### **WEEKLY GOLDEN QUISLING (Media / Sports)**
**Winner:** US Open
**Date:** September 10, 2025
**Reason:** Sanitizing live crowd response by editing out boos directed at Donald Trump during broadcast highlights.
**Release:**
The Salem Fireextinguisher names the US Open as this week’s Golden Quisling for manipulating broadcast coverage to erase live political dissent. Fans in attendance loudly booed Donald Trump, but the official video edit removed the moment. This transforms an authentic crowd response into an airbrushed artifact—substituting PR-safe packaging for public truth.
**Statement of facts (past 7 days):**
* During Trump’s appearance at the US Open, sustained booing was heard live on site. Multiple independent attendees confirmed this via social media videos. *(X, TikTok, spectator footage)*
* Broadcast and highlight packages distributed afterward omitted or muted the booing. *(ESPN/USTA feed comparison)*
* Media outlets noted the discrepancy, calling it an intentional edit. *(Deadspin, Rolling Stone)*
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### **MONTHLY GOLDEN QUISLING (Political Theater)**
**Winner:** Florida Democratic Party
**Date:** September 10, 2025
**Reason:** Failure to name and confront eugenics rhetoric in Florida politics, specifically from Ron DeSantis and RFK Jr.
**Release:**
This month’s Golden Quisling goes to the Florida Democratic Party for abandoning its most basic moral duty: drawing red lines. Both Ron DeSantis and RFK Jr. have pushed rhetoric rooted in eugenic pseudo-science. Rather than call it out for what it is, the state party has stayed silent—ceding language, ground, and legitimacy to authoritarian creep. By refusing to frame the fight, they are collaborators in their own erasure.
**Statement of facts (timeline & climate):**
* Ron DeSantis, as governor and presidential candidate, has repeatedly invoked “hereditary fitness” framings in speeches and policy defenses. *(Florida press, 2023–2025 archive)*
* RFK Jr. continues to campaign on hereditarian claims—suggesting that disease resistance and “mental strength” are genetic destiny. *(Campaign stops, CNN, Politico)*
* Florida Democratic Party leaders have not issued any public statements labeling either figure’s rhetoric as eugenics, despite reporters pressing on the subject. *(Tampa Bay Times, Orlando Sentinel coverage)*
* The failure occurs in a state already gutted of Democratic infrastructure—making moral clarity all the more essential. Instead, the party chose silence.
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