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The memo – called, simply enough, “A Plan For Putting the GOP on TV News” – is included in a 318-page cache of documents detailing [Roger] Ailes’ work for both the Nixon and George H.W. Bush administrations that we obtained from the Nixon and Bush presidential libraries. Through his firms REA Productions and Ailes Communications, Inc., Ailes served as paid consultant to both presidents in the 1970s and 1990s, offering detailed and shrewd advice ranging from what ties to wear to how to keep the pressure up on Saddam Hussein in the run-up to the first Gulf War.

The memo explains why television was the way to go:

Today television news is watched more often than people read newspapers, than people listen to the radio, than people read or gather any other form of communication. The reason: People are lazy. With television you just sit—watch—listen. The thinking is done for you.

https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2011/memo-from-1970-a-plan-for-putting-the-gop-on-tv-news/

Ailes started Fox News because Nixon had to resign after Watergate. They figured if they could create their own news and talk about whatever they wanted, their voters would think what they were told to think.

Then in the 90s the oligarchs bought the only other options, and one of the first things the Clintons and Biden did was take a chainsaw to telecommunication regulations...

Don't fucking give credit to Bannon like he has a masterful insight. This was obvious and in plain sight, the literal memo saying they were gonna do it entered into Nixon's presidential library, and even more updates from HW's

It's the main reason Trump will likely never have one and is paranoid about flushing memos down toilets.

The big reason it's going so poorly is the plan was for someone like Jeb to be in office. trump just inserted himself into an existing plan like a cuckoo egg.

All super fucking obvious

My philosophy has always been “don’t listen to that guy“, but I suppose we really should’ve been listening to that guy, because he’s been broadcasting the Trump strategy for over 10 years

What a fucking pile of shit that guy is

It's not dopamine...

An amygdala going off feels great, it's why people like getting scared and being dangerous.

The more it goes off, the larger it grows, the more it goes off. It is a feedback loop.

But that's still not what's going on here.

fox news did this expertly.

I already have a different reply explaining how fox news connects, but again you're off.

Eh, I don’t know if that was a nice thing about her. I prefer my fascists out and proud. Posting online about how they're planning on breaking the law or giving speeches where they say their exact plans. Makes it easier to prosecute them when the time comes. Not that she doesn't also deserve it, but it's not quite the same if she's not publicly lying about being a lawyer or openly admitting to war crimes and the like. We must shine a light on evil and it really helps when they are the ones stepping into the spotlight.

My point, though, is that this job works best if it is done under the radar. A Chief of Staff has no authority at all unless the President gives it to them to make decisions on his behalf. So the job needs to be out of public view, otherwise people will question who is actually making the decisions.

His wife is vicious and insane as well: the kids got a double helping.

I wish I were joking, but I am not.

A lizard for a father and a potato for a mother, I'll bet those kids are gorgeous.

+1...My angle...The racist neo-Nazi loser resembles fucking Goebbels. Short, skinny and the same shitty attitude.

He knows his words are false, but what he is doing is dictating reality to us; he’s making it clear how we are expected to behave, and that any deviation from said reality will be declared treasonous and terrorism.

Ignore the evidence of your eyes and ears. Listen to The Party and toe the party line.

I wanna get paid to say foolish things!

"Twilight is the height of literature"

"Trump is the world's greatest athlete"

"Pi is equal to both 3 and 4"

"The equator is the powerhouse of the fermament"

"All pizza should have pineapples"

I'm fairly certain Stephen Miller truly believes these hateful things, he doesn't just say this because he's getting paid. The videos of him from high school are chilling. That said, I think this move is going to backfire on Trump, but there will be turmoil for the American people first.

They are deeply angry that the American public “betrayed” them

Accurate and succinct.

Court-ordered antipsychotics, maybe.

They lay the malefactor upon his belly, with his hands tied behind his back, then they slit up his fundament with a razor, and throw into it a handful of paste that they have in readiness, which immediately stops the blood. After that, they thrust up into his body a very long stake as big as a man's arm, sharp at the point and tapered, which they grease a little before; when they have driven it in with a mallet, till it come out at his breast, or at his head or shoulders, they lift him up, and plant this stake very straight in the ground, upon which they leave him so exposed for a day.

Even a worm wouldn't let him tongue it.

They've already shown rule of law and the constitution does not matter to them.