“…lies work because they shift responsibility.”
—Timothy Snyder, Blame Canada
#trump #vance #lies

“We are blaming someone else for our problems, and flailing for ever more nonsensical stories: like that Canada is to blame.”
—Timothy Snyder, Blame Canada
#trump #vance #usa #canada

@godpod
Did JD #Vance ONCE say "Thank You" to the people who ambushed him?

“…we’ve destroyed our alliances and are rapidly undermining our scientific and technological capacity.”
—Paul Krugman, The Paranoid Style in MAGA Policy
#trump #vance #musk #usa

@gleick #Vance is as good at parenting as #Musk.

Musk walks fast and leaves his child to wander behind.

Some people should not be allowed to have children no matter how much money they have. In fact, the more money someone has, the worse at parenting they tend to be: their children more often than not become #narcissistic, #entitled #sociopaths that should never ever be allowed out of their homes as they are a danger to society and ordinary human beings.

”Encirclement, bullying, belittling.”
—Timothy Snyder, Antisemitism in the Oval Office
#trump #donaldtrump #vance #jdvance

“Vance presents Zelens'kyi as a corrupt liar… The man who insisted that the Americans (and indeed he himself personally) were the real heroes, Donald Trump, told Jews last fall they would be held responsible if he lost the election -- among many other things.”
—Timothy Snyder, Antisemitism in the Oval Office
#trump #vance #jdvance #zelensky #zelenskyy #antisemitism

“If we consider for a moment the men who tried to humiliate him, …the picture only sharpens and clarifies. The man who asked him about his clothes, Brian Glenn, is a conspiracy-theorizing far-right journalist. … The man who demanded deference and spoke of "propaganda tours," JD Vance, had just returned from Germany, where he made a point of publicly supporting the German far right.”
—Timothy Snyder, Antisemitism in the Oval Office
#trump #vance #jdvance #glenn #zelensky #zelenskyy #antisemitism

“It's all right there: the demand for deference, the obsession with money, the claims of corruption and dishonesty, the encirclement, the loud voices, the bizarre grievances, the underlying sense that a Jewish person does not fit and must be expelled.”
—Timothy Snyder, Antisemitism in the Oval Office
#trump #vance #zelensky #zelenskyy #whitehouse #ovaloffice #antisemitism

“As always with antisemitism, facts are no defense. Zelens'kyi consistently thanks Americans, as can be easily verified. He is the elected president of a country that is a democratic republic under a constitution. Zelens'kyi won the last election with 73% and his approval rating is now 68%… Zelens'kyi has been personally courageous. He stayed in Kyiv when everyone expected him to flee.”
—Timothy Snyder, Antisemitism in the Oval Office
#trump #vance #zelensky #zelenskyy #ukraine #antisemitism

“Zelens'kyi was portrayed as someone who was taking our cash, giving is nothing in return, ripping us off. He was also mocked for not knowing how to dress for the space, as not belonging. And his deference was demanded: "Have you said thank you once?" "Offer some words of appreciation." And then was thrown out of the White House. And told to resign his office as president of Ukraine.”
—Timothy Snyder, Antisemitism in the Oval Office
#trump #vance #zelensky #zelenskyy #ukraine #antisemitism

“The Americans portrayed themselves as the real heroes because they provided some of the weapons. The suffering of Ukrainians went unmentioned. An attempt to refer to it was cruelly and falsely reduced to a "propaganda tours" led by Zelens'kyi. The Americans portrayed themselves as the real victims of the because they paid for some of the weapons. It was all, bizarrely, about money.”
—Timothy Snyder, Antisemitism in the Oval Office
#trump #vance #zelensky #zelenskyy #ukraine #antisemitism

”It was all there, in the Oval Office, in the shouting and in the interruptions, in the noises and in the silences. A courageous man…had to be brought down. When he said things that were simply true he was shouted down and called a propagandist. There was no acknowledgement of Zelens'kyi's bravery in remaining in Kyiv.”
—Timothy Snyder, Antisemitism in the Oval Office
#trump #vance #zelensky #zelenskyy #ukraine #kyiv #antisemitism

”…my first, reflexive reactions was: these are non-Jews trying to intimidate a Jew. Three against one. A roomful against one. An antisemitic scene. And the more I listened to the words, the more that reaction was confirmed. … These things are complex, and personal. But not for the antisemite.”
—Timothy Snyder, Antisemitism in the Oval Office
#trump #vance #jdvance #zelenskyy #zelensky #antisemitism

”The way that I reacted to the scene in the Oval Office, and how I have pondered and considered it since, have to do with my research… Jews had to show deference. Germans mocked the ways Jews dressed. That was before they were sent to the ghetto and murdered. Jews were scapegoated, made responsible for what the Germans wished to do anyway.”
—Timothy Snyder, Antisemitism in the Oval Office
#zelenskyy #zelensky #trump #vance #antisemitism