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(60,022 posts)there is nothing normal about this monster.
the current media is, for the most part, completely outmatched and unprepared dealing with it.
Cosmocat
(14,574 posts)They are so far out left field it's ridiculous. Even watching Nicole Wallace who hates his guts in rails on him the entirety of her show every show, and her panel which are good people for the most part, they didn't even remotely touch on how disturbing the event was.
DENVERPOPS
(8,847 posts)of American media is owned by wealthy Republicans, what do you expect. Take over the media....what you do to start a coup..........we are 99.9% there people.
A good book title for what happened would be "While the Nation Slept", except that title has already been used.
BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID. In fact, be scared to death........
After the last three years in particular, and this phony impeachment acquittal all hell is about to rain down on our nation, just watch......
WASF
MerryBlooms
(11,773 posts)It's just subtle enough to pass, unless you're paying attention. If you just have it on in the background while you're busy, you probably would think it was a good segment. I don't have cable, so I just watch a few segments on my laptop. I shudder to think what folks are absorbing who have these cable shows running all day. I think Maddow, O'Donnell and Hayes are probably best for not just letting this stuff slide, but like I said, I only watch a few segments online.
https://www.msnbc.com/andrea-mitchell
maxsolomon
(33,400 posts)Last edited Fri Feb 7, 2020, 12:20 PM - Edit history (1)
He's doing it over and over so the accusation loses all meaning. It's a technique.
HE is corrupt. If all his enemies are, too, it all becomes a blur. What's a low-information flibbertigibbet to think?
Of course, there's zero evidence of "corruption" from a straight arrow like Schiff or Romney. No matter; they'll manufacture something pretty soon. It's how Putin does it, after all.
iluvtennis
(19,876 posts)DENVERPOPS
(8,847 posts)things they do, over and over, is accuse the other side of what THEY are doing or guilty of committing.
Every day they do corrupt things, then accuse everyone else........
Look at Biden, Look at Russian "interference", Look at.....etc etc etc day after day..........
DENVERPOPS
(8,847 posts)the Dems are continually defending themselves about idiotic bullshit and they have no time to go on the offense.
In their spare time, the Dems continue to play pat-a-cake with a Bulldozer............
WASF
crickets
(25,983 posts)ancianita
(36,137 posts)three years of "what you're seeing and what you're reading..."
It's an emotional soothing stage to morally validate himself and those who see themselves as Christian warriors. It will go on for the a while.
Be careful. They will invite us to a believer war. We'll come for a good faith sitdown; and they'll come with guns.
OMGWTF
(3,976 posts)Talitha
(6,619 posts)But I highly doubt if he ever bothered to skim through it.
Unless it was the pop-up version.
Evolve Dammit
(16,778 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)And there are many more of those than we would like to admit.
SylviaD
(721 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)I shoot Real Estate homes for a living. I go into houses every day with faux snooze blaring. The first thing I have the owners do is turn the tv off. For "aesthetic" purposes, of course.
SylviaD
(721 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(9,472 posts)PatrickforO
(14,593 posts)Too bad Fox and AM talk radio are so far into the Goebbels camp.
Accuse the other side of that of which you are guilty. Indeed.
patphil
(6,217 posts)Give him the power, and he could be just as terrifying a dictator.
certainot
(9,090 posts)the talk radio monopoly that limbaugh was leading has been telling and repeating big lies WITH NO CORRECTION OR CHALLENGE for 30 fucking years - ignored by the left and dems
trump then repeats what has come out of limnbaaugh's ass, fed to him by think tanks here and in russia
trump has been pigibacking talk radio and it continues to be the biggest political mistake in history that the analysts continue to ignore talk radio's dominant part in creating the alternate reality that has been used to create the modern republican party and enable trump
SWBTATTReg
(22,171 posts)dollars laying around, go ahead and buy yourselves some radio stations. Pay for the affirmative programming that you desire. Reaffirm the reality we're actually in. And simply don't listen to propaganda on the air waves, and switch the dial.
certainot
(9,090 posts)1)you're suggesting mom and pop can compete with walmart - it's a well protected and established monopoly of the loudest radio stations
2)in 40 states with 80 senators there are no free easy alternatives to AM politics while driving, working, doing chores.
ignoring it, including just turning the dial because it hurts our heads, has been the biggest political mistake in history.
if someone sets up a soapbox across the street and calls you a whore, thief, and traitor all day you can't salk by with your fingers in your ears - that's what dems/left have been doing for 30 years and now we have a cloud of orange assholes aall over wasshington. the rw radio monopoly is not part of the free speech spectrum because it excludes challenge and correction within that medium, and it does not represent market demand for lies and hate. it's just loud and everywhere.
dem and progressive leaders are wasting our time and donations by ignoring talk radio. and it's never more vulnerable now with the ad industry worried about losing all those ears if limbaugh croaks from cancer in the near future. they can't sell radio time at same rates if he's gone and the b team starts battling for top dog
now is the perfect time dem to destroy rw radio with artificial intelligence and protests at 87 universities that support 260 lmbaaugh stations.
dustyscamp
(2,228 posts)Kali
(55,025 posts)world wide wally
(21,755 posts)He loves to set up his defense in advance.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)Hitler talks about in chapter 10 in Me in Kampf.
Gobbles first mentioned in 1941.
Like a lot of what SA refers to he is generally right but sloppy on the details.
Rider3
(919 posts)We've known this for a very long time, now. It's not new. He learned from the "best:" Hitler. There was an article years ago noting that Trump kept a copy of Mein Kampf next to his bed. Hitler was his mentor.
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,782 posts)She_Totally_Gets_It
(142 posts)Yes, we will rally around the Democratic candidate and work our assess off because our lives and the lives of our families and children...and future generations demand it.
However, it's all about the machines and other voter suppression tactics.
How can we do anything about this?
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)How the hell to stop the monster. Along with:
Psychiatrists
Admen
Dem strategists
Pollsters
Hollywood big $$$
Bill Clinton
James Carville
They do a secret retreat and can't leave until they have the best possible plan we can have!