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Greetings, Americans!
We have commemorated the holidays of Rosh ha-Shona and Yom Kippur, along with Sukkot and Simchat Torah; may we continue to learn the true meaning of these events, that a new start is possible.
Finally, the news media has been paying attention to trump’s mental health, or lack thereof, with his speeches going all over the place, and he goes on about everything but the topic he’s been asked about. Why has the news media, before Biden dropped out, been so fascinated with Biden’s mental health, but they’ve given trump a pass on it? Perhaps it’s because trump has been in the media for four decades, being hyped as a genius real-estate and casino tycoon, squiring some beautiful women all around Manhattan, and getting into tabloid fodder scandals, and that form of “news” veers into entertainment.
Or perhaps also, some billionaire corporate interests, including some media corporations—yes, it’s a business like any other—don’t care about trump’s cognitive decline, or his racism, or his associating with neo-Fascists; all they care about are tax cuts they WOULD receive, along with the repression of workers and of women seeing reproductive freedom, people of color seeking equity and their REAL history told, and of LGBTQ+ people just wanting to live their lives without the risk of harassment and death. Project 2025, the brain-worm of the Heritage Foundation, is still on their minds, no matter how much the trump campaign tried to disassociate itself from it. (https://kamalaharris.com/project2025/)
It’s NO different from the German industrial magnates who thought investing in Adolf Hitler and his NSDAP would be a great investment for putting down “Communism”—meaning any effort to empower workers, after the 1929 Crash and the Russian Revolution—and they paid no attention to Hitler’s rantings, the party’s violence and anti-Semitism, the brown-shirted goons stomping on their enemies and playing tin soldiers. They got their profits and the unions were destroyed, so what did they care?
Of course you may think, correctly, of the German firms Krupp and IG Farben, who used the slave labor from the concentration camps; and there was Hugo Boss, the fashion house, which manufactured those uniforms for all the NSDAP’s branches, like the SS. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Boss)
But American firms did business with Germany during the Second World War. (https://www.adl.org/resources/news/german-industry-and-third-reich) One is Ford, and Henry Ford was also a notorious Jew-hater and fanboy of Hitler; several subsidiaries of Ford held factories in Cologne and Berlin, using concentration-camp slave labor. Other corporate accomplices included Coca-Cola, Eastman-Kodak, IBM (for the record-keeping machinery they maintained regularly in the concentration camps, and their investments in several German firms, like the aircraft firm Focke-Wulf), General Motors (their Opal division), and certain American and British banks. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_involved_in_the_Holocaust)
(https://lorimer.ca/adults/product/big-business-and-hitler/)
And if these corporations could collaborate with a foreign tyrant and murderer, they damn sure would be happy to work with a home-grown tyrant, like a future trump regime—which we must make DAMN SURE there isn’t any.
We tried it before with trump; respectable, mainstream politicians thought that trump would have “adults in the room,” competent cabinet members and staff workers who could keep him from doing or saying anything stupid; but he was subservient to Putin in that meeting in Helsinki, praised neo-Nazis as “very fine people,” scapegoated immigrants from the Mexican border (but not the Canadian border, mind you) and Muslims (with the travel ban), the contempt he has shown towards women—his bragging about overturning Roe v. Wade, his insults towards accomplished women, and his sexual abuses—his contempt for military personnel (“suckers and losers”), for a start.
And we can’t treat this election as just an “election,” a contest between two candidates with more or less differing ideas—or, as some adults I heard say, “just a bunch of crooks, they’re all the same” during my growing-up years. It isn’t. It’s for the future of America and its people; and it would be a disgrace for us to allow trump back into power, so he can abuse it by attacking his enemies—meaning US, his fellow Americans.
But, just as our ancestors crossed an ocean to fight foreign fascists—some of them even dying—we can defeat the home-grown fascists of today. Freedom-fighting is in the American blood, from the Revolution, through the movements of pass women’s suffrage and end chattel slavery, through the Civil War and the struggle to organize workers, through the World Wars, through the Civil Rights movements for African Americans and other people of color, for women, for LGBTQ+ people. We Americans have a long and venerable history of standing up to oppressors and bosses, and asserting our right, and in the process, asserting our significance, our value, as human beings.
SO, November 5, Americans, don’t let our ancestors, or our progeny, down. Don’t forget the great freedom fighters of our true, sanitized history. Let’s continue to put in the work, to campaign, and VOTE. When we stand up to the fascist goons arrayed against us, we’ll see they’re not so tough after all.
Stay safe, stay strong, and stay together! Slava Ukraini! Am Yisrael Chai! America will be free! Bye!
