Elon Musk told a Pennsylvania town hall crowd in October that the people “who say Trump is a threat to democracy are themselves a threat to democracy.”
The US is a kleptocratic Kakistocracy on it's way to becoming the greatest failed state in the history of humankind. Stop pointing out what they did or how bad they are. This is a useless endeavour & fool's game. Let's stop fucking around and start openly talk about what we're going to do about it.
rewriting history? framing reality? it kind of sounds like they think they've already won.
little do they know that they've been on double secret probation
can cis journos pls stop this shit?
a) harris denied incarcerated trans people healthcare
b) ignoring $250M anti-trans ad spend is anti-trans actually
c) "was effective" is astroturf. blueprint2024 is billionaire (linkedin guy) grift paid by the party ($357k last yr) to justify careening rightward
Like, the Biden administration did as little as possible to protect the trans people being targeted and attacked by anti-lgbt legislation passed in red states. Harris couldn’t even say the word “transgender” when talking about trans people! And we were to think Harris was going to be better for us?!
Heading into the election, I was telling people “if the democrats are ready and willing to throw Palestinians under the bus, who’s next?” And right on schedule, here comes democrat legislators blaming us for their loss.
you're reporters. look it the fuck up. read norsworthy v beard; harris's filings are indistinguishable from ADF's. here's opensecrets & nymag on blueprint2024 if you somehow can't tell their polls are push as fuck. quit giving dems free pro-trans coverage for anti-trans records. you're killing us
if the media constantly codes these assholes as champions of trans rights (and yes, our own shitty orgs are complicit, i know), it's nearly impossible for activists to hold them accountable and extract better policy bc they already have what they want and disengaged libs believe you over us. please.
I think part of this is that if cis journalists & politicians actually reckoned with the fact that the Trump campaign sunk $$$ into transphobic ads not as a distraction but as a targeted attack, they would also have to admit that the current attack on trans rights isn't a distraction, either.
jfc. iirc, all Harris said re: trans rights was along the lines of "I will continue to uphold the current laws." and the Biden admin had that "we are very concerned about minors having gender surgery w/o parental consent" memo at one point.
even better, the biden admin told the nyt they opposed surgical care for trans youth directly, only committing to supporting mental health care, and a few months later he signed the TRICARE youth ban dems sent him, lmao.
Every waking moment, I wish that someone, anyone, would make trump a martyr
Our Country and the world would be such a better, safer place
I said it, I mean it, and if I believed in a god, I would pray for it
It probably makes me a bad person, but I can deal with that, gladly. Think what you will🤔
Yes, the manipulation of words & symbols is exceptionally important in creating a sense of unity in MAGA world. In being able to easily distinguish the other. @anandwrites.bsky.social has been talking for some time about the need to reclaim key concepts like freedom & patriotism. I concur!
and we have to fight back with words... dems wtf! use big words to describe how "radical" they are and how they're "raping" this country. this is simple. better messaging!!!
Language is power? Then HTF did an illiterate diaper crapper fool half of America?
More like “lies have consequences” and “the news needs to quit calling this an administration” it’s a murderous takeover.
The right-wing war on all things “woke” has relied on a critical weapon: language. Trumpworld’s culture-war arsenal may contain many things—a flurry of social media posts and videos, an army of sympathetic media propagandists—but all of these tools rely …
For the love of god, please tell me **someone** in the resistance has been talking to Amanda Montell. She literally wrote the book on how cults (MAGA is a cult, people!) use language to manipulate, coerce, control and contain people.
Trump and his allies understand the power of words, and his administration is quickly becoming one that’s obsessed with perverting their meaning. George Orwell reminded us of the political power of language in 1984 by using two different ….
Exactly. They Twist the meaning of words and out-right change the definitions to suit their purposes. Usually have multiple meanings that even if they look dumb, get people involved.
Engagement, good or bad - they want either and they get it.
