"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 [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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"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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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"The old media trope goes, 'if it bleeds, it leads,' reflecting society’s insatiable desire to consume news stories about crime, death, and destruction. …
Imagine if Kamala Harris held a rally in Wisconsin and unveiled details of her immigration policy. She introduced a deranged and dangerous proposal to deport millions of immigrants and warned that the draconian measure would be a 'bloody story.'”
~ Wajahat Ali
There Will Be Blood, But No Headlines
At his weekend rally, Donald Trump yet again threatened violence and promised his draconian immigration plan, which includes mass deportation, would be a "bloody story." Why isn't this headline news?
(thelefthook.substack.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"When Trump, a convicted criminal, promises bloodshed, we should take him literally and seriously. Yet, corporate media simply ignores it because there’s a dangerous and absurd double standard for MAGA due to a nihilistic fidelity to a performative 'both sides; bullshit neutrality."
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
Jamison Foser comments on the fact the much-touted new New York Times/Siena poll (much touted by NYT itself) finds a majority of voters think Trump occupies "the center."
Who's responsible for giving people that colossal misperception, he wonders?
Could it be the media themselves?
#Trump #media #violence #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence
/19A new poll finding voters think Donald Trump is a centrist should be a wake-up call for the news media
The news media isn't doing its job
(www.findinggravity.net)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"Where does that perception come from? It comes, in part, from news companies like the New York Times. …
Newspapers like the Times portray Trump and his allies as being obsessed with centrist-friendly things like cutting wasteful spending and increasing government efficiency, instead of exploring their actual extremist views."
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"If voters see Trump as some kind of centrist, that is in no small part because news companies like The New York Times persist in cleaning up his incoherent ramblings, downplaying the threat he poses, and helping him pose as an abortion moderate who just wants to reduce wasteful spending and make government more efficient."
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Spockoreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy I also recently saw the media not headlining Trump's lie that schools perform operations on children. They #sanewashed the headline.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
"Seemingly out of the blue Monday morning, supporters of former president Donald Trump began posting myriad AI-generated images depicting the Republican presidential nominee as a savior. Not of the American Dream or of Christianity, mind you, the normal targets of such praise. Instead, Trump was shown protecting ducks and kitty cats."
~ Philip Bump
#Trump #media #violence #immigrants
/22Gift link from Jim Swift: