• MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    10 years ago, a statement like this from ANY potus would have turned into a month off front-page freakout. Now? It gets a one-second shrug.

    Fuck. Where we are now. So quickly.

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      4 hours ago

      I doubt it would have applied to the cons.

      IOKIYAR.

      Newt and his team have been working to divide America since at least 1990. Actively. And it gets little mention. Meanwhile, plenty of reactionary centrists and nearly all of the mainstream media and of course the unhinged right wing would say things like “Obama is divisive” as some kind of serious analysis.

      Meanwhile, the cons have been intentionally trying to divide. And were not called on it every single day, as they should be.

      The GOPAC memo “Language: A Key Mechanism of Control” is something every American should be aware of, but I bet maybe 1% are.

      So if earlier asshole GOP POTUSes were to blurt this out before, it would probably get bothsidered and downplayed back then, too.

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      12 hours ago

      Not even 10 years ago tbh… If Biden said this when he was president, Republicans would inexplicably become the number one advocates of healthcare and childcare and screech endlessly about him being a warmonger for several news cycles.

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        11 hours ago

        It’s not “10 years ago,” because it has nothing to do with time passing. It has everything to do with Republicans doing a coordinated and concerted capture of all media.

        It goes away because they want it to - the silly non-news used to stick around for a month because of their manipulation. It’s important to remember and talk about this widely

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            8 hours ago

            Big strong scary words behind an anonymous handle. You sound real tough.

            The toughest thing you could do would be to write an op-ed and publish it under your real name and talk this tough.

            You can’t. You won’t. Sit down.

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                3 hours ago

                Coward. Did you write your op-ed under your real name yet big scary tough guy?

                Show us the way with your big strong words