Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 25

[Armitage72]

Propaganda and indoctrination.

"He loved Big Brother."

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

My whip count right now is that Collins and Murkowski will oppose.

Neither Collins nor Murkowski will oppose. They'll make "concerned" faces and pretend to be about propriety right up until the vote, then they'll vote for whatever their fuhrer wants while hoping that nobody's looking.

Collins in particular should have had her image of independence shattered years ago. She's a spineless yes woman.

 

[The Don]

Neither Collins nor Murkowski will oppose. They'll make "concerned" faces and pretend to be about propriety right up until the vote, then they'll vote for whatever their fuhrer wants while hoping that nobody's looking.

Collins in particular should have had her image of independence shattered years ago. She's a spineless yes woman.

Exactly what I think

 

[Mojo]

The reason for pushing the nomination through before the election is simple: to get the kind of judge on the court that Republican voters want. That's essentially the same reason mcconnell WOULDN'T hold a vote in 2016.

You can’t complain he’s inconsistent.

 

[Elagabalus]

"He loved Big Brother."

"If you can't love something, love the something you're with ..." Aldous Huxley

 

[Babbylonian]

I still think the Senate won't vote until after the election. If McConnell keeps pressing for an earlier vote it will be to give vulnerable senators something to push back against for the purposes of political theater. They can paint themselves as mavericks then after the election "reluctantly" vote for a candidate who is just too good not to put on the bench.

 

[newyorkguy]

On September 9th trump released an updated list of potential nominees for the Supreme Court. The front runners according to CNN are:

• Amy Coney Barrett
• Amul Thapar
• Former US Solicitors General Paul Clement and Noel Francisco
• Barbara Lagoa
• Sen. Tom Cotton

Here is a link to the CNN story from this morning about the frontrunners: Link. Here is a link to the CNN story about trump's updated list that appeared on September 9th: Link

trump updated his list ten days ago? Maybe trump knew something nobody else did.

 

[a_unique_person]

Have you checked out what's going on with Brexit lately?







With the rise of the internet and social media people have been searching for convenient new instead of real fact. Newspapers traditional role in Journalism has declined as the Newspaper business itself has declined and Right wing media has been aggressively presenting propaganda for 3 decades. This is just as big a problem in the UK as it is in the US so it's not the lack of a parliamentary system that is the issue.





What we are seeing is that Democracy requires both a free and responsible press that follows some standards of journalistic integrity. When this falls apart so does democracy.

I think it's more a matter of gaming the system has become a science.

 

[jimbob]

Meanwhile:

https://twitter.com/AnthonyTilghman/status/1307355994817736705?s=20

Trump Supporters came over to the early voting site to protest while people are in line to Vote in FairFax Virginia. #EarlyVoting

In the thread, there's footage of them trying to prevent people reaching the polling stations.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

Meanwhile:

https://twitter.com/AnthonyTilghman/status/1307355994817736705?s=20



In the thread, there's footage of them trying to prevent people reaching the polling stations.

... which is a serious crime.

 

[shemp]

... which is a serious crime.

If anyone enforces it.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Supporters of the president physically prevent people from voting.
What would you call it in another country?

 

[MRC_Hans]

Supporters of the president physically prevent people from voting.
What would you call it in another country?

It would not happen in a country with democracy.

Hans

 

[shemp]

Supporters of the president physically prevent people from voting.
What would you call it in another country?

In some countries, it's business as usual.

 

[Bob001]

In an extended riff, Colbert created fake Trump ads and presented them to a "focus group" of Trump supporters. The ads promoted, among other things, putting children to work in dangerous jobs because they can't get covid, and building human-size microwaves to kill the virus. The Trumpers ate it all up. Even if they had mild reservations, they were voting for Trump, and they never caught on to the gag.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trium...rump-supporters-proves-theyll-defend-anything

Part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-7W5BCIFdg

These people just can't be saved.

 

[Andy_Ross]

"It was the most beautiful thing, it's called law and order" Trump gloats at his rally about Ali Velshi getting hit by a rubber bullet in Minneapolis. Sick stuff.

A statement from MSNBC:
“Freedom of the press is a pillar of our democracy. When POTUS mocks a journalist for the injury he sustained while putting himself in harm’s way to inform the public, he endangers thousands of other journalists and undermines our freedoms.”

 

[shemp]

In an extended riff, Colbert created fake Trump ads and presented them to a "focus group" of Trump supporters. The ads promoted, among other things, putting children to work in dangerous jobs because they can't get covid, and building human-size microwaves to kill the virus. The Trumpers ate it all up. Even if they had mild reservations, they were voting for Trump, and they never caught on to the gag.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trium...rump-supporters-proves-theyll-defend-anything

Part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-7W5BCIFdg

These people just can't be saved.

Please tell me I don't live on the same planet as these people.

 

[Mumbles]

"It was the most beautiful thing, it's called law and order" Trump gloats at his rally about Ali Velshi getting hit by a rubber bullet in Minneapolis. Sick stuff.

A statement from MSNBC:
“Freedom of the press is a pillar of our democracy. When POTUS mocks a journalist for the injury he sustained while putting himself in harm’s way to inform the public, he endangers thousands of other journalists and undermines our freedoms.”

Ali Veshni is noticably brown-skinned.

As I've said many times now, when white supremacists like Dolt 45 say "law and order", what they mean is "straight white men should rule the US and everyone else, particularly black and indigenous people, along with LGBT people, should be kept as pariah castes via state violence and terrorism."

That's the "order" part, and it's why they also venerate murderers like George Zimmerman, Kyle Rittenhouse, the Proud Boys, and so forth, while describing black children as "thugs", and nonviolent groups like BLM and the DAPL protestors as "terrorists".

 

[RolandRat]

Meanwhile:

https://twitter.com/AnthonyTilghman/status/1307355994817736705?s=20



In the thread, there's footage of them trying to prevent people reaching the polling stations.

Shouldn't the police be there dispersing them with rubber bullets to the face and pepper spray? I thought that was how the US dealt with protests now.

 

[Delphic Oracle]

Shouldn't the police be there dispersing them with rubber bullets to the face and pepper spray? I thought that was how the US dealt with protests now.

These are not protestors, they are exuberant patriots.

The pepper spray and rubber bullets were only used on seditious thugs.