You’d think. Let’s just acknowledge that these are substandard journalists.

I’ve never once received a single compliment on my attire.

I share your outrage with Musk but your conclusion here is sophomoric.

Bullshit. Joy Reid sucked. She did advocacy, not journalism. You have a paternal and condescending attitude toward black people, holding them to lower standards. Nobody is entitled to their own show, not a homophobe and antisemite like Reid, not you, not me.

You mean Thomas Friedman? You are ruining his whole shtick.

Thanks for normalizing Trump before the election. That was a big help.

Hogwash. You’re making excuses. The Civil Rights movement needed MLK. Ukraine needed Zelensky. Waiting for a leader to emerge would have been foolish. Fortunately in those cases, two stepped forward.

He surely is a great person. But he whiffed when it mattered most, and that can’t happen again.

How come you did such a poor job in your one national debate? The wind went of Dem’s sails that night.

First the Times normalized Trump. Now it can’t keep up with his assault. But at least your coverage of the Grammys was boffo!

For four years, Schumer was senate majority leader. You never would have known it. Time to retire, Chuck. You are ineffectual.

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I agree. But this meeting is a sign of whether the opposition has its head screwed on straight. They probably still don’t. They’ll probably prattle on about LGBTQ2S+ shit.

“This is virtually a sociological-psychological law. The power of the one needs the stupidity of the other.”

— German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was executed by the Nazis.

If CBS / Paramount settles an utterly meritless lawsuit by Trump, everyone at the network— the news crew, the people at 60 Minutes, Stephen Colbert and his staff, the morning show — must walk off the job. It’s the only way to preserve their integrity. We’ll see if they have any.

GTFOOH, I meant.

I’m sorry, but GYFOOH. We’re in this situation precisely because people WEREN’T doing their best. Our anger is the only thing getting them off their lazy asses.

Unfortunately, when Schumer was majority leader, he didn’t lead. So here we are.

Exactly.

Yes, they are allies but you are overestimating Russia’s strength. Iran has been behind Hamas and Hezbollah. Russia has been mostly a bystander, though it wasn’t in Syria.

As Senate Republicans confirm the rogue’s gallery of Trump nominees, let’s not lose sight of something. The confirmations only confirm what weaklings these senators are. None of actually believe these people are qualified. They are just too cowardly to say so.

He was mostly in it for himself. As his wife said, “When they go low, we’ll be on Martha’s Vineyard.”

Russia and Iran. Americans are oblivious to Iran’s influence.

I don’t mind any abruptness. That’s how I roll, too. My impatience is not with Democrats. It’s with their leaders. They had none. The person who has failed us most is Obama. Imagine if he’d not been so passive these last eight years.

And from Iran.

But these are crucial days. While we are babying ourselves, they are consolidating power and control.

I agree. But why did the campus left lose its mind exactly on cue?

Exactly. They were all useless idiots.

That self-soothing isn’t the answer.

Nothing can be achieved without leadership. Democrats have a leader — Obama — but he doesn’t give a shit and the MSNBC fanboys just give him a pass, proving that their not serious about building an opposition to Trump. They just say things like, “The tide will turn!”