Tag: American Way

Media Normalised Trump

Media has normalised Trump's bullying — it's time to take control

Presidential candidate Donald Trump has become notorious for his aggression and bullying, which the mainstream media is happy to ignore.

Media has normalised Trump’s bullying — it’s time to take control

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Rosemary Sorensen

Cult of denial: Lies, injustice and the new American way

IT’S HAPPENING AGAIN.

There are lots of problems with cults, but one is that they’re not terribly self-aware. The Make American Great Again (MAGA) “movement”, to frame it generously, lacks even the most rudimentary self-awareness. Many of its staunchest adherents – zealots, perhaps; those who disseminate their religion with furious keyboard strokes and oddly-placed capital letters (you’ll know them from the Kool-Aid running down their chins) – are not even cognisant of the ideology they’re embracing.

We all know there are Nazis at Trump rallies. There were Nazis at Charlottesville. There were Nazis storming the barricades during the attempted coup on 6 January. We all know the KKK endorses Trump. But the people who don’t know it, the people who deny it with every misspelled slur, every comedic self-own, are Trump supporters.

It’s weird. They don’t even know what they stand for.

Source: Cult of denial: Lies, injustice and the new American way

Cosby Got Trump’s Sweetheart Deal | The Smirking Chimp

Even the billionaire former CEO of UnitedHealth was able to buy his way out of his financial crimes by paying a few hundred million dollars. It’s the norm, not the exception, in America’s executive suites. We should not have a two-tier justice system like this in the United States. It’s time to end Rich Man’s Deals and hold people with well-stuffed money bins to the same level of accountability as the rest of us.

Source: Cosby Got Trump’s Sweetheart Deal | The Smirking Chimp