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In reply to the discussion: Take some steps back and see the whole picture. Why is the nation in turmoil over one man? [View all]love_katz
(3,291 posts)41. The scary part is that many of us may not live long enough to regret it.
He is openly threatening to open up prison camps for anyone who defies him or disagrees with his agenda. What the Slobfather and the dark money who is backing him has laid it all out in their Project 2025 paper.
We ought to know from history, Nazi Germany, fascism under Mussolini, and every dictator who has ever been, that authoritarian rule inevitably ends in atrocity. Unfortunately it appears that too many people are reprogrammable idiots who are either ignorant of history or somehow believe that history is fake news.
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Take some steps back and see the whole picture. Why is the nation in turmoil over one man? [View all]
nature-lover
Jan 2024
OP
Yes. If not for the media he would have been impeached and in jail. My opinion.
nature-lover
Jan 2024
#3
By March, 2016, media had provided over $2 billion in free air time to traitortrump
Hermit-The-Prog
Jan 2024
#18
Media is owned by the same class of rich, anti-democracy people who were fine using Trump as point man
Attilatheblond
Jan 2024
#35
Trump is his MAGAt followers. Even when he starts out doing a little bit right like with the COVID precaution
brewens
Jan 2024
#7
It's not the media I have seen carrying long guns in church or the store, it's not the media who banned abortion.
Runningdawg
Jan 2024
#5
Trump is the culmination of years of far right propaganda, starting with the likes of Lindbaugh, Brietbart, FOX ........
Firestorm49
Jan 2024
#10
That or the country needs to stop putting so much faith in anything that has the word 'news' in the title.
OldBaldy1701E
Jan 2024
#13
Yep. That's how Gotham, in Batman's absence, fell into a plague of violent crime.
jaxexpat
Jan 2024
#23
The media enriches itself with high temperatures...doubt it will turn down the temp.
spanone
Jan 2024
#27
.If it were not for media, he might still be acting as Prez. Media didn't cause this.
Silent Type
Jan 2024
#28
The 24/7 coverage of this malevolent viper has brainwashed our nation. He doesnt
cornball 24
Jan 2024
#38