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Steve 218's avatar

The only way to avoid the spew of hate, lies, and blithering is not to pay any attention to Social Media or Fox Noise to avoid going crazy onesself. Reading and listening to summaries from responsible news outlets (such as The Contrarian, Dan Rather, Heather Cox Richardson and others) is enough to get a sensible picture.

Judith Cook's avatar

Thank you for exposing all of that. It did make me sick and made me realize that I’m fortunate not to have seen it.

Steve recommended that the only way to avoid it is to ignore the social media right wingers and their content of hate. Makes sense to me.

But how can we get rid of all this shit?

Steve 218's avatar

That's a right good question. Fortunately, we're beginning to see some cracks in the followers. Some have already seen that promises that affect them personally are getting broken. The dissatisfaction with the lies may finally hit home. If we keep telling the truth and offer effective solutions to peoples' actual problems. we'll win more converts.

Judith Cook's avatar

Thank you, that is an affirmation that I’m doing something right. That helps.

Anne-Louise Luccarini's avatar

Correct. And that's the objective. And they're not letting us down.

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Susan Friend's avatar

I will be so happy when trump is gone. Or even better, when he is dead. It is impossible to imagine a more depraved, evil president. Why he has a single follower puzzles me.

bitchybitchybitchy's avatar

Trump allows his followers to be their absolute worst selves in oublic without shame. That's his dark power.

Queltique Godess's avatar

Spot on! "I can be & do everything my Mom, Dad and all my school teachers told me NOT to be & do. So there!"

Ed's avatar

We need a list of the best Newsome posts to balance these downer posts!

Jay Jay Eh's avatar

🎶 Join ICE -🎶 Jesse Welles, YouTube — SUPER satirical song mocking ICE. 💥

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61I4hlig78w

LEGAL : The tide is slowly turning 💠 “Turning the Justice Department into an arm of the MAGA agenda is producing lots of unwanted side effects, though. Government lawyers are finding that federal courts no longer grant them the presumption of trust.” 💠 The ATLANTIC

* Giving up is not an option.

Nancy's avatar

The one with Santa as an Ice agent is reprehensible.

Susan Wladaver-Morgan's avatar

And he accuses Rob Reiner and so many others of trump derangement syndrome! His own derangement belongs in the DSM.

Irena's avatar

It would be a service to Contrarian readers, in my opinion, if you stop publishing anything posted from the WH or Truth Social. The WH occupier gets such an enormous amount of free press. Let's not be part of this. Let's move away from trump bashing and concentrate on ISSUES and Cabinet, Congress, judiciary.

Queltique Godess's avatar

Your point is well taken, in public communications we say, "Don't give them air to spread their flames." However, here on The Contrarian we need to be aware of what the MAGA Regime is spewing out. First, because all of this needs to be recorded and those who were responsible for the false, hate-spewing communications need to be held accountable when our beloved USA shakes free of these leeches. Second, ALL Americans are seeing these "shock" attempts and the majority do NOT approve of these despicable acts and statements. The Blue Wave needs to use this shock and disapproval to get people to the poles and voting Blue. We can't keep our heads in the sand.

Irena's avatar

Contrarian readers are media savvy and thus would have heard/read WH commentaries in numerous other venues. I believe we need not add to all that free publicity. We should instead discuss issues and provide more time to Ukraine and Europe for example.

Irena's avatar

This is an example of the kind of information that should be widely shared:

https://apnews.com/article/capitol-riot-book-excerpt-trump-32429c15e05de5b1de34fe799ba89882

Rachel Simon's avatar

They eat your pets.