Last Thursday, Trump tweeted an insult to Joe and Mika, cohosts on the MSNBC talk show "Morning Joe", which went too far and was condemned by many Trump supporters. In spite of all the pressing issues, such as the Senate healthcare bill and the G20 summit, the nation's attention was focused on the fallout from this Trump tweet. At least until Sunday, when another Trump tweet, this time against CNN, shifted the discussion to violence against the media.
I am still going through the videos so I do not have a complete agenda, but we will start with these video from last Thursday:
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Here are the other videos shown at the meeting:
Here are the other videos shown at the meeting:
What is the building (and location) in the background behind Mercedes and Charles Krauthamer in the second video?
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DeleteI believe that's Union Station in DC.
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"Does Trumps' Behavior on Twitter Amount to Cyberbullying?" a 3:49 minute segment on NPR. http://www.npr.org/programs/morning-edition
ReplyDeleteLook for July 4 first, then scroll down for the segment. It's about 70% of the way down.
Martin Amis made the astute observation in a Harper’s article last August that Mr. Trump’s greatest talent is in exploiting weakness⎯whether in an opponent or a system. Just as he has avoided the more ruinous consequences of bankruptcy by exploiting the weaknesses in our financial system (making his brand not his business acumen indispensable), he has achieved his greatest feat yet in an apparent life-long project of self-promotion by taking advantage of the media’s hunger for profits, the hopelessness of those left behind by globalization and free market fundamentalism, and our awkward electoral process. And along the way he’s exploited our most primitive fears (of “the other,” of pending “disaster,” etc.) Perhaps most surprising of all, he has even figured a way to appeal to Christian fundamentalists, with which he seems about as familiar as with the dark side of the moon. Have we created and evolved a culture that rewards self-promotion regardless of the costs to others⎯a culture that measures success almost exclusively in economic terms⎯and is our current president simply the latest egregious example?
ReplyDeleteThere was a side bar to the Banana Republic report, with Pres. Carter and Bernie Sanders focusing on the disparity of income and power in the US, in which the middle class is getting squeezed, not only by the wealthy, but also on the downside, by the non-working government-subsidized people. They see themselves, rightly or wrongly, as supporting a large percentage of the populace who do not work, and they resent this. It is probably easier for the middle class to disparage this group of people than the very wealthy.
ReplyDeleteExcerpt from Carter/Sanders talk: "Asked by the moderator about the rise of authoritarian politics in the United States and elsewhere, both the Vermont senator and former president agreed on a single root cause: political and economic inequality.
“I think the root of it is something that I haven’t heard discussed much,” Carter replied. “I believe the root of the downturn in human rights preceded 2016, it began earlier than that, and I think the reason was disparity in income which has been translated into the average person, you know good, decent, hard-working middle class people feeling that they are getting cheated by the government and by society and they don’t get the same element of health care, they don’t get the same quality education, they don’t get the same political rights.”
“I agree with everything that President Carter said,” Sanders replied.