Jon Stewart says the media cried wolf with its 'fascist' attacks on Trump
Jon Stewart says the media cried wolf with its 'fascist' attacks on Trump
Liberal comedian Jon Stewart pumped the breaks on the media's "fascist" attacks towards President Trump during an exchange with a "Daily Show" audience member.
False, the media has been handwaving the worst of his crimes, and still focused on the stupid drama distraction shit. Jon is underreacting to this shit, just like the rest of the media is.
I think the main problem with shouting fascist is not that it's wrong but that it's ineffective. You have to address what he's actually doing wrong and how you would do better. Of course it's a big problem that he's incredibly good at spreading disinformation and the Democrats are almost completely media illiterate these days.
I also think Democrats, and especially Lemmy, use it wrong. It's legit the go-to insult for anyone that doesn't join in on the circle-jerk groupthink that Lemmy has going on these days.
The word "fascism" had been used a lot in regards to Trump - not because it's a go-to insult, but because Trump is meeting every characteristic of the word.
Per Wikipedia:
Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.
- Dictatorial/autocratic: Issues a flood of executive orders and works through Elon to exercise singular executive power with zero regard for Constitutionality and separation of powers.
- Militarism: Threatens land grabs/annexations of Canada, Greenland, Panama, Gaza
- Forcible suppression of opposition: Lawsuits/investigations/threats against media companies that say things that hurt his feelings
- Belief in a natural social hierarchy: lifelong history of public racist and misogynistic comments
- Subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race: suppression of transgenderism, everything DOGE is shredding, abolition of CFPB, OSHA, etc.
- Strong regimentation of society and the economy: extreme censorship, immediate blame of disasters on DEI (even if only white, cisgender, qualified men were involved see DC airliner/heli crash), tariffs (and threats thereof), intent on destroying the renewable energy sector and forcing fossil fuels