Washington, D.C. – Democrats are gambling with a shutdown and misleading the public by calling their $1.5 trillion spending spree a “clean” counter proposal. It is nothing more than a dirty, Counterfeit Resolution that crams in partisan policy and extraneous provisions, while pushing the nation closer to crisis and risking FY26 appropriations progress. The American people deserve to know what is in this partisan grab bag.
You’re not going to believe this but…
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Just not true. Not like what is happening right now. It is apples and oranges, and pretending it is the same just makes it worse.
Tell it to Colin Powell and his Aluminum Tubes or the Curveball hoax. Tell it to Ron DeSantis as he waterboards Gitmo inmates for the 100th time, on the pretext of national security.
Tell it to the Reagan Admin and its lies about Nicaragua that justified sponsorship of the Contras and their massive rape and murder campaigns aimed at convents full of nuns.
Tell it to the House Unamerican Activities Committee or the Hoover FBI hit squads in their campaign to crush civil rights activism.
Tell it to the police that dragged Eugene V. Debbs into jail for his anti-war advocacy or the West Virginia National Guard as they butchered coal strikers at The Battle of Blair Mountain.
This is as American as apple pie.
You’re experiencing recency bias. What Trump is doing isn’t new. Your perception of it is new.
It’s important to note a distinction here, maybe not a difference in kind but certainly a difference in degree, in attitude, in perspective.
You could argue all writing is propaganda. We take a slice of the world and distill it into words but we will always write from our own perspective. It is impossible to write from someone else’s point view. All writing is a slice of the world, mangled and tainted with ourselves. Good writing cannot escape this, maybe it hews closer to the world, maybe it injects less of our opinions but it is always biased. The best writing often shows us the world from a viewpoint that enriches our own understanding.
There has never been writing on that website that strays so far from reality, that is so heavily injected with a very specific viewpoint. And it is a viewpoint that benefits very few of us. It does not enrich our understanding of the world, it frays and decays it. This is an important moment because we have never seen writing like this on these websites. There are laws written to prevent moments like this, but they have failed. It is a clear, obvious and direct signal that our institutions have given up on meaning, on the rule of law, and on the american dream. Sure, maybe we’ve always been a fascist country, but we have never, ever, been this fascist before. This is new territory for us and it is worth consideration.
All writing with political valence, sure.
It’s relatively old territory. The trick is that during the War on Terror, the War on Drugs, and the Cold War, you had fewer people skeptical enough to question the Congressional narrative.
A big part of that is the domestic nature of the allegations. Much easier to just make up some bullshit about Iraq or Vietnam or Korea than Chicago or Portland or LA.