Whenever I see something like this I wonder how many people actually do have a good idea how much money Trump has laundered for Russia? Seems like internet detectives can put together obvious stuff like Trump’s blatantly obvious shenanigans when all of a sudden he flips a Miami mansion for double what it’s worth to a Russian oligarch. But I mean hasn’t anybody in Treasury FinCEN somehow come across this information and some point? They just say, “whoa shit this is crooked” run it up the chain and get told to forget about it? All through the intel community too, you can tell me Brennan doesn’t know pretty much exactly how deep Trump is into Russia?
Real? Onion? It’s literally impossible to tell anymore.
it’s from his seminal speech about greenland. his campaign is posting it all over
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Penthouse in Trump Tower Istanbul imo
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I was hoping he dished something new, but that comedy clip is seven months old and reiterates that Trump is a speed addict.
However, the tweet was an offshoot of this good news
Not this stupid ass russiagate shit again. Are you guys fucking clueless morons? Why do you need russiagate to win against this moron simpleton? FFS stop trying to lose!
lol at the idea of Trump resigning because he hits 36%. He’s a serious contender for most narcissistic person on the planet, he’s not resigning ever, under any circumstances. Why would he? The idea is baffling.
Edit: Like you’d need a reason he, personally, would be better off out of the Presidency than in it, I mean a reason that Trump can process, some tangible way that he’s better off. Such a reason seems hard to come up with, and that’s only for starters, you’d also need a way for him to retire while not looking like a loser, which also seems impossible.
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He’s kind of right though. What do you think happened here - that Trump personally called up the designers and told them “yo, don’t forget to put some Nazi imagery in”? Are senior officials in Trump’s campaign not merely admirers of the Third Reich, but willing to advertise this publicly? To what end, just to taunt us lefties about the incipient victory of fascism? How big exactly is the voting base of aficionados of Nazi symbolism who aren’t already big MAGA guys?
I think it’s plausible that someone just put a bald eagle atop the world to symbolise “America First” and that nobody around there had read enough books to know what it looked like, but let’s say it is deliberate Nazi symbolism. The most likely explanation for that, by far, is that it’s the design work of some overcaffeinated kekistani 4channer that made it through to production. In other words, you’re not crazy for thinking it might be deliberate Nazi symbolism, but it is crazy to see this as some sort of strategic chess move by the MAGA machine. It makes the classic conspiracy mistake of assuming that an organization you don’t like is a monolithic well-oiled machine, all parts of which act in pursuit of its nefarious goals. In reality what the Trump campaign is, is mostly a collection of idiots on the grift.
To put it another way, the mistake is to look at something like that and go “SEE? This proves that Trump is actually fascist!”, when the real conclusion should be “there might well be some actual fascists in the ranks of the Trump campaign”, which is just trivially true, I mean we know that already. Taking this and applying it to the whole campaign writ large does make you look like a pinboard-string-connecting Pizzagater. Imagine what you’d think if there was some analog of some piece of Soviet imagery on a piece of Bernie merchandise and someone told you this proved Bernie and his entire campaign were agents of the Kremlin.
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Regardless of who approved it, an image like that is never a mistake.
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oh man, this would be the perfect time for the announcer to go: “wait, what’s that? could it be?!”
followed by the The Wire theme song blasting from the speakers and FlyWf running in from the locker room.
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Hanlon’s Razor. Do you think Dove intentionally made this ad racist?
They were trying to be inclusive by having multiple races and weird as it seems, nobody caught the implication. I don’t really care to have a giant argument over it because I think it was intentional some significant percentage of the time, but you want to be careful saying “come on, nobody is THAT dumb” when dealing with an organization crammed with dumb people.
I don’t think you’re understanding me. I’m not saying the final executive, or any number of people along the way didn’t miss it unintentionally. I’m saying whoever came up with the initial concept knew exactly what they were doing. They then got it past the suits, or the suits knew the implications and liked it. Marketing people depend on the rubes being too dumb to get subtle context. Just like filmmakers and TV show creators, they often well underestimate their audience.
Just the language of filmmaking shows that Dove ad is racist. They put a fracture in the scene, showing a difference (the white line between before and after). If they were being inclusive, the woman separated would have been in the middle. This is a creative director thing, and the ad industry, especially in the beauty industry is known for being both racist and tone deaf on numerous issues. Default it to the expectation that if an ad looks racist, or a concept evokes an old concept that’s racist that whoever put that concept together knew exactly what they were doing and they were trying to fly it past a dumb executive.
You don’t live in the U.S. but one of the most famous examples of a dumb long running ad was for Gateway Computers. They would mail their computers in boxes that had black and white spots on them like cows. They had a nearly 5 year or more year run where the cow talked. With a man’s voice. There’s no chance someone didn’t slip that by on purpose and it was never caught by a series of dumb executives. A good ‘razor’ thing is to say the audience is smarter than you think and the executives are generally dumber than you think.
The main point is that even if intentional, these sort of distractions are the worst possible hill to die on. If Trump firing all the IGs, politicizing the DOJ, laying the groundwork for declaring mail-in ballots “fraud”, threatening to call in the military etc etc aren’t ringing alarm bells for someone, being like “OMG THIS T-SHIRT KIND OF LOOKS LIKE A NAZI EAGLE” is never going to end with them being like “I’ve seen the light, he’s a fascist”. That’s 0% to happen. Either they’ll be like “err sure maybe I guess” or they’ll think you’re nuts. This is just another in a line of distractions to consume the airwaves for 3 days rather than talking about what Trump is actually doing and not doing. You’re being trolled, intentionally or not.
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I mean, yeah, that’s obvious. But something like that would never make the news cycle as it’s on a merchandising site. I’m pretty sure they’ve had a number of racist items on that site and none of it makes the cycle. I think it being brought up here was just to show a point that they’re abandoning subtlety.
My main point is it’s not an accident that it happened and it never is. Too many eyes see things like this for someone not to realize the ramifications before it’s released.
Sorry, what’s this?
GWB stands for George W Bush.