Trumps Indictment: Historical and Future Implications IV
Cont from above
The only real sign of the old party is the platform’s promise to make the Trump tax cuts, which have already added $2.5 trillion to the national debt, permanent. Otherwise, the platform is a MAGA document. It portrays a world that reflects Trump’s dystopian vision rather than reality, then promises to fix that dystopia either with vague promises or with culture war victories. In odd passages, it promises to do what Biden has already done: conquer inflation, bring supply chains home, revive manufacturing, and save the auto industry.
The speakers at the convention have largely been MAGA extremists, and the picture they painted of the United States echoed Trump’s. They portrayed a country in decline from the heady days of the Trump presidency, but their image was not based in reality. Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin, for example, claimed that “Women, Black Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans all saw record low unemployment under Donald J. Trump,” when in fact those record lows have come under Biden. Former CEO of Yammer, South African David Sacks, echoed Russian talking points when he blamed Biden for provoking Russia to invade Ukraine. Tennessee senator Marsha Blackburn attacked “racist DEI requirements.”
CNN fact checker Daniel Dale has been kept busy correcting the Republicans’ repeated lie that there is a violent crime wave in the U.S. under Biden; the opposite is true. Both violent crimes and property crimes have plummeted since the Trump administration. Republicans are also saying that Democrats “have eroded the American energy dominance that President Trump delivered.” In reality, while Biden is trying to shift the U.S. to renewables, Dale noted that “the U.S. under Biden is producing more crude oil than any country ever has… the U.S. is setting fossil fuel world records under this administration. The U.S. produced a global record 12.9 million barrels of crude oil per day in 2023, easily beating the Trump-era high of 12.3 million barrels.”
Today’s speakers included Nikki Haley, a last-minute addition to the program after the events of the weekend in an apparent attempt to create a sense of unity. She made a good pitch but didn’t convince everyone: there were scattered boos at her appearance. Her speech was the high-water mark of the unity effort tonight; the rest of the speakers hammered the idea that the country is divided in two and that Trump’s opponents are persecuting him. They singled out the media as a key enemy.
The bitter rift between establishment and MAGA Republicans has been evident in other ways, as well. Attendees booed Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) when he pledged Kentucky’s votes to Trump, from whom he has kept his distance. MAGA congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) interrupted CNN journalist Kaitlan Collins when she was interviewing former House speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to taunt McCarthy by pointing out that he had not been asked to speak, adding that if he had been, “You would get booed off the stage.” Gaetz was behind the move to throw McCarthy out of his office, and he resigned from Congress shortly thereafter. McCarthy reacted by noting that there is an ethics complaint against Gaetz for sleeping with a minor.
Trump has appeared at the convention with a large bandage on the ear he says was pierced by a bullet on Saturday. Journalists have begun to note that there has been no medical report of Trump’s injuries, an odd omission after the intense recent scrutiny of President Biden’s health.
Trump seemed oddly subdued on Monday and appeared to fall asleep during the proceedings. His wife Melania has not yet appeared at the convention.
Today, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s son Bobby Kennedy III posted a video of a call Trump made to his father in which Trump appeared to try to win Kennedy’s support first by appearing to support Kennedy’s opposition to vaccines and then by suggesting that he could get Kennedy a job. “I would love you to do something,” Trump said. “And I think it’ll be so good for you and so big for you. And we’re going to win.” He also noted that Biden had called him after the shooting, saying “it was very nice, actually,” and that the cause of the injury he sustained on Saturday felt like “the world’s largest mosquito.”
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Notes: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-16-2024
The only real sign of the old party is the platform’s promise to make the Trump tax cuts, which have already added $2.5 trillion to the national debt, permanent. Otherwise, the platform is a MAGA document. It portrays a world that reflects Trump’s dystopian vision rather than reality, then promises to fix that dystopia either with vague promises or with culture war victories. In odd passages, it promises to do what Biden has already done: conquer inflation, bring supply chains home, revive manufacturing, and save the auto industry.
The speakers at the convention have largely been MAGA extremists, and the picture they painted of the United States echoed Trump’s. They portrayed a country in decline from the heady days of the Trump presidency, but their image was not based in reality. Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin, for example, claimed that “Women, Black Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans all saw record low unemployment under Donald J. Trump,” when in fact those record lows have come under Biden. Former CEO of Yammer, South African David Sacks, echoed Russian talking points when he blamed Biden for provoking Russia to invade Ukraine. Tennessee senator Marsha Blackburn attacked “racist DEI requirements.”