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IN an interview on Real America’s Voice network, Kevin Roberts, President of the Heritage Foundation-the nursery of Project 2025, their bible for a fascist takeover-boasted that his side would “win,” and they were on the verge of a “second American revolution,” which “will remain bloodless, if the Left allows it to be.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FznbfmZ0JZE)
trump has also used violent rhetoric, and his rhetoric has stirred his minions in to real violence. recently at a rally in Detroit, trump proclamed there would be a “bloodbath” if he wasn’t elected. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWVbXqNvb0o) He has also urged the Proud Boys, the way-right gang of thugs and goons, to “stand back and stand by” in his first debate with Joe Biden in 2020; they have also looked at themselves as trump’s private army. (https://apnews.com/article/proud-boys-enrique-tarrio-capitol-riot-trial-4dc5d0d36bc4c39ea924412dbb51780b)
And we must never EVER forget how he instigated a violent mob of his followers on January 6, 2021, to stage a coup d’etat on the Capitol, ransacking the offices and chambers, threatening to “Hang Mike Pence” (trump’s own Vice-President) and ready to kill any member of Congress that they saw. It was an attempt to thwart the peaceful transfer of power, and to cancel out the votes of Americans. (Please, NEVER forget this, AT ALL.)
This threat comes from someone who makes his loving thinking up crazy autocratic ideas, not getting his own hands dirty, while someone else gets killed or wounded carrying out their “revolution.” That has been the stock in trade of fascist movements-like that of trump, no sugar-coating. In the origional Fascist Party of Mussolini in Italy, the party’s squads beat up and murdered many of their opponents, before and after seizing power-and the authorities of the time, the corporate and governmental elites, let them do it, as they were beating up, and down, Communists, Socialists, and labor activists, who would challenge their power.
That’s the nature of fascism. It’s the belief that there is a natural hierarchy in society, and anyone who challenges that hierarchy-the ones at the top of the hierarchy-finds some people a little lower in the heirarchy to beat them back into their “place.” trump and his acolydes know they can’t ever win a fair, democratic election, so they resort to terror to scare their opponents. There’s the physical violence of murder and beating-up,and there’s the state-level tactic of voter ID laws to frustrat people wanting to vote.
Robert’s phrase, “if the left allows it to be” stems from the idea that we on the left are cowardly, and we’ll just cave into them and crawl back into a hole; I’m thinking of Al Gore, in the 2000 election, knowing he had the majority of the popular vote, and the gang of well-dressed thugs, organized by Roger Stone, mobbing the election count in Florida. Gore, for what he believed was for peace and harmony, conceded defeat, confirming to rightists that bullying works to get their way.
The HELL with that shit! we WILL NOT give in to these fascist freaks! We WON’T cower to them! We WILL resist them every step of the way, and we WILL elect Joe Biden for another great term as President on November 5, and we WILL keep on resisting them every day after that! You with me?
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At the recent BET Awards show, host Taraji Henson put out the warning about Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for a fascist takeover of our country, and the destruction of our democracy. Shje urged her listeners to “show up and show out when it’s time to vote,” and Henson added that everyone “Look it up. They’re attacking our most vulnerable citizens. The Project 2025 plan is not a game. Look it up!” (https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/bet-awards-taraji-henson-project-2025-rcna159770)(https://www.yahoo.com/news/project-2025-conservative-plan-taraji-213610849.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAI9XK90akV9SXrz6kqKEIK2wzNiFKNxqlMeKvK004SNb3KgBOLkbIBtDlseSs7k4btx4whEHYXMNQKe4JrcvOvtA1e3jW1FNVniVau9eeNbZYHCi3u8VzvBBenURHPVgeUhTtvcPAsvmVH5Q0HIugxXcHLMWCa01VI0yjP55eMkr)
So people HAVE taken Henson’s advice and have done Google searches about Project 2025-and they see what an authoritarian disaster it would be for us. The word is that “Project 2025” has been google-searched more times than “Taylor Swift!” (https://crooksandliars.com/2024/07/project-2025-googled-more-taylor-swift)
And the fun part is, trump has been denying any knowledge of Project 2025, both saying he hasn’t read it, and that he disaagrees with what he hadn’t read.
(https://www.msnbc.com/the-weekend/watch/as-trump-distances-himself-from-project-2025-key-influencers-deliver-a-warning-214334021533) (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/7/9/2252858/-Trump-s-Project-2025-is-now-being-searched-in-Google-more-than-Taylor-Swift-and-the-NFL)
Enough about Biden’s debate performance-the word, “performance,” is about acting, putting on an act, and the debate, mishandled by CNN’s Jack Taper and Dana Bash, was just a show; they did nothing or say anything about trump’s flood of lies, there was no fact checking.
Joseph Robinette Biden, with all his imperfections (as we all have), is a good and competent man, sincerely working for the American people-while donald whatshisface is a rapist, possible pedophile, dictator-lover, and charlatan who cheats on his wives, his business contractors, his taxes, and his golf, and has cheated on America. A second trump regime would bring Project 2025 in the flesh, and onour necks-UNLESS we get out there and VOTE on November 5, and vote blue all the way through.
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I speak about the ridiculous panic over Biden’s performance in the debate, and how we must remember how awful trump was, is, and will be.
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Greetings, Americans!
