Posted on Jul 20, 2019
We Can't Mute Trump, But We Can Turn Off Fox News
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On Sunday morning, Fox & Friends ran a segment on “the Squad,” the four progressive Democratic congresswomen (Omar, plus Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York) who have been so vocal in their opposition to Trump.
About 20 minutes later, Trump sent out a racist tweet telling those four women of color to “go back” to where they came from.
Within 90 minutes, the Fox & Friends hosts were “reporting” the president’s tweets, reading them verbatim and laughing about them. Co-host Jedediah Bila said that she believed Trump was “making an important point.”
The next day, Trump refused to acknowledge the racism of his tweets or apologize for them. Instead, he claimed that “A lot of people love it, by the way.”
The loop is evil perfection. Racism and xenophobia on Fox are mainlined into the president’s cable-news-dependent brain stem. He tweets. Fox applauds. He points to their sycophancy as validation.
About 20 minutes later, Trump sent out a racist tweet telling those four women of color to “go back” to where they came from.
Within 90 minutes, the Fox & Friends hosts were “reporting” the president’s tweets, reading them verbatim and laughing about them. Co-host Jedediah Bila said that she believed Trump was “making an important point.”
The next day, Trump refused to acknowledge the racism of his tweets or apologize for them. Instead, he claimed that “A lot of people love it, by the way.”
The loop is evil perfection. Racism and xenophobia on Fox are mainlined into the president’s cable-news-dependent brain stem. He tweets. Fox applauds. He points to their sycophancy as validation.
We Can't Mute Trump, But We Can Turn Off Fox News
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Racism
Fox News Channel
Donald Trump
Culture
Society
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Imagine living in a world where telling someone their ideas suck, you don't like it here we don't want you here, and to try those terrible ideas somewhere else and prove their worth is racist.
"So interesting to see “Progressive” Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly......
....and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how....
....it is done. These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough. I’m sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!"
Or it could be President Trump trying to put the focus on certain individuals (whose ideas suck, let's be honest) to make them appear as the face of the democratic party, therefore increasing his odds in 2020. However, some individuals are just used to singing the same old tunes of insults instead of learning from 2016.
https://www.businessinsider.com/democratic-group-leaked-poll-unfavorable-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-2019-7
"So interesting to see “Progressive” Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly......
....and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how....
....it is done. These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough. I’m sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!"
Or it could be President Trump trying to put the focus on certain individuals (whose ideas suck, let's be honest) to make them appear as the face of the democratic party, therefore increasing his odds in 2020. However, some individuals are just used to singing the same old tunes of insults instead of learning from 2016.
https://www.businessinsider.com/democratic-group-leaked-poll-unfavorable-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-2019-7
An anonymous Democratic group leaked a poll that shows swing voters deeply dislike Alexandria...
The poll found that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had a 22% approval rating among 1,003 white non-college-educated voters who knew of her.
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