US media trouncing
Trump 24/7 proves democracy a charade
트럼프 대선후보가 옳았다 : 이 사회가 조작된 것이다. 언론은 이 억만장자에 대항해서 일제 공격을 가하는데, 이는 기성권력 지배층이
백악관 임자를 결정하는 방식을 과시하는 무작스런 행태였다.
트럼프는 미국 언론에 의해서 계속해서 괴롭힘을 당하는 중이다, 언론은 트럼프가 성격에 결함이 있다고 억지주장을 한다. 최근에 언론은
트럼프가 세계 3차대전을 일으킬 완전한 위험인물이라는 인신공격이 올라온다, 한마디로 " 핵전쟁 괴짜" 라 부른다.
Presidential
hopeful Donald Trump is right: the 'system is 'rigged'. The media barrage
against the billionaire demonstrates irrefutably how the power establishment,
not the people, decides who sits in the White House.
Trump is increasingly assailed in the US
media with alleged character flaws. The latest blast paints Trump as a total
loose cannon who would launch World War III. In short, a “nuke
nut”.
국방부에서 감수하는 국방 저널은 재산가
후보를 결코 신뢰할 수없는 인물로 그려냈다, 그래서 트럼프에게 핵 버튼을 맡길수가 없다는 괘변을 주장한다. 트럼프가 히로시마 원폭의 2만배에
상당하는 핵공격 명령을 내릴 것이라는데 그가 그만큼 피자를 주문하듯 핵무기를 가볍게 다룬다고 비난한다,
이것이 지배층과 언론이 벌이는 고의적
인격살인 프로젝트가 아니면 뭐란 말인가?
In the Pentagon-aligned Defense one
journal, the property magnate is described as someone who
cannot be trusted with his finger on the nuclear button. Trump would order
nuclear strikes equivalent to 20,000 Hiroshima bombings as “easy as ordering
a pizza”, claimed the opinion piece.
If that’s not an example of “project
fear” then what is?
미국의 주류언론매체는 결코 억만장자 트럼프와 연계하지 않는다. 그는 확실히 좋은 순환을 만드는데, 대부분의 공화당원들은 부정적인 인상을 받고 있다.
트럼프의 유세는 대중적 인기를 통한 투표에 의해 유지된다, 그는 결코 지배 엘리트의 인정을 받지 못하며 공화당 지도층이나 재벌 언론의 지지를 얻지 못했다. 이는 거대한 따돌림의 전형인데, 트럼프 후보와 그 지지자들은 조직적으로 외면당하는 중이다. 이는 11월의 대선이 국민의 선거가 아니라, 지배층이 선택하고, 버리는 절차임을 보여준다.
이는 민주주의가 아니며, 소수 엘리트에 의한 극심한 과두체제일뿐이다. 그런 참담한 노골적 행태를 벌이면서 뭐하러 선거를 하는 척 연기하는가? 너무 역겨운 대국민 정치쇼가 아닌가?
The mainstream US news media have never
liked the brash billionaire Trump. He makes good circulation figures for sure,
but the large coverage the Republican contender has received from the outset is
preponderantly negative.
Trump’s campaign has instead been buoyed by
the popular vote, not by endorsement from the elite establishment, including the
Republican Party leadership and the corporate media. Now that the race for the
presidency is turning into a two-horse contest between Democrat Hillary Clinton
and Trump, the media’s antipathy towards Trump is moving to an all-out barrage
of attacks. Attacks, it has to be said, that are bordering on hysteria and which
only a corporate machine could convey.
Like a giant screening process, the Trump
candidacy and his supporters are being systematically disenfranchised. At this
rate of attrition, by the time the election takes place in November the result
will already have been all but formally decided ? by the powers-that-be, not the
popular will.
The past week provides a snapshot of the
intensifying media barrage facing Trump. Major US media outlets have run
prominent claims that Trump is a fan
of the former brutal Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Those claims were based on a
loose interpretation of what Trump said at a rally when he referred to Saddam’s
strong-arm suppression of terrorism. He didn’t say he liked Saddam. In fact,
called him a “bad guy”. But Trump said that the Iraqi dictator
efficiently eliminated terrorists.
