Why do news organizations keep misstating the effect of this executive order? The president does not regulate elections in this country. - ThreadSky

nycsouthpaw.bsky.social • 3 days ago

Why do news organizations keep misstating the effect of this executive order? The president does not regulate elections in this country.

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jayb420.bsky.social•2 days ago

The President does whatever the F he wants nowadays, without regard to what's in the Constitution.

lawnerd.bsky.social•3 days ago

@mtsw.bsky.social do you wanna say it or should I

krileyoconnor.bsky.social•3 days ago

It’s what they do and how we have trump in office

deirdredonovan.bsky.social•3 days ago

Their blatant ignorance is astounding. When I heard of this, I thought exactly that - the president cannot do this by an executive order! https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/election-administration-at-state-and-local-levels

https://ballotpedia.org/Who_runs_elections_in_the_United_States%3F_(2020)

hisdarkmajesty.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yeah, I'm not doing a single thing any President dictates to me. POTUS is not a monolith and supreme ruler. They aren't the sole creator, arbiter, and executioner of law. We fought a fucking war about this shit over 200 years ago. Open and shut case. Journos need to get with it or out of the way.

co-wizard.bsky.social•3 days ago

Because, unfortunately, they just regurgitate what he says without any caveats all while sane-washing his crazy convoluted “weaves”.
I don’t understand why he gets a pass when others are microscopically scrutinized.

elnino2009.bsky.social•3 days ago

To journalists:
substitute “birthday wish” for “Executive Order” and then finish the article in that tone.

ncallaway.bsky.social•3 days ago

Becoming more and more @mtsw.bsky.social pilled everyday on this.

This feels like basic nuts-and-bolts stuff that they just keep getting wrong over and over and over. At some point, I feel like I have to understand it as deliberate and not an accident.

markshore.bsky.social•3 days ago

by 2025 you'd think papers with the size and resources of the New York Times and the Washington Post would understand the facts and the stakes

maybe they just don't want to

donet.bsky.social•3 days ago

Fu*king idiot thinks he's putin, his hero.

ralphhhenson.bsky.social•3 days ago

Because it's NEWS!!!!!

And it sells newspapers?

brendanamartin.bsky.social•2 days ago

Doing otherwise would effectively mean taking an adversarial stance towards the regime. If the government is acting outside the Constitution, it is effectively “partisan” to point that out. This is a problem
with the press, obviously. The analogy I like to use is Zola’s “J’accuse”… \1

brendanamartin.bsky.social•2 days ago

…When L’Aurore published that manifesto, they didn’t offer accompanying counterpoint from an antisemitic junta. The publishers were partisans of the French Republic.
None of our legacy press are partisans of American government under the Constitution. \2

jakemadtown.bsky.social•3 days ago

As usual, the best response to most Trump/GOP poses is to ignore them, and a responsible media and smart states would reply with this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYl5NRAmjDE

glenatron.bsky.social•2 days ago

The primary quality of a 21st century journalist is credulity.

boboinparadise.bsky.social•2 days ago

In her defense, she's from a small town newspaper. She and her editors aren't conversant with such legal niceties, they live in a simpler place & time.

markrussell.bsky.social•3 days ago

Honestly, a lot of it is because how new this terrain is for most journalists. There’s an awful lot of boilerplate language they use, which typically works. But what’s happening in America is so far from typical or proper, and they’re having trouble catching up (or not even trying, in some cases).

goonanc.bsky.social•2 days ago

of ANY #ExecutiveOrder . They're just a memo!! They're like letters to #Santa or notes to the tooth fairy

THEY ARE NOT LAWS

#MAGAt

gabelerman.bsky.social•3 days ago

Here comes Sweeney's Sledgehammer!

kickboxmom.bsky.social•3 days ago

Because they don’t need journalists with integrity. The sold their souls. Any hack can write this stuff.

alexstrachan.bsky.social•3 days ago

My guess: media organizations have cut so many jobs & slashed so many employees from the payroll that they no longer have adequate staff — not to mention older, more experienced journos — to do the job properly.
@mmfa.bsky.social @columbiajournalism.bsky.social @marymcnamara.bsky.social #wednesday

macdhomnuill.bsky.social•2 days ago

Because most journalist today have a journalism degree and not anything actually educational.

