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| It would be a miracle if Trump didn't have a hold on them. |
Seemingly everyone within spitting distance of a TV camera, microphone, or computer with internet connection needs to react immediately to whatever he says. My favorite news headline last week, regarding a certain publicity-hungry lawyer's appearance on Fox and Friends, read: ALAN DERSHOWITZ ON TRUMP'S TWEETS ABOUT MCCABE TEXT MESSAGES.
Commenting on comments about comments -- is that what we've come to? And not just any kind of comments, but "tweets". Thank God Twitter wasn't around in the 19th-century; the Gettysburg Address would have run about 100 tweets long -- taxing the attention span of any reader -- while Alan Dershowitz's great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather would have commented on Fox and Confederates.
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| German? Sorry, if it's not in Russian, Trump isn't interested. |
Dr.
Mabuse is a master of disguise and telepathic
hypnosis
known
to employ body transference,
most often through demonic
possession
but
sometimes utilizing object technologies
such
as television
or
phonograph
machines,
to build a "society
of
crime".
Mabuse rarely commits his crimes in person, instead operating
primarily through a network of agents enacting his schemes. Mabuse's
agents range from career criminals working for him, to innocents
blackmailed
or
hypnotized into cooperation, to dupes manipulated
so
successfully they do not realize that they are doing exactly what
Mabuse planned for them to do.
Well, if you've ever watched Trump's fans react to his speeches, you've seen hypnosis in action. They believe every word he says no matter how facts contradicts him. Utilizing technologies? Television is Trump's best friend (after the guy in the Kremlin).
And re-read that final sentence with Trump in mind. Career criminals (Paul Manafort, Vladimir Putin), innocents (voters who thought he was going to drain the swamp and give them better healthcare and infrastructure), and dupes (the news media). Move over Mabuse, there's a new kingpin in town!
Now, the people in the news media will doubtless object being called Trump's dupes. But it was pretty clear who was running the show as I watched last Friday's morning news on my phone while, as usual, cleaning the bathroom. (No wonder I associate the news with the most unpleasant task of the day.)
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| Trump manipulating Stephanie Ruhle into making an idiot of herself on live television. |
This was like a TV critic reviewing a show being rerun for the third time. Ruhle rightly commented that Trump was using the NFL as a distraction from real news -- like the Manafort trial, the Mueller investigation, Trump lying about his idiot son's meeting with Russians, Rudy Giuliani's contradictory drunken rants regarding his client's more or less treasonous behavior, ad nauseum (literally).
Yet Ruhle made the NFL crap the top story, allowing it to run at least 20 minutes, even interviewing three "experts" -- while ignoring the real stories she had just mentioned. She even admitted that Trump was manipulating her. And each time I tuned into MSNBC that day, Trump's NFL tweets were all they were talking about, even as it was described on the bottom of the screen as BREAKING NEWS five hours later.
Have news folks any strength to resist Dr. Trump? By their own admission, no.
The only difference between Mabuse and the president, then, is that Trump's dupes are fully aware they're being manipulated, but succumb any way -- just so they can proudly complain about it. Give Fox News credit: they're happy to be part of Trump's "society of
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