Insurrection fallout

Here's the deal with Donald Trump. It's narcissism first. Everything else second.

If you're Black and willing to say something nice about him, he'll invite you and Kim Kardashian to the Oval Office, or maybe make you an ineffective HUD secretary.

If you're a Latino and you say something nice about him, his daughter will hawk your brand of canned beans to the media. 

If you're a North Korean dictator and you say something nice about him, he'll let you have whatever you want.

But if your most loyal base is white and fearful, you'll tell them everything they want to hear. You will literally build walls instead of bridges to  prove it. And you are loathe to condemn anyone who supports you. The Ku Klux Klan and the Proud Boys were never fazed by the tepid statements someone drafted for Trump. Rightwing extremists believed that for the first time in their lives, they had one of their own in the White House. 

So at the end of the day, Trump's most fervent loyalists were out in force, willing to overthrow the government in order to keep him in office. In that moment, his legacy on the line, Donald Trump could not have been more clear how he felt about the Confederates, Nazi's, QAnon whack jobs, and Camp Auschwitz jokesters that carried his banner: 

"You're special. We love you." 

Narcissist first. Racist second. But still a racist. 

 
knapplc said:
There's more than enough evidence of trump providing aid and support to racists for the people with eyes and ears on this board to understand.

Sure, once in a while he'll put his tongue in his cheek and say a bad word. But nobody is fooled by that. His actions speak far louder.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/06/trump-racism-comments/588067/

https://www.vox.com/2016/7/25/12270880/donald-trump-racist-racism-history

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/donald-trump-s-political-success-is-based-on-racism-1.4271574

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-isnt-the-one-dividing-us-by-race-11566158729
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This is an outstanding list, but if you only have time for one, The Atlantic's historic timeline tells you everything you need to know from the people who knew: 

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/06/trump-racism-comments/588067/

 
That Atlantic article also jogged a memory about the post-Charlottesville reaction.

At first, Trump failed to repudiate the racist march.

Under pressure, he then read a prepared release strongly condemning white supremacism.

The next day he was supposed to make a major announcement about infrastructure, perhaps the one issue in America everyone could agree on. That's where Trump went off-page, hijacked his own infrastructure announcement, and made the "good people on both sides" statement.

Apparently he hated making the second statement strongly condemning white supremacism because he thought it made him look weak.

That's your man, Archy. 

 
I think everyone can agree this trend of wearing your candidate's flag as a cape has to end. Saw it throughout the terrorist attack on the Capitol and saw it again with Biden supporters during the Inauguration.

This is stupid, and if you do this you should feel bad.

 
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Publishers are banning together to commit to not publish any Trump memoir due to Trump's words and actions the day of the insurrection.  He only has himself to blame for how far he has fallen since the election.  (fall is a relative term - he was already far down the ladder in popularity) 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/hundreds-of-publishing-industry-figures-have-signed-an-open-letter-in-opposition-to-a-potential-trump-memoir/ar-BB1cRdXF?ocid=ientp



Hundreds of authors, editors, and agents signed an open letter asking the world's publishers to skip a post-presidency memoir from Donald Trump.

More publishing industry figures are being invited to add their names to the"No Book Deals for Traitors" letter, which as of January 18th had 547 signatures. 

The letter, "No Book Deals for Traitors," was created by novelist Barry Lyga, as The Los Angeles Times and Publisher's Weekly reported. Lyga's letter opposed any book from members of Trump's administration. 

In part, it read: "As members of the writing and publishing community of the United States, we affirm that participation in the administration of Donald Trump must be considered a uniquely mitigating criterion for publishing houses when considering book deals."

Among the growing list of co-signers were staffers from each of the five biggest publishing houses, Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Macmillan.  

Lyga told Insider on Sunday he'd been "noodling" with a version of the letter for a while, but the Capitol riots on January 6 "really crystallized" the idea. Afterwards, he began emailing people he knew in publishing, asking them to sign on.

The letter read: "And no one who incited, suborned, instigated, or otherwise supported the January 6, 2021 coup attempt should have their philosophies remunerated and disseminated through our beloved publishing houses."

When Lyga started tweeting about it last week, co-signers began flooding in. 

"That's all it took - it grew organically. A lot of people feel passionately about this," Lyga said. 


 
On Friday, The Los Angeles Times and Publisher's Weekly wrote about the letter, which had about 250 signatures at the time.

Since then, the number of co-signers doubled, Lyga said. He said he planned to update the list every few days, as more names flowed in.

%7B© Waterstones Waterstones on Gower Street in London on Wednesday. Waterstones

Trump hasn't said publicly whether he plans to write a memoir, but doing so has become a usual milestone for ex-presidents. Barack Obama's "A Promised Land" sold about 887,000 copies in its first 24 hours. An instant best seller, boxes of the 768-page book filled the aisle and stockrooms of indie bookstores around the world. 

The prospect of a Trump memoir has been filling the publishing world with dread, as Insider reported in December.

Insider also reported in November that the first Lady, Melania Trump, was also reportedly trying to secure a book deal. 


—Barry Lyga (@barrylyga) January 16, 2021

 

Lyga said he had heard from critics, who accused him of censorship.

"There is no promise or guarantee of a book deal in the Constitution, and the people we are talking about still have the option of going on TV or radio, of writing op-eds, of self-publishing, of posting their own blogs, of shouting in the town square," he said on Sunday. 

He said he doesn't know if publishers will listen. But he took it as a good sign that Simon & Schuster canceled "The Tyranny of Big Tech," a book by Senator Josh Hawley, who opposed certifying the November election results.

"We believe publishers want to do the right thing, but as in almost any industry, memories can be short and profit can be persuasive. We are serving as a reminder of what the market will and will not accept from publishers," Lyga said.  

 

 
 




 
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TGHusker said:
Publishers are banning together to commit to not publish any Trump memoir due to Trump's words and actions the day of the insurrection.  He only has himself to blame for how far he has fallen since the election.  (fall is a relative term - he was already far down the ladder in popularity) 
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He can get it published in Russia.

 
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