays in the global anti-democracy movement she considers Trump and the MAGA movement a part of.


Trump fan charged with making Holocaust threats against judges overseeing his trials - Raw Story A Nevada man has been charged with sending death threats to judges overseeing Donald Trump's trials, as well state officials and a member of Congress.

Internet Compared Trump and Hitler After Trump Again Said Immigrants ‘Poison Our Country’ - Inquisitr

John Oliver on Republican ‘migrant crime’ rhetoric: ‘relentless, bad-faith fearmongering’ - The Guardian Last Week Tonight host looked into RNC and false but rhetorically effective ‘migrant crime wave’ messaging

Trump Allies Don’t Even Try to Hide Racism in New Kamala Harris Smears - The New Republic

White Parents Of Adopted Black Sons Fled Predominately White Wayne, Nebraska, Over Anti-Black Racism - Newsone The family moved from California to Nebraska, hoping they'd found a small, close-knit community where they could raise both of their Black sons

Trump campaign repeatedly smears acquitted Black veteran beaten by cops as it attacks Kamala Harris - Raw Story The Trump War Room account has posted multiple times false claims about Jaleel Stallings, a Minnesota man who was ultimately acquitted of charges related to the George Floyd protests in 2020

How white was the RNC in Milwaukee? Only 3% of the delegates reported they were Black - Yahoo

I'm Still Having Nightmares: Miami Police Banged on Little Girl';s Window, Pointed Guns at Black Veteran In Search of Her Home for Stranger Who Was Already In Jail - Atlanta Black Star

Unreal: GOP candidate's blatantly racist ad sickens viewers - Raw Story A Missouri Republican candidate for governor released a new ad promising to round up and deport immigrants, but one key feature of the spot revolted many viewers.

Exposed: J.D. Vance's ties to extreme anti-feminists and misogynists that formed views - Raw Story Sen. J.D. Vance has ties to a slew of far-right academics who believe working women are on drugs and judges should decide who gets to get married, among other extreme opinions, a new analysis shows.

July 25, 2024

Robert Reich Calls for Tesla Boycott After Elon Musk's Appalling Trump Endorsement

Robert Reich: Elon Musk is spending millions to elect Trump. Let’s boycott his companies - The Guardian

Musk is determined to help Trump win. Perhaps it’s no surprise that both men believe democracy can be bought off
July 25, 2024

So Guess Who Else Is Being Bought by Republicans

Democrats accuse Cornel West campaign of accepting illegal in-kind contributions - The Hill

surprise surprise:

Democrats are accusing Republican operatives of boosting the campaign of Independent presidential candidate Cornel West in North Carolina and Arizona, as ballot access fights rage in key swing states.

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) last week claiming West’s bids in Arizona and North Carolina took illegal in-kind contributions from Republican-aligned groups.

The complaint alleges that West’s campaign took on about $240,000 worth of petitioning services provided by two GOP-aligned groups, Wells Marketing LLC and the staff of Blitz Canvassing.

“The West campaign has publicly stated it is not paying any firm for the ballot petition services these firms are providing, while it is simultaneously accepting the benefits of those services,” the complaint reads.
July 24, 2024

IN TRUMP'S FASCIST AMERICA: 'We love Hitler. We love Trump.': White supremacists march through Michigan - Raw Story

‘We love Hitler. We love Trump.’: White supremacists march through Michigan - Raw Story

Nashville struggles to respond as neo-Nazi groups turn focus on to city - The Guardian

Nazis mingled openly at CPAC - MSNBC Nazis mingled openly at CPAC, a prominent conservative conference where Donald Trump has been the keynote speaker since 2017

Republican Rep. Went on Unhinged Rant About Women “Emasculating Men” - The New Republic

Josh Hawley touts racist theory that liberals want to replace Christmas with pride month - Raw Story

Segregated? Republican ridiculed for call to return to where America was in the 1960s - Alternet.org

Tyranny Expert Has Horrifyingly Blunt Prediction For The U.S. If Trump Wins - Comic Sands Historian Timothy Snyder sounded the alarm warning that Trump will cause the end of the republic as we know it...

What Donald did they see? Mary Trump slams media for downplaying grotesque RNC event - Raw Story

Trump is an authoritarian who must not win. Saying that is not inciting violence -The Guardian

U.S. Senator Blames Trump: “No Politician Has Done More To Glorify Political Violence” - 2 Paragraphs

Trumpism's powerful weapon against Western democracies is antisemitism - Salon "Trump continues to tell antisemites that it is fine to operate out in the open," Sharon Nazarian tells Salon

WaPo Warns Of Right Wing Violence; Signs Points To Trans People In the Crosshairs - Wonkette

'Indoctrination': Top Republicans kicked off GOP convention with anti-LGBTQ attacks - Alternet.org

J.D. Vance Praised Alex Jones as a Truth-Teller in Speech to Leonard Leo-Backed Group — ProPublica


July 24, 2024

Kamala

Harris leads Trump in first poll taken since Biden quit - Raw Story Vice President Kamala Harris opened up a marginal two-percentage-point lead over Republican Donald Trump after President Joe Biden ended his re-election campaign and passed the torch to her," the Reuters/Ipsos poll found.

