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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN
May 22, 2024
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
MAY 23, 2024
Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA) called out his Republican colleagues on the floor of the House today for offering âstunts instead of solutions, extremism over bipartisanship.â Itâs a shame, he said, because the Republicansâ narrow majority âcould have given us a chance to work together in a bipartisan way.â Instead, Republicans have caved to their most extreme members, who have been âskipping their real jobs to take day trips up to New York to try to undermine Donald Trump's criminal trial.âÂ
McGovern suggested that perhaps they were trying âto distract from the fact that their candidate for president has been indicted more times than he's been electedâ and âis on trial for covering up hush money payments to a porn star for political gain not to mention three other criminal felony prosecutions.âÂ
Representative Jerry Carl (R-AL), the temporary chair at the time, rebuked McGovern, who noted that the fact that the former president is in a court of law is the truth. Just last week, McGovern pointed out, a Republican member of the House was not admonished when he complained about âthe former president of the United States being hauled into court day after day with a sham trial.âÂ
Carl reminded McGovern that members âmust avoid personalities in debates.â
McGovern replied: â[A]t some point, it's time for this body to recognize that there is no precedent for this situation. We have a presumptive nominee for president facing 88 felony counts, and we're being prevented from even acknowledging it. These are not alternative facts. These are real facts. A candidate for president of the United States is on trial for sending a hush money payment to a porn star to avoid a sex scandal during his 2016 campaign and then fraudulently disguising those payments in violation of the law. He's also charged with conspiring to overturn the election. He's also charged with stealing classified information, and a jury has already found him liable for rape in a civil court. And yet, in this Republican-controlled house, it's okay to talk about the trial, but you have to call it a sham.â
Representative Erin Houchin (R-IN) demanded McGovernâs words be stricken from the record. The chair agreed to do so, saying that âit is a breach of order to refer to the candidate in terms personally offensive, whether by actually accusing or merely insulting.â Republicans banned McGovern from speaking on the floor for the rest of the day. McGovern observed: âYou can only talk about the trial on the House Floor if you're using it to defend Donald Trump.â
It was curious timing for extremists to silence a Massachusetts lawmaker.Â
In 1836, Democratic lawmakers in the House of Representatives passed a resolution to table, or put aside without action or discussion, all petitions relating to slavery. Repeatedly thereafter, former president John Quincy Adams, now representing Massachusetts in the House, rose to read a petition and was silenced. But the First Amendment protects the right to petition the government for a redress of grievancesâKing George III had pointedly rejected the colonistsâ 1775 Olive Branch Petition trying to avoid war, and the framers of the new government wanted to be clear that people had a right to be heardâand people in the North increasingly understood the silencing of those who were determined to stop debate over slavery as an attack on their constitutional rights.Â
The House got rid of the âgag ruleâ in 1844, but just twelve years later, on May 22, 1856âexactly 168 years ago todayâSouth Carolina representative Preston Brooks beat Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner nearly to death on the floor of the Senate after Sumner criticized southern enslavers, particularly Brooksâs relative South Carolina senator Andrew Butler.Â
The gist of Sumnerâs speech was that a small minority of men were trying to impose their will on the majority of the American people by forcing enslavement on the territory of Kansas, much as enslavers like Butler forced themselves on the women they enslaved. Sumnerâs speech was insulting, but beating him into a welter of blood while he sat at his Senate desk for representing his constituents suggested that enslavers would tolerate no dissent.
