Karl Bode: I'm no ivy league fail upward brunchlord news professional, but I feel it's generous to call conspiratorial fascism (managed by a sociopathic manbaby with a fourth grade reading level) "disruptive" that's kind of like saying nuclear annihilation is "modifying"

I'm no ivy league fail upward brunchlord news professional, but I feel it's generous to call conspiratorial fascism (managed by a sociopathic manbaby with a fourth grade reading level) "disruptive" that's kind of like saying nuclear annihilation is "modifying"

“Fasten your seatbelts” is stomach-churning, like they have a real hard on for this possibility.

it's so abubdabtly clear they love the controversy clicks a complete dismantling of democracy will provide

they think the whole thing will be Mueller Time on steroids and have no sense of the danger to themselves or the country

When you have houses in different countries your definition of Crisis looks very different, I'm guessing.

they see the world from the backseat of black sedan car service so it's easy to miss the fine print

wait until they find out they won't actually be allowed to travel outside the country without permission.

They genuinely believe that they are going to be the Trump Republicans' special little news media buddies, maybe going back & forth on various critical articles, and they do not understand that the Trumpists genuinely despise all of them and will use every power obvious & hidden to destroy them.

It hit me maybe 3 years into Trump to realize, I don't think the media ever did: 95 percent, if not more, of the Rs in Government love Trump and want to support him, all those things they say in public to praise and support him are genuine /1

....the lies are what they tell the media in private, the stuff about being aghast or not supporting this or that, of being ashamed. After all nothing they have done really matches what they said in private, it matches what they've said in public. They support Trump

never have I felt such a level of disdain and antipathy toward a peer group

I'm sure they'll be fine. Not like the would-be dictator ever called them an enemy of the people.

The whole thing will be "Trump just fired everyone investigating this and coincidentally the whistle blower disappeared"

Ooh, Boeing’s new Whistleblower Response Squad can get more contracts!

It's like they didn't see what he did the first time, and have not taken one word of the screeching nut balls around him seriously. What would he need any of those people for, he'd just appropriate the whole company, fire everyone (or you know, order 66), then install whoever he wanted to kiss ass.

yes, but who cares if the clicks come from real people or from authoritarian state agents

smacks of glee

they're so excited to cash in on those sweet outrage engagement clicks they simply can't hide it they think they'll be safe there in Chelsea

Dude's father was the co-founder of Staples. Pretty sure he's going to be fine regardless. Those types usually do well under a "regime."

Yeah I really don’t think they know what will come at them in a second term. Or they’re just willfully ignorant

Yes bsky.app/profile/mark...

"We'll show up and we'll do our jobs" People with a historical perspective: "According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)’s data, 43 journalists and media workers have been killed in Russia since Putin came to power in late 1999..." www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

How Russia’s Press Freedom has Deteriorated Over the Decades Sincewww.pbs.org FRONTLINE takes a closer look at the different tactics that President Vladimir Putin and the government have used to clamp down on journalists in Russia, and the impact it’s had on press freedom

oops... looks like we're on the same page ;-)

They'll just turn into this to curry favor. Hell, they already are. Obeying in advance.

"Fasten your seatbelts! What a wild ride this will be!"

Rubbing their hands thinking about the readership

Be there! Will be wild!

Interviewer: yeah so what are you guys gonna do when the Nazis win? NYT: make so much fuckin money off liberals losing their shit

If it's a zoom call I hope his camera is pointed up.

Came here to say something like this! Yikes.

DOESN’T IT!!!

👆🏼Came her to say:

It also sounds as if the NYT is gagging for a second Trump administration.

either a second Trump term (with hearings and controversy and political action) or a really close race followed by Trump et al spending the next four years calling for hearings and generating controvery. either way, they get their "content"

There won't be hearings and controversy and political action. The Times will be reduced to an official mouthpiece of Trump's lies. Anyone who doesn't praise Heroic Leader sufficiently will be thrown in jail or possibly even Khashoggi'ed.

Trans people will be "cleansed" from the county, but The Times has already made clear that's what they're up for.

Trans, disabled, anyone not the right variety of Christian, anyone not white.

Eventually, if we don't fight back with everything we've got, yes.

Does no one at the Times realize that if Trump wins again, they won't be the ones deciding what they write about?

It’s one banana, Michael. How much could it possibly cost, $10?

💯

the people at the times excited for this won't even have to be told what to write about, they'll eagerly write puff pieces about the Fuher's more svelte waistline now that he only has one scoop of ice cream at dinner

They all think "disruptive" is good!! It's high-tech! Psychopaths

They aren't picking up that Trump will be disruptive in the same way a stroke is 'disruptive' to arterial blood flowing to your brain.

Move fast break the liberal world order.

They can't wait for the endless outrage reporting. And they think they'll be safe. If they bend the knee enough they probably will be.

at first this sort of shit comes for everybody eventually. They have LGBTQ family.

As if they would care about LGBTQ+ family members, they've already shown how much disdain they have for us queer folk. Most journalist at this point make it their personal mission to mainly bring forth bigoted voices while just having a bit in the back about the actual queers.

Leadership will be, it’s the reporters who will get purged while they act shocked about it.

it's both funny and grotesque how much this sounds like an "If Trump Wins You'll Need Your New York Times Subscription More Than Ever" pitch

“the bombs were ground breaking.”

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