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drbilldean@gmail.com's avatar

MSM(mainstream media) Missing the Nazi(Authoritarian) Playbook

It’s business as usual at MSM Just regurgitate to its audience what Cheeto said, what federal legislators said, recount the Gaza genocide and call it good The network getting close to calling the Nazi regime out for what it’s doing is MSNBC but even that network misses the point

Bernie Sanders and AOC called it the Oligarchy Protest Tour but the undercurrent of that tour is that the authoritarian takeover of the government is led by Cheeto BUT CHEETO IS ONLY THE TIP OF THE AUTHORITARIAN ICEBERG THE AMERICAN OLIGARCHY IS THE ICEBERG ITSELF And MSM and nonMSM eg Substack needs to use this in the context of news coverage

This is why there is such catering by the Nazis to give enormous financial favors to the top 5% of the electorate The Nazis have decided that the American people in this democracy don’t count and that the wealthy need to control the country Cheeto in his narcissistic way sees that he is the WAY and that his supporting oligarchy will

We see what has happened in the Authoritarian Deep South and how the voters have been disenfranchised so that the wealthy and well placed White Southerners have controlled the political narrative It seems like the Nazis are taking this Southern model nationwide by disenfranchising voters nationally

The key then is how do we the electorate respond to this oligarchic authoritarian takeover That’s for another time but it seems like Indivisible has its finger on the authoritarian pulse One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism is worthwhile looking at

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Marie's avatar

I appreciate your integrity and courage. You both are brave to bring this issue to us. Good luck! I support you to the deepest darkest corners. Rhetorical or literal, the cuts are real. I feel them. I will go down for my decent fellow humans. This is all our battles against horrific people who pretend they have some righteous cause. I am shocked that we live among so many criminals. I really don’t have to cross the street to wipe the sweat off of Kavanugh’s or uncle Thomas’s back. They really could die in a heat wave. Like Maude says - God will get you for that! iSmile.

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Marie's avatar

I love your work and the voices you bring to us. You help me remember that there are sane people in our world. Thank you.

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Judith Logue, Ph.D.'s avatar

There is every reason to believe that Trump will maintain his M.O. and pardon Ghislaine Maxwell.

He just mentioned Virginia Giuffre as his worker "stolen" by Epstein the sleaze to slyly suggest that had she stayed with Trump she would be alive. So it should not take long for him to pardon Maxwell, and make this tabloid story go away, so Trump will be unaccountable again.

Then we can expect a new situation to keep the media and all of us distracted so he can maintain autocracy, theocracy, kakistocracy, and get richer by the hour. Amazing how we are all paying with taxes to renovate the Air Force One Qatar gift for his use after his term is up. Will that be in at the end of 2027? Since President Trump thinks he's the Messiah, and that he can buy and fix elections, too, maybe he expects to win in 2028.

Sure hope we and the Universe provide a way for him to fade away. I'm not sure J.D. and the Trump allies have the ability to brainwash and maintain a cult, or beat Democrats, though they are so far quite competent when it comes to sociopathy and psychopathy.

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Randolyn's avatar

To quote Sarah Palin, “You betcha!”

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Dianna Sampson's avatar

You know he is gonna do it!!!!

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