Why is fascism so alluring and successful? I think because humans are naturally cruel and fascist. It’s instinctive to be cruel to survive. Life is hard for most and filled with pain and suffering. People naturally leap at promises and lies to escape life’s brutality, even if just for fleeting seconds casting a vote, believing in politicians trapping them with promises of getting a share of the riches which of course never come, and in this case, will likely become much more impoverished and terribly abused under the orange rump. The privileged angry white men and rich do not want to share their power and riches illegally gained from raping earth and the masses. Even the women in homes where I was raped as a child enabled the crimes because it served those women well, they were spared the monstrous advances of their violent vile husbands that got off on blood and causing pain. In my experience, fascist women are much more harmful than men. One extremely worrisome cruel fascist woman is Alberta’s Danielle Smith.
Congratulations Israel (a pedophile-harbouring criminal place built on lying religious texts, hate, murder and theft), Putin, Musk and rape religion, notably the evil catholic church. Your disinformation machines promoting rapists worked.
I expect the orange convicted felon rapist will give Ukraine to Putin as his reward for his share helping Musk buy twitter.
2022 Michael de Adder cartoon
I expect rape will be legalized, even of babies, and women’s rights will be obliterated across the nation, to reward the angry American men for their vote and control of the votes of wives and daughters. The right to vote will be taken away, from women and persons of colour first, if Feloniass Trump even allows future elections.
Frac’ing and all other matters of fossil fuels and corporate rape, lies and pillage will be deregulated. All those hard won tiny bits of harm and pollution controls will be gone.
Health will be a gong show. Watch many die and suffering needlessly as RJK jr criminalizes vaccines, masks and other public health protections. Goodbye reason and common sense, hello polio and small pox.
Deaths from extremes of heat, rain, winds, storms, flash floods will escalate; suffering for the masses will be immense.
More and more non human species will gleefully be wiped out by the greedy.
The super rich will get vastly much richer; already $64 billion richer on election day.
All because of religion, white man privilege, hatred, anger, selfishness, greed and more greed and lust for rape and turning women into birthing machines (to drive up profits for the rich) with no rights, not even to health care.
During the shit storms that is the American process for their “democracy” (which I’ve never seen yet and I’m nearly 70), so many were confident Harris was going to win. Pfffft, I told them, never will Americans (even democrats) allow a woman of colour to rule them, I expect Biden et al (the old white privileged men in politics and on the courts) knew that and thus why she was the chosen one to hand America over to Putin and reward the rich racists for their billions of dollars given to blow up Palestinian kids and women and steal their lands, homes, water, olive groves and oil and gas.
I believe the Harper/Trump/MAGA/genocide cult is so juicy and addictive to the masses because it allows humans to boldly live in and not hide their true hideous nature of cruelty.
I have experienced first hand the hideous nature of humanity all my life; climate chaos caused by our relentless pollution (we knew since before I was born how bad our emissions are), human cruelty and lust for power to serve self no matter who gets raped and or killed in the process is why I chose not to have kids. The only thing I did right in my life, is not have kids.
The Trump cult allows humans to be as inhumane as they want, notably incels/raping men that are demanding women and girls legally become property with zero rights, and forced into being baby incubators against their will.
I believe the only way to make America (and Alberta) great again lies in education.
Out with illiteracy! In with reading.
Out with guns and school shootings. In with books and criminalizing banning them.
Make America great again by educating Americans, feeding and freeing their imaginations instead of mass feeding them disinformation fabricated by billionaires. Teach them about the world beyond their borders instead of teaching them to shoot kids in schools.
Lift American literacy up to that of Palestinians.
Then, Liberty would not have to shoot herself. Education would take the likes of Putin-serving Trump and his ignorant bullies down in a snap.
2024 11 08-22 The New European Cover:
Trump wins the world loses.
The End.
Liberty shoots herself in the head.
2024 11 08 Chappatte’s Farewell America cartoon: Liberty hangs herself with the orange blob’s tie
Photo Nov 6, 2024 Texas State University:
men with signs saying “women are property”
“homo sex is sin”
Photos above taken at Texas State University day after the 2024 USA election.
Signs say:
Types of property: Women, slaves, animals, cars, land, etc…
T-shirt says:
Biblical death penalty for homosexuals, …
Trump’s win has given angry incels enormous power, The masks were never exactly on to begin with – social media was a hotbed of bigotry long before Trump’s victory. But winning has emboldened his followers by Arwa Mahdawi, 9 Nov 2024, The Guardian
The incels are in charge now
Well that didn’t take long, did it? As soon as it became clear that Donald Trump had won the election, social media saw a major spike in gleeful misogyny. And it seems Trump’s army of angry incels have found a favourite new catchphrase to taunt women with:
“Your body, my choice.”
While the phrase has been kicking around in far-right circles for a few years, the notorious white supremacist Nick Fuentes has breathed new life into it. “Your body, my choice. Forever,” Fuentes tweeted late on Tuesday night, a few hours before Trump officially won. Shortly after that, he repeated the phrase in a live stream reacting to the results of the election, where he also said things like:
“We control your bodies. Guess what, guys win again, okay. Men win again … There will never ever be a female President. It’s over. Glass ceiling? It’s a ceiling made of fucking bricks.”
