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EffieBlack

(14,249 posts)
Mon Jan 21, 2019, 02:48 PM Jan 2019

Tiedrich: "No one could have predicted ..."




no one could have predicted that two-plus years of our corporate-controlled media normalizing Trump's white supremacist victim act would result in a generation of smug young white supremacists who see themselves as the real victims
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Tiedrich: "No one could have predicted ..." (Original Post) EffieBlack Jan 2019 OP
I am not surprised by the fact that trump has freed these racists to show their true colors Gothmog Jan 2019 #1
SAw a tweet that the maga prick at the scene with the only real American there Eliot Rosewater Jan 2019 #2
And the decades of RW hate radio to pave the road dalton99a Jan 2019 #3
Not to mention white Democrats who excuse the behavior EffieBlack Jan 2019 #4
Unchallenged hate radio. CrispyQ Jan 2019 #6
+1. dalton99a Jan 2019 #7
The Wealthy Fund Hate Radio So We Can Fight Each Other While They Rob Us PaulX2 Jan 2019 #8
T H I S - 45 didn't create this, he took the whip from the GOP ... Cosmocat Jan 2019 #13
K&R smirkymonkey Jan 2019 #5
That tweet is sarcastic, right? mjvpi Jan 2019 #9
Tiedrich is the owner of the smirkingchimp.com website (one of our people). Yes, that is a tblue37 Jan 2019 #12
We lost buzzflash also. kimbutgar Jan 2019 #15
Thanks! mjvpi Jan 2019 #22
It's been going on for a long time. Scruffy1 Jan 2019 #10
Not hard to believe. This has been the end game. n/t slumcamper Jan 2019 #11
And you know every student in that school has parents who has the fox propaganda channel on kimbutgar Jan 2019 #14
Every time I hear or read "no one could have predicted" in the context of what led up to Trump Ford_Prefect Jan 2019 #16
Tiedrich is being sarcastic EffieBlack Jan 2019 #17
Correct. dameatball Jan 2019 #18
I strongly disagree with the tweet's suggestion that the the "media" is to blame for racists coming Nitram Jan 2019 #19
The media's attempts to stop normalizing him and to expose his racism EffieBlack Jan 2019 #20
Your definition of media must be quite different than mine. Nitram Jan 2019 #21

Eliot Rosewater

(31,106 posts)
2. SAw a tweet that the maga prick at the scene with the only real American there
Mon Jan 21, 2019, 02:51 PM
Jan 2019

the chief that the same assholes being excused for their racism because of their youth will in 50 years be excused because we cant expect old people to change, etc.

CrispyQ

(36,424 posts)
6. Unchallenged hate radio.
Mon Jan 21, 2019, 03:00 PM
Jan 2019

The left/dems did nothing to challenge that assault on our airwaves. Our universities air it, the military airs it, & the left/dems ignored it. We should have supported radio franchises at a loss if need be. Now hate radio, along with its evil spawn Fox News, is running/ruining our country. And the left/dems still ignore hate radio.

 

PaulX2

(2,032 posts)
8. The Wealthy Fund Hate Radio So We Can Fight Each Other While They Rob Us
Mon Jan 21, 2019, 04:00 PM
Jan 2019

I saw where some folks just "gave" Rush Limbaugh $11 million dollars for nothing years ago,

I am sure they are getting their money's worth.

Cosmocat

(14,559 posts)
13. T H I S - 45 didn't create this, he took the whip from the GOP ...
Mon Jan 21, 2019, 04:56 PM
Jan 2019

DECADES of brain mushing this country led to this.

mjvpi

(1,387 posts)
9. That tweet is sarcastic, right?
Mon Jan 21, 2019, 04:07 PM
Jan 2019

No one could have predicted...... Only if you didn’t stop and think about it.

tblue37

(65,227 posts)
12. Tiedrich is the owner of the smirkingchimp.com website (one of our people). Yes, that is a
Mon Jan 21, 2019, 04:26 PM
Jan 2019

sarcastic post.

BTW, his Smirking Chimp website (Named for W, of course) desperately needs donations to avoid having to shut down, if anyone wants to toss a few bucks his way.

Scruffy1

(3,254 posts)
10. It's been going on for a long time.
Mon Jan 21, 2019, 04:12 PM
Jan 2019

Trump is the result. It's like this country is getting dumber every year.

kimbutgar

(21,060 posts)
14. And you know every student in that school has parents who has the fox propaganda channel on
Mon Jan 21, 2019, 05:24 PM
Jan 2019

In their homes. And They hated President Obama during his 8 years. I hope these little jerks get a closer scrutiny when they apply to college. Covington high school should be renamed racist high. Any college considering admitting a student from there should pause and refrain from accepting them. Let that high school be synomous with racist bigots.

Ford_Prefect

(7,873 posts)
16. Every time I hear or read "no one could have predicted" in the context of what led up to Trump
Mon Jan 21, 2019, 05:33 PM
Jan 2019

in the white house, with all he has enabled, sanctified and provoked along the way, especially regarding the violence, the mass murders, the neo-fascist racism and direct quotes from Goebbels(among others), I have to say that anyone who uses that phrase has ignored or never read history.
Any news anchor or talking-head who repeats the remark should be struck off and cast out of the profession for insufficient candor.
I say the same for any politician or public official of either party who indulges in the fantasy that what we have is merely a new version of politics as usual.
The social programming which generated those young men, along with their parents and I suspect numerous previous generations, has been repeated for more than a century. It most certainly did not result from only 2 years of MSM complicity.
Rupert Murdoch's entire career and media empire rest on teaching, reinforcing and enabling the racist propaganda underlying Trumpian and Republican political dogma.

Nitram

(22,768 posts)
19. I strongly disagree with the tweet's suggestion that the the "media" is to blame for racists coming
Mon Jan 21, 2019, 05:42 PM
Jan 2019

out of the closet. If the media suppressed Trump's racist statements and policies and failed to report them, we'd be crying that they were exercising self-censorship and trying to normalized Trump. Rather than normalizing Trump, they have tried to keep us informed on how abnormal the man is. The media has criticized and exposed Trump's racism at every turn. That's their job.

 

EffieBlack

(14,249 posts)
20. The media's attempts to stop normalizing him and to expose his racism
Mon Jan 21, 2019, 05:45 PM
Jan 2019

is a new thing that they didn't start in earnest until after he became president. Until then, they were deeply complicit in his rise, normalization and election.

Nitram

(22,768 posts)
21. Your definition of media must be quite different than mine.
Mon Jan 21, 2019, 05:54 PM
Jan 2019

The media I get my news from never normalized him and constantly reported on both his racism and his violent tendencies.

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