#performativecruelty — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #performativecruelty, aggregated by home.social.
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"What is really remarkable is the extent to which he’s communicated that to his base. He’s tapped into this really visceral hatred of the other and the desire to inflict pain and suffering on them. I think that that is one of the ugliest aspects, and we saw that with the ‘Mass Deportation Now!’ signs.”
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"He would tell the story about Gen. ‘Black Jack’ Pershing in World War I taking Muslim terrorists and shooting them with bullets that had been dipped in pig’s blood. He’s talked about extrajudicial killings. He has expressed his admiration for strongmen like Duterte in the Philippines who have done this. He’s talked about having drug courts that would have trials and executions the same day."
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“This culture of performative cruelty and brutality is one of the aspects of [Trump's] appeal. For many years he’s been saying that his idea of law and order is to have cops who will break heads and inflict harm. He’s talked about putting razor blades on the top of the wall that Mexico was going to pay for. He’s told stories about atrocities."
~ Charlie Sykes
#Trump #cruelty #PerformativeCruelty #immigrants
/3https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/how-should-we-respond-to-the-maga
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"President Trump said violent crime in big cities was 'out of control.' The new FBI report on 2024 data says otherwise. …
The FBI’s data is unambiguous. Far from being “out of control,” violent crime in the United States fell by an estimated 4.5% in 2024. The numbers are even more striking when you break them down."
~ Jeff Nesbit
#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty #Epstein #economy
/15https://contrarian.substack.com/p/president-trump-said-violent-crime
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"And it is now arriving (returning, really) to the capital. Each time, the president has justified these military deployments under the pretext of a domestic crisis that facts do not support."
#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty #Epstein #economy
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"There are the especially concerning facts of this military deployment, which we must place in the context of an ever-growing impulse to deploy the military within the United States. It began eight months ago at the southern border. It spread to Los Angeles earlier this summer."
~ Chris Mirasola
#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty #Epstein #economy
/13https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/deploying-the-d.c.-national-guard
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"But at Trump’s press conference he claimed, 'Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals roving mobs of wild youth, drugged out maniacs and homeless people, and we’re not going to let it happen anymore.'”
#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty #Epstein #economy
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"Data released by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in January, revealed that total violent crime in D.C. was at a 30-year low in 2024, and had decreased by 35 percent from 2023. Homicides were down 32 percent from 2023; robberies were down almost 40 percent; and armed carjackings were down more than 50 percent."
~ Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty #Epstein #economy
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Trump also suggested that cities far beyond Washington’s region could experience the same fate.
'We have other cities also that are bad. Very bad. You look at Chicago, how bad it is. You look at Los Angeles, how bad it is. We have other cities that are very bad. New York has a problem. And then, of course, you have Baltimore and Oakland.'"
#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty #Epstein #economy
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"Donald Trump’s usurpation of law enforcement in the nation’s capital carried a warning for America’s liberal bastions.
Speaking at a White House press briefing Monday morning, Trump declared a 'public safety emergency,' emphasizing Washington’s supposedly startling rise in crime while citing statistics from 2023 instead of 2025."
~ Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty #Epstein #economy
/9https://newrepublic.com/post/198978/donald-trump-warns-fascist-dc-takeover-just-beginning
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Wajahat Ali and Danielle Moodie ring a warning bell in a conversation they've just had about what's happening with Trump and his military occupation of D.C.:
"The overarching message in today’s episode is a stark warning: the America many knew is 'gone.'"
#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty #Epstein #economy
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"Every single person who said we were being hysterical about Trump being an existential threat should be forced to explain how the President seizing control of the capital’s police force and deploying military units to forcibly relocate citizens represents normal democratic governance."
~ Mike Brock
#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty #Epstein #economy
/7https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/a-note-on-trump-derangement-syndrome
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"Our Republic reaches a crossroads as the power of the White House to militarize our cities comes under judiciary scrutiny. …
There are already plenty of police within D.C, and neither the mayor of D.C. nor its police chief has asked for any federal help with crime control. Nor is the National Guard trained to conduct crime control as Trump wants them to."
~Jay Kuo
#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty #Epstein #economy
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"Yes, today, the crazy old man running the country is going to focus on CRIME. I think we know why, don’t we? Here’s the lead story on The Hill’s website right now:
'High costs after tariffs pose threat to Trump and GOP.'"
~ Simon Rosenberg
#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty #Epstein #economy
/5https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/working-to-distract-from-epstein
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"It’s official: Donald Trump has deployed the National Guard to Washington, D.C.—a dramatic escalation in a city where violent crime has actually fallen year-over-year from 2024 to 2025."
~ Aaron Parnas
But EpsteinEpsteinEpstein and EconomyEconomyEconomy.
This is politics of theater and distraction, always predictably loved by authoritarian-leaning citizens.
#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty
/4https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/breaking-donald-trump-places-dc-police
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"Trump's authoritarian power grabs are escalating. Random street crimes are being used as pretexts for repression. ...
The ongoing militarization of immigration enforcement, the false narratives about rising crime, and the threats for further crackdowns on Americans are all part of Trump’s need to punish anyone and everyone who doesn’t support him absolutely."
~ Justin Glawe
#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty
/3https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-national-guard-washington-dc-takeover
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"It will be a week filled with new performative cruelty and made-for-TV melodrama. It’s all a ruse. Trump is play-acting as president and provoking outrage to distract from his own guilt. Everything he does is a sign of weakness or fear."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty
/2https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/looking-past-the-performative-cruelty
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Be Punk as Fu€k
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What are they mainlining at DHS these days?
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"Daddy's Home"
Overtly displayed subservience out of fear is the only thing DJT equates with what we non-psychotics know as "love."
So, #performativecruelty truly is his idea of being daddy, and caring, in his twisted world-view.
Even #lowinfo #maga folks get this instinctively.
Please quit trying to ascribe any overarching logic beyond this, pundits, and when you do, bring proof, because the odds of verity are so low you'll need it.
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"Biden’s real problem is not his age. It’s our age … of performative politics.
As usual, Donald Trump is at the root of the mess. From the minute he entered the 2016 presidential race on a golden escalator in a building blaring his name, U.S. politics has been a twisted reality show that elevates outrage, insults, and cruelty in a spirit of sadistic fun."
#Biden #Trump #age #PerformativeCruelty #cruelty
~Jill Lawrence
https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/joe-biden-problem-isnt-his-age-its-our-age
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"UK illegal migration bill to become law as government sees off Lords challenge"
This is England, the land of performative cruelty.
#migrants #SmallBoats #PerformativeCruelty #IllegalMigrationBill
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Charles Pierce replies,
"That this strategy is deeply destructive and deeply cynical, putting the mental and physical health of thousands of this clown's fellow citizens at risk, should be obvious."
Obviously, Republicans don't give a flip about whom they hurt as they play cynical political games. The cruelty is the point, as long as it scores political points.
#Republicans #transphobia #homophobia #PerformativeCruelty #drag
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Charles Pierce quotes Terry Schilling, president of the conservative American Principles Project, who says that Republicans are attacking trans citizens with a slew of anti-trans and anti-drag legislation across the nation because "this is a political winner.”
#Republicans #transphobia #homophobia #PerformativeCruelty #drag
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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a42677858/anti-drag-shakespeare/