From there, the taunt took off. Young men are now starting to comment “your body, my choice” and “we own your bodies now” on TikTok videos posted by women. In an analysis published on Friday, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), a thinktank focused on extremism, found “a 4,600% increase in mentions of the terms ‘your body, my choice’ and ‘get back in the kitchen’ on X”.
Even more alarmingly, the ISD notes: “The phrase ‘your body, my choice’ appears to have made its way offline, specifically into schools. Young girls and parents have used social media to share instances of offline harassment. They include the phrase being directed at them within schools or chanted by young boys in classes.”
Various other misogynistic phrases, including calls to repeal the 19th amendment, which gave women the right to vote, have also been trending online.
I wouldn’t say that the masks are fully off now that Trump has won, because they were never exactly on to begin with. This sort of unabashed misogyny is hardly new: social media was a hotbed of bigotry long before Trump’s victory. And the ubiquity of violent porn, as well as the rise of manosphere influencers like Andrew Tate – who has said women “belong” to men – have had a pernicious influence on young boys. For at least the last year, schoolteachers have been warning about students imitating Tate. Boys have, for example, been trying to slip the phrase “make me a sandwich” into conversations in order to belittle their peers and female teachers. That’s one of Tate’s favourite phrases – and he’s been posting it gleefully in response to women complaining about the election.
Still, while there was plenty of in-your-face misogyny before Trump secured a second term, his victory has clearly further emboldened bigots. Trump is a hero to many because he does whatever he likes, says whatever he likes, and seems to face no consequences for it. So it makes sense that his followers feel like they can now do the same. No need to pretend that you are anti-abortion because you care about the unborn any more.
Nope, you can just be honest and say that you are anti-abortion because you want to control women.
But what’s most important here, however, is that online trolls have enormous new power now. Trump’s victory was significantly enabled by Elon Musk: the patron saint of Extremely Online misogynists. And Musk will soon cash in on his investment. A man who jokes about impregnating Taylor Swift, makes endless jokes about women’s breasts, and who has been accused multiple times of sexual misconduct, is poised to have more influence than ever.
Trump has also forged a strong alliance with the manosphere, spending a lot of time with rightwing male podcasters as part of his strategy to get young men to the polls. In a speech celebrating his imminent victory on Wednesday morning, Trump asked Dana White, the CEO and president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), to say a few words. In that speech, White gave a shout-out to manosphere influencers who helped propel Trump to victory: “I want to thank the Nelk Boys, Adin Ross, Theo Von, Bussin’ With the Boys, and last but not least, the mighty and powerful Joe Rogan.”
Will the likes of Adin Ross, a controversial podcaster known for crude jokes and bigoted comments, get an official position in the Trump cabinet now? Who knows. One thing I can tell you is that misogynistic online edgelords aren’t in any way out on the fringes any more. They have a direct line to the incoming president’s ear.
When Trump says he’s going to ‘protect’ women, we know he means ‘control.’ Rights we have taken for granted can, as we saw with the overturning of Roe v Wade, be suddenly yanked away by Arwa Mahdawi, 2 Nov 2024, The Guardian
Could Republicans take away a woman’s right to a credit card?
“Hello, I’d like a line of credit, please.”
“Well, before we can even consider that, are you married? Are you taking a contraceptive pill? And can your husband co-sign all the paperwork so we know you have a man’s permission?”
That may not be an exact rendition of an actual conversation between a woman and a US bank manager in 1970, but it’s close enough. Before the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) was passed in 1974, it was considered good business practice for banks to discriminate against women. It didn’t matter how much money she had – a woman applying for a credit card or loan could expect to be asked invasive questions by a lender and told she needed a male co-signer before getting credit. All of which severely limited a woman’s ability to build a business, buy a house or leave an abusive relationship.
Then came the ECOA, which was signed into law 50 years ago on Monday. Banking didn’t magically become egalitarian after that – discriminatory lending practices are still very much an issue – but important protections were enshrined in law. A woman finally had a right to get a credit card in her own name, without a man’s signature.
When things feel bleak – and things feel incredibly bleak at the moment – it is important to remember how much social progress has been made in the last few decades. Many of us take having access to a credit card for granted, but it’s a right that women had to fight long and hard for. Indeed, the ECOA was passed five years after the Apollo 11 mission. “Women literally helped put a man on the moon before they could get their own credit cards,” the fashion mogul Tory Burch wrote for Time on the 50th anniversary of the ECOA being signed.
If feels fitting that such an important anniversary is so close to such an important election. While we must celebrate how far we’ve come, it’s also important to remember that progress isn’t always linear. Rights that we have taken for granted for decades can, as we saw with the overturning of Roe v Wade, be suddenly yanked away.
Is there any chance that, if Donald Trump gets into power again, we might see Republicans take away a woman’s right to her own credit card? It’s certainly not impossible. Trump’s entire campaign is, after all, about taking America back. The former president has also cast himself as a paternalistic protector of women.
“I’m going to do it, whether the women like it or not,” Trump said at a rally on Wednesday. “I’m going to protect them.”
Of course, we all know what “protect” really means in this context: it means “control”. Should he become president again, Trump and his allies seem intent on massively expanding the power of the president and eliminating hard-won freedoms. Conservative lawmakers and influencers want to control a woman’s access to reproductive healthcare. They want to control the sorts of books that get read and the type of history that gets taught. They want to control how women vote. They want to control whether a woman can get a no-fault divorce. They might not take away women’s access to credit, but they will almost certainly try to chip away at a woman’s path to financial independence.
