See the propaganda move?
Make the image emotionally overwhelming, then pretend the only possible objection is hatred of America.
Nobody has to pretend to be mad at a flyover.
It looks cool.
That is not the critique.
The critique is that cool imagery is being used to launder the structure underneath it.
The White House becomes the set.
The military supplies the emotional force.
UFC supplies the combat aesthetic.
Paramount+ gets the paid stream.
Trump-world and politically connected corporations get the branding halo.
And then accounts like this say: if you notice the machinery, you must hate America.
No.
I like the flyover.
I dislike fake patriotism that turns the country into ad inventory.
This is Don Draper selling belonging after tribal sorting so the powerful concentrate more power.
Working-class people are not props.
Marines are not props.
National monuments are not props.
The issue is billionaires turning the White House into branded regime content, then hiding behind “the working class” when anyone notices the circus.
Within one 24 hour period, Trump:
- got out of a $100 million IRS fine
- secured "immunity" from all future tax investigations for his family and friends
- created a $1.8 billion slush fund for lawbreaking supporters
- was reported for likely insider trading worth nearly $1 billion
All of the obvious things to say about this are true. It's bad. Nobody even tries to defend it. The closest thing to a defense you get is something about how "but Democrats suck" and "woke was also bad," which is not a defense, but rather a kind of moral blank check made out to the administration to give them the right to do anything.
But what I'm most curious about is whether this sort of lurid corruption creates a countermovement that successfully returns government to rule of law or whether it's establishing a norm of executive imperialism that every future administration will use to achieve its ends, which can always be justified by the moral blank check of "the other side is worse, so let us do whatever we want."
Seriously. I can’t tell if we’ve destroyed Iran. Or they’re having a successful counter attack. None of it in chronological order. Half the For You tweets about it from random aggregator accounts trying to make $4. None of it verified. Add in grok + AI slop. Shit show.