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When the United States Presidency Becomes a Carnival ActThere’s a particular danger that emerges when the nation’s highest office is reduced to the role of a carnival barker. The barker’s job, after all, isn’t to govern, solve problems, or steward institutions. It’s to dazzle, distract, and keep the crowd emotionally hooked long enough to forget they paid for the ticket.When leadership becomes performance, the country becomes the stage. Complex issues are flattened into slogans. Policy is replaced by spectacle. Accountability dissolves into applause lines. And the public—exhausted, overstimulated, and increasingly polarized—finds itself reacting to the noise rather than evaluating the substance.
A carnival barker presidency thrives on perpetual crisis, because crisis keeps the crowd from noticing the machinery behind the curtain. It rewards outrage over outcomes, loyalty over competence, and entertainment over expertise. The institutions meant to safeguard democracy become props, and the public square becomes a midway where every grievance is amplified for effect. The real cost isn’t measured in headlines or approval ratings. It’s measured in the slow erosion of civic trust. When citizens can no longer distinguish governance from showmanship, they stop believing in either. And once that trust is gone, rebuilding it is far harder than resisting the spectacle in the first place. A democracy can survive disagreement. It can survive hardship. What it cannot survive is the belief that the presidency is just another act in the traveling show.
 
Red said:
While low life’s, actually probably as low a life as it gets in the case of @Mongoose, are fine with starting a war with Venezuela, even though he has spoken from a very high moral perch, and often, about how Trump is a great man of peace, and would never drag us into another Iraq, and although he loves to call others “retarded”, and “morons”, and specifically the anti-Trump members of Jazzfanz, the truth is he is the biggest hypocrite on this board. As much as he slams the Democrats, he also makes the claim that the Democrats and Republicans are actually “the uniparty”. He has told us in the past that only one party exists in the United States. Mongoose’s “uniparty”. I’m guessing this singular party, pretending to be opponents, pretending to represent different points of view, must be the party of Mongoose’s Deep State.

@enchilada_style, no point trying to unravel the mind of Mongoose. He’s not intelligent enough to justify trying to converse with him. He has no points of his own to make, and he never has. Just likes to log in and make believe he knows so much more than the people he’s fond of calling morons. He weighs in from his personal high moral ground, which is no high moral ground at all, and never has been. He’s a hypocrite.

Yep, @Mongoose is a whirlwind of nonsense. Rails against a “uniparty”, rails against “war”, so he believes Ukraine must surrender to Russia. Mongoose knows nothing about how a people will willingly defend their homes and lives. Doing so is a great sin from Mongoose’s point of view. Imagine not understanding why a people would be willing to die defending their nation from one of the worst monsters on Earth? People being slaughtered must surrender. Why? Because people die in war. Maybe Mongoose can express sympathy at the many children in Africa who have since died since medical supplies and medicine from USAID were curtailed, since “people die” seems to be his principle “concern”, and after all, people starve to death as well as die in wars. Not his problem or concern. . His principle “contribution” is contradicting himself from his “oh so much higher than anyone else’s moral heights”. I imagine he’s a legend in his own mind.

Trump as the great peacemaker, trying to end war on Earth. You got to be some kind of “out of it” to be Mongoose.
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“There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt — until recently … and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties.”

- Gore Vidal
 
fishonjazz said:
Saw this:
When the United States Presidency Becomes a Carnival ActThere’s a particular danger that emerges when the nation’s highest office is reduced to the role of a carnival barker. The barker’s job, after all, isn’t to govern, solve problems, or steward institutions. It’s to dazzle, distract, and keep the crowd emotionally hooked long enough to forget they paid for the ticket.When leadership becomes performance, the country becomes the stage. Complex issues are flattened into slogans. Policy is replaced by spectacle. Accountability dissolves into applause lines. And the public—exhausted, overstimulated, and increasingly polarized—finds itself reacting to the noise rather than evaluating the substance.
A carnival barker presidency thrives on perpetual crisis, because crisis keeps the crowd from noticing the machinery behind the curtain. It rewards outrage over outcomes, loyalty over competence, and entertainment over expertise. The institutions meant to safeguard democracy become props, and the public square becomes a midway where every grievance is amplified for effect. The real cost isn’t measured in headlines or approval ratings. It’s measured in the slow erosion of civic trust. When citizens can no longer distinguish governance from showmanship, they stop believing in either. And once that trust is gone, rebuilding it is far harder than resisting the spectacle in the first place. A democracy can survive disagreement. It can survive hardship. What it cannot survive is the belief that the presidency is just another act in the traveling show.
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This makes me very sad.
 
I can't watch the video right now, what did she say?
 
This is the 60 Minute segment on Venezuelan men sent to the prison in San Salvador, and which CBS pulled a few hours before it was to air on Sunday, 22-21-25. Explanations focused on fears of upsetting Trump.

www.muellershewrote.com

WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment

I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com www.muellershewrote.com
 
Red said:
This is the 60 Minute segment on Venezuelan men sent to the prison in San Salvador, and which CBS pulled a few hours before it was to air on Sunday, 22-21-25. Explanations focused on fears of upsetting Trump.

www.muellershewrote.com

WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment

I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com www.muellershewrote.com
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All mainstream media has caved.

The military doesn't stand by their morals or the Constitution or the UCMJ.

The media doesn't stand by their principals (let's not pretend they ever had any morals).

The churches support the exact opposite of what they have always preached.

How is this real?

How is this happening?

How much longer until human society takes the next step forward instead of taking steps backwards? Will we even make it that far?
 
Sardines said:
All mainstream media has caved.

The military doesn't stand by their morals or the Constitution or the UCMJ.

The media doesn't stand by their principals (let's not pretend they ever had any morals).

The churches support the exact opposite of what they have always preached.

How is this real?

How is this happening?

How much longer until human society takes the next step forward instead of taking steps backwards? Will we even make it that far?
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I hear you, and couldn’t agree more. $$$ and mergers.

www.theatlantic.com

CBS and CNN Are Being Sacrificed to Trump

Media conglomerates want the president’s permission for mergers—and control of news outlets is at stake.
www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com

Bari Weiss is doing exactly what she was hired to do at CBS:


Government controlled TV:

www.thewrap.com

Critics Blast CBS’ Bari Weiss for Pulling ‘60 Minutes’ Report on Trump Deportations: ‘Government-Controlled TV’

Weiss’ decision follows Donald Trump claiming last week that the newsmagazine was treating him “far worse” under new management
www.thewrap.com www.thewrap.com
 
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