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Musings for Friday - Well Duh. [1]
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Date: 2025-04-18
Are any of us surprised? Not one bit.
x To run an authoritarian state you need to control the media. Or rather, you need to plant your stooges in the room to tee up propaganda soft balls to lie to the public under the guise of media scrutiny.
🎥 @nytimes - TikTok -
https://t.co/UfQUTqijaK pic.twitter.com/73CXyVyjgZ — 𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 (@politicsusa46) April 17, 2025
Oh, and China is trolling Leavitt in her choices of dresses. It seems they have found that she wears dresses made in China on a somewhat consistent basis.
x Oralè Resisters
China Embassy Trolls
White House Press Secretary
Karoline Leavitt after her
Boycott China comment
With the dress she wore today is made in China! Hilarious
#USDemocracy #MadeInChins #TerribleRedDress
[image or embed] — Ruben Garcia (@gorubenruben.bsky.social) April 16, 2025 at 2:08 AM
And…
x Not gonna lie, China trolling the White House is hilarious. 🤣 pic.twitter.com/1yLSLCXc6X — Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) April 17, 2025
Now, on the related matter of...
Duh!
What Trump and the GOP are doing should surprise no one. We were given numerous warnings. The signs were there. It was written about. I even wrote an essay here three years ago called The Gathering Storm.
From my 2022 essay…
Tactical Extremism Our very own Mark Sumner wrote an article on the one year anniversary of the 6 January 2021 Trump led insurrection called: Tactical extremism brought America Reagan, Gingrich, Trump — and a looming threat to America. In it Mark states that the beginnings of the insurgency began more than five decades earlier. As I have noted above, author and historian Kevin M. Kruse tells us (although Kevin doesn’t use or describe the term) the Republican slide into tactical extremism actually began more than 80 years ago when business and religious leaders coalescing around their hatred for Roosevelt’s New Deal made a bargain with the GOP to attack it and the Democratic Party.
For almost 90 years the GOP along with the business and the religious leaders have wanted to tear down what Roosevelt built after the Great Depression. The guardrails of our democracy kept them from doing their worst. It took the populist bully Trump and the racist backlash to Obama to coalesce into what we’re seeing today.
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