Could you please add Bill Browder to your network. He could help people also understand how Putin plays Trump. Browder's tax lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was tortured and killed by Putin for exposing Putin's corruption and money laundering in 2008. The Magnitsky Act is now an international law.
When will our Luigi finally come? Trump is a traitor to All we've ever stood for in America. I pray everyday for his end to come. I've had anti Trump signs on my year for10yrs now. BREVARD County Fl I've been tormented but I will Not stop!
The war on "woke" hasn't lowered the national debt, reduced carbon emissions, improved access to affordable health care, increased housing availability, cured cancer or brought down the cost of eggs. The right-wing should know that cultural issues are the icing not the cake.
Ron Suskind laid it out clearly 20 years ago. Karl Rove told us in the reality-based community that we’re just observers, historians and commentators. They, the power brokers of the empire, are history’s actors. They create their own reality, we study their actions.
In real time this week, heard a very right wing school board member try to get high school social studies books taken out of commission because they mentioned the insurrection and Russian interference in 2016 and woke things.
The NY Times and WAPO need to run full front page denouncing him for kicking out AP. And ask for evidence from bad DOG-ee of this major fraud he's found. Demand it.
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“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” ― George Orwell, 1984
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
This is why I refuse to call it anything but Twitter, Mount Denali, and the Gulf of Mexico. I'll be damned if I'm going to cede control of my language to MAGA weirdos.
The phrase, "Actions speak louder than words" seems to have lost its meaning, especially on the right. As long as any heinous action can be given a catchy or positive phrase, it seems okay in MAGAland.
THANK YOU KEEPING THIS A FREE ARTICLE !! All the right-wing 'news' sites are free (part of the problem) but most all others have paywall except vanity fair. thank you for this!!!
VF is one of the few who have them accessible. this is major problem. when people need the news they go to the free sites, which have been normalizing, if not exalting, trump for years...
George Orwell 1984 - the memory hole, a small chute that leads to an incinerator and destroys documents and photographs. The Party uses memory holes to erase evidence of its own history to support their rewriting. The Party's goal was to make the present seem normal by forgetting history.
In a show of deliberate bad taste the entire WH Press corps should don brown shirts & MAGA hats and give a salute to the co-potuses in the next presser.
I wonder if the Dems realize that voting these people out of office isn’t going to be enough this time. The only way the Dems can lose is if they try that unity message. because I will stay home unless I hear we will put them in jail for what they did.they will face trials. And those who helped them
Having taught political science for decades, I have always seen “Whomever controls the media controls the narrative” as the second law of politics. The first law is, “The organized prevail over the disorganized every time”.
This was put there a couple of years ago and none of our corporate news corporations published it. Michael Cohen recounted a lot of this. Lev Parnas talked about it. He did lots of business with Russian Mafia types Trump has been an asset for a very long time. The perfect idiot asset
Well that’s not news. Go listen to Terence McKenna. He said this in the early 1990’s. Glad the concept is finally coming into public consciousness but now it’s too late.
I would think that, for a man with such a diversity of interests (himself, golf, himself, grabbing women's privates, himself ...), he would try to show more equity with the inclusion of words in his vocabulary.
MAGAts don't care that trump is trying to make words mean nothing! It won't be long at this rate that nobody in the USA will be able to do anything because we won't be able to convey any meaning about anything anymore!
Everyone will have their own language that no one else can understand!
If that is the case then we can further fight back with words AND actions in the same way. We can take the language back, it belongs to no one. The people have power too!
Trumpeters use words like Pollack used paint: spackled into patterns that are interesting but meaningless and are meant to obscure the truth of the underlying white canvass.
Waiting for him to cut off funding to schools which use the word "Nazi" in its history courses. Followed by cutting off funding to schools which teach history courses.
