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I hate elections in the same way that I hate dining in a cafeteria with lots of options, every single one of them disgusting and overpriced. But I don’t mind taking 30 seconds to fill out a few ovals with a pen. I can’t think of anything I do that’s easier. It’s harder to get back into a website that wants a new password than it is to vote. I’m a little sick, in fact, of hearing from former presidents who launched goddamned wars without the hint of any concepts of any plan but who now demand that I make a “plan” for my voting. Stop spamming me with texts and emails, both of you monstrous gangs of con-artist slimeballs! Please? I voted long ago, by mail. I was done in under 30 seconds. I didn’t vote for either of you. I don’t live in one of the handful of states where it could possibly matter if I did.

The conclusion that Donald Trump is a fascist has gone mainstream, gaining wide publicity and affirmation in recent weeks. Such understanding is a problem for Trump and his boosters. At the same time, potentially pivotal in this close election, a small proportion of people who consider themselves to be progressive still assert that any differences between Trump and Kamala Harris are not significant enough to vote for Harris in swing states.

 Opposition to fascism has long been a guiding light in movements against racism and for social justice.

 Speaking to a conference of the African National Congress in 1951, Nelson Mandela warned that “South African capitalism has developed [into] monopolism and is now reaching the final stage of monopoly capitalism gone mad, namely, fascism.”

Politico reported that Trump lied on average every five minutes over 4.6 hours of speeches and press conferences.

The Huffington Post recorded that he told 71 lies during just one town hall event.

Meanwhile, The Washington Post reported in July 2020 that President Trump made over 20,000 "false or misleading claims." This amounts to an average of 23 false claims per day (a polite way to describe lies).

Here are my seven favorite lies from Trump, with my responses:

1. The “Man of the Year” Lie

[Duluth, Georgia]. It was a fashion show with a bullet. Derek Molenhour was showing off one of his T-shirts that sported a scary looking dude pointing a pimped-out assault rifle at you.  

The Palast Investigative Team had worked its way into Wednesday’s Trump rally in Duluth, Georgia. One theme is crystal clear: if Harris wins, the MAGA troops are ready for what LaTosha Brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matter, calls “Civil War Part 2.”

I asked Molenhour, who is selling piles of his assault rifle Tees, what would happen if Harris wins?

The red-capped salesman didn’t hesitate. “The Three Percenters, who are protectors of our nation, as far as militia, not necessarily military, We the People”—pointing to the sea of red MAGA hats, “are going to come together and there’s going to be a revolution.”

If you don’t know the Three-Percenters, take a look at the photos by our photographer Zach D. Roberts who has tracked them across the country for years. They don’t display AR-15s on T-shirts; they carry them on their with extra ammo cartridges on their chest.

Oddly, it was Israeli historian Benny Morris who got it right, when he offered a candid prediction of the future of his country and its war with the Palestinians. 

 "The Palestinians look at everything from a broad, long-term perspective," he said in an interview with the Israeli newspaper Haaretz in 2019. "They see that, at the moment, there are five-six-seven million Jews here, surrounded by hundreds of millions of Arabs. They have no reason to give in, because the Jewish state can't last. They are bound to win. In another 30 to 50 years they will overcome us, come what may." 

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From JFK facts:

I just came across this video put out by the JFK Peace Speech Committee of Boston Community Church, and I had to post it because it speaks to what President John F. Kennedy’s assassination cost the country and the world.

This Sunday night, Donald Trump intends to recreate one of the ugliest nights in the history of New York City. 

On February 20, 1939, right-wing American Christian Nationalists rented Madison Square Garden to hold a massive pro-Fascist, white supremacy rally. It was a sold-out crowd of 20,000 patriotic Americans, complete with flags, our National Anthem, and a 50-foot portrait of George Washington hanging from the rafters. World War II would start in 6 months, but the crowd ate up the racism, the attacks on the press and the hatred toward the Jews. Applause! Laughter! God Bless America!