Actual human communication is dramatically more complicated that. Democrats have, without exaggeration, driven American democracy into a wall by outsourcing their brains to this class of hucksters, who pretend to insight but who have never successfully changed the public narrative on anything.
we see very clearly in public polling that people in california and D.C. hate the deployments and that americans broadly disapprove of them, but here we have an assertion that the smart strategy is to avoid any discussion of the situation in favor of a pivot to, you guessed it, kitchen table issues.
ATACMS and enough F16s to JDAM their way to the coast should have been hard preconditions for launching the offensive.
Blows my mind that they aren't calling him an authoritarian trying to become a dictator at the beginning of every interview
Well nothing will happen until the media is willing to openly call Trump a corrupt authoritarian and question his intelligence, and loyalty to the US.
Maybe call them fascists, then.
If every western country had taken the French route, global warming would basically be solved.
What if his doctors had just left him alone in a room with a bottle of bleach? (they were basically given the time machine to kill Hitler and they chose Hitler)
I’ve gotten some negative feedback about the language I used about Columbia. Although I accept people choosing their own tone, I decline to accept tone critiques from people who wish to follow decorum obediently into a ditch. Columbia’s leadership is contemptible Vichy scum.
The internet is real life, as they should say, and ask any moderator of any forum what policy is required to keep the peace. It’s always the same: there has to be someone willing to point out who the trolls are, steamroll whatever endless series of lies and pretexts they throw up, and punish them.
I’d go one further and say the gradual moral collapse of our society and our politics is a direct product of the growing social norm where you cannot impute bad faith or immoral motive on people and institutions who clearly exhibit both.
Halfway through the year and Biden seems like he could have handled the job fine. After 2025? Who knows, but I still would have been totally fine voting for him.
You need to say on air that if Trump isn't a complete moron and wannabe dictator it sure is funny how he acts indistinguishable from one.
Nothing will ever begin to get better until legacy media and journalists sack up and start calling Trump and his lackeys fascists, morons, and traitors. These people are terrified of social ridicule and repercussions. They need to get it full blast.
With that name, the judge probably thinks that giving the fascists everything they want will prevent her from eventually being thrown in the camps with everyone else......
This is not the act of a legitimate government.
You guys are trying to win the dick sucking gold medal in non-bias while the country is being torn apart by actual fascists.
We couldn’t even muster the political courage to arm more than 10+ battalions of Bradley’s for the UAF and people are talking about how we’re going to “defend” Taiwan
That there’s a police state.
Nothing will change unless NPR chooses to openly question his corruption, intellect, fascist tendencies, and rampant Neo-Nazi ties.
Thinking more about it, it definitely came from one of the Russian assets in the admin (so maybe Trump himself) since it's basically the only way to spend 200 billion on energy and undermine Russia in any way.
One of the actual worst parts. Really need to figure out which incel made sure that didn't go to nuclear (or even oil/natural gas would be somewhat useful) and put them in the contraption
>secret police rounding people up >abandoning our allies overseas >tariffs on everyone >NASA functionally no longer exists >USAID is gone >State is in a vegetative coma >DoD is in an Elbridge fever dream >the NSC is just three children in a trench coat >all we got out of this were fucking tax cuts
The situation with Russians killing a toddler with a drone is especially despicable when you realize this wasn’t a stray artillery shell that landed 50 meters off, or a Shahed drone that hit a tall building, but an FPV drone, guided in real time by an operator watching it live
“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
I continue to be struck by this language of “in accordance with the president’s priorities,” which treats the executive branch as an extension of the person of the president, and not a mechanism for instituting the will of Congress
I can walk to one in 5 minutes (but that is because I intentionally moved to the old, poor neighborhood with its pre-war layout). Or I can drive to my preferred one in 15-20 minutes.
I just don't see the point of wasting any effort on that that wouldn't be much better used somewhere else.
So very very strange to specifically say oligarchy instead of fascism. Call them and their supporters fascists, Robert. To avoid it is cowardice.
Nah, it's because 99% of media that average people consume was shitting on Biden for 2 straight years and making Trump out be nothing more than a harmless fun time crank.
Wow: ICE Has Deported at Least 70 U.S. Citizens
Oh okay I thought Ukraine was dragging you idiots into ww3 as you have repeatedly said
America now has the foreign policy of a personalist dictator. New piece from me in @foreignaffairs.com www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
When the Trump administration says they need to make it easier to fire people to improve performance, you only need to look at why they are actually firing people. It is to assert authoritarian control where even being friends with a blacklisted person is enough to justify firing.
Too bad they are only saying it because the Russian propaganda they read told them too.
Seems more electoral than cultural victory.
Shaq: What they looking for, Chuck? What they looking for? Barkley: The Fountain. Shaq: What they finding, Chuck? Barkley: Nothin. Trying to find the Fountain of Youth in Space. Ain't no fountains in space to drink from. Dirty ass conquistador.
I am a staunch free speech supporter. But after ten years of freaking out about woke students deplatforming right-wing speakers, I don't have the energy to pivot to criticizing a fascist president for launching an all-out attack on free expression at universities.
Would be greatly helpful if it was normalized for people to call him an idiot and fascist in public.
I've only ever been involved with one commercial rental but that one was always just for a year (it wasn't a small mom&pop either it was the largest owner in the area). Who determines how long the lease is for? The owner or tenant?
So that makes letting storefronts sit empty instead of lowering the rents more economical?
Why is it so common for commercial real estate in prime locations to sit empty for months/years?
Seems like NPR isn't willing to outright call it corruption. Still groveling with their hedging and both sidesing of everything.
Liquid pulleys.
I would simply not killed get killed on my way into battle.
