And yet, in a calm but adversarial conversation between a democratic activist and a Puerto Rican plumber who is a Trump supporter -- he defended Trump with his agreement that his homeland of "Puerto Rico IS an island of garbage". I'm increasingly faced with people who disagree in fundamental ways that seem unchangeable.
And yet, in a calm but adversarial conversation between a democratic activist and a Puerto Rican plumber who is a Trump supporter -- he defended Trump with his agreement that his homeland of "Puerto Rico IS an island of garbage". I'm increasingly faced with people who disagree in fundamental ways that seem unchangeable.
Yet so many who oppose her dig in their heels and refuse to listen. Those who support Trump despise her.
The reason is Fox News. Nothing we read here is ever reported there. These truths don’t exist for Fox Fans.
Decoding Fox News gives a snapshot of a week of Fox News in 45 min. Hearing what they hear (and don’t hear) is the best way for us to understand the opposite POV. On Fox, “Trump Gave a Rousing Speech at Madison Square Garden.” If that’s all you hear… you’ll never understand why liberals are so offended.
After Heather cox Richardson, Decoding Fox News is the most valuable Substack in my feed.
I wonder if he's ever looked into why his home country became an "island of garbage". Even I just scraped the surface of the history of US intervention in Puerto Rico and I can confidently tell you: the US fast-tracked Puerto Rico to economic collapse and then left them high and dry.
If Trump gets in office again, he will do the same to every other American state and territory - if his "efficiency cabinet member" doesn't just cut the territories out as "unnecessary spending".
Trumpian economics seeks to gut the government and prop it up on the backs of million-, billion-, and (soon to be) trillionaires. He's a businessman (allegedly), his first language is acquisitions. The government is just another business to aquire, monopolize, and profit off of.
Since trump came down that escalator in 2015, said the things he said, I had thought that he wouldn't go anywhere with that absurd narrative, but then he just kept dominating the other candidates in those repug primary debates, he held those vitriolic rallies and an entire alternative culture was born out of something that the old school repugs had created. A bitter, resentful, angry crowd of "Deplorables". One that I thought was a small, rural, marginalized portion of the American population. It's nine years now and the people who had brought this group of people together are mostly gone now, labeled as RINOs. Insanity reigns and Puerto Ricans have joined the mob. The mob is huge and it is not trump so much as it is this thing we humans do. We have a reliable culture, but some don't want to belong or don't value so there is a splintering. There are lots of examples of how this happens in history based in religion, politics, economics, justice, ideology. We splinter and then there is no turning back it seems.
And yet, in a calm but adversarial conversation between a democratic activist and a Puerto Rican plumber who is a Trump supporter -- he defended Trump with his agreement that his homeland of "Puerto Rico IS an island of garbage". I'm increasingly faced with people who disagree in fundamental ways that seem unchangeable.
The words of Harris’ speech are unassailable.
Yet so many who oppose her dig in their heels and refuse to listen. Those who support Trump despise her.
The reason is Fox News. Nothing we read here is ever reported there. These truths don’t exist for Fox Fans.
Decoding Fox News gives a snapshot of a week of Fox News in 45 min. Hearing what they hear (and don’t hear) is the best way for us to understand the opposite POV. On Fox, “Trump Gave a Rousing Speech at Madison Square Garden.” If that’s all you hear… you’ll never understand why liberals are so offended.
After Heather cox Richardson, Decoding Fox News is the most valuable Substack in my feed.
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I guess he doesn't realize that Trump would send his ass detras.
Clearly, a descendant (in both senses) of the plumbers who worked for Nixon.
It creates the sense of an inevitable tide…this concerns me greatly.
I wonder if he's ever looked into why his home country became an "island of garbage". Even I just scraped the surface of the history of US intervention in Puerto Rico and I can confidently tell you: the US fast-tracked Puerto Rico to economic collapse and then left them high and dry.
If Trump gets in office again, he will do the same to every other American state and territory - if his "efficiency cabinet member" doesn't just cut the territories out as "unnecessary spending".
Trumpian economics seeks to gut the government and prop it up on the backs of million-, billion-, and (soon to be) trillionaires. He's a businessman (allegedly), his first language is acquisitions. The government is just another business to aquire, monopolize, and profit off of.
Since trump came down that escalator in 2015, said the things he said, I had thought that he wouldn't go anywhere with that absurd narrative, but then he just kept dominating the other candidates in those repug primary debates, he held those vitriolic rallies and an entire alternative culture was born out of something that the old school repugs had created. A bitter, resentful, angry crowd of "Deplorables". One that I thought was a small, rural, marginalized portion of the American population. It's nine years now and the people who had brought this group of people together are mostly gone now, labeled as RINOs. Insanity reigns and Puerto Ricans have joined the mob. The mob is huge and it is not trump so much as it is this thing we humans do. We have a reliable culture, but some don't want to belong or don't value so there is a splintering. There are lots of examples of how this happens in history based in religion, politics, economics, justice, ideology. We splinter and then there is no turning back it seems.