solarbird | Fascism Watch for 2023/11/27: Clearing the Docket, Part 2

Remember how Mike Johnson wants LGBT people to be illegal? It’s not just us: Jewish family fled hometown after Mike Johnson warned of ‘enemy’ to the gospel: report. See also Eye of the bedeviler, an essay on how he gets a pass for this shit and Jeremiah Wright is still being published for lesser criticisms. He’s a bog-standard American evangelical fundamentalist and that means everything that always means, and the Republican Party gave him power.

If you’ve missed this: Mike Davis wants to cage kids, put Trump enemies in a ‘gulag.’ He could be our next Attorney General.

Let’s talk Twitter and Elon Musk. Elon Musk provides yet another platform for far-right attacks, endorsing a version of the Great Replacement white supremacist conspiracy theory as absolute truth. He’s also suing people for correctly pointing this out, and showing how ads are placed next to neo-Nazi and Hitler-worshipping accounts, as would expect from such an absolute defender of free speech. He even admits they’re right and Musk Twitter actually does this, and yet, he’s suing anyway because it’s bad of them to say it. And premium subscribers to Elon Musk’s service have been repeatedly pushing the racist Great Replacement theory, just like Elon himself.

That is, after all, why he bought it. I remind you: he owns the system and rigs it to his will. “Staying and fighting” isn’t a thing.

Pleasantly, Yet more advertisers are fleeing Twitter after Elon Musk’s endorsement of antisemitic conspiracy theory. Particularly if you’re a customer of any of these companies, you should write them supporting their decision to drop ads. Investors are acting (in a good way for once), so you should too.

If Paris Hilton can walk away, ordinary people can too.

(The Russian propaganda machine loves him, by the way. Similarly to how they love Tucker Carlson.)

Law Dork writes in longer form about the “perilousness of this moment” in history. You can see it in so many ways, but particularly the way Republicans disregard election results even when they acknowledge them as valid. The way Election mail threats across the PNW prompt new look at protections heading into 2024. The way a Fox host suggests that the answer to divisions is war, not voting. The way the Judge on Trump NY Fraud Case Receives ‘Serious and Credible’ Death Threats From MAGA. The way they just tell you what they’re going to do and people still support them, like Trump’s Recipe for a Shockingly Raw Power Grab.

The way they mock and jeer if you ask about their attempt to overturn the last election.

The way they want mass death and disease. See also: CDC Advised To Weaken Infection Protections As Mysterious Pneumonia Brews Overseas, as RFK Jr. comes ‘home’ to his anti-vaccine group, commits to ‘a break’ for U.S. infectious disease research. (He makes a lot of money from these lies.) If you vote for this guy, you’re going to get him or Trump, and a lot more plagues. (Once again: vaccines work. They work well. Even against Long Covid.)

Vaccine Scientist Warns Antiscience Conspiracies Have Become a Deadly, Organized Movement. Well, he’s not wrong.

I’m so far behind, so the rest is a bit of a list.

COULDN’T HAPPEN TO A NICER UNIVERSITY: