Trump Presidency X-like American History X, but without the laughs

A lot of people just don't like him because he showed what a farce 16 years of believing Claudio Reyna as enabled by Bruce Arena was

 

Because the NYT Opinion editors feel it is important to counter the claims that their reporting is biased towards liberals. As a result, the opinion pages counters that by making sure Conservatives have a platform to spew their crap.

 

But, you must confess, you are not particularly surprised.

 

Nothing surprises me about this. No.

 

But that's total crap! You can have people writing from a "Conservative" point of view, but for God's sake, at least let it be someone who is intelligent enough to make a reasonable, intellectually honest argument. Oh, ad not be a ********ing racist fascist asshole too!

The Boston Globe used to have this guy, Jeff Jacoby as their token, but the guy was such a shitty writer and his points were just plain stupid, the kind of argument a stubborn high schooler would make. Dunno if he's still around, I haven't read the print edition in years.

 

The New York Times has been under the sway of false equivalency for quite some time now. Their coverage of Hillary vs. Donald in 2016 was astonishingly naive and bereft of any sort of discernment that could establish them as an authority of judgment. In other words, I mainly play the Spelling Bee, do the crossword, and read the Social Cues guy.

 

Just finished eating supper made from a NYT recipe. Shout out to those people, too.

 

Good call. I really like the Shortcut Banh Mi with Pickled Carrots and Daikon.

 

Top notch

 

"But journalists can't say he is naked."

Well, it has taken them 3 1/2 years to say "lied," and rarely do that.
"Naked"? That's a step too far.

 

I was watching Barack Obama taking questions from the House Republicans in 2010. Those people did puppy eyes very well. (Think Paul Ryan.) One gets up and almost tearfully accuses Obama of "playing politics" (gasp!) by saying that the Republicans haven't presented a serious health care plan. That's just not fair, why they sent Barack a big detailed plan only the past month, but they never get to talk about it on the House floor because Pelosi won't let them.

Barack picks up the plan and reads from the first page. It says that the GOP will expand health care to 30 million Americans without costing taxpayers one penny. Barack puts that down and says, "Come on, that's not realistic. That's not a plan. That's boilerplate."

They were gaslighting even then. And to tell the truth, they oozed sincerity. I just about believed that when they put forward gibberish, that they truly thought they were delivering high-quality content. I really do think they gaslighted themselves. Which is a particularly dangerous mental condition.

 

The press is kinda getting there. Better than reporting on Trump's gibberish would be to ignore him entirely. However, if the media is to air his rantings, at least they should call them what they are, which Yahoo! does in this story -

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-bu...olice-set-up-antifa-conspiracy-145113566.html

The headline reads "Trump floats baseless conspiracy ..."

 

If you find it, post it, please: my search engine qi is negative, since I'm guessing your source isn't Daily Caller type critiques of the Librul Meedya.

Not too different from how such outlets treat religion: Christianity is tailor-made for the Republican party. Because Republicans and power-infatuated evangelicals tell them so.

 

Back in the day, Tip O'Neill and Ronald Reagan were friendly adversaries, pretty much always on opposite sides of every issue. But there was respect because while they didn't agree with the other's views on the best way to solve a problem like poverty, there was at least recognition that it was a problem.

Today's GOP won't even acknowledge that there is a poverty problem.

 

When I suggested the thread title back in January "Trump Presidency X- America, with its teeth on the curb", at the time I thought I was been too dramatic.

 

Do you need any more?

 

Just recently he wrote some opinion piece blasting Trump, but deep in the article he allows himself to say something along the lines of "I doubt a Hillary Clinton presidency would have handled the pandemic much better".

Which is all sorts of bullshit, of course.

 

If you liked that, I have some hearings that rhyme with Jen Gozzi that will knock your socks off.

 

Republican Steve Schmidt calls Trump the ‘second president of the Confederacy’



https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/re...rump-the-second-president-of-the-confederacy/

 

Lie number 2,347. Then 2 weeks too late.

The White House says President Donald Trump has been working “quietly and diligently” on what is believed to be a speech addressing race relations in the wake of three weeks of protests over the killing by white police officers of an unarmed, handcuffed Black man, George Floyd. Those protests have turned into a movement fighting racial injustice.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/wh...etly-and-diligently-on-race-relations-speech/

 

Say hello to your next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs