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hah, very good Flav, I think

artappraiser — Sat, 09 Nov 2019 17:24:38 +0000

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hah, very good Flav, I think you totally get it. The situation needs someone who the fans find sympathetic to destroy his constant narrative of Trump the heero. So far he's always been able to brand the ones who point out that the emporer is wearing no clothes as enemies with agenda. It's got to be a sweet innocent believing fan he clearly outright hurts, right in front of everyone.

I'm waiting for the small boy

Flavius — Sat, 09 Nov 2019 14:09:55 +0000

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I'm waiting for the small boy to shout "Say it ain't so , Don"

And it's pure gold when the

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 22:49:21 +0000

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And it's pure gold when the freaky right can get MSM like the NY Times to push their ravings as if sane.

This was Bannon's MO in 2016. Bannon & the Mercer's provided info to Schweitzer who wrote Clinton Cash, who actually got the NYTimes to run with it.

I'd like to know the story of how they got the Times to publish that tabloid propaganda. https://t.co/dDWu5croEr
— DoubleM (@marymargrets) October 31, 2019

The last days' Deadspin

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 18:53:00 +0000

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The last days' Deadspin travesty reminds of other corporate/vulture capitalist pressure on the media world:

The Los Angeles Times, for example, was rescued from the ownership of Tribune Publishing Company (formerly Tronc) by billionaire Patrick Shoon-Shiong after Tronc, amid other problems, was caught stiffing its employees on raises while paying millions to executives for private flights. Last year, Tronc gutted the New York Daily News, cutting 50% of its staff.

Spanfeller and G/O Media ― the company that formed when a private equity firm bought Gizmodo Media Group and The Onion in April ― have worked to tear their company apart since their takeover. They oversaw sweeping layoffs immediately, even after Spanfeller said he didn’t foresee cuts; they ungraciously axed their news and opinion site, Splinter, in October, and told other G/O Media employees not to write about it; they watched Deadspin’s top editor, Megan Greenwell, walk out after demanding that she foist a “stick to sports” edict on her writers (she published a very good, very nonsports column about the state of the industry as she departed). You can read a good distillation of G/O Media’s hostile takeover by one of Deadspin’s departing employees, Laura Wagner, right here.

Live commentary after the

rmrd0000 — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 15:48:54 +0000

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Live commentary after the Nationals win on the a-hole in the WH

https://twitter.com/xmasape/status/1189770384645787648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1189770384645787648&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffpost.com%2Fentry%2Fnationals-fan-fbomb-trump_n_5dba7476e4b0bb1ea374a903

Edit to add:

A Washington Nationals fan is going viral after letting out some feelings about President Donald Trump on live TV after the team’s World Series victory over the Houston Astros on Wednesday night.

“I think this is huge for D.C.,” the unnamed fan said on Fox 5, the Washington Fox station. “D.C. needed this. We got some asshole in the fuckin’ White House.”

The reporter, Sue Palka, quickly turned away.

“Oh, no, no,” she said. “No, no, no.”

“Let’s gooooooo!” the fan yelled in the background:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nationals-fan-fbomb-trump_n_5dba7476e4b0bb1ea374a903

No one thought that Trump

rmrd0000 — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 13:16:40 +0000

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No one thought that Trump would be elected. The media gave each Trump appearance full coverage, while pounding Hillary. Comey yelled about the emails, damaging her chances.

Democrats bicker, but at the end of the day, it is still any Democrat rather than Trump. The fire that fed the midterms is still burning. As the impeachment proceedings go forward, people who stayed home in 2016 will come out in 2020. The upcoming Virginia elections will be another test case.

And yet, our media

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:55:00 +0000

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And yet, our media establishment refuses to take the depths of his unpopularity on board.

Several phenomena: 1) Sinclair, IHeartRadio (formerly Clear Channel) and of course Fox/News Corp have a lock on US media across the nation, aside from the big "MSM" names that are significantly marginalized in effect. 2) Facebook essentially acts like our print news of before - think of it as those free newspapers buy on steroids, displacing real newspapers and pumped full of junk from #1 and other party and partisan bodies (evangelicals and Russian/Saudi/other sources). 3) some like CNN's president got in bed with the devil to make a cool billion in profits off of feeding the Trumpernaut with its "controversy sells eyeballs", so definitively labeling lies and scandalous behaviour as such didn't come til much too late, as they'd already been labeled as "fake news" by people who once might have cared, 4) the rest of the media and Twitter sphere who do their best, and have scored victories, but they're working against some heavily entrenched monied interests.

There is a curious phenomenon of some/many normal media people not pinning Trump down at particular times when they have him dead to rights, and letting him control the spin and narrative - hard to explain.

Aside from the House, the GOP control the power structure of the country, including the packed judiciary and most legislatures. Trump doesn't have to be "popular" - he just has to serve the monied interests of that majority and they'll echo and support him. Nixon claimed a "silent majority", Bush claimed a "Mandate", Trump just bullshits his way throu, and the chattering classes support him beyond the resistance. Of course if Democrats could market worth a shit, we might be able to discuss popularity, but we're getting snowballed as they home their issues statements and we flounder and in-fight and wax philosophically while the other side wages war.