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The Hill Jan 31, 2020

New Republic Editor: Can the establishment stop Bernie?

Editor at The New Republic Chris Lehmann discusses what to expect at the Iowa Caucus.

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For all of the media savvy and organizational prowess that produced Graham’s breakthrough 1949 revival, there’s something conspicuously absent from this crucial postwar moment: theological substance. Graham’s Los Angeles crusade was a strikingly formalist affair: a revival predicated on publicly beseeching the Lord for a revival.

Chris Lehmann

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So much to think about after another stellar @Educon at @SLAtweets! I've collected my tweets here to dig further into some of the gathered resources. #educon #edchat

So much to think about after another stellar @Educon at @SLAtweets! I’ve collected my tweets here to dig further into some of the gathered resources. #educon #edchat

It was exciting to be in Philadelphia this weekend to feel Philly Pride in the home of the Eagles (#FlyEaglesFly) and to participate in another Educon hosted by Science Leadership Academy: @DonBuckley kindly took this picture of me upon arriving at 30th Street Station. #FlyEaglesFly #educon pic.twitter.com/GVJvEPtKy6 — Karen Blumberg (@KarenBlumberg) January 27, 2018…

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“As with so many of Trump’s forays into self-serving megalomaniacal fantasy, it’s easy to lose the larger narrative thread amid the blizzard of rank falsehood. The clear subtext of Tuesday’s performance was to drive home the message that, at some level, the left protesters in Charlottesville deserved what they got. Why on earth would our president otherwise go out of his way to insist that the victims of a violent terrorist assault share a “semblance of guilt” and “have [a] problem”? Why spend the lion’s share of a policy photo-op inveighing against the alleged violent tendencies of the American left? And why bother to seek an “other side” in a tragic encounter with racist reaction? The real moral failure to anyone following the Charlottesville aftermath is that this episode mirrored to a chilling degree the awful iconography of civil-rights protests in the Jim Crow South, with entitled white power acting with violent impunity against the threat of dissent, and local law enforcement standing largely to the side, impassive. The key difference between those protests and last week’s Charlottesville massacre, though, was that the American presidency then aligned itself on the side of anti-racist protest; now, to the eternal shame of our entire civic culture, the presidency is emphatically, militantly, on the side of moral wrong.

In one sense, the bankrupt logic of two-sidesism is a direct outgrowth of the many allied corruptions of our two-party system. The pundit and presidential mind alike gravitate to the irresistible, self-canceling logic of impartially apportioned views and opinions organized along a strictly undeviating bipolar grid. It’s the same reason that the alibi of first resort for amoral journalistic hacks is that, if partisans on either side of this or that debate of the moment are griping about their coverage, why they must be doing their jobs in perfect Goldilocks fashion—just right.

But these are also the same forces that locked sickeningly into gear to normalize everything about Trump’s rise to power. As Trump emerged out of the sodden 2016 GOP primary field, our politico-journalistic establishment obsessively tracked his progress toward mass acceptance—without, for instance, treating the birther libel, the immigration-bashing, the anti-Muslim xenophobia, or the marshaling of an overtly racist base at the fount of his campaign as first-order disqualifications for holding high office. Trump was, after all, cruising to a major-party nomination, and criticism of such a figure should be primly quarantined to the designated (and in this case, howlingly ineffectual) leaders of the opposition party. Thus, to take just one grotesque example, CNN became an open-air bazaar of Trump sycophancy, following the similar bankrupt moral reasoning that, since this Trump fellow was attracting so much attention, it was the network’s solemn difference-trimming duty to roll out the pundit red carpet for a sorry array of racists, liars, and bottom-feeding “commentators” to dutifully recite Trump-adoring talking points. But even CNN, it seems, can recognize the rapid approach of a moral catastrophe—albeit, of course, when it’s far too late to do the network or the rest of us much good. Jeffrey Lord, the first Trump ghoul to sign a long-term pundit contract with Jeff Zucker’s intellectual chop shop, was finally let go for tweeting the fragrant fascist greeting “Sieg Heil” to a critic at the liberal media watchdog group Media Matters for America. (Like every alt-right asshole everywhere, Lord claimed that he intended his Nazi salute ironically. See? There are always two sides!) It’s reassuring, I suppose, to know that even a terminally addled news organization like CNN can still recognize a moral calamity sitting in its own green room. It remains to be seen, however, whether our media establishment can ever rouse itself to call out, with unqualified honesty, the lunatic fascist in the Oval Office for the racist stooge he always has been, and shall ever be.” - Chris Lehmann, “CTRL-ALT-FAIL,” The Baffler. August 16, 2016.

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News on Gute Zeiten schlechte Zeiten (GZSZ)...

... as I said before they have given the storyline a long time to get to the point where Chris finally remembers the truth. Everyone believes him now but he still have to go to court. Because his brother accused him of trying to kill him. Truth is Chris tried to get Felix to confess his manipulations and therefore kidnapped him but never tried to kill him!

So I will start posting new gifs at the point of the trial. Felix is under pressure from family and friends to confess and has given his word that he will testify officially.

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This is for @fanfictionwhump

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Finally Sunny gets to Chris. Felix is very scared what Chris might tell her. And Chris does tell her everything. He tells her that it all was his fault. It seems that Felix has successfully conditioned his memories. He also tells Sunny that he is sorry for causing so much trouble and pain.

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Felix had an argument with his girlfriend Sunny. She was beginning to think that he had something to hide from her. Which he has. Because he is the one manipulating things all the time just to get her. And Chris stand in his way.

He is just standing there in the middle of the night and tells Chris that Sunny were never afraid of Chris. But she is of him. And Chris tells him that he is sorry.