DJ Brian H

For the life of me, I can't understand why journalists let Trump and his surrogates lie about Trump's success criminalizing his opponents in his first term. But Dana Bash did it again yesterday. www.emptywheel.net/2024/07/08/i...

Imagine if Dana Bash Knew Trump Had Been President Before? - emptywheelwww.emptywheel.net When Dana Bash let Marco Rubio lie at length about whether Trump had ever targeted his rivals for criminal prosecution, she let slide a fabricated claim that Joe Biden received a bribe from Ukraine.

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“Is suddenly in doubt” “Has boomeranged” I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a purer example of the press depersonalizing its own role than this. Holy Christ.

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NY Times: You thought this election might be about an unprecedented convicted criminal running to overthrow Constitutional democracy? You think you decide the narrative? Oh no. That’s our turf. And we say the most important thing in the election—nay, the world—is Joe Biden’s age.

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Jack Posobiec is a very influential MAGA media figure. He posted this today. In the 1930s Fr. Denis Fahey was probably most well know for being one of the most outspoken anti-semites in the world...quite an accomplishment for that era.

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It’s amazing the extent to which our billionaire tech bro overlords are just telling us out loud that they are rooting for fascism. Makes me slightly nostalgic for the days when American plutocrats plotted against democracy in secret.

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Every big media organization was so crossed-up by Trump winning in 2016 that they have been behaving and hiring as if Long Island-Coded Suburbo-Racist Sociopathy was on an unstoppable ascent worldwide, and interpreting everything backwards from there. It turns out most people actually hate it!

Honestly, what kind of bananas frame this story like this? Is shit serious or not, fucken freaks?

What I look like scrolling social media

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Real Democrats™ Bernie Sanders and AOC supporting the President and working for real progressive results as notorious socialists Adam Schiff and James Carville cowardly plot against him to bring about their vision for Mao’s America

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The takes are somehow getting dumber

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A lot of folks who supposedly analyze politics for a living are just like…not good at it?

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This entire election has been in uncharted territory since January 6, 2021, and a whole lot of people who are handsomely paid to report on and explain elections are making a big public spectacle of being staggered by how they've just started to figure that out

Been thinking a lot about the famous William Goldman quote about Hollywood and what makes a hit movie: “Nobody knows anything.” Don’t trust anyone who pretends to know what will happen if Biden stays in or if he withdraws.

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This is a great source for information on US elections - particularly for important down ballot races. If you just dropped your NYTimes subscription, consider redirecting your attention (and funds).

For folks who've appreciated my coverage of the French elections... @bolts.bsky.social is quite different—but we cover US politics with such attention to detail. So give us a follow if you've enjoyed this, and care about the US. And our newsletter is free! boltsmag.org/newsletter

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They’re already doing the birtherism again. Lol

If they do put Kamala Harris on the top of the ticket, I am prepared for a level of misogynoir unwitnessed since Rosa Parks sat down on that bus.

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Don Zeko

one of the most dishonest things people in my profession do is pretend as if “the story” and “the narrative” isn’t something they have direct control over

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ben

Klein's NYT piece today on having an open Dem primary does indeed suck, a lot

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If for no other reason, turn out to vote to spite the “men who have never done anything but sniff their own farts” club.

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Le Pen's party (RN) got 143 seats. While a record, that's far (very far) from the 289 they hoped for to govern. How?! Hundreds of Left & Macronist candidates dropped out to help each other block the RN. And millions of voters then voted strategically to get that job done.

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The demands for a "blitz primary" aren't serious suggestions, they're designed to set the table for delegitimizing Kamala Harris if Biden were to step aside for her

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Phil Huff

There's a lot he doesn't mention this is pure fantasy. Embarrassing.

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by choosing anyone other than harris to replace biden should he decide to step aside, the party would be revealing they very cynically chose her as veep for optics without believing she could actually be president.

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look - I'm receptive to both "no, it's gotta be him" arguments and "he's gotta step aside" arguments. not to be wishy-washy but both arguments have merit. "then we do a tourney" is OTOH flatly hilarious. yeah that'll go great. there will much much unity in the wake of the electoral deathmatch

To save democracy, the Democratic party may resort to deploying the greatest concept of all time: a political version of the NBA In-Season Tournament

Surely everyone who set aside their personal ambitions in 2020 will line up in an orderly fashion and behave like little gentlemen and gentleladies when the press gives Biden one final whack and the candy spills out

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semiotics of film grain

also it’s nice to see Marine Le Pen crying, but you ought to see the joy in people who needed better than that dead end

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This was always true. This has always been true for every marginalized community in every single only these “advanced democracies.” Welcome to the world your privilege has shielded you from. This is life outside the cave.

How do we adjust to a world where major democracies have long-term viable fascist parties? It feels like we'll just be having existential election after existential election, and we have to win every time whereas they only have to win once.

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what the fuck is this sorkin-brain shit?

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the weird thing about being on the internet is nobody really notices when you disappear cause there’s always enough stuff to fill the timeline. i’m overstating it but it’s partially true. there’s nonzero count of people you forgot about because they stopped posting or deactivated