Here is the president of the United States once again not-so-subtly hinting that his supporters — including the police and military — may become violent on his behalf.
In any kind of sane nation the president repeatedly suggesting his supporters, including police and military, will turn violent if he doesn’t get his way would be the stuff of front page scandal and perhaps cause for removal.
In America, however, Trump mocking Beto’s hand gestures will be bigger news than Trump suggesting maybe his supporters will have to kill liberals.
In case y’all didn’t believe me: CNN’s webpage has a headline about Trump mocking Beto’s hand gestures; nothing about Trump suggesting his police & military supporters turn violent on his behalf.
.@mattyglesias may be slightly more pessimistic than I am; my absolutely-not-joking belief is that we will see, at minimum, large-scale political violence within the next 10-15 years, and it’s quite easy to imagine it coming as soon as the next 1-2.
Politico also has an article about Trump mocking Beto but nothing about Trump suggesting his police & military supporters turn violent on his behalf. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It’s been several hours since the president (again) suggested his supporters, including the military and police, will turn violent on his behalf. Have any news companies bothered to cover this yet?
Has a single member of Congress said anything about Trump’s latest threat of violence? Have any law enforcement organizations said anything? Does anyone at all give a damn?
I hate to beat a dead horse here but the president of the United States regularly incites violence; just yesterday he suggested his supporters in the police & military may turn violent against his political opponents.
What’s the alternative to firing people for having bad opinions when their job is essentially “having opinions”? Like, say, New York Times columnist? The alternative is that they must be allowed to retain great influence regardless of lack of merit. Like … aristocracy?
I mean, if your job is assistant to the regional manager at a small paper company and your bad opinion is that Antoine Walker was a better basketball player than Tim Duncan, of course you shouldn’t be fired.
But that doesn’t have anything to do with anything.
For people whose job is essentially talking about their opinions in an effort to influence society, of course they should lose their job if their opinions are ruinously bad! We shouldn’t have an entitled elite class of Opinion-Havers who must never lose their influence.
One thing is clear: Mark Meadows is a piece of shit.
It was pretty clear in October 2020 that there was a really good chance Trump went to the debate knowing he had tested positive — if you were willing to admit the obvious truth about Trump’s sociopathy.
And yet at the time reporters kept asking if Trump had received a *negative* test before the debate, when it was obvious that the right question was whether he had received a *positive* test:
Instead of telling readers the Republican Party is offering financial incentives for deadly vaccine refusal, and instead of noting the disconnect between these policies and the GOP’s long-stated hostility to benefits for those who refuse to work, Axios hypes the GOP’s “messaging”
Be Smart: Don’t read Axios.
Why It Matters: Axios’s cheerleading for the GOP kills people.
Seriously, that shit will rot your brain and destroy society. All it has going for it is that it doesn’t take long to read. But that’s like eating a shit sandwich because it isn’t a foot-long.
What a low bar for celebration. High-fives for (they thought) *not* spreading misinformation and hate. It’s like congratulating your coworker for not stabbing the UPS guy.
Facebook shutting down its (inadequate) efforts to stop election-related misinformation after Election Day is particularly stupid if you keep in mind that we all should have known since 2016 that Trump would claim victory if he lost.
This isn’t hindsight; here’s one example (of many) from me, in 2017, predicting that Trump would lose in 2020 and declare himself the winner and his supporters would turn violent. And I’m just Some Guy; if I knew this why the fuck didn’t Facebook?
Honestly I would be pretty fucking angry if I found out Joe Biden *doesn’t* routinely say “Why the fuck isn’t this happening?” or “What the fuck are we doing?” or, most of all, “Fuck them.”
More people bought Tapestry than any album by Billy Joel or James Taylor. It’s hard to imagine a political reporter expressing incredulity that either of them could be useful in a fundraising context. I wonder what might be different about Carole King to cause skepticism?
(Also Tapestry is great. Carole King is a national treasure.)