I had to fight like hell to create and protect my financial independence and living independently. Much of the fight was ruthlessly cruel and ugly. In my experience, men do not want to share their power, or anything else except work they believe is beneath them like housework and filing paperwork. Never will I give up my independence to anyone, politician or man. Never will I let anyone take me back into men controlling my life and body, never. Not in Canada, not anywhere, not even in Take Back Evangelica Cesspool of Misogyny Alberta
Clare Blackwood@clareblackwood:
I am not a violent person but any man who says “Your body, my choice” to my face is getting chased down the street with a hammer. where did the hammer come from? doesn’t matter. with rage all things are possible
Heather@PH_OSINT:
Point of interest – it is self defence when it is perceived as threat to personal safety.
Draivaden@Draivaden:
The person who said “you body my choice” sounded like they were making an actionable threat to me.
Heather@PH_OSINT:
Oh he was.
scha·den·freu·email hidden; JavaScript is required:
“”Your body, my choice.” So you’re admitting it was never about the fetus, but about controlling women?”
Prof. Eliot Jacobson@EliotJacobson:
The moral arc of the universe bends towards f&%kery.
Barbara VanDenburgh@BabsVan:
Every month for nearly 10 years, I’ve run a very popular book club in Phoenix. For nearly 120 months running, about 60-80 women of all ages and backgrounds show up to talk, share, make friends, build community. In a good month, we’ll get maybe 5 men. Your loneliness is a choice.
If men were smart, they’d be banging down the doors at book club. The place is packed with eligible smart women. But they don’t want smart women.In my experience, MAGA men just want an ignorant silent pregnant slave to rape. Thinking, talking, independent women not allowed. Enter Feloniass Trump.
Fondly remember early on when an older man came up to me after a meeting and said he was enjoying book club but wished I’d stop “picking so many estrogen books.” I asked him to explain what an “estrogen book” was and he huffed off and never came back. Fuck your loneliness.
The 5 or so men who come to book club every month are lovely, we shall spare them when the revolution comes.
If you’re in Phoenix and interested in joining, it’s free, no need to RSVP or obligation to purchase a book, though we do love to support our indie bookstore. We’re introvert-friendly. If you just want to come listen and check it out, there’s no pressure
changinghands.com
First Draft Book Club: The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
Club: The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
I was on @kjzzphoenix recently talking about book club and the need for community, and how I try to build it in my little corner of the world. Not an exaggeration to say this project saved my life this past decade
Watch Couchman Vance and Felonias Trump lose brain cells (what bits they have) and balls over this:
Women have won 60 seats in the New Mexico Legislature to secure the largest female legislative majority in U.S. history.
2024 11 08: Women win majority of seats in New Mexico Legislature in showcase of determination and joy
Mr. Kimmel sums up the Trump Cult horror best:
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“It was a terrible night for women, for children, for the hundreds of thousands of hard working immigrants who make this country great, for health care, for our climate, for science, for journalism, for justice, for free speech, for poor people, for the middle class, for seniors who rely on social security, for our allies in Ukraine, for NATO, for the truth, for democracy, for decency, for everyone who voted again him, and guess what—it was a bad night for everyone who voted for him too, you just don’t realize it yet” @jimmykimmel @JimmyKimmelLive
Below various comments:
Dr. Fiona Mattatall @FionaMattatall:
An IUD is excellent contraception and lasts longer than a presidential term.I expect the Turnip will quickly criminalize birth control, including IUDs and emergency contraceptives, to return the favour to the catholic church judges on the supreme court keeping him out of prison giving him legal immunity, and all those millions I bet that raping religion donated for his campaign and legal fees.
A message from your friendly neighbourhood gynaecologist.
See where lawmakers are deciding the future of your right to contraception, States across the U.S. are threatening our right to basic birth control like IUDs and the pill. Now, we are fighting back and introducing proactive bills to protect this freedom for good. With contraception at risk, we cannot wait to act!
Barb Germann@BarbJG:
What is going on in the USA? Are all women getting hysterectomies? This is insanity.
Are there any men that give a shit about this?
@Kevkevofkevs:
When prices double next year they will blame Biden and the same rubes will believe every word of it. Even when the shelves are empty because everyone who grows our food has been deported. They’ll blame trans athletes for that one. People are stupid, and here we are.Humans are even more hate-filled, misogynistic, greedy, lazy, cruel, racist, spoiled with privilege and selfish than they are stupid, which is why con men like Canada’s Steve Harper, the Picklehead, Orban and Trump lure in so many.
The Yeti of Kananaskis@kananaskinyeti] Oct 15, 2024:
There’s is a good chance trump will win, but his mental condition after multiple Covid infections means the empire will be headed by a psychopath with severe dementia surrounded by sycophants and gangsters on the cusp of nuclear war on a diseased burning planet. Happy Halloween
@TechDavid45 Oct 15, 2024:
Nope. It would be the Vance show. Dude is a vulture circling Trump’s carcass. It would be catastrophic.
Amir Attaran (@email hidden; JavaScript is required)@profamirattaran:
Kamala Harris ran a “hope and change” campaign, but without the change part.
