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Donald Trump is a menace to democracy. where the fuck is the media?
ladies and gentlemen of the press, you should be running around with your hair on fire
JEFF TIEDRICH
SEP 26
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if Donald Trump manages to worm his unpleasant way back into office, he has no plans to leave — ever. Trump will remain in power until the day he dies, and then his hand-picked successor will replace him.

this isn’t some paranoid left-wing fantasy.

right now, Republicans are working to make this happen — and they’re not even bothering to keep it a secret. they’re bragging about it. they’ve published their plan. it has a name: the 2025 Project.

their scheme is to purge the entire government rank and file and replace them with Trump loyalists. that’s right, everybody — from the highest levels of the federal government all the way down to your local dogcatcher. and they’re not waiting until 2025 — they’ve already started recruiting foot-soldiers.

once everything is in place, we’ll stop having stupid little things like elections, or freedom, or democracy.

read the whole thing. it will scare the living fuck out of you.

are you hearing anything about the 2025 Project from our corporate-controlled media? no, you are not.

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Ron Filipkowski has compiled a list of “27 insane things Trump said he will do in a second term.”

“insane” is an understatement. “totally batshit fucking nuts” is more like it. here’s a sampling:

10. Require that schools hold elections each year where principals will be elected by parents who will choose whoever they want to run the school each year. 6/30/23

11. Any person convicted of selling drugs will get the death penalty. 11/15/22

12. Pardon convicted J6 inmates convicted of seditious conspiracy and assaulting police officers, with an apology from the US government. 9/1/22

13. Have DOJ investigate Comcast, NBC and MSNBC for treason and remove them from the public airwaves. 9/24/23

the whole thing is a laundry list of half-baked ideas, blatant violations of our constitution, flagrant abuses of power, and authoritarian score-settling.

are you hearing about any of this from our corporate-controlled media? no, you are not.

Trump’s brain is rotting. he’s completely losing his grip on reality. at his hate-fests, he can barely construct a sentence. he loses his train of thought. he meanders. he stumbles over common words. and he confuses facts and events.

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here’s Trump yesterday, giving a speech in South Carolina.

“we came down here. you know, the beauty was when I came here. everyone thought Bush was going to win. and then they took a poll and found out Trump was up by about 50 points. everyone said, ‘what's going on right here?’ they thought Bush, because Bush supposedly was a military person. great. you know what he was? he got us into the... he got us into the Middle East. how did that work out, right? but they all thought that Bush might win. Jeb, remember Jeb?”

yes, indeed. remember that great military leader Jeb Bush, who led us to war in the Middle East? apparently, Trump does.

Trump can’t get through a sentence without fucking up.

last week, Trump made the bizarre claim that voter ID was required to buy a loaf of bread.

in another recent speech, Trump claimed that his 2016 opponent was Barack Obama, and then warned that Biden was leading us into “world war two.”

are you hearing about any of this from our corporate-controlled media?

say it with me: no, you are not.

I hate to sound like a broken record (what’s a “record,” grandpa?), but where the fuck is the media?

holy shit, ladies and gentlemen of the press, you should be running around with your hair on fire. Donald Trump is promising to shut you down and throw you in prison, and the Republican Party is working overtime to remove any constitutional barriers that would prevent him from doing so.

we’re six years into this bullshit, and you’re still treating Donald Trump like a conventional politician, and Republicans as if they were good-faith partners in democracy.

Exactly!!!!!!

No, they do not. The two, capitalism and socialism, are incompatible. When people, even smart people, claim we are using socialism, that is a mistake. The joint ventures we use as a society, because it is more efficient that way, such as social security, public infrastructure like highways and bridges, and similar projects, are NOT socialism. They are simply practical individual cooperative efforts. Calling what we do in America 'socialism' is like calling a kid with a lemonade stand a capitalist. A few similarities, but not the same thing.
Even our joint ventures use capitalism in purchasing infrastructure, supplies, and acquiring labor. How many tens of thousands of contractors bid to do government projects.
The faux capitalism used in Communist China has some capitalist-like similarities, but the bottom line is they do what their government tells them to do, economically AND socially, or else.