A second media meme to emerge was “Trump the
anti-Semite”. This referred to an image his campaign team tweeted of
Hillary Clinton as “the most corrupt candidate ever”. The words were
emblazoned on a red, six-pointed star. Again, the mainstream media gave copious
coverage to claims that the image was anti-Semitic because, allegedly, it was a
Jewish 'Star of David'.
Trump vehemently rebuffed the claims. He
said it was simply a star, like the ones that US Marshals use. When his campaign
team reacted to the initial media furor by replacing the red star with a circle
it only served to fuel accusations against Trump because he was seen to be
acting defensively. However, he later defiantly rebuked his campaign team and
said they should have stuck with the star image and let him defend that choice
of image as simply an innocuous star shape.
For what it’s worth, Trump’s son-in-law,
Jared Kushner, who is Jewish, subsequently rallied to the tycoon’s defense and
said he was not racist nor anti-Semitic and that the controversy was a
media-contrived storm in a teacup.
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In the same week that the alleged
dictator-loving, anti-Semitic Trump hit newsstands, we then read about nuclear
trigger-happy Donald.
Not only that but the
Trump-risks-Armageddon article also refers to him
being in the same company as Russian leader Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim
Jung Un who, we are told, “also have their finger on the nuclear
button”.
Under the headline, 'How to slow Donald
Trump from pushing the nuclear button', a photograph shows the presidential
contender with a raised thump in a downward motion. The answer being begged is:
Don’t vote for this guy ? unless you want to incinerate the planet!
This is scare-tactics to the extreme thrown
in for good measure along with slander and demonization. And all pumped up to
maximum volume by the US corporate media, all owned by just six
conglomerates.
Trump is having to now spend more of his
time explaining what he is alleged to have said or did not say, instead of being
allowed to level criticisms at his Democrat rival or to advance whatever
political program he intends to deliver as president.
The accusation that Trump is a threat to US
national security is all the more ironic given that this week Hillary Clinton
was labelled as “extremely
careless” by the head of the FBI over her dissemination of state secrets
through her insecure private email account.
Many legal experts and former US government
officials maintain that Clinton’s
breach of classified information is deserving of criminal prosecution ? an
outcome that would debar her from contesting the presidential
election.
Why the FBI should have determined that
there is no case for prosecution even though more than 100 classified documents
were circulated by Clinton when she was Secretary of State (2009-2013) has
raised public heckles of “double standards”.
The controversy has been compounded by the
US Attorney General Loretta Lynch also declaring that no charges will be pressed
and the case is closed ? a week after she met with Hillary’s husband, Bill, on
board her plane for a hush-hush chat.
Trump makes a valid point that
Clinton’s abuse of state secrecy ? whether intentional or negligent ? has in
fact posed a national security threat. Yet the media focus is decidedly not on
his Democrat rival. It is rather centered on overblown concerns about the
wealthy real estate developer.
Trump is right. The political system in the
US is rigged. Not just in terms of
double standards of the justice system, but in the bigger context of how
candidates are screened and vetted ? in this case through undue
vilification.
Trump’s reactionary views on immigration,
race relations and international politics are certainly questionable. His
credibility as the next president of the US may be dubious. But is his
credibility any less than that of Hillary Clinton? Her melding of official
capacity with private gain from Wall Street banks and foreign governments acting
as donors to her family’s fund-raising Clinton Foundation has the pungent whiff
of selling federal policy for profit. Her penchant for criminal regime change
operations in Honduras, Libya, Syria and Ukraine speak of a political mafia
don.
American politics has long been derided as
a “dog and pony show”, whereby powerful lobbies buy the pageant
outcome. Trump’s own participation in the election is only possible because he
is a multi-billionaire who is able to fund a political campaign.
That said, however, the New York
businessman has garnered a sizable popular following from his maverick attacks
on the rotten Washington establishment.
But what we are witnessing is a brazen
display of how the powers-that-be (Wall Street, media, Pentagon, Washington,
etc) are audaciously intervening in this electoral cycle to disenfranchise the
voting population.
Clinton has emerged as the
candidate-of-choice for the establishment, and the race to the White House is
being nobbled ? like never before.
US democracy a race? More like a knacker’s
yard.
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/350193-trump/
