Tiedrich rant: Donald Trump is a menace to democracy. where the fuck is the media?

[FakeNoose]

Link: https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/donald-trump-is-a-menace-to-democracy

this isn’t some paranoid left-wing fantasy.

right now, Republicans are working to make this happen — and they’re not even bothering to keep it a secret. they’re bragging about it. they’ve published their plan. it has a name: the 2025 Project.

their scheme is to purge the entire government rank and file and replace them with Trump loyalists. that’s right, everybody — from the highest levels of the federal government all the way down to your local dogcatcher. and they’re not waiting until 2025 — they’ve already started recruiting foot-soldiers.

once everything is in place, we’ll stop having stupid little things like elections, or freedom, or democracy. read the whole thing. it will scare the living fuck out of you.

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Link to Claudia Long's writeup on THE 2025 PROJECT: https://claudialong.substack.com/p/american-fascism-coming-to-a-government

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I have all the confidence in the world in our Democratic Party leadership, and I do trust and believe in Joe Biden. I know he'll be re-elected next year. But I also know that there are a lot of skeevy, corrupt Repukes and Libertarian-types out there who will do ANYthing to see Biden lose. Why they support the idiot Donald Chump, I'll never understand.

Jeff Tiedrich asks a really important question: Where the fuck is the media? That's been my question ever since 2015. A lot of us here on DU are disgusted with the media's dereliction or outright failure.

[onecaliberal]

1. Where the fuck is law enforcement?

[pdxflyboy]

2. They're lining up -

With the Fucking Facists.

[TheRealNorth]

3. The MSM chases the outrages..

That TFG and the Republicans want them to chase.

[orthoclad]

4. He's right. The oligarchy owns it all, now.

The Supreme Court.
The House, thus Congress.
State legislatures.
Fossil companies.
Voter suppression.
Armed "lone wolf" minions.

The schools. They're conditioning children to get used to being supervised by armed authority, and busily banning books. Obeying the guy with the gun is good training for adult life.

The media. A commenter on Tiedrich's blog points out that about 10,000 journalists have been laid off. There are almost no independent media left in the US. The major outlets are all owned by a few corporations. The weeklies are gone. Most newspapers are gone. NPR broadcasts mostly thin treacle, as demonstrated by their 50-year anniversary remembrances, for comparison. The internet has been "commoditized", as outlined by Microsoft in its used-to-be-infamous Halloween memo. Newspapers, tv, twixxer, zuckbook all speak for the ruling class, and record our online activity. A few biscuits are allowed in to fool us into thinking that there is hope for discourse and journalism.

We are teetering on the thin edge of total fascism. It's almost here. What to do, what to do...

[MadameButterfly]

5. have you been listening to MSNBC?

They are constantly talking about the threat to Democracy.

Your points are well taken, we need more than a liberal network that is owned by Republicans but for now, the is some major media responding to this

[doc03]

6. Where is the media? It doesn't matter Trumplicans only watch the

networks that tell them what they want to hear. The best we can hope for is to get through to
some independents. We do the same I guess we watch MSNBC for the same reason they watch Faux.

[tanyev]

7. Yukking it up at a fancy steakhouse with Trump's campaign team.

SPOTTED IN MILWAUKEE — Team Trump wining and dining with a number of top reporters at a steakhouse called “Rare” — and passing out pudding snack packs (a swipe at RON DeSANTIS’ “pudding fingers” story) as well as debate bingo cards to troll the Florida governor. Squares included: “dismisses polls,” “wipes snot,” “red ears,” “Dee-Santis,” “Duh-Santis,” “flip flops on Social Security… again,” “woke” and “pudding mention.” See pictures here and here

Who was there: Reporters Dana Bash, Shane Goldmacher, Kristen Welker, Bob Costa, Fin Gomez, Dasha Burns, Rachel Scott, Rick Klein, Josh Dawsey, Rob Crilly, Mario Parker and David Chalian along with Chris LaCivita, Jason Miller and Steven Cheung. (We are assured that the reporters picked up their own tabs.) And across the restaurant, feet away: members of Team DeSantis.

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2023/08/23/your-one-stop-guide-to-the-first-gop-debate-00112399