Soros is a boogeyman for the right. As a philanthropist, he invests in efforts to improve the human condition, which is often at odds with the quest for profit. Because of this, plutocrats oppose his actions. And because the American Right has become the easiest faction in our democracy for them to influence, they have used his history of once being associated with the Nazi party when he was an adolescent as the catalyst to create a wave of opposition to anything he does. It's debatable whether he has actually damaged anything at all.

In contrast, the Koch Brothers have. After creating a fortune from raising cattle on public lands, they have funded the war against any efforts to protect the environment (another enemy of profit). The Koch Brothers have been one of the most damaging influences on American politics, not to mention the resulting harm to the health and welfare of the American people.

I agree, although I would say the bombardment of misinformation agitates them and it's the critical but laborious explanations as to why the information is false is what put their little minds to sleep. We've both been called "long winded" because of this. I'm sure you've been accused of "bloviating" that's a popular word among the idiots on the right. It basically means they didn't read your post because it's too many words for them given their lack of interest in anything you have to say.

This has become a tactic on the right... the flood of misinformation. Another reason to cite social media as an enabler. There's an international alarm right now over this as media giants and their fact-checkers struggle to keep up with the volume of misinformation.

I think one significant component to the problem is that misinformation sells. Right wing commentary has been the most lucrative market for media content for years, largely because of it's appeal to emotion and because the emotional appeal itself lessens the need to actually make logical sense... so the content can be tailored for simple minds. The content can therefore be consumed quickly, while the emotional appeal creates an addiction that keeps the victims coming back for more.

I think our best hope is education. The more people understand about how systems work the less susceptible they will be to misinformation. Of course the American Right is already there trying to block that road, defunding public education with charter (corporate) schools and home school options where children are chained to the teachings of idiot parents.

Misinformation is a massive problem for which there is no easy answer.

And who gave those media giants and fact checkers the job of deciding what was acceptable information to be available for the masses? Even if it were true that constitutional conservatives are disseminating false information, it isn't the job of the media to decide what info is going to be allowed or not.

Explain how "misinformation is a massive problem?" What massive harm is caused by information which is out of line with an approved narrative? Will hearing opposing viewpoints cause people's heads to explode? Instead of either censoring the opposing viewpoint or telling people what they should believe, let people resolve the confusion of what is or isn't true for themselves.

Charter schools are public schools. Nor are district public schools defunded to pay for charter public schools. If a student's family moves from district A to district B, the money the government paid for that student goes from the district A school to the district B school he now attends. If he switches from a district public school to a charter public school, the money again follows the student. No one is being defunded. The emotional message that our schools are being defunded is believed by those too gullible to check facts for themselves or to base their conclusions on logic.

So how does deprosecution and decarceration improve the human condition. Does rampant crime in minority communities harm plutocrats? Or does it harm the minorities who live in those communities.

https://www.city-journal.org/article/george-soross-bad-bet

The way you reference public lands you must not live in rural western America. Obama tried to take a chunk of land available for private ownership in AZ and make it public lands. Those who live in eastern states, where only a fraction of the land is public, or in urban environments, applauded the move. They couldn't understand why rural westerners were so angry and concluded we must just hate the environment. My State has about 12% of land available for private ownership. All else is government land. Out of the available for private ownership are steep mountains and deserts, are cities, towns, suburbs, and residential rural homes. Land suitable for grazing, which isn't in high demand for other uses, is slight. The only way beef can be kept in the grocery stores is for cattle to be grazed on public lands. Permits to do so aren't free. If the leftists and environmentalists want to remove millions of acres from private to public, why not volunteer eastern states instead of a state which has so little land available for private ownership.

But in any case, the Koch family didn't get wealthy off cattle but off oil.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/george-soross-bad-bet