golbar.bsky.social•3 days ago

I'm actually kind of okay with this, because it makes the cult think it magically already happened so they won't actually push the crazies in the house, senate or in red/purple states from pushing this.

mossiegirl.bsky.social•2 days ago

Also, a crummy point of view, but per the Republican playbook a little outrage induced by an incorrect statement can be a good thing.

thewesterhazys.bsky.social•3 days ago

It is boring say it at this point I know but half the shit Biden tried to do was covered by the press under the cloud of whether he would be allowed to do it.

skyyks.bsky.social•2 days ago

It turns out USians really do not know how to do democracy. They've been cosplaying the entire time.

steph1873.bsky.social•3 days ago

Because they are a bunch of lazy-ass supine cocksuckers, whose owners live in terror that Trump is going to fuck up their other business interest in retaliation.

mayonnaisenoises.bsky.social•3 days ago

If Trump says it, you can guarantee that it's wrong.

ddza110.bsky.social•3 days ago

Because most journalists don’t know anything about law.

mhamlen.bsky.social•2 days ago

Can't they just say "but he doesn't have that power and the EO has no effect."

julietabouli.bsky.social•3 days ago

This is as dangerous as the order itself imo

funkmasterp.bsky.social•2 days ago

The states make these determinations.
Why is he usurping their power to decide criteria for how they determine who is eligible to vote.
Haven't the states already gamed the system enough with their voter suppression and Gerrymandering?
FOTUS knows this:

n4b3r1u5.bsky.social•2 days ago

Because if there's no mechanism to stop something, that thing is legal. Congress will not impeach him, the courts don't have the tools to deal with it. Because of the lack of guardrails, the US president has in effect full powers.

scipiogemini.bsky.social•2 days ago

Because those news originations are owned by billionaires who support Trump's authoritarianism because it benefits them personally.

jcc45.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's actually more simple than that. I worked around journalists for over 30 years and I can tell you that most of them are lazy. They would rather sit at their desk scrolling for something they can copy, paste and re-write slightly to avoid plagiarism charges than go out and develop sources.

jcc45.bsky.social•2 days ago

I remember walking through a crowded TV Newsroom with the anchor and he stopped, looked around and said to me "How much news do think actually happens in this room".

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity (or laziness)

boinzy.bsky.social•3 days ago

Their job is to manufacture consent of the governed.

mi-forest.bsky.social•2 days ago

because MSM is not on our side?

moxiest.art•3 days ago

sensationalism for some. legitimately not understanding how EO's work for a depressingly large portion of others

gynostar.bsky.social•3 days ago

And laziness for many. Don't forget laziness.

egality.bsky.social•2 days ago

Not just failure (willful or otherwise) about how EO’s work, but also “elections.”

Elections are entirely run by States.

Not only does the president not have the legal authority, he also doesn’t have the bureaucracy, unless the states voluntarily capitulate for no reason…which they might!

jaystu.bsky.social•3 days ago

Why? U.S. news media networks are incompetent. High paid teleprompter readers - reporters who don’t investigate - they just repeat the same headline, bullet talking points. That includes the high paid anchors who like to boast that they’re the most respected in the industry- total bullshit.

gailcasale.bsky.social•3 days ago

That was 2 months ago. Today, this Regime believes they can do whatever they want

veracitas.bsky.social•3 days ago

We know why.
The mainstream media is complicit. They are either under duress, or they are truly deplorable.
They cannot even call the end of due process the threat that it is.

omgitsdot.bsky.social•2 days ago

Does this EO even do anything? I'm fairly confident that every state already requires proof of citizenship upon registering to vote.

