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Tepid, almost non-existant coverage of #handsoff by cable and network media.

Compare and contrast.

When the asinine #teaparty loons and fools like sarah palin had events, more 'news media' showed up to cover it than there were participants. Pathetic.

The non-stop 'reporting' of these crackpots filled the airwaves for months. Disgusting.

Corporate media news #journalismIsDead and has been for generations - they are #tools of the oligarchs and plutocrats.

This is what #HannahArendt called "#theBanalityOfEvil"

To truly become an outright #fascist country, it doesn't happen like a cartoon light switch. It happens on a continuum we've been on since the #teaParty #GOP over a decade ago

And it seems like nonsense

So you laugh and you laugh

And your reaction makes sense

But nothing is stopping this. It doesn't matter how absurd it is. It's happening

So you need to stop laughing

To those wondering when the #Democrat pushback will come, it won't.

Their strategy is "we told you so."
The sad thing is it will likely work.

I predict Trump will lose his #House and #Senate majorities after the #midterms ... then they'll successfully impeach him.

Then we'll go back to "fascist lite" business as usual #WallStreet boot licking.

The way to prevent business as usual is to PRIMARY the incumbent democrats.

That is what made the #TeaParty so wildly effective in shifting this country to the so hard to the right.

Primary the business as usual democrats. Take. Them. Out.
#uspol

IMHO, after the #TeaParty manifestations in September 2009, #Obama’s error was not taking advantage of his #cult of personality, nascent #mobile #video technology of iPhones, #socialmedia, and #townhalls.

The strategy shoulda/coulda/woulda been to just go on the road and let the Creepy Weirdos out themselves on camera in front of friends and neighbors.

There was a reason that hoses used on people at Selma radicalized the #American public through their TV sets.

#History could have rhymed.

Replied to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

What to know about Scott Turner, Trump’s pick for housing secretary
apnews.com/article/housing-sec

* (R-TX) Texas House of Representatives, 2013
* lg. group Tea Party-supported lawmakers
* Prestonwood Baptist Church associate pastor
* chair, center for education opportunity at America First Policy Institute
* think tank set up by Trump1 staffers to lay Trump2 groundwork

#USpol #ScottTurner #HousingSec #AFPI
#Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #Project2025 #Christofascism #TeaParty

FILE - Scott Turner, the executive director of the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council, attends a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House, May 18, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
AP News · What to know about Scott Turner, Trump's pick for housing secretaryBy ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON

Via #RawStory, 8:2pm ET, Niv20, 2024

#DonaldTrump has tapped a former congressman, and co-founder of the #House #TeaParty caucus, to become his next ambassador to #Canada.

Trump said in a news release Wednesday night that #PeteHoekstra is his nominee for the position, a #RightWing former lawmaker who has promoted baseless #ConspiracyTheories about #Democrats, #Muslims and even suggested this year that feared Democrats would "steal some votes" in the election.

rawstory.com/pete-hoekstra-266

Raw Story - Celebrating 20 Years of Independent Journalism · Trump taps 'well-respected' ex-Tea Party congressman for Canadian ambassadorBy Daniel Hampton

"It was in 2011, amid the eruption of the #TeaParty juvenile delinquents in the House of Representatives and the then-novel asininity of birtherism, that I called it quits after 28 years on Capitol Hill—28 years working for Republicans.
…when I left the Hill, that party was as extinct as the passenger pigeon, and I felt I was without a political home. It had evolved—or rather degenerated—into a billionaire-funded mob of primitives reminiscent of Jonathan Swift’s Yahoos."
salon.com/2024/11/17/goodbye-t

Salon.com · Goodbye to all that — once again, and for the last time

As much as I understand the shock wave, I still don't quite get the sentiment.

This has not happened last night, or in the past months.

You can go back to the 1980s, but I'd pin it to 2009, whem the #TeaParty movement started, sending ripples all over the globe, resonating with reactionary movements everywhere.

We had ~15 years to counter this. We chose not to.

So, get over it. Learn from it for #ClimateChange. Get up, and make a difference.

#PresidentialElection⁩ ⁨#USElection⁩ ⁨#Trump