The Stuttering Lede, Sept. 20th, 2024
46 days until we know if we can stop fascism
“Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.” Bertrand Russell
On this day in 1941 Nazi Germany mandated Jews to wear a yellow Star of David on their clothing, aiming to isolate and humiliate them, marking the escalation of anti-Semitism and culminating in the Final Solution.
Yesterday feels like one of those weeks when years happen….
The Day of Scandals
Oh Mark Robinson, the “MLK on Steroids” according to Trump is making headlines, here’s some highlights of what Robinson said:
“I’m a black Nazi!”
Robinson disparaged Martin Luther King in such intense terms, calling him a “commie bastard,” “worse than a maggot,” a “ho f**king, phony,” and a “huckster.”“Get that fucking commie bastard off the National Mall!,” Robinson wrote about the dedication of the memorial to King in Washington, DC
“I’m not in the KKK. They don’t let blacks join. If I was in the KKK I would have called him Martin Lucifer Koon!”
“Slavery is not bad. Some people need to be slaves. I wish they would bring it (slavery) back. I would certainly buy a few,”
“I like watching tranny on girl porn! That’s f*cking hot! It takes the man out while leaving the man in!” Nothing wrong with watching whatever rocks your boat (as long as it’s legal) but he wants to ensure that transgender people are stripped of their rights and are dehumanized and eliminated.
As someone said “it’s like Robinson is unironically reenacting Dave Chappelle’s skit:”
Rep. Matt Gaetz attended a drug-fueled sex party in 2017 with the 17-year-old. She was driven to the party by her mom (!!!) and air hockey table was apparently involved. I don’t think I want to know.
Email address belonging to ultra far right propagandist Chris Rufo found in Ashley Madison data dump.
Olivia Nuzzi, an openly right wing “reporter” admitted to having a romantic relationship with RFK Jr. while she was writing about him, Biden and the election. Early on in her career she wrote: “Why does Hollywood think female reporters sleep with their sources.” Well that did not age well.
She is also apparently in love with Spotted Chinese Lanternflies!! Well, this takes on a whole meaning…
Republican response? Rep. Nancy Mace enters text messages into the Congressional record of a CNN commentator hitting on her after calling her racist during a live CNN segment. This is apparently comparable to all of the above:
Election 2024
The election is officially on. Today is the day early in-person voting starts in Minnesota, Virginia & South Dakota.
At an event focused on fighting antisemitism, Trump repeated an antisemitic trope suggesting Jews who don't support him aren't sufficiently Jewish "I say all the time that any Jewish person that votes for [Harris], especially now ... should have their head examined," he said. Trump also said that “the Jewish people would have a lot to do with a loss.” This is the man who called people like me "animals" and "vermin" that's "poisoning the blood of the country," the same country that he promised to make a new "unified Reich."
Kamala Harris speaking with Oprah said that “If somebody breaks into my house, they're getting shot.” Weirdly Trump’s campaigning on this.
The curious case of Trump’s disappearing $15 million South Korean debt.
Doing things that have never been done before! Kamala Harris
campaign in Arizona launches first-ever Latter-Day Saints advisory committee.
JD Vance’s ties to a group of extreme Christian nationalists.
JD Vance says Haitian migrants with protected status are 'illegal aliens' to be deported.
Governor of Oklahoma purges almost half a million voters from the rolls.
Politics
Nazi propaganda at its best: AfD has to use AI to conjure up its imaginary version of a lost past. Midjourney palingenesis.
One of the Texas neo-Nazis identified in a report in Texas Observer last year, David Bloyed (aka Schwettyballs1488), has reportedly been arrested by the FBI, per a neo-Nazi Telegram chatroom. This comes months after he urged "a war between the Jews in Nashville.”
German Foreign Office is fact checking Russian MFA practically and Donald Trump practically in real time.
Germany's economic sentiment takes a dramatic fall as outlook worsens.
EU could strip Georgians of visa-free access over backsliding on democracy.
How Jared Kushner’s Saudi-funded Affinity Partners has invested over $1 billion.
Port strike on US East Coast would spark supply-chain glitches.
Ex-Trump advisers help to grow pro-Russia website that spreads misinformation.
Climate Change
Tech
Ukraine/Russia
Poland has supplied over 300 tanks to Ukraine, more than the U.S. and Germany combined.
Infantry war at Pokrovsk: why Ukraine's key eastern front started (and continues) to crumble.
Russia anticipated Kursk incursion months in advance, seized papers show.
Zurich Film Festival decides to promote Russian fascist propaganda.
Middle East
Mental Health
Misc.
The amazing Shohei Ohtani went 6-fof-6 with 3 HRs, 2 2Bs, 2 SBs and 10 RBI for total of 17 bases on the night where he became the first member of the 50/50 (home runs/steals) club in baseball history. Don’t forget, hitting is his side hustle as he is a pitcher who is rehabbing from TJ surgery.
Kudos to Marlins manager Skip Schumaker for not walking Ohtani and saying: "Fuck that. Too much respect for this guy for that shit to happen."
Humour
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The old world is dying. And the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.
Antonio Gramsci
