Trump's America, March 2017: Using His Inside VOICE

i think the response will be muted from the left.

you are wrong about this

If you put "Winfrey" on the ballot line no one will know her

“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.” - Mencken

What's going on is something akin to Stockholm Syndrome. Trump has inserted himself at the very center of our culture for over a year now. It makes sense media figures would lose perspective. Old Lunch I think had it right when he compared it to kids wanting to forgive their alcoholic father. The media is in the Trump business now; they feel dependent on him.

We are a nation of cowardly morons.

Replace Stockholm Syndrome with dollar sign eyes

Coca Cola doesn't give a fuck if your teeth fall out of our skull from their product; the corporate media doesn't give a fuck if a bunch of nobodies get stabbed because of Trump. People are humanizing corporate entities way too much, or at least not understanding their nature.

Idk I think that is too rigid an account. Someone like Van Jones, I feel, is saying what he thinks, even if he feels pressure -- overt and insidious -- to bend his views to conform to the editorial perspective of CNN.

Dude. For-profit international corporations and the careerists who populate them are not your friends, buddies, or guardians of the Republic.

John Hockenberry drinking the "this was a REAL speech" Kool-Aid too

tear it all down

Ever see the movie Aliens, Treeship? Van Jones is Paul Reiser's character.

so many "trenchant" candidates, which ones to choose

need a little cheering up?

there's a lil diploma scandal happening in Iowa - guy who wanted to limit the number of democrats a university can hire turns out to not have a degree, but a management certificate from Sizzler.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/iowa-pol-s-bio-changed-after-sizzler-u-discrepancy-emerges-n726961?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

the GOP spokesman trying to spin this? named ED FAILOR

forgive my borderline classism but lolololololol

"This was a management course he took when he worked for Sizzler, kind of like Hamburger University at McDonald's," Failor said. "He got a certificate."

Asked if Chelgren has a college degree, Failor said, "That's not accurate."

this thread moves so fast! I posted that an hour ago.

need a little cheering up?

there's a lil diploma scandal happening in Iowa

"kinda lol but mostly sad"

oh shit phil, sorry. i haven't been reading it today tbh

more like thread failor

meh, it's just funny that even on a new thread it's almost impossible to keep up

obligatory:

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I hope the Failors name their next child Epic

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/03/01/the-pundits-are-wrong-trumps-handling-of-the-ryan-owens-affair-was-contemptibly-cynical

Paul Waldman goes ham.

Apropos of little other than trying to keep it pos and irie in the midst of our dread-ridden vigilance, here's a companion to the well-known Mencken quote Morbs shared, from Bayard Rustin on organizing the March on Washington: “If you want to organize anything, assume that everyone is absolutely stupid. And assume yourself that you’re stupid.”

at the risk of being cruel, i wonder if Carryn Owens is a fucking idiot

Media Fall For Trump's Shameless Act Regarding Failed Yemen Raid

seemed like ur basic shameless politicization of a military death but against the backdrop of trump's statements regarding the military generally ("they don't fight to win anymore") and of this operation specifically (passing blame onto the generals, coupled with the fact that he wasn't present for the operation, rumors that it was poorly planned or grounded in insufficient/flawes evidence) the whole thing is gross and manipulative and everybody seems to have eaten it the fuck up

Absolutely. Same here from across the pond that divides is, all articles and news items about how presidential Trump was. It's crazy, it's normalization, it's wrong. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/837016074486861825

Professionals in the art of communication at the top of their field fell for this shoddy, ramshackle, cynical piece of performance. Duped, even. I think it checks out.

Were they? Or was it an opportunity to prove to the Trump supporting viewers they're worried about losing that they aren't as anti-Trump and FAKE as he constantly says they are?

Who knows, but to say they "fell for it" or along those lines is a little nonsensical, imo.

Oh yes, I'm agreeing then.

The mega-conglomerate media, sooner or later, sees themselves as part of the state, almost always. Pod people.

https://i.imgur.com/Q5nvkH8.jpg

Taken from lolreddit, but here's how this stuff works

larry, are you gonna imitate Treeship's less attractive qualities?

like, we don't need reminders of the political climate's loathsomeness.

oh don't you though

Why at this time did there have to be this stupid mission when it wasn’t even barely a week into his administration? Why? For two years prior, there were no boots on the ground in Yemen — everything was missiles and drones — because there was not a target worth one American life. Now, all of a sudden we had to make this grand display?

have been following these threads for quite awhile and generally sympathetic to everyone's concerns here but it's dispiriting to see you guys get buffeted by the media's idiot winds. this was going to happen sooner or later; far more of all this will be normalized than we'd prefer because it's almost impossible to push back uniformly against this kind of concentration of power in the lagging years between elections. the narrative will swing back the other way, prob sooner than later, and each of these horrifying items will be taken up in turn as people organize to oppose them.

This is the reality of what's going on, my man, what are we going to do in here, juggle?

xxp

fuck you, shut up, FP

FP for what exactly? Not liking things? This is what we're facing right now. Nobody wants to believe it, though, and I don't blame 'em. I think I'm going to take a break with this stuff for now.

You don't say.

the Cassandra routine is v tiresome

sciatica otm tbh

LA we understand your angst just dial it down a little here is all

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/landlord-evicts-rubio-office-over-noisy-demonstrations-162639610.html

From what I'm hearing from US tv I've seen there are a lot of ,more local elections to be won over the current year. Looks like Democrats have been doing pretty well so far and at least getting a lot closer to majority in those they haven't fully swung.
So it's not all next year and is an ongoing process. So normalization of the regime is not something that is going to be conducive.

So hoping taht pressure and momentum can be kept up and things do continue to be swung.

But saw Channel 4 news saying things about how last night's speech meant that the caricature/stereotype people had for Trump so far was misplaced. Didn't hear that from the bits of the speech I've heard so far. Still sounded pretty batshit.

the Cassandra routine is v tiresome

It's not a "Cassandra routine", it's called paying attention.

Channel the angst into calling your congressman and going to town alls, appleton

everyone on this thread is if you haven't noticed, so chill the fuck out

My angst????????? I'm fine, I've made my peace with this already. I'm not the one telling people to shove it just by posting news related to this thread.