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At least the idiot gave Obama a turn. Got tired of blaming Biden, I guess ...
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At least the idiot gave Obama a turn. Got tired of blaming Biden, I guess ...
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Riding back yesterday from rafting, one of the guides had the SD card with the photos for sale. When a kid asked him what it was he made a joke about it being the missing 18 minutes from the Watergate tapes.
My daughter had no clue what Watergate was, so I tried to briefly explain. Once I got to the part where the Republicans in Congress told Nixon he was cooked I started hanging my head, because I had to tell my teenager that Watergate is now an example of “the government actually working as intended.”
The last 10 years have been a continuous facepalm for people who think.
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Only because we are journalists or otherwise more-engaged people. Too many are not, and need to have things explicitly explained, clearly, correctly and straightforwardly laid out, and have their hand held in order to actually stay informed or make informed decisions.
Too many people are uneducated about how our country and its government work, are uninformed about history, politics or current serious issues, and don't have the know-how, wherewithal or interest to find out how to change any of that.
Therefore, constant shouting, simple, direct newscasting, and in-your-face force-feeding, apparently, is all that MIGHT get through, to too many people in the U.S. People are stupid, unengaged, and don't care. That's how we got here at all in the first place.
And we will be lucky if and/or when things change for the better. Thanks to Trump, our country's now unprincipled, unresponsive, unethical and non-functioning government, and its largely divided population, I'm not sure if or when that will ever actually happen anymore.
Trump is a criminal who should be put in prison, or, at the very least, removed from office, and neither our feckless Congress nor our corrupt Supreme Court care. So, here we are...
You agreed about the NYT Opinion section and The Free Press, though, right?
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If by "breathless," you mean The Atlantic is concerned enough to put out news and information about important stuff that's worth knowing about because, you know, our actual government that's supposed to represent us and stand with and for us, not to mention a lot of pandering, feckless other media representatives, may not do it, either at all, or only ineffectively and disingenuously, then, yeah, it's "breathless."
It's like you're just having fun watching this all happen, and you think we should all just be yeking it up about it.
And you don't even have to be all that "progressive" to be among those who are concerned. So, I'm curious.: Why shouldn't we be? And why are you not?
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TPM on the algae kerfluffle:
The Reflecting Pool as a Reflection of Trump’s Corruption and Tin-Potism
After President Donald Trump’s boastful, $16 million-plus makeover of the reflecting pool at the Lincoln Memorial was spoiled by rapidly blooming algae and peeling paint, he flew into one of his trademark weekend Truth Social rages against “Radical Left Lunatics.” He baselessly blamed “terrible Vandals,” and called for the arrest and “Years in jail” for people who had, in his words, committed “a true affront to both Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.”
The entire debacle has all the hallmarks of a flailing dictator story. First, Trump’s supposed “makeovers” of Washington, D.C. landmarks and monuments are nothing more than vanity projects, as he fancies himself the sole definer of our national history, and importantly, our national aesthetics. Second, his administration doled out no-bid, taxpayer-funded contracts, one to a Trump donor and Mar-a-Lago neighbor who was once embroiled in a bribery scandal. (Yes, that scandal involves vintage TPM character Jim Traficant). Now, Trump is apoplectic that his vaunted “American flag blue” paint has peeled away as if it had been installed with a glue stick — a disastrous symbolism even Trump recognizes.
His response is to lash out, and claim, with no evidence, that curious residents and tourists had sabotaged his handiwork and even desecrated the monuments he claims to be restoring to a glory only he can achieve. As icing on the cake, his handpicked prosecutor, the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro, went on the state news network, aka Fox News, on Sunday to promise “serious charges” against anyone who puts their hand in the pool’s water, or touches a clump of peeling paint floating in it. She did not rule out prosecuting ABC News’ Jonathan Karl, who reported from the site last week.
Trump is baselessly accusing “vandals” of pouring “corrosive” substances into the pool to trigger the algae, and for a nonexistent 250-foot “gash into the beautiful facade.” The administration has already begun charging people, including David Hearn, a former Olympian who stopped to take a look at the reflecting pool while out for a bike ride on Friday, and spent five hours in detention at a Park Police facility before being released.
The entire episode is peak Trumpism: both preposterous and dangerous at the same time. As far as the likelihood that D.C. juries would convict anyone in the Reflecting Pool saga, just remember Sandwich Guy.
The entire debacle has all the hallmarks of a flailing dictator story. First, Trump’s supposed “makeovers” of Washington, D.C. landmarks and monuments are nothing more than vanity projects, as he fancies himself the sole definer of our national history, and importantly, our national aesthetics. Second, his administration doled out no-bid, taxpayer-funded contracts, one to a Trump donor and Mar-a-Lago neighbor who was once embroiled in a bribery scandal. (Yes, that scandal involves vintage TPM character Jim Traficant). Now, Trump is apoplectic that his vaunted “American flag blue” paint has peeled away as if it had been installed with a glue stick — a disastrous symbolism even Trump recognizes.
