Unsettling from @anneapplebaum.bsky.social:Trump isn't just trying to bully the media into submission. He's also conditioning the public to see the use of state power to cow independent truth telling as normal, and persuading MAGA to see it as good.
Our exchange:
https://newrepublic.com/article/189412/transcript-abc-news-sudden-surrender-trumps-fury-alarms-experts
Our exchange:
https://newrepublic.com/article/189412/transcript-abc-news-sudden-surrender-trumps-fury-alarms-experts
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Trump is not the problem
https://marlowe1.substack.com/p/the-worm-in-the-apple-the-stories
Next time, ask Anne about how in 2002, she wrote in Slate that Palestinian media and journalists were legitimate military targets, and what she thinks now that Israel has murdered 200.
That's not good journalism and we should not mourn its loss. They've been failing for decades now.
And now people like Applebaum want to blame 'the left' for their decades and decades of deliberate media failure and kowtowing to their corporate masters?
Yah, sure thing...
Not exactly a hardworking detective working the beat to bring the story to the people...
I see him posting announcements of the things he wants to do on day 1, and I think he is aiming to bombard us 1/
The goal is simple: to get as much “done” as possible and spark outrage and protests.
Why, you ask:
1) to identify who is a true loyalist
2) to declare a state of emergency, give himself more power, and push FW the most outrageous part of his agenda 2/
I see many parallels between Trump and Chavez, and this is something Chavez did in Venezuela. Chavez didn't need to change/centralize electoral power, but he pushed more of his agenda & removed opposition
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Again I am not claiming this is a fact, it is my own conspiracy theory (I hate conspiracy theories)
FYI Trumpers in my comments will be blocked
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One of the crimes Nixon would have been charged with was using the government to intimidate a company.
Had democrats not decided to "move on for the good of the country" Reagan, Bush, Bush, Trump would all have gone to jail.
They should have put all those traitors on a boat and hauled them out to sea.
We should do that with republicans today.
What republicans have done today is no different than what the Confederates did in 1861.
And the MSM will continue to acquiesce because they want access.
the the -> the way
Classic class problem.
There's no saving dipshit MAGA from itself.
#idiocracy
People who just think - USPS sucks, so this change will make it better - without any idea what privatizing it actually will do
Big mistake. Just ask 1938 Germany.
#DumbshitDonny worlds 100% on viscera. There is no strategy.
'1984' in High School. Read it. Now.
This is why we don't read MSM.
Make the story more correct please.
That is all we ask as readers.
They are captured.
1. Saw what was coming, and left?
2. Saw what was coming, and stayed and fought?
3. Saw what was coming, and stayed because they liked it?
4. Didn't see what was coming, and stayed and died?
And what should that tell us living now?
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"Republicans want to stop teaching history because they WANT to repeat it!"
It’s true for all of us real Patriots.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2002/01/targeting-radio-and-tv-stations.html
Just because you hired the mooooo boy don’t you dare believe you can “cow” most Americans in fear.
We are being groomed to accept his dictatorship while they rip away our rights.
He is not leaving in 4 years unless he dies or 5 republican senators refuse to confirm any of his cabinet picks until he picks qualified, non-loyalists so there will be guardrails.
Confirmation bias says "I will stick with my team until the end of time." "Fight Fight Fight"
Well, that time is coming. Reap what you sow**
** healthcare, vouchers, postal, neighbors deported, etc
—All with the singular purpose of destroying democracy and creating an autocratic oligarchy like Putin did in Russia.
—All for the benefit ($$$$) of him, his family, and friends.
W/O trust in these, we can HAVE NO democracy.
Anne is a 💎.
https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/comprehensive-review-revolving-door-between-fox-and-second-trump-administration
Join me. Read share, and support the plan.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/11/21/2287839/-We-Can-Stop-Trump?_=2024-11-21T11:19:50.000-08:00
Problem is that a directory like that would immediately become a hit list.
There are bias meters that exist but they're also not necessarily reliable.
A big problem that exists is that news orgs have generally avoided paying attention to conservative media and especially the dark corners over the past
Society is being overwhelmed by information. This will sound dumb but we need maps.
The great thing about social media is that so many more people have access to information. The awful thing is that so many more people can pump out disinformation.
There are ways to improve behaviors but it's hard. There are ways to improve the social fabric and improve dialogue which is also hard. There are certainly ways
https://www.alligator.org/article/2024/02/florida-bill-could-lower-bar-for-defamation-lawsuits-against-media-organizations?ct=content_open&cv=cbox_latest&utm_source=perplexity
https://newrepublic.com/article/189407/abc-news-sudden-surrender-trumps-fury-stuns-experts-disturbing
Be real, here. How many of those men and women came up through the ranks in the 80s and 90s, covering dictators around the world?
They have seen the corpses with their own eyes.
They've smelled the stench of death.
They KNOW what's coming and have no intention of being a corpse.
They ALSO know that collaborators will always survive. Once the overthrow is complete, nobody will have the stomach to slaughter the millions who went along with the regime.
Mores the pity, but that's the reality.
Post-nazi Germany is the shining example of that.
Because the system didn't become the system by sabotaging itself.
You all just got comfortable with the system because it suited you at the time.
Many of them get sent to the camps anyway for not being the wrong kind of person, and collaborators (bereft of regime protection) are priority targets for resistance forces.
Collaboration with the autocrat is an extremely short-term, even near-sighted, strategy.
For us...
But everyone on the BoD of NBC is cis, white, male and a MAGA-compatible religion.
And rich. Very rich.
Just like Volkswagen, IBM, Audi, Bayer, Ford and oh, hey!
How about that?
So yeah.
They will survive.
And they'll live to tell us how they didn't collaborate.
Full stop.