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The Atlantic: The Rest of the World Is Laughing at Trump
The Atlantic ^ | 05/04/2020 | Anne Applebaum

Posted on 05/04/2020 7:57:20 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

It looks, at first, like one of a zillion unfunny video clips that now circulate on the internet: “Once Upon a Virus” features cheap animation, cheesy music, and sarcastic dialogue between China—represented by a Lego terra-cotta warrior with a low, masculine voice—and the United States, represented by a Lego Statue of Liberty with a high, squeaky voice. They “speak” in short sentences:

“We discovered a new virus,” says the warrior. “So what?” says the Statue of Liberty.

“It’s dangerous,” says the warrior. “It’s only a flu,” says Statue of Liberty.

“Wear a mask,” says the warrior. “Don’t wear a mask,” says the Statue of Liberty.

“Stay at home,” says the warrior. “It’s violating human rights,” says the Statue of Liberty

The dialogue goes on like that—“It will go away in April,” the Statue of Liberty says at one point—until it ends, finally, with the statue on an intravenous drip making wild and contradictory statements while the warrior jeers at her.

Although this looks like an I’m-bored-at-home amateur production, it is not: The video was published on April 30 by Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency. It has since been promoted by Chinese diplomats and watched, as of yesterday afternoon, by more than 1.6 million people around the world.

It has also been mocked and denounced as crude propaganda—which, of course, it is. Crude propaganda is what China’s leaders do, both at home and abroad, and since the pandemic began they have stepped up their efforts. But even those who are mocking should beware: Anybody who knows any history will be aware that propaganda—even the most obvious, most shameless propaganda—sometimes works. And it works not because people necessarily believe that all of it is true, but because they respect the capabilities or fear the power of the people who produced it.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2020election; anneapplebaum; china; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; mediawingofthednc; nevertrumper; partisanmediashills; powervacuum; presstitutes; smearmachine; theatlantic; trump; usa
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To: SeekAndFind

How’d it work out when China filled the void in Italy?


81 posted on 05/05/2020 4:11:16 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: SeekAndFind

The rest of world has been laughing at trump for 4 years.

Why?

Because of the flood of mockery by the propaganda media worldwide, with no balance, no reason, and no honesty. They have been pumping out garbage without letup for the entire time Trump has been on the global stage. They fear him, and mockery is a potent weapon.

The compliant proles take their cues from their masters, and willingly follow along, all the while congratulating themselves for being so edgy and woke.

A publication like The Atlantic is just one of the tools that the globalist elite use to advance their agenda. There are many, many more.


82 posted on 05/05/2020 4:14:12 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (This tagline is an advertisement-free zone. Is yours?)
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To: SeekAndFind

A vacuum has opened up,
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Anne Applebaum has always been a bit vacuous ...


83 posted on 05/05/2020 4:17:41 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Atlantic, a crappy magazine that makes the NY TIMES look conservative.


84 posted on 05/05/2020 4:25:57 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: SeekAndFind
The honest people of the world are laughing at The Atlantic!
85 posted on 05/05/2020 4:36:51 AM PDT by Savage Beast (President Trump, praying for guidance, giving his salary to charity, is on the Side of the Angels.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yes, the rest of the ‘woke’ world. The great enlightened ones.


86 posted on 05/05/2020 4:54:50 AM PDT by dljordan
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To: SeekAndFind
Read her bio and you'll get the cut of her jib:

Anne Applebaum

87 posted on 05/05/2020 4:57:54 AM PDT by Viking2002 (Why should I walk into the great unknown, when I can sit here, and throw my bones?)
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To: SeekAndFind

If so keep laughing, you’ll be laughing out your a## soon


88 posted on 05/05/2020 5:03:36 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: SeekAndFind

President Trump has accepted, without question, everything “Science” told him.

I guess the Statue of Liberty represents the Scientific community.


89 posted on 05/05/2020 5:31:29 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: rlmorel
There was a movie that came out a couple of years back called "The Death of Stalin"

Just watched it last night. Was shocked it was made. Had Steve Buscemi in it as Khrushchev
90 posted on 05/05/2020 6:24:24 AM PDT by RedMonqey
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To: RedMonqey

Putin banned the movie in Russia.


91 posted on 05/05/2020 6:25:03 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: RedMonqey

Heh, I have to admit, the whole scene was hilarious where Khrushchev is confiding to General Zhukov about what must be done to Stalin, and Zhukov indignantly says to him “I will have to report this to the authorities!” and when Khrushchev turns white, Zhukov roars with laughter “You should have seen your face!”

All theater, but THAT was pretty funny!

Man. How does one make a comedy out of that material???


92 posted on 05/05/2020 6:29:27 AM PDT by rlmorel (The Coronavirus itself will not burn down humanity. But we may burn ourselves down to be rid of it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

How’s your circulation doin ?


93 posted on 05/05/2020 7:11:34 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: rlmorel

Really! It was funny because the paranoia that their system depended on was true, hence it was funny.

Just add music and a few dance steps and you have “Springtime for “Stalin”


94 posted on 05/05/2020 7:22:37 AM PDT by RedMonqey
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To: RedMonqey

Hahaha...”Springtime for Stalin”!

What an incredibly twisted society. In Solzhenitzyn’s “The Gulag Archipelago” he talks about how when Stalin died, many of the same people he persecuted, tortured, and unjustly send there wept.

Unbelievable.


95 posted on 05/05/2020 8:51:44 AM PDT by rlmorel (The Coronavirus itself will not burn down humanity. But we may burn ourselves down to be rid of it.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Hitler and Kathy were bat sh!t crazy.

The commies on the other hand were completely sane when they ordered the deaths of millions


96 posted on 05/05/2020 9:00:11 AM PDT by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Crude propaganda
Media knows they can’t be trusted so let’s try this.


97 posted on 05/05/2020 9:03:54 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: SeekAndFind

They laughed at him when he announced he was going to run for President, he who laughs last,laughs loudest!


98 posted on 05/05/2020 10:09:14 AM PDT by ballplayer (By)
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To: dfwgator

Maybe its the “magic” of Hollywood but it looked like many scenes were shot(no pun intended)in Russia.


99 posted on 05/05/2020 11:36:30 AM PDT by RedMonqey
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To: rlmorel

I read his “Archipelago Gulag” and “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich”in high school and couldn’t understand it. Like the Jews of Europe in the camps crying over the death of Hitler.

I latter came to realize they thought Stalin, THEIR Stalin couldn’t do this to them. The power of propaganda when the state holds all venues of information!


100 posted on 05/05/2020 11:40:58 AM PDT by RedMonqey
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