CNN fact checker Daniel Dale has been kept busy correcting the Republicans’ repeated lie that there is a violent crime wave in the U.S. under Biden; the opposite is true. Both violent crimes and property crimes have plummeted since the Trump administration. Republicans are also saying that Democrats “have eroded the American energy dominance that President Trump delivered.” In reality, while Biden is trying to shift the U.S. to renewables, Dale noted that “the U.S. under Biden is producing more crude oil than any country ever has… the U.S. is setting fossil fuel world records under this administration. The U.S. produced a global record 12.9 million barrels of crude oil per day in 2023, easily beating the Trump-era high of 12.3 million barrels.”
Today’s speakers included Nikki Haley, a last-minute addition to the program after the events of the weekend in an apparent attempt to create a sense of unity. She made a good pitch but didn’t convince everyone: there were scattered boos at her appearance. Her speech was the high-water mark of the unity effort tonight; the rest of the speakers hammered the idea that the country is divided in two and that Trump’s opponents are persecuting him. They singled out the media as a key enemy.
The bitter rift between establishment and MAGA Republicans has been evident in other ways, as well. Attendees booed Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) when he pledged Kentucky’s votes to Trump, from whom he has kept his distance. MAGA congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) interrupted CNN journalist Kaitlan Collins when she was interviewing former House speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to taunt McCarthy by pointing out that he had not been asked to speak, adding that if he had been, “You would get booed off the stage.” Gaetz was behind the move to throw McCarthy out of his office, and he resigned from Congress shortly thereafter. McCarthy reacted by noting that there is an ethics complaint against Gaetz for sleeping with a minor.
Trump has appeared at the convention with a large bandage on the ear he says was pierced by a bullet on Saturday. Journalists have begun to note that there has been no medical report of Trump’s injuries, an odd omission after the intense recent scrutiny of President Biden’s health.
Trump seemed oddly subdued on Monday and appeared to fall asleep during the proceedings. His wife Melania has not yet appeared at the convention.
Today, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s son Bobby Kennedy III posted a video of a call Trump made to his father in which Trump appeared to try to win Kennedy’s support first by appearing to support Kennedy’s opposition to vaccines and then by suggesting that he could get Kennedy a job. “I would love you to do something,” Trump said. “And I think it’ll be so good for you and so big for you. And we’re going to win.” He also noted that Biden had called him after the shooting, saying “it was very nice, actually,” and that the cause of the injury he sustained on Saturday felt like “the world’s largest mosquito.”
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Notes: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-16-2024
Rew said:Thanks for passing on the info, it is appreciated.
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Here's a good overview of Project 2025.
https://x.com/BidenHQ/status/1813590261274145191
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Here's a good overview of Project 2025.
https://x.com/BidenHQ/status/1813590261274145191
I mean when the Lincoln Project is anti-Trump it's time to pay attention:
https://x.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1813408284910461105
https://x.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1813408284910461105
Inside Ziklag, the Secret Organization of Wealthy Christians Trying to Sway the Election and Change the Country
Ziklag, an invitation-only charity organization for rich Christians, aims to take dominion over what it sees as the seven major spheres of public life, which it calls “mountains”: business, science and technology, family, arts and media, church, education and government. Credit:Nesma Moharam, special to ProPublica
A network of ultrawealthy Christian donors is spending nearly $12 million to mobilize Republican-leaning voters and purge more than a million people from the rolls in key swing states, aiming to tilt the 2024 election in favor of former President Donald Trump.
These previously unreported plans are the work of a group named Ziklag, a little-known charity whose donors have included some of the wealthiest conservative Christian families in the nation, including the billionaire Uihlein family, who made a fortune in office supplies, the Greens, who run Hobby Lobby, and the Wallers, who own the Jockey apparel corporation. Recipients of Ziklag’s largesse include Alliance Defending Freedom, which is the Christian legal group that led the overturning of Roe v. Wade, plus the national pro-Trump group Turning Point USA and a constellation of right-of-center advocacy groups.
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https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ziklag-secret-christian-charity-2024-election?fbclid=IwY2xjawEFE0JleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHae7BqAnxgx2H0gmZl3FjPIYKowxwqnyKAWz0GgLwk3uBeXdGqd7BzZ3_g_aem_iTTlBva8NQa201qpriTyfw
Ziklag, an invitation-only charity organization for rich Christians, aims to take dominion over what it sees as the seven major spheres of public life, which it calls “mountains”: business, science and technology, family, arts and media, church, education and government. Credit:Nesma Moharam, special to ProPublica
A network of ultrawealthy Christian donors is spending nearly $12 million to mobilize Republican-leaning voters and purge more than a million people from the rolls in key swing states, aiming to tilt the 2024 election in favor of former President Donald Trump.