Thousands of Black Men Rally For VP Kamala Harris On Zoom Call - HipHopWired The call, organized by journalist Roland Martin, reached capacity within minutes after starting.

Chadwick Boseman’s last tweet before he died was in support of Kamala Harris - Yahoo

Fox News cuts off Kamala Harris' first campaign speech after she comes for Donald Trump - Raw Story Fox News declined to air Vice President Kamala Harris's first presidential campaign speech in its entirety, pulling the plug soon after she attacked Republican nominee Donald Trump.

Trump, trying to get out of a scheduled debate with Kamala Harris, now says ABC "is not worthy" - Salon He said ABC is “not worthy” of holding a debate, despite already agreeing to one in September

Racist Trump Unleashes Horrifying Plan to Attack Kamala Harris - The New Republic For some Republicans, it seems the racist Willie Hortonesque smack talk has already begun.

‘Think About The N-Word’: Maxwell Frost Blasts Trump Surrogates Making ‘Racist’ Attacks On Kamala Harris - Mediaite Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) tore into Trump surrogates like Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) who attack Vice President Kamala Harris as a “DEI hire,” saying the slur is code for “the n-word.”

When They Say 'Harris Is A DEI Hire,' They Mean 'Only White Men Are Qualified' - Wonkette Just like when they claim it causes collapsing bridges and airplane malfunction.

THE STEPHEN PRINCIPLE:

Word salad: MAGA lawmaker mocked for convoluted rant against Kamala Harris - Raw Story Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) tried out a new attack on Vice President Kamala Harris to Fox News correspondent Chad Pergram on Tuesday — and it appeared to land with a thud on social media. Commenters on social media struggled to even make sense of what he was saying.

MEANWHILE, IN TRUMP'S FASCIST AMERICA

Nashville struggles to respond as neo-Nazi groups turn focus on to city - The Guardian Upsurge in activity from white supremacists and swastika-toting extremists follows rash of anti-LGBTQ+ state laws

‘We love Hitler. We love Trump.’: White supremacists march through Michigan - Raw Story About a dozen masked white supremacists marched through downtown Howell on Saturday, chanting “Heil Hitler” and carrying signs with messages like “White Lives Matter” and “End the War on White Children.”

war? perhaps they're referring to those mass school shootings courtesy of THEIR gun loving NRA.
July 23, 2024

Trump's Accomplishments (Updated from previous)

included a few posted herein by others... feel free to add to the list:

