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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump - all of the GOP - has opened a multi-front war on decency
I was just looking at CNN and found the article on Milo Yiannoploulos ("hate speech is cool" - WTF?). This is what trump wrought.
The seemingly forgotten theft of our election by Russia. White supremacists with the trumpster's ear (Bannon). Provocations with Australia, Iran, China, Mexico. Gutting the ACA, installing grotesqueries throughout the cabinet - war on the media, on education, on health, on kindness and decency, on anyone and everything that is not in his mediocre or worse circle of failure. And that is just what I remember from the news blur of the past two weeks.
Gaslighting supreme - aggressiveness and destruction run amok.
And I haven't even mentioned K A Conjob and Rince and the rest.
It is like a dam with hundreds of holes, any of which lead to disaster - which ones to plug...and how to plug them - and who will stand out and do it? They are just taking a dump on everything. I am running out of appropriate adjectives.
Utterly baffling - and hard to believe that anyone - anyone at all - supports this shit.
blm
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Initech
(100,104 posts)With Trump the virus has metastasized and we have no immune system to stop it. We need some chemotherapy ASAP, or something very bad is going to happen. The GOP destroys everything they touch. And the only thing stopping this country from being a totalitarian fascist regime they're now going to come after.
PeopleAgainstHate
(22 posts)The alt-right pro-Trump hate-filled tabloids that all of us grocery shoppers have to look at while standing in the checkout lanes were unquestionably instrumental in getting them elected. Let's get them out of the stores. They offend anyone with any sense of decency. Please sign our Move On petition - and pass it on!
http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/stop-selling-hate-filled?source=c.fwd&r_by=17478167
And here is a link to an article from Politico that lays it all out about the damage the tabloids do. If you don't want to read the whole article, please at least read this one paragraph from it:
"Its easy to imagine that tabloids dont matter; the Enquirer is a relatively small voice in the media kingdom, with a weekly circulation of only 342,071, down from the 5.9 million it commanded in the 1970s. But that misses the importance of the constant cultural background noise it adds to American life: There are 37,000 supermarkets in America, with an average of about 10 checkout stands each, and many stands feature a wire rack displaying the Enquirer, the Globe, often the companys other tab, the National Examiner, and celebrity magazines. According to an industry study, American households make an average of 1.5 trips to the supermarket each week. Every customer passes by the checkout stand, which means that even people who never purchase a tabloid still absorb the ambient headlines, and those headlines can shape their view of the world."
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/tabloid-newspapers-trump-media-propaganda-214627