These previously unreported plans are the work of a group named Ziklag, a little-known charity whose donors have included some of the wealthiest conservative Christian families in the nation, including the billionaire Uihlein family, who made a fortune in office supplies, the Greens, who run Hobby Lobby, and the Wallers, who own the Jockey apparel corporation. Recipients of Ziklag’s largesse include Alliance Defending Freedom, which is the Christian legal group that led the overturning of Roe v. Wade, plus the national pro-Trump group Turning Point USA and a constellation of right-of-center advocacy groups.
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https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ziklag-secret-christian-charity-2024-election?fbclid=IwY2xjawEFE0JleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHae7BqAnxgx2H0gmZl3FjPIYKowxwqnyKAWz0GgLwk3uBeXdGqd7BzZ3_g_aem_iTTlBva8NQa201qpriTyfw
https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-15th-july-2024
Uk columns take on the trump assassination attempt.
Assassination is a political tool folks, there never has been a lone gunman.
On your statement regarding love is love, that includes minor attracted persons? Being an advocate for inclusiveness and campaigning against Inequality.
Just no inclusion for white Christian nationalist types. The world would be far better of without those pesky whites.
Uk columns take on the trump assassination attempt.
Assassination is a political tool folks, there never has been a lone gunman.
On your statement regarding love is love, that includes minor attracted persons? Being an advocate for inclusiveness and campaigning against Inequality.
Just no inclusion for white Christian nationalist types. The world would be far better of without those pesky whites.
Ahavati said:Inside Ziklag, the Secret Organization of Wealthy Christians Trying to Sway the Election and Change the Country
Ziklag, an invitation-only charity organization for rich Christians, aims to take dominion over what it sees as the seven major spheres of public life, which it calls “mountains”: business, science and technology, family, arts and media, church, education and government. Credit:Nesma Moharam, special to ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ziklag-secret-christian-charity-2024-election?fbclid=IwY2xjawEFE0JleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHae7BqAnxgx2H0gmZl3FjPIYKowxwqnyKAWz0GgLwk3uBeXdGqd7BzZ3_g_aem_iTTlBva8NQa201qpriTyfw
On a similar theme, A, below is an in-depth article detailing the politically engineered rise of the Christian Right. Well worth a read if you have the time 💐
https://isj.org.uk/christian-right-republican/
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Ziklag, an invitation-only charity organization for rich Christians, aims to take dominion over what it sees as the seven major spheres of public life, which it calls “mountains”: business, science and technology, family, arts and media, church, education and government. Credit:Nesma Moharam, special to ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ziklag-secret-christian-charity-2024-election?fbclid=IwY2xjawEFE0JleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHae7BqAnxgx2H0gmZl3FjPIYKowxwqnyKAWz0GgLwk3uBeXdGqd7BzZ3_g_aem_iTTlBva8NQa201qpriTyfw
On a similar theme, A, below is an in-depth article detailing the politically engineered rise of the Christian Right. Well worth a read if you have the time 💐
https://isj.org.uk/christian-right-republican/
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ajay said:
On a similar theme, A, below is an in-depth article detailing the politically engineered rise of the Christian Right. Well worth a read if you have the time 💐
https://isj.org.uk/christian-right-republican/
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Thanks, ajay. Christian Nationalism is a dangerous threat to not only democracy but individualism and personal freedom of choice.
On a similar theme, A, below is an in-depth article detailing the politically engineered rise of the Christian Right. Well worth a read if you have the time 💐
https://isj.org.uk/christian-right-republican/
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Thanks, ajay. Christian Nationalism is a dangerous threat to not only democracy but individualism and personal freedom of choice.
July 17, 2024
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
JUL 18, 2024
On July 18, 1863, at dusk, the Black soldiers of the Massachusetts 54th Volunteer Infantry of the U.S. Army charged the walls of Fort Wagner, a fortification on Morris Island off Charleston Harbor in South Carolina. Because Fort Wagner covered the southern entrance to the harbor, it was key to enabling the U.S. government to take the city.
The 600 soldiers of the 54th made up one of the first Black regiments for the Union, organized after the Emancipation Proclamation called for the enlistment of Black American soldiers. The 54th's leader was a Boston abolitionist from a leading family: Colonel Robert Gould Shaw.
Shaw and his men had shipped out of Boston at the end of May 1863 for Beaufort, South Carolina, where the Union had gained an early foothold in its war to prevent the Confederates from dismembering the country. The men of the 54th knew they were not like other soldiers: they were symbols of how well Black men would fight for their country. This, in turn, would be a statement of whether Black men could truly be equal to white men under the country’s laws, once and for all, for in this era, fighting for the country gave men a key claim to citizenship.