Especially schools that teach about the lynching of black people by white people, the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII, Emmett Till, Jim Crow laws, slavery, the Trail of Tears, …
What will be allowed to be taught at schools:
White Christian Males = Good
All others= Bad
Thank you for this. It has plagued me since his last presidency (and indeed before then, when he was spouting the birther dreck). It is an Active Measure technique and is so Orwellian that the term Orwellian doesn't even seem to touch its sides.
it also reaffirms that America is transitioning into Orwell's 1984, with Big Brother propaganda as the truth. Trump's already brainwashed MAGA, and now he's going for the rest of us. Where are the journalistic outlets meaningfully protesting the censorship of their own?
The poltical push back was too great, and Trump then disbanded all of Biden's advisory boards when he came into office. So it would have been short lived and have had brickbats at it all during the campaign. Something should be setup by journalistic associations so its out of reach from government.
It's a cycle with these people: deny what Trump is planning>deny he is doing it while it's happening> say that it doesn't matter that it happened>deny he is going to do the next horrible thing.
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We aren't being bamboozled into fascism by smart people, they are total idiots.
It shows how weak the status quo was that some morons with a bit of gas and lighters can just burn it all down so easily.
#FreeTheBear
little do they know that they've been on double secret probation
a) harris denied incarcerated trans people healthcare
b) ignoring $250M anti-trans ad spend is anti-trans actually
c) "was effective" is astroturf. blueprint2024 is billionaire (linkedin guy) grift paid by the party ($357k last yr) to justify careening rightward
Bonus word: YamTits
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Fuck YamTits
PROPAGANDA SUPPORTED JOURNALISM IS POWER.
When there is no FREEDOM of the PRESS the PRESS has no POWER to DEFEND FREEDOM.
Our Country and the world would be such a better, safer place
I said it, I mean it, and if I believed in a god, I would pray for it
It probably makes me a bad person, but I can deal with that, gladly. Think what you will🤔
Including:
“free speech: A constitutionally protected right in the US that is primarily invoked by tech bros & internet trolls when they are asked to stop being assholes. Syn: hate speech”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/26/how-to-speak-silicon-valley-decoding-tech-bros-from-microdosing-to-privacy
Molon Labe
More like “lies have consequences” and “the news needs to quit calling this an administration” it’s a murderous takeover.
It's a liar amplifying falsehoods out of temper, vanity and stupidity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_attorneys_appointed_by_Joe_Biden
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/trumpworlds-war-on-words?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=vf&utm_mailing=VF_MollyJongFast_02192025&utm_medium=email&bxid=5be9fdba2ddf9c72dc89ccb4&cndid=11476384&hasha=17d70308581595e2ecd485d842461282&hashb=a1a14cd443071f7ab892c9865810c9af5f6844d4&hashc=82d559782d48c09455053e9f6111435acf9535c2455a4198f5257ccf282bdc1f&esrc=manage-page&mbid=mbid%3DCRMVYF012019&source=EDT_VYF_NEWSLETTER_0_HIVE_ZZ&utm_campaign=VF_MollyJongFast_02192025&utm_term=VYF_JongFast
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/trumpworlds-war-on-words
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Engagement, good or bad - they want either and they get it.
Live
Forever
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community
Then they came for our.
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
Great article, thank you
For 400 years it has been the Gulf of Mexico and will remain the Gulf of Mexico. Viva Mexico
Keep up the good work, Ms. Jong-Fast.
Mueller report failed to slow TRUMP
Jan6 committee failed to slow TRUMP
2024 election failed to slow TRUMP 2025
Trump now tells his
apostles IN CONGRESS
that ZELENSKY is the aggressor
and DEMOCRATS are traitors
as they confirm his destructive
NOMINEES
Trump says stupid, outrageous stuff so his face and words will be everywhere.
Amid that cloud of BS, Americans get no glimpse Democrats' goals or accomplishments. And Dems, always polite, abet that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTI_%E2%80%93_Lingua_Tertii_Imperii
Everyone will have their own language that no one else can understand!
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What will be allowed to be taught at schools:
White Christian Males = Good
All others= Bad
Suddenly, the price of a dozen eggs would drop....he would estimate by 40%
12 eggs per dozen is woke ... because those last 2 eggs were DEI anyway.
This is serious. Studies should be conducted.