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Am struck by the spate of interviews the president is doing lately - aides seem to be trying to recreate the atmospherics around the 2016 campaign, when candidate Trump could do a hostile takeover of the media cycle and he had a constant stream of attention paid.— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 7, 2020
Anand Giridharadas |
“One of the fundamental questions to me is, what’s going to be our relationship to government, the idea of government after this? There’s a primordial American tradition going back to the founders of being freedom-obsessed, even though we’re a country founded on slavery and genocide, being freedom-obsessed to the point that we’re always so afraid of the government coming for us that we’re blind to other types of threats, whether it’s a virus, whether it’s bank malfeasance, climate change, what have you.
There’s also a more recent, kind of 40-year version of this, which is the Reagan war on government, government is the problem, right? That’s not just an idea on the right. There’s a hard version on the right, there’s a small-c ‘conservative’ kind of militant version of it, but it has also infected many people on the left in this passive sense, like ‘I believe in government,’ but ‘I would never go work there,’ or ‘I believe in government but, you know, I kind of like don’t like my taxes too high, or I use trusts in the Cayman Islands..."
And then there is the more recent Trump-era twist in this which is the war on government becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, you undermine government, you undermine it, you undermine it, you put someone who can barely read a sentence in government, in the figure of Donald Trump, and it becomes true that government sucks because you made it suck by telling everybody it sucks.
And I think the most important thing that could come out of this is realizing the government is not the biggest threat to our liberty. What government fundamentally does is protect us from a lot of those other oppressions that we in America are often quite blind to."Giridharadas then was unceremoniously slammed to the pavement on the Tweeter machine for his take and “utter contempt” of Americans. Here is but a sample:
OMG “obsession with freedoms”— VeronicaCorningstone (@andreaUSA7373) May 6, 2020
When will he be moving to Cuba?
Obviously this guy loves the sound of his own voice and thinks whatever he has to say is brilliant. 🙄— DeeRody (@Dee_Rody) May 6, 2020
Oh he does. He just has utter contempt for them akin to the contempt that Soviet apparatchiks has for us.— Rafael G. Nendel-Flores (@rnendelflores) May 6, 2020
Joseph Stalin approves of this message....— Rich Jones (@rjones138) May 6, 2020
In Relation to 2020, Our Media Are Quickly Becoming Modern Day Kamikazes |
"I totally disagree with this editorial. I don't want an investigation. I want a coronation of Joe Biden," Tolchin wrote according to the NYT. "I don't want justice, whatever that may be. I want a win, the removal of Donald Trump from office, and Mr. Biden is our best chance." ...
"Suppose an investigation reveals damaging information concerning his relationship with Tara Reade or something else, and Mr. Biden loses the nomination to Senator Bernie Sanders or someone else with a minimal chance of defeating Mr. Trump. Should we really risk the possibility?"Day after day in America, the leftist media continues to demonstrate out in the open, with no conscience what so ever, they're willingness to do anything including lie, cheat and open up the the electoral system possible massive voter fraud just to regain power and replace DJT with a Doddering Old Delaware Fool.
NB- In a transparent ploy to shift the focus from a doddering Joe Biden now beset with a serious allegation of sexual assault, Joe Scarborough did his best today to suggest that President Trump was not mentally "well," should "get checked out, take a rest," and "let Mike Pence run things." Scarborough first criticized President Trump for tweeting about Joe himself. After then rapping Trump for his comments on Presidents Obama and George W. Bush among other subjects, Scarborough launched into his concern-trolling spiel.
In his best faux, oh-so-serious, voice, Scarborough recited what seemed to be a canned statement:
Dear Leader Pleasure Squad Member #1839 |