IHIP News - DEPRAVED Hate Speech Circulating Post Election
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Welcome, welcome to IHIP News, where we share our opinion about the news that is depressingly
important to us.
This is hard, you guys, because now we have the media, conservative media, the Daily Mail,
their top story right now reads, Trump has sworn he'll get revenge on
a long list of enemies.
So who will be first in the firing line?
I'll read the list to you, but I think it's important to point out here that this is being
normalized.
Right.
Front page of conservative media, it's normalized.
They're normalizing what is coming.
They're reporting on it like this is normal to
exact vengeance. And the list is, they go through all of them and they make a very colorful article
with photographs, Joe Biden. Then we go to Kamala Harris, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Letitia James, the special prosecutor Liz Cheney,
special prosecutor Jack Smith, and on and on, Michael Cohen, etc. And so when I first saw that,
I thought, good God, you know, there's really not going to be any checks. They're still going to live in this media bubble
where this is normal. He normalized it on the campaign trail that he was going to go after
his enemies. And now the press is just reporting it like this is normal for an American president
to do this. Right. It's like, okay, well, the tax policy is going to be now it's the retribution
and vengeance is going to be exacted upon so-and-so.
And so when it comes, we'll all be like, oh, okay, well, he said I was going to do it.
Here's my biggest takeaway. The things he said on the campaign trail, they terrified me.
He got the popular vote. He won the swing states. So I believe he and his administration
believe the American people have greenlit that. I'm hoping they didn't. That could be naive.
But I have no doubt that he will go after people in a way that this country has never seen before. Speaking of what people think, there has been a MAGA victory lap tour on Twitter and his supporters and the base of his support like this.
They like the vengeance politics.
And we can just go through the tweets right now. Matt Walsh, now that the election is over,
I think we can finally say that, yeah,
actually Project 2025 is the agenda, LOL,
which we knew, we reported on that.
Nick Fuentes says, your body, my choice forever.
Oh my gosh, That makes me sick.
John Miller says,
Women threatening sex strikes like LMAO, as if you have a say.
A girl named Kate tweets,
I'm just a girl standing in front of the world asking for a president who isn't a rapist.
Andrew Tate retweets it with comment and says, request denied.
I thought Andrew Tate was in jail somewhere. Shannon tweets, so I'm supposed to go to work
and do my job as if half the country didn't just vote to give me less rights than men.
Andrew Tate retweets with comment, and you also have to make me a sandwich. Then we have Nate Shulman, who says, we want a country where no one flies gay flags because
of the social shame and stigma.
And then I'm sure a lot of you have seen these series of coordinated texts to Black American citizens that say, greetings, you have been selected to be a
house slave at Abingdon Plantation. Come to this address at five tomorrow sharp with all of your
belongings. This is mandatory. Our executive spaces will come get you in a turquoise van.
Be prepared to be searched down once you enter the plantation grounds. You will be stationed
at plantation point L. I am sickened. I cannot believe that that is happening in the United
States of America. It has been emboldened. And the foreboding that it will come to fruition
is almost more than I can take.
I think, you know, what's so frustrating for a lot of us is when he ran the first time, I would tell moderate friends, they will overturn Roe.
They have been playing the long game with this.
And no, that'll never happen.
No, that'll never happen.
And then it happens.
And initially, a lot of Republican women were very upset about that.
And then two years go by and the right wing media apparatus just continues to press lies
and lies and lies.
And then you have women live in red states that say, oh, it's a myth.
He didn't ban it.
They just sent it back to the states.
And some of the states are voting for it.
So it's fine.
And they whitewash that.
And he just keeps normalizing this depravity.
And he has a whole echo chamber, as we can see from the Daily Mail rolling out.
Their top story above the fold today is here's Trump's hit list. Here's who he's going to go
after. They're normalizing it. They're preparing the public for it. And then you have the people
that are really excited that he won are the grossest, most sociopathic voices in the world.
And you see them attacking all of the people that we get on here every day
to defend. And it's, you know, women, minority groups, LGBTQ plus groups, and they like this.
We talked about before the election that there is a large portion of the American public that likes the recreational cruelty.
And everybody is engaged in a lot of autopsies as to why this has happened.
And I will always and forever believe that if you attempt a coup d'etat, he should have
been, that should have acted swiftly.
Yes.
Justice should have hammered down on this immediately.
And that didn't happen.
And you can't say that this is a threat and that storming the Capitol is a crime and inciting an insurrection is a crime and then not do anything about it and slow walk it.
You can't, you know, have somebody run for president. And I like Joe
Biden, but I think his form of gentlemanly presidential demeanor is over, sadly. It makes
me sad. You know, he's so hopeful in his speech. The American public has spoken.
And I believe in democracy and all of these things.
And I feel like the Democrats are not taking this very seriously.
And a lot of people were standing here waving their arms saying, this is bad.
