Parker Molloy cleverly calls her take-down of the disgraceful coverage of Trump's McDonald's stunt, "'You Want Lies With That?'" News Media Struggle to Cover Trump's Potemkin McDonald's Photo Op."

Blinxeto

Greengordon

How would the corporate media react to a Trump win?

"The top execs would be unlikely to resist for long based solely on principle. Corporations’ mission is to make money, and you don’t make money if the government shuts you down.

"We’re already seeing media behavior that could be interpreted as “anticipatory obedience” in case Trump wins."

NeadReport

@wdlindsy Won't be long before the MAGA Kool-Aid drinkers will be flying flags that say, "McFascist! I'm Lovin' It"
Why are companies like McDonald's even allowing this? Sad.

LisaH

@wdlindsy NYT would never use as critical a phrase as "involuntary gatherings."

They would call them "kinship clusters"

And local TV news each morning is even worse. The praise that flowed this morning on both CBS and NBC was shocking 🤮

No acknowledgement that the location was closed, he was incapable of lifting the fry basket, it lasted 15 min and the whole thing was a cosplay media stunt. None.

If he wins, I won't cry when they're all out of jobs

Global Repercussions

@wdlindsy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/20/trump-mcdonalds-minimum-wage/

The restaurant was closed to the public during Trump’s visit, and the motorists whom Trump served were screened by the U.S. Secret Service and positioned before his arrival. No one ordered food. Instead, the attendees received whatever Trump gave them.

Trump was at the fry station for about five minutes and spent about 15 minutes at the drive-through window, much of it taking questions from reporters.

Complete Conservative ClusterSchmuck

M.A.G.A.

Mostly
About
Grifting
Authoritarians

"Draining the swamp, to put in a cesspit."

People are saying.

#maga #trump #gop #republicans #election2024 #project2025 #democrats #KamalaHarris #kamalaharris2024

Brian Moore

@wdlindsy I hear it wasn't actually even open when he was there. so those customers he gave food to were pretend.

William Lindsey :toad:

"America’s mainstream media is by now comfortable talking and writing about Trump’s authoritarianism. But in describing what Trump is seeking to impose on America, the media should be using the term 'fascism.'”

~ Robert Reich

#Trump #media #fascism
/7

https://www.alternet.org/trumps-fascism/

William Lindsey :toad:

"In a poll released on October 16, researchers at Marquette Law School found that, if presented with an unsympathetically worded question about whether immigrants without documentation should be deported, a full 58 percent of U.S. respondents are in favor of mass deportation."

~ Henry Giroux

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #violence #immigrants
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Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Fearmongering Exposes Extent of Fascism’s Rise in 2024

A new poll offers an alarming wake-up call about how normalized violence has become in this era of gangster capitalism.

Truthout (truthout.org)

William Lindsey :toad:

"At this time in history, as the menacing cloud of fascism threatens to descend upon much of the world, it is crucial to understand that the normalization of violence and the rise of fascism in the age of gangster capitalism are deeply intertwined. As violence becomes the defining feature of political life, democratic institutions are eroded, and the space for critical inquiry shrinks."

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #violence #immigrants
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Tom Bellin :picardfacepalm:

@wdlindsy that poll shows a 10 point drop on that question (from 68 to 58) since February. Suggestive that Trump's demonization of immigrants is backfiring.

Considering how systemically biased towards rule-following American public opinion is, imo that small majority is not a good sign for Trump and the republican party.

Truth Or Consequences ✅

@wdlindsy

Italians and the Irish were targets of anti-Immigrant fervor at one time - just saying.

The Irish were the first targets of deportation policy in the US

In the 1840s, destitute Irish-Americans were seen as foreign and often sent back to Europe

The Irish Times (www.irishtimes.com)

Under Attack | Italian | Immigration and Relocation in U.S. History | Classroom Materials at the Library of Congress | Library of Congress

"Where the Blame Lies" Labor struggles were not the only conflicts Italian immigrants faced. During the years of the great Italian immigration, they also had to confront a wave of virulent prejudice and nativist hostility.

The Library of Congress (www.loc.gov)

WallOffTrump

@wdlindsy
Did you ever play Monopoly with your friends as a kid? Remember that last section of the game that seemed to last forever...when one guy was winning and the rest of us had to trudge endlessly around the board getting every last dollar squeezed out?
Thats the stage of capitalism we're at now.

ShadSterling

@wdlindsy if the McDonald’s was closed and the campaign didn’t pay to use that location, then McDonalds made a pretty big donation to the campaign. What are the limits on campaign donations again? Was that illegal?

William Lindsey :toad:

@ShadSterling Good questions. I don't know the answer to them, but thank you for raising them.

William Lindsey :toad:

@davidarnell My brothers and cousins and I did play endless games of Monopoly and loved it. We so easily accessed our ruthless, scheming capitalist ids and delighted in gaining ownership and control of each other, of the weaklings. And I wonder what the point of that game was: to inure us to the damage capitalism does? To teach us to be good little capitalists? Or to teach us how heinous the system is?

William Lindsey :toad:

@Savvyhomestead Yes, as I well know from hearing my half-Irish grandmother and her brothers talking about the experience of their mother, grandparents, and aunt and uncle as Irish immigrants to America in the 1850s.

William Lindsey :toad:

@tob I see the words "a full 58 percent of U.S. respondents are in favor of mass deportation" and stop there, in total horror and shame.

William Lindsey :toad:

@bmoore123 Yes, and interestingly enough, the soft-sell media reports didn't even mention that fact in most cases.

William Lindsey :toad:

@Global_Repercussions Thank you. You're exactly right.

William Lindsey :toad:

@3x10to8mps Smiling — grimly. Yes, they'd get even more cutely euphemistic, wouldn't they? How low many of us have decided to let ourselves slip, pretending that this cheap stunt by a master conman meant something meaningful. Shame on CBS and NBC and their ilk.