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[Michael Scally MD]

Thread. A guest on Lou Dobbs's show on Fox News is pushing a version of the same conspiracy that the Pittsburgh shooter evidently believed in and which may have helped trigger the murders he committed. Been trying not to weigh in on events of the day but this is really dangerous.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Two years in, Trump and the right wing can still count on the news media to do their bidding. Constant repetition of their lies and language help spread it far and wide. They know that constant repetition of lies - even to debunk them - only makes them more sticky.
Here are they tactics in use:

1. Frame first, meaning get your understanding of the situation out there.

2. Divert attention from things you don't want people to pay attention to, for example by attacking somebody else.

3. Attack the messenger or assign blame to someone else and deflect it away from you, for example the press.

4. Launch a trial balloon and say something outrageous, an extreme version of what you believe to see what the reaction is and if it isn't too bad you are in the clear.

Sound familiar? As long as the media breathlessly covers every word of their lies and frames, Trump and his ilk win. It's time for journalists to stop parroting Trump's lies and instead focus on the real truth that he doesn't want people to hear. (from January 2018). 'Don't retweet Donald Trump and don't use his language' | DW | 21.01.2018

 

[Michael Scally MD]

I think people are underrating just how colossally screwed Trump will be if/when the Dems win the House.

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[Michael Scally MD]

When Rabbi Joseph Miller learned of the Squirrel Hill massacre, less than a mile from his own pulpit, he ordered the doors of his synagogue locked. Despite his congregants’ terror that they would be next, they recited the mi sheberach. They didn’t pray for their own protection; they prayed for the healing of others.

An ancestor of mine died in synagogue. He lived in western Ukraine, where the Holocaust arrived suddenly in the form of Einsatzgruppen, death squads pushing ever east, traversing dirt roads and deep forest to cleanse even the most remote villages of Jews. When the Nazis arrived in his town, my great-great-grandfather was deep in prayer at the synagogue. The Nazis locked the doors of the small wooden structure and then set it aflame. It is a story that cannot be unheard. When I stand in my synagogue and my mind meanders, I often wonder what he prayed at that moment.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Thread. A guest on Lou Dobbs's show on Fox News is pushing a version of the same conspiracy that the Pittsburgh shooter evidently believed in and which may have helped trigger the murders he committed. Been trying not to weigh in on events of the day but this is really dangerous.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Donald Trump has suggested that Jewish people might be committing anti-Semitic hate crimes to make himself look bad.

After days in which he refused to comment on a spate of anti-Semitic attacks, Mr Trump broke his silence to repeat an neo-Nazi conspiracy theory that has claimed that the attacks are "false flags". Supporters of that belief – who include leader of the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke – believe that such attacks are being perpetrated by Jewish people in order to undermine the White House.

Pennsylvania's Attorney General, Josh Shapiro, said that he had spoken to the President about a wave of threats to Jewish community centres. And Mr Trump said that they had been designed to make "others look bad".

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

A Facebook account apparently belonging to the man charged with https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/10/26/suspected-explosive-devices-addressed-cory-booker-james-clapper-probe-expands-packages/?utm_term=.47a2287bf150 (sending pipe bombs) to prominent Democrats this week included references to Russian associates and propaganda links that echo Kremlin views on the Syrian civil war, alongside ramblings about soccer, women and U.S. politics.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/10/27/cesar-sayoc-was-someone-lost-then-he-found-father-trump-family-attorney-tells-cnn/?utm_term=.ea65705beb40 (Cesar Sayoc), 56, a vocal supporter of President Trump who was arrested in Florida on Friday and charged with multiple federal crimes, apparently spoke of “my Russian brothers” on several occasions on a Facebook page in 2015. The meaning of the references to Russians is not clear, nor is it clear how Sayoc came to view and share propaganda sympathetic to Russian actions in Syria.

Facebook removed the account from public view after news spread of Sayoc’s arrest. But The Washington Post obtained hundreds of public posts from 2015 and 2016 from Columbia University social media researcher Jonathan Albright, who downloaded them Friday before Facebook removed the information.

The Facebook account reviewed by the Post carried the name “Cesar Altieri,” the first and middle names of Sayoc, and features posts including words, pictures and videos, along with copious news links. The posts include many selfies and other pictures featuring him at various locations around Florida, both alone and with what appear to be friends.

Similar themes emerged in a Twitter account that appears to have belonged to Sayoc, under the name “hardrockintlent,” which uses a variation on Sayoc’s name and a business affiliated with him, as well as his picture. Information from the account, which has been suspended by Twitter, was also obtained by Albright. It is distinct from the Twitter account listed in the criminal complaint and indicates Sayoc operated multiple accounts.

The “hardrockintlent” account — which lists the name “Julus Cesar Milan” as the owner — in July 2016 posted about “my brothers in from Russia the great leader Puttins relatives visiting us today” at a Hard Rock Cafe in South Florida. “Puttins” appears to be a misspelled reference to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

It has finally happened. We knew it would. Heather Heyer was the first. Now, today in 2018, Jews are being murdered by nazis in their synagogue inside the United States for being Jews. Zuckerberg has given a voice and a method to these craven lunatics to spread their antisemitic hate speech. As often as I have reported hate speech, rarely does it ever get taken down.

A few days after Trump declared that he is a 'nationalists' there has been a madman sending pipe bombs to critics of Trump including two former presidents. Trump called this "bomb stuff." He said he was a 'nationalist' just the other day which has one meaning and one meaning alone, it means a white supremacist. All of the nazis and white supremacists in this country got that message loud and clear.

So did Robert Bowers. He certainly heard Trump's reference to George Soros and felt emboldened to unleash his deadly rage. When a president gives credence to an international Jewish conspiracy theory by citing it himself, he justifies the lunacy of these right-wing conspiracy theorists. Who might have told Trump that it's okay to say he's a nationalist? Known antisemite Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller did without question.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Nationalism as a religion inculcates neither charity nor justice; it is proud, not humble; and it signally fails to universalise human aims. It repudiates the revolutionary message of St. Paul and proclaims anew the primitive doctrine that there shall be Jew and Greek, only that now there shall be Jew and Greek more quintessentially than ever. Nationalism's kingdom is frankly of this world, and its attainment involves tribal selfishness and vainglory, a particularly ignorant and tyrannical intolerance, - and war. That nationalism brings not peace but the sword, we propose next to show. Carlton J. H. Hayes, Nationalism as a Religion (1926)

 

[Michael Scally MD]