Comments by "wily wascal" (@wilywascal2024) on "Smerconish: Here's the real danger in Trump's charade" video.

  1. GOP cult: “Democracy is great…only so long as we can subvert it to gain power and maintain our corrupt, plutocratic, minority fascist rule!”
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  2. Whole story of the Republican cult: "If you see nothing, keep looking so you can pretend it's something!"
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  3. No. Moreover, don't want or need 100k suckers and fools subscribing, either.
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  4. What have we learned from four years of Trump? These five things: 1) That we are now fully living in the post-information age, where factual truth has little power and disinformation is readily weaponized as "emotional truth." 2) That our digital media environment is literally deadly toxic — not only by aggressively promoting divisiveness and hate and undermining public health policy, but also directly causing unprecedented epidemics of depression, anxiety and suicidality among the generations of youth who have grown up holding phones. 3) That democracy and U.S. institutions are far more fragile than I had ever imagined. Dark money and corporate interests now have a political stranglehold on all three branches of government and there is no longer an honest system of checks and balances. 4) That "traditional media" like newspapers and broadcast channels are ill-equipped to grapple with any of this. Trump or no Trump, this toxic soup will likely get worse. 5) And finally, that maybe Donald Trump will unintentionally Make America Great Again, waking up a new generation of voters and activists who recognize these things as an existential threat.” —Mark Schubb, Santa Monica
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  5. Toxic Trump: "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the biggest loser of them all; who's the hypocrite with shameless gall; who's the reprobate that can't stand tall; who's the miscreant fumbling the ball; who's the known grifter scamming that stall; who's the crook most fears getting that call?"
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  6. Posting $2,000,000 bail for Kyle Rittenhouse, freeing the murderer who wrongly shot and killed two BLM protesters and wounded another using an assault rifle illegally obtained and illegally possessed. Because Jesus, guns, and racism.
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  7. The Molotov cocktail recipe: Mix in equal parts of mental illness, willful ignorance, and 24/7 Reich-wing media / Russian propaganda programming, stir well, garnish with COVID-19, and you have the Republican cult. Then, grab a stiff drink--you'll need it.
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  8. Republican cult morons rail against the very "elite" they keep voting for, who give tax cuts to the rich and have created the greatest income inequality and wealth disparity in American history. Why? They are driven by the divisive fear and bigotry programmed into them 24/7 by the Reich-wing media and propaganda owned or funded by the plutocracy. It's absolutely Orwellian, and it began around 1984 in America. What is witnessed now is just the rotten results from the poisoned tree bearing fruition. It's the disease killing America that existed long before COVID-19, and which is likely to persist long after. Republican cult going to believe what the Republican cult wants to believe, whatever the truth, whatever proof, whatever anybody says. "Healing" the country means deprogramming the 30-40% of Americans deep in cultdom. That needs to be recognized, acknowledged, and acted upon if we truly wish to revive the patient, America, and restore it to glory.
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