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."

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.

William Lindsey :toad:

@NeadReport Touché. I think companies allow this kind of thing because, on the whole, economic elites stand solidly behind Trump and Vance and want them in office. There are tax cuts to be considered, after all, and protections from government supervision and "interference."

William Lindsey :toad:

@Greengordon Yes, I agree. Good analysis.

William Lindsey :toad:

@Blinxeto For sure.

William Lindsey :toad:

@JonChevreau A clever hashtag. I like it!

William Lindsey :toad:

@mickymorse Yes, that's how I see it, too.

William Lindsey :toad:

@billseitz We wouldn't have known any of that from many media reports, would we?

William Lindsey :toad:

@markmetz Sadly, that's not beyond the realm of possibility, is it, that debasement of language by the complicit media?

William Lindsey :toad:

@JBShakerman @NYTimes Yes, you're right.