Fantasies of a Trump-led fascist coup have redounded to the benefit of many -- especially those responsible for abuses far worse than those of the current president.
Trump is hated because he didn't start new wars. It doesn't matter if your left or right as long as your willing to drop bombs. Just building up the military wasn't enough for them. The only time the left/all media praised him was the one time he did, drop a bomb.
Great article Glenn. Truth seekers, conservative or liberal, cannot swallow the lies. 🙌 Respect🙌
You are missing: Trump's 4 years is objectively far better than Obama's: no new wars, peace talks in the middle east, prison reform, significantly better income growth for the working class, removal of the tax break for millionaire mansion tax deductions, more job growth for every sector, particularly minorities, the list is too long to enumerate.
"The age of social media has fostered a type of reductive thinking and discourse about politics and the world in which pat and trite phrases have replaced critical thought as our primary instruments for making sense of external events."
I call it pep-squad politics, and I blame 40 years of "education reform" more than I do social media. There are people who should have developed critical thinking skills at least a decade before social media was the force it's become who are incapable of holding a discussion beyond repeating the kinds of slogans you've mentioned.
When your future, and that of your school and your teachers, is reduced to your picking the right answer from the choices provided by the company that published the standardized test that's become the sole criterion for determining what you've learned, expecting people to develop critical thinking skills is an exercise in futility.
Know who just loves education reform? The corporate media. Well, and both political parties, of course.
The revision of current history is already underway as the Democrats and the media rush to bury the fact that candidates who support the very policies they're determined to insist are losers almost universally won, while their line-toeing centrists dropped like rocks.
The Donald's biggest sin is that he's too much of a narcissist to do his damage behind closed doors in the dark. That eventually even made him too much for the oligarchs to support, so it was inevitable he'd have to go.
So, while we await the rise of President Kamala Harris in 6-8 months, and the appointment of Mayor Pete as VP, it's going to be interesting to see whether the Democrats will find a way to undermine a Populist movement that's wise to them now while maintaining their image of being the party of the rule of law.
Indeed! It is 12 noon, Saturday here on the East Coast, when the AP posts that Biden has won. I have no idea what is coming the next two months, but I do know that the war machine will ramp up.
For the first time in my life after an election, I’m afraid. I’ve felt all manner of emotions after previous elections, but I’ve never felt afraid before. I just heard the Fox News projection and I’m afraid to voice an opinion outside of my own house.
Thank you so much for writing this. Sometimes I feel like I'm living in an alternate universe. John Brennan, the man who lied to congress about hacking into their computers to spy on their investigation of bush-era torture, is now a highly paid contributing member of MSNBC. How is that not seen as absolutely insane to any reasonable person?
Sometimes it feels like I'm fucking crazy when trying to talk to people about things like this, so it's nice to know that I'm not alone.
Mr. Greenwald, I need you to hear this: This is a blazingly brilliant masterpiece you have written. My jaw dropped when I read it. It was forwarded by Mark Crispin Miller. (I've now subscribed.)
It's Beethoven.
I'm not even "on the left" but your piece makes me want to buy land on the left and build a house. SO RIGHT ON THE MONEY. I'm going to send it everywhere, post it at my site, tweet it, post it on Assbook, and send it via email to every liberal friend I lost. I am so grateful to you. You're amazing. Your readers should shower you with more praise, I feel. You deserve it.
The only thing I object to is something you couldn't possibly know unless you spent the last quarter century in the intersection between Banks BioTech WHO and Pharma, as I did: Covid-19 is a complex banking and social engineering event that has health features but. It fails not only Koch's Postulates but every other standard of contagious disease model. "Something happened," yes. "People died," yes. You probably know by now that the RT PCR test is set to cycles that Fauci himself admitted do not, repeat not, signal "infection." He called it "dead nucleotides" and nobody has asked him to explain what kind of nucleotides are anything other than dead. A virus is not a living thing. Listen to Dr. Thomas Cowan. But DON'T write about it--they will brand you a "denier" and that is not surviveable. Trump's only Covid mistake was letting Fauci and Birx into his office. If any of this interests you you can find me on Twitter and read my pinned tweet. @CeliaFarber. I knew Kary Mullis, PCR's inventor, and interviewed him many times. He cried when they pulled out PCR to con gay men into thinking they had MORE HIV in their blood, measured by PCR. It can find any molecule in anybody, and it only needs ONE molecule to blow up (multiply) and make people crazy. PCR is an overly sensitive technology not intended for use in diagnosing any viral "infection." And now it has, despite the protestations of its inventor, enslaved the world. Other than that, your article is perfection.
I vote for president based solely on who is more likely start a war of annihilation. Having a mentally addled Prez and a totally out-of-her-league emotionally retarded coquette as VP, surrounded by never-Trump Neocons and "Left" Neolib war-mongering, all-consuming RussiaHater(tm), globalist traitors to the Republic, is a recipe for the heat-death of civilization. I completely understand the visceral distaste for Trump, but I predict a lot of those haters are going to miss Trump Chaos when it's over. Not including the millions who will just go back to sleep, of course. I voted for the Donald, but have totally surrendered to the idea that reason no longer exists and that we are doomed no matter who wins.
Glenn, thank you for keeping alive the memory of the atrocious deeds of Bush and Cheney. Singularly and as a couple, they're two of the most ruinous miscreants in all of American history.
Here's another article that would have never gotten through Betsy Reed. I'm so thankful you're free...
PS: Trump should pardon Julian Assange and Ed Snowden
Trump is hated because he didn't start new wars. It doesn't matter if your left or right as long as your willing to drop bombs. Just building up the military wasn't enough for them. The only time the left/all media praised him was the one time he did, drop a bomb.
