I was reading this collection of stuff about the Comey Kangaroo Court and it ended with a Kash Patel tweet about MSNBC being "an ass clown factory of disinformation."
OK, we could spend some time wondering what "an ass clown factory of disinformation" is (Is it an actual factory? Do clowns work there? Are they wearing assless chaps?) However, let's instead pause to consider that the director of the FBI wrote this down and tweeted it out.
I have been arguing that this Trump Administration is simply repackaged Fox News with the imprimatur of the Executive Branch. It occurs to me now, that if this was simply a "Made for TV" government we might expect at least a little standards.
No, this is a "content creator" administration. Trump plays entirely to the cameras, because the cameras created him. He's a creature of "reality" TV. The goombahs staffing his agencies are content creators - mindlessly combing the world for clicks. Kristi Noem filmed herself being denied entrance to a government building in Illinois. Why? For clicks. Patel besmirches the dignity of his office. Why? For clicks. Pete Hegseth wages war on facial hair. Why? OK, that one's racism. (But also clicks.)
The democratization of video might have led to more and better content, but of course, that's not really what democratization means. Instead we get something called Skibidy Toilet. Because there are no more media gatekeepers, no more shared culture, everyone is competing for attention like post-apocalyptic survivors battling over the last can of Dinty Moore.
This leads to a race to the bottom in many corners of the internet. And those corners are where Trump found the people to run his government.
We live in the stupidest of times.
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