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Summary
Donald Trump is reshaping U.S. culture through a propaganda-driven strategy that rebrands symbols and controls narratives.
His actions include renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, issuing numerous executive orders, pressuring media outlets, and taking over cultural institutions like the Kennedy Center.
These moves, aimed at consolidating power and curbing dissent, mirror tactics used by authoritarian regimes, as the administration uses symbolism, legal challenges, and media manipulation to control public discourse.
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Manufacturing consent to do the worst things you can imagine
He and his policy’s need to be stopped
i’m seriously frustrated any democrats are approving any his nominees. we need to waste as much of the president’s time as we can. also there’s no reason to avoid a government shutdown this go around. it’s better to have a total freeze in all action than to continue down the rails to where he’s conducting this train
Those people are so complacent that they really think it’s just business as usual. But at this stage, not rocking the boat is collusion. The boat should be in smithereens at the bottom of the Marianas fucking Trench.
What’s preventing Musk from self-funding the Trump admin during a shutdown?
The DOGE kids will still get paid to keep fucking shit up while things are “shut down.”
As horrible as it is to admit, a shutdown could end up hurting our ability to respond to their attacks.
I fear it may be too late for anything less than a General Strike.
Absolutely agree, this is insane and cannot fathom why they’re rolling over
There’s a few possibilities, and as with all things in life no one explanation is the full explanation, and it’s a combination of all the explanations
- They are blinded by short term greed. Their position in congress lets them insider trade, and that hasn’t changed with Trump as the president. They’ll just go along with it so long as they get theirs (even though the right wing beast has already tried to assassinate Nancy Pelosi 3 times now, and will continue trying to kill her). This crowd is in a lot of ways the most dangerous group. There’s probably nothing we can do to dislodge them at all.
- They don’t actually understand how bad things are going to get. They lack the perspective to realize that Donald Trump actually factually is analogous to Hitler. I see Jon Stewart peddling this one. He says he’ll believe Donald Trump is analagous to Hitler when we get to Kristallnacht. There’s just one problem with that: Kristallnacht came 5 years after the crossing of the Rubicon of the Enabling Act in 1933. This type of mentality is waiting for it to be too late to do anything about it to do anything about it. This crowd is in a lot of ways the group we need to be talking to the most, trying to convince them “No yeah, it really is this bad. You have to act now while you still can”
- They think they’re doing everything they can. They’re so locked into a single way of doing things and behaving that they don’t recognize that they’re being ineffective, and their equivalence is not Charles de Gaulle, but rather Neville Chamberlain. They think how you combat fascism is you wait for fascism to tire itself out and then put it down for its nap and go back as if nothing ever happened. This crowd in a lot of ways is the most frustrating group. Every time we ask them to do more they dig their feet in and say we don’t know what they know, why don’t we trust them.
(4) They think that, because they’ve been playing the game so long, they have some kind of profound insight that is denied to the hoi polloi, but really, they’re just narrowly focused tacticians with no principles and no strategy, unless smugness is a strategy. And if things go in the way it increasingly looks like they will, when we’re at the barricades, the DNC will be on the sidelines attempting to tone-police us as we fight for our lives. All they were ever good at was playing good cop, and they weren’t even all that good at that.
And I agree that Jon Stewart has been consistently out of touch on this issue. If we are able to turn this mess around, the people doing the turning will have to be made of sterner stuff than that. Resistance is not going to be something that happens with the pinky finger extended. Only after things have returned to normal will people like Jon Stewart again be relevant.
This is a good post, but unless there’s a different clip you’re referring to, you’re misstating what Stewart said. He was talking about the right timing to use (what should be) powerful labels. The fact of the matter is most of the country is in category 2 right now. Using these labels now takes away their power later because people are not primed to take them seriously. Then, when we need to use them, the power is gone and everyone will tune out. He’s waiting for the moment when there’s enough of a shock from Trump’s actions that using a powerful label can wake people up.
Thank you for this. I reckon I misunderstood what he was saying
There’s nothing great about it. It’s just on a wider, faster, and more unstoppable scale.
Don’t assume anything political is unstoppable. All it takes is clear analysis, organization, and the will to do what’s necessary. Just because they’re giving us the bum’s rush doesn’t make anything inevitable.
This is only a “reshaping of culture” if you’re very privileged and haven’t been paying attention.
Trump didn’t reshape shit.
When shit sucks, people go against the status quo.
Blame the dem party insiders who fixed the last three primaries to shove status quo candidates no one wanted down our throats. Practically while shouting “our else” in our faces the whole time. It worked once… When Trump was the incumbent so even Biden wasn’t the “status quo” candidate then trump was and he lost despite going against someone who couldn’t win a primary for 40 years
Then they honestly couldn’t figure out why they were losing the youth vote
Stop giving fascists credit for things the only other option keep fucking up.
The problem isn’t trump is some massive political force, it’s that people don’t have an option they actually want.
We haven’t run a good candidate for decades, neither party wants the election to be about how great their candidate is, just how shitty the other party is.
I get while Republicans do it, but the only explanation for Dems to do it is they’re playing for donations not votes, I just can’t believe they can blow thru a billion plus every four years and can’t do any better than this shit
Dems run national elections like a stepdad play Shoots and Ladders and desperately wanting the kids to like him, winning just isn’t even on the list of priorities.
That’s a very one-sided take. It leaves out one of the most important factors, the media and their role in censoring and magnifying news to fit the political identities of their consumers. Had they been accurately reporting on Trump’s actions and results first-term, no human being in their right minds would have elected him a second time.
It leaves out one of the most important factors, the media and their role in censoring and magnifying news to fit the political identities of their consumers. Had they been accurately reporting on Trump’s actions and results first-term, no human being in their right minds would have elected him a second time.
You realize the first ones to boost trump was Hillary and the DNC…
Right?
Like I shouldn’t assume people lived thru it, it was 9 years ago, you might not have been paying attention to politics then.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/hillary-clinton-2016-donald-trump-214428/
https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-clinton-donald-trump-phone-call-report-2015-8?op=1
They knew people didn’t like Hillary and that nothing would change that.
So they found the worst person possible and talked him into running to make Hillary be the best choice. And still fucked it up.
Hillary is about the only thing you are right in. Who runs a candidate who has been so publicly cuckolded (cuckqueaned to be precise) to such a position of authority? Clinton was literally ran out of the office because of it (of course, history proved it only matters for one party).
Yet, even your last statement is wrong and conspiratorial. They ran Hillary because they considered Trump to be a joke candidate. And in that election, it actually made sense that Trump won because disillusionment with the system pushed people to vote for joke candidates. You are trying to suggest “dem party insiders” “found the worst person possible and talked him into running”.
But big money was trying to push corrupt influence into the US government long before through movements like the Tea Party that preceded MAGA. You aren’t completely wrong, the US should have switched to a representative democracy instead of winner takes all if it wanted reforms long ago. Even in the now propaganda laden Germany its nature as a representative democracy is still helping to prevent the fascists from taking over again. It’s not invincible, but it helps add choice and resistance against fascist tendencies.
I am with you. I am still the same open-minded, left wing, caring person I was in 2016…Trump has reshaped me. If anything he made me realize my shape is very important. And I plan on keeping my shape.