Great article Glenn. Truth seekers, conservative or liberal, cannot swallow the lies. 🙌 Respect🙌
You are missing: Trump's 4 years is objectively far better than Obama's: no new wars, peace talks in the middle east, prison reform, significantly better income growth for the working class, removal of the tax break for millionaire mansion tax deductions, more job growth for every sector, particularly minorities, the list is too long to enumerate.
This is why I follow Glenn, there are no scared cows and hes the only one I know of that slays them, right left or center....
"The age of social media has fostered a type of reductive thinking and discourse about politics and the world in which pat and trite phrases have replaced critical thought as our primary instruments for making sense of external events."
I call it pep-squad politics, and I blame 40 years of "education reform" more than I do social media. There are people who should have developed critical thinking skills at least a decade before social media was the force it's become who are incapable of holding a discussion beyond repeating the kinds of slogans you've mentioned.
When your future, and that of your school and your teachers, is reduced to your picking the right answer from the choices provided by the company that published the standardized test that's become the sole criterion for determining what you've learned, expecting people to develop critical thinking skills is an exercise in futility.
Know who just loves education reform? The corporate media. Well, and both political parties, of course.
The revision of current history is already underway as the Democrats and the media rush to bury the fact that candidates who support the very policies they're determined to insist are losers almost universally won, while their line-toeing centrists dropped like rocks.
The Donald's biggest sin is that he's too much of a narcissist to do his damage behind closed doors in the dark. That eventually even made him too much for the oligarchs to support, so it was inevitable he'd have to go.
So, while we await the rise of President Kamala Harris in 6-8 months, and the appointment of Mayor Pete as VP, it's going to be interesting to see whether the Democrats will find a way to undermine a Populist movement that's wise to them now while maintaining their image of being the party of the rule of law.
Who's bringing the popcorn?
Thank you for that, Glenn. These last few years have been a real struggle for those who've actually been paying attention over the last four decades.
Indeed! It is 12 noon, Saturday here on the East Coast, when the AP posts that Biden has won. I have no idea what is coming the next two months, but I do know that the war machine will ramp up.
For the first time in my life after an election, I’m afraid. I’ve felt all manner of emotions after previous elections, but I’ve never felt afraid before. I just heard the Fox News projection and I’m afraid to voice an opinion outside of my own house.
Now that Fascism has been defeated, it is important to give our leaders unlimited powers so that they can prevent Fascism from re-asserting itself.
I am looking forward to the next Republican presidency and watching all these people say 'it was better under Trump'.
Oh and there is no going back to the pre trump days.
Thank you so much for writing this. Sometimes I feel like I'm living in an alternate universe. John Brennan, the man who lied to congress about hacking into their computers to spy on their investigation of bush-era torture, is now a highly paid contributing member of MSNBC. How is that not seen as absolutely insane to any reasonable person?
Sometimes it feels like I'm fucking crazy when trying to talk to people about things like this, so it's nice to know that I'm not alone.
Mr. Greenwald, I need you to hear this: This is a blazingly brilliant masterpiece you have written. My jaw dropped when I read it. It was forwarded by Mark Crispin Miller. (I've now subscribed.)
It's Beethoven.
I'm not even "on the left" but your piece makes me want to buy land on the left and build a house. SO RIGHT ON THE MONEY. I'm going to send it everywhere, post it at my site, tweet it, post it on Assbook, and send it via email to every liberal friend I lost. I am so grateful to you. You're amazing. Your readers should shower you with more praise, I feel. You deserve it.
The only thing I object to is something you couldn't possibly know unless you spent the last quarter century in the intersection between Banks BioTech WHO and Pharma, as I did: Covid-19 is a complex banking and social engineering event that has health features but. It fails not only Koch's Postulates but every other standard of contagious disease model. "Something happened," yes. "People died," yes. You probably know by now that the RT PCR test is set to cycles that Fauci himself admitted do not, repeat not, signal "infection." He called it "dead nucleotides" and nobody has asked him to explain what kind of nucleotides are anything other than dead. A virus is not a living thing. Listen to Dr. Thomas Cowan. But DON'T write about it--they will brand you a "denier" and that is not surviveable. Trump's only Covid mistake was letting Fauci and Birx into his office. If any of this interests you you can find me on Twitter and read my pinned tweet. @CeliaFarber. I knew Kary Mullis, PCR's inventor, and interviewed him many times. He cried when they pulled out PCR to con gay men into thinking they had MORE HIV in their blood, measured by PCR. It can find any molecule in anybody, and it only needs ONE molecule to blow up (multiply) and make people crazy. PCR is an overly sensitive technology not intended for use in diagnosing any viral "infection." And now it has, despite the protestations of its inventor, enslaved the world. Other than that, your article is perfection.
I vote for president based solely on who is more likely start a war of annihilation. Having a mentally addled Prez and a totally out-of-her-league emotionally retarded coquette as VP, surrounded by never-Trump Neocons and "Left" Neolib war-mongering, all-consuming RussiaHater(tm), globalist traitors to the Republic, is a recipe for the heat-death of civilization. I completely understand the visceral distaste for Trump, but I predict a lot of those haters are going to miss Trump Chaos when it's over. Not including the millions who will just go back to sleep, of course. I voted for the Donald, but have totally surrendered to the idea that reason no longer exists and that we are doomed no matter who wins.
Great article, really pulling back the curtain of BS, but, sadly, I see the #Resistance Crowd going back to #Brunch, like, right now.
Glenn, thank you for keeping alive the memory of the atrocious deeds of Bush and Cheney. Singularly and as a couple, they're two of the most ruinous miscreants in all of American history.