Trump and GOP politicians are now actually developing policies for perceived problems dreamed up by right wing media.

[surfered]

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Which is scary since they operate just like the “shock jocks” of the 80s, having to come up with more and more outrageous things to keep their viewers’ angry and excited. To feed this hunger for Angertainment, they even resort to conspiracy theories created in the fever swamp of the internet. Here’s just a partial list:
Operation Jade Helm
DEI
Political Correctness
Woke (with an assist from Bill Maher)
Antifa
Obama born in Kenya
Death Panels in the Affordable Care Act
Benghazi
Seth Rich murder
The Deep State
Voter Fraud
QANon - pedophile ring in the pizza parlor
FBI agents agitating Jan 6 “demonstrators”
Political correctness
Climate change is a hoax
Immigrants eating people’s pets
Nigeria killing Christians
Flag burning
War on Christmas
Elementary school kids using litter boxes
Sex change operations performed at school.

Please add any more you can think of.

[NCDem47]

1. Republicans and RW media's whole public facing platform

Is the outrage industrial complex. One big feedback loop meant to anger voters, keep them in power and serve their real masters

[eppur_se_muova]

6. "Outrage Industrial Complex" is a phrase worth trademarking. It should replace "fair and balanced". nt

[NCDem47]

10. In fairness, I got this from Jeff Tiedrich

Man does he write the funniest (and TRUE) stuff.

[yellow dahlia]

12. Of course. He has a way with words.

[yellow dahlia]

11. Outrage industrial complex - indeed!

I'm stealing that phrase.

[LeftinOH]

2. anti-flag burning hysteria... as if such a thing is actually happening

on any discernible scale.

[surfered]

4. Thanks, forgot about that one

[Mordred]

3. War on Xmas & School Furry Litter Boxes!

[surfered]

5. Thanks for the reminder

[themaguffin]

7. It's what they always do, though it's not always policies, it's talk of policies because their main effort is

24/7 rage bait... keep the base ramped up to hate _insert fake outrage_.

[BeerBarrelPolka]

8. .

Earth is flat
We've never been to the moon
(Insert name here) is actually (insert name here) wearing a mask
Epstein isn't dead

[underpants]

9. Laura Loomer has made personnel decisions and has media credentials at the Pentagon now

Yeah. It’s that nuts.

I’ve said for a while that Trump and the Clustertrump follow their social media more than use it to spread their nonsense. Oddly, going back to the Dick&W era, David Frum famously once said “We thought Fox News worked for us, it turns out we work for Fox News”. He was fired from AEI the next day.