I go on right-wing spaces so you don’t have to. It’s a masochistic endeavor, but I do it because they dominate the information and media landscape. Unfortunately, a lot of folks who aren’t completely radicalized by MAGA also watch and listen to these outlets. A part and parcel of the right-wing strategy is to Trojan Horse their conspiracy theories, culture wars, and attack through corporate, mainstream platforms to reach the majority. Unfortunately, corporate media still hasn’t figured it out yet, but maybe once they’re annihilated by those very same right-wing forces that refer to them as “the enemy of the people,” they will. Alas.
I have no delusions of grandeur that I’m going to win over hardcore consumers of right-wing news because I believe that ship has sailed. We’ve lost a good 30% of these Americans in my lifetime. That being said, I think going into right-wing spaces is strategically important to push back against lies, gaslighting, and sanewashing and to inject some semblance of facts and truths to disrupt and reconfigure the cognitive dissonance of those who aren’t lost.
I say all this because, predictably, both right-wing media and corporate media have bent their knee and parrotted all the fake outrage over President Biden’s pardon of his son while doing a “both sides” false equivalence with Donald Trump’s voluminous history of criminality and corruption. Just look at this pathetic framing from the New York Times.
They’re also playing into the nakedly bad faith talking point that this will now excuse Donald Trump’s future behavior and he will now pardon the January 6th insurrectionists whom he refers to as hostages and political prisoners. (Yeah, if he wasn’t going to do that already.)
The Democratic establishment is content to be Charlie Brown to MAGA’s Lucy as they keep moving the ball and Democrats keep falling on their ass. For example, Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan chided Biden for an “improper use of power” and Sen Michael Bennet of Colorado said it “further erodes Americans’ faith that the justice system is fair and equal for all.”
Please, spare me. Give me more Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who called out the fake MAGA pearl-clutching and told them to “look in the mirror.” 48% of American voters just went for a criminal who sexually assaulted a woman and incited a violent insurrection against our free and fair election. Sorry, I don’t play rigged games and I don’t engage in these performative exercises in bullshit civility like these milquetoast “moderate” Democrats whose spine is replaced by corporate amoeba jelly.
When MAGA goes low, I take them out in a knee bar. I recommend people who are tired of being gaslighted do the same.
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