I guess one question is whether we can get back to a “normal” democracy if things are this bad and maybe getting worse with 3 years left. How long would the “doing ok” frame last? Are the two frames linked?

I just can’t see past the enormous power of the presidency and the enormity of US power that allows Trump to harm on a massive scale at home & abroad. America has done many terrible things. But the scale of this is staggering and losing grip on power doesn’t usually translate into less suffering.

We can keep up the drumbeat in outlets that do reach people with some agency. We can celebrate the victories. We can document the atrocities. We can donate to food banks, immigrant-rights groups, politicians, INGOs...

And we can be willing to take real risks if necessary.

One things that’s worrying that the limits of Trump v United States immunity hasn’t even begun to be tested . How powerful a golden shield is it?

Those Iraq War post invasion “lessons learned” tomes must still be gathering dust

Ass clown

Do they have an Ahmed Chalabi type in the wings advising them ?

Said with a proper Irish accent Toerag is incredibly fucking insulting

The only coherent explanation I see is “steady erosion of US credibility and trust “

Fuck face is nicely direct

Toerag

Post- liberal right wants to own the GOP. Post-liberal left wants to team up with the right to destroy the Dems. Once that’s done then post-liberal right will come for the post-liberal left

Laughs in deplorable

Well he does have a problem. He’s doing these negotiations or whatever you call them while firmly believing Ukraine can’t, must not, exist. So this is the result

👆 is related to 👇. Why aren't the ~10 people in Congress who could immediately change the entire dynamic of American politics getting constant hard questions from the media about why they continue to be total cowards & oath violators?

Two days ago, the President of the United States called for the murder of Congressional officials, & we've just entirely moved on as a country. Total failure of every societal & political institution. We are not a serious country.

Yes, of course, none of this will happen yet & will only happen once the few supposedly "moderate" Republicans left stop being total cowards. But we need to talk about these solutions as the <actual solutions>, rather than wasting so much time on Doing A Popularism or Funny Words or The Argument.

Lunatic.

Didn’t the Times think inflation was an existential crisis before November 2024? Now giving chill advice on how to beat it ?

Lols. Not really an exit from hegemony but just running to the door door and jumping through it @dhnexon.bsky.social

That sounds like a pretty serious escalation.

We are at peak asymmetry, growing for decades, that GOP feeds easy stories to meet deadline, full of lies, and Dem's don't. For journalists under immense pressure, it's an easy choice.

Or Peter Baker allowing his reporters to male rationalisations for why Kenyans eating neighbours dogs was legit talk?

Was anything wrote by Nuzzi as damaging or downright wrong Tapper on Emails in 2016 or Biden in 2024? Was Ezra Klein fine at least as bad in pushing to topple the sitting President then sideline his black female VP for only white candidates?

I don't feel sorry for her. But I do feel sorry for the fact she is going to take the blame for the corp's corruption and rot and they will stroll away feeling all is good.

I think everyone needs to take a step back and say we are having a big kick the chick moment (yeah, she really fucked up). But who hired her? Promoted her? Who networked with her? What were their agendas? What did they get out of it? Who are they connected with and what did those contacts get?

Now....I think this is....bad. Klein. Tapper. Baker. Sherman. Glasser. Thompson. Fucking all of Axios. Most of Politico. The Times and Wapo. CNN. Amongst others. These are the real ones deserving scrutiny, scorn and accountability.

Call me broke, but we are going to get a huge cycle of a)trashing on a (perfectly trashable reporter) b) who deserves all of it, but is c) female, in context of Trump trashing female reporters. But mostly - Nuzzi's going to take the wrap for the whole corruption of the US elite political press

This is the Nuzzi thing ?

Its tawdry and shit. She's crap.

But guess who it let's off the hook? Tapper. Baker. Sherman. Parker. Cohn.

And about a zillion others. She's bad, but a convenient distraction for the wider corps failure and the rampant misogyny that makes her career path possible.