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Trump the Truth

This report clocks more than 70 separate instances where President Trump or senior Administration officials have taken potshots at the press.
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How is this any different from what Harris wants to do? Other than she wants to use the rule of law and this is DeSantis straight up using executive order to **** all over freedom of speech. Is it because what's happening in Florida can lead to dangerous and damaging actions? Well isn't that what Harris claims about regulating Facebook ad content? It'll be fun to see the hoops conservatives will go through to defend this.

abcnews.go.com

Abortion rights group sues after Florida orders TV stations to stop airing ad

A group campaigning for a Florida abortion-rights measure is suing state officials over their order to TV stations to stop airing one ad
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How is this any different from what Harris wants to do? Other than she wants to use the rule of law and this is DeSantis straight up using executive order to **** all over freedom of speech. Is it because what's happening in Florida can lead to dangerous and damaging actions? Well isn't that what Harris claims about regulating Facebook ad content? It'll be fun to see the hoops conservatives will go through to defend this.

abcnews.go.com

Abortion rights group sues after Florida orders TV stations to stop airing ad

A group campaigning for a Florida abortion-rights measure is suing state officials over their order to TV stations to stop airing one ad
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Who would defend this? Not me. Also it’s not full context here as well Log:

www.tampabay.com

DeSantis officials must stop threatening TV stations over abortion ads, judge rules

“To keep it simple for the State of Florida: it’s the First Amendment, stupid,” the judge wrote.
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The guy who sent the letters already resigned last week, looks like it was for his actions. So before you claim it’s DeSantis, maybe get more details first. I don’t see him out there campaigning on this.

Also, I already posted that I disagree with the 6 week abortion law and will be voting against it.
 
Meanwhile, from a scholar versed in authoritarianism….Sad that this is happening, while so many sleepwalk their lives through the history of their own time. People fail to see what’s happening while it’s happening.

snyder.substack.com

Why is fascism bad, Professor?

Thoughts from the road, #1
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Robert Paxton, in Anatomy of Fascism, offers this pragmatic definition of fascism: “a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.”
 
fishonjazz said:
www.aljazeera.com

Trump vs Harris: Who is leading in US election polls?

Al Jazeera tracks the latest polls with less than three weeks to go before US voters choose a new president on November
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Who is in the lead?
According to FiveThirtyEight’s daily election poll tracker, Harris is currently leading in the national polls and has a 2.4-percentage-point lead over Trump.

But the race is still tight. FiveThirtyEight’s election forecast suggests that Harris is favoured to win 54 times out of 100 while Trump wins 46 times out of 100.

projects.fivethirtyeight.com

ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News and Videos

ABC News is your trusted source on political news stories and videos. Get the latest coverage and analysis on everything from the Trump presidency, Senate, House and Supreme Court.
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www.usatoday.com

Election 2024: Harris zeroes in on Wisconsin, Trump hurls insults at Smith dinner

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are closing in on the final weeks of the 2024 election.
www.usatoday.com

www.bbc.com

US election polls tracker 2024: Who is ahead - Harris or Trump?

An in-depth look at the polls and what they can and can’t tell us about who will win the election.
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www.nbcnews.com

'Dead heat': Trump pulls even with Harris in NBC News poll

A close election has never looked more tightly divided, with Harris’ popularity declining from its previous high and abortion atop voters’ issue list.
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www.nytimes.com

Election 2024 Polls: Harris vs. Trump

Our polling averages track the latest trends in the presidential race, using data from national and battleground state polls.
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I could go on all day long.

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From Red:
Wall Street giving Harris 72% chance of winning….


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Stock market kicking *** currently.

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Y'all should see how woke I am at work today.
We have the option to wear pink hairnets in support of breast cancer awareness and chose to wear one.


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Red said:
Meanwhile, from a scholar versed in authoritarianism….Robert Paxton, in Anatomy of Fascism, offers this pragmatic definition of fascism: “a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.”
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That entire definition is gobbledegook that conveys nothing to the reader beyond the pretentiousness of the speaker. Your earlier statements of riding down a gold escalator is what identifies someone as fascist was at least concise. It was wrong but at least everyone knew what you were saying. It made more sense than your linked "scholar versed in authoritarianism".

Fascism is not "hard to define" as your huckster claimed. If anyone wants to really know what Fascism is, in the words of Giovanni Gentile (the inventor of Fascism), Benito Mussolini (the implementer of Fascism), and even self-described Fascists today who make arguments for what they believe in their own words, here you go:



The above video is dry in the way many academic works are and although possibly the best word on the topic, can at times be a slog to get through. A much more digestible set has been put out by Metatron. I'll give away the ending in that he says it is neither right wing or left wing in the modern context, but the journey in getting to why that is so goes through the ideology point-by-point.





If you'd like to see the counterpoints to Metatron's videos, responses were done by these history teachers:





All of the above videos are light years better than the supposed scholar who spouts nonsense of Fascism being compensatory cults of energy from a mass-based party spurred by an obsessive preoccupation blah, blah.
 
Red said:
Meanwhile, from a scholar versed in authoritarianism….Sad that this is happening, while so many sleepwalk their lives through the history of their own time. People fail to see what’s happening while it’s happening.

snyder.substack.com

Why is fascism bad, Professor?

Thoughts from the road, #1
snyder.substack.com snyder.substack.com

Robert Paxton, in Anatomy of Fascism, offers this pragmatic definition of fascism: “a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.”
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Not only have scholars recognized Trump is a fascist for years, but so are those who worked closest to him:

www.msnbc.com

Trump’s former Joint Chiefs chair: Trump is ‘fascist to the core’

“No one has ever been as dangerous to this country as Donald Trump,” retired Gen. Mark Milley said. “Now I realize he’s a total fascist."
www.msnbc.com www.msnbc.com

“Fascist to the core.”
 
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