Can we stop pretending that everything is "normal"...

[kentuck]

Cable channels, like CNN, report that Trump is "hinting" that he may take over Panama and Greenland, as part of a negotiation. No, it was more like a threat... and that is how the leaders of those countries took it.

Donald Trump is working hand and glove with Elon Musk and Vladimir Putin to further the goals of the Russian autocrat. Perhaps Putin wants to get even with America for their participation in the dismantling of the old USSR? He would like to re-establish the old Soviet Union.

Whatever is happening, it is not "normal".

Sticking our heads in the sands and pretending otherwise will lead to no good end.

But this effort to "normalize" seems to be pretty widespread throughout the media.

[Initech]

1. This is how he gets away with it.

Our media is a massive part of the problem we are facing. They are ultra corrupt and complicit in enabling his worst behavior. It's sickening.

[Nigrum Cattus]

2. All the corporate media cares about is $$$

We as citizens think they should report "news" they believe otherwise.

[Dave Bowman]

3. Yes, absolutely nothing normal about what's currently going on.

The world is going totally insane.

[usonian]

4. Look at my thumb. Gee, you're dumb. EVERY OUNCE OF BULLSHIT IS A COVER FOR GRIFT, GRIFT AND MORE GRIFT. pardon the caps

The media LOVE IT.

He plays them like a violin.

F--- the media, Dump and all his band of grifters and Nazi's and every pig-headed fool who voted for him.

And have a very beautiful and blessed 🎄 Christmas 🎄 or whatever you celebrate. I celebrate Festivus)

A CHRISTMAS ANGEL TO TOP YOUR TREE

[GreenWave]

5. They not we. eom

[kentuck]

11. I think it would mostly apply to the "media" and their "followers"...?

Not the clear-thinking people here on DU.

[Kaleva]

7. Can you explain why you are pretending everything is normal?

[LexVegas]

8. Then stop. nt

[yellow dahlia]

9. Yes - throughout too much of the media. But also -

in the current administration. Why!?

[Boomerproud]

10. CNN called it "teasing".

Shameful.

[JR11]

12. The Realization

As soon as you realize that the entire framework (and inner workings) is owned by the apex wealth, you can then understand the manifesting dystopia. It has literally been something akin to The Truman Show for some time now. The intelligences surrounding this cabal are capable of zeroing in on any living individual, cracking open their personal/private life, and scripting the direction of their target in any way shape or form using actor infiltration and subterfuge. With the advent of the technolgy they possess (which is decades ahead of mainstream) and their endless resourses, the world is their oyster.

They are the ones that keep the cogs and wheels working to distract us away from who they are and what they represent. Divide and conquer is the oldest method in the book, but it's as effecting now as it has been in any other chapter in our known history. It's even more effective today due to the broad reach of technology and instant informational relay. Millions die in wars at the behest of these people for no other reason but private spats and/or to absorb more power and wealth. Keeping the common man focused on identity wars is but one of the things they've invested miles of research on in the span of their ongoing psychological control.

Expect mayham on the world front because spot lights are shining in their direction, and they feel threatened. They'll hold the world hostage by threat of nuclear holocaust. That is the reality. They have billion dollar bunkers on remote islands, mountain complexes, underwater compounds, etc; and it wouldn't surprise me if they had orbital station habitats. These people aren't merely billionaires, they're trillionaires & company, and they keep off the record of public recognition, extremely insultated lives and command the affairs of the world from a very sterile and deliberated top down methodology.

[JR11]

13. They're serving it up

Does anyone really think that the "reality show" they've been feeding the public conscience was born from our establishment? Born from our set of norms, our laws and convention? This has all been designed to shred the established paradigm and destablize the structure of society. If our government was actually watching over the people of the nation they would not have allowed the promotion of it's demise this way. It has been one big humilation campaign set to demoralize the world these last 10 years.

The juggernaut of wealth has infiltrated the system from every angle and aspect, and they really have no need for the majority of us anymore. We've effectively allowed them to systematically transfer the wealth from our working hands into theirs, and they've decided they have better options.

[Meowmee]

14. I don't watch it mostly anymore

I stopped nearly 2 years ago or so. I had it on the other day on CNN for about half a minute. One of the daytime anchors, I have forgotten her name, was discussing with other people how RFK jr was going to make our food better… like who gives a fuck about vaccines, right?

This country has really gone ******* insane and I’m goddamn sick of it.!!!! I change the channel immediately without even yelling at the tv. It was only on because the TV had been left on on that channel and the cable box was on, if you turn both off, it goes to the local news when you turn it on.

Almost no one cares about reality anymore, or facts, not just on the right wing, but some on the left wing too.

[JR11]

15. Indeed

My fellow human being, sometimes reality is stranger than fiction.