Orange Duce

[Seacoaster(1)]

Meant to post this story about the very normal political movement that is MAGA:

If this story is accurate, it's awful. The world we live in... blame whomever you wish. IMO, it's complicated/nuanced.

It is certainly awful for sure. Why wouldn't it be accurate? Multiple quotes from Mr. McGregor who was merely detailing his awful experience. IMHO, in this specific instance I don't see any nuance or complication. Do you?

And who, pray tell, does tech blame if not those who knew these were lies and told them anyway. Want to expand that to those who heard the lies, believed them, and made threats?

In this instance, there doesn't appear to be any nuance or ambiguity: when a two time Trump voter and business owner spoke up for his City and the general quality of the immigrant employees he has at his facilities, he and his family were terrorized by threats sufficient for law enforcement to urge him to arm himself.

There are two great and terrible legacies from Trump: the diminution of confidence in electoral institutions because of the Big Lie, and the mainstreaming of political violence and threats of violence as political expression. This story -- generated by repeated falsehoods proffered by the GOP candidates for the Presidency and Vice Presidency, and aimed at vulnerable populations of color -- is part of the latter legacy.

[Brooklyn]

orange douchebag continues to spew more hate and more lies --- he claims President Biden is doing nothing to help the state of Georgia. The facts show otherwise. Even the governor agrees Biden did all he could to help the state:


https://newrepublic.com/post/186529/geo ... conspiracy


Georgia’s Republican Governor Shuts Down Trump’s Hurricane Conspiracy
Donald Trump is trying to spread a new lie about Hurricane Helene—but Georgia Governor Brian Kemp isn’t playing games ...


see also,

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-tr ... b6b7a70f93



This is quite a contrast to tRump's stupid tactics when Puerto Rico suffered a weather disaster. Further proof that tRump lacks the competence to hold the job as president.

[Seacoaster(1)]

More threats from the movement that demands loyalty, or else:

https://www.phillymag.com/news/2024/09/ ... la-harris/

“ The ad campaign began last week, only intended to target certain rural markets. But on Tuesday, unbeknownst to Bob and Kristina, the hosts of MSNBC’s popular Morning Joe show talked about the “Republicans for Kamala” movement. They aired the entire commercial. Nationally. Frequent Morning Joe pundit Al Sharpton chimed in with some thoughts.

This national attention led to an eruption of posts on X that made all sorts of claims about the couple, including that they were actually Democrats and paid actors. Some leaned more into the QAnon realm, ridiculously suggesting that they were pedophiles.

Bob and Kristina were blissfully unaware of all of this until Tuesday night, when Kristina sat down to check the farm’s email account. And there, she was horrified to see hate mail. Lots of hate mail. The couple wasn’t sure how haters and trolls even found them, since the commercial only uses their first names, and their businesses aren’t identified in the ad. But it turns out that the Kamala Harris campaign sent out a press release last week that didn’t just use their full names and the name of their businesses — it even linked to their website.

Philly Mag has reviewed some of the messages sent to the couple, and it’s fair to characterize the content as nothing short of disgusting and vile. Some of the messages included threats. And those are just the emails. Then came the phone calls. Comments on the farm’s social media accounts.

“It’s really been exhausting,” says Kristina.

The couple went to the police, who confirm they are investigating. But, as tends to happen in these cases, the emails and phone calls seem to have come from anonymous sources. Naturally, Bob and Kristina have concerns for their personal safety and the safety of their property, and so they remain armed at all times. According to Bob, the police have set up extra patrols to keep an eye on things.

We asked the couple if they regret making the commercial in light of what’s happening to them now.

“Absolutely not,” insists Kristina. “Not for one second. It’s very scary, but we as Republicans must stand up.”

“If we don’t stand up,” interjects Bob, “I don’t want to think about the consequences.”

[OCanada]

The right keeps ramping up the violence and threats. Meanwhile Trump and Vance keep lying.