Corporations hiring fake journalists to attack politicians with fake scandals
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/21/1142575872/abc-news-producer-corporate-operative-investigation
like something that would happen in my Eclipse novels
@JohnShirley2023 Tom Lehrer once said that satire died when Henry Kissinger was given a Nobel Peace Prize.
Perhaps someone can complete the sentence "Dystopian science fiction died when [...]"
@pipistrelle @JohnShirley2023 Five years later and I still can't get my head around it. I thought they were gnawing through the bottom of the barrel when they elected Dubya. But it turned out they could not only do worse than a genuinely valueless human being, they could do far, far worse.
@pieist @pipistrelle Yeah Trump made Dubya seem like a great statesman by comparison.
@pieist Dystopian science fiction died by degrees. First when the world began burning with wildfires; second when the Colorado River basically dried up; third when they said "covid will never really go away" and fourth when the American right decided it was time to create a militant theocracy.
@pieist @JohnShirley2023 Donald Trump was elected president.