“Now that we’re sailing into a new-old era of American politics, Nina revives one of her old blogging Features with a new, time-saving twist. Mendacious media minions can run, but then can’t hide from “Great Moments in Media Muppetry” on our Media Madness Blog; today’s first feature contestant? Vox’s professional TV-watcher, Aaron Rupar.
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With Trump’s coup seemingly ground to a halt, it’s time to celebrate the end of the fascist moment – isn’t it? Not so fast says analyst Nina Illingworth. By combining some brief observations on the seemingly-doomed Trumpist “chicken coup,” and a link to a vitally important article by Indi Samarajiva about why even a failed reactionary coup is a disaster for a society that calls itself a democracy, our intrepid author debunks the still quite dangerous idea that we’ve survived the Swine Emperor and everything is going to go back to normal soon.
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Links to two early Film Sessions prototype posts on Media Madness designed to help The Gravel Institute crush the fascists at PragerU; published Fall, 2020.
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Link to a collection of all my recent left wing, off site writing over on my always free to read Patreon blog.
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Let’s just stop for a moment and marvel at what a bloodless, mendacious piece of human pig manure Mathew Yglesias is; on Media Madness.
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An October 2019 Can’t You Read blog post about why the liberal establishment’s ongoing Russiagate conspiracy makes it harder to defeat swine emperor Trump.
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A collection of links to all of my recent Skinny social media essays and Can’t You Read blog posts previously unshared on this site.
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A Can’t You Read blog post about why leaving Syria means abandoning the YPG even if that’s not a popular decision on the left.
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An October 2019 edition of The Skinny in which Nina discusses how narrative framing twists the issues in the minds of the public in all the wrong directions.
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Link to an October 2019 edition of the Skinny discussing the image crafting surrounding Liz Warren and Dem Party appeals to a mythical white working class.
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A link to my informal journal writing where we discuss why I’m not Josh Marshall, why Democrat’s will blow impeachment, and why dark money right wing groups are behind attempts to discredit Greta Thunberg.
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