Seeing M1A1s and modern engineering equipment in museums makes my blood boil.
someone tell alex thompson that he has a great chance to cover a president in mental decline if he wants to take it
Gonna call him an idiot on air?
This is much the same logic as arresting the judge in WI. There is obviously nothing wrong with asking law enforcement, including masked officials, to confirm they are, in fact, law enforcement. The goal is to create an absolutely subservient population.
I see you have found the other anti-western imperial power that you can run interference for
Maybe you cowards should start calling him a fascist.
Really embarrassing that @npr.org had to dig up a retired professor from SUNY Buffalo who hasn't published original research in at least 9 years to pretend as if there are two legitimate sides of this debate. You don't need to put Flat Earth'ers in every story about space!
Every now and then it hits me that this isn’t just about 1 inhuman act or another, but a bigger picture. That the entire democratic experiment in America is falling apart in front of our eyes. It’s historic in that sense. Which then makes me wonder why all media stories aren’t framed this way.
Can't believe they failed miserably again.....
The same exact thing could be said about journalists refusing to call Trump an idiot and a fascist on air.
I wish he would force them to say that a fascist coup is threatening the future of the country instead. Seems far more pressing. And far more glaring that the media won't admit it's happening.
When you are having to give everyone a Bobby Bonilla contract in order to play it's really bad sign for the future of your team.
The whole world will suffer (and is suffering for this). But if these people are not severely punished once the world gets through this, it will have all been for nothing. The Dems should run on punishment, and nobody should escape the hammer of justice.
Unironically yes.
2011 Amazon was pretty awesome.....
Hard to overstate how lawless and also just fundamentally *untrustworthy* this country is, any promise we ever made anyone about anything turns out to have been fake www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...
I’m losing my mind here. USTR made a list of “Unfair trade practices” they’re retaliating against, complaint number 5 is that the EU cares too much about stopping illegal deforestation, complaint number 7 is that the South Americans are doing too much illegal deforestation
All I keep thinking about is that if/when Dems regain power, every action to restore normality or basic functioning of governmental institutions will be covered by the national press like it’s a controversial, partisan power play on par with a coup.
This all alone is an open-and-shut cause for impeachment, yes there are dozens of others but sometimes it's clarifying to just look at one
I was bummed they didn't go with the dad trying to join the monestary to escape his debts since that is a common practice in Thailand.
(1/X) America doesn’t have a Trump problem, it has a Republican party problem. More broadly, as I’ve learned with my narcissistic sociopath colleague, narcissistic sociopaths are only as destructive as the people around them allow them to be…
Too bad that the rest of the media, very intentionally, did not do that.
If only anyone was allowed to called him a fascist publicly.
What's amazing and horrifying about what the law firms are doing is there's not any possible rhetorical cover for them—Trump's explicit position is "I will break law firms that advocate the opposite side from me on anything" and they're lining up to accept those terms www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/b...
Sending a Russian dissent back to Russia to be tortured and/or killed perfectly encapsulates this loathsome administration’s lack of American values.
jesus christ they want her dead
It's almost like you guys know something about him that you refuse to straightforwardly acknowledge
It's the fallout from all mainstream media studiously refusing to call Trump a wannabe fascist. That gave all these himbo chodes the social cover to more explicitly flirt with Trump.
NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos. Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.
This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
What if the secret to winning elections is somehow Trump's syntax. We need a guy to say stuff like "But we're going to abolish billionaires and we'll be doing it very soon. They'll be paying very high taxes but it'll be very fair. And frankly they haven't paid taxes in a very long time"
every person involved in this needs to be in prison
One of my Radical Leftist opinions is the government shouldn't be able to deprive anyone of life, liberty, or property without due process of law
It might be hard for me but it's certainly making you much angrier.
So he shouldn't be the man he claimed to be 2008?
No one was calling McCain or Romney fascists or Nazis. But people have definitely been calling Trump a fascist for 10 years now (because he was and is one).
When will national NPR reporters be brave enough to call these people racists, fascists, morons, etc? Hell, when will they even try to say that they are acting like fascists?
I never said anything about who I think Obama is, just what I think he should amd could do. Just like you did.
Obama should be touring with Walz and anyone else who wants in. If for no other reason than it would piss off and distract Trump and he could mock him about running for a 3rd term.
Not sure why some pundits felt they couldn’t call it a constitutional crisis when the president intentionally violated the constitution every day since taking office, but for those who felt they had to wait for him to defy a court order, your wait is over.
Also, assuming that the tables won't be fully turned on Democrats by the time 2026 gets here (banning Dem fundraising orgs, revoking the broadcast license of media outlets, etc) is very very optimistic. Gotta fight over whatever hill you have while the war is even still going on.
Here. I wrote about the point of deciding to just fight and die on a hill rather than endlessly calculating the best moment to put up an opposition. othermeans.io/p/going-down...
The DOJ is arguing, on behalf of the President, that the President can scoop up anyone, put them on an airplane, and then no laws apply because no court has jurisdiction. Whether the person is a citizen wouldn't change that because there's no point they could even tell a court they're a citizen.
Take time out of marketplace to call them racist on the air.
"dei medal" you might as well just put "n*gger medal" because that's what they mean to say
Again running into the roadblock of having 100% of corporate media willing to enthusiastically accept GOP framing of every issue.
The media studiously refuses to frankly call out his corruption. Or call him an idiot. Or call him a dictator/authoritarian/fascist. Or call him a traitor. If the media doesnt care, why should anyone else?
8 years? Incredibly thinkable. Maybe 20 years at the earliest.
this entire article is an argument for dems to refuse to lift a single fucking finger to help republicans pass a dirty CR. if congressional republicans can go straight to musk to get relief for their districts but congressional democrats can't, then there's absolutely no reason to help, at all.
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