-robbed his own charitable foundation
-committed business fraud
-falsified business records
-cheated on his three wives
-been Indicted in multiple jurisdictions
-labeled captured servicemen NOT heroes
-called military KIAs losers and suckers
-filed for bankruptcy six times
-pardoned his own administration officials for crimes committed
-promised to get out of NATO
-ran for office to stay out of jail
-lies repeatedly to everyone
-refused to return classified documents
-obstructed attempts to reclaim classified documents and white house gifts
-questioned the legitimate birthright of America's sitting President
-hid his tax reports
-falsely claimed charitable donations that could not be verified
-discriminated against Black tenants
-stiffed contractors
-reneged on leases and contracts
-bankrupted a casino
-stood before a worldwide audience and invited Russia to hack American servers
-colluded with Russians
-called Mexican immigrants "criminals and rapists"
-lied by saying "Mexico would pay" for his wall
-spoke of "black and latino jobs" that immigrants were supposedly taking
-separated families at the border and put children in cages
-caught on tape bragging about grabbing women by the p-----
-questioned whether America would buy a N(word) winning the Apprentice
-paid off a porn star to hide his affairs
-falsified documents to conceal the payoff
-palled around with Epstein
-walked in on nude and partially nude beauty contestants, Ivanka says 'he does that'
-named dozens of times in Epstein related court documents
-stands accused of rape of a minor
-accused by dozens of women of sexual assault
-found guilty of raping via assault E. Jean Carroll
-called his own daughter a hot piece of a----
-lost the popular vote
-stood alongside Putin while questioning, disparaging America's intelligence
-debased and denounced his own military leadership while
-loving authoritarian despots like Putin and Kim Jong Un
-profited from the office of the presidency
-engaged in nepotism
-installed heads of cabinets and agencies whose resumes were contrary to the goals of said agencies, to deliberately undermine or sabotage them
-used the office in foreign dealings to personally enrich himself or his own brand
-obstructed justice and attempted to obstruct justice by silencing or censoring the Mueller reports
-hired an attorney general to achieve the suppression of information (Mueller report)
-attempted to install an "election integrity" agency to gather the personal data of every voter in America
-gave Afghanistan a withdrawal deal wholly advantageous to them while leaving allied forces little in return
-abandoned the Kurdish Army on the battlefield
-wants to dismantle NATO
-wants to nationalize abortion, falsely claiming Democrats abort babies after birth
-wants to impose a tariff economists say will cost the middle class dearly
-wants to end the Affordable Care Act
-wants to undermine Social Security and Medicare
-wants to abolish the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau
-promised to end environmental regulations in exchange for a billion dollars from oil tycoons.
-wants to dismantle clean energy initiatives
-denies climate change
-instituted a tariff on China that proved costly to Americans, particularly farmers
-ordered hundreds of law enforcement agencies into cities
-wanted to deploy us military and national guard to put down George Floyd protests
-sent federal agents into Portland to do same
-installed far right radicals to the judiciary including three scotus justices
-railed against Kapernick for protests in support of George Floyd and others like him, while
-calling Nazi flag carrying white supremacists in Charlottesville very fine people
-lied about Covid, a pandemic he knew was deadly, by calling it a hoax
-intercepted and confiscated PPE supplies heading to states in dire need of them
-blocked, disputed, and or obfuscated professional medical advice from CDC and other health agencies
-railed against masking, safe distancing and other measures designed to slow the spread of Covid
-encouraged mass gatherings in protest of such
-proposed unproven alternative quack cures including bleach injections, ivermectin, and ultraviolet light
-caused the unnecessary deaths of an estimated half a million people due to his lies, obstructionism, denials, and deceit
-attempted to extort a foreign government for dirt on Biden, in exchange for defensive weapons
-told known domestic terrorists to "stand back and stand by" when asked whether he'd accept to 2020 election results
-lied to the American people about an election he knew he'd lost
-attempted to coerce state governors to falsify voting results in 2020 election
-lost over 60 court challenges to the 2020 election results
-orchestrated a fake elector scheme wherein his imposters drew up phony documents, fraudulently certifying him the winner, and presented them to the National Archives
-invited his election deniers to arrive in DC on January 6, 2021
-incited a riot on January 6, 2021, falsely claiming a 'stolen election'
-sat back and cheered his insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol, chanting "Hang Mike Pence"
-subsequently praised his insurrectionists as "warriors" "martyrs" and "hostages" demanding their immediate release
-stole classified documents, hid them out when fbi searched his residence
-stole items intended as gifts to the White House
-bragged about bringing an end to Roe v Wade
-claims Black people relate to his criminality
-said that immigrants were "poisoning the blood" of America
-plans mass deportation of millions
-says he'll be dictator from day one
-threatens to prosecute, jail political opponents and journalists
-believes he's above the law and entitled to immunity
-wants to fire civil servants and replace them with loyalists he can fire at will
-praises dictators like Kim Jong-Un, Viktor Orban and Vladimir Putin
-lied that Pelosi was responsible for summoning the national guard on J6
-TWICE impeached and
-convicted on all 34 counts in hush money trial, by a UNANIMOUS jury of his peers

July 23, 2024

Kim Jong-Un: A Man After Trump's Own Heart

Trump says he’d like to take Kim Jong-Un to a baseball game as he boasts about their friendship - The Independent UK


Trump: “I said, ‘just relax, lets go to a baseball game, I’ll show you how to baseball.’ We’ll go watch the Yankees,” Trump continued.

He echoed similar rhetoric at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Thursday.

“I get along with him, he’d like to see me back too,” Trump said during his keynote address. “I think he misses me, if you want to know.”


MEANWHILE:

North Korea accused of executing dozens of teens for watching South Korean dramas - Business Insider

A South Korean outlet said that North Korea executed dozens of teens for watching South Korean dramas.

According to a report by South Korean broadcaster Chosun TV, around 30 middle schoolers were publicly shot last week for watching South Korean dramas.

The shows were reportedly stored on USBs that were floated over the border by North Korean defectors, it said.

Business Insider was unable to independently verify the report.


in other news:

He Went To A White Supremacist Conference. He Just Spoke At The RNC. - Huffpost In 2022, Thomas Homan, the head of ICE under Donald Trump, accepted an invitation to speak at a racist event hosted by Nick Fuentes.

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