hobbsyoyo
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Clown Car II: Revenge of the Clowns
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Why doesn't Trump call out the people at his rallies that disrespect the flag and anthem by refusing to remove their MAGA caps during the anthem?
No, you can't handle the thought that he might turn you down!
He cannot handle anything not being about him... including the NBA and NFL.
The Maga cap is your flag now.
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metalhead
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There seems to be an emerging thesis that Trump intentionally picks these fights because he gains from them.
If that's the case, I'm not sure the NFL is really the best foil for his political ends. I admit I'm mildy surprised that there was the amount of pushback we saw from owners (except eternal scumbag jerrah jones, natch), but apart from a few MAGAs declaring they won't ever watch the NFL again (by which 99% probably didn't even make it through one half with their boycott), I don't know how he comes out the winner of that fight.
I myself am conflicted in my continuing fandom of Concussion-ball, but come on. People seem to think there is a mad media genius at work here, forgetting that he was in the end statistically significantly less liked and less approved of than the otherwise most loathed candidate that ever ran for president.
The NFL meanwhile is enormously popular with people all across the political spectrum. It's hard to pick a worse enemy than that, when he only managed to fight an enemy tailor-made for him to a split decision where one of the judge's score cards looked suspiciously bought off.
If that's the case, I'm not sure the NFL is really the best foil for his political ends. I admit I'm mildy surprised that there was the amount of pushback we saw from owners (except eternal scumbag jerrah jones, natch), but apart from a few MAGAs declaring they won't ever watch the NFL again (by which 99% probably didn't even make it through one half with their boycott), I don't know how he comes out the winner of that fight.
I myself am conflicted in my continuing fandom of Concussion-ball, but come on. People seem to think there is a mad media genius at work here, forgetting that he was in the end statistically significantly less liked and less approved of than the otherwise most loathed candidate that ever ran for president.
The NFL meanwhile is enormously popular with people all across the political spectrum. It's hard to pick a worse enemy than that, when he only managed to fight an enemy tailor-made for him to a split decision where one of the judge's score cards looked suspiciously bought off.
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I'm not sure he needs to be a mad media genius. There doesn't need to be any intentionality in what he does. He's like a cat taking it into his head to play around with a ball and all the other cats are riveted by his playing. The cat playing with the ball appears to be intentionally getting all the attention but really he's just playing with the ball.
https://shareblue.com/trumps-failed-boycott-leads-to-most-watched-sunday-football-in-seven-years/
Football ratings were up this week in response to Trump's rants.
Football ratings were up this week in response to Trump's rants.
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To be a media genius, you don't need a majority; you just need to beat the others in your time slot.
He's a media genius in the pejorative sense of the term. Here he is president and he's settling for the mere media success (coverage on news commentary shows) rather than any substantive achievements in the role.
So he really is running the country as he used to run his businesses. Michael Bloomberg was right all along.
"They can do free speech on their own time. They have the right to have their First Amendment off the field."
-- Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin on NFL players
"Another ungrateful black multi-millionaire."
-- former congressman Joe Walsh on Stevie Wonder taking a knee
"They're not only free to earn millions of dollars every year, but they're also free from the worry of being shot in the head for taking a knee, like they would be if they were in North Korea."
-- pastor Robert Jeffress, Trump evangelical advisor
-- Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin on NFL players
"Another ungrateful black multi-millionaire."
-- former congressman Joe Walsh on Stevie Wonder taking a knee
"They're not only free to earn millions of dollars every year, but they're also free from the worry of being shot in the head for taking a knee, like they would be if they were in North Korea."
-- pastor Robert Jeffress, Trump evangelical advisor
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The "media genius" theory seems to hold that there is a political upside to his behavior. You quite correctly point out that attention is the only goal here; any other political upside or downside is purely incidental.
In fact, I'd argue that attention-seeking is the only motivation that seems to fit his behavior. There doesn't appear to be anything else driving him, at least not consistently.
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Yes, that's what I'm driving at. The "media" in "media genius" is a limiting term: he's a genius at getting media for himself (Mark Cuban called it headline porn). For all other politicians, media is either a vehicle (getting out your message, etc.) or a byproduct (praise for legislation that gets through). For Trump, it's the end goal. It's the only goal. He didn't want to be President to get anything particular done. He just wanted to be President because it would mean he is always in the news, always the center of attention.
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