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EarlG

(21,894 posts)
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 11:19 AM Sep 2020

Pic Of The Moment: Trump Supporters React To The News That He Hid The Truth About Coronavirus



This Republican Party Is Not Worth Saving


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Pic Of The Moment: Trump Supporters React To The News That He Hid The Truth About Coronavirus (Original Post) EarlG Sep 2020 OP
LOL Homicide. KILL ME NEXT. underpants Sep 2020 #1
FANTASTIC! 634-5789 Sep 2020 #2
GOP dirtbag vultures like Tom Cotton and Nikki Haley are circling the corpse of Trump vlyons Sep 2020 #3
Is this photo even real? grumpyduck Sep 2020 #4
Given the creator's track record EarlG Sep 2020 #6
. PunkinPi Sep 2020 #19
I laughed. demmiblue Sep 2020 #29
of course it's photoshopped... AZ8theist Sep 2020 #8
It's getting harder and harder to tell truth from fiction. raccoon Sep 2020 #35
This message was self-deleted by its author raccoon Sep 2020 #36
Who cares? It is The Truth. n/t Tommymac Sep 2020 #11
Oh, it's the truth, grumpyduck Sep 2020 #14
Oh, my. . Nobody said it was an actual pic. Clearly understood to be an accurate representation niyad Sep 2020 #17
Oh, totally accurate. grumpyduck Sep 2020 #21
That was my question. Is this real?? ananda Sep 2020 #24
Kick and recommend. bronxiteforever Sep 2020 #5
Oh shit. This is so true mountain grammy Sep 2020 #7
Art, meet life JDC Sep 2020 #9
Oh, come on -- not one single spelling error ? eppur_se_muova Sep 2020 #10
To be fair EarlG Sep 2020 #13
Okay, you got me. grumpyduck Sep 2020 #16
This Is a masterpiece n/t hibbing Sep 2020 #12
Perfect (except for obvious fotoshopping). I really liked "KEEP LYING TO US". NCjack Sep 2020 #42
Well done! bluewater Sep 2020 #15
The psychology of the death cultists in one image. Well done, EarlG! niyad Sep 2020 #18
EarlG, I don't know how you do it every single time renate Sep 2020 #20
2nd that! Duppers Sep 2020 #28
Yup, you got me this time. grumpyduck Sep 2020 #30
i tell ya, can't fix stupid onetexan Sep 2020 #22
Funny but fake left-of-center2012 Sep 2020 #23
Is worth 1000 words, EarlG Mersky Sep 2020 #25
Sadly this is true Dukkha Sep 2020 #26
More like this, showing what stupid assholes Cult45s are. ffr Sep 2020 #27
I love this paragraph: catbyte Sep 2020 #31
EarlG you've outdone yourself this time! FakeNoose Sep 2020 #32
Thank You Sir May We Have Another Blue Owl Sep 2020 #33
Own the Libs ... GeorgeGist Sep 2020 #34
Listening to c span this am questionseverything Sep 2020 #37
Perfect, EarlG! love_katz Sep 2020 #38
There aren't words for this. idziak4ever1234 Sep 2020 #39
Exactly.. So What we're DEAD. Cha Sep 2020 #40
Just the truth n/t malaise Sep 2020 #41
Fascism is also a feeling that Trumpists feel, needing a "perceived"strong man leader. ancianita Sep 2020 #43

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
3. GOP dirtbag vultures like Tom Cotton and Nikki Haley are circling the corpse of Trump
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 11:30 AM
Sep 2020

to rush in and claim his throne.

grumpyduck

(6,199 posts)
4. Is this photo even real?
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 11:38 AM
Sep 2020

Unless someone can prove otherwise, I'm going to think it was Photoshopped. Take a look at the "This is fine" sign up center. The cardboard is curved but the lettering is straight.

I totally believe some of its supporters would do this, but come on, don't expect me to buy something so obvious.

Response to AZ8theist (Reply #8)

grumpyduck

(6,199 posts)
14. Oh, it's the truth,
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 12:31 PM
Sep 2020

but there's enough bullshit propaganda put out by the other side already. I'd like to think we don't have to resort to that.

niyad

(112,445 posts)
17. Oh, my. . Nobody said it was an actual pic. Clearly understood to be an accurate representation
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 12:45 PM
Sep 2020

of the orange kool-ade drinkers mental processes.

