They have been publishing articles like this for two decades: "Gee willikers, what Republicans do with power doesn't match their rhetoric at all!" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u... - ThreadSky

michaelhobbes.bsky.social • 88 days ago

They have been publishing articles like this for two decades: "Gee willikers, what Republicans do with power doesn't match their rhetoric at all!"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/us/politics/donald-trump-california-newyork-executive-orders.html

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devilentendre.bsky.social•88 days ago

Aw shucks, the hypocrisy is hypocrising.

acidfast.bsky.social•88 days ago

Wait michael are you suggesting they’re hypocrites?

thebarkinggallery.bsky.social•88 days ago

Forked tongue devils.

ibc.bsky.social•88 days ago

Rove’s even lying here: GOP believes in “the government closest to the people” unless it’s a state government stomping on the rights of a local government

rollforphobia.bsky.social•88 days ago

You’ll notice nobody was hopping to let cities decide on abortion individually

heroinsmoker.bsky.social•88 days ago

The framing is that Trump is a maverick who won’t be restrained by orthodoxy. The Times as usual is a carefully engineered PR mechanism for Trump. Must pay well

echocian.bsky.social•88 days ago

We live in a hamster wheel.

"Republicans are LYING?" yes. nice of you to catch up again, see you in a couple months

"Dems should move right" have fun with that again next election

"Vaccines cause autism!" you didn't listen to the last 50 studies so why bother explaining again

again again again

renodeschain.bsky.social•88 days ago

When will they learn that pointing out hypocrisy only works if your target feels shame?

thebarkinggallery.bsky.social•88 days ago

Republicans lie and then they lie about lying.

rowyourbot.bsky.social•88 days ago

“They said they want ‘small government’ but they spent money like water on wars they like.” …”They said they valued the constitution but then they violated it constantly.” Cue the amnesia.

tanzpunk.bsky.social•88 days ago

phreba.bsky.social•88 days ago

Also, it’s the maga party, there is no Republican Party. That’s it, they’ve been taken over. Much like the conservatives in Germany being absorbed by the Nazi party.

al-bud.bsky.social•88 days ago

They are a party of corruption dressed up in a thousand different grievances of identity politics but at every decision the core remains the same. They love power, influence and capital. They want it, they don't want anyone else to have it, and they won't let anyone take it from them.

taxes4blnaires.bsky.social•88 days ago

CAN WE PLEASE ORGANIZE A MAJOR DISSENT??? TALK WILL DO NOTHING. WE MUST STOP THE ECONOMY. WE MUST OVERWHELM THE GOVT BUILDINGS.

whoinvitedtomhanks.bsky.social•88 days ago

Thank you for teaching me how to spell “willikers.”

97calbear.bsky.social•88 days ago

The failure of legacy media right now is complete.

ambignostic.bsky.social•88 days ago

"respecting the rights of states to govern themselves and resist federal intervention" ha ha ha ha yeah they only feel that way about slavery, thanks for taking them at their word

wcshepherd.bsky.social•88 days ago

I’ve been saying this for decades, stop listening to what they say and start paying attention to what they do.

michaelhobbes.bsky.social•88 days ago

The most bizarre tic of American media is its ability to acknowledge reality but refusal to draw any conclusions from it.

If Republicans are constantly lying about their agenda, that should be the core of your political coverage! Both-sides stories are useless when one side isn't trustworthy.

vitaterna.bsky.social•88 days ago

“We take them at their word and….. oh not again!!”

fascistsoftwitter.bsky.social•88 days ago

It’s pro wrestling logic. They all acknowledge things in the past have happened, but absolutely no one lets those events impact their decision today.

tonio5k.bsky.social•80 days ago

100%. Years of covering Trump, not a single mainstream outlet told us what he was going to do. They cover it as a game, in the process they lie to readers.

finddignity.bsky.social•88 days ago

You’d literally think that a coup is happening would be the lead story. It’s kind of like standing by a tornado, and reading sports scores.

jarekfa.bsky.social•88 days ago

NYT's Kamala endorsement accurately described the grave threat that Trump poses to our democracy yet their coverage didn't reflect that. Rather, their coverage acted as if the President of Harvard's phd thesis many years ago had more bearing on our democracy than the next actual president of the US!

jimjordanosu.bsky.social•88 days ago

"Republicans have blatantly gone against their purported core values every chance they get, but sometimes Democrats will compromise to get things done. These two actions are the morally equivalent; both parties bad.".

jessdee.bsky.social•88 days ago

That's not a tic and not bizarre.