Jodi Kantor, Aric Toler, and Julie Tate tonight broke the story in the New York Times that the upside-down U.S. flag associated with the January 6 insurrectionists was not the only anti-American flag Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito displayed. In at least July and September 2023, over his beach house in New Jersey there flew an âAppeal to Heavenâ flag like the one carried by January 6 rioters. This banner is also known as the âPine Tree flag,â but it is not the same one currently under consideration to become Maineâs state flag.Â
This flag represents the idea that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. As Ishaan Jhaveri of Columbia Universityâs Tow Center in the Graduate School of Journalism explained in 2021, in the days of the American Revolution, the flag âwas meant to symbolize the right of armed revolution in the face of tyranny.â Â
But in 2013 the flag was the symbol of a group working to put Christians into public office to create a government based on their ideology. In 2015, those trying to stop the Supreme Court from legalizing gay marriage flew the flag; in 2016, supporters of the militias that occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge did so, too. In 2017 the flag was behind Trump when he spoke to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), and in 2020, those opposed to Covid shutdowns carried it.Â
More recently, the January 6 rioters carried it, and so have neo-Nazis. It is the same flag that House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) displays outside of his congressional office. Scholar of religion Bradley Onishi noted: âItâs a flag symbolizing Christian revolution. Itâs used by extremists.â
These extremists appear to have turned to Trump, who is, as McGovern pointed out, facing 88 felony counts and is currently on trial for paying off a sex partner in order to prevent voters from hearing about their encounter and then violating the law to hide the payments, because they believe he will crash through the laws and bureaucracy that are designed to protect the democratic institutions that would stop them from seizing power.Â
And now it turns out that a flag representing the idea that the 2020 election was stolen, that the people should engage in armed revolution against tyranny, and that the United States should be a nation based in Christian theology has been flying over the home of Justice Alito, who is supposed to be defending the United States Constitution impartially. Alito wrote the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Womenâs Health Organization decision overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that recognized the constitutional right to abortion.
Election columnist Laura Bassett of The Cut wrote: âThe [A]lito flag story does not teach me anything new about his politics but it does reveal how confident he is that nobody can do anything about him.âÂ
There is indeed a sense of power and entitlement coming from MAGA Republicans as they impose new limits on their fellow Americans and call those constraints freedom. Lori Rozsa of the Washington Post today noted that Florida governor Ron DeSantis is rewriting the history of the summer of 1964, made famous as Black and white organizers fanned out in Mississippi to register Black Americans to vote, by launching his own, new âFreedom Summer.â From May 27 through September 2, bridges in the state are prohibited from displaying rainbow colors for Pride Month in June, orange for National Gun Awareness Month, or yellow for Womenâs Equality Day. The only colors they can display are red, white, and blue.Â
âThanks to the leadership of Gov[ernor] Ron DeSantis,â Florida Department of Transportation secretary Jared Perdue wrote on X, âFlorida continues to be the freest state in the nation.â
LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
#Letters from An American#Heather Cox Richardson#US House of Representatives#corrupt politicians#orwellian#MAGA representatives#Alito flag#MAGA Republican entitlement#freedom#white supremicist#alive on all channels#political#Christian Dominionists
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whereâs the option for âi am american but i would rather die slowly and horribly than ever convey that much nationalism even as a jokeâ bc like sorry but no? i am not clicking that?
Pick 'It's complicated' if you have spent significant parts of your life both in the US and outside of the US, for example if you grew up there but then moved.
I'm not American, and sometimes it really seems that this website is dominated by the US. I've seen a couple of polls asking which continent/region you're from, and there's one going around at the moment about whether you're white or non-white, but I haven't seen one just asking about the US, and I'm curious!
Also I'd appreciate it if you reblog for greater sample size (but no pressure!)
#lemon speaks#sorry iâm being pedantic#but also no iâm not that first option is gross#it makes me feel gross#you know who chants usa! usa! ?#assholes assholes do that you do Not want to go near those people#they will like super murder you given any chance whatsoever#god i hate âpatriotic nationalists#youâre white supremicists shut the fuck up#not you op#or ppl who chose that option#the people who chant that
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in just a few lines Hunt says that this whole place is curated to give off a specific vibe as a live art project so like
do you think this guy's tattoos are fake also
#i think more Hunt romancers should add Billy to their hc. it absolutely tickles me to death his bestie from college is a punk dude#does not tickle me that hes a reused sprite of a white supremicist :/ can pb please make a second tattooed biker dude to use
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Christopher Weyan :: @ChristophWeyant
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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN
December 17, 2023
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
DEC 17, 2023
It seems that former president Donald Trump is aligning his supporters with a global far-right movement to destroy democracy.Â
On Saturday, in Durham, New Hampshire, Trump echoed Nazi leader Adolf Hitlerâs attacks on immigrants, saying they are âpoisoning the blood of our countryââalthough two of his three wives were immigrantsâand quoted Russian president Vladimir Putinâs attacks on American democracy. Trump went on to praise North Korean autocratic leader Kim Jong Un and align himself with Hungarian prime minister Viktor OrbĂĄn, the darling of the American right wing, who has destroyed Hungaryâs democracy and replaced it with a dictatorship.Â
Trump called OrbĂĄn âthe man who can save the Western world.âÂ
Dr. Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, a professor of religion and anthropology at Northeastern University, explained in The Conversation what Trump is talking about. Autocrats like OrbĂĄn and Putinâand budding autocrats like Trumpâare building a global movement by fighting back against the expansion of rights to women, minorities, and LGBTQ+ people.Â
Russian leaders have been cracking down on LGBTQ+ rights for a decade with the help of the Russian Orthodox Church, claiming that they are protecting âtraditional values.â This vision of heteronormativity rewrites the real history of human sexuality, but it is powerful in this moment. OrbĂĄn insists that immigrants ruin the purity of a country, and has undermined womenâs rights.