Mohammed El-Kurd@m7mdkurd:
Well it seems that tonight the Democrats are learning the hard way that aiding and abetting the genocide of Palestinians is in fact politically costly.
@PatTheSocialist:
CNN just announced that Kamala lost Michigan
Trump didn’t deserve to win, but Kamala sure as fuck deserved to lose
@tastefullysaucy:
Kamala lost by about 5 million votes. Even with Jill Stein’s votes, she’d have still lost by 4.5 million. Since you dont know what to do right now, might I suggest some reflection on how Dems support of genocide brought them here today instead of blaming people that voted Jill?
Dan Nov 5, 2023:
I want to not pay attention to the world collapsing before my eyes. I want to be distracted and blind but in reality I just want to be numb to the world. In the same breath I also want to pay attention so I’m not blind to the world I live in. The path we are on claws at me I’m scared about what’s to come. I feel like I’m watching a catastrophe unfolding my eyes in slow motion and am powerless to help. I hate it.Me too. I’ve watched and hated it my entire life. Humans have known since before I was born that the pollution, greed and selfishness of our species is destroying life on earth, and 99% are too poor to think about it or don’t give a shit.
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Mr. Krieger:
Well Doctor Steve, you said it! And with Poilievre, Ford , Moe and Smith leading the neoliberal more of same charge u can b assured Canada is going in the same authoritarian direction. Let’s call it what it is FASCISM. Former US Secretary of state Madeline Albright told us in her book. And as Big money now controls politics in the USA, get used to rule by Big business and leaders who promote and propagate division, polarization, hate and creating an enemy so we continue to be divided. Now all above board like in Alberta where 1/10 of 1% of Albertans now control the agenda! A Premier who is busy disassembling every public independent bosrd and consolidating power in her office where non elected partisan employees make the decisions
2024 11 09: Dr. Sandra Steingraber protesting with sign that says:
Science is anti-fascist
Sandra Steingraber@ssteingraber1.bsky.social:
A little thread: Science is defiantly anti-fascist because it pursues truth, is necessarily collaborative, and relies on open communication. And because its falsifiability is incompatible with the cultism, faith-based belief systems, disinformation, and propaganda of Christian nationalism.
Science is defiantly anti-fascist because science works best when the diversity, inclusion, and equity of those who practice it are expanded. Until women became biologists, we didn’t see that “the egg fertilizes the sperm” is a more accurate descriptor than “the sperm fertilizes the egg.”
We didn’t fully appreciate the biological complexity of sex/gender or how many of the planet’s interdependent species are queer AF until queer people became scientists.
The questions we choose to pursue as researchers—what we see and what we are blind to—are framed by our own lived experiences.
In my field of ungulate biology, there are more far more papers authored on the antlers of male deer than on the foraging behavior of pregnant does. That’s because a lot of large mammal field biologists are white guys who grew up hunting. And antlers are masculine trophies.
Sandra Steingraber @ssteingraber1.bsky.social
That’s why I—who now studies the public health crisis of fossil fuels—belong in the street with citizens acting on behalf of refugees. I have data that can help us better understand. So here I am.
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The 3 am insomnia thoughts of public health biologist: ending mandatory vaccines will mean rubella outbreaks in the schools and the rubella virus is a potent birth-defect inducing agent and the pregnant teachers won’t be able get abortions which will fill the schools of the deaf and blind a la 1964.
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Pat Bulb:
I wonder how long it will take for Americans to figure out what they’ve done to themselves?I think many will die of preventable diseases and repeat COVID long before they figure out they betrayed themselves via their hate and greed to control and abuse women and girls.
Hakuin:
Cheer up, the disgruntled poor are about to discover what real poverty is.
Mr. Krieger:
Real poverty and Mussolini type FASCISM. A join venture by government and business to exploit us and in more profits while maintaining they are holding off a hypothetical enemy. And it’s coming up fast in Canada. Preston Manning , Stephen Harper type politics and economics on steroids as perceived by Poilievre
marcos:
and the Green Party like it did in BC and last night in the US, always happy to strip away that critical few percentage of progressive support, making the fascist so happy.I’ve never known a green party that wasn’t a fascist con party (all across Canada and USA). Jill Stein in my view, is just another Putin puppet. Trudeau had his chance to force Ranked ballot on us and foolishly let it slide.
jay:
so now canada has Russia to the north And south of us.
I fell into optimism for Harris and I would have ended my travel boycott to the US.
I’m shattered this morning.
it’s women who have lost- everything.
by this time next year, Canada will understand what rape Feels like.
madtaxpayer:
… Third. I feel Biden and his Adminstration were too weak and timid to stop this criminal maniac by executive privilege and action earlier on that a president has. But sadly the zoned out president just wasnt there. They knew the threat and did nothing.Biden and Harris are genocidaires, controlled by AIPAC and Israel. I think Biden intentionally tossed Americans under the bus in exchange for big money from the Israeli lobby. And I have to ask, what angered and frustrated so many tens of millions Americans to see them vote for Trump anyhow. The economy seems to have been the biggest factor. The Trump predators smelled the weakness of their prey on the Biden side.
