The former president vowed to target communists and Marxists—ideological groups that he described as "radical left lunatics"—and "rout the fake news media until they become real."
"The real threat is not from the radical right. The real threat is from the radical left, and it's growing every day—every single day," Trump claimed. "The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave than the threat from within."
As I said yesterday, is that when right-wingers like Trump refer to the pro-corporate, neo-liberal bullshit of the Democratic Party as "radical left lunacy" or "communism" or "Marxism," I can only roll my eyes at their ignorance and stupidity. The Bankruptcy Bill was a gift to the credit card and insurance companies. The Democratic Party plays the "good cop" to the Republican Party's "bad cop" on the subject of labour unions. By which I mean that the Republican Party gets to try to destroy labour unions while the Democratic Party (which historically had some ties with labour) either says it wants to help unions when in opposition only to do nothing when in power, OR, it too actively attacks unions itself through the work of "rogue" Democrats or "bad apples." (Strangely, these "rogue" or "bad apple" Democrats never get primaried by the party leadership that claims to be so disappointed with them. In fact, the leadership often supports them!) The Democratic Party attacked the welfare state under Clinton, delivered corporate-rights/free trade deals, expanded the surveillance state and the prison industrial complex. It's just so completely divorced from reality to spew this drivel about Obama being a "Marxist" and Hillary Clinton being a "far-left lunatic."
Then there's Trump's talk about "fake news." I've spoken about this before. Trump is a grifter. He's a shameless liar. He's a hypocrite. For him to whine about other people lying is the height of delusional self-righteousness and self-pity. Do his attacks on the media make him an authoritian, aspiring fascist? Does calling the Press the "enemy of the people" make him a fascist? It certainly is ominous. It is worrisome. But let's be real here. The corporate media lies all the fucking time about very important things, all the time. It's lied about NATO vs. Ukraine. It lies about Israel. It lied about Medicare For All. It lied about Bernie Sanders. It lies about Venezuela. It lied HUGELY about Saddam Hussein having WMDs. And it lied about Trump. It lied, lied, lied, about "Russiagate." It fixated on the totally fake scandal of "Russiagate" non-stop for YEARS. In short: The corporate media engaged full-time in the production of "fake-news." So while it IS dangerous to have a politician like Trump screaming about "fake news" and how he's going to shut-down its purveyors, one way to avoid that might have been to stop producing "fake news" and, especially, "fake news" attacking Trump himself.
You fucking idiots in the corporate press brought this all down on your heads didn't you? How in the sweet name of fuck do you ever think you can ask Trump to play nice after attacking him non-stop for years with a stupid conspiracy theory that quickly showed itself built on lies?
And, to the extent that the news media promotes the inhuman corporate agenda, or omits reportage on the dire consequences of the corporate agenda, to the extent that it pretends that public health insurance is impossible, to the extent that it promotes the "Forever Wars," to the extent that confuses people by promoting lies and distortions, it IS the "enemy of the people."
Again, one way to avoid having these accusations to be so damaging would be to ensure that they couldn't be true. But the corporate media are a bunch of deranged, corrupted total assholes and so they find themselves where they are today.
Well, that was a productive use of my time.
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