Riccardi-Swartz explains that this rhetoric appeals to those in far-right movements around the world. In the United States, âfamily valuesâ became tied to patriotism after World War II, when Chinese and Soviet communists appeared to be erasing traditional gender roles. Those people defined as anti-familyâLGBTQ+ people and women who challenged patriarchyâseemed to be undermining society. Now, as dictators like Putin and OrbĂĄn promise to take away LGBTQ+ rights, hurt immigrants, and return power to white men, they seem to many to be protecting traditional society.
In the United States, that undercurrent has created a movement of people who are willing to overthrow democracy if it means reinforcing their traditional vision. Christian nationalists believe that the secular values of democracy are destroying Christianity and traditional values. They want to get rid of LGBTQ+ rights, feminism, immigration, and the public schools they believe teach such values. And if that means handing power to a dictator who promises to restore their vision of a traditional society, theyâre in.Â
It is an astonishing rejection of everything the United States has always stood for.
The White House today responded to Trumpâs speech. White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates said: âEchoing the grotesque rhetoric of fascists and violent white supremacists and threatening to oppress those who disagree with the government are dangerous attacks on the dignity and rights of all Americans, on our democracy, and on public safetyâŠ. Itâs the opposite of everything we stand for as Americans.â
LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
#Authoritarianism#dictators#fascist#Letters From An American#Heather Cox Richardson#white supremicists#TFG
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Every time i think i should take a break from sharing pro-palestine posts on ig, one of my braindead cousins posts some zionist bullshit and i have a compulsion to counter it
#im so so sick rn tho like i almost never run a fever this high#but i just cant fucking stand my cousins whining and playing the victim about antisemitism#like firsr of all. you should be blaming israel for that. full stop.#second a lot of it is being overblown by zionist groups on purpose. and some if it is even being CAUSED by zionists#trying to make the free palestine movement look bad#(see: the many ways in which zionism is itself deeply antisemetic)#and third. you have never confronted a nazi or white supremicist in person i guarantee it#dont talk to me from behind your screen about how youre afraid of facing antisemitism until youre the one spray painting over hatespeech#and getting contronted by maga nutjobs in the middle of the night#aka my undergrad experience#this is white victimhood in a slightly different flavor#and its a bad look
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For the record I normally wouldn't use memes of this guy but...
This time I will make an exception
#fun fact: my mom got very promanent tattoos of clovers and only learned many years after that its used by white supremicists#I imagine the guy with that tattoo had a similar experiance
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while i don't want to minimise the danger of the white replacement theory its focus on anglo-saxons really cracks me up as a very white (celtic) person who has little to no anglo-saxon blood. these guys love to act like Saviours of the White Race while ignoring every other white ethnicity and it is sooooooo funny
#like obvs it's a very harmful piece of white supremicist rhetoric but it is Stupid as Anything#it's basically just a re-skin of the nazi 'aryan race' replacement theory#big yikes! anyway#conpost
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"Even more troubling was the tweet from Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) attributing to founder Patrick Henry a false quotation saying that âthis great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.â Historian Seth Cotlar noted that the quotation actually came from the April 1956 issue of a virulently antisemitic white nationalist magazine, The Virginian."
Extremist Republicans are constantly trying to push their agenda.