I dont blame Kamala Harris for this loss. Not at all. She didn’t have enough time, because arrogance and ego of her man leader didn’t let her spread her wings much earlier. She did such an amazing job doing the heavy lifting of the checked out figurehead Biden and fighting the good fight against the other knuckledragging man child Trump. She was a fighter and good soldier, but her fight was almost insurmountable. America failed America. All we can do is wait for any fallout and implications for Canada and the rest of the world. Trumps probably having a phone conference love in with the tyrants of the worldwhile Steve Harper, Danielle Smith, Scott Moe, and the Picklehead suck Trump’s orange thingie. And all I can say about Musk is he’s a pig and I would feel dirty and wrong and be a hypocrite to ever buy one of his vehicles or products. Never.
Jimmy Rocket:
… I truly did not see the popular vote going the way it did. And, yes, the same mentality is growing in Canada. Chickens passionately supporting Colonel Sanders.
Blurr:
Indeed.
To all those Americans that are now celebratory I would say just wait, you have elected evil and you have permitted the dark money of the billionaires to put their hands on the scales of democracy. Their cheers may become more muted when the following arrives:
- the Inflation Reduction Act disappears and with it the jobs that were just on the horizon for many of these struggling small towns and cities
- the Affordable Care Act is gutted and all those who can no longer afford health insurance have to go back to mortgaging their homes to get the medicines that they need to stay alive
- you get that national abortion ban, so more women can die during a bad pregnancyand, I fully expect Mr Misogyny Vance will work especially hard to legalize rape of women and girls (while rape of men and boys will continue to be a crime)
- the GOP finally gets to amend and revoke all of those social programs that provide social assistance and senior income support
- the war over trade with China arrives and inflation surges so all those Wal-Mart purchases suddenly become more expensive
- the bills start to arrive for this mass attack on immigration and a wave of austerity hits every USA program
- the US foreign policy becomes one of provocative isolationism and the US is not safer and are in fact embroiled in more and varied dangerous conflicts.
I could say that I feel sorry for the USA but when this storm arrives and sweeps over rural and small town America, I am reluctant to say it, but I hope they suffer first and longest.
Anne__Ominous:
It’ll be coming to Canada. It always does.
Blurr Anne__Ominous:
Sadly, yes. It is already in SASK and Alberta.And Ontario and PQ, nearly got NB but they wisely punted out racist Irving Oil pig Blaine Higgs and his hatred of all that is good; and nearly got BC, will get BC next time – Stevie Harper will make sure of that.
Hakuin Blurr:
Cheer up, the illiterate that voted for it will soon be the first class officially criminalized by their poverty, and hence recategorized as slaves. They’ll all be plantation labour or cannon fodder or simply liquidated soon enough.
Geoffrey Pounder;
Don’t blame Stein. Don’t blame progressive voters, human rights activists, and U.S. Muslims for not supporting genocide.
The bloodstained Democrats led by geriatric Genocide Joe brought this upon themselves.
“Trump or Harris? Gaza war drives many Arab and Muslim voters to Jill Stein” (Al Jazeera, 4 Nov 2024)
“After extensive dialogue with both the Harris and Trump campaigns, we found no commitment to addressing the urgent concerns of our community, particularly the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon.”
“I am sick of the two-party system and their power play politics, where on both sides, they are unanimously agreeing on this bipartisan issue that they support Israel.”
“Harris and Trump simply are indistinguishable to us because they passed a certain threshold that we cannot ever buy into the logic of lesser of two evils. These are two genocidal parties, and we cannot put our hand with either of them.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/4/trump-or-harris-gaza-war-drives-many-arab-and-muslim-voters-to-jill-stein
“US election: Arab Americans united in grief, divided on strategy” (Al Jazeera, 4 Nov 2024)
“Dearborn, Michigan – For more than a year, Layla Elabed says she and other Arab Americans have been at a ‘collective funeral’.
“‘We’re grieving. We’re frustrated. We’re angry. We’re heartbroken. We feel betrayed,’ Elabed said, finally taking a breath as she reflected on Israel’s raging wars on Gaza and Lebanon.
“And now, with bombs still raining down, she added that Arab American voters were being asked to hit pause their sorrow and cast a ballot on Tuesday for presidential candidates who do not have a plan ‘to stop the killing’.
“Harris has promised to continue arming Israel while her Republican rival, Donald Trump, has a staunchly pro-Israel record despite his claims of wanting to bring ‘peace’ to the region.
“… Last week, former President Bill Clinton said at a Harris rally in Michigan that Hamas ‘forces’ Israel to kill civilians. He also suggested that Zionism predated Islam in comments that stirred outrage among Arab and Muslim groups.
“Harris has also refused to meet advocates from the Uncommitted Movement after her campaign rejected the group’s demand to allow a speech by a Palestinian representative at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/4/us-election-arab-americans-united-in-grief-divided-on-strategy
Jimmy Rocket:
That dichotomy shows how much people struggle with critical thinking. You can virtue signal by voting for Jill Stein or not voting but Trump and BB are cut from the same cloth. I fear there will never be a Palestinian state now. Miriam Adelson gave Trump 100 million dollars to ethnically cleanse the West Bank so expect that to proceed.
As for Jill Stein, she is just a useless narcissist. How has she grown the Green Party vote over the years? Watch her discussion with Mehdi Hasan for a good look at her actual character or lack thereof.and search the Internet for photo of Stein dining with Putin and his Klan
Geoffrey Pounder:
Democrat or Republican, Harris or Trump, makes no difference to the Palestinians.
