On 2017-01-31 01:15, [email protected] wrote: >January 30, Time To Wake Up
>"The media always has taken Trump literally. It never takes him >seriously." (Peter Thiel) > >What is beginning to dawn upon Americans is that the exact opposite is true: >That by taking >Trump seriously, they completely misunderstood what he was telling them and >vastly >underestimated his ambition; that instead, each and every announcement of his >government >has to be taken literally. <...> >Just like his attacks against Hillary Clinton, the New York Times, independent >judges, or >the City of Chicago. Short of a popular uprising, this government will go all >the way. >Shutting down news media, arresting the opposition, suspending the judiciary, >tanks in the >streets? It's all in the cards. If this sounds like the recent history of >Turkey, then >Americans will have to study that history, look at each of its phases, find >out where they >think it will stop in the U.S., how it will stop there, and what each of them >will have to >contribute, personally, to make it stop. > >Further reading: > >Yonatan Zunger: Trial Balloon for a Coup? Analyzing the news of the past 24 >hours. >https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/trial-balloon-for-a-coup-e024990891d5 Hear! Hear! What can one say more? # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected] # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
