They are not wrong
Trump is a completely compromised fucking joke
Compromised, and sitting on a significant stockpile of nuclear weapons. He’s also highly suggestible, inconsistent and easily provoked.
Combined with the amount of power ceded to the US executive branch since Reagan means that dumpy diaper’s whims can cause significant harm before either of the other two branches can even be bothered to start thinking about stopping it.
In the end, missiles travel faster than judges, let alone congress.
Missiles will launch and two weeks later when congress is back from their break they’ll write a letter asking him to stop.
the only thing is that turmp is practically owned by putin, so I don’t know how that changes things.
To be fair, he’s not owned entirely by putin. He’s the live grenade that Russia, Israel, and Saudi Arabia are fighting for control over
Don’t forget the Silicone Valley tech-bros.
Trump is owned by whoever flattered/bribed him the most recently.
tech ho-bros, my dude
The dumbest game of hot potato
If Trump was Putin’s puppet, he wouldn’t TACO out of his disputes with Europe. Greenland wouldn’t be in Danish hands. Hell, Putin’s puppet might even want to join the war in Ukraine on Russia’s side.
The only person Trump cares about is Trump. The best Putin can hope for is that Trump destroys a bunch of shit indiscriminately, which he is doing quite well. Some of the destroyed shit could be Russian assets, which Russia will have to endure.
No one said he was a good puppet.
He listens to what Putin tells him to do, mishears most of it, misunderstands most of what’s left, and in five minutes has forgotten most of what was left after that, and tries to turn whatever remains into a scam that’ll benefit him.
But, inasmuch as he is able to want to do something that doesn’t directly and immediately benefit him personally, he tries to be a good puppet, at least when he remembers the blackmail material the ex-KGB bastard has on him.
He’s just bad at it, as he is at everything else except at avoiding paying his bills.
Compromised by the same Imperialist oligarchs that have always controlled the US? I wouldn’t call it “compromised”. I’d call it America as usual with some extra crazy on top.
The depth, breadth, reach,and totality is far beyond anything in the past. Screens weren’t nearly pervasive. People still interacted with their social groups, they went to church, they volunteered, they read, they received news that was just that and nothing more. Facts, not editorial
Are you talking about how the news was perceived as “fact based” in the past? If so, I agree it was definitely much more accepted that way. But, I wouldn’t say it actually was.
The Internet has largely made the ability of the media, to form a universal narrative about the acts of US imperialism, much more difficult. That is why the media landscape has had to largely shift from a form of direct propaganda (forming a universal narrative for the majority of the population to believe) to a form of multiple sets of propaganda. The media today is not really lying any less than it did in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, etc. It just has to lie with multiple narratives. It’s less about forming a unifying narrative than it is about making it feel like “the truth” is unattainable.
The “post truth world” is not implying that we once lived in a world of truth and facts. It’s describing the shift in how people feel about the world. They use to feel comfortable in believing “the truth” about Communism. Or “the truth” about how “they hate us for our freedoms” (when we suffered the consequences of blowback on 9/11).
The media has largely gone from manufacturing consent through forming “the truth” of a single narrative to, instead, manufacturing consent through confusion. The Genocide of Palestine was “complicated” and “Israel denies”.
It’s why our world is filled with doomerism and apathy. We are no longer kept passive by a comforting lie that made us feel good. We are now kept passive in an uncomfortable feeling of powerlessness as we witness the crimes of our country live in 4k.
The only “comfort” we feel is that maybe things can “go back” to how they use to be. When, in reality, they were never that way to begin with. And, well, that’s the hardest thing these days to get people to understand. They want to believe it’s “the digital age” that caused it. They want to believe that Trump is a special evil and that once he’s gone we won’t be so awful.
Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, Palestine. These are not new forms of evil that the American empire is engaging in. Trump is only putting his own (very unapologetic) style onto crimes the US has been engaging in for a long time.
Well said
Well, yeah, Putin is a psychopath, but he is smart, and can be expected to behave in a relatively predictable manner. Trump is just a poop-flinging ape.
Hey, show some respect. That poop-flinging ape generates a lot of content for the algorithm.
This American agrees with them. Can China please start being as “evil” as our media makes them out to be. We could really use some of those paid protesters and Chinese agents right about now. I’d really appreciate to be paid for what I’m already doing. My rent is do. Please Xi!
Wow, kudos to Spain to understanding this. It’s hard to rank order between Putin and Trump, considering Putin is clearly pulling the strings.
I think it’s a universal sentiment but the Spaniards own the biggest balls.
Thing is, we got here because of the people pushing right wing nationalist attitudes. Russia is a big exporter of that kind of info via troll farms. China is probably second. While the US has been a growing shitshow for a while and it didn’t take too much effort, there was (and is) a ton of Russian interference deliberately destabilizing the West. The USIC and media have reported on it repeatedly, this isn’t some conspiracy. Everything from the initial Mueller investigation to the killing of Kirk has revealed outside influence pushing the US towards far right extremes via various media.
So yeah, trump is a big threat, but the countries that helped put him in place are every bit as dangerous. Putin is doing everything he can to break up NATO via distrust of the US, wrecking the US economy by pulling money into wars in Ukraine and Iran, and Putin’s pulling that shitheel fool trump deeper into strangling the world economy via oil costs which will further wreck the US economy by turning economic and political allies against us. Trump is such a sucker he’s being played like a two year old with an oreo cookie waved in front of him. Worse, trump and or his cronies think they’re clever by timing stock bets and making millions of their fuckery.
So do I, an American
I agree with them… maybe throw israel in there, too, since they have so many of our weapons.
🎵 And so say all of us