That's capital.

hortnon.bsky.social•88 days ago

and they interviewed KARL ROVE about this. i can't imagine what went through this reporter's head that didn't trigger an immediate "wait a second"

bhcphd.bsky.social•88 days ago

Whenever they obviously fail to do something, they start saying “it’s not the media’s job” to do that thing (report facts, ask questions, hold powerful people to account, be transparent, etc).

shihtzulove.bsky.social•88 days ago

I came here to say the same point.

uckema.com•88 days ago

Journalists are the enemy of the people just embrace it

originalnose.bsky.social•88 days ago

Actually, billionaire media ownership is the enemy

uckema.com•88 days ago

The nonprofits lie as well. Journalists rarely can be trusted is the lesson of the last decade

originalnose.bsky.social•88 days ago

Nah. Plenty of honest joyrnalism. Just not much in mainstream. But yes nonprofits can also suck.

lncann.bsky.social•88 days ago

I prefer my news delivered by credulous journalists who approach every issue with the critical thought and object permanence of an infant. That’s how you know it’s NeUtRaL.

chrisltd.bsky.social•88 days ago

As good as other parts of the Times can be, their political reporting has been bordering on unreadable propaganda my entire adult life. It’s supposed to be their flagship product!

geometer.bsky.social•88 days ago

Collaborators

originalnose.bsky.social•88 days ago

How can they make money from both sides if they're honest though

poetheghost.bsky.social•88 days ago

And they provide unequal coverage with their both sides. If 99.9% of scientists believe in climate change, then they should be interviewed 999/1000.

invalidhandel.bsky.social•88 days ago

It’s only “orthodoxy” because the NYT continues to indulge that silliness despite literal decades of evidence that it’s always been bullshit. The only consistent ethos for Republicans since at least Reagan has been doing or saying whatever is needed in any situation to achieve their ends.

darkpastoral.bsky.social•88 days ago

Looks concerned in Susan Collins

fatgirlvsworld.bsky.social•88 days ago

Fool me once shame on me.
Fool me all the time...

robertrath.bsky.social•88 days ago

When the City of Austin passed a plastic bag ban, the Texas Legislature created a special law saying cities couldn’t have a bag ban. This isn’t ideological it’s just petty.

plawman.bsky.social•88 days ago

Is it unorthodox when these people have spent my entire lifetime openly dreaming of national bans on abortion, gay marriage, weed, etc

vituperativeerb.bsky.social•88 days ago

No man has ever been more correct

theangelremiel.bsky.social•88 days ago

I can never decide if it's worse that the NYT are a bunch of naive idiots or that they assume their readers are a bunch of naive idiots.

mayorofslotrocks.bsky.social•88 days ago

Sure, you can blame the media.

But they are less culpable when the *opposition party* accepts GOP rhetoric at face value.

arpeggiated.bsky.social•88 days ago

That presupposes that trump is a republican, rather than just himself as the figurehead of the republican party. And he isn’t.

joshsternberg.com•88 days ago

taps the 'only dems have agency' sign:

https://bsky.app/profile/joshsternberg.com/post/3lhllna6mqc2l

asherd.xyz•88 days ago

Putting on a hot dog suit and wondering aloud where all of these scandals the GOP claims to care so much about came from.

geauxblue.bsky.social•88 days ago

It’s basically a variation of Wilhoit’s law: whatever portions of federal, state, and local government Republicans control are the portions that should have power. Whatever portions Dems control should have no power.

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