The whole country was watching… and the soldiers knew it.
In the dark at Fort Wagner, the Massachusetts 54th proved that Black men were equal to any white men in the field. They fought with the determination that made Black American regiments during the Civil War sustain higher losses than those of white regiments. The assault on the fort killed, wounded, or lost more than 250 of the 600 men and made the formerly enslaved Sergeant William Harvey Carney the first Black American to be awarded a Medal of Honor. Badly wounded, Carney nonetheless defended the United States flag and carried it back to Union lines. United States soldiers did not take the fort that night, but no one could miss that Black men had proved themselves equal to their white comrades.
The Battle of Fort Wagner left 30 men of the 54th dead on the field—including Colonel Shaw—and hurt 24 more so badly they would later die from their wounds. Fifteen were captured; 52 were missing and presumed dead. Another 149 were wounded. Confederates intended to dishonor Colonel Shaw when they buried him in a mass grave with his men; instead, his family found it fitting.
In 2017 I had the opportunity to spend an evening in the house where the wounded soldiers of the 54th were taken after the battle.
It was a humbling thing to stand in that house that still looks so much as it did in 1863 and to realize that the men, carried hot and exhausted and bleeding and scared into it a century and a half before were just people like you and me, who did what they felt they had to in front of Fort Wagner, and then endured the boat ride back to Beaufort, and got carried up a flight of steps, and then lay on cots in small, crowded rooms and hoped that what they had done was worth the horrific cost.
I am not one for ghosts, but I swear you could feel the blood in the floors.
^^^
This meme is circulating around social media, so I re-read page 5 and this is what it actually says ( which is worse, inho ):
Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender
ideology and sexualization of children, for instance, is not a political Gordian knot
inextricably binding up disparate claims about free speech, property rights, sexual
liberation, and child welfare. It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its
purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product
is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime.
Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should
be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed
as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that
facilitate its spread should be shuttered.
I can just see it now, someone gets angry at a teacher or librarian and plants a banned book then reports it. The teacher and/or librarian are branded sex offenders for the rest of their life by being placed on a national sex offender list and not allowed to teach or be around children for the rest of their lives.
Page 5 further states:
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In our schools, the question of parental authority over their children’s education is a simple one: Schools serve parents, not the other way around. That is, of course, the best argument for universal school choice—a goal all conservatives and conservative Presidents must pursue. But even before we achieve that long-term goal, parents’ rights as their children’s primary educators should be non-negotiable in American schools. States, cities and counties, school boards, union bosses, principals, and teachers who disagree should be immediately cut off from federal funds.
So what about Liberal parents? Buddhist parents? Hindu parents? Daoist parents? Muslim parents? Agnostic parents? Atheist parents? All of whom are considered American citizens and pay taxes for these schools?
What if they are against banning books? What if they support their LGBTQ+ child and transgender ideololgy?
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In our schools, the question of parental authority over their children’s education is a simple one: Schools serve parents, not the other way around. That is, of course, the best argument for universal school choice—a goal all conservatives and conservative Presidents must pursue. But even before we achieve that long-term goal, parents’ rights as their children’s primary educators should be non-negotiable in American schools. States, cities and counties, school boards, union bosses, principals, and teachers who disagree should be immediately cut off from federal funds.
So what about Liberal parents? Buddhist parents? Hindu parents? Daoist parents? Muslim parents? Agnostic parents? Atheist parents? All of whom are considered American citizens and pay taxes for these schools?
What if they are against banning books? What if they support their LGBTQ+ child and transgender ideololgy?
On the other end of the pendulum. . .
Today, [ President Biden ] Administration is canceling student debt for 35,000 public service workers through Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and includes teachers, nurses, and firefighters.
This action is part of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, which aims to provide relief to individuals who have dedicated their careers to public service. The Biden administration has now provided student debt relief to nearly 5 million Americans, totaling $168 billion, each receiving an average of over $35,000 in cancellation. This initiative is intended to support the middle class and reduce financial barriers to higher education.
That matters.
Today, [ President Biden ] Administration is canceling student debt for 35,000 public service workers through Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and includes teachers, nurses, and firefighters.
This action is part of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, which aims to provide relief to individuals who have dedicated their careers to public service. The Biden administration has now provided student debt relief to nearly 5 million Americans, totaling $168 billion, each receiving an average of over $35,000 in cancellation. This initiative is intended to support the middle class and reduce financial barriers to higher education.
That matters.
