Kansas Crimson

defixione wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 6:03 pm PDub recruited him for the role he's playing. To quote a high level authority in his camp, 'no rational person would believe this crap.'

Walrus wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 1:06 pm I said it was a "rumor." Do you guys know what a "rumor" is?

Cascadia wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 8:37 pm No surprise that Mjl comes to Lobby’s defense.

One of the defining aspects of the highly caffeinated conservative cable news sludge that Trump still chugs thirstily from morning until night is that it is hard to understand. It is intended to induce a state of heated clammy umbrage in the slack and softening minds of its consumers, and reliably does that, but it does this more through tone and frequency than by means of information. The point is to keep everyone watching both very upset and kind of curious about what exactly they’re upset about. This worked both on Trump and for him, but in no way can it be said to have made him more informed. Nothing on earth has ever really done that, but the idea is to repeat things enough that even passive viewers will be able to pick up the broad strokes, learn the heroes and villains and outrages and memes, get upset when they’re supposed to get upset and keep watching through the commercial breaks. Someone who watches enough hours of this will become not just familiar with but wholly conversant in all the salty phonemes that make up its language, but never quite know what the fuck they’re talking about.

For an example of what this might sound like, here is a two-minute video of Donald Trump calling into Newsmax, a cable news channel that broadcasts the maximum amount of news allowable by law, talking about what a shame it is that Major League Baseball moved its All-Star Game out of Atlanta in response to Georgia’s new slate of laws aimed at making voting more onerous, annoying, and difficult to do. The stuff that approaches fact in the discussion is wildly, 180-degrees wrong—there’s no reasonable comparison between Colorado and Georgia’s voting laws, for starters—but mostly they are just kind of making the same sounds back and forth.

The big guy just loves to talk and truly loves to be on TV, but also his dedication to television and congenital blowhard incuriosity makes it difficult for him to communicate beyond aiming to replicate the various smears of color and noise that he encounters there. Here, later in the same conversation, we see Trump running aground when asked whether his people should boycott MLB in response to the woke, the thing with the woke that is actually very sad, with the All-Star Game, that no one cares about but which is really so regrettable.

MICHHAWK wrote: ↑Mon Apr 19, 2021 8:25 am Be done with the propaganda. Get yourself vaccinated. Live again.

You can do it.

sdoyel wrote: ↑Sun Apr 18, 2021 3:30 pm This man has killed so many people.

Sparko wrote: ↑Mon Apr 19, 2021 9:42 am It will kill a lot more Americans.

Sparko wrote: ↑Mon Apr 19, 2021 9:42 am Crazy how easy it was for Russia to co-opt the republican party and turn public health into a personal freedom shout fest. It will kill a lot more Americans.

Sparko wrote: ↑Mon Apr 19, 2021 9:42 am Crazy how easy it was for Russia to co-opt the republican party and turn public health into a personal freedom shout fest. It will kill a lot more Americans.