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Jan 16,, 4 tweets, 2 min read
This is how Trump responded to Obama's victory in Nov 2012. Who could have ever predicted that in 2021 he would have instigated a violent storming of the US Capitol after an election didn't go his way? Really, there were no signs he was prone to such extreme statements.
Also, note the formulation here of “we are divided, so let’s storm the capital.” As if Mr. Birther Conspiracy Theorist with his “storm the Capitol message” wasn’t a major stoker of those divisions, ultimately to his own benefit.
More ironic context for that 2012 storm the Capitol tweet. Trump thought Romney had won the popular vote but lost the Electoral College.
Here’s Roger Stone lying about “voter fraud” in the 2012 and 2016 elections in the Summer of 2016 on Steve Bannon’s platform, Breitbart.

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Jan 17,
Medford Evans (PHD, Yale) was interviewed by the Jackson, MS Citizens Council the day after the 1963 March on Washington. He said the "insignificant" event was just a bunch of whining from entitled people who got attention only because they were the darlings of the liberal press.
In 1964 he published a book "proving" that the Civil Rights Movement was actually a Communist attack on the very foundations of Western Civilization which all good Americans were called to protect at all costs. Image
You can listen to (or read the transcript of) that radio show here. It will certainly ring some bells in terms of the reactionary and racist rhetoric deployed. cdm16631.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collec…
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Jan 17,
In 1983 Harris conducted a poll about the proposed MLK day. People who voted for Reagan in '80 opposed it 48/44, people who voted for Carter supported it 69/25. Image
In 1983 Reagan still thought MLK might have been a Communist. We know this because he said it to his friend Meldrim Thompson, who sat on the board of the John Birch Society. IN 1983!
nytimes.com/1983/10/22/us/…
After this 1983 story broke about Reagan and a Bircher corresponding about MLK being a commie, Reagan perfunctorily apologized to MLK’s family and then went golfing at Augusta National, which notoriously had no black members at the time.
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Jan 17,
Today I learned that my grandmother was Miss Altoona in 1931. I take special pleasure in knowing that she, a young Jewish woman, represented the motor company owned by one of the nation's nastiest antisemites. Image
I also learned that my great-grandmother arranged for an anti-fascist speaker to visit Altoona's synagogue in 1943. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldo_Fra… Image
The other speaker she brought that year was pretty freaking interesting as well. Trying to imagine how such speakers would be greeted in modern day Altoona. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erika_Mann
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Jan 17,
I just saw the Applebees commercial using the Cheers theme "Sometimes you want to go/Where everybody knows your name/And they're always glad you came" and, well, where to start?
I used to teach a History of American Consumer Culture class until it got too apocalyptically depressing around 2009 or so. I remember in 2005 when my students told me about this scathing film "Office Space" that I totally needed to see.
Adorno, Gramsci, and Tonnines all wept, simultaneously.
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Jan 15,
Just finished this book. Anyone who now would take seriously the idea of tfg being President again, is like someone who sees footage of cooks pissing in the soup and rubbing utensils in their armpits, but still goes back to that restaurant because the Caesar Salad was delicious. Image
The mental gymnastics it must take to even remain a registered Republican right now are truly something to behold. Raffensberger did the right thing in January 2021, but he seems so incredibly naive about the future in this interview. fivethirtyeight.com/features/brad-…
The people with the most agency right now are people like Bill Barr, Jeffrey Rosen, Pat Cipollone, Mark Meadows, John Kelly, Chad Wolf, Jared Kushner, and other Trump appointees who did not go along with "the crazies" like Rudy, Sidney Powell, Pat Byrne, Flynn, Jenna Ellis, etc.
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Jan 15,
It was 7 years ago today
Sergeant Prepper taught the band to play
They've fired up the rank and file
And they're guaranteed to raise some bile
So may I introduce to you
The act you've know for all these years
Sergeant Prepper’s Fashy Fart Sound Stans
What would you do if I sang out of tune?
Would you stand up and walk out on me?
I used to get mad at my school
The teachers who taught me were cool
Now we're holding you down
Turning you 'round
Filling you up with our rules
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