As we brace for the transition-inauguration media coverage of the second Trump administration, a Twitter/X thread from July 2024 about how "normalization" is justified ... Starts in next reply.
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That about sums up the sad facts. Might add his 30,000 lies in his first term as documented by The Washington Post, also ancient news.
American Exceptionalism is dead, murdered by Trump.
It occurred to me that inaugural counter protesters might do well to protest at Metro parking lots and the airports rather than downtown where the security goons will be out in force. Fill the lots early and bog down the access.
Everything you just said was the absolute truth. You knew it. We knew it.
Unfortunately, many of the voters ignored it, as if it didn’t exist.
What has happened to this Country?
Absolutely spot on. I hear this attitude from "moderates" I talk to w/r/t Trump winning. "The Dems talked down to half the country." Okay, Trump didn't talk down to non-Trump voters? "Well, yeah, but we expect that. It's Trump after all."
Great thread, but what now? WaPo is doubling down even after they lost >10% of their revenue overnight. The NYTimes has no interest in defending democracy. NPR continues to flip off its audience, MSNBC is taking orders from Comcast execs...
At least in 2016 the news admitted screwing up. Not now
The only way I can account for this gross media malfeasance is they don't want to arouse the public. Oligarchy, plutocracy, whatever you want to call it, is in their eyes preferable to the risk of too much democracy.
Yes, and insurrectionists are a danger to the public. Hunter was tried on charges for which most people never see the inside of courtroom. Biden didn’t interfere. He waited until the show trial was over and takes seriously Trump’s threats
ONLY certain journalists, not the ones following the Party line. Now that others on MSNBC are speaking the words of the party, I am so glad I no longer have cable TV. I heard even Rachel Maddow is protecting her job instead of the people. That hurts.
Did you “hear” that from Keith Olbermann? Maddow is still speaking truth to the power even after trump won the election and despite likely being on his hit list. Her reporting hasn’t changed. KO is bitterly jealous.
Actually, what enabled this are decades of sub-part education which lead to people not having enough critical knowledge to see what is in their interest and what is not.
It's not MAGA but the televangelists of the 1980s who started pushing for creationism instead of evolution in school. Once, some agreed to teach both, next came religion over science, and morals over civics.
Thanks to Reagan who started wrecking education in California as governor (I’m a native of Southern California & I remember this well) & then the rest of the country as President.
I will not be watching any of it.
Just the idea of watching that insurrectionist swearing on a Bible to uphold the constitution and the normalization from the media is just too much for me.
We should plan an alternative event for that day, even online….stand in virtual solidarity somewhere else so that it can be publicly known how many people skipped the inauguration. Even a Facebook check in “marked safe from the inauguration” today 😬
David, never explain or justify why you're writing about the truth. We, the American people crave the truth and we'll never stop wanting....needing to hear the TRUTH.
"You don't have to focus on the sex stuff. There's more evidence that Trump gave a seat in cabinet to a man for no good reason other than to thank him for the Epstein cover-up."
"Trump used the same trick - false records - in all his many civil frauds, and also in the hush-money case that got him convicted of 34 felony counts by a jury!"
This is what a thoroughly corrupted nation looks like. We are root and branch infected with greed, selfishness, stupidity, and fame-obsessed. We are and always have been a nation that fostered grifters, charlatans and con men and we've reached our apotheosis.
Thank you for your Atlantic piece on Fear on Air. I appreciate your candor on what is surely an awkward situation at best. This may have literally cost you, and I applaud your backbone and courage.
Frum is a favorites, and an important voice for our fundamental values. But his view of Mika's "apology" was way off base. They did a good job defending themselves on the Frum thing and the Trump interview on Thursday at the top of the show. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/morning-joe/id974299441?i=1000679341145
If we are not going to use the intelligence we have gathered about Trump's compromised relationship with Putin right now to defend our nation, when are we going to use it? Never?
This is an extraordinary and valid condemnation of the media’s complicity in the normalization of Trump’s aberrant behavior for the last 10 years. It’s sickening to those of us who cherish our democracy. Disgusting.
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American Exceptionalism is dead, murdered by Trump.
Unfortunately, many of the voters ignored it, as if it didn’t exist.
What has happened to this Country?
At least in 2016 the news admitted screwing up. Not now
That’s justified because Biden pardoned his son who was prosecuted as political retribution
Just the idea of watching that insurrectionist swearing on a Bible to uphold the constitution and the normalization from the media is just too much for me.
It’s intolerable.
That's old news, we already reported that.
"As president, Donald Trump directed tens of millions of tax dollars to his own pockets."
Old news.
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Russia, Russia.
"He was proven in court to have raped a woman."
Civil proceeding, not criminal - and sexual assault, not rape. Besides ... old news.
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Old news, we litigated all that in 2016.
"There's new news just unsealed about Trump and Jeffrey Epstein!"
Salacious gossip, beneath our editorial standards.
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Arrant speculation. Also old news.
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Old news.
"It'll feel like new news because you ignored it at the time."
We gave it a day.
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Complicated technicalities, you're boring me.
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/morning-joe/id974299441?i=1000679341145
Make Biden #DeclassifyTrump, so we can force the Congress to #ImpeachTrumpNow.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/11/21/2287839/-We-Can-Stop-Trump?_=2024-11-21T11:19:50.000-08:00
"Old news."