And then El-Sayed asked Watters if he was circumcised, LMAO
Asking one of the most insecure men on tv about his dick
BOSS MOVE
Edit: sorry, here’s the link
And then El-Sayed asked Watters if he was circumcised, LMAO
Asking one of the most insecure men on tv about his dick
BOSS MOVE
Edit: sorry, here’s the link
Love this guy. El-Sayed and Mamdani are really kicking ass! They are exactly what I want for my state (and the whole gd country too, but you know as well as I do that red states are hopeless and too brainwashed to ever do better).
Dr. El-Sayed was born in the US. Just saying. He is very qualified to run for president--- though the bar is so low right now it's a tripping hazard in hell...
They're focusing on the message.
Kamala was doing the right thing by laughing in their faces.
But we have to take it to the next step. Piss them off. Tell them to stop wasting everyone's time about which bathroom to use when people are dying because they're afraid of going to the hospital.
Spot on. Journalism today is a joke. They're owned by billionaires and mostly care about clicks and ad revenue, so they milk every stupid trend rather than go for the topics that really matter.
Politicians get too easily distracted. You don't have to answer every bullshit question or take a position on every stupid trend topic. If a journalist doesn't do his job properly, tell them off, or even address the viewers and their actual real-life struggles directly.
and then the party/msms put a muzzle on thier language, they knew it was hurting the Rs.
Oh damn. That's why they're coming at him harder than Mamdani.
He's a threat to establishment careers.
Thats the correct response.
And when asked about kids getting bottom surgery, buddy asked the host if he was circumcised.
I watched the entire thing.
I can't stress enough how Sayed stayed calm and cool during the whole thing, while the clown on the left there was constantly trying to talk over him (as is the game plan for all those swamp creatures).
I couldn't sit there and be as patient and calm as Sayed, that's for damn sure. It's about time we started taking a no nonsense stand, and I am here for it. :-)
I've only watched a part but i laughed at the the part of: "Have you followed then news recently, it's pretty big." It's only big because they misuse their platform to make it big. When you look at the numbers of actual people affected, well let's just say the amount of measles death in certain states is higher.
I mean it's their whole effective schtick after all because Americans are not intelligent. Loud and repeated is the truth to so many Americans when they have little to no critical thinking skills. Whoever is the loudest, the fastest, the most obnoxious is the victor of the debate when it comes to the vast majority of the American electorate.
it's sad but it works and it make tons of money promoting this type of discourse instead of actual boring, proper debate and discussion.
Yeah. That's FOX News. They tell their viewers what to think, and the viewers obey.
They have a very specific propaganda program. It draws people in with fear, outrage and bigotry...
Then it invites them to divest of all other information sources (except maybe approved ones like OANN or WSJ) the way that an abusive spouse gets their partner to disconnect from all other social relationships.
And then it pumps them with MAGA ideology. The culture war stuff.
It's literal mind control, but it's like a reverse hack (trying a common password on multiple accounts), in that it hits a lot of people and sucks in those who bite. Usually white uneducated men.
I was on a 2.5 hour flight recently, and a guy a couple of rows up was watching Fox News. It just jumped from: Trans, Immigrants, Socialism, over and over and over the entire flight. It made me realize how fitting the term 'News Story' really is!
It identifies as news.
Under penalty of perjury, FOX News lawyers assure the court it is absolutely not a news channel but entertainment. Therefore should not be subject to news media regulations. During the 2020 election recount when they were lying about the integrity of Dominion Voting Systems election machines, the lawyers made it super clear now not news FOX is.
So FOX is not only a propaganda machine, but is deceptive at its core.
but... if it identifies as it, that kinda means we need to let it into the newsroom =(
That's repetition if just 24 hour news channels. CNN is similar they just harp on a different set of issues.
I'm mildly curious how much longer they can keep it up as they slowly become less and less relevant. Few under 40 subscribe to cable television and instead consume social media influencers who are both myriad and cheaper to influence.
They have a very specific propaganda program. It draws people in with fear, outrage and bigotry...
It's the same one that's been around since the 1920's, they've all been cribbing from the same guy for over a hundred years.
The German jurist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt wrote about the inherent vulnerability of democracy in his book The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy in 1923. He basically wrote the playbook that every fascist still utilizes today.
Writing "Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal, but unequals will not be treated equally." Basically, you can tear apart any democracy by framing diversity and minority opinions as existential threats to the political community, by exploiting this you can lay the groundwork for majoritarian tyranny and state-sponsored exclusion.
Hey Fox News, it's bread and circus. If you're only doing circus and people get hungry you're still going to be in trouble. Groceries matter.
It's by intention. I noticed that right wingers don't really talk about the economic equality but instead focus on culture wars.
That's why they came up with the culture wars in the first place.
