Comments on: Trump’s attack on the media as a microcosm of how it works in the White House https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/07/29/trumps-attack-on-the-media-as-a-microcosm-of-how-it-works-in-the-white-house/ Tue, 31 Jul 2018 02:35:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Bernard J. https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/07/29/trumps-attack-on-the-media-as-a-microcosm-of-how-it-works-in-the-white-house/#comment-601120 Tue, 31 Jul 2018 02:35:04 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=29985#comment-601120 Trump and Putin are achieving what Hitler could only dream of.

It’s that simple. Unfortunately, it’s largely the advent of the internet in its current form that has facilitated this eventuality.

On Trump, this is interesting:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/07/30/trump-lies-reversals-rudderless-unprincipled-leader-psychologist-column/848728002/

]]> By: BBD https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/07/29/trumps-attack-on-the-media-as-a-microcosm-of-how-it-works-in-the-white-house/#comment-601078 Mon, 30 Jul 2018 20:36:38 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=29985#comment-601078 In reply to dean.

What are you lying about now?

]]> By: MikeN https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/07/29/trumps-attack-on-the-media-as-a-microcosm-of-how-it-works-in-the-white-house/#comment-601071 Mon, 30 Jul 2018 19:53:02 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=29985#comment-601071 In reply to dean.

You missed the point.

]]> By: cosmicomics https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/07/29/trumps-attack-on-the-media-as-a-microcosm-of-how-it-works-in-the-white-house/#comment-601048 Mon, 30 Jul 2018 15:55:44 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=29985#comment-601048 “It may be that his rhetoric is set on high right now because the pressure is on.”

And when the pressure is on he attacks, diverts, and denies.

These days Trump seems to be surprising his staff, taking off and crashing on his own, so their role seems to be making him aware that he’s made a mess and trying to clean up after him. There’s a clear disjuncture between what Trump claims his policies will achieve and what they achieve. More troubling is the disjuncture between how Trump thinks people react and how they react. He wants to believe that his rallies express the vox populi, but at the same time he makes a conscientious effort to avoid protests and challenging questions.

Part of the pressure stems from the frustrating reality that being president isn’t the same as being the glorified CEO of a bigger Trump Organization. I think he expected unquestioning loyalty and that his position would give him the right to control the Justice Department. Part of the pressure stems from the discrepancy between the world of Trump’s nostalgia and the world as it is. I don’t think he expected that the targets of his trade war would strike back.

]]> By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/07/29/trumps-attack-on-the-media-as-a-microcosm-of-how-it-works-in-the-white-house/#comment-601028 Mon, 30 Jul 2018 12:31:57 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=29985#comment-601028 As has been repeatedly explained, there was no spy. Conspiracy mongers keep repeating that one existed but there is nothing to support their assertions.

]]> By: MikeN https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/07/29/trumps-attack-on-the-media-as-a-microcosm-of-how-it-works-in-the-white-house/#comment-600999 Mon, 30 Jul 2018 03:37:07 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=29985#comment-600999 ‘Your surviving spy must be a man of keen intellect, though in outward appearance a fool; of shabby exterior, but with a will of iron. He must be active, robust, endowed with physical strength and courage; thoroughly accustomed to all sorts of dirty work, able to\ endure hunger and cold, and to put up with shame and ignominy.’

]]> By: curtis m. goodnight https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/07/29/trumps-attack-on-the-media-as-a-microcosm-of-how-it-works-in-the-white-house/#comment-600995 Mon, 30 Jul 2018 02:10:02 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=29985#comment-600995 Gessen’s “Autocracy: Rules for Survival” felt disturbingly prescient when it ran on Nov 10, 2016. Now it is unfolding….”The national press is likely to be among the first institutional victims of Trumpism. There is no law that requires the presidential administration to hold daily briefings, none that guarantees media access to the White House. Many journalists may soon face a dilemma long familiar to those of us who have worked under autocracies: fall in line or forfeit access. There is no good solution (even if there is a right answer), for journalism is difficult and sometimes impossible without access to information.

The power of the investigative press—whose adherence to fact has already been severely challenged by the conspiracy-minded, lie-spinning Trump campaign—will grow weaker. The world will grow murkier. Even in the unlikely event that some mainstream media outlets decide to declare themselves in opposition to the current government, or even simply to report its abuses and failings, the president will get to frame many issues. Coverage, and thinking, will drift in a Trumpian direction, just as it did during the campaign—when, for example, the candidates argued, in essence, whether Muslim Americans bear collective responsibility for acts of terrorism or can redeem themselves by becoming the “eyes and ears” of law enforcement. Thus was xenophobia further normalized, paving the way for Trump to make good on his promises to track American Muslims and ban Muslims from entering the United States.”

]]> By: MikeN https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/07/29/trumps-attack-on-the-media-as-a-microcosm-of-how-it-works-in-the-white-house/#comment-600991 Mon, 30 Jul 2018 00:58:42 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=29985#comment-600991 >a good chance of landing Trump in prison at some point later on.

I don’t think that’ll be happening. Trump came into office knowing that his transition team was being spied on. He will take a lot of people down before you could even try to pin a crime on him.

Lisa Page to Peter Strzok text message- Mike Rogers visited Trump Tower yesterday.

Seems all innocent, but why do they care what the head of NSA was doing?

Well, you see Rogers likely informed Trump he was being spied on, and that night the transition team was moved out of Trump Tower to a Trump golf club in New Jersey, breaking much of their spying.

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