She is exactly spot-on in this analysis of that stupid Trump/CNN wrestling video. The bottom line: everyone is focusing on the dingleberry troll who created the video, and churning up the conversation with “blackmail” nonsense, effectively burying the significant story. And that story is that our president is babbling like an immature troll himself on Twitter.
CNN responded with an investigation into the creator of the video, thus totally missing the point, which was not who created the content, but the fact that it was officially disseminated by the White House.
We have to stop getting distracted by the alt-right noise machine and turn our attention directly to the root problem: the Trump regime itself.
It’s easy to tell you to stop getting mad, to pull this visceral experience into the abstract, and declare that we shouldn’t be so confused by confusion, but we must be especially mindful with our outrage when it is being leveraged for intellectual destruction. #CNNBlackmail is not the last we’ve heard of trolling, though calling it out for what it is can help us find focus in the haze of perpetual BS. You’ll be less likely to fall for such trickery if you remain true to yourself, and are actively thinking through your contributions to the public forum. If we can’t yet figure out how to turn off the strobe light, we can at least try admitting that the flashing lights are contributing to our collective headache.
Man, she’s smarter than I am. Smarter than most of the media faces that drone on on the TV, too.
Trouble is, Trump may have started the fire but he’s no longer the “root”, in that getting rid of the root doesn’t kill the problem.
There’s another meme that’s come up recently, started by some employed figure in the Nazi-right – I can’t remember off the top of my head if he’s a Breitbart editor or Trump state campaign chair or what. But in his gif, Trump’s head appears on a plane as it hits one of the Twin Towers, painted over with a bright-red CNN logo.
Think about that for a moment. These guys are literally memeing themselves as terrorists attacking America now. And going hog-wild over it, hooting and hollering. If this was ever a movement even tenuously about some sort of principle, it isn’t anymore. It’s pure vandalism. It’s a movement based on nothing more than breaking things to make dem dirty libs cry.
If – when – we destroy Trump, this movement isn’t going to just shrug and go away. They’re barely holding back now because their champion is busy wrecking everything, but as soon as we take back even a semblance of control – even to put it into the hands of the uncharismatic, Lawful Evil pence – they’re going to take destruction into their own hands.
Patriotism, America First, make America Great Again, economic anxiety, opioid epidemic – none of this means anything to people who meme themselves as America-hating terrorists. They’ll tear this country down to piss of the left. Convince them you want to save their babies, and they’ll toss them into traffic just to piss you off (or at least do the equivalent, destroying their own healthcare to stick it to us). You’ve seen the NRA video. You’ve watched their violence boil over the fringe, from Malheur and Oregon trains to Montana reporters. That’s just a prelude to what’s to come.
Cutting off Trump is necessary to stop the damage HE is doing to our civic institutions and to eventually regaining control, but my honest, greatest fear is that the Democratic leadership will remain too feckless, too complacent, to keep this country secure against the tens of millions of terrorists waiting for us to throw open the gate.