Bombs stamped MADE IN THE USA fall on their heads regardless.
JR wrote: “I fear there will never be a Palestinian state now. Miriam Adelson gave Trump 100 million dollars to ethnically cleanse the West Bank so expect that to proceed.”
The current demolition of Gaza, the ongoing expansion of illegal settlements in the West Bank, and Israel’s reign of terror over both are green-lit, approved, funded, enabled, made possible, and brought to you by Genocide Joe and your friendly neighbourhood Democrats.
Israel was never going to allow a full-fledged sovereign Palestinian state. At best, the Palestinians were offered a disconnected mosaic of Bantustans.
It’s bad enough when the bad guys preside over genocide.
It’s even worse when the supposed good guys do it.
When Biden/Harris presides over genocide, in many ways that is worse.
When Trump presides over genocide, he does not betray Democrat voters and principles. He does not abandon his humanity, because he has none.
When Trump presides over genocide, he does not take the option for justice for Palestinians and peace for Israelis off the table.
When Biden/Harris presides over genocide, they abandon their humanity; betrays Democrat voters and principles; and takes the option for justice for Palestinians and peace for Israelis off the table.
When the Democrats take the moral foreign policy option off the table, that option is then lost, because both parties now support gross injustice — and the American people are left with no alternatives (except vote Green).
Worse, when the good guys support genocide, people lose faith in their elected leaders, governments, and democracy itself.
Palestinians die regardless.
Under responsible government, voters must hold their government and leaders accountable. Otherwise, democracy fails.
If the Democrat party fails to adhere to Democrat principles, it is incumbent upon Democrat voters to reject those failures and demand better.
If the Democrats provide unsuitable candidates and unacceptable policies, the only way to change them is for Democrat voters to vote their conscience.
If the Democrat party wants to win, it must respect the will of its voters. It is not up to voters to conform to the will of the party. That is backwards.
“In 2020 as in previous US elections, Democrats are telling American progressives yet again that they must vote for an inadequate, duplicitous, imperial, and corporate-captive presidential candidate as ‘the lesser evil.’ In reality, however, Lesser Evil-ism is a self-fulfilling prophecy that helps move the narrow American major-party spectrum further to the right while channeling popular political energies into an electoral system that does not represent the nation’s working- and middle-class majority.
“Aptly described by the late left political scientist Sheldon Wolin as ‘the Inauthentic Opposition,’ the neoliberal Democratic Party offers no serious resistance, electoral or otherwise, to the corporate and financial class rule advanced by the rightmost of the only two viable political organizations.”
Paul Street: “Joe Biden is Lying, Cognitively Crippled Corporatist”, May 11, 2020
https://www.paulstreet.org/joe-biden-is-lying…/
Voting for the Democrats gives them a free pass on genocide.
Voting for the Democrats gives them no incentive for change.
Vote for the genocidal Democrats — and expect more of the same.
… Thousands of voters in swing states like Michigan refused to vote for the genocidal Democrats. The scale of Trump’s victory may make their votes immaterial to the outcome.
But for each voter who made that difficult choice, it represented an exercise of their democratic right to choose their representatives — and hopefully will send a clear message to the Democrats that their genocidal policies and blank cheque stance towards Israel are unacceptable.
Hakuin:
The billionaires who want to be trillionaires won. Welp, not much we can do here. Scrape together your pennies, it’ll be recession immediately and real depression not far behind. Time to rig for storm running, I’m thinking myself how to position for the new opportunities, there are whole classes of former humans that will be up for sale as chattels, perhaps there’s hope there.
Trail K:
Well the republicans have been busy with various voter suppression techniques over the past many years!Stevie Harper did too and is still leading that corrupt charge; provincial cons are working hard to prevent other parties winning elections again.
Hakuin:
Our own traitors have long been selling us to murcan billionaires.Yup, Lyin’ Brian Mulroney and Stevie Heartless Harper two of the most evil.
Frank_inBC:
I think its only his last term if he dies. Otherwise he will stay on past 4 years. He doesn’t care about “laws”.Neither did Brian Mulroney, or Harper, or the Picklehead, or Danielle Smith, or Scott Moe (he’s a fucking murderer ffs), blablableepbleepbla. We have a shit load of criminal hate filled politicos in Canada worshipped and adored by hate and rage filled Canadians.
John Merriman:
I foresee that a more likely outcome is that he will be removed for incapacity within 2 years I don’t think the GOP will wait that long, the stench of Trump’s leaking diapers polluting the air in the oval office will gross them out sooner than soonunder the 25th amendment. But “Trumpism” will survive Trump, it could get worse.
Anne__Ominous:
He’s not getting any younger–and he looks pretty unhealthy to me.
John Merriman:
Welcome President Vance. Then the fun will start.
Jan Steinman:
the DEMS will revert to the courts
Y’mean, the courts that is chock-a-block full of 234 Trump appointees ? <—LINK That’s about as many as Obama appointed in eight years!
