"The US was founded on fascism: slavery, Native American genocide. Our hope was always to move away from pre-existing fascism. All black and brown progress has historically been met with the violence of white rage." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/mitch-mc…
"America has gotten its moments of glory from good people doing the right thing against fascism. The best of us are the ones who punch nazis; the worst of us are the ones who choose to *be* nazis." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/mitch-mc…
"If you want solace in America's current climate of fascism, let it be this: there are now more of us than there are of them. And the fascists are terrified. They build armaments because they know they're in the final chapter of fascism." -- @AndreaChalupapatreon.com/posts/mitch-mc…
"All progress in the US had to be codified in law because no one could rely on the kindness of a white person's heart. There had to be a legal requirement. And what this far-right SCOTUS will try to do is de-codify all those protections." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/mitch-mc…
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"It's very clear that Trump wants the courts to decide the election. He does not want the American people to decide it. You're already seeing Kavanaugh citing Bush vs Gore. You have three people from that case now appointed to SCOTUS." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/mitch-mc…
"We know what the short-term goal is: tyranny of the minority. A one-party, autocratic state ruled by a white supremacist death cult. People used to think us saying 'death cult' was alarmist. Now they don't after the covid response." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/mitch-mc…
"Their covid policy was 'Let them die off' and that's the guiding ethos of this admin and its backers. They want to make money and consolidate power, and our very existence is inconvenient to them, esp in the era of climate change." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/mitch-mc…
"Our claim that Trump is an illegitimate POTUS is not about sour grapes; it's about national security. He's illegitimate because he is a Kremlin asset backed by organized crime who used illegal tactics and illegal aid to get into office." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/mitch-mc…
"The refusal to admit that the 2016 election may have been illegitimate -- even though many warned in advance about election security threats -- is what allowed Trump to remain in power. Institutions wouldn't admit to their own failures." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/mitch-mc…
"The longer this charade went on, the longer this disregard for national security went on, the harder it became to reverse. That's why autocrats must be removed immediately, because they'll rewrite laws and pack courts to stay in power." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/mitch-mc…
"ACB is tied to a far-right cult known for making wives subservient to husbands, a cult accused of sexual abuse. Patriarchy is a tool of fascism. Fascism is about blunt-force strength; the dictator as father figure." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/mitch-mc…
"Dictatorship controls your emotional life so that you obey without the state or police forcing you to obey. You self-censor and pre-surrender. Patriarchy is an essential part of controlling a person's body and mind." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/mitch-mc…
"This is a trashy, Panama City Beach spring break, girls and boys gone wild Supreme Court. This is a Florida Man and Florida Woman Supreme Court. Republicans have grossly cheapened the highest court in the land." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/mitch-mc…
"The danger is that Dems will forfeit the fight before it starts, that they'll pre-surrender. If journalists want to be useful, quit asking Biden about nonsense and ask him about maintaining election integrity." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/john-rob…
"A Biden admin must be pushed to bring rigorous investigations of the crimes Trump admin members committed while in office -- and to tell the public the truth about US institutional complicity in transnational organized crime." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/john-rob…
"Trump was embedded in organized crime for decades. Yet the institutions tasked with protecting us had no qualms about Trump having access to classified intelligence or holding sway over US national security." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/john-rob…
"Trump has threatened to imprison his political opponent (Joe Biden), his opponent's family (Hunter Biden), his predecessor (Obama), and his former opponent (HRC). Trump is the only POTUS to ever threaten these actions." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/john-rob…
"The US has a long history of corruption. But it's never had such a fundamental abuse of power and threats of violence toward political rivals coming from the executive branch. Because that's what dictators do." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/john-rob…
"Trump is the first POTUS to encourage Americans to vote illegally -- both so he can win illegally and so he can contest the legitimacy of the result if he loses. He's the first POTUS to order the destruction of election infrastructure." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/john-rob…