I’m so done with the media and pundits discussing that the left is the crazy-radicals. Healthcare for all isn’t radical. Ending practices that destroy the environment isn’t being radical. Wanting to stop meaningless-unwindable wars isn’t radicalism. What is radical is using a term like “fake news,” which is a term that has a history that is connected to Nazi Germany. While people talk about the craziness of the left for wanting human beings to not have to die in the name of insurance companies, the United Nations is writing about the dangers of Donald Trump’s rhetoric.
David Kaye of the UN human rights council, and Edison Lanza, of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights released a joint statement saying that Trump’s rhetoric towards the media could be extremely harmful to journalists worldwide.
“These attacks run counter to the country’s obligations to respect press freedom and international human rights law.” Trump’s attacks on the media “are strategic, designed to undermine confidence in reporting and raise doubts about verifiable facts.” “We are especially concerned that these attacks increase the risk of journalists being targeted with violence.”
On July 29, Trump tweeted, “when the media-driven insane by their Trump Derangement Syndrome-reveals internal deliberations of our government, it truly puts the lives of many, not just journalists, at risk! Very unpatriotic!” I fucking hate this guy so much. While pretending to care about the lives of journalists, Trump says the media is the enemy of the people. For him to turnaround and say that, and people believe that, show’s how his world is a cult-numbing-hellhole.
Trump doesn’t care about actual journalism, or journalists. If he did, he wouldn’t sound like Joseph Goebbels. Trump doesn’t care about the fate of journalists in Mexico, they’re Mexicans, they’re just rapists and murderers. Trump wants lapdog-Fox News anchors like Sean Hannity. The sad and unfortunate truth is that his continued attack on a press, who does go after him more than past presidents, (they didn’t insult them on a routine basis, and sorry most journalists aren’t white-supremacists) is actually effective.
Trump’s rallies in Florida and Pennsylvania have seen a shit-ton of supporters prove that they are white-racist-followers of an authoritarian cult. CNN ran a segment in which correspondent Gary Tuchman had this interaction with a Trump/QAnon supporter:
Tuchman: How do you know that?
Trump supporter: Well, I’m just telling you, this is what is appears to be.
Tuchman: So you don’t have any proof of that?
Trump supporter: And you don’t have any proof it isn’t.
There hasn’t been any non-evidence yet.
As Splinter News points out; “it is deeply difficult to prove a negative.”
Tuchman: Is it possible you’re believing bogus information?
Trump supporter looking directly into the camera to address “Q”: Let’s see, Q, let’s see.
This interaction between a CNN-bot and a Trump-bot deserves a Hannah Arendt quote from ‘The Origins of Totalitarianism’:
“Before they seize power and establish a world according to their doctrines, totalitarian movements conjure up a lying world if consistency which is more adequate to the needs of the human mind than reality itself; in which, through sheer imagination, uprooted masses can feel at home and are spared the never-ending shocks which real life and real experiences deal to human beings and their expectations. The force possessed by totalitarian propaganda-before the movements have the power to drop iron curtains to prevent anyone’s disturbing, by the slightest reality, the gruesome quiet from the real world. The only signs which the real world still offers to the new stroke of ill luck makes more gullible-are, so to speak, its lacunae, the questions it does not care to discuss publicly, or the rumors it does not dare to contradict because they hit, although in an exaggerated and deformed way, some sore spot.” Pg. 353…..
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