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Thoughts on surviving Trump and a fascist government in America

We must not forget.

We must not accept Trump’s crimes, even as he dismantles and/or corrupts our legal system.

We must not cease our demands that public officials not lie, and not manipulate voters and citizens through the use of Hitler-style propaganda techniques.

We must never forget the lies of Trump and Vance about illegal Haitian immigrants stealing pet dogs and cats in Springfield, Ohio, and eating them.

The news media are analyzing this election as if it were won on the basis of rational policy differences.

The media ignore the overwhelming role played by lies and propaganda in Trump’s victory.

They ignore the way the Republican Party became a group of fascists who had abandoned all moral values and united behind a fascist leader who exemplifies all the worst qualities of America and Americans throughout the country’s history.

We must maintain our belief in truth and honesty.

We must resolve to transform America into a country that can successfully resist Trump and his fascist movement, and ensure that Trump and the other fascists will never win again.

For more, see Trenchant Observations (jamesrowles.substack.com) and my books on Amazon including The Rape of American Democracy, 2016-2021.

James P. Rowles (name on Amazon)

Were racist ads used to trigger voting responses of some New York Times readers

Bret Stephens, “Harris Needs a Closing Argument. Here’s One.” New York Times, October 15, 2024,

The ad of a young black woman wearing oversized red sunglasses appeared in so many ads as I was reading op-eds and other political articles as I followed rge campaign in the New York Times that I began to wonder if I was being targeted with that ad in order to produce a negative reaction that might lead to s vote for Trump.

The ad did produce a negative reaction. The young woman, if she was real, or AI generated image if she was not,hit a chord, reminding me of woke individuals I had seen on TV who struck me as having a pro-black and anti-white bias.

What struck me was the frequency with which I saw the same image and the perfect degree it seemed to be drawing an instant emotional reaction below the level of awareness.

Was this real? Did I accurately understand what was going on, how it seemed I was being manipulated?

Did others have this or a similar experience?

Arrest Trump for inciting violence

1) Hannah Knowles and Meryl Kornfield, “Trump says he doesn’t mind someone shooting at journalists at rally; Trump’s latest comments were an escalation of violent language he and his supporters have used in recent days, Washington Post, November 3, 2024 (2:04 p.m. EST);

2) Hannah Knowles, Marianne LeVine and Isaac Arnsdorf, “Trump embraces violent rhetoric, suggests Liz Cheney should have guns ‘trained on her face’;
The GOP nominee often describes graphic and gruesome scenes of crimes and violence,real and imagined,” Washington Post, November 1, 2024 (
Updated at 6:33 p.m. EDT);

3 Aaron Blake, “On Rlection Ve, Trump dances atound a powder ke, with a lit match,” Washington Post November 2, 2024 (11:13 a.m. aeST);

Onald Trump is a fascist to the core. If Republican lwmakers don’t call him out and condemn his latestincitement, that will merely conirm that the and the Republican Party aref fascist to the core.

These remarks are very deliberate icitements to violence and efforts to appeal to Trump’s most violent supporters?

Days before the election in 2024, Trump made a veiled appeal for the assassination of Vice President zjoe Bide.

His calculation must be that in all of excitement and tumult attending the election, nobody will pay attention or remember these crimes.

Regardless of who wins the electio, state prosecutors should seek indictments and prosecute Trump for incitement of violence, and in particular shooting Joe Biden and Kala Harris.

Trump thinks he is very clever with words. Let juries decide of he wasclever enought to avoid convictions and prison sentences in calling for violence

Michigan: A vote for Jill Stein is a vote for Trump

There are reports that a lot of Arab Americans in Michigan are planning on voting for Jill Stein.

See,

Thom Hartmann, “Jill Stein: The Grifter Who May Hand Trump the White House Again; Not only is she helping Trump win—she’s destroying a once-noble party that could be doing good in this country,” The New Republic, October 10, 2024.

They need to think very carefully before casting a vote that would help Trump win Michigan and perhaps the presidential election.

I have studied Arabic at the University level, speak conversational Arabic, and have worked in the Middle East.

The policy of Joe Biden toward Israel and Gaza has been an abomination. By fully supporting Israel’s commission of war crimes in Gaza the United States has become complicit in the commission of those war crimes.

By pressuring the International Criminal Court not to issue the international arrest warrants against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense minister Yoav Galant for the commission of war crimes in Gaza, the United
States has acted to undermine the principal international body for tor the prosecution of war crimes.

So long as the U.S. supports and enables Israel (through its military aid) to continue its war crimes in Gaza, the U.S. will never be able to assume the leadership of the nations of the world to maintain international peace and security. This reality was brought home this last week by the BRICS summit hosted by Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

There are two nations acting in flagrant violation of international law today.

