The news should be: reality based on facts. Instead, reality is shaped by a few billionaires who own the media.
It’s eerie that commentators we once trusted are now echoing right wing talking points.
New management. New reality.
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THREAD 1- When we marvel or roll our eyes at Trump supporters, we're often asking the wrong question. Instead of asking: "How can they believe this nonsense?" Better we ask: "What do they get out of being part of Trumpism that makes them so willing to suppress reasoned thought?"
2- There are a lot of answers to the question of what they get out of Trumpism. First and foremost is "the need to belong." They can dislike and defy the same people, share common grievances, do stuff TOGETHER. It's a brotherhood of purpose. It's easier to "believe" than think!
3 - We're often asked if Trumpism is a cult. The short answer: YES, it is. A cult is defined by an unusual, unwavering interest or belief in a particular personality or goal, where devotion transcends reasoned thought. And when you do that, you transcend science, math, and facts
Last year, every CIA base in the world received warning from counterintelligence officials that dozens of informants were being captured or killed.
Trump stole the identities of our agents and informants
Coincidence? Or has he been feeding Russia intelligence for years?
Karl Rove, on Fox: "It is beyond me" why Trump held on to docs "he had no legal authority to have." He went on to say: "He needs to let his lawyers handle things and stop speaking."
Trump CAN'T shut up. Asserting false narrative is pathological. It's not that he WON'T, he CAN'T!
If you're a Republican and even Karl Rove won't defend your actions, you've pretty much lost.
(1/3) FROWBACK FRIDAY: Donald Trump is a Malignant Narcissist. Incurable. Will continue to get worse. The syndrome includes: Narcissistic Personality Disorder; Sociopathy; Paranoia; Sadism. If challenged, he instinctively doubles down, even when his "facts" are demonstrably false
(2/3) A malignant narcissist is grandiose, with an inflated sense of accomplishment, an excessive need for admiration (adulation); he is boastful, hypersensitive to criticism, arrogant, and envious. He is always ready to raise hostility levels and uses deceit and manipulation.
(3/3) He transgresses social norms, lacks moral conscience, is preoccupied with perceived disloyalty, bears grudges, is quick to blame others, and is prone to conspiracy theories. He is also dehumanizing to people he perceives as weak, capable of taking glee in their misfortune.
The White House is using Twitter to expose the hypocrisy of Republican lawmakers who are denouncing student loan forgiveness when they have had their own large PPP loans forgiven.
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Jamestown MI has defunded its public library, claiming the librarians were “pedophiles” who were “grooming” children and promoting an “LGBTQ ideology.” They seek to ban texts with LGBTQ characters.
Persecuting librarians, teachers, and doctors. Sounds like the Chinese Cultural Revolution to me.
But in the end never forget, it was the dark librarians at the National Archives who brought Trump down. Everyone knows, you don’t f*ck with librarians.