It’s interesting to watch the ultra-right-wing Heritage Foundation, through its media arm The Daily Signal, use PR to forward its messages. They start off with the same framework that we all use:
Find a piece of breaking news that has some conceivable relation to the story you’d like to deliver to your audience, and then write something that connects the two. The challenge: make sure the relationship between the news and your message isn’t so far-fetched that you look like a fool, which is precisely what has happened in the case below.
Here’s the connection that the Daily Signal makes in this piece:
News: Cargo ship crashes into bridge in Baltimore
Message: If U.S. maritime regulators weren’t distracted by the radical left’s concern for climate change mitigation, this wouldn’t have happened.
Now, does this sound like utter crap to you? Probably, but that’s because you’re not a regular consumer of this garbage, and you don’t have an appetite for “information” that is written only because it supports your political points of view.
Obviously, but can it be scientifically and accurately diagnosed by some guy with a JD degree? No. Good on Pritzker for backing off on this question.
We need to content ourselves with the obvious:
a) Trump’s entire adult life has been shaped around his criminal tendencies and his callous disregard for anyone but himself.
b) This selfishness should have disqualified him from any governmental position. As some astute person said recently, and I paraphrase, He would be fired immediately if he were hired to manage a Subway franchise, or as assistant mayor of some town in a remote part of Kansas.
c) At this point, he has begun to lose his ability to express himself in a clear and lucid manner.
We live in a country that has lost its soul — and its mind.
I’m not sure.
Minnesotans approve of Trump and Lindell right about where they place value on getting dog crap on their shoes.
Yes, the call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger could have been the end.
But what about his attempted overthrow of the U.S. federal government on January 6th? His 34 felony convictions? His adjudication as a rapist? His profiting billions of dollars from his office? His accepting bribes for pardoning his wealthy donors convicted of fraud or those who beat cops at the U.S. Capitol?
Most failed democracies didn’t have dozens of different opportunities to prevent their demise.
We have no one to blame but ourselves.
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