I’d be fucking honored to receive that card. I’d frame it.
That would be a very boring “Dear Hustler” letter to send them, from what I’ve been led to believe. Just requesting a card and all. Maybe jazz it up with some interracial maid noodling or something.
“I’m a 27 year-old white male, and I never thought this would happen to me…”
rei
2002
I like it. It’s stating what fox, trump and all their shitheads are dog whistling.
Sent out in January? Good way to headline a slow news period.
It’s very clever in terms of a very very fine line between satire and that law that protects the US president from threats. Especially sending it to GOP politicians and not Dems to underline the satire/absurdity element. Perhaps it just went out in after Xmas because none of Hustlers lawyers wanted to sign it off heh.
rei
2004
Trump is actually guilty of worse by threatening and mocking American citizens he doesn’t like such as whistleblowers.
Whaaaa? So his years-long flogging and legitimizing of birtherism had no impact at all?
ShivaX
2006
“Don’t blame a guy who perpetuated conspiracy theories for the perpetuation of conspiracy theories.”
Feels like so much pissing into the wind posting these but if anyone is curious how a politically motivated, state sponsored assassination in contravention to international law and the War Powers act can so blithely labelled as a “win*,” well, here you go.
(Spoiler for length)
Summary
Rushing in to get the behind-the-scenes telling of how Donald Trump decided to approve the drone killing of Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani, who was killed while traveling in a convoy near the Baghdad International Airport on January 2, CNN collected pleasing quotes from administration officials. Steering clear of any dissenting voices, the news outlet reported there had been “serious debate within the administration leading up to the strike,” CNN stressed that Trump, who was “wary of war,” had been “defiant” on the day the kill order was given, and seemed to “be freshly aware of the gravity of his role and the power he wields.” Perhaps most importantly, the raid represented an “immediate victory” for Trump.
Got that? Anti-war Trump was deeply engaged with advisers, at turns “defiant” and reflective while he scored a major “victory.” Left out of that GOP-delivered narrative that portrayed the president as a modern-day FDR, was the idea that Trump has no idea what he’s doing and with the rogue raid he represents a growing danger to America’s national security.
Meanwhile, the first expert the New York Times quoted in the wake of the deadly strike was a conservative hawk, and the first column the paper published about the raid was from a conservative hawk.
Elsewhere, “CNN is allowing a parade of Republican lawmakers to go on air and cheerlead for war with Iran, and barely bothering to ask any of them how the U.S. keeps the region safe or what the plan is,” writer Matthew Chapman noted on Twitter. “We’ve learned much less since 2003 than we should have.”
Indeed, for days it’s been hard to shake the “here we go again” feeling as news consumers are hit with lots of White House-friendly narratives about the unauthorized raid in Iraq. It’s impossible not to think back to how the mainstream media effectively co-sponsored the disastrous war in Iraq back in 2003.
(*Politics covered as sports, also helpful for an enlightened democracy. /s)
Menzo
2011
We need to stop relying on the press to provide a check against the forces aligned for war. War is great for ratings. Every journalist knows this and will do what is needed to get people to tune in.
Sadly true. If anything it’s growing worse.
But in so far as militarism is concerned (and although I personally loathe the idea of compulsory military service) it’s probably time to bring back the draft - that might change our blasé attitude toward war.
How about, draft priority for kids turning 18 is directly proportional to household wealth and double-plus weighted for parents in the defense industry.
¯_(ツ)_/¯
I will co-sponsor your bill.
Someone clever needs to come up with a pithy name for it.
Nesrie
2015
Seems unlikely. If risk was part of the issue, then why do the military groups keep voting for the GOP, the ones that tend to send their children to war for profit and greed?
Call it RANTS: Rich Assholes Need To Serve
Call it the The American Patriotism Act.
