The only war is the class war, train your fire. Answer not a fool according to his folly... ~Proverbs 26:4 [Warning] May contain words the New York Times is afraid to print.
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The "KA" in KATU News stands for "Kabuki," no idea what the "TU" stands for but it ain't the "TrUth."
To be old enough to remember this GOP/MSM-manufactured "scandal," where the admin asked social media companies "censor" dangerous COVID disinformation, you'd need to be about ten-years-old. shorturl.at/XatEk
Let's be clear, this is an attack on free speech by the supposed guardians of free speech - the mainstream media - in collaboration with Trump and the Republican Party.
Let's be clear, this is an attack on free speech by the supposed guardians of free speech - the mainstream media - in collaboration with Trump and the Republican Party.
No, Trump is a feeble old buffoon. It's the institutional attacks on free speech, by the supposed guardians of free speech, that is terrifying.
Biden got old, Trump has always been a goddamned psychopath, something Klein never said a word about.
At least people are getting a hard lesson on how politically compromised the MSM is and was.
I hope they keep letting their fascist flag fly, too many people still need to be shaken from their moral and political stupor.
At least it's getting a lot harder to pretend Republicans ever act in good faith. bsky.app/profile/shep...
One thing Democrats learned from the last election is that they'd be crazy to rely on the wisdom of the electorate or expect some kind of reward for policies that make voters materially better off, up to and including saving them from a deadly pandemic and economic catastrophe.
Regardless of the fact that the data are overwhelming, it's more important to understand that adherence to either liberal or rightwing (authoritarian) ideologies spring from completely different personalities. Hate and violence is simply not compatible with a preference for inclusivity and peace.
Assuming what we're seeing is fear and cowardice, and not simply a continuation of the MSM mission to serve and protect the Republican Party, they're being hoisted on their own petard.
Let's not forget that the Republican Party based every terrible antisocial plot of the last half-century, from racial oppression to gun culture, on the once inviolable principle of "state's rights," which liberals correctly identified as a cynical ploy and the press pretended not to know it.
Unless he included Trump in that question, it was naked partisanship.
Professionals in the art of amoral false equivalence are unlikely to either care or fully understand the evils they foster.
Every evil by Kirk is a manifestation of Republican sociopathy, which the MSM has been normalizing for decades, the business decision was to not break the commitment to support and protect the GOP.
A pretty good metaphor for the whole rotten system. Elites protecting themselves amidst a scandal so criminal and depraved, the extortion value of the Epstein files is incalculable. In so many unscrupulous hands, its usefulness to blackmail the powerful may help explain why it's still concealed.
The Fourth Estate brought us here, it needs systematic reform like nearly all elite-run institutions. We should look at this as a revolutionary moment that we seize or be crushed by.
Is what President Dumbass says all the jurisprudence you need now?
He's channeling the guilt response of millions of white Americans who simply hate to be reminded of their heritage. It destroys the mythology about America and themselves they so desperately need to believe.
Truth is not a press value. Winning, power, and wealth are press values.
I truly expected howls of outrage from the chattering class when the Republican Party started banning books. Banning books 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗
One of Redford's fist starring roles: Naked City, "Tombstone for a Derelict," 1958
Kirk's murder won't provide sufficient justification for what this regime has in mind for us, good time to worry about a Republican-engineered false flag event, to provide the needed juice.
The ugly truth is that the political press stopped being adversarial to the GOP decades ago and became its collaborators and useful idiots instead, this is the fascist end game.
Agreed. Either way, it's a cult of personality, MAGA will follow no substitutions.
My current excuse for sticking around. Authoritarianism is literally a cult of personality, it is driven by fealty to an individual who is too perfect to ever be replaced, and no system can hold an authoritarian movement together absent its demigod.
Would it become a different problem under a President Vance? It's Republican fascism that is toxic to every democracy on Earth.
That show will soon be coming to an abrupt close, then what? Vance is possibly the worst heir apparent Republicans could hope for.
Shocked, shocked to learn Vance is lying. They want a debate but we shouldn't give it to them, an udergrad degree in psychology, history, or political science would tell you the hate, authoritarianism, and political violence in the world is mostly a rightwing phenomenon.
Looking forward to seeing Elon Musk in prison.
Remembering this masterful piece of performance art that had the press corps wetting themselves until it became clear the entire war was a monstrous farce and the mission would never be over.
That's $38 trillion in lost productivity, hospitalization, and death humans avoided through vaccination, a return most people will never understand or appreciate.
Speaking of making shit up, Klein thinks Trump won about half the country's vote.
What color is the sky on your world?
"In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed." ~Abraham Lincoln
There's been a "chilling effect" for decades: publishers and editors.
"In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed." - Abraham Lincoln
Be nicer to have an opposition party supported by a vast majority of voters.
Read all the neocon shit in real time but it never made me believe bin Laden was doing their bidding rather than exploiting their imperialist ambitions. YMMV.
One of the most maddening and confusing things about online republication is the lack of a publication date, it makes it impossible to judge the content according to the context in which it was written.
So you believe bin Laden did not foresee and plan for the neocon-led jihad against Muslim nations in response to 9/11 and the damage it would do to US standing?
Dude's in a fierce contest for most hated man in the known universe.
MSM slit its own throat by taking sides against its only market: liberals.
Dreading something big that will be a pretext for something much bigger.
Smells of guilt and desperation, they know the wheels are coming off the traitor wagon as they speak.
The neocons destroyed American moral standing by doing what bin Laden's expected, they were the puppets.
