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Politica was marching again today after 6 months lying low. A small socially distanced but vocal crowd heard speakers and marched around the State Capitol.
Our voices need to be heard! No SCOTUS nominations until after Nov 3! #ruthswatch #BlockBarrett
An op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer describes the "big lie" as a technique of autocrats to keep repeating extreme falsehoods until people believe it, because surely they wouldn't lie about something that big. Which of Trump's many big lies does it use for an example? The one where he gives himself an A+ for his administration's coronavirus response.
www.inquirer.com/opinion/big-lie-trump-coronavirus-putin-alexei-navalny-20200924.html
Trump’s use of 'the big lie’ with COVID-19 echoes autocrats past and present | Trudy Rubin
www.inquirer.com
As Trump and Putin know, if you repeat "the big lie" enough times, the public will finally believe you.Want to make a statement about the hijacking of RBG's SCOTUS seat?
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This might be the biggest October surprise in many elections - the New York Times has details on Trump's taxes and it's not pretty.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/27/us/donald-trump-taxes.html
Trump’s Taxes Show Chronic Losses and Years of Income Tax Avoidance
www.nytimes.com
The Times obtained Donald Trump’s tax information extending over more than two decades, revealing struggling properties, vast write-offs, an audit battle and hundreds of millions in debt coming due."Republicans can no longer truthfully deny that Trump may be unwilling to leave office in the event he is defeated. And Democrats must now confront the possibility they may not have the power to stop him.
“We are superalarmed,” said Matt Bennett of the center-left group Third Way, which released a primer this week on how Trump is laying the groundwork to dispute the election results in the event of a defeat. “I now think it’s very, very likely that Joe Biden will win the election if the votes are counted, but it’s not clear that the votes will be counted.”
Earlier this week, The Atlantic reported that the Trump campaign was discussing the possibility of Republican-controlled state legislatures bypassing election results discredited by Trump, and appointing electors to him instead. Democrats are already preparing for a "red mirage" scenario, a reference to the prospect that Trump will have election night leads in some states, before mail ballots are counted, and might use the opportunity to declare victory.
In addition, Trump has executive powers he did not possess in 2016 — along with an iron grip on the Republican Party machinery in numerous battleground states that could facilitate his machinations.
The history of Trump is that we have underestimated him and his venality at every turn. We’re in a perilous time right now.”
www.politico.com/news/2020/09/25/everyone-sees-the-train-wreck-coming-democrats-brace-for-trump-c...
‘Everyone sees the train wreck coming’: Trump reveals his November endgame
www.politico.com
After more than four years of nonstop voter fraud claims and insinuations that he might not accept the election results, the president isn't keeping his intent a secret.Chrissy Stroop, a prominent ex-evangelical writer, speaker, and advocate, penetrates the veil to reveal a wide-lens view in this article that provides a broader frame of reference for Judge Amy Coney Barrett's nomination.
"In the case of Barrett, context matters. Trump has been stacking the federal judiciary specifically with right-wing Catholics and members of the Federalist Society, which even The New York Times describes as “a legal group with views once considered on the ‘fringe.’” Barrett is a Catholic, a Federalist Society member, and a member of the high-control “covenant community” known as People of Praise, a Christian group with about 90% Catholic membership that emerged from the Catholic “charismatic renewal” that began in 1967.
People of Praise assigns its members spiritual leaders; men are assigned “heads” and women are assigned “woman leaders” (formerly “handmaids”). In the case of a married woman, this leader is automatically her husband. Meanwhile, Barrett’s far-right bona fides are not in question. She is an acolyte of the late arch-conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, but influential right-wingers are already trying to make serious discussion of her politics off limits by crying loudly with faux outrage over legitimate public scrutiny of her religious commitments."
Stroop also examines the media's role: "Unfortunately, our major media outlets generally fail to consider power dynamics and let stand the widespread impression that “real” Christianity is conservative, and that critical scrutiny of conservative Christian views is strictly verboten. To do so while Christian nationalists are stacking the federal judiciary, removing protections for women and queer people in schools, and undermining our response to a deadly pandemic by refusing to wear masks and challenging public health initiatives in court, is wildly irresponsible."
We recommend this penetrating article as a valuable source for informed discussion as the Barrett nomination hearings loom ahead in mid-October. #Barrett #SCOTUS
religiondispatches.org/why-the-media-and-democrats-should-reject-the-christian-rights-pearl-clutc...
religiondispatches.org
America is trapped in an abusive relationship—not just with the pussy-grabbing President Donald Trump, our abuser-in-chief, but also with the Republican Party, its white Christian base, the police, and the increasingly uninhibited “good guys with guns,” whose vigilante actions are evidently be...
