Anonymous wrote:FOX News got busted by ProPublica for faking coverage protests at ICE facilities, faking coverage of Portland "riots" and other things by showing years-old and unrelated footage, passing it off as current events...
https://newrepublic.com/post/203086/fox-news-faking-coverage-portland-riots-donald-trump
And here I've been wondering why Republicans keep yammering idiotically about rioting and calling blue cities "hell holes" and calling for the National Guard.
Fabricated crises. And Trump's been wasting hundreds of millions of dollars deploying National Guard to places where there's not much even going on.
One wonders how it all works - if the White House is calling FOX up saying "help us sell this narrative" or if FOX News is trying to pander some red meat for its audience and Trump sees it on his TV and demands the Guard be sent out, or if they are just feeding off of each other.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Riots are not needed. What is needed now is a massive general strike and economic boycotts. This is America--where money talks. If a large enough number of Americans stop buying goods and services in a coordinated fashion for a specified amount of time, that will do more to check the Trump administration than anything else.
Americans could start with more targeted civil disobedience. For example, New Yorkers are out in force protesting ICE, anyway. If they wanted to they really could shut down New York for a day or two, disrupt the financial district. Maybe close the exchanges.
Anonymous wrote:Riots are not needed. What is needed now is a massive general strike and economic boycotts. This is America--where money talks. If a large enough number of Americans stop buying goods and services in a coordinated fashion for a specified amount of time, that will do more to check the Trump administration than anything else.