The signs are there if you look for them. EPA.
Saad points out that CNN is fully onboard with the normalization.
Trump is the only person elected to the top job without political, diplomatic or military executive experience. And he ran a campaign rooted in breaking the mold of the gridlocked capital city. So no surprise that Trump is already approaching his presidency in an unorthodox manner.
Unorthodox? Really, that’s what they are going to go with. Great. Absolutely nothing about how Trump is an full blown ignoramus, a fraud, a failed businessman, a criminal with court dates coming up, and an unrepentant sexual predator. Nothing about the core of white supremacy now poised to infest the white house, either, because I guess that just got lost in the glitter storm of the new reality show. And that’s what’s happening, that’s the blinder expected to blinker the American public, and unfortunately, in large part, it’s going to work.
Very organized process taking place as I decide on Cabinet and many other positions. I am the only one who knows who the finalists are!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 16, 2016
“I am the only one who knows who the finalists are!” FFS, this gold-plated idiot is treating the presidency like it’s another reality show, where he can do whatever the fuck he likes, and a team will make sure it’s scrubbed up nice for mass consumption. If you find yourself buying this vomit, wake the fuck up. This is not normal, this is not okay, this is terrifying, and it’s a nightmare come true.
The media is busy spinning an old evil, fascism, into a brand new, exciting, “outsider” kind of thing. It isn’t any of that. It’s plain old white supremacy, it’s plain old fascism. You can pour all the glitter you want on it, it’s still rancid shit, and it’s what we are all being fed.
James McDougall has a good article up at The Conversation: No, this isn’t the 1930s – but yes, this is fascism. Highly recommended.
The spread of fascism in the 1920s was significantly aided by the fact that liberals and mainstream conservatives failed to take it seriously. Instead, they accommodated and normalised it.
The centre right is doing the same today. Brexit, Trump and the far right ascendant across Europe indicate that talk of a right-wing revolutionary moment is not exaggerated. And the French presidential election could be next on the calendar.
Yep.
The weird notion the media was ever biased against Trump was just so strange. Trump was a boon for ratings and profits, which is why the media ran his events unfiltered and unedited while ignoring other candidates. A Trump presidency was the only thing which could keep the gravy train rolling. Media executives everywhere cheered from the rooftops (I saw them!) when Trump won.
I can hardly wait to see what euphemism the press accepts for torture. Maybe “tickle time”
Ironically, Trump hammered on the point that the media are a bunch of horrible manipulative liars. Now that they’re his liars he probably likes them fine because they’re just telling the “truth”
I’m fairly horrified at the swamp his cabinet looks to become. All the better to drain it, perhaps.
Marcus @ 2
Doesn’t that already exist? Enhanced interrogation. I feel filthy just to write the expression.
Ice Swimmer@#3:
Doesn’t that already exist? Enhanced interrogation. I feel filthy just to write the expression.
Yes. That’s the term the Gestapo used for it, too.
I told you to brush up on your German. There’s a lot of terms you’ll get to know soon. I read that Bannon is already trying to get Trump to do something about those nasty Asian Silicon Valley CEOs* because the USA isn’t just an economy, it’s also a “civic society”, which smells a lot like Hitler’s “Volksgemeinschaft”.
*Part of me says “please do”: Go after the rich and privileged as fast as possible. Make the big Tech companies that were so indifferent to your hate be the first to feel it