"For weeks, major American media organizations — including The Washington Post, Politico, and the New York Times — have possessed internal Trump campaign documents.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"Politico made a different judgment in 2016. ...
The New York Times' approach was quite different in 2016, when it published at least 199 articles about the stolen DNC and Clinton campaign emails between the first leak in June 2016 and Election Day."
#KamalaHarris #Trump #Democrats #Republicans #media #WashingtonPost #Politico #NewYorkTimes
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"Something remarkable happened in American politics over the last two weeks. A major party candidate for president suffered what can only be described as an emotional break or medical emergency that resulted in a sudden acceleration in the deterioration of his already deteriorating cognitive abilities and further loss of control over his delusional impulses."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #MentalDecline #age #media #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence
/4https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/trump-suffers-emotional-break-media
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"But you wouldn’t know it from reading the stories in the major media outlets—that are obsessing over horse-race polls and debate prognostication....
After his Saturday speeches, Trump posted the worst fascistic, ugly, megalomaniacal threat ever made by an American politician. He threatened to prosecute his opponents if he wins the 2024 election."
#Trump #MentalDecline #age #media #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence
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"The election hasn’t occurred, and he is planning to jail people over fictional cheating. He is using fascistic threats to dissuade eligible voters and election officials from engaging in the election process by suggesting that they will be 'sought out, caught, and prosecuted'—as if the legal system is his personal instrument of revenge."
#Trump #MentalDecline #age #media #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence
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"The combined effect of Trump's speech and post on Saturday should have been a watershed moment for journalists covering politics in America. ...
So, on a day when Trump's preemptive threat to jail election officials for non-existent fraud should have been the lead story with 48 POINT FONT, the Times placed itself at the center of the universe by highlighting its poll and declaring that its outlier results were correct, and all other polls were inferior."
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
Alexandra Petri notes how Trump uttered meaningless garbage in New York recently,
"And sure enough, out came the headlines: 'Trump Praises Tariffs, And William McKinley, To Power Brokers' (New York Times). CNN’s website went with: 'Trump Claims Boosting Tariffs Will Pay For Child Care But Doesn’t Explain How.'
Perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself."
~ Alexandra Petri
#Trump #media #sanewashing #NewYorkTimes #CNN
/8Gift link, Rebecca Schoenkopf:
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
"For God’s sake, political reporters, stop framing these two movements — one to tear down democracy, one to build it up — as equivalent sides across your imaginary continental divide. Stop your false balance. Stop washing the insanity of the fascist party’s leader — and the insanity of his followers for following him."
~ Jeff Jarvis
#Trump #MentalDecline #age #media #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence #sanewashing
/9https://buzzmachine.com/2024/09/06/the-unprecedented-grand-coalition/
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
"Stop normalizing his and their patently abnormal and abhorrent behavior. Stop trying to predict (in this unprecedented moment, all your 'models' and experience and presumptions are worthless). Stop hoping for bad news. Stop making the story about yourself — yes, I am looking at you, A.G. Sulzberger — and please try to understand the threats to democracy, liberty, and life from the perspectives of those who do not share the power and privilege of your platforms."
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"Stop ignoring the rising chorus of critics who are trying to make you and your journalism better — to save journalism from your lapses of judgment. Stop your amnesia about what Trump and company have already shown us to be. Stop making up new white-gloved euphemisms for racism, misogyny, lies, insurgency, corruption, hatred, and grift — call these things what they are, otherwise you are not doing journalism, not informing and explaining reality to your publics."
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He said it better than I could, using 100% fewer expletives I used to convey the same meaning over the last 10 years.
Those people are blind to their own fascism.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"Donald Trump stepped off stage in Wisconsin Saturday and blasted out a social media post that crammed his authoritarian promise into a 159-word paragraph. The Truth Social post went up at 7:01 p.m. ET; it was copy-pasted over to the platform formerly known as Twitter some two hours later, where the larger audience there heard the same message."
~ John Light
#Trump #media #authoritarianism
/12Trump’s Authoritarian Promise Is Distilled Into A Single Paragraph
INSIDE: Ken Paxton ... Liz Cheney ... Pete Buttigieg
(morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
"Trump had some other things to say while on the stump over the weekend.
He theorized that executing his plan to deport undocumented immigrants would be 'a bloody story.' …
In case you were still keeping tabs, political prosecutions, mass deportations, and scrapping the Department of Education are all part of Project 2025…."
#Trump #media #authoritarianism #Project2025 #immigrants #violence
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"Most of all, though, he’s leaning into the violence. Trump, repeatedly and in open sight, is outlining two major initiatives involving large-scale, systematic arrests of groups of people. ...
For the media, the next few months will be a testing point, too. Will they get bogged down in the minutiae of debates over what is the right level for a tax on unrealized capital gains? Or will they be clear-eyed about the threat?"
~ Andrew Egger
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thewritewordsreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy my hunch is media will ignore it. Violence draws views & revenue. They've ignored Trump's threats since he rode down the escalator.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to thewritewords last edited by
@npaulreads Or perhaps they'll ignore the threats of violence and then have to face what happens when it happens — and perhaps will have to face the violence being turned against them after they cravenly refused to see it coming and announce what was happening.
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@vruz Blind to their own fascism is a great way to define it.
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Greengordonreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
Or, they could be #Trump supporters.
"Of course, the Washington Post, Politico, and the New York Times may believe they made a mistake in covering the hacked emails in 2016 and are now changing course. But none of these publications have acknowledged any errors in their 2016 coverage or acknowledged that they are taking a radically different approach to leaked internal Trump campaign documents in 2024."
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Greengordon last edited by
@Greengordon Absolutely.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
"I find it exhausting to have to point out that Donald Trump has—yet again—threatened to engage in violent and dictatorial behavior, and that—yet again—the collective reaction by some in America seems to be a numb acceptance that this is just who Trump is."
~ Tom Nichols
#Trump #media #authoritarianism #Project2025 #immigrants #violence
/15What the First Debate Question for Trump Must Be
The moderators ought to start with the fact that he rejects the foundations of the American system of government.
The Atlantic (www.theatlantic.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"In one day, Trump threatened the use of mass government violence inside the United States, asserted that kids are getting secret medical procedures at schools, and promised to lock up his political opponents. One might reasonably assume that when Trump takes the stage with Vice President Kamala Harris tomorrow night, the first thing the moderators will ask is: Are you out of your mind?"
#Trump #media #authoritarianism #Project2025 #immigrants #violence
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