One is Russia, continuing its vwar of aggression against Ukraine and war crimes in that country.

The other is Israel, continuing its war crimes in Gaza, and now extending the commission of those crimes to the West Bank and Lebanon.

No one disputes Israel’s right to defend itself against attacks from Hezbollah in Lebanon.

However, under international law and the United Nations Charter, exercise of the right of self-defense is subject to the twin requirements of necessity ad proportionality. Israel has not respected the requirement of proportionality, resorting to grotesque arguments in attempts to justify its actions.

All of this is true. None of it justifies a vote for Jill Stein. A vote for Stein wouldv amount, in facr, to a vote for Donald Trump which could lead to his election as president.

Kamala Harris is not running against some ideal candidate who would protect the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank.

Moreover, while Harris may not be the strongest candidate in theory, we are not living in a theoretical universe. Furthermore, the election on November 5 is about much more than a choice between her and Donald Trump.

The election is fundamentally about whether the Democrats should run the country or the Republicans. The Republicans have become fascists Under the leadership of Donald Trump who today exercises absolute control over what has become the fascist Republican Party.

A vote for Stein is a vote for Trump.

What would be the policy of Donald Trump toward Israel and Gaza if he is reelected to be president?

He would not be a friend of tie Palestinians. Look beyond the propaganda and at the actual facts.

See

1) Isaac Arnsdorf, Josh Dawsey, John Hudson and Michael Birnbaumm “Trump signals support in call with Netanyahu: ‘Do what you have to do’; Trump offers Israel his backing in wars with Hamas and Hezbollah even as his campaign seeks Arab American votes,” Washington Post, October25, 2024 (Updated at 6:25 p.m. EDT);

2) Here & Now Newsroom, NPR,”How Trump handled Israel while in office,” WbBUR October29, 2024 (06:59).

At this turning point in our nation’s history, in Michigan and elsewhere Arab Americans, who are among the most patriotic of all Americans, need to pay careful attention in voting forca president and also Senators and Congresmen in the November 5 election.

Before voting, Arab-American voters in Michigan need to ask themselves:

Which candidates (president,senators, and congressmen) will be best for the Palestinians, for the Arab-American community, and for the country they now owe allegiance to, the United States of America?

Kelly reports on Trump’s open admiration of Adolf Hitler

1) Michael S. Schmidt,”As Election Nears, Kelly Warns Trump Would Rule Like a Dictator; John Kelly, the Trump White House’s longest-serving chief of staff, said that he believed that Donald Trump met the definition of a fascist,” New York Times, October 22, 2024.

Schmidt reports that General (ret.) John F. Kelly, Trump’s former Chief of Staff,said “that in his opinion, Mr. Trump met the definition of a fascist, would govern like a dictator if allowed, and had no understanding of the Constitution or the concept of rule of law.” Schmidt reported, “Mr. Kelly confirmed previous reports that on more than one occasion Mr. Trump spoke positively of Hitler.He commented more than once that, ‘You know, Hitler did some good things, too,’ Mr. Kelly said Mr. Trump told him.”

Anne Applebaum on Trump’s intentional fascist rhetoric

1) Anne Appelbaum,”Trump Is Speaking Like Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini; The former president has brought dehumanizing language into American presidential politics,” The Atlantic, October 18, 2024 (6:00 a.m. ET);

2) “The West Has to Believe that Democracy Will Prevail
The case against pessimism—in Ukraine and around the world
By Anne Applebaum,” The Atlantic, October 20, 2024 (2:30 p.m..

“This year, the Atlantic staff writer Anne Applebaum was awarded the German Book Trade’s Peace Prize for her “indispensable contribution to the preservation of democracy.” Applebaum is the author of Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World; Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine; Gulag: A History; and other books about dictatorship and democracy. This article is adapted from the acceptance lecture that she delivered today in Frankfurt.”

The truth is out: Gen. (ret.) Mark Milley and Democrats now open recognize Trump is a fascist and tge fascist tgrea he and his supporters represent

1) Jonathan Weisman, “Since Gen. Mark Milley was quoted as saying Donald Trump is ‘fascist to the core,’ a term avoided by top members of the Democratic Party is suddenly everywhere; Since Gen. Mark Milley was quoted as saying Donald Trump is ‘fascist to the core,” a term avoided by top members of the Democratic Party is suddenly everywhere,” Nrw York Times, October 17, 2024 (1:39 p.m. ET’;

2) Bret Stephens, “Harris Needs a Closing Argument. Here’s One.” New York Times, October 15, 2024,