Campaign 2020 media coverage, science forum consideration

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  1. iceaura Valued Senior Member

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    Anyone else bemused by the sudden elevation of Liz Cheney to noble ally of the forces of good?

    Even the search engines are on board - it takes a bit of keyword diddling just to turn up something like this: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/dick-liz-cheney-torch-obama-iraq

    And so we head into Biden's inherited morass of disease and ruined governance with our media screens full of Republican dead-enders, with even the blood-soaked debris of W's Follies featured as profiles in courage.
     
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  3. iceaura Valued Senior Member

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    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kevin-mccarthy-everybody-capitol-attack_n_600b9785c5b6f401aea48948
    https://driftglass.blogspot.com/2021/01/old-both-siderists-never-die.html
    https://driftglass.blogspot.com/2021/01/tom-nichols-new-apple-same-razor.html

    So, speaking of teaching, what did we all learn from my very good personal friend Tom Nichols today?

    We learned that Donald Trump came to power in some inexplicable way that had nothing to do with any political party or electoral process.

    We learned that before Donald Trump came to power (in some inexplicable way that had nothing to do with any political party or electoral process) everything was just fine, so you definitely cannot blame the rise of a monster like Trump on the political activities of any specific group of people -- a group in which, if they even existed, Tom may or may not have been very active for his entire adult life.

    We learned that, in fact, America does not have political parties at all -- parties which, if they did exist, would probably have long and well-document records of believing specific things and taking specific actions for which the leaders and members of that party would obviously be personally responsible.

    We learned that, instead of political parties, a group called "America" is, in some mystical way, collectively at fault for Donald Trump -- a group which, under Trump, became a passel whiny-ass titty babies.

    We learned that the real problem with "America" is "unseriousness" which is equally endemic on Both Sides!

    And we learned one more thing., which is the most important thing of all.

    We learned that, if you're a Famous Never Trumper As Seen On Teevee, as part of your benefits package, whenever you wish you will be gifted gigs like this one: responding to explicitly Republican atrocities by troweling out exactly the same brand of cheap, craven, "voice from nowhere" Both Siderist snake oil that hacks like David Fucking Brooks have been peddling from the pages of The New York Times for nearly 20 years.
     
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  5. billvon Valued Senior Member

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    It is amusing to watch the GOP self-destruct as the more reasonable factions pull away from the Trump supporters.
     
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  7. iceaura Valued Senior Member

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    . Doubtful. Imagine Cheney "pulling away" from the W&Cheney supporters - didn't happen, wouldn't happen, right? Well, they are the same people and Party as "Trump supporters". The entire Party - 70+million voting Republicans are just about all there are to vote - agrees that Trump represents them. They aren't going anywhere. To "pull away" would mean leaving them, leaving the Party.

    Any reasonable person willing to "pull away" from anything left the Republican Party years ago. Fascism is ugly, obvious, and not at all reasonable.

    This process of "pulling away" without actually going anywhere or doing anything differently (denial of responsibility and past behavior, revision of history, and temporary burial of the scapegoat) we saw after W's administration hit the fan. And just as it did then it's taking over the media. This is familiar stuff. When Liz Cheney leaves the Republican Party and agrees to be deposed under oath about what she knows of her father's various criminal doings as VP, we can begin to discuss "reasonable" Republicans and where they've been hiding their entire adult lives.

    Meanwhile, the Republican lifeboat builders will need a new nom de guerre ( "Tea Party" is worn out) because even a spineless and complicit media needs something to sit and pivot on, but self-destruction is not in their offing - to get rid of a fascist movement you have to beat it back under its rock.

    And inviting its representatives to fill the media screens and bandwidth with their yapping plagiarisms and cover-up scratchings in the litterbox and puppet-theater stage framing of a world begun new in 2016 is not beating them. It's abetting them.
     

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