It's cheaper than fixing a real problem, and much easier to sell.
You can literally have TWO right-wing parties entirely in agreement with right-wing policies on those things which have the most impact in the lives of pretty much everybody out there, which play-act politics with culture wars with one of them claiming to be "leftwing" because they're supposedly pro-equality in moral terms (but never, ever, EVER socially or economically)
If you're American (and nowadays, also from most countries in Europe), this description probably sounds very familiar ...
Culture war is free, while economic reforms that would benefit people are not
(meaning it would leave less money in their billionaire owners & their friends’ pockets)
Standard acceptable answer:
"think about this last week. How many times did you personally feel like things were too expensive? How many times did a cis woman you personally know lose to a trans woman in sports?"
How many times did you personally feel like things were too expensive?
Even this is a weak framing.
"How many times did you personally feel like your are being overcharged for groceries, utilities, or rents?" puts the blame where is belongs.
Stuff isn't just "more expensive" by some mystifying method. People who own shit are raising prices on you. And these same people are paying you less for your work.
As though he has to think about prices…
Watters is incapable of thought.
"I can't afford to live."
"Does that lady have a PENIS?!"
"Um…"
"The Ladyboy Muslim immigrant with the illegal penis is desecrating the American Flag and that's why you can't afford groceries"
"Um... I don't know but I should find out! They could be trying to invade girls bathrooms! I'm going to spend all my money to support this obvious life threatening situation!"
"Lettuce now gives you diarrhea!"
What else is on? "Police called on gay men holding hands!"
Unfortunately there are plenty of idiots with propaganda brain willing to take the traitors at Fox seriously.
“How am i supposed to take this seriously” has become my default mood whenever i have to interact with society of late.
It's absolutely the right move to not even play that game. Don't let them use that weapon to distract from the issues.
Cant talk about things that actually matter, because trump and republicans are directly responsible for that.
So we have to inflame idiots by talking about stupid bullshit that no one cared about until they poured gasoline on it to make it a wedge issue in desperate attempt to salvage votes from the mess they've personally created.
Sorry to reply to my own post..
but everything from the right (even back before the party flip, because it doesnt matter what the label was, they were still the same assholes) is nothing but culture war shit.
Segregation was a culture war. A culture war that they ultimately loss, and while its terrifying ramifications are far from over even today, they did admit defeat on it.. Which is why leaders held secret meetings, of which there are recordings of, to figure out what the next hateful wedge issue would be.. and they came upon abortion.. and even they struggled with deciding on abortion, because literally no one gave a flat fuck about abortion outside the catholics, and they were mocked for caring about abortion.
But they decided Abortion was their best bet for the continuing culture war bullshit, so they went whole hog on it, and within a year ministers and priests and politicians and the whole propaganda machine churned into action and suddenly gave a fuck about abortion and declared it the great evil of our time
and that went on for 50+ years, until they started losing the battle on Abortion.. and just like they did when they lost the battle on segregation, they had to come up with a new cultural wedge issue, because they cant argue on actual politics and records because their politics are as awful as their goddamn records.. And what did they land on? Trans people. Who are the new desegregation, the new abortion. And just like every time previous, they want to inflame hate to trick gullible idiots into voting for them out of fear.
and trans people existing is such a weak fucking wedge issue, that they are trying to go back to segregations racist arguments, with trying to be oOoOoOo big spooky about black people existing, or spreading blatant lies about them eating all the dogs and birds, or that the brown people are here to rape our women and take our jobs, and all the other tired tropey bullshit.
Fear fear fear FEAR FEAR. Thats all it boils down to. Trying to convince sheltered idiots to fear what they havent experienced. to fear who they don't know. to fear everything that is unknown.
Beacuse as long as people are drowning in adrenaline fueled fear, they'll never stop to look around them and realize its all fucking bullshit and admit they've been duped and lied too.
MAGA thinks they smell blood in the water on the trans issue, so that's their chosen wedge issue for the foreseeable future. I'm the past it was abortion, flag burning, kneeling, gay adoption, gay marriage, gay gayness, etc.
The proper answer to any trans nonsense is: "I am not a doctor, and I won't presume to interfere with the medical decisions between any patient and their doctor, on any subject. I have absolutely no opinions on this subject, and do not consider it an appropriate subject for a political discussion. It is an appalling and indefensible political strategy to use any medical issue as a political talking point, so I'm not interested in your opinion either."
That works for ANY medical issue, including abortion.
that is their M.O. - to distract.
We need to zealously stomp on culture war distractions whenever we see them. Remind people no war but the class war.
It doesn't even make sense within the Republicans own claimed worldview. Shouldn't governing of sports programs be left to those programs, if we believe in small government? But they want to make it federal legislation. Make it make sense.
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