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Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025.

Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan.

Legacy media failed the country.

This short passage from a Politico afternoon newsletter captures a huge amount of the advantage gained by lying at scale and the why the DC press corps remains wired for the GOP.

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

is that dude seriously walking around $50k richer in taxpayer money bc the doj was seeing if he would take a giant bribe and then he took a giant bribe and he just gets to keep it?!?!? please tell me this is not the case

We're at the point where the Trump does something worse than Watergate daily, often multiple times a day. And none of it makes news; it's just normal now.

Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe.

And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.

He still thinks/claims that “asylum seekers” come from insane asylums

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

Just so I'm clear:

TV host says we should kill every homeless person? No big deal

TV host says the right must "go to war" with the left? Pfft.

TV host says the government is cracking down on critics? Well, the government cracks down on him for the criticism.

Free speech, everyone.

The Free Speech President has now pulled two of the three major late night hosts off the air through threats and intimidation because of their jokes. Obviously I’m behind Jimmy Kimmel 100% in the face of this fascist garbage. Speech against this admin isn’t just being chilled, they’re freezing it.

ah, well

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

This post that a friend of my partner's shared on FB potentially explains the Kristin Chenoweth thing, and is frightening.

Old Soviet joke for today:

A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.

After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”

“I’m looking for the obituaries.”

“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”

“Not the one I’m looking for.”

Joe Biden outliving him would be objectively hilarious.

This is evil -- the kind of evil you read about in history books, the kind of evil you would never mistake for a single second if you saw it in another country. When you ask, of historical evils, "how could they let that happen?" That's us. We're letting this happen.

Again, these groups are attempting to retcon the 2024 election *we all lived through* to claim Dems overly catered to Big Trans or The Groups or whatever.
In fact, Republicans—and via them the media—are the ones who zeroed in on the culture war while we focused on economic issues. We still lost.

YouTube video by MSNBC ‘Pry them from our hands’: Chris Hayes shares post-election message

Politics and public opinion didn’t suddenly disappear over night because 3 out of 100 voters switched their votes.

youtu.be/i4dlZrRwa0A?...

jan 6 was every bit as horrible as it looked and i have nothing but derision and contempt for people who downplay it

Remember that DOJ sought expedited review of this issue from the Court last year (skipping the circuit courts). They refused and punted it to the DC Circuit, which took months; then dilly dallied all this time after the DC Circuit’s decision, before finally issuing a grant. It’s pretty transparent.

The Roberts Court is poised to shape American society in Trump’s image for decades to come. All three branches of the federal government are now committed to the Trump agenda: the restoration of America’s traditional racial, religious, and gender hierarchies; the enrichment of party patrons; the unencumbered pursuit of corporate profit; the impoverishment and disenfranchisement of the rival party’s constituencies; and the protection of the president and his allies from prosecution by any means available. Not since the end of Reconstruction has the U.S. government been so firmly committed to a single, coherent program uniting a politics of ethnonationalism with unfettered corporate power. As with Redemption, as the end of Reconstruction is known, the consequences could last for generations.

This aged well. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Imagine if cable news and the Times treated voters like this with the same obsessive focus that they treated asshole Trump voters with. There are so many good sane people out there that they've preemptively decided don't make a good story.

I truly from the bottom of my heart cannot understand this thought process. It’s not crying wolf when the wolf is still here. Do you want Dems to lie and pretend things will be okay if the other side wins? We quite literally will not outlive the damage that he caused already, and he is running again

"you can commit all the crimes you want in office including attempting to end self-government and then you're immune from prosecution if you're somehow forced to leave office" is basically anti-constitutional but that, of course, won't stop at least three members of the court from siding with Trump.

Back in 2016, the idea that Trump's worst impulses would be tempered by more experienced appointees seemed plausible enough. It even held true, to a degree.

No-one is saying that now, because the people around Trump will be like this guy.

The difference is that the media thinks of Clinton as a person who should know better. They think of Trump as a fascinating monster. This has the odd effect of making Clinton's very human expression of exasperation seem monstrous, while humanizing Trump's monstrosity.

81? Lol that’s old, I’ll just go with the guy who wants to jail me and deport my kids