More than a quarter of currently active federal judges are now Trump appointees . <—LINK
If anything could be worse than Trump’s victory, it’s taking over the Senate, which is in charge of vetting appointees. Expect a rubber-stamp for the most vile, right-wing crew that could manage to wrangle a lower judge position. And these are life-appointments, meaning most of them will out-live Trump for 30-40 years.In Canada, judicial terms are limited to age 75; Harper appointed many (including all those that shat on my lawsuit and charter rights) that will betray Canadians and our constitution for many years yet. If the Picklehead gets massive majority, which I expect will happen same as I was certain Trump would win in 2016, and again this time (mainly because humans are generally inhumane), many more rape and corporate crime enabling judges will rule the slithering nests on our corrupt courts
Goodbye, USA. I wish I could say “It’s been good knowing you”, but it’s greatness was just an accident of geology, sitting atop massive oil reserves that are about to play out.and many states will wash and blow away in storms driven by climate chaos and many citizens will die from heat extremes and severe fires and water shortages (even if USA kills all Canadians and steals our water) as Trump takes more and more away from those who voted him back into power. Trump won’t be able to appoint a single Federal Appeals Court judge that can repeal the laws of physics.
Frank_inBC:
Nah, I think the “American people” will spend the next 4 years wondering why they were such morons.If they live that long. I expect Herr Trump and his klan will exterminate many with extreme poverty, climate chaos, H5N1, COVID, etc.
Hakuin:
No, they won’t. As the misery sets in they’ll console themselves by lynching anyone who doesn’t look albino.
What happens to Trump’s criminal and civil cases now that he’s been reelected by Devan Cole, Paula Reid, Lauren del Valle, Kara Scannell, Jeremy Herb, Zachary Cohen and Sara Murray, Nov 6, 2024, CNN
Donald Trump has been reelected to the White Houseas a convicted felon who is awaiting sentencing in his hush money case in New York and still working to stave off prosecution in other state and federal cases.
It’s an extraordinarily unique position for him to be in: Never before has a criminal defendant been elected to the nation’s highest office, just as an ex-president had never been criminally charged until last year.
Trump has said multiple times he plans to fire special counsel Jack Smith and end the federal cases against him for trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election and mishandling classified documents.
As of Wednesday, Smith is in active talks with Justice Department leadership about how to end the federal cases against Trump, a DOJ official familiar with the discussions told CNN.
“It clearly paid off to aggressively push to delay these cases as long as possible,” said Jessica Levinson, a constitutional law professor at Loyola Law School.
In the meantime, a judge in New York is set to sentence the former president later this month after holding off on handing down the punishment ahead of Election Day to avoid any appearance of affecting the outcome of the presidential race – though Trump’s lawyers are expected to ask the judge to put off the sentencing now that he’s the president-elect.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Here’s what to know about the four criminal cases:
New York sentencing
Trump is scheduled to appear in a New York courtroom on November 26 to receive a sentence for his conviction earlier this year on 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment made during the 2016 campaign to adult-film star Stormy Daniels, who alleged a prior affair with the president-elect. (Trump denies the affair.)
Whether that sentencing happens at all remains an open question. The Trump legal team is going to try to make sure the sentencing does not occur. In the past it has been focused on delaying proceedings in the case, but now it is going to try to get it canceled altogether, according to a source familiar with the strategy.
Trump’s attorneys are expected to enter a filing in the coming days arguing that as a president-elect, he is entitled to the same constitutional protections as a sitting president and should be protected from any action by state prosecutors.
The filing is expected before Judge Juan Merchan’s self-imposed deadline of November 12 to decide whether to wipe away Trump’s conviction because of the Supreme Court’s decision this summer granting a president some presidential immunity. If Merchan decides to wipe away the conviction, the charges would be dismissed, and Trump would not be sentenced.
But if the judge decides to keep the conviction intact, the former president’s lawyers are expected to ask Merchan to delay Trump’s sentencing so they can appeal. And if that’s not granted, his attorneys are planning to appeal the immunity decision to state appellate courts and potentially all the way to the US Supreme Court to ask the courts to delay Trump’s sentencing until all appeals are exhausted, which could take months.
Should Merchan move ahead with sentencing, Trump could be ordered to serve as much as four years of prison time, but the judge is not required to sentence the president-elect to prison, and he could impose a lesser sentence, such as probation, home confinement, community service or a fine.The Feloniass Rump won’t be held accountable for any of his many crimes. Rich white males in NA usually get away with crimes, especially rape, that’s why our judicial industry was created the way it was, to protect raping criminal white male politicians and the rich.
Any sentence, of course, will be complicated by the fact that Trump is set to take office on January 20, 2025. Trump’s lawyers are likely to shape their appeals to raise constitutional issues challenging whether a state judge can sentence a president-elect, which could tie the case up in courts for years.
Since it is a state case, Trump does not have the power to pardon himself next year after he is sworn into office.Doesn’t matter, I believe there is no judge in USA with the integrity or courage to put Trump where he belongs – in prison. If he were coloured, or a pregnant woman who miscarried, he’ would’ve been tossed in prison years ago.
Federal cases in DC and Florida
Trump’s election victory is poised to have the greatest impact on the two federal criminal cases brought against him by Smith in Washington, DC, and Florida.
Since the cases were brought in 2023, Trump’s main legal strategy has been to delay the trials until past the election so that, if elected, he could fire Smith, leading to the end of the two cases. In late October, the former president said he would take such a step without hesitation.
