Hear What You Hear, See What You See
And vote accordingly.
I ran across this video this morning in a post by MSNBC anchor and journalist Joy-Ann Reid. Her perfect delivery and content—with the video she shares from FOX News— tells us so much about the GOP and their favorite candidate Donald Trump. Spot on— thank you, Ms. Reid.
We have normalized this stuff, when we should be looking at every detail of what they do/he does, as Ms. Reid points out: “Take note of it. Hear what you hear, see what you see. Believe them and act and vote accordingly.”
This morning, I found myself internally normalizing the fact weeks ago, GOP Representatives Comer, Grassley, McCarthy, Cruz, Jordan all accused Biden of taking bribes from Ukraine, something I assumed was false. They started an impeachment hearing against Biden based on these lies. I found myself thinking simply, of course they did, and moving on—when I should have been more outraged, particularly now that we know more where they got those lied.
But we now know the man who spread those lies, Alexander Smirnoff, has been charged by a Trump appointed Special Council David Weiss of the Justice Department with creating and spreading “false and ficticious lies.” According to Heather Cox Richardson, “the story became even more troubling yesterday, when… Weiss filed a document establishing that the informant, Alexander Smirnov, has extensive and extremely recent ties with Russian intelligence agencies.”
Can our government officially call out these Representatives for spreading lies and doing incredible damage against a sitting president?
Trump will take away our rights as women, Blacks, immigrants, LGBTQ+, anyone not white and Christian. He will deport whomever he likes if he becomes president. If you don’t praise him, if you don’t say you believe what he believes, if you don’t agree with him, he will roll right over you.
Here’s an animation of some of the words he has said over the years describing those who don’t agree with him.
Thanks for being here, see you tomorrow.
As a 71-year-old white formerly Catholic male, married to a white woman and with white children, I'm not a target for Trump sneakers. All the more so since I happen to be an expert on and voice for Black teenagers and young adults of all body sizes, tastes, and ethnic backgrounds. As such I SWEAR that nobody ridin' with me will ever buy a Trump sneaker. To do so would immediately isolate them in the community as a homeboy of no class or taste whatever, someone who would be laughed off of any balling court, someone determined to never have a date with anyone of any race, gender or species, and whose only selling point is his willingness to give up $400 in exchange for shit, and not the kind that makes you feel good. Any of those high-tops that makes it into any 'hood in any city is going to end up in an old oil drum warming up other people's faces and hands.
Thanks once again, LIza, for posting something REALLY important! I have just posted Joy's Tik Tok on my FB page, and I hope everyone who reads your substack does, too. It's time we stop being quiet on our social media pages and speak out. This is a lovely first step!