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Someone telling me that wearing blue laces in a ladder style will get me arrested because they train cops to do that in America and Iâm just sitting here in a village in fucking Ireland having never once heard that before.
#they also said that wearing white or red laces on military boots signals that Iâm a white supremicist or nazi#what the actual fuck#like Iâm all for secret languages but not if it limits my expression#wtf
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Wanna adjust our hairline and jaws.. maybe brows. Love yeah we're self conscious about our nose but... is that our comfort or societal pressure (hint it's for sure the second one)
i wish ffs didnt come with a rhinoplasty 99% of the time what are we doing to our beautiful queensâŠâŠâŠâŠ.
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not posting about whatâs going on in i/p, but I am a Jew from Pittsburgh, and Iâm thinking about how in the aftermath of the shooting at Tree of Lifeâwhere eleven people I knew personally were murdered by a white supremicistâI saw people on this website asking if anyone knew if the murder victims were zionists because if they were, it was inappropriate to mourn them. as if their lives only mattered if they were Good Jews TM.
the fifth anniversary of the shooting is on Friday, and on top of everything else happening right now, thatâs something that is really sticking around my mind.
#Jewish tag#pittsburgh shooting tw#antisemitism tw#gun violence tw#I/p discourse tw#tree of life shooting tw
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I think the most infuriating thing about the way the left are is that they completely refuse to look at evidence proving them wrong. I have a few liberal friends, right? And one of them reblogged a post about "These are harmless books that the right wing nazis are trying to ban because they say they're child porn, but they're just harmless LGBT books that teach kids it's okay to be LGBT" Well, I literally bought one of the books on Amazon, and it literally has drawings of child characters sucking each other off, masturbating and having anal sex, it is literally drawn. I went to my friend's house and showed him the book and I said "This is child porn" and he got super mad and started screaming at me, and I opened the book to show him and he slapped the book out of my hand, screamed at me about how "Trump fucks kids" apparently, and shoved me out of his house and threw the book at me. Absolutely nobody believes me when I say this. Absolutely nobody. But it happened. And this isn't even the only story. Another is my friend saying "Trump said there's good people on both sides" and I linked the full video where Trump immediately says "Not the white supremicists, they have no place in this country and I disavow them" and my friend flat out said "I'm not watching that I've already seen it" and I said "You clearly haven't" and he said "Will you fucking drop this I don't want to have to block you for being a fucking bootlicker okay? I already suspected you were racist but this is going too far" It's so goddamn infuriating. They literally just refuse to look at evidence against them.
Itâs incredibly infuriating. Theyâre not interested in evidence or the truth. All they are interested in is hating Trump.
If they wanted the truth they wouldnât refuse to look at things that might contradict what they think.
And itâs just like if you donât agree them or foam at the mouth with hatred for Trump, no matter what the truth is youâre a racist.
This is why we shouldnât be bending over backwards to please these people. They donât care about the truth and they will never be happy no matter what.
They arenât good people.
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On Cate "Apologists"...
Okay... It's gotten to the point where the Cate Infantilization and apologia is getting annoying.
I thought the show did a decent job of portraying a sympathetic and complex character, but... she is still a villain. People are allowed to dislike her and she is not the biggest victim in the show by a long shot.
Also, people that keep saying "she's just a kid"... she's a college junior. She's supposed to be like 20-21 years old.
I get that that is still pretty young and a lot of her trauma happened when she was a kid. But she is still an adult that can be accountable for her actions.
She shares the exact same coded yt-supremicist ideals as homelander (similar blonde haired/blue eyed features are not a coincidence), and even if it came from trauma, so did Homelander and Shetty's actions... so?
Y'all hate Shetty cuz she tortured supes and wanted to enact a genocide due to her trauma and misplaced hatred? Wtf was Cate doing in the last episode?
Most of the human staff at Godolkin are not aware of the woods. They are also victim to Vought's propaganda and Cate is aware of this. Yet she intentionally massacres them and uses her powers to influence people to do it for her.
She continuously violates people's consent and bodily autonomy (despite being a victim of SA herself). If she had been able to touch Jordan and cause them to hurt Marie (or Marie to hurt them in self-defense), what do you think that would have done to either of them psychologically?
