Subvert democracy1/1/2024 Not every Republican, not even the majority of Republicans, are MAGA Republicans. The fact is, Biden walked into the collective mind of the nation that day in Philadelphia with dirty feet. That feeling is best expressed in the Mahatma Gandhi quote: “I will not allow anyone to walk in my mind with dirty feet.” In November 2016, from a front row seat in the Independence Hall press section, I watched as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton played to the roar of Democrat crowds in a cultish (anti-Trump) ceremonial complete with the canned music of Dem sycophants, Bruce Springsteen and Bon Jovi.īut even being so close to pantsuit Hillary that evening did not leave me with the feeling I got after Biden’s address to the nation. Kennedy addressed the nation from inside the building. In 1861, Abraham Lincoln raised the flag there when the state of Kansas entered the union. I added (half jokingly) that a bottle of holy water from my Russian Orthodox parish might be used to purify the space of unclean spirits. 6 less seriously than other Americans.After President Biden’s divisive speech at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, I told a friend that the sidewalk in front of that historic building needed a good scrubbing. Richard Hall, a British newspaper reporter, posted a picture of destroyed camera equipment and tweeted, “Today was the first day I've felt uncomfortable identifying myself as a journalist in America.”Īccording to website FiveThirtyEight, Republicans take the attack on our democracy on Jan. 6 when his supporters threatened journalists' lives.Īssociated Press photographer John Minchillo was pulled down a flight of stairs and shoved over a ledge as a Trump supporter shouted, “We'll f-ing kill you!” The effect of Trump demonizing the media was seen on Jan. 6 in an attempt to overturn the election.Ĭomrade Carlson spewed outrageous conspiracy theories in his film “Patriot Purge” that the violence on Jan.6 was an inside job by the government and left-wing activists. Right wing media, especially Fox News, saturated the airwaves with disinformation that the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent, which helped motivate Trump supporters to storm the U.S. ![]() ![]() Russia is masterful at information warfare and they use it to turn people against each other. Their strategy is to flood the internet and TV with misinformation, demonize institutions charged with uncovering the facts, then exploit the confusion. Putin and Trump negate factual reporting that they don't like with that simple phrase.Īccording to Vox's interview with Yale historian Timothy Snyder who wrote "The Road to Unfreedom," the phrase “fake news” was coined in Russia and used as part of a strategy to disorient their citizens and later to destabilize Western nations. Kremyr's story was reported by the New York Times, media that former President Donald Trump calls “fake news.” The Kremlin also called the bombing of a maternity hospital in Ukraine that left three dead, including a child, “fake news.” It's also why Americans live in alternate universes. Disinformation is false information intended to mislead and it is why Russians and Ukrainians whose lives are so closely intertwined subscribe to different realities.
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