NEWS: Trump Ally to Argue for (Illegal) Third Trump Term on Fox News Program Run By a Trump Adviser
(If you don't think Huckabee got Trump's blessing to splatter this obscene argument all over longtime Trump domestic policy adviser Sean Hannity's TV program, please think again.)
(If you don't think Huckabee got Trump's blessing to splatter this obscene argument all over longtime Trump domestic policy adviser Sean Hannity's TV program, please think again.)
PS/ Understand the game here: if *anyone* dares to note how *dangerous* this talk is, Huckabee and Trump's troll army will just say, "Ha! We were kidding! You got triggered!" because that's *exactly* what someone trying to move the Overton Window would do—play it off as a "joke."
PS2/ So understand that—Democrat or Republican—if you come on a thread like this to tell me Huckabee was messing around, you *don't* understand digital communications theory. Literally *the playbook* is to say as a "joke" what you mean seriously, slowly moving the Overton Window.
PS3/ If the "extra terms" line had been a "joke" as we understood that term in 1965, it would have come up *once*. Ha ha, funny! some would have said. And it'd disappear. This is being brought up systematically over time, in different fora, always as a "joke," to re-seed reality.
PS4/ But it's worse than that—and I usually avoid going into this because digital comms theory bores most people—because this strategy *works* because *some* folks really *do* mean it as a joke. So you can't distinguish the "joke" rhetoric from the Overton Window-moving rhetoric.
PS5/ Remember the use of the "OK" hand symbol? For many alt-right trolls, it *was* a joke. They *aren't* white supremacists. But they kept doing it *after* white supremacists joined in the fun. The result was *more powerful*: you never knew if the symbol was a "joke" or serious.
PS6/ Postmodernism is bad at discussing this stuff; it lacks the metaphysics for it. In postmodernism, there's "no difference" between "joking" about a hand symbol or intending it as a racist trope. But we *need* that difference to discuss how dangerous "drafting" off racism is.
PS7/ So I give a rat's ass if Huckabee is "kidding." He either already supports a third term; is "testing the waters" using Overton-Window theory; or is "drafting" off the unconstitutional, unpatriotic rhetoric of actual radicals to get attention. Either way, NONE OF IT IS FUNNY.
PS8/ This—below—is why we lose. (Not singling this person out—many responded to the thread this way.) Postmodernism says either you're playing someone or being played; it's a dialectic. It *doesn't work that way now*. This is about *slow reality-shifting*.
PS9/ The right response to Huckabee isn't to ignore him, but to say, (1) I recognize you could be playing a million different games here; (2) I don't feel "embarrassed" or "played" to be addressing what you said; [and that's because] (3) *fuck you* no matter *how* you meant this.
PS10/ We gotta wise up. The digital age isn't about avoiding being "played"; that was the TV age. It isn't about avoiding being embarrassed; that was the TV age. The unit of measure in this age is *reality*, and it can be moved a *million* different ways. Recognize *all of them*.