I actually don't hate Cate (although her growing fandom is starting to push me in that direction), and I was fine with the "Yass queen! Villain lady iconic!" type of discourse when I thought y'all were just kidding...
But now that it's starting to bleed into racism towards Marie and Andre, transphobia towards Jordan, and just the most pea-brained, no nuanced misinterpretations of the show's themes and messaging, I think we need to step back for a minute. Y'all are starting to sound like the gender-swapped version of the boys fans that worship homelander and think *he* is the actual hero of the story.
It also doesn't surprise me that the worst offender of this is a Swiftie. Because when we talk about the infantilization of a powerful, white woman as a precursor to racism... đ
That being said: No hate to normal T-swift fans (I actually grew up on her music too) but the coincidence was too obvious to not point out.
And I have no issue with like MarieCate shippers, fan artists or anyone that's engaging with Cate's character in a normal, nuanced way... but a good chunk of y'all need to get a grip.
I've really been enjoying the Gen V fandom (small as it is), and i would hate to see it go the way of the greater boys fandom.
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"we must learn to hang together or we'll surely hang separately"
The state of queer discourse is this: We're a herd of beef cattle being driven down a chute into an abottoir, a couple of head are trying to make the "Have we not horns?" speech, but they're being drowned out by the Judas cow at the head of the chute who's loudly complaining that the farmer should've better sorted the herd
#Honestly this goes for solidarity BETWEEN minoritized groups not just within#the crushing powers wants to split us based on queerness race gender disability religion class etc#Divide the enemy and conquer it one by one. We are in the midst of the 'first they came for' poem#so suck it up shake hands with people you don't like#(My exception for queer solidarity is TERFS bc they're a white supremicist pipeline that splinters the queer community and hurts trans ppl)#(Bc terds are the ppl who'll cheer when our trans siblings get their rights stripped then pikachu face :0 when their rights are stripped 2)#solidarity forever#solidarity#queer solidarity
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Some sensitive stuff but if you care about current going ons in Palestine I encourage you to read:
I am genuinely devastated by the cognitive dissonance world leaders and celebrities are exhibiting re: Gaza. As a Levantine Arab whose parentâs homes were destroyed in war ignited by Israeli occupation, I am vehemently Pro-Palestine and sincerely encourage people to be critical of Pro-Israeli propaganda. Israel has been recognized time and time again by the United Nations and several human rights organizations as a colonial-settler state that has and continues to commit apartheid. Israel has always been a white supremacist and Zionist project financially backed by America and Europe solely for the benefits of keeping Palestinians oppressed while utilizing the land as a makeshift military base in the Levant. World leaders are lying through their teeth in order to retain all the benefits that come with subjugation. It is not a âconflictâ nor is it âcomplicatedâ. If you donât support what Russia is doing to Ukraine, you should not support what Israel is doing to Palestine. There is never an excuse for massacre at this scale for this long.
I will be adding many resources below while also reblogging many informational posts. I know this is just my art Tumblr but I am incredibly passionate about this situation and it effects my family directly.
Links:
How âIsraelâ came to be and how it was on the blood of indigenous Palestinians and a white supremicist project funded by the UK and America:
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What has been happening in Gaza for almost 80 years:
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The sheer amount of carnage that Israeli officials hide from the general public and claim is âlessâ than Israeli casualties:
How Americans are brainwashed into helping with and advocating apartheid and ethnic cleansing:
How Israelites and zionists hide behind anti-semitism when confronted with the reality of Palestinian genocide and any critique on Israeli apartheid. As well as how utilizing this term as a shield dismisses the actual meaning of anti-semitism and diminishes itâs value during genuine critique:
Human rights resources
There are many more but this is enough to start. Please donât stay silent and donât blindly believe the overwhelming (and very calculated and intentional) wave of pro-Israeli sentiment.
#personal#please help Palestinians and be critical of things you see online#especially all the recent waves of PR being posted online#resource list
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tiktok leftists being like "actually bin laden had a point" because he had basic surface-level criticism of america, reminds me of those certain leftists who suddenly think alt-right online white supremicists are suddenly their besties because "we both hate liberals" like it's not for same the reasons you guys!!!
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