A.J. Bauer

Keeping the House Absent, Johnson Marginalizes Congress and Himself

Reporters really need to reflect on what calling statements like that a “joke” does to normalize Trump’s clear power grab.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

“I’m the speaker and the president,” Mr. Trump has joked, according to two people who heard the remark and relayed it on the condition of anonymity because of concern about sharing private conversations with him.

You see it’s funny because he’s functionally suspended the Constitution!

i mean i don't think you can separate any of this discussion from the fact that so many of the participants are men who clearly have hang-ups about their inability to perform a certain kind of blue collar masculinity

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This has been happening since journalism’s response to Agnew’s famous Des Moines speech in 1969. You can read more about it in my book (now available for preorder):

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Liberal pundits like Ezra have bought into the right’s critiques of liberalism, including the “liberal media” that employs them.

I'm so tired of every new horror being considered a "distraction."

If something agitates people against the horrors we're facing, cool. If something demobilizes them, not cool. It's okay to be riled by whatever riles you.

“New York is not the Europe of America.”

Cuomo and his ilk seem to get a lot of satisfaction at imagining new terrorist attacks. Wonder where that pleasure comes from?

Yes, beautiful

Lol I drive past that place often when I visit Jamaica Bay Wildlife Preserve!

Sorry bud. You disappoint me too.

Oh got it, you're appropriating "build the swamp." Cool, gotcha. Carry on!

Making the Liberal Media: How Conservatives Built a Movement Against the Press|Paperback Conservatives have disagreed about many things, but they have long been united by the belief that the mainstream—or “liberal”—media is biased against them. Why did conflict wit...

Weird this has legs. Pre-order my book maybe?

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And do you know why? Surely as a history buff you know why.

Do you know the history of those statues? Who built them and when?

Huh?

You mean the Confederate statues?

I think the destruction of the White House East Wing resonates because it is so viscerally permanent.

But the ongoing destruction of Constitutional order and international law is no less permanent.

There is no repair. We must build anew.

Ice raids and murdering people in boats is not funny. But the White House thing is. Let’s focus on the real crimes and not take the bullshit parts so seriously.

Exactly.

Fair

You know it

Honestly I almost put New Jersey/Long Island but figured either conveys both.

Long Island very much knows what it did.

Literally lol

Okay but it is very funny that the symbol of the American presidency is being transformed into a tacky Long Island wedding venue.

Schrödinger's Nazi tattoos.

He went in and asked for a dog but the artist used a portrait of Hitler’s German shepherd as source material...