Things that the mainstream media missed
Trump and kegsbreath declaring war on American civilians
Kegsbreath encouraging and endorsing violent and humiliating war crimes to be committed against American civilians. Particularly disturbing when this was recorded so lower level soldiers know they can get away with it no matter what their commanders say because it’s coming from the White House
Trump using the shutdown to gut agencies with the project 2025 architect Russ Vought
The flotilla getting intercepted
The general strike in Italy Friday
The pro Palestine protests all over Europe
American mainstream media is completely compromised
Friday last week or tomorrow?
It’s all fucking bonkers. They are talking about loyalty pledges for universities, they are doing little pogrom dry runs on Chicago apartment blocks, they are building the concentration camps. And people are still out here wrangling about health care and tax benefits. I mean, it’s not wrong, we should care about those things, but the whole framing of what is happening in the media, and treating this shutdown as all of a sudden as a big crisis overshadowing the other stuff, is just nuts.
This article to me got to the heart of it. Framing it as primarily a fight about health care plays into the Republicans getting away with more of the Hitler stuff, however it plays out.
I can tell it’s a Democrat strategy consultant making that framing decision and it’s just so… stupid. Yes, we’re ok with a shutdown, just as we were in March when Schumer et al decided to cave in out of fear for this exact situation, and now they’re getting a lose lose scenario because they can’t just say “governments on hold until the fascist stop fascisting” to at least use this shutdown to galvanize the left.
We’re so cooked, ugh.
I’m not sure it is even the strategy consultants who are framing it that way. I feel like the Chuck Schumer / consultant framing is “we hate doing this shutdown because it makes us look bad.” Then there is the Bernie / AOC framing of “it’s really critical that we don’t kill 50,000 Americans a year by taking their health insurance away that is what we’re refusing to compromise on.” That’s better, the consultants would have been fine with caving and killing 50,000 Americans a year, they’ve done it before. Even better than that would be “Well we should be shutting down the government, because what the government is doing is attacking American citizens and in some cases killing them directly and building camps to house them by the thousands. And the Supreme Court just said Trump is king and doesn’t even have to honor any ‘deal’ that Congress works out about health care or anything else, so fuck it, government’s closed.” That framing is more where I’m at.
Most fucked part to me is it doesn’t even stop them; ICE is considered essential and therefore it gets to keep operating during a shutdown.
Do they get paid? The military doesn’t. ICE still getting paid would be a little surprising but not really.
ICE largely consists of bounty hunters. It is about $1,500 a head. Assuming you got rich asswipes like Elon funding the bounties, the ICE can keep doing their thing.
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What?
No it isn’t. Where did you get this idea?
It has been mentioned in various spots on Blue Sky and so forth. Remember, ICE doesn’t have formalized uniforms nor training, nor do they offer ID, and their vehicles often lack registries. The odds of them being genuine officers of any kind is low.
Good question. This is a case of me reading a headline to a paywall so I don’t know.
Double checking, seems like they don’t but they do get back pay when it comes back just like everyone else. Would not be surprised if they’re more full of people willing to work for free than other sectors, though, as racist hate is a strong motivator.
That honestly is huge to me. Why the fuck the Democrats are not saying that ICE is snatching random people off the streets of this country and they are planning on making sure they don’t get paid another paycheck until they stop doing that, and that’s the hill they want to die on, I have not a fucking clue in the world.
My guess is still internal polling suggests this is the most popular message with centrists and independent voters, or something to that effect. But I agree with you, it’s nuts that they still don’t get that messaging fails overall.
Oligarch-controlled opposition, doing what they’ve been paid by the oligarchs to do, and told by the oligarchs lobbyists to do, to benefit the oligarchs authoritarian takeover.
Every time I come to lemmy.world, I always regret it lol
If this were the explanation, they would surely be aware that they are talking themselves into potentially a concentration camp, or potentially “only” losing their job and career forever and becoming a bunch of Leon Trotskies. Your theory has a certain emotionally satisfying nihilism to it, but it doesn’t actually make sense for understanding the nature of the failures in our government (and ideally being able to react to them constructively in some fashion, in the future.)
And people still think the files will end it lmao
Right wing agents in full swing today on Lemmy.
Understand: all this would be stopped in a second if Republicans accepted the Democrat budget proposal. This isnt the D’s fault, no matter how many scaremongering propaganda headlines you see trying to convince you that the Democrats should just sign the Republican budget and move on. Things are much better right now in a shutdown than they would be if the Republicans get their budget passed.
Yeah, I’ve seen some of these right wing folks. They are trying to get us to respond to Trump’s inflammatory raids with violence.
Demcrats refused to sign a budget that cut people healthcare. But CNN anchors dont mention that.
I totally see now (as a non american) how magas were so easily duped into considering all MSM bullshit.
They didn’t just refuse to sign it, they actually did their job and made a counterproposal that protected funding for Healthcare (among other things). Republicans refused to even acknowledge it and shut the government down.
As an American, your empathy is appreciated but honestly save it for people more worthwhile. There was genuinely a good defense for being MAGA in like 2016, but these people have spent a decade doing nothing but choosing to stick their head in the sand further and further while proof of how fucking bad Trump is piles up around them. They’re not duped, they’re not brainwashed. They’re just cruel, cruel, hateful people.
ETA this photo
As an American, your empathy is appreciated but honestly save it for people more worthwhile.
Like my dumbass maga family members maybe? Maple MAGA is a thing up here eh.
All I’m saying is that from an outsider’s perspective… seeing how your media is reacting to this live… it’s not surprising things went this way.
Yeah lots of commenters complicit in pushing “both sides the same” muddy-the-water bullshit to demotivate Americans from politically engaging, or to turn them toward useless fringe groups.
The media are not missing it, they are complacent in helping the power grab
What I don’t understand is that “the media” is staffed by ordinary people that are suffering as much as everyone else. Every single one of these organisations has the option to disagree, but nobody does. It’s impossible that they are all staffed only by by magats - why doesn’t anything happen against this fascism?
Complicit.
The owners of Fox, CNN, and others need to be put on trial when this is over.
A trial? They are so wealthy that they could easily pay every fine imaginable and afford a lawyer who could convince any judge to provide wrist-slap punishments such as a month of community service or a year at one of those rich people prisons that are in reality day spas.
There is no “legal” system for the wealthy, only for you and me who couldn’t afford the impacts to our lives from the fines or jail time with a normal lawyer.
Proper punishment is to simply end them.
You know, something the Heritage Foundation doesn’t realize is that we are much more like Korea in our ability to resist.
Not like Hong Kong. And the people in Hong Kong were pretty damn good at resisting the white shirts before China said “fuck you guys” and just took over.
they’re not “missing it”. they’re complicit. their funding -and in many cases, jobs - depends on them looking the other way.
The crazy thing is theyre just throwing a fit. They don’t even need dem votes to get things working again.
They do, they need 60 votes.
Thats not the narrative to push. They can lie, you can lie.
No they don’t it’s a new year they can use whatever it’s called.
shut down is a good thing
