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'This chills me': Fascism experts horrified by Trump’s call for 'really violent day' of policing

www.alternet.org 'This chills me': Fascism experts horrified by Trump’s call for 'really violent day' of policing

2024 GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump openly advocated police brutality when, during a campaign speech in Erie, Pennsylvania on Sunday, September 29, he called for "one really violent day" of policing. This "extraordinarily rough" approach, Trump promised, would dramatically reduce crime in maj...

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how is this not on the front page of every news source?!
- Because Trump is firehosing. There's too much bullshit and fascism, and it would consume any media outlet that reports on it, making the news media appear to be biased.
  Look at the complaints from the debate, "Oh wahh, they fact-checked me but didn't fact-check Harris!" and now CBS is saying they won't fact-check the VP debate. They keep doing it because it works.
  Trump is floundering. His poll numbers aren't looking great, and his VP keeps fucking up campaign events, people are leaving his rallys on camera behind him, so Trump is just going to shout whatever bombastic bullshit comes to mind in the hopes that it will drown out the other stories. And it fucking works.
  
  ... people are leaving his rallys on camera behind him, ...
  Of note, those people who sit right behind the speaker and get to be on camera - those people are specifically selected to be there.
  Even the people who have been chosen to be Trump's backdrop are leaving early.
  
  His poll numbers aren’t looking great,
  They're not looking anywhere near as bad as they should. 44% for Trump and 48% for Harris doesn't mean much when the states' election infrastructure has been systematically compromised by Republicans and the election all depends on a few swing states. There's still a good chance of Trump being the next President.
  
  I agree with that. People need to vote like democracy is at stake.
  
  What tiny bit of democracy that we are allowed is totes at stake. Trump's administration is talking about regressing us back centuries in this country. Like corporate towns and child labor back. And all because some brain rotted morons are mad eggs got more expensive. Well it just makes me sad, cause they have no idea how bad shit can get for the common citizen.
  
  “Oh wahh, they fact-checked me but didn’t fact-check Harris!” and now CBS is saying they won’t fact-check the VP debate.
  And if there weren't already enough examples that our media are complicit in this clownshow, this puts it over the top for sure.
  
  Wouldn't say it totally works. Yeah some people vote for him but he's literally only losing ground, Trump hasn't actually made any political gain since his initial election, maybe Jan 6th and maybe getting shot at.
  But other than that, he really only loses support at least from what I see in my swing state.
  
  I hope you’re right.
- Like so much Trump says and does, it's Republicans demanding a state of affairs that already exists, but that we're socially ashamed of.
  Ask the guy in the NYC subway who caught a bullet for being adjacent to a turnstile jumper if we have violent policing. Ask George Floyd. Ask Sandra Bland. Ask Rodney King.
  It already exists. We already functionally endorse it. We already put these acts is brutality on the front page.
  We just don't feel good when we see it. That's what Trump wants to change. He wants us to view domestic police brutality like Israelis treat genocide in Gaza and Lebanon. He wants us to clap.
  
  I've got a buddy who had the shit beaten out of him by Austin PD back in the '90s. He's A REALLY big white guy and the police cited his size as the reason they felt threatened by him.
  He fortunately won his lawsuit when he was able to provide evidence that the police beat him up because it seemed like a fun challenge to take down someone so large.
  Trump's call for violence is one that cops nationwide will gladly answer
  
  Trump’s call for violence is one that cops nationwide will gladly answer
  Yup.
  Protests about police brutality are met with wave of police brutality across US
- So what if it were on the first page? Do you think that republicans who know how to read would care?
  
  It was the Republican who knows how to Read's idea in the first place!
- Because they want Trump to win.

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