Their legacy will be the selling out of the American people

Two more full years of “pundits” pretending Trump is a normal human being to pad their paychecks is more than anyone can bear.

— Jon “Bowzer” Bauman (@JonBowzerBauman) November 20, 2022

Republicans = Losers

Peace,

emaycee 

Time to get used to calling republicans out--they are not changing

A lot of the energy behind the "cynical Dems behind MAGA crazies" storyline is driven by pundits who feel very, very off balance needing to say constantly that the GOP is now a sectarian revanchist party thats a threat to democracy over&over because it remains true. Again & gain.

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) August 4, 2022

Republican = Traitor

Peace,

emaycee

 

No one will be spared

Mainstream institutions and many journalists still aren't prepared. They have no idea how far the GOP will go and how far gone it really is. They think they'll be spared. They won't.

— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) July 25, 2022

Republican = Traitor

Peace,

emaycee

 

Some needed self-reflection

Reporters who care more about "both-sides" coverage than protecting voters from unconstitutional or illegal maps or voting laws need to take a hard look in the mirror.

— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) December 23, 2021

Republican = Racist

Peace,

emaycee

 

Because they suck at what they do?

I used to only read history. Now I’m mostly reading on fascism and authoritarianism and how how democracies fail. If you’re a journalist in these times and not doing the same, I’m wondering why.

— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) December 13, 2021

Republican = Racist

Peace,

emaycee

 

Yes, our media is this clueless

Democrats have a plan to stop the giant meteor that will end life on this planet. But how will they pay for it?

— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) October 15, 2021

The Republican Party Is Now a Fascist Cult Just Like Nazi Germany

Peace,

emaycee

 

Journalism 101, indeed

 

The Republican Party Is Now a Fascist Cult Just Like Nazi Germany

Peace,

emaycee

The biggest fail

American journalism may be broken for good

When the history of the Trump era is written, it is hard to see any greater failure (outside of the Trump administration itself) than that of our national media.

Despite their best attempts to claim their aims are in the interest of fairness, there is no way a President who has lied over 18,000 times in just under four years, has killed more Americans with his incompetence than any of the forty-four before him with his disastrous response to the coronavirus pandemic, has suggested drugs as cures that are known to kill, has suggested people inject bleach, has retweeted a tweet in which a former U.S. candidate for President was called a skank,  has accused multiple people of murder without a shred of evidence, and has let his racist flag fly again and again is anything resembling normal.  And it is beneath the dignity of everything America has ever stood for.

When Bill Clinton was impeached, dozens of newspapers and TV commentators called for his removal from office.  Clinton had an ill-advised affair with a staffer.  Trump has killed 100,000 Americans because he flat doesn't give a damn and exactly one newspaper in American has called for his removal from office (The Los Angeles Times, for those wondering).  There is nothing that allows the two failures to even be remotely comparable.  And the lack of inaction toward Trump's heinous actions is rooted in nothing more than cowardice.

Edmund Burke is credited with saying (though it's actually a paraphrase of a letter he wrote), "All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."  Nothing is exactly what our national media as done in the face of Trump's unfitness for office.

But I'd be hard pressed to label the people in our national media doing nothing in the face of Donald Trump's massive failures in the White House as "good."

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee

Going, going, gone?

Thankfully, people have the power because journalism is no help at all

While much has been made of Donald Trump's lies (and what a surprise that was) while he was being interviewed by NBC's Chuck Todd on Meet the Press this past weekend, not nearly enough has been made about Todd's facile response to said lies and his simplistic follow-up questions.  Todd's performance was nothing less than embarrassing.

In fairness, I've always thought Chuck Todd was to journalism what raw liver is to a chocolate sundae, but still you'd think a journalist with national presence could manage to do a little better than to cower before an impotent leader and mail his performance in.

Pitiful.

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee