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kentuck

(111,110 posts)
Thu Aug 18, 2022, 08:30 AM Aug 2022

Don't people ever get tired of the bullsh*t ?

Trump, Pence, McCarthy, McConnell, Bannon, Stone, Hannity, Tucker, FOXNews, Rudy, Mar-a-Lago, De Santis, lies, propaganda, espionage, treason, Republican hypocrisy in general?

They keep going, and going, and going, and going.....

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Claustrum

(4,846 posts)
1. They don't care about hypocrisy.
Thu Aug 18, 2022, 08:34 AM
Aug 2022

It's all about winning for their side. They ignore any bad news for their side and then gin up any BS stories about ours.

There is a bit of partisan lean on our side too but we are very much ready to throw someone off a bus if they did bad things. Some are legit and some not (like Al Franken for not legit and Cuomo and others for legit). You wouldn't see that on the republican side.

 

Alexander Of Assyria

(7,839 posts)
2. The corporate media appears enraptured by the chaos and division and hypocrisy.
Thu Aug 18, 2022, 08:35 AM
Aug 2022

Are these things that profitable that democracy and human decency can be cast aside, to flirt with fascism instead?

Seems that way.

gab13by13

(21,405 posts)
3. The corporate MSM, owned and managed by domestic oligarchs,
Thu Aug 18, 2022, 08:38 AM
Aug 2022

is complicit in the chaos, division, and hypocrisy. If it was about money, MSNBC would never have fired Keith Olbermann and Dylan Ratigan.

 

Alexander Of Assyria

(7,839 posts)
4. Is there any other conclusion than the oligarch media is embracing the fascism?
Thu Aug 18, 2022, 08:40 AM
Aug 2022

Maybe one day the CEOs will also have a reckoning.

CrispyQ

(36,518 posts)
8. It is that way. Profit above all else.
Thu Aug 18, 2022, 09:56 AM
Aug 2022

It's laughable when people say this is a Christian nation when it's obvious that mammon is our first god.

Botany

(70,582 posts)
5. "Don't people ever get tired of the bullsh*t."
Thu Aug 18, 2022, 08:49 AM
Aug 2022

In a word no. To at least 30% of Americans those people, organizations, and memes you listed
scratches their racist itches, anti education thoughts, and cruelty and by God it feels good to them
to have that itch scratched.

June 2020 Brandenburg, KY card carrying dumb asses protecting a Confederate war monument from
a couple of barges with ANTIFA/BLM people coming down the Ohio River from Cincinnati to attack the
CSA statue. BTW the attack never happened.


CrispyQ

(36,518 posts)
10. Was JFK Jr. supposed to show up, too?
Thu Aug 18, 2022, 10:06 AM
Aug 2022


It's hard when someone you've known & respected for years is a trumper.

Xavier Breath

(3,650 posts)
13. Sadly, if you asked them, to a person
Thu Aug 18, 2022, 10:52 AM
Aug 2022

they would insist that it was their vigilance in guarding the monument that thwarted the attack by barge-riding BLM, ANTIFA caravans, taco trucks or whatever fucking boogeymen they see in their waking life.

Botany

(70,582 posts)
14. I remember seeing one of them being interviewed and he said something like:
Thu Aug 18, 2022, 11:05 AM
Aug 2022

"They don't cover the good side about what the confederates were fighting for."

They live in their own make believe world that is reinforced by social media, hate talk
radio & TV, generational stupidity, lack of education, and "pastors" who tells 'em that
Jesus will love 'em more if they are mean to gay people.

Scrivener7

(51,013 posts)
7. I think the quote that came out yesterday explains it all. To paraphrase: "It doesn't matter
Thu Aug 18, 2022, 09:04 AM
Aug 2022

if you don't believe the election was stolen. All that matters is that you SAY you believe it."

They are built on the lies. They need the lies and they will never stop with the lies. Their very existence depends on the lies.

Mister Ed

(5,944 posts)
12. They have to keep amping up the bullshit so people won't tire of it.
Thu Aug 18, 2022, 10:32 AM
Aug 2022

It's designed to be addictive. The Deplorables need stronger and stronger doses of it to stay excited.

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