The “Red Mirage” was the plan all along …
“Can’t satirize guys in shiny boots.”
Mel Brooks did. There should be a remake of “The Producers” with trump as the dictator in chief. Springtime in Mar-a-Lago. Trump is begging to be satirized.
Love this 
Thank you!
Critical thinking is a learned art. And I think it is so easy to brainwash some individuals who are willing to believe what they want to believe. If I can’t believe this, it means half of Americans are evil, and I don’t want to believe that! 
Exactly. They want to believe it so they choose to believe it. It is not brain washing in the literal sense, it is reinforcement of their belief system.
Unless you’re an actual physicist, this is sheer open-ended nonsense, amounting to “who knows?” which is not that far from climate change denial and a typical Trump attempt at gaslighting. Seriously, it’s fixed. Only known possible way “around” it is to shorten the travel distance via wormholes, which are theoretical and technically aren’t faster than light travel.
Even that runs you into problems with causality. You really want observers at rest with respect to one another to see the same order for events that are causally related. As soon as you introduce faster than light in (almost) any form, then you have to give up being able to decide whether A kicking B caused B to say “Ouch”, unless you’re willing to allow causality to propagate backwards in observed time. (which you can also do, but a lot of other physics has to be rewritten)
Or you just get Chris Nolan to direct.
Prefer “My Country, Right or Wrong”.
At least it keeps all options open.
The end of the phrase is “If It’s Wrong, Make it Right”.
Not really. Assuming it’s even possible, you’re bending space, not compressing it or moving faster than light.
There’s also those alleged “smart” and “educated” people who also fall prey to this. Some aren’t actually that smart, or only situationally smart in some professional specialty, some are so blinded by racism, anger or whatever that they’re not able to think straight, and some have mental issues or suffered some personal loss or disappointment that made them snap. But yeah, most are weak-minded and not terribly bright or educated people who just fell in with the others. This is the biggest group.
With Trump’s approval in the low 30s and more likely to fall than rise as further details make the escapade of Jan 6 look worse and worse and the make-up dripping Rudy Giuliani takes up his defense in the Senate, the Republicans face a real dilemma. No amount of gerrymandering can win with 30%. Do they try to win back the Indies by washing the stain of Trumpism away at the cost of some of their base staying home or do they carry forward as a rump faction (pun intended)?
They are between a rock and a hard place and it’s all richly deserved…
So how does one go about forming a new party? Because the sane republicans may be wanting to do that. What assets can they strip from the crazy-occupied party they’re leaving? Is the corporate structure organized state by state?
And as the GOP registrations go down, the % of Rethugs who support insurrection goes up.
Everything in the poll seems to indicate that Trump voters remain Trump voters, not Republican voters. If there remains a core of non-Trump Republicans, they are vanishingly small. As the GOP tries to separate itself from the angry guy leaving the room, it’s completely unclear how many of those Trump voters are ready to come back into their ranks without Big Orange at the lead. With a 11% favorable rating for McConnell, and a 20% rating for McCarthy … just who is the leader of the Republican Party going into 2021?
“Corporate America” is not monolithic. It has always been possible for any faction to have its own media. For example, before there was social media, there was radio and TV. Before that, there were newspapers. Even in the 1890s, it wasn’t that huge a capital investment to set up your own printing press. Nowadays, it is not hard to set up your own social media site. Parler is too stupid to do it, and continue to depend on outside vendors (I’m not sure I’d feel very secure under the “protection” of the Russians; there are a lot of eastern Europeans who can explain the problems with that). It’s not really that hard to set up a streaming TV network, at least in terms of technology.
One of the issues here is that it further bifurcates where people get their news. And we are already at a point where the core right wingers already have their own model of reality, which treats the rational one most of us adhere to as a threat. (We consider the right wing reality to be a mental disorder, which may put us at a disadvantage.)
Sure you can set up your own ‘Social media site’. You still require an ‘outside vendor’ or web host for your services. It’s not hard to ‘set up’ anything. The issue is access to an audience. It’s not free when you’re providing MEDIA and other services. Apparently you’ve never done any of this or you’d not neglect the basics of needing hosting.
- Radio, TV, newspapers do not have the amplification power of social media.
- The amplification power of social media comes from the huge number of subscribers, which, typically, setting up you own site does not provide.
- What @Anarchy_Bunker said.