joene 🏴🍉
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"This is quite the display of grief:
Reporter: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up?
Donald: I think very good. . . . They started construction on the new ballroom . . . it's going to be a beauty. It'll be absolutely magnificent."
~ Mary L. Trump quoted by Greg Dworkin
"The WSJ, Nancy Mace, and Republicans owe the transgender community, and the rest of us, an apology for trying to incite their base to commit violence against 'the left.'"
~ Wajahat Ali
#CharlieKirk#Trump#TylerRobinson#Utah#Mormon#MAGA#Republican #trans
/17
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/charlie-kirks-alleged-shooter-is
"He’s not an immigrant, transgender, Muslim, or part of the 'left' by any means.
In fact, the leader of the Groypers, Nick Fuentes, seemed to admit he was one of their own."
~ Wajahat Ali
#CharlieKirk#Trump#MAGA#Republican#TylerRobinson#Utah#Mormon #trans #immigrant#Muslim#Groyper#NickFuentes
/13
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/on-magas-hypocrisy-charlie-kirk-and
"Hate becomes virtue. Greed and nepotism become civic virtues. Murder becomes good. War is the final aesthetic. This is what is coming."
#CharlieKirk#Trump#MAGA#Republican #violence#FauxMartyrdom
/12
"Any flinching over the use of violence, any talk of compassion or understanding, any effort to mediate or discuss, is a betrayal of the martyr and the cause the martyr died defending. Martyrs sacralize violence. They are used to turn the moral order upside down. Depravity becomes morality. Atrocities become heroism. Crime becomes justice."
#CharlieKirk#Trump#MAGA#Republican #violence#FauxMartyrdom
/11
"Martyrs are used by messianic movements to sanctify violence. To show any mercy or understanding toward the enemy is to betray the martyr and the cause the martyr died defending. ...
His murder has given the movement he represented, grounded in Christian nationalism, a martyr. Martyrs are the lifeblood of violent movements."
~ Chris Hedges
#CharlieKirk#Trump#MAGA#Republican #violence#FauxMartyrdom
/10
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-martyrdom-of-charlie-kirk-read
"It is bad that Charlie Kirk was shot and killed. That does not make him a good man. You don’t have to make him into a martyr just because he was a victim. Painting Kirk as a role model for political discourse requires either a staggering ignorance or intentional neglect of what he actually stood for."
#CharlieKirk#Trump#MAGA#Republican #violence#FauxMartyrdom
/9
Charlie Stross
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Well, he got what he wanted...
#charliekirk #kirk #politics #uspolitics #usa #republican #headline #oldheadline #antikirk
(btw if this post gets me arrested, you'll notice in a few days when the autopublisher runs out of memes)
which brings me to that “endpoint” to Plan Condor: 1983
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983
i believe it was “ended” because it was wildly succesful. it was 3 years after the successful “soft coup” against Jimmy Carter and with the help of the #OPEC #petromafia cartel. it was also 4 years before the world knew of the #IranContra scandal and the role of the corporatist cadre of the #GOP#Republican Party as a shadow government behind the USA oligarchy’s #DirtyWars :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair
🧵…
Well, he got what he wanted...
#charliekirk #kirk #politics #uspolitics #usa #republican #headline #oldheadline #antikirk
(btw if this post gets me arrested, you'll notice in a few days when the autopublisher runs out of memes)
Cory Doctorow
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Picking up on an essay a while ago by @pluralistic about how the Left can peel Republican voters away from #Trump, #TheEconomist has an article about the five clusters in the #Republican vote. Of these two, the Moderates and the Economic Populists, look like they might be sympathetic to arguments about Economic injustice.
The article is behind a pay wall, but here are a couple of graphics from it.
Picking up on an essay a while ago by @pluralistic about how the Left can peel Republican voters away from #Trump, #TheEconomist has an article about the five clusters in the #Republican vote. Of these two, the Moderates and the Economic Populists, look like they might be sympathetic to arguments about Economic injustice.
The article is behind a pay wall, but here are a couple of graphics from it.
As a distraction from the #JeffreyEpstein coverup, 'T̶h̶e̶y̶ w̶o̶n̶'t̶ b̶e̶ d̶o̶i̶n̶g̶ i̶t̶ a̶g̶a̶i̶n̶': Trump’s #MAGA#GOP#Republican handlers have unspecified U.S. m̶i̶l̶i̶t̶a̶r̶y̶ war criminals s̶t̶r̶i̶k̶e̶ k̶i̶l̶l̶s̶ assassinate 11 unknown civilians on d̶r̶u̶g̶ boat off Venezuela
https://dmv.community/@wbaltv11_bot/115143203663948399
Depravity. “The reasons, Noem said, are twofold. First, it will prevent rust. Second, she said, it will burn the skin of anyone trying to climb over.” https://sourcenm.com/2025/08/19/u-s-homeland-secretary-noem-says-president-trump-wants-border-walls-painted-black-to-make-them-hotter-and-harder-to-climb/
@heidilifeldman
This “announcement” is farcical. No one, not a single person, wants to hear about rust-abatement efforts.
But ~30% of USians get a massive boner when the #Republican regime makes it about cruelty.
(That and unpainted metal sitting in direct sunlight along our #southernBorder is •already• hot enough to seriously burn skin, as everyone in the southwest knows, likely from experience.)
@frumble
google sponsort ja die re:publica –
und jedes Jahr machen die Youtube Unertitel dann "Republicans" daraus. Das finde ich sehr lustig.
#republican #republica
FFS
#Louisiana is now the sixth #Republican-led state to authorize #NationalGuard #troop deployment to #DC as part of #Trump show of force
#law#WashingtonDC#CivilRights#MilitaryState #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny#Gestapo #coup#TrumpCoup2
#Trump says #FBI ‘may have to’ help bring #Texas#Democrats back to state
After Republican Sen John Cornyn of Texas called on the FBI to help locate & #arrest Democrats who left the state to block a vote on a new congressional map, Trump said, “They may have to.”
“A lot of people have demanded they come back. You can’t just sit it out. You have to go back, you have to fight it out,” said Trump.
#law#AbuseOfPower #gerrymandering #redistricting #democracy #elections
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-8-5-2025#00000198-7c2b-dc4c-adfc-fc3f02bc0000
#Legal experts & even #Republican state AG #KenPaxton say it would be difficult to enforce consequences against the Democratic lawmakers.
#Texas House rules allow for fines of $500 every day the #Democrats are absent. The #House also issued civil warrants for the missing lawmakers to be arrested & returned to the House.
#Trump#FBI #law#AbuseOfPower #gerrymandering #redistricting #democracy #rigged #elections
Tim Chambers
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#Update
#Texas#Democrats to flee state, blocking plan to pad GOP’s control of #Congress
By leaving, Democratic state legislators can stall a #Republican plan that would give the #GOP 5 more seats to protect their narrow #House majority.
#law #gerrymandering#Trump #rigged #midterms #elections
https://apnews.com/article/texas-democrats-leave-state-congressional-map-vote-b8b96080dfae00111664bbfb72fc304b?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-08-03-Breaking+News
#Update
#Texas#Democrats to flee state, blocking plan to pad GOP’s control of #Congress
By leaving, Democratic state legislators can stall a #Republican plan that would give the #GOP 5 more seats to protect their narrow #House majority.
#law #gerrymandering#Trump #rigged #midterms #elections
https://apnews.com/article/texas-democrats-leave-state-congressional-map-vote-b8b96080dfae00111664bbfb72fc304b?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-08-03-Breaking+News