{"id":11026,"date":"2025-03-05T16:09:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T14:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regulastaempfli.eu\/?p=11026"},"modified":"2025-03-05T16:09:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T14:09:22","slug":"it-is-the-codes-stupid-on-the-madness-of-media-trump-derangement-syndrom-women-sports-stories-that-count-more-than-facts-by-lastaempfli-march-6th-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regulastaempfli.eu\/?p=11026","title":{"rendered":"“It is the codes, stupid.” On the madness of media, Trump Derangement Syndrom, Women & Sports & stories that count more than facts by laStaempfli, March 6th 2025."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Seit \u00fcber zehn Jahren schreibe, publiziere, trete ich auf & die \u00d6ffentlichkeit schreitet mir meist zehn Jahre hinterher. Es geht um die Revolution der Welt durch Sprechakte, die sich in automatisch repetierte Codes giessen, die wiederum als neue Ideologien die Wirklichkeit und Welt pr\u00e4gen. #HannahArendtLecture Anl\u00e4sslich eines Monates Trump 2.0 hier auf Englisch meine Gedanken & ja: Ein Substack-Account, der mich in die ongoing Conversation bringen w\u00fcrde, w\u00e4re besser, ich bin einfach noch nicht so weit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s the Codes, Stupid.<\/strong>
On the madness of media, Trump Derangement Syndrome, Women & Sports, and stories that count more than facts.<\/em>
by laStaempfli, March 6th, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019m not here to defend Donald Trump. Never was. Never will be. The man is a walking algorithm \u2013 a self-learning machine built out of resentment, showbiz instinct, and a pathological need for attention. But if you only see the man, you miss the real story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first month of Trump\u2019s new reign \u2013 and yes, let\u2019s call it that \u2013 wasn\u2019t just a return to the chaos presidency. It was a reboot of the entire media-industrial complex. Every headline, every hot take, every “breaking news” alert: a mirror, not of Trump himself, but of the codes that run our discourse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s the codes, stupid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The code that makes outrage profitable.
The code that turns every policy into a meme.
The code that conflates moral panic with investigative journalism.
The code that treats politics as a Marvel reboot \u2013 good guys, bad guys, no context, no history.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The madness of the media isn\u2019t that they lie. Most of them don\u2019t. The madness is their code: the pre-set rules about what counts as a story, what makes the cut, what algorithms will amplify, and \u2013 more importantly \u2013 what won\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), for example. The term was born as a right-wing insult, but it perfectly captures what happens when journalists, activists, and academics stop thinking and start reacting. It\u2019s a code glitch \u2013 a systemic bug that turns every Trump breath into a doomsday signal. And the thing about bugs is: they spread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TDS doesn\u2019t just distort coverage of Trump. It warps everything: Biden, the border, Gaza, Ukraine. In a code-driven media, there\u2019s no space for nuance. Every story needs a villain. Every fact needs a spin. Every voice is either with us or against us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And women? Women are always either symbols or side characters in these stories. Especially in sports. While Trump makes some clumsy, off-script comment about “protecting women\u2019s sports” (because even a broken clock is right twice a day), the media code forces the narrative into two opposing boxes: you either cheerlead for trans inclusion in every context, or you\u2019re a bigot. Forget biology, forget fairness, forget the actual voices of female athletes. The code doesn\u2019t care. It\u2019s not built to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The stories that count are the stories that code well: outrage, simplicity, enemy-spotting. Women\u2019s sports? Too complicated. Trumpism? Easy money. Complex history, broken systems, the digital architecture shaping our world? Doesn\u2019t code. Doesn\u2019t count.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m not saying facts don\u2019t matter. I\u2019m saying facts have no power if the code doesn\u2019t let them in. And until we rewrite the code \u2013 the media logic, the platform incentives, the algorithms that decide what\u2019s visible and what\u2019s not \u2013 every president, every war, every social movement will just be content. Shuffled, sorted, framed, and forgotten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first month of Trump is just that: the latest content drop in a system that already decided the story before it even started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s the codes, stupid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 laStaempfli, March 6th, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It\u2019s not Trump, it\u2019s the codes, stupid. Media, madness & why stories outrun facts.” \u2013 laStaempfli, March 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The first month of Trump 2.0 isn\u2019t about him \u2013 it\u2019s about us. Our codes, our blind spots, our media madness.”<\/strong> laStaempfli, March 6th 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Outrage sells. Simplicity wins. Women lose. Welcome to the next media meltdown. #ItsTheCodesStupid”<\/strong> laStaempfli, March 6th 2025.
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“Forget the man. Fear the machine. #ItsTheCodesStupid”<\/strong> by laStaempfli, March 6th 2025.
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“Stories that code, outrun stories that count. Trump 2025 is already a content drop \u2013 and we\u2019re all complicit.”<\/strong> by laStaempfli, March 6th 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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