And I think American leadership failed to prevent this. And then you have, you know, Elon Musk buying Twitter,
which is almost difficult to even be on right now. And I think there's a mass exodus of that,
but I don't know what the right answer is moving forward to address all of this hate speech,
because it's not getting removed. People like it.
Not all of us.
There are tens of millions of people that are outraged and that needs to provide some comfort for people.
But this is really dark stuff.
It's really difficult to talk about.
And we couldn't even play any clips, listener, because it's too difficult to hear the hatred and the salivating and the voices of the people that wish to carry this out.
It really is.
Like you said, everybody's autopsy what happened.
And I think that's worthwhile.
But my biggest concern is what can we do to protect the marginalized?
What can we do to protect women?
What can we do to prevent this from happening?
What can we do to stop the bleeding once it starts?
Because I think we all agree it's going to be part of bringing a community together and banding together for morality and integrity and character.
Sadly, right now, I just feel so sickened and disappointed that I don't have any clear thoughts in my head.
What's the best way to do that? I don't have any clear thoughts in my head. What's the best way to do that?
Well, I think first and foremost, the Democratic Party needs to myopically focus on the midterms.
I think that they need to start immediately planning for 2028. That's what they do. And I think that all elected Democratic voices need to be doing podcasts.
They need to be no holds barred.
Any question is on the table.
Freely speaking about all of these things, I think they need to flood the zone.
They need to let all of these marginalized people know that we are here and we are preparing because the only stop that we can get is in two years would be a blue wave.
And then after that, if democracy holds.
But it's so terrifying, listener, that when this happens and you have a microphone, you think, am I going to have the First Amendment?
Can I criticize Donald Trump? Can I
be openly critical of him? And that is so antithetical to, I'm 50 years old, to the way
my American brain has ever thought, because we've always had that protection. And when you see the
news reporting that he's going after people that spoke out against him, Barack Obama, who's never committed a crime in his life, Nancy Pelosi, all they have done is speak poorly about him and called out facts about him and called out his moral depravity. And now you have the media normalizing his hit list on the Fox 5 or whatever.
Dana Perino last night said, yeah, or maybe we should try the death penalty to all of the people that helped to get him elected, that thrives on misinformation, disinformation, hatred, cruelty, are now starting to lay the groundwork for the cruelty to be enacted. And it has to be as painful as it is to get in here and sit down and talk about this.
And as terrifying as this is, there has to be a coalition of tens of millions of people that
flood the zone and organizing because this was not a landslide. This was a basically 50-50 election where you have, I think it's 3 million,
4 million votes that separate in a country of 330 million. And they're going to say it is.
Sure.
And they're going to govern like it is. And that's the difference they always do.
Right.
Joe Biden appointed Merrick Garland because he got dicked over for
the Supreme Court call because they're out of decency. We're going to do right by Merrick
Garland, who was a moderate the whole time. And he put him in an attorney general and he slow plays
this entire thing. And now here we are at the gates of fascism. And you have an entire right wing media complex that is starting
to normalize the next steps, reporting on it like it's normal.
I did not know that they were saying that over on Fox News. I am,
I'm at a loss for words. I don't, I do not know what to say. The cravenness
is absolutely more than I ever
thought I would see in my lifetime. It is, it is a, a real soul searching moment where a lot of us
have thought, at least I have thought my entire life, you know, that you're fighting for progress,
that you're fighting for a more just and a more equal nation.
And then you look around and a lot of people don't want that. They do not want other people to have
the same chance that they have. And I still believe that fight is worth fighting,
but we need leadership right now in the Democratic Party.
And you see Democratic governors standing up and saying they're going to protect, you know, their citizens in blue states.
And they we need swift action for those of us that remain that are terrified.
And we need a plan. And I think the flooding the
zone constantly, the way they do over and over and over again, but the normalizing of this in the
media, in the right wing media is really, really troubling. Absolutely. And the hate speech is, I'm assuming it will not be
prosecuted under DOJ, under Trump, that this is just going to be. Of course it won't be because
Elon Musk isn't even removing it from Twitter. Right. Right. So, and that's why he bought
Twitter for free speech. And they like this. They like it. They like it. A lot of Americans like it.
A lot of Americans probably see these tweets and these texts about plantations and about the pride flag, and they think, yeah, suck it.
And, listener, I want to leave you with this. this, the difference between our side and theirs is if we would have won, the people that didn't
vote for our team wouldn't have been injured. They wouldn't have been hurt. Cruelty wouldn't
have been thrust upon them. And that's the difference. And so as sad and terrified as
everybody is, there is a fight to be had here.
There is a march that needs to be marched.
And this is a very large country, a very diverse country.
And right now, the resistance needs leadership.
And we will continue to do this as long as it's safe.
But these are very terrifying,
precarious times. Sadly, I agree with you. All right, guys, we'll see you later.