The political culture has been hostage to the Republican base since 2016, as reflected in political reporting which seldom if ever recognizes left-of-center arguments, every political narrative from the Republican POV. OTOH, reporting what MAGA thinks takes no talent, thought, or moral compass.
Should be obvious by now the mainstream press will never take the side of the losers in the class war because it's owned lock-stock-and-barrel by the winners in the class war.
Quite a testimonial to our political press that online, non-journalist liberals were the only people to provide an accurate picture of what a Trump reelection would mean.
"Sir, I served with Adolf Hitler. I knew Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler was a friend of mine. Mr. Vice President, you're no Adolf Hitler."
What do you mean "we" paleface? This is all the work of the American Republican Party and their corporate sponsors, we should never forget that.
I have as much fun as anyone slagging MAGA but what we'll keep learning as everything goes to shit is that they hadn't the slightest idea what they were actually voting for.
Bezos and Musk should be object lessons that billionaires don't buy major media because they're concerned about the truth.
You're in good company, it will be counted as a badge of courage and integrity to be amongst those purged by this fascist government and their corporate sponsors.
How many is this, like 12? Man is a gift to political culture, when alien explorers find our recordings he'll be one of the few proofs we are all not insane.
The disastrous effects of antigovernment, anti-science policy and the destruction of regulatory government will be measured in years and decades, we're just getting started.
Exposing rightwing sociopaths is bad for business.
Cool, but didn't really need a journalist, historian, author to tell me the one sure thing about this war is that Ukrainians are never giving up until the last bit of Ukraine is free of Russian soldiers.
...and "elephant shit" (mostly official lies that get a lot of people hurt or killed). The lesson was simple: everyone lies, it's the nature of the lie that matters.
Had only three categories: "bullshit" (the most common and innocuous lies usually told to bolster one's own image), "horseshit" (more serious lies that might cause you buy a car on its last legs or a house on native burial grounds)...
Had a high school English teacher with a simple formula for the truth/value proposition of rhetoric suited for 70's teenagers stoned out of their gourds...
If people only understood the relationship between high-quality pet diets and vet bills, all pets would eat better.
People need to understand Bezos and his ilk are funders and supporters of Republican fascism as a means to wreck regulatory government, they're certainly not about to jeopardize that project by informing people of the evil they're sponsoring.
Nazi/antifascist, tough call from inside the house.
They are the funders of and collaborators with this fascist Republican Party, the calls are coming from inside the house.
It is possible that the chattering class really hates the idea that words have a material effect on people's lives and there can be consequences for words that do harm?
Interesting to watch where he chooses to pander to keep the Republican coalition together and, less far less reported than the lawlessness and culture war stuff, he's always doing what pleases the oligarchy that reelected him by wrecking regulatory government.
The silence of the chattering class is deafening.
Economic populism is the Democrats' only future, Very Serious Dems need to learn the donor class is working against them, siding with the victims of the class war is all that's left. That's the political argument, then there's basic human decency and fairness.
Assume you've heard of Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich? Trump didn't make this toxic stew overnight by himself, he's the finished product.
Who knew they were building the border wall to keep us in?
The important difference being, the shit we say about YOU is TRUE.
Our present nightmare was brought to you every bit as much by registered voters who couldn't be bothered to choose, that's political reality.
If you want to replace Democrats like Jeffries with Democrats like Mamdani, registering as an Independent makes little sense.
Donald Trump is a PCL-R psychopath with a whole textbook of co-morbid psychopathologies.
Or they're legit afraid. bsky.app/profile/shep...
Slander for me, no truth-telling for thee.
Kilmeade was obviously forced to apologize to keep his job, Kristol is channeling the Republican belief that apologies are so awful Kilmeade deserves credit for his sacrifice.
Kristol is reflecting the fact that Republicans decided long ago that apologies are a sign of weakness so, much like the psychopath, they religiously avoid them.
The fear is palpable that there could be a "finding out" stage of their sociopathic political theater. Although MAGA will try to turn that fear against Democrats - the accountability reserved for Democrats instead of the murderer or rightwing agitators - who they rightly fear is their own kind.
They are afraid. Good.
Shows that in Beltway political culture, Democratic lives are simply worth less than Republican lives.
Lightweights, had a big bin of nuts, bolts, and washers that must have weighed 40 pounds, lugged it around for a decade after manufacturers made it impossible to repair anything before pitching it (still have the screws tho).
The only institution that can hold them to account is the mainstream press and they checked out of the truth business long ago.
No functioning moral compass to be had among our betters. bsky.app/profile/shep...
The left wants everyone to have liberty rights, the right wants to restrict those rights to male Republicans and subjugate everyone else, violence is the only way to make that happen.
It’s possible the hysterical reaction from the right is just that. It has to be a scary thought that, out of nowhere, you might have to pay the ultimate price for the hate you’ve spewed into the culture, esp. when you previously thought there would be none.
Still say in any other time or place, with any other mainstream press, the delusional, race-baiting slander of our first Black president would have ended anyone's political career.
"Sane" ignores the issue just as the MSM is doing. Kirk was simply a terrible human being, something that's no longer a thing according the chattering class. The world isn't just stupid, it's depraved.
Impossible that the entire Republican braintrust (as it were) believes this economic insanity is going to "turn things around," they're buying time to finish the decimation of government oligarchy is paying them for.
Ultimately: "kill everyone (but us) and let god sort them out."
Only the mainstream media can normalize evil.
They are quite mad.
One only hopes the double-standards have become so outrageous the great unwashed middle finally wakes tf up to the con and who the bd guys are.
