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Words about Jimmy Kimmel, Trump’s ear and the Iraq War
What do they have in common? Distortions, fakery and naked, explosive lies. Naked, in the sense that we all can see them but somehow they continue to be repeated as fact. I didn’t hear what Jimmy Kimmel said, but I … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Corruption, Culture, Government, Guns in the U.S. of A., How I Learned The Facts of Life, Journalism, MAGA, News media, political campaigns, Politics, Propaganda, The Facts of Life, Trumpism, War
Tagged "All The President's Men", "Shock and Awe", Charlie Kirk, Colin Powell, Daily News, Dick Cheney, Disney, Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, Iraq War, Jimmy Kimmel, Knight-Ridder, MAGA, New York Times, Rob Reiner, Saddam Hussein, Trump "assassination" attempt, Tyler Robinson, Washington Post, Watergate, weapons of mass destruction
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Have the news media been corrupted and diminished?
It’s a crucial move for aspiring despots. They can fill the street with troops and terrify vulnerable people, but in order to dominate and control facts, news, thoughts and opinions, i.e., reality, they must shut down the rambunctious Fourth Estate. … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, Culture, Fascism, Government, How I Learned The Facts of Life, Immigration, Journalism, Lawyers, News media, police violence, Propaganda, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged "Is he dead yet?", BlueSky, Daily News, ICE, Immodium, New York Times, Pepto Bismol, ProPublica, reading newspapers, The New Yorker, totalitarianism, Trump
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What happened when I put “total” back in “totalitarianism”
Feeling a bit foolish. When I came to the section on totalitarianism in my world history tome, I had to smack myself on the head. I’d never actually considered that the primary word in totalitarianism was “total.” Right now we’re … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Fascism, Government, Journalism, MAGA, News media, Propaganda, Racism, The Facts of Life, Trumpism, voting and voting rights
Tagged A History of the Modern World, authoritarianism, BlueSky, CDC, constitutional government, democratic republic, Donald Trump, fascism, Fox News, Jamelle Bouie, Jewish science, Kennedy Center, National Guardsman, National Institutes of Health, Nazi science, New York Post, simulacra, Smithsonian, totalitarianism, Trump's face banners
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