Compromised, and sitting on a significant stockpile of nuclear weapons. He’s also highly suggestible, inconsistent and easily provoked.
Combined with the amount of power ceded to the US executive branch since Reagan means that dumpy diaper’s whims can cause significant harm before either of the other two branches can even be bothered to start thinking about stopping it.
In the end, missiles travel faster than judges, let alone congress.
If Trump was Putin’s puppet, he wouldn’t TACO out of his disputes with Europe. Greenland wouldn’t be in Danish hands. Hell, Putin’s puppet might even want to join the war in Ukraine on Russia’s side.
The only person Trump cares about is Trump. The best Putin can hope for is that Trump destroys a bunch of shit indiscriminately, which he is doing quite well. Some of the destroyed shit could be Russian assets, which Russia will have to endure.
He listens to what Putin tells him to do, mishears most of it, misunderstands most of what’s left, and in five minutes has forgotten most of what was left after that, and tries to turn whatever remains into a scam that’ll benefit him.
But, inasmuch as he is able to want to do something that doesn’t directly and immediately benefit him personally, he tries to be a good puppet, at least when he remembers the blackmail material the ex-KGB bastard has on him.
He’s just bad at it, as he is at everything else except at avoiding paying his bills.
Compromised by the same Imperialist oligarchs that have always controlled the US? I wouldn’t call it “compromised”. I’d call it America as usual with some extra crazy on top.
The depth, breadth, reach,and totality is far beyond anything in the past. Screens weren’t nearly pervasive. People still interacted with their social groups, they went to church, they volunteered, they read, they received news that was just that and nothing more. Facts, not editorial
Are you talking about how the news was perceived as “fact based” in the past? If so, I agree it was definitely much more accepted that way. But, I wouldn’t say it actually was.
The Internet has largely made the ability of the media, to form a universal narrative about the acts of US imperialism, much more difficult. That is why the media landscape has had to largely shift from a form of direct propaganda (forming a universal narrative for the majority of the population to believe) to a form of multiple sets of propaganda. The media today is not really lying any less than it did in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, etc. It just has to lie with multiple narratives. It’s less about forming a unifying narrative than it is about making it feel like “the truth” is unattainable.
The “post truth world” is not implying that we once lived in a world of truth and facts. It’s describing the shift in how people feel about the world. They use to feel comfortable in believing “the truth” about Communism. Or “the truth” about how “they hate us for our freedoms” (when we suffered the consequences of blowback on 9/11).
The media has largely gone from manufacturing consent through forming “the truth” of a single narrative to, instead, manufacturing consent through
confusion. The Genocide of Palestine was “complicated” and “Israel denies”.
It’s why our world is filled with doomerism and apathy. We are no longer kept passive by a comforting lie that made us feel good. We are now kept passive in an uncomfortable feeling of powerlessness as we witness the crimes of our country live in 4k.
The only “comfort” we feel is that maybe things can “go back” to how they use to be. When, in reality, they were never that way to begin with. And, well, that’s the hardest thing these days to get people to understand. They want to believe it’s “the digital age” that caused it. They want to believe that Trump is a special evil and that once he’s gone we won’t be so awful.
Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, Palestine. These are not new forms of evil that the American empire is engaging in. Trump is only putting his own (very unapologetic) style onto crimes the US has been engaging in for a long time.
They are not wrong
Trump is a completely compromised fucking joke
Compromised, and sitting on a significant stockpile of nuclear weapons. He’s also highly suggestible, inconsistent and easily provoked.
Combined with the amount of power ceded to the US executive branch since Reagan means that dumpy diaper’s whims can cause significant harm before either of the other two branches can even be bothered to start thinking about stopping it.
In the end, missiles travel faster than judges, let alone congress.
Missiles will launch and two weeks later when congress is back from their break they’ll write a letter asking him to stop.
the only thing is that turmp is practically owned by putin, so I don’t know how that changes things.
To be fair, he’s not owned entirely by putin. He’s the live grenade that Russia, Israel, and Saudi Arabia are fighting for control over
Don’t forget the Silicone Valley tech-bros.
Trump is owned by whoever flattered/bribed him the most recently.
tech ho-bros, my dude
The dumbest game of hot potato
If Trump was Putin’s puppet, he wouldn’t TACO out of his disputes with Europe. Greenland wouldn’t be in Danish hands. Hell, Putin’s puppet might even want to join the war in Ukraine on Russia’s side.
The only person Trump cares about is Trump. The best Putin can hope for is that Trump destroys a bunch of shit indiscriminately, which he is doing quite well. Some of the destroyed shit could be Russian assets, which Russia will have to endure.
No one said he was a good puppet.
He listens to what Putin tells him to do, mishears most of it, misunderstands most of what’s left, and in five minutes has forgotten most of what was left after that, and tries to turn whatever remains into a scam that’ll benefit him.
But, inasmuch as he is able to want to do something that doesn’t directly and immediately benefit him personally, he tries to be a good puppet, at least when he remembers the blackmail material the ex-KGB bastard has on him.
He’s just bad at it, as he is at everything else except at avoiding paying his bills.
Compromised by the same Imperialist oligarchs that have always controlled the US? I wouldn’t call it “compromised”. I’d call it America as usual with some extra crazy on top.
The depth, breadth, reach,and totality is far beyond anything in the past. Screens weren’t nearly pervasive. People still interacted with their social groups, they went to church, they volunteered, they read, they received news that was just that and nothing more. Facts, not editorial
Are you talking about how the news was perceived as “fact based” in the past? If so, I agree it was definitely much more accepted that way. But, I wouldn’t say it actually was.
The Internet has largely made the ability of the media, to form a universal narrative about the acts of US imperialism, much more difficult. That is why the media landscape has had to largely shift from a form of direct propaganda (forming a universal narrative for the majority of the population to believe) to a form of multiple sets of propaganda. The media today is not really lying any less than it did in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, etc. It just has to lie with multiple narratives. It’s less about forming a unifying narrative than it is about making it feel like “the truth” is unattainable.
The “post truth world” is not implying that we once lived in a world of truth and facts. It’s describing the shift in how people feel about the world. They use to feel comfortable in believing “the truth” about Communism. Or “the truth” about how “they hate us for our freedoms” (when we suffered the consequences of blowback on 9/11).
The media has largely gone from manufacturing consent through forming “the truth” of a single narrative to, instead, manufacturing consent through confusion. The Genocide of Palestine was “complicated” and “Israel denies”.
It’s why our world is filled with doomerism and apathy. We are no longer kept passive by a comforting lie that made us feel good. We are now kept passive in an uncomfortable feeling of powerlessness as we witness the crimes of our country live in 4k.
The only “comfort” we feel is that maybe things can “go back” to how they use to be. When, in reality, they were never that way to begin with. And, well, that’s the hardest thing these days to get people to understand. They want to believe it’s “the digital age” that caused it. They want to believe that Trump is a special evil and that once he’s gone we won’t be so awful.
Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, Palestine. These are not new forms of evil that the American empire is engaging in. Trump is only putting his own (very unapologetic) style onto crimes the US has been engaging in for a long time.
Well said