CROSSPOST: TIMOTHY SNYDER: Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio: Nazi Lies in Vance's America
In his first term, the analogues of Hermann Göring, Josef Goebbels, and Reinhard Heydrich did not show up for Donald Trump. Now, in Trump's second term, JD Vance is auditioning for the slot(s)...
In his first term, the analogues of Hermann Göring, Josef Goebbels, and Reinhard Heydrich did not show up for Donald Trump. Now, in Trump's second term, JD Vance is auditioning for the slot(s): JD Vance’s invented stories about Haitians in Springfield (“overwhelmed” city, pet-eating, crime, disease) were amplified by right‑wing media, then laundered back into “facts” by Vance and Trump, culminating in Trump’s debate lie about Haitians eating pets and his promise of “large deportations” from Springfield, which DHS i operationalizing, removing Haitians’ TPS on pretextual grounds. Fantasy, Nazi mobilization, online memes, bomb threats, then bureaucratized ethnic cleansing—this is what Vance is about to try to test in Springfield, Ohio. America's soul really is at stake here…
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Hi Brad. I have quoted you in a post over on Medium. The article is about a proposal for a national real-time payment system for the U.S. dollar. And why Stablecoins are a bad idea: “Should money flow out of stablecoins, operators would be forced to sell Treasuries and whatever other assets they hold claiming they are safe,” which is “the kind of thing that generated the 2008–2010 Great Recession,” Brad DeLong — economist at the University of California Berkeley.
I hope you are ok with me using your words. Here is a a link to the article.
https://medium.com/@ron.bengtson/the-mafia-paradigm-49e04f01c0ca
Ron Bengtson