You captured it. I’ve been commenting on the culpability of right-wing media’s role in the election, and you are the first person I’ve come across to be of the same mind. The legacy media is mentioned a lot, and they had a role to play, but a third of the country was bombarded by Fox and other right-wing media for nine years of lies.
The insanity is well underway reflected in Trump’s bizarre picks for his new administration. A Trump noodle head for UN ambassador, a thuggy ex-cop for border czar, the return of white supremacist and Goebbels wannabe Stephen Miller for deputy CoS for policy (read: Schweinehund SS Kommandant for deportations!) etc etc.
I hope that this description of the future United States is overblown (although I realize it may not be). I confess that the idea of Kash Patel running the FBI or CIA sends chills down my spine.
Perhaps one saving grace is that Trump is an idiot with the attention span of a child. He is not going to appoint competent people to carry out his stated plans.
There is something that I've been thinking about.
As you know, the United States does not collect data on US citizens without a warrant unless they are in contact with a foreign target (think of Trump's calls from Mar-a-lago to Putin). What constrains this is Presidential Order 12333. As a presidential order this can be canceled with the stroke of a pen and the massive collection apparatus of the US government can be turned on US citizens.
Jim- yes, it is going to be terrible, beyond the imagination of those who unlike us do not have close up experience with dictators and their regimes. We need a constructive path forward to restore our democracy. Ralph
Based on my reading of history, we will suffer calamity first, perhaps even national collapse, The turnaround, if it comes, will be many years from now. People like us won't live to see it.
You captured it. I’ve been commenting on the culpability of right-wing media’s role in the election, and you are the first person I’ve come across to be of the same mind. The legacy media is mentioned a lot, and they had a role to play, but a third of the country was bombarded by Fox and other right-wing media for nine years of lies.
The insanity is well underway reflected in Trump’s bizarre picks for his new administration. A Trump noodle head for UN ambassador, a thuggy ex-cop for border czar, the return of white supremacist and Goebbels wannabe Stephen Miller for deputy CoS for policy (read: Schweinehund SS Kommandant for deportations!) etc etc.
I hope that this description of the future United States is overblown (although I realize it may not be). I confess that the idea of Kash Patel running the FBI or CIA sends chills down my spine.
Perhaps one saving grace is that Trump is an idiot with the attention span of a child. He is not going to appoint competent people to carry out his stated plans.
There is something that I've been thinking about.
As you know, the United States does not collect data on US citizens without a warrant unless they are in contact with a foreign target (think of Trump's calls from Mar-a-lago to Putin). What constrains this is Presidential Order 12333. As a presidential order this can be canceled with the stroke of a pen and the massive collection apparatus of the US government can be turned on US citizens.
Jim- yes, it is going to be terrible, beyond the imagination of those who unlike us do not have close up experience with dictators and their regimes. We need a constructive path forward to restore our democracy. Ralph
Based on my reading of history, we will suffer calamity first, perhaps even national collapse, The turnaround, if it comes, will be many years from now. People like us won't live to see it.
I do, and can tell there's no constructive path forward. Look at Russia.
So it's less the price of eggs & fuel, and more "f*** off, we're full!" that decided the election, I'm guessing?