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@markmetz Please edit to add alt text:

Photo of Forrest Gump looking like he's about to come to a profound realization, above which is the heading "And just like that," and below, the caption:

Nobody's talking about:

  • the largest protests in American history;
  • Trump being in the Epstein files;
  • the assassination of a politician in Minnesota;
  • crowd size at Trump's birthday parade;
  • the surfacing possibilities of the 2024 election rigging;
  • federal thugs abducting American citizens;
  • a spending bill that adds trillions to the national debt, makes it legal for Trump to ignore the courts;
  • Trump's record low polling numbers.

@deFractal @markmetz

It's amazing how quickly all fascists turn to war, isn't it ?

Either they're already in the army (Franco, Pinochet) or they start a war as soon as they can anyway (Mussolini, Hitler).

Distraction ? Bullying ? Hatefulness ? Uniform fetish ?

@GeofCox @deFractal @markmetz

Poisonous pedagogy & daddy issues. 😐

@markmetz

Wagging the dog… every single day again Trump needs a new news flash. It is how serial liars operate…

@markmetz and imagine. All it took to achieve this was opening hostilities against a middle eastern state.
Is your government going to shit? Just have a war.

@markmetz

I do believe it’s “Trump's record low polling numbers.” In the 40s & falling I read somewhere. 😐

@markmetz bombing Iran is a nice distraction for him to take the narrative away from his other problems

@markmetz

“the surfacing possibilities of the 2024 election rigging”.

Not surprised, but I had not seen this news. Can someone provide a link?

Did Kamala Harris lose the US election due to faulty machines? Company denies 2024 rigging claims

Kamala Harris 2024 Election result: A lawsuit in Rockland County, New York, has revived questions about the 2024 US presidential election. Dozens of ballots appeared to register no vote for Kamala Harris, despite otherwise being complete. Voting machine firm ES&S is under scrutiny, with experts questioning untested software changes and missing votes. While the suit wont affect Donald Trumps certified victory, it could shake trust in the system. A court hearing in September could finally determine whether this was error—or something more serious.

Economic Times
@markmetz At least we know no one has to talk about his record low polling numbers in order for him to continue to have record low polling numbers.
@markmetz unless you're on mastodon, then literally everyone is posting about how nobody is posting about it.
@markmetz If I destroy the whole forest nobody will notice all the trees I’ve cut down.
@markmetz Sadly, most of the media are collaborators with Hitler Americanus.
@markmetz
I guess he refers to the media in Germany and the EU ...

@markmetz

What 2024 election rigging?

@CosmickTrigger @markmetz Yeah, that one is another embarrassing conspiracy theory. I’d cross it off of the otherwise solid meme.

@markmetz

No, people are still talking about these things. And chill with the 2024 election conspiracy theories. It's Q-level stupid, but coming from the left.

@markmetz oh, I think people are still talking about all of those things, even if they have dropped from the news cycle…

@markmetz

I see your point but I don't think it's quite true. Perhaps many media outlets are incapable of talking about more than one thing at once, but I have been reading a lot about the following: the continued fascist invasion of L.A., people's newfound support of Medicaid (and fear about its cuts), the Senate parliamentarian's decisions that aspects of the bill can't be passed by a simple majority, et al.

Uhh... stop watching... network news? Stop watching the news and go see what your neighbors are up to. Yes it's your business. No staying "informed" doesn't matter. GO while you still can!