EarlG

(21,894 posts)
13. To be fair
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 12:19 PM
Sep 2020

If I'd made the sign say "HOMACIDE," too many people would have thought the photo was real.

NCjack

(10,279 posts)
42. Perfect (except for obvious fotoshopping). I really liked "KEEP LYING TO US".
Fri Sep 11, 2020, 10:13 AM
Sep 2020

Little American Fascists, earning their membership cards.

Dukkha

(7,341 posts)
26. Sadly this is true
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 01:47 PM
Sep 2020

Seeing these comments echoed across social media. How can people be so stupid to blindly support one person above all common sense.

ffr

(22,649 posts)
27. More like this, showing what stupid assholes Cult45s are.
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 01:48 PM
Sep 2020

Turn them into the stupid laughingstock that they are.

catbyte

(34,175 posts)
31. I love this paragraph:
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 01:59 PM
Sep 2020
Reconstructing the GOP—or any center-right party that might one day replace it—will take a long time, and the process will be painful. The remaining opportunists in the GOP will try to avert any kind of reform by making a last-ditch lunge to the right to fill the vacuum left by Trump’s culture warring and race-baiting. In the short term, the party might become smaller and more extreme, even as it loses seats. So be it. The hardening of the GOP into a toxic conglomeration of hucksters, quislings, racists, theocrats, and cultists is already happening. The party gladly accepted support from white supremacists and the Russian secret services, and now welcomes QAnon kooks into its caucus. Conservatives must learn that the only way out of “the wilderness” is first to vanquish those who led them there.


I'm so impressed with The Atlantic that I bought a digital subscription. We have to keep real journalism alive.

ancianita

(35,816 posts)
43. Fascism is also a feeling that Trumpists feel, needing a "perceived"strong man leader.
Fri Sep 11, 2020, 11:16 AM
Sep 2020

Which Trump knows. He knows this has happened before. This is a cultural review of people's receptivity to fascist messaging.

And what moved them, in Knausgaard’s view, was not the Nazis’ promise to redistribute income, or Hitler’s analysis of world affairs, or even, initially, their hatred of the Jews. What moved them was, rather, the joyful feeling of togetherness and community, of being able to transcend not only the fragmented democracy of the Weimar period but politics altogether.

“In National Socialism,” writes Knausgaard, “philosophy and politics come together at a point outside the language, and beyond the rational, where all complexity ceases, though not all depth.” Riefenstahl’s film [Triumph of the Will]communicates the pleasure the people experienced—how “good” it felt to them—at having escaped the quotidian chaos of their shabby republic and their trivial private lives, at being liberated from the restrictions of rationality and deliberation, at being on the brink of achieving something large and lasting, deep and simple.



Beginning not long after the 2016 election with the historian Timothy Snyder’s bestseller Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (2017), soon followed by the philosopher Jason Stanley’s How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (2018), numerous scholars have sought to use historical analysis of the Weimar period to alert Americans to the early signs of fascistic rule. As the Trump presidency has dragged on, these urgent warnings have given way to a wide-ranging debate, including in these pages, about whether such historical analogies are warranted or appropriate.

Understood in relation to that debate, Malick’s and Knausgaard’s artistic treatments of Nazism may persuade us not of the inaccuracy or inappropriateness of such analogies, but of their utter and complete futility—at least insofar as it is claimed such comparisons can inoculate us against repetition. In their focus on the emotional pull of Nazism—its promise to liberate citizens from the frustrations and banalities of an alienated, lonely existence, to connect them with a mass of like-minded souls in “unconditional joy”—the works of Malick and Knausgaard expose us to aspects of how fascism works that it would be laughable to think could yield to academic analysis, no matter how accessibly arranged.

“Establish a private life,” warns Snyder. “Listen for dangerous words.” Do we really imagine it was advice such as this that interwar Germans lacked?


https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/08/14/the-unbearable-toward-an-antifascist-aesthetic/?fbclid=IwAR0JbfH134TAdSyZhKQgtp7vgFZgM8QFQ7jqwYMg_yt_YAopymHHNL4zIyo
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