ArtTownsend
ArtTownsend's JournalRepublican voters like their leaders willfully ignorant and mean-spirited.
Republican donors like it too, but only because having a media attention-sucking figurehead provides them cover for their quiet nefariousness - enacting policies that screw the masses on behalf of the super-rich.
Good ole-fashioned All-American racism is the Trojan Horse for right-wing economic policies.
And time and time again, it’s worked.
As obvious as the overt white supremacy/fascist politics of the Trump admin is, let's not forget...
....that another tired old celebrity turned right-wing demagogue was elected President while explicitly pandering to - no, outright promoting - racist “states rights” narratives and tropes about “South Side of Chicago welfare queens” - along with outrageous and vicious claims that the US military would have won the Vietnam War if it hadn’t been for the “defeatists” at home, in Congress, in the “liberal media”, and the leftists and dirty hippies and other anti-war protestors at home. You know, if the military hadn’t been STABBED IN THE BACK.
During his Presidency, Ronald Reagan openly supported apartheid South Africa, devastated black America via slashing anti-poverty programs and the War on Drugs, destabilized much of Central America via support for the “Freedom Fighters” (right-wing death squads), all while presiding over an increase in far-right/white supremacist activity and violence (The Order, for example). The careers of people like David Duke and the more “respectable” Pat Buchanan - Reagan’s Communications Director - also took off during this period.
And lest we forget, Donald Trump first became a household name in Ronald Reagan’s 1980s. “Greed is Good.”
The more things change....
Post-Vietnam efforts by the Reagan-Bush era revanchists. 9/11 and the "War on Terror" certainly made
things worse.
Now we have the ultimate cruel Asshole-In-Chief proudly pardoning war criminals and “loosening the rules of engagement” (read: giving extra permission for military personnel to kill civilians as long as it’s only “collateral damage.”).
Don’t ya just LOVE it?
First Gulf War and before that, the invasion of Panama. The first Cable TV wars.
Perfect for the era of Reagan-Bush militarism (kicking the “Vietnam Syndrome” where Vietnam supposedly made Americans and the US military a bunch of softies).
9/11 and its long jingoistic aftermath only made it worse. And now we have a guy proudly pardoning war criminals. ‘Murica, Fuck Yeah.
Students stage global strikes to pressure U.N. climate summit
Source: Reuters
LISBON/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Thousands of people in Asia and Europe joined rallies demanding more action on climate change on Friday, aiming to force political leaders to come up with urgent solutions at a United Nations conference next week.
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg had been due to join a student strike in Lisbon, but her environmentally friendly voyage across the Atlantic from New York by yacht was hit by high winds, delaying her by a few days, she told social media followers.
Portugal’s student movement still expected thousands to join marches on Friday, building on the famous campaigner’s imminent arrival to mobilize ahead of the United Nations climate summit in Madrid from Dec. 2-13.
“We wish she’d been here, but the movement has to carry on without her. We’ve got to send our message and pressure politicians ahead of the climate summit,” Marianna Louca, 14, told Reuters in Lisbon.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-strike/students-stage-global-strikes-to-pressure-u-n-climate-summit-idUSKBN1Y308N
I've read that he's just as contemptuous of her as he is of his sons, other than her...yeah.
Like you said, not in a good way.
He probably routinely forgets that Tiffany exists and he’s obviously left rearing Barron to Melania, who I’m sure is oh so happy with her marriage!
Hitler was a very lazy and mercurial man whose only real gift was riling up crowds.
Sounds somewhat familiar, no?
Good thread by the way, recommended.
Fred Trump never loved Donald and we see the results. Donald never loved Junior...
....and we see the results.
All these sad little men with Daddy issues, ruining our country and our world.
A daily reminder that Trump, his family, and their cronies continue to profit off of the Presidency.
If that in and of itself is not grounds for impeachment....
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