How the fuck do we live in a country where Pauline Hanson can call Sarah Martin a “trashy journalist” on live TV at the @PressClubAust today and all the other journos didn’t get up and immediately walk out of there?
#NewsCorpse
The “grab them by the pussy” comment didn’t make you think? The mocking of a disabled journalist? The January 6 coup, which he was CLEARLY responsible for and lied about? The stock market manipulations? Crypto scams? Mocking women journalists with relish at every opportunity? Defunding important government departments and lying about why? Refusing to divest his businesses? Openly giving his children nepotistic positions in his inner circle? The rape allegations? The rape PROSECUTION? The 34 convictions? The rampant, unrepentant fraud? Stealing secret government documents and refusing to return them? Lying about COVID? Lying about Biden? Lying about Harris, and mocking her race?
Nah, you didn’t believe him because he was believable, you believed him because you desperately WANTED to believe him, because he vindicated your racism and your hatred. Because you gloried in his lies as long as they weren’t directed at you. And if you’re a qualified journalist, that makes your lack of research, common sense and basic decency even worse. FAR worse.
All those Americans now trying to justify their belief in a conman, criminal, racist pedophile rapist are cooked. You people disgust us. There’s no excuse and no way the rest of the world will ever forgive you. FFS.
I’m sorry for the long post but a lot of you have followed me for a long time, since 2016 when I was one of the first to repeatedly call out Trump for being a Russian asset.
I don’t know how else to say this, as a person who has studied cults (wrote a bestseller about it) and totalitarian states. I’ve been attacked on Fox News, berated by the VP and others and like many of you, I’ve gotten death threats.
So please believe me when I say this. Things have changed.
ICE is going to be the vehicle for fascism in this country. The extra-judicial practices (no warrants, no ID), the masks (anonymity leads to horrors again and again throughout history), the dehumanization of immigrants and Democrats (dehumanization precedes arrests, torture, murder, again and again).
No we are not going to be Nazi Germany because nothing in history matches Nazi Germany.
But fascism has arrived in America. Here is how it is going to happen:
ICE will be the vehicle, the gestapo empowered by the President, to enforce his will, first among vulnerable undocumented people, then among legal immigrants, then among political rivals, then among citizens who speak out against the Trump grift.
This is not a hypothetical. It’s happening.
That Big Dumb Racist bill gives $170 billion dollars for an organization which has no respect for the constitution, no oversight, nothing but marching orders from a couple racist, power-hungry madmen.
$170 billion to build hidden prisons with no oversight. To put this in perspective, this is 62% larger than the entire federal prison system.
$170 billion to drag people out of their places of work, parks, homes. $170 billion to hire racist little man babies who hide their faces as they assault children, old people, pregnant women.
How do you think this goes? How has this ever gone in history? We are entering a dark period.
Our only hope is to draw the line now. To stick up for our friends and neighbors, our co-workers and loved ones, who are undocumented and being hunted.
If morality or empathy for them is not enough to motivate you, fine. Then let this be your motivation: if you don’t draw this line, you are next.
Do you think Trump will grow a conscience? Do you think Stephen Miller will have any trouble going from, “these people are criminals” (them) to “these people are helping criminals?” (You, by being against Trump). To “we must arrest the traitors opposing our efforts to arrest criminals?” (You or anyone you care about who publicly opposes Trump.)
Do you think republican congressman are going to care? To lift onefinger to protect you? To do anything which gets in the way of Trump’s agenda?
A person who has no problem letting children with cancer die in order to put a few dollars in the pockets of rich men will have no problem with letting Democrats and activists rot in jail for trying to stop it.
This has happened again and again throughout the world. And now it’s happening here.
I wish I had concrete plans. I don’t. Not now. All I know is the first step for change is identifying the gravity of the truth.
And the truth is fascism has arrived in America.
And we must stop it in its tracks or it will swallow all of us.
If you don’t believe that Reinhardt, Abbott and Credlin, are using Andrew Hastie to take over the Liberal Party as to create their own version of Trump style corporate government, along with the full introduction of Trumps Project 2025……
You’re definitely delusional, brainwashed or enmeshed into a dangerous cult.
Reinhardt is 110% controlling Hastie.
Abbott is next as a board member of NEWS Corp.
Credlin is Abbott’s loyal friend, who pushes their extreme agenda on Sky After Dark and Murdoch rags.
I found this old poster from the newspaper in the early 70’s. Dad did the show for 12 years. It was also my first TV appearance playing “boy with saucepan stuck on his head”. True story.
@ABCmediawatch Surely nobody at Media Watch expects the public to actually believe media regulators are going to do anything to ever stop the Murdochs News Corp flooding Australia with bigoted bullsht?
We saw #ausmedia drive people to suicide during #Robodebt vilification you flogs.
WTF is wrong with Americans?
It’s like they’re living in a B-grade movie - terrible script, chronically over-acted, goodies & baddies why the fuck can’t they just address their multiple problems & stop projecting their shit onto the rest of the planet?