“Oh, it’s so easy. It’s so easy,” Trump said when asked by conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt whether he would “pardon yourself” or “fire Jack Smith” if reelected.
“I would fire him within two seconds,” Trump said.
The discussions between Smith and DOJ leadership are expected to last several days.
Justice Department officials are looking at options for how to wind down the two criminal cases while also complying with a 2020 memo from the department’s Office of Legal Counsel about indictments or prosecutions of sitting presidents.
More than a half-dozen people who are close to the special counsel’s office or other top Justice Department officials previously told CNN they believe Smith doesn’t want to close up shop before being ordered to do so or pushed out by Trump.
Under federal law, Smith must provide a confidential report on his office’s work to the attorney general before he leaves the post.
In the DC case, Smith charged Trump over his efforts to overturn his election loss in 2020. The case was stalled for months as Trump pressed federal courts to grant him presidential immunity, and in July the Supreme Court issued a historic ruling that said he had some immunity from criminal prosecution.All hail the supremely corrupt catholic court of the USA! I’ll never understand why so many lawyers think we have “justice” in North America when criminal fraudster politicians like Trump, Harper and when PM, the Picklehead (Mr. Robotcaller) get to pick their fav dirty judges to protect their criminal asses. One only needs a third of a brain to see it’s impossible to have justice in such a sick system of “legally immune” criminals appointing judges and regulators put above the constitution by our courts.
The federal judge overseeing the trial has been deciding how much of Trump’s conduct at the center of the case is shielded by immunity after prosecutors last month laid out their arguments for why the ruling should have no impact on the case.
The charges brought by Smith against the president-elect in Florida accuse Trump of illegally taking classified documents from the White House and resisting the government’s attempts to retrieve the materials. That case was thrown out in July by Judge Aileen Cannon, but prosecutors have appealed her ruling, which said that Attorney General Merrick Garland’s appointment of Smith violated the Constitution.
Georgia RICO case
The immediate fate of Trump’s criminal case in Georgia largely hinges on whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, a Democrat, is disqualified from prosecuting the matter after her prior romantic relationship with a fellow prosecutor. But even if she is allowed to continue prosecuting Trump, the case would almost certainly imperiled now that he has been elected.
The criminal charges again Trump for attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election results are effectively on hold while the appeals court decides whether to disqualify Willis, a decision that is not expected until 2025.
If Willis is removed, sources told CNN they think it’s unlikely another prosecutor will want to take up the case and it will effectively go away.
Sources familiar with the case said it is unlikely that a state-level judge would allow proceedings to continue when Trump is president and, in that scenario, Trump’s attorneys would certainly move to have the case dismissed.
There is no clear answer as to whether a state-level prosecutor, like Willis, can prosecute a sitting president. Trump’s victory now forces Willis to confront that constitutional question in addition to the existing legal issues that have already cast uncertainly over the Georgia case’s future.
Civil suits
The former president is also defending himself in a litany of civil lawsuits, including ones concerning his role in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, two E. Jean Carroll defamation cases, and a civil fraud case brought by the New York attorney general where Trump was ordered to pay nearly $454 million in damages.
In September, state and federal appeals courts in New York heard arguments for two of Trump’s civil appeals.
Trump lost two defamation cases to Carroll in 2023 and 2024 in federal court after a jury found him liable for sexually abusing the onetime columnist and subsequently defaming her. Two juries awarded Carroll $5 million and $83 million.
A federal appeals court heard Trump’s appeal to dismiss the first Carroll verdict in September. The court has yet to issue a decision.
Later in the month, a state appeals court heard arguments in Trump’s efforts to dismiss the $454 million civil fraud judgement against him, in which a judge found he, his adult sons and his company fraudulently inflated the value of Trump’s assets to obtain better loan and insurance rates.
The five-judge appeals court appeared open to at least lowering the fine levied against Trump, though it also has yet to issue a decision. That ruling can be appealed to New York’s highest appellate court.Ah, justice, all designed intentionally to protect dangerous criminal fuckers like Trump and feed false hope into the citizenry.
Trump is also still facing civil lawsuits brought by Democratic lawmakers and others over his role in the January 6 Capitol attack.
It’s possible that all these cases continue to play out even as Trump serves his second term in the White House. In a 1997 Supreme Court ruling stemming from a civil lawsuit then-President Bill Clinton was involved in, the justices unanimously decided that sitting presidents could not invoke presidential immunity to avoid civil litigation while in office.
@TRyanGregory:
There is no ambiguity whatsoever about who and what Trump is. And at least 71 million Americans want more of that.Showing me the hideousness of humanity in living colour which I was taught many times before I turned nine.
Not much sunnier outlook in Canada either.
Steve Harper is a vengeful guy. He has always made it clear how much he hates Canada and Canadians, wants to turn us into America’s armpit state, and now has to punish us for daring to vote his fascist Repuglican ass out in 2015. Harper and the IDU are coming for us via the Picklehead, another idiot voters will put into power because voting for stupid makes them feel smarter than they are.
The Picklehead, a liar and slogan chanter like Trump who refuses to get security clearance. We need to know why.
Jason P.@JasonPYYC:
People who want cheap gas and cheap groceries are voting for the politicians funded by grocers, and oil and gas.
Make it make sense.
2024 Nov 6, 2024: Liberty last seen fucking off to France…