The Trump admin is using a reality show aesthetic to desensitize people to the consequences of its “mass deportation” program by treating the suffering of deportees as entertainment www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... - ThreadSky

adamserwer.bsky.social • 4 hours ago

The Trump admin is using a reality show aesthetic to desensitize people to the consequences of its “mass deportation” program by treating the suffering of deportees as entertainment https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/deportation-entertainment-trump/681836/?gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8NFvoPDPEwOi5ROMYdnPgrE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

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cardude.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Dehumanizing

gingermacreally.bsky.social•4 hours ago

He has sold it to the feeble minded and the racists followers.

jaymeruimveld.bsky.social•2 hours ago

It’s been a reality show presidency since the first day he was elected in 2016. It’s never been anything but that.
It checks all the boxes for someone who needs attention pathologically. Constant ratings, cameras & microphones around every corner, and adoring cult fans.
It’s #performancepolitics

mjtvgirl.bsky.social•3 hours ago

This is gross.

mmechomski.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Thanks for the gift article Adam. Appreciate mucho. 🙏🏼

drshowup.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Depraved Indifference

kacip214.bsky.social•4 hours ago

If course this is a hallmark of tyranny. “Otherise” and dehumanize while giving license to hate. Horrible and disgusting.

mixleflick.bsky.social•46 minutes ago

Please repost

@indivisible.org @50501movement.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov @moveon.org @polrev.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social

Please, please organize a gigantic March in DC. This budget resolution demands Americans marching in the streets. Not just locally but in DC. Please.

onekneedjacks.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Over/under six months until a DHS-produced The Apprentice-style reality show in which upstanding visa overstayers compete to own the libs, with the loser in each week's episode hauled onto a plane in shackles as Trump declares "You're Deported"

(Last immigrant standing gets deported too, obviously)

blueheart2028.bsky.social•3 hours ago

insortediaboli.bsky.social•4 hours ago

I keep telling people they’re gonna do trials on Fox and no one believes me

thryse.com•4 hours ago

No you’re absolutely right. I hadn’t even considered that.

realworldrj.bsky.social•4 hours ago

This entire presidency is a grotesque reality tv show.

abied-house.bsky.social•3 hours ago

No truer words. 🤯😡🤬

bovinebessie.bsky.social•4 hours ago

If there's one thing Trump understands (and there may legitimately only be one), it's TV. Running the govt like a business is bad in part because the stakes are so much higher. Running it like a season of the apprentice is even worse.

redhardino.bsky.social•3 hours ago

It's buddies like public beheadings. Gotta keep up with the other despots.

darthburkie.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Wait til he has cameras installed in Gitmo. Kristi Noem will host “Hard Target” where amateur hunters hunt immigrants at the southern border

alexflagg.bsky.social•1 hour ago

It’s like Bum Fights but for racist Boomers.

bjwok.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Yes. His voters see all this as entertainment, just another tv show.

mcran4.bsky.social•4 hours ago

These people are sick

jay-baller-reborn.bsky.social•3 hours ago

What’s the season 2 cliffhanger? US citizens are next?

inkdrinker79.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Apparently I'm going to be nauseated this entire day. Seriously, wtf. I cannot believe this is our reality.

green4nature.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Sick people

kamprov.bsky.social•3 hours ago

The Running Man

sassiesmom.bsky.social•3 hours ago

As the rest of the world watches and wonders how you all lost your fucking minds.

heartswin1.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Thank you for the gift article. Making it easier for people to access thoughtful commentary is so important and gift articles will encourage more to subscribe, I think. We need to do everything that we can to counter the movement toward "state media".

busrules.bsky.social•4 hours ago

This is sick

halfemptiest.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Damn, the running man was more prescient than I thought

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