What is the diplomatic fix?

And how did they change his name?

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While President Trump and the White House regularly circulate imagery altered by artificial intelligence, including demeaning and racist deepfakes, it is usually so over the top that the goal seems more about cartoonish mockery than outright deceit.

The photograph of Ms. Levy Armstrong was different. It ​h​as the hallmarks of brazen disinformation from the top level of government: smearing and humiliating one citizen in order to influence public opinion, while sending a warning to other critics to beware of crossing the administration.

Remember this when they say “libruls cant take a joke”

a misleading description of Ms. Levy Armstrong as a “far-left agitator”

lol, everybody who doesn’t lick The Don’s boots thrice gets that moniker.

Big Oil, coal and other shit have been worming their way into US education for decades, spreading lies, esp. against climate and environmental action. I once listened to a long podcast about this, interviewing parents etc. It was very interesting, and very depressing.

A spin off the great documentary that has the cosmopolitan charm of an airline advertisment? I’m sitting on hot coals!

Srsly I thought she had slightly more intelligence than her husband, but apparently The Endgame Grift is infectious.

“We should all be standing up and saying that’s not OK. Literally, listen to what they’re saying. Active threats like, Turn over the voter rolls or else, or we will continue to do what we’re doing. That’s something you can do in America now.”

And from the original NYT interview:

I spoke to Frey on Thursday afternoon, not long after Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan — who has been dispatched to Minneapolis to replace and clean up after the operation’s original commander Gregory Bovino — promised to de-escalate the situation there. He said in a news conference that there would be a drawdown of agents, only to have President Trump later deny that there was any plan to pull back.

It’s this type of dissonance inside the admin that gives me hope.

There’s also a YT video.
He has some pretty good answers to the interviewers annoying, pushy and leading questions.

I don’t think the 0.001% are free either, but I get your point.

And yes, this grand project of cowing the masses has been going on for a long while, and especially in the US of NA. Just look at what Big Oil did, all through the past 100 years.

“No more teaching of critical thinking skills”?

I have to see how the admin phrases that.

“We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.”

Yep, they said it. Unambiguously.

That was in 2012 btw.

Trump is constantly trying to outdo The Onion. I’m surprised they didn’t go out of business yet, that’s some tough competition.

and not be allowed to name any school after President Trump.

You can’t make this shit up. I’ll show myself out.

It’s like the government can’t decide between starving and gorging.

It’s true, the article cites at least 3 occasions where Epstein said they “regrettably” had to “reschedule”. I guess at some point Me-lon just gave up.

Also interesting (slightly edited to make it more readable):

I will see you on St Barth, but the ratio on my island might make Talulah uncomfortable

(refering to Musk’s then wife)

Way to euphemize what these parties were really about.

“Ties” really isn’t enough at this point. We know that already.
Blacked out too much, again?
And where Trump?
C’mon, you’re supposed to protect the victims, not the perpetrators.

I too learned that lesson.
Some senator proposed a bill that would make Trump Derangement Syndrome a mental illness - from there it’s only a small step to apply it to gun regulation.

A lot of good regulation only happened after the privileged started complaining/suffering. It is what it is. I would take it, but I don’t think it will happen with this “administration”.

Wait, you’re dissing an account that hasn’t even been banned or otherwise removed?
Here: https://feddit.org/u/jordanlund@lemmy.world

He’s a moderator of this community. His last comment was 2 days ago. The days before that he was active at a rate of just a few comments per day.

And how do you know he “decided to take a break”? His last comment on !politics@lemmy.world, 2 days ago, does not say that.

And do you have any evidence at all that he himself created accounts to agree with him?

I think you just disagree with that person and are now trying to rouse the rabble against him.

I’m not saying I agree with that jordanlund though. But this is just wrong.

Instead they do The Diplomatic Thing and take him seriously. Usually appeasing, sometimes crawling up his bunghole, but never asking the obvious: “have you lost it completely?” (Well, Carney apparently does. I was thinking about that sorry bunch on my home continent)

Sometimes somebody manages to walk the line by saying something that will please his Dumbness but is very obviously over the top to everybody else. Mark Rutte - not that I like him much otherwise - did that once. That was fun. But it doesn’t really help either.

To quote the infamous Alex Jones: “He’s a loser little tiddy baby!”

Something is deeply wrong if we, as a society, cannot agree that an administration that snatches up children, uses them as bait to hunt down others, is morally repulsive.

yesterday’s protests, at least, seem to agree