Get your barf bag ready and then go to Whitehouse.gov to see a video tribute to the cult leader far beyond hagiography. I wonder who his Riefenstahl is.
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Fear of being discriminated against is way up but not just where that fear is well-founded: among people of color. Now white people think they're being discriminated against. 4/
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This is truly frightening: More than half of young people, aged 18-34, believe in "hostile activism," including attacking people online, spreading disinformation, and violence. 3/
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Bad news or news: 70% of people think journalists lie to them. Three-quarters of people with high grievance say that news organizations “would rather attract a big audience than tell people what they need to know.” 2/
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I dig out the frightening bits--that's all there are--from Edelman's Trust Barometer. It's all about grievances: Festivus for all of us. Nobody trusts or believes anybody, which says to me that right-wing campaigns of fear work. 1/
https://medium.com/whither-news/the-whole-world-is-whining-5f686b1f335a
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Cancel all doubt. Walter Isaacson is pure Musk apologist. On Morning Joe, he said to Heilemann:
"Obviously he did not intend it to be a Nazi salute any more than I don't think, say, Donald Trump intended not to put his hand on the Bible....I'm sure he didn't intend it to be a Nazi salute."
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German papers slightly better than American papers. With Google Translate:
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The phrase I didn't want to hear: "Donny Deutsch is back with us." His next hot take:
"I don't know if we can get civility back because of this thing," he says, picking up his phone.
Oh, Jeezus, it's fascism not phones we should be worried about.
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The Guardian does it better, btw using the ADL's own definition of the salute against the ADL's shameful, self-hating-Jew excuses for Musk.
Elon Musk appears to make back-to-back fascist salutes at inauguration rally
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/20/trump-elon-musk-salute
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The hot take we did not need this morning. Donny Deutsch's: "It was a marketing tour de force....He understands where business, entertainment, pop culture, news come together." Then Joe quotes George Will quoting the Hoover Institution and says it's just pro wrestling.
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And here is the #BrokenTimes' naziwashing. Why are they so afraid?
Elon Musk Ignites Online Speculation Over the Meaning of a Hand Gesture https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/us/politics/elon-musk-hand-gesture-speech.html?smid=tw-share
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No, no. no. Not again.
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The #BrokenPost does not show the rest in his "exuberant speech at inauguration." It naziwashes Musk. It is not a newspaper anymore. It is a propaganda organ for the worst people.
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Axel Springer's Bild--cousin of Politico--has added AI to its home page. I asked whether Donald Trump is a Nazi, figuring they might know. The AI started to answer and then stopped. This through Google Translate:
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In the 19th century, newspapers indeed hired stenographers to record and publish speeches. Then they hired reporters to report. That was the birth of journalism. This is its death. #BrokenTimes.
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It's not a goddamned fashion show, #BrokenPost. It's fascism. And, yes, the SS, too, looked resplendant in Hugo Boss black.
The most memorable looks at Trump’s second inauguration https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/fashion/2025/01/20/trump-inauguration-fashion-outfits-looks/
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Franklin Graham is disgusting.
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Now I understand Melania's choice of headwear: The brim is so side, it kept his lips from touching her cheek.
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Thank goodness for @guardian. What to the #BrokenTimes is a "show of strength" is to The Guardian "vengeful."
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Pure grift.
Melania Trump launches meme coin as crypto rallies on Donald’s return
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/20/donald-trump-meme-coin-price-melania-token
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