Angelo Carusone

1. What you see here is clearest illustration why things are so messed up and why it cannot get any better until this asymmetry is addressed. Put simply: the right-wing has narrative dominance. My org @mmfa.bsky.social did this study and has been sounding this alarm for years. Some thoughts...

It’s not what Trump posted that tells you where this is going; it’s how his people are responding to it that really tells you where this is going.

Computer. Enhance!

Fox News serving up propaganda that would make North Korean media blushed.

"Their president Biden was a warmonger. This man [Trump] is a peace monger. This is the greatest peace movement in modern American history. This is a peace mission. The fact that we have to use weapons is because the other side wants to build nuclear weapons to blow us off the face of the earth."

Hegseth has a long history of not only calling for war with Iran, but for thirsting over destroying cultural heritage sites. He sees the US military as a flaming sword for Jesus…and now he’s in charge of it. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

How i feel too.

The massive right-wing media and associated fever swamps, I think, play a bit part in why authoritarianism is able to blossom here faster than benchmarks. Emerging authoritarian regimes need to build out media and propaganda. We already had one for decades pickling people in grievance and deceit.

lol. Fox News cutting away from cabinet meeting.

1/ I’ve been going back and watching rwm in initial hour after the murder shooting, before more videos came out In this Bannon clip, Guest assumes a gun musta been was pulled: a) you don’t shoot unarmed people; b) there were multiple agents so lethal force wouldnt be needed unless extreme situation