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Linda Weide's avatar

I think there is another piece to it, which is Trump has his own idea of who is a citizen. Anyone who is not White is not a citizen in his mind, in his make-believe world that he is trying to turn into the "truth." That is the problem. His idea is that 1) all non-White people are immigrants. In fact, he has such strange understanding of immigrants, that his wife does not appear to be an immigrant based on what he has to say about immigrants, nor his in-laws, nor his ex-wife. Yet, a man born and raised in the US, who has Brown skin is an immigrant. That is a made up concept of immigrant, but is akin to the way that Hitler conceived Jews. So, in that sense, Trump is confused, because he wants to make words fit his concepts instead of fitting his concepts to the meanings of words.

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Stan's avatar

This. I mean, it’s OBVIOUS that he is an immigrant, just look at his picture. He’s not white. End of discussion. (That’s how bigots think. If you can call it “thinking.”)

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Linda Weide's avatar

Exactly! That would include Native Americans. Notice that in the history of the world as seen by Donald Trump and his fellow White Supremacists, Native Americans were conquered and have no rights to this land which belongs to the White people that colonized it and continue to colonize it. None of the other people who have come to the USA count, except for the Indian Pharmaceutical billionaires and Tech Bros. They all have green skin because that is the color of money, and Green trumps Brown skin and White skin.

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elle vj's avatar

wonder from where "orange" immigrants come from???

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Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

Not only is the accused a man of color, he's got an Arabic-sounding name. I'm very surprised that Trump, Fox, and the MAGAs haven't dragged out their hatred of Muslims, Arabs, and anyone who might be either or both. (Has that angle surfaced on the right? If so, I've missed it.)

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Linda Weide's avatar

I am sure that will be attached to he came over the border. It is more difficult with their Las Vegas killer, because he was total anti-Democrat-White Supremacist, fascist all the way. I agree with whoever said we are not giving our military enough support in reentering society. I think therapy for people who have seen combat should be mandatory.

Trump and Musk call up violence towards others, while having security. I hear a lot of people are quitting the Secret Service because Trump and his family are so difficult to watch. That is according to the Spy Talk Substack.

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Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

Interesting about the Secret Service. Their problems go back a ways, though, to put it mildly. Absolutely agree that those who've seen combat should receive therapy and other support for as long as they need it.

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Helen Stajninger's avatar

This post is hard to like, but you’re right about everything Noah. Trump is indeed a fascist , repeating Nazi Germany tactics

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Potter's avatar

"liking" does not mean you actually like the reality, but like that it is being brought out.

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Helen Hancke's avatar

And his presidency has not even started yet.🤦‍♀️🙈🤦‍♀️, the MAGA seems to get away with everything, well helped by the media, amazing brainwashing.

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David J. Sharp's avatar

“Truth” — such a liberal woke thing! Who needs it when you’ve got brainiacs like Trump (that MIT connection), Musk (cuz mo’ money makes mo’ smart), Bannon (say anything) and that ilk.

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Ed Charles's avatar

As we all know, facts have a liberal bias.

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David J. Sharp's avatar

Ex! So shun them all … get thee behind me!

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David J. Sharp's avatar

“Ex!” should be “Exactly!” — apparently my iPhone knows better than I do, it keeps rewriting my eternal prose … without my vigilant eye noticing

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Karen Gold's avatar

I like Ex! as an abbreviation for Exactly. Maybe if we use it enough it will join all of the other shortcuts for texting!

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David J. Sharp's avatar

Yes! This fat old Jew coins a new word! The world gasps in awed disbelief!!!

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Old CP's avatar

JD Vance put it succinctly: “If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do..."

Of course, "the suffering of the American people" has nothing to do with =actual= suffering...anyone who has actually suffered knows the difference.

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Beryl's avatar

As I see it, probably one of the worst of the immigrants to come into this country was the grandfather of trump. He was a greedy mna who ingrained in his offspring the need to tromp over everyone to get to the top. Well we now have the offspring's offspring and he is, to my mind, one of the worst of the worst immigrants to ever invade the USA.

And now we have his offspring who are seemingly not any better. And then there is Melania, who is herself an immigrant whose looks propelled her to finagle a marriage to wealth for which she has seemingly sold her sole and now hopes to take in even more money through a "documentary." What on earth is there to document except excessive greed?

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Becky Daiss's avatar

Tragically, trump routinely achieves his goal with corp media as a willing enabler. It seems to suit his purpose and theirs.

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DebbieM (OH)'s avatar

FOX, MAGAts, trump, Republicans... scum. I am so sick of these people.

