Lisa Stranger

2024-07-24 12:41:34

JD Vance called Native Americans the 'enemy' and Indigenous Peoples Day a 'fake holiday'

"A half a millennium ago Columbus used technology developed in Europe to sail across a giant ocean and discover a new continent. Today we celebrate that daring and ingenuity," he wrote in a follow-up tweet. "Happy Columbus Day!"

Indigenous People's Day became a substitute for Columbus Day as knowledge of Columbus' brutal enslavement of Indigenous people in the Caribbean broke through into mainstream consciousness. Spanish Dominican priest Bartolomé de las Casas, who accompanied Columbus on several of his expeditions, described some of Columbus' atrocities in his journal.

"[Spaniards acted] like ravening beasts, killing, terrorizing, afflicting, torturing, and destroying the native peoples, doing all this with the strangest and most varied new methods of cruelty, never seen or heard of before, and to such a degree that this Island of Hispaniola once so populous (having a population that I estimated to be more than three million), has now a population of barely two hundred persons," he wrote in 1542. "And the Christians, with their horses and swords and pikes began to carry out massacres and strange cruelties against them. They attacked the towns and spared neither the children nor the aged nor pregnant women nor women in childbed, not only stabbing them and dismembering them but cutting them to pieces as if dealing with sheep in the slaughter house."

https://www.alternet.org/vance-native-americans/

JD Vance called Native Americans the 'enemy' and Indigenous Peoples Day a 'fake holiday'

Comments that Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) made about Indigenous people have recently resurfaced, and they could cause a headache for former President Donald Trump's campaign among Native American voters.

^{Carl Gibson (Alternet.org)}

Lisa Stranger

2024-07-24 12:31:10

‘Sit down and shut up’: Ex-Reagan speechwriter torches MAGA GOP for bogus ‘coup’ claims

“This is rich,” the Never Trump conservative argues. “Here is indeed a candidate in this race who attempted to stage a coup, and we know who that is. Trump submitted his false electoral votes, pressured his vice president, and sent his goons to Capitol Hill because he would not accept the verdict of the voters.”

On X, formerly Twitter, Erickson posted, “Y’all can argue over the word coup, but Biden stepping aside is the American equivalent of all those people accidentally falling out of windows in Russia.”

Charen writes, “The party that openly admires Vladimir Putin — see Carlson, Tucker — has no business making snarky comments about people falling out of windows. So please sit down and shut up with your coup talk.”

https://www.alternet.org/send/maga-gop-coup/

'Sit down and shut up': Ex-Reagan speechwriter torches MAGA GOP for bogus 'coup' claims

After President Joe Biden announced, on Sunday, July 21, that he was ending his reelection campaign and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for president, it didn't take long for countless Democrats to rally around her.

^{Alex Henderson (Alternet.org)}

Lisa Stranger

2024-07-24 12:35:01

Megyn Kelly deplored affair rumors in memoir — 'now she’s slut-shaming Kamala Harris': journalist

Matt Walsh, a far-right social media influencer wrote via X: "Kamala Harris got her start in politics by sleeping with Willie Brown. She became Vice President because Biden needed a non-white female on the ticket. Now she likely becomes the Democratic nominee for president because the guy at the top of the ticket has dementia. She’s made a career out of begging for hand outs from powerful men. A thoroughly unimpressive human being."

Veteran author and journalist Dr. Naomi Wolf replied: "This kind of sexist take from Republican men will not play well. Swing voters who are women are up for grabs, the Trump/Vance ticket needs them, and ‘she slept her way to the top’ just repels many women and is not an argument."

https://www.alternet.org/megyn-kelly-kamala-harris/

Megyn Kelly deplored affair rumors in memoir —  'now she’s slut-shaming Kamala Harris': journalist

As Republicans pivot to a new 2024 presidential campaign strategy after President Joe Biden announced Sunday that he's ending his reelection bid and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris to run, some right-wing pundits are hitting below the belt.

^{Maya Boddie (Alternet.org)}