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- politics@lemmy.world
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- politics@lemmy.world
Back in my day a weird yell was enough to kill your run.
Just a yeeaaoowww and you’re done. Now, if you’re Trump and you are literally strangling someone to the point that they make that sound, you’re presidential material because “that person getting choked was probably a democrat pedophile communist so he deserves it.”
And you better be able to spell potatoe! (And after Mr. Quayle’s call to Pence to shore him up on preserving our democracy, I’m sad I ever laughed at him.)
That yell was glorious
Reminded me of the Lion King when Simba is a baby trying to roar, same effect too.
yeeaaoowww
I feel like it was more of a yeeaaaughhhh
But hey, potato potatoe.
A yell was at least brazen and bold. A later candidate got canned for “Please Clap”
What frustrates the hell out of me is that these warning flags are being raised in opinion sections and not in main articles in news outlets. It also frustrates me that local news outlets, where a vast majority of people throughout America still get their news, has not been covering this at all.
That’s because the local outlets are all controlled by Sinclair group which is a right wing corporation. All thanks to Ajit Pai’s FCC throwing out a rule that prevented it.
That fucking guy is a true a piece of shit.
The media is also avoiding reporting about all the parts of the rightwing plan.
They are as follow:
1-Argue that Article 2 of the Constitution gives the president power to do whatever he wants.
https://www.axios.com/2023/05/21/trump-2025-visionhttps://www.axios.com/2023/05/21/trump-2025-vision
2-Fire the civil service and replace it with Trump loyalists.
3-Immediately implement the insurrection act and use the military to fight protesters.
4-Use the DoJ to target critics
5-Weaken the election security agency
6-Reject climate change
7-Remove all LGBTQ+ protections
https://www.metroweekly.com/2023/09/right-wing-project-2025-seeks-to-eradicate-lgbtq-protections/
8-Bring the Bible into government
The media is avoiding it…like all the media cited in this post? Or the NY Times article today discussing many of the points in those articles? Or the OP article? I’m so tired of news outlets reporting on news outlets. The news isn’t news, I want actual news about events.
Like I had to include that many different outlets in order to provide a full picture. FYI, APNews reported about this in late August. The fact that the NYT is telling you about it this week means that something very wrong occurred for two months while they didn’t.
The rightwing having a 1000-page guide to their overthrow of the country is what I would call the most important event of this year on US soil.
Do you want to only be told about the climate change rejection and not the other plans? That’s what’s fucked up.
#3 - The military leadership is not going to back Trump’s plays. OTOH, I see no reason he can’t fire them and put in loyalists.
This is why Tuberville is blocking promotions. It’s the same strategy that was used by the GOP to swing the federal courts to be unqualified hacks that are loyal to the GOP. Tuberville is just a useful idiot though - he didn’t come up with the idea - he’s just doing what he was told to do.
So if the GOP succeeds and can wait out until the second Trump presidency, then the senate will allow promotions for exclusively trump loyalists to the upper eschelons of the US military and they will then begin to purge everyone who doesn’t publicly suck trump’s dick.
Nothing quite like watching a coup unfold right in front of you, and being powerless to do anything meaningful to stop it.
We need to band together and set up a framework for an independent country, while we still have time
If “the military leadership” were as obsessed with upholding Freedom as people pretend they are, they would have stepped in on Jan 6 when it was clear that the POTUS was behind the insurrection and the Vice POTUS and Speaker of the House were both under siege and unable to act.
Instead, they sat on their hands and waited to see how things will shake out.
But hey, I am sure the next time… the exact same POTUS stages an insurrection and tries to have the government executed that the “military leadership” will react in a drastically different way. Yeah…
Shouldn’t the military not be involved with domestic affairs?
I would suggest checking out the period between 1861 and 1865 as a good example of precedent for the US military operating on US soil. Same with every time we trotted out the army to murder some Native Americans. Also, the National Guard gets called out when there are “riots” to this day.
But also: If the stance is that the US Military is suddenly not allowed to operate on US Soil, then this is all moot and they will sit and allow the insurrection regardless of how “military leadership” feels.
This is why Tuberville is blocking military appointments and talking about not want a woke military.
Not all the media is giving him a “free pass.” I’ve read several articles about him going full nutjob and totally losing it. Of course a person only has to hear him speak once to know he’s off his rocker - and we’ve had several years of his s#it being shoveled in our direction.
Are these news articles? Or are they opinions or editorials? Big difference.
The media wants the clicks they can get.
The argument isn’t that they aren’t covering it, it’s that they covered it and haven’t continued reporting it over and over again.
But it happened 4 days ago, and as I search right now there are articles from the New York Times, USA Today, NBC News, CNN, The Hill, all from the last 24hrs. They ARE still covering it.
And the articles mostly call it out as echoing Nazi language, I don’t see how you could claim that they aren’t covering it negatively enough either.
There is just nothing to this complaint.
Trump saying that out loud happened 4 days ago. This plan is not new this week. There are bits and pieces of new coverage going back a couple months.
The corporate news media will absolutely not stop Donald Trump. He will cut their investors’ taxes.
MSM NEWS: MEDIA NOT COVERING TRUMP BEING NAZI!
I’ve said this elsewhere in another topic, but the News Media has a vested financial interest in a second Trump presidency, because people eventually burn out on the daily mass shooting coverage and various orphan grinding reports.
But trump? people turned in every day to find out what latest buffoonery the incompetent pumpkin faced buffoon did, with no burn out, with no exhaustion. Driving ratings, and viewership numbers.
and they will do everything they can to celebrate his actions in outlandish news coverage, while minimizing the worst parts of it, So everyone will watch the dancing monkey’s dancing, with the ultimate goal being a second Trump presidency and all the delicious attention and ratings that would bring with it.
And yet I’ve somehow heard about it a hundred times in 2 days from the media.
Some news sources have taken to producing articles that are essentially drawn out virtue signalling tweets. I’m guessing because they are often met with a positive reception on Twitter, as well as a lot of head nodding and smug knowing looks.
It’s moral grandstanding without an ounce of actual conviction and, ultimately, click bait.
Course it did, they haven’t learned that “Fairness” is a scam when you’ve got a bad faith agent
The media has fully given up on giving pushback to anything when it comes to any powerful person or corporation.
The road to Trumps authoritarian America will be paved with lenient judges and federal agencies that don’t enforce laws against him.
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It’s not like they can call him out on it. They might get death threats from his nazi followers.