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Ellen Yvonne's avatar

Okay, so Trump lies and the media downplays the lies. 76 million individual Americans voted for a liar. They either knew he was a liar and decided that his lying ways was the best option for POTUS OR they were vulnerable to the adulation of celebrity that Trump represented on The Apprentice and they never updated their opinion of him from a successful businessman to a lying con man after nearly 10 years of new data. So I put those 76 million into two categories: 1) mean and stupid 2) clueless and stupid. Now, we have about 90 million who didn’t vote, most likely due to a sense of disempowerment: Nobody cares. My problems won’t be heard, addressed or fixed if I vote. The 90 million who didn’t vote might be the most rational of all Americans. Because those of us who voted for Kamala Harris (yes, I did) were okay with the status quo. And the truth is the status quo sucks for many millions of Americans. The capitalist culture of America encourages businesses to create new products and then persuade others through advertising that the rest of us need those products, advertisement that costs a lot of money. Our culture isn’t dominated by our government or respect of science or common sense. It’s dominated by celebrity and constant bombardment of messages that are irrelevant to people’s every day lives, messages some of us learn to tune out. Anyone who watched network television was bombarded with political ads before the election. Those ads were irrelevant, unbelievable and useless to inform voters to help them make a decision. But candidates spent billions on them and citizens contributed billions to the candidates to pay for them. Next comes the Super Bowl. Advertisements during the Super Bowl cost millions of dollars per minute. Players make millions of dollars per year. And tickets to the Super Bowl costs tens of thousands of dollars. What’s my point? We’ve been lying to ourselves. Our constitution was written over 200 years ago and we still tell ourselves that we must remain loyal to it and allow 9 SCOTUS justices to interpret the constitutionality of our laws. And who pays for the lawyers to bring the lawsuits that challenge the laws’ constitutionality? Think tanks and corporations (Hobby Lobby) with millions of dollars to spend. An absurd premise when you think about it and stop lying to yourself. And now we’re going to watch Senators approve a guy to run the HHS department who doesn’t believe in vaccines? So does that mean that millions of parents will suddenly stop having their children vaccinated? Our culture is toxic. All you have to do is look at the character of most Republican lawmakers to see that. So many sections of the country have elected the most vile people to represent them. In a so-called democracy. We are a nation of liars. That’s why the most voluminous liar in the history of the world will become POTUS on January 20, 2025.

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Ed Charles's avatar

Mike Johnson, sanctimonious as always, spewing lies on X and FAUX News while clutching his Bible and pearls.

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Carl Selfe's avatar

We will turn this around by building something for which people will vote: a solid, broadly beneficial platform that is sold by a charismatic candidate. We have approached it as candidate only. The platform became a meaningless afterthought. I would leave it there for 2024. Talk about sucks. We had a charismatic candidate sans platform. We must turn this around. We must build a platform that lifts, fires up, and arms the strongest movement of our lives. Otherwise YOU bequeath your children and grandchildren their inherited, voiceless servitude to a dictatorship. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/start-our-movement?r=3m1bs 

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Old CP's avatar

Voters vote on emotion, not policy platforms.

Republicans sow fear, and anger to drive voters to the polls.

Democrats try to use policy platforms, and hope, and joy.

The problem for Republicans is that minority government is always unstable, and fear and anger always consumes their hosts.

The problem for everyone else is that on the way their inevitable suicidal acts the fearful and angry do a great amount of damage to those around them.

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Lynnette Van Epps-Smith's avatar

If I remember last regime-Trump never stopped campaigning....he doesn't know how to be other than the person who is trying to convince you that he should be president. That is his only schtick and that is all he is capable of doing-ranting.......

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Judi Morgan-Fuller's avatar

The human, soon-to-be president of the USA, used the murder of innocent folks to spread his vile thinking. His seeming inability to apply logic to anything he says will make the next 4 years quite ugly. I am reading a book on how Hitler came into power and the Nasis that took over Germany and then much of Europe. It is amazing how we can allow history to repeat all that we thought was so hideous again. Step by step it happens. The systemic racism that is a part of our country simply will not go away. The answers are not found in the Christian churches because we find much of that ugliness very often comes right from the pulpit.

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Stan's avatar

Those aren’t Christian churches. They just say they are. Jesus very plainly says what they will hear when the day of reckoning comes: “I never knew you! Get away from me, you workers of lawlessness!” (See Matthew 7:21-23 for the rest, it’s about those who claim to do good works in his name, but are not doing his actual will.)

The Enemy’s cunning desire is for you to throw away the truth because of those who falsely pretend to represent it. Don’t let him do that to you. That is what he has done to those who are convinced that Trump is savior. True Christianity is very different from MAGA.

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Linda Morway's avatar

Cutting SS and medicare could kill senior Americans and poor. This is the big injustice.

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Heidi Gaiser's avatar

I have come up with my own definition of white privilege, which is when there is a human-caused tragedy like in New Orleans, I, as a white person, always hold that it was perpetrated by a white person. White people will not be painted with a broad brush of being unrepentant savages if one of us commits crimes. Giant menacing photos of random white men won't be placed across the stage at GOP events to warn of an invasion of immigrants with Scandinavian heritage. Right-wing political candidates won't use the crimes of white people to get their blood-thirsty base howling for revenge. I think some lunatic politician recently posted something about how there are no advantages for white people these days, but I think I've made a pretty convincing case.

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Heidi Gaiser's avatar

Typo: I "hope" it was a white person, not hold.

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David J. Sharp's avatar

“The tradition if Jim Crow and the Nazis” — America Made Great … again. Oh, an illustrious past!

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David J. Sharp's avatar

Again, my stumblebum fingers - way too eager - poked out “if” instead of “of.”

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Stan's avatar

Not in the app, but on substack.com, the 3 dots to the right allow you to edit.

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David J. Sharp's avatar

Too easy! Lemme wallow in self-righteous pity for a glorious moment or two.

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