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Posted bytazin/fempire-Dec 29, 2016 at 9:03 AM

#ResistTrump today by treating him like the clown he is

#ResistTrump today by treating him like the clown he is

On CNN, Brit journalist Rob Crilly makes the case for mocking Trump mercilessly. In a post titled "It's your duty to laugh at Donald Trump," Crilly notes that

wehuntedthemammoth.com

Curious what people think about this. It seems like there is a split between "laugh at trump" versus "laughing at trump is what got us into this mess" with a lot of people who write about politics. Thoughts?

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  • sleeepymachineDec 29, 2016 at 2:23 PMΔ

    He is utterly impervious to the usual weapons of politics.

    False. The main weapon of politics is organizing, and no head of state is impervious to that. This is why people go apeshit over Black Lives Matter. Do we like effective right-wing organizing?

    So make Trump jokes. Post dumb Trump memes. Never give him the respect he so desperately craves but does not deserve.

    Probably the saddest call for "activism" ever. (It's fine as part of organizing, but the guy focuses on this alone.)

    Responding to [Trump] with ridicule is not un-American. It is not demeaning to the office of the President

    Why not be "demeaning to the office of the President"? For example, Obama blows arms off brown kids. His drone campaign is “the most extreme terrorist campaign of modern history, if not ever.”


    To explain why it's disturbing that the CNN article advocates nothing but putting on a show for Trump... Consider the difference between protest & direct action:

    "protest, however militant, is an appeal to the authorities to behave differently; direct action, whether it’s a matter of a community setting up an alternative education system or making salt in defiance of the law (an example from Gandhi’s famous salt march), trying to shut down a meeting or occupy a factory, is a matter of proceeding as one would if the existing structure of power did not exist."

    The CNN editorial even advocates a particularly tepid form of protest.

    • tazDec 30, 2016 at 7:04 AM

      I think David Futrelle does a different one of these #ResistTrump posts fairly often, maybe daily? So I don't think he's suggesting this should be the only or even the main form of "protest".

      But yeah I agree it comes across as a bit odd. Thanks for sharing your thoughts :)

  • RanchoUnicornoDec 29, 2016 at 1:48 PM

    There's going to be a lot of hot takes that will try and say "X is why Trump got elected" which usually just consists of the author's personal pet-peeves.

    Media not taking him seriously during the campaign was a mistake, but folks justifiably laughing at and making fun of his orange-ass is not.

    • tazDec 30, 2016 at 7:02 AM

      Media not taking him seriously during the campaign was a mistake, but folks justifiably laughing at and making fun of his orange-ass is not.

      Good point.

  • BetaMaleBillDec 29, 2016 at 9:09 AM

    • tazDec 29, 2016 at 9:22 AM

      haha. what's with the small hat? I like it.

      • BetaMaleBillDec 29, 2016 at 9:28 AM

        It's just one of those dopey 'MAGA' hats i think. This was my phone wallpaper for a while during the primaries. 😂

  • dudeseriouslynoDec 29, 2016 at 11:18 AM

    Good fucking luck. Crying wolf got him elected.

    • tazDec 29, 2016 at 1:18 PM

      Can you expand on what you mean by crying wolf?

      • dudeseriouslynoDec 30, 2016 at 3:06 AM

        The boy who cried wolf used to get eaten 'cause no one believed his words anymore. The boy who cried wolf in 2016 got handed the fucking nuclear trigger.

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