His response is to lash out, and claim, with no evidence, that curious residents and tourists had sabotaged his handiwork and even desecrated the monuments he claims to be restoring to a glory only he can achieve. As icing on the cake, his handpicked prosecutor, the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro, went on the state news network, aka Fox News, on Sunday to promise “serious charges” against anyone who puts their hand in the pool’s water, or touches a clump of peeling paint floating in it. She did not rule out prosecuting ABC News’ Jonathan Karl, who reported from the site last week.
Trump is baselessly accusing “vandals” of pouring “corrosive” substances into the pool to trigger the algae, and for a nonexistent 250-foot “gash into the beautiful facade.” The administration has already begun charging people, including David Hearn, a former Olympian who stopped to take a look at the reflecting pool while out for a bike ride on Friday, and spent five hours in detention at a Park Police facility before being released.
The entire episode is peak Trumpism: both preposterous and dangerous at the same time. As far as the likelihood that D.C. juries would convict anyone in the Reflecting Pool saga, just remember Sandwich Guy.
The Reflecting Pool as a Reflection of Trump’s Corruption and Tin-Potism
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And also covering the quashed subpoenas:
Judge Throws Out ‘Blatantly Unlawful’ DOJ Subpoeana Targeting Walz, Other Minnesota Dems
U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz, a President George W. Bush appointee, threw out Trump DOJ grand jury subpoenas aimed at Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz from January, finding in a ruling unsealed Monday that there was “no doubt” that the subpoenas were issued to retaliate against Walz.
“Initiating a criminal investigation in order to harass political opponents or to coerce them into taking official action — particularly official action that the federal government cannot directly require those political opponents to take — is a blatantly unlawful and unethical use [of] the grand-jury process,” Schiltz wrote in the 29-page ruling dated last Wednesday and unsealed on Monday.
Schiltz’s ruling throws out six grand jury subpoenas that sought records from Walz, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her and officials in Ramsey and Hennepin counties. They were part of a DOJ investigation into the administration’s immigration enforcement assault in Minnesota at the time — and whether Walz and other officials supposedly impeded federal law enforcement activity. In his ruling, Schiltz said it was clear, “beyond resasonable dispute,” that the purpose of the subpoenas was to “coerce Minnesota officials into assisting the federal government with enforcing civil immigration law and to harass and retaliate against them for failing to do so.”
“Initiating a criminal investigation in order to harass political opponents or to coerce them into taking official action — particularly official action that the federal government cannot directly require those political opponents to take — is a blatantly unlawful and unethical use [of] the grand-jury process,” Schiltz wrote in the 29-page ruling dated last Wednesday and unsealed on Monday.
Schiltz’s ruling throws out six grand jury subpoenas that sought records from Walz, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her and officials in Ramsey and Hennepin counties. They were part of a DOJ investigation into the administration’s immigration enforcement assault in Minnesota at the time — and whether Walz and other officials supposedly impeded federal law enforcement activity. In his ruling, Schiltz said it was clear, “beyond resasonable dispute,” that the purpose of the subpoenas was to “coerce Minnesota officials into assisting the federal government with enforcing civil immigration law and to harass and retaliate against them for failing to do so.”
Judge Throws Out ‘Blatantly Unlawful’ DOJ Subpoeana Targeting Walz, Other Minnesota Dems
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An actual expert weighs in.
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I've never read the Free Press. I always had the NYT for the deep-dive news. I only read opinion stuff as compelled because of perceived importance of the issue involved, or else because something was just of interest to me personally. So, not religiously.
I have never hated the NYT as much as some here do. Its news reporting is still just too good. I actually think the Washington Post has fallen farther, much faster, from what it once was, thanks largely -- perhaps even singularly -- to Bezos's blatant bending of the knee to Trump.
(And I'm not bothered by opinion pieces being one way or another. People, and newspapers' editorial boards, or contributors, are welcome to their opinions. I don't mind reading other "sides" or thoughts. Doing so lends itself to being more aware, and I think I'm intelligent and discerning enough to understand what I'm reading and to appropriately and effectively weigh different perspectives in informing my own).
That's the value and beauty of being interested and at least trying to stay engaged. Too many people are not, and do not. But as long as actual news -- correct, complete and as informative at possible -- is also offered, then I, and others, can better make judgments when needed. It becomes possible to see, think about and understand gray matters, and realize that not everything is, um, black-and-white, even if it is read all over.
Divisiveness would not be such a big issue right now if more people thought, read and tried to understand things that way more often. "United we stand; divided we fall," and all that...which is exactly what is happening, thanks to the criminal in the White House and his corrupt government.
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You just knew Obama's middle name would come out of his mouth after all the love the library got over the weekend.
We're in a war. The economy is a mess. And POTUS is obsessing over not getting to first base with the Italian PM and a clearly botched rehab of the reflecting pool.
We're in a war. The economy is a mess. And POTUS is obsessing over not getting to first base with the Italian PM and a clearly botched rehab of the reflecting pool.
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Just show her All The President's Men.
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Republicans posing as Democrats to cause problems. If only we folks at SJ.com had direct experience to understand something like that. Oh, wait. We do.
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What you wrote wasn't controversial. It was ignorant nonsense from an elephant in a donkey's clothing.
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