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Only an idiot sits down with the enemy without knowing the outcome. Trump plays another one correctly.
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Spike Lee is a subversive walking advertisement for both Spike Lee and his new film, BlacKkKlansman, out Aug. 10. It premiered in May at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix award, the second most prestigious prize of the event. Based on the early-1970s true story of Ron Stallworth, the first African-American detective to work for the Colorado Springs police department, the film centers on Stallworth (played by John David Washington) and a veteran Jewish cop (played by Adam Driver) as they find a unique, and risky, way to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.
BlacKkKlansman is Lee’s most critically heralded and accessible effort in over a decade. The film represents another opportunity for one of society’s most distinctive voices to make a statement at a time when America’s politics on race and identity are at their most fractured in a generation. The film is also being released on the anniversary of a white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., and a counterprotest that resulted in the death of 32-year-old Heather Heyer, after a Nazi supporter drove a car into the protesters. Footage from Charlottesville serves as the film’s coda, a necessary gut punch both for those who internalized the film as another dark reminder of our country’s history and those who wrongfully spent two hours treating it as a buddy-cop comedy. The timeliness of the film—and its early acclaim—has prompted many people to declare that Spike Lee is back. (Did he ever leave? More on that later.)
Last night, Rachel Maddow reported on leaked audio of Rep. Devin Nunes, who is perhaps President Trump’s stanchest bodyguard against accountability on Capitol Hill, in which he candidly revealed that Republicans hope to impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein after the elections. Nunes is already leading such an impeachment drive — which hasn’t generated much GOP support — but Nunes added that he expected many Republicans to back Rosenstein’s impeachment down the line.
In case the meaning of this isn’t clear enough, Nunes also candidly stated that maintaining the GOP majority in Congress is imperative — in order to protect President Trump from the Russia investigation.
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Here’s another chapter in how a nation slowly capitulates. About a year ago, several CEOs publicly resigned from Trump advisory boards because of the president’s offensive remarks following Charlottesville. Well, several of them were observed this week quietly crawling back into Trump’s good graces. Charlottesville was so last year! I guess they showed him.
The only misleading idea in this story is the reporter’s characterization of Trump as “a president who is known to hold grudges.” Grudges, in fact, are things Trump is equally contented to hold or let go of, depending upon the servility shown to him. Like his matching faucet of hot and cold running principles, his grudges get turned on and off as punishment and reward for subservience. The reward can include a cozy dinner!
And so it goes. Trump doesn’t have to look hard for enablers. They come to him. Want another example? Think back on the avalanche of capitulation that is the entire post-2016 Republican Party. It comes naturally to some people to grovel rather than stand up. Trump has a lifetime of experience exploiting these people. He well understands their lack of principle because he shares it. What he doesn’t share is their obsequiousness. Trump is the other side of that coin. He demands submission. The craven are all too ready to comply. A match made in hell.
Nations, even great ones, occasionally flirt with this lethal dynamic. Ironically, it is the self-styled brave patriots of the tea party movement who are most ready to kiss the king’s ring now. It’s unfortunate that the term “appeasement” is used only for foreign affairs. Because the same dynamic applies to accommodating Trump. Trump doesn’t hold grudges against the craven. Just contempt. But he’s more than happy to take the power they hand him.
It is a test of the United States how far we are willing to slide down this greasy slope. The special election this week offered some hope that we all won’t just lie down.
Stand up. And in November, take an important walk.
This is Nazi talk.
This is overtly and specifically language designed to build a case for extermination, broadcast by a widely-viewed far-right propaganda network during prime time.
It’s Nazi talk.
We already have a political party in control of the government enacting policy that uses the logic of these talking points as a basis.
It’s Nazi talk.
We already have a prison industrial complex.
We already have an emboldened force of racists rounding people up.
It’s Nazi talk.
Laura Ingraham and her Nazi talk.
To parse the statement:
There is a threat!
It's an existential threat.
"We" are the ones threatened.
This threat was done to "us."
It was done to us unfairly.
What was done to us was immigrants.
Specifically brown ones.
It doesn't matter if they came legally or not.
Nazi talk.
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Thread by @JuliusGoat: "This is Nazi talk. This is overtly and specifically language designed to build a case for extermination, broadcast by a widely-viewed far-ri […]"
This is overtly and specifically language designed to build a case for extermination, broadcast by a widely-viewed far-right propaganda network during prime time.
It’s Nazi talk.
We already have a political party in control of the government enacting policy that uses the logic of these talking points as a basis.
It’s Nazi talk.
We already have a prison industrial complex.
We already have an emboldened force of racists rounding people up.
It’s Nazi talk.
Laura Ingraham and her Nazi talk.
To parse the statement:
There is a threat!
It's an existential threat.
"We" are the ones threatened.
This threat was done to "us."
It was done to us unfairly.
What was done to us was immigrants.
Specifically brown ones.
It doesn't matter if they came legally or not.
Nazi talk.
More ...
Thread by @JuliusGoat: "This is Nazi talk. This is overtly and specifically language designed to build a case for extermination, broadcast by a widely-viewed far-ri […]"
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico is now estimating that Hurricane Maria killed more than 1,400 people, far more than the official death toll of 64, in a report to Congress seeking billions to help the island recover from the devastating storm.
The government, relying on updated statistics it first reported in June, said there were 1,427 more deaths from September to December 2017 than the average for the same time period over the previous four years.
In a report to Congress detailing a $139 billion reconstruction plan, the territory’s government said that the additional deaths resulted from the effects of a storm that led to a “cascading failures” in infrastructure across the island of 3.3 million people.
Hurricane Maria, as well as Hurricane Irma two weeks later, knocked out power and water to the island and caused widespread flooding that left many sick and elderly people unable to get medical treatment.
“The hurricanes’ devastating effects on people’s health and safety cannot be overstated,” the government said in the report seeking assistance from Congress to help rebuild an island that was already struggling from a deep economic crisis at the time of the storm.
In the weeks after the storm, Puerto Rican officials said the storm directly caused 64 deaths, many in landslides or flooding. But they have long publicly said that far more people died due to indirect effects of the powerful storm.
The more exact number has been a matter of debate and the government itself released the 1,427 count in June. But it said it would wait to update its official tally until receiving a report it commissioned from George Washington University. That report is due in coming weeks.
The use of the higher death toll in the report to Congress was first reported Thursday by The New York Times.
Most of the deaths occurred not in the initial storm on Sept. 20, but in the ensuing days and weeks when the island-wide electricity outage and roads blocked by downed power lines and other debris made it difficult to move around and emergency services were stretched beyond their capabilities.
