Seriously! I took a screenshot of news headlines on Sunday bc I noticed this but didn’t know where to post it.
What is this bullshit? Democrats see crime as a major issue? Which ones? Literally everybody has been pointing out Trump sending the national guard to D.C. bc of crime was complete bullshit.
Stop helping these dictators spread propaganda and normalize a fucking military takeover!
AP you’re not even allowed to come over to the white house anymore, what are you even doing? We thought you were cool?!
AP is no less beholden to their corporate overlords than any other corporate media, they were never cool. They just happened to be serving as the anchor for the “left” flank of traditional media’s overton window.
I mean they seemed to be trying not to bow down at first. They got kicked out for not calling it the gulf of America. The Overton window has just kind of expanded to become like an entire wall.
Trump does make things more complicated. The ruling class is not unified, there are factions within that are at odds with one another. A lot of the liberal media is loyal to a particular neoliberal faction of the ruling class that Trump is not a part of, and some have capitulated sooner / more completely than others. There was a time when Trump actually was an outsider (in relative terms) who represented a fringe minority of the ruling class.
It’s always a threat to our democracy. But then the guy who does all this in the name of democracy is also a threat to our democracy? And the playbook he’s using to destroy our democracy (project 2025) was literally written by a guy who never actually wanted a democracy even though it really, really, seems likely he helped overthrow the government and collapse the Soviet Union in the name of democracy but just created an oligarchy.
Then he died in 2008, but now we just have this guy in 2025 who is the result of the 1999 plans coming to fruition. He’s unimpeachable and he’s going to be allowed to just destroy the U.S. to like make a point? I guess?
Obviously it’s going to be making a lot of rich people richer (that’s always the point) but I can’t even keep up with what narrative is being presented anymore to keep us believing. Maybe that’s the point? Idk this is doo doo. I feel like if you’re in the CIA you must either need to dissociate 24/7, or take a lot of drugs, or be in a constant existential crisis. Or maybe some combo platter. It just seems like the narrative gets more and more convoluted with time and makes less sense.
Obviously it’s still being used as an excuse to invade other countries, but did they ever care about democracy actually existing even in the U.S.? Or was it always just an excuse the U.S./CIA used while they got wealthy and helped other wealthy people stay wealthy?
Sorry, should have been clearer in my comment. Multiple news sources, across party lines, often end up running from the exact same playbook.
Down to dozens of local newscasters across Fox, NBC, and CBS literally reading the same script verbatim in the video I linked. It’s a minute and a half mashup of all the different on air readings of the exact same script across dozens of local news channels of different organizations and political affiliations.
That line about danger to our democracy was a direct quote from the shared script.
Seriously! I took a screenshot of news headlines on Sunday bc I noticed this but didn’t know where to post it.
What is this bullshit? Democrats see crime as a major issue? Which ones? Literally everybody has been pointing out Trump sending the national guard to D.C. bc of crime was complete bullshit.
Stop helping these dictators spread propaganda and normalize a fucking military takeover!
AP you’re not even allowed to come over to the white house anymore, what are you even doing? We thought you were cool?!
AP is no less beholden to their corporate overlords than any other corporate media, they were never cool. They just happened to be serving as the anchor for the “left” flank of traditional media’s overton window.
White House bars AP reporter from Oval Office because of AP style policy on ‘Gulf of America’
I mean they seemed to be trying not to bow down at first. They got kicked out for not calling it the gulf of America. The Overton window has just kind of expanded to become like an entire wall.
Trump does make things more complicated. The ruling class is not unified, there are factions within that are at odds with one another. A lot of the liberal media is loyal to a particular neoliberal faction of the ruling class that Trump is not a part of, and some have capitulated sooner / more completely than others. There was a time when Trump actually was an outsider (in relative terms) who represented a fringe minority of the ruling class.
Guess the news media is going all in on one line again. Happens more often than I think most realize.
“This is extremely dangerous to our democracy”
It’s always a threat to our democracy. But then the guy who does all this in the name of democracy is also a threat to our democracy? And the playbook he’s using to destroy our democracy (project 2025) was literally written by a guy who never actually wanted a democracy even though it really, really, seems likely he helped overthrow the government and collapse the Soviet Union in the name of democracy but just created an oligarchy.
Then he decided he wanted to overthrow our democracy in 1999 bc he realized it would never be what he wanted, and he was angry Bill Clinton didn’t actually get impeached after he got a BJ?
Then he died in 2008, but now we just have this guy in 2025 who is the result of the 1999 plans coming to fruition. He’s unimpeachable and he’s going to be allowed to just destroy the U.S. to like make a point? I guess?
Obviously it’s going to be making a lot of rich people richer (that’s always the point) but I can’t even keep up with what narrative is being presented anymore to keep us believing. Maybe that’s the point? Idk this is doo doo. I feel like if you’re in the CIA you must either need to dissociate 24/7, or take a lot of drugs, or be in a constant existential crisis. Or maybe some combo platter. It just seems like the narrative gets more and more convoluted with time and makes less sense.
Obviously it’s still being used as an excuse to invade other countries, but did they ever care about democracy actually existing even in the U.S.? Or was it always just an excuse the U.S./CIA used while they got wealthy and helped other wealthy people stay wealthy?
Sorry, should have been clearer in my comment. Multiple news sources, across party lines, often end up running from the exact same playbook.
Down to dozens of local newscasters across Fox, NBC, and CBS literally reading the same script verbatim in the video I linked. It’s a minute and a half mashup of all the different on air readings of the exact same script across dozens of local news channels of different organizations and political affiliations.
That line about danger to our democracy was a direct quote from the shared script.