It has happened: Donald t—p, the twice-impeached, raping, cheating, stealing, ignorant, self-centered sick bastard who lurked around the white House, has been formally indicted for falsifying business records to hide the hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels, to keep their affair quiet during the 2016 presidential election. (https://manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-announces-34-count-felony-trial-conviction-of-donald-j-trump/) (https://apnews.com/article/trump-trial-deliberations-jury-testimony-verdict-85558c6d08efb434d05b694364470aa0)
We are at the end of LGBTQ+ Pride Month, when Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning (as in young kids, growing up, ask themselves, “Am I gay?”) show their pride and self-acceptance of who they are and what their sexuality is, and knowing there are others just like them. It’s also a time to fight against those who, “for the noblest of reasons, like religious liberty,” seek to find any excuse to pare down, slice by slice, any or all of the advancements they have made in civil and human rights, and acceptance as citizens. Such attempts include, but not limited to, laws dictating which gender bathroom trans kids go to in school, complaints about libraries hosting drag queen story times, school libraries having LGBTQ+ themed books on the shelves (that show gay kids that there are, and have been in history, others like them)—the list goes on.
Because of these dangerous crusades, gay kids will get the idea that there’s something wrong with being gay—and that THEY THEMSELVES are wrong and evil for being gay. These same crusaders against LGBTQ+-ness, as part of the evangelical rightist movement, have attached themselves politically to the twice-impeached, thrice-married, tax-cheating, wife-cheating, business-cheating, golf-cheating, nation-cheating, rapist and indicted criminal as their presidential candidate.
The interesting thing is, so many of these evangelical campaigners have been found out to be sexually off base themselves. Case in point: Robert Morris, senior pastor of Gateway church, a Texas megachurch, and a “spiritual advisor” for trump, has been found to have had “inappropriate sexual behavior with a young lady” who was TWEVE YEARS OLD at the time. (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-adviser-pastor-robert-morris-confesses-sexual-behavior-rcna157474) The list goes on. The evangelical political movement has shown its corruption by having such a corrupt person as their standard-bearer.
If you want to what a second trump regime (God forbid!) looks like, read about the document popularly called “Project 2025,” put out by the Heritage Foundation, a so-called “think-tank” designed to dress up the most reactionary ideas in the best academic finery. This has been called the “bible” of another trump administration, whose main author is Russel Vought, who was trump’s Director of the Office of Management and Budget. (https://www.thenation.com/article/society/russell-vought-center-renewing-america-christian-nationalism/)
Vought, after leaving the government (thank God!), assembled the Center for Renewing America, another position-paper factory, and their documents have gone on about returning America to be “one Nation Under God,” and whining about schools grooming children by drag shows and “wokeness.” Project 2025 has a strong dose of Christian Nationalism to it.
These are some more of the thoughts this think-tank has been thinking:
Concentrate all power upon a unitary executive; this follows the Unitary Executive Theory, which states that the Congress cannot control or limit the President’s power over the executive branch. It was an idea common in the George W. Bush administration, that the President has the absolute authority to locate military forces upon his orders, and arrest and detain persons. It was advanced by John Woo, an attorney in the Office of Legal Counsel in the Bush II administration, during the “War On Terror.” (https://www.acslaw.org/expertforum/exploring-the-limits-of-presidential-power/);
Eliminate the Departments of Justice, of Education, of Commerce, and of Homeland Security, and the FBI (which used to be conservatives’ favorite bureaucracy, along with the military), eliminate cabinet secretaries and replace career civil servants with trump loyalists and flunkies (https://www.alternet.org/authoritarianism-project-2025-trump/);
Eliminate protections against discrimination based on race, gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity;
Direct the military to perform domestic law enforcement functions, thereby declaring war on its own fellow-citizens; arrest and deport immigrants; and implement capital punishment with swift “finality.” (https://www.phillytrib.com/commentary/the-death-of-america-as-we-know-it/article_388920c1-1442-54ba-865c-d9b8923f06c8.html)
Also in Project 2025 is the idea of restoring the military draft, so that young men and women would be compelled to serve under a commander-in-chief who regards them as “Suckers” and “Losers,” and would not hesitate to use them as cannon fodder for some egocentric war, so he could make himself look like a REAL man; and there would be no anti-war movement to stop it. (https://cardinalpine.com/2024/06/17/trump-mandatory-military-service/)
It’s a common political fantasy on the right: look for a “strong man” dictator who would destroy the unclean, non-conforming, and dissenting elements of our society, and not let a silly little thing like Civil and Human Rights, or democracy, get in his way. the evangelical right has, as I have stated, been corrupted by its proximity to power, from the Reagan administration through trump. Its whole agenda anymore is to bash LGBTQ+ people: bash Jews, Muslims and other religious minorities; and ignore discrimination of people based on race and class.
BUT—all is not lost. The presidential election coming up on November 5 will give us the opportunity to end this scheme of dictatorship, by us going out IN DROVES to the ballot box. But concern yourself with the polls; one thing I can’t stand is when the news media acts like trump will win, even before we’ve voted, so why bother to vote? DO go out and vote, and we will thwart trump and his nightmare of dictatorship. We’ve GOT this!
Stay safe, stay strong, and stay together! Slava Ukraini! Am Yisrael chai! America will be free! Bye!
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