It's providing identification at the poll that varies from state to state.

joshtpm.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's really, really weird. It was embarrassing on the basis of a ten minute read, inexcusable 18 hours later.

billy158.bsky.social•2 days ago

And why does the NYT accept/adopt the WH framing that this has anything to do with “voter fraud”? At a minimum they should say that WH “claims” or “says” that; instead they have simply parroted it.

brendanamartin.bsky.social•2 days ago

Reporting EO’s accurately would effectively mean taking an adversarial stance towards the regime. If the government is acting outside the Constitution, it is effectively “partisan” to point that out. This is a problem
with the press, obviously. The analogy I like to use is Zola’s “J’accuse”… \1

brendanamartin.bsky.social•2 days ago

mickeleh.bsky.social•2 days ago

I appreciate your jumping in to remind us all that Trump has no legal or constitutional authority to order changes to elections. There’s all to much surrendering in advance.

scaypgrayce.bsky.social•2 days ago

Frankly, I believe that, consciously or not, they have adopted the mindset that he has won, that America now has a dictator.

sekkuto.bsky.social•2 days ago

I get the feeling that a lot of political reporters don’t know anything about the legal system and are more society reporters.

danzyl666.bsky.social•2 days ago

They've been marinating in this shit for 10 years. They accept as valid, that POTUS has the power to issue these diktats and edicts. They agree with it, they don't believe in the separation of powers

dmax12345.bsky.social•2 days ago

I mean, all they have to do is read the Constitution to see that there is no role for the executive branch in regulating elections. It’s in the plain text. Not really hard to get.

thatshockratees.bsky.social•2 days ago

Nope. Whenever Biden issued an EO, no matter how closely it cleaved to traditional EO precedent, the media swarmed to take MAGA’s side and call Biden a dictator. Same with Obama. Now it’s the opposite. This is not “accepting as valid.” It’s open, grotesque media bias and corruption.

whyiotter.bsky.social•2 days ago

Even if they don't agree individually, keeping their job requires their editors and board happy, who do support the Trump administration. Integrity? Lose job. Stenographer for fascist framing? Get promoted and eventually you'll be the editor.

People believe what's convenient for them to believe.

danzyl666.bsky.social•2 days ago

Definitely. And this is why in our current situation corporate media is as bad or worse than state media of past regimes

whyiotter.bsky.social•2 days ago

The thing that really makes me fearful is that state media falls with the state falling; even if some revolution occurred in the US, all the various media conglomerates would still exist and rally a counterrevolution; what can even realistically be done about the propaganda machine in this country?

silversmith1.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's why I rewrote the headline we'll use today.
- - -
Trump Signs Executive Order Attempting To Wrest Control Of Elections From The States, With Power He Does Not Have
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-voting-elections-executive-order/

mickeleh.bsky.social•2 days ago

Thanks for context. But let’s recognize the complexities of our new reality: While Trump’s bullying and bluffs may lack legal and constitutional authority, they nevertheless have consequences. It’s exhausting.

silversmith1.bsky.social•2 days ago

Won't disagree there are complexities.

But headlines should, at base, include context to properly frame the story they want you to read.

mickeleh.bsky.social•2 days ago

Agreed. Taking Trump’s bluffs as real is surrendering in advance. And there’s an awful lot of that going around.

desarrayed.bsky.social•2 days ago

the kindest explanation is that the press has been lulled into the laziness of stenography because, otherwise, they don't understand how EOs work. at all.

kdkildal.bsky.social•3 days ago

to soften the electorate

fermispairofsocks.bsky.social•2 days ago

Nothing will happen, but when we get to the election they can point to this and claim the elections were fraudulent because nobody followed the order.

00johndillon00.bsky.social•3 days ago

While this is true, 20+ states will use it as legal cover to do stupid shit.

stefentower.bsky.social•3 days ago

Or extralegal cover - pushing unconstitutional laws or procedures that have to make their way to the Supreme Court to be resolved.

rocinatereturns.bsky.social•2 days ago

They are evil people. There is no other explanation. They work for evil and knowingly help

pdxcharlie.bsky.social•2 days ago

the following really nails it:

rrkennison.bsky.social•2 days ago

And an executive order is not law. How many times do so many people need to say that and still the media keeps acting as if EOs are somehow legally binding on everyday people!

deborahelizabeth.bsky.social•2 days ago

An unlawful executive order can be litigated in a court that has jurisdiction. Litigation is a form of nonviolent civil resistance.

kricketykricket.bsky.social•3 days ago

They are submitting.

rex-remi-frenchies.bsky.social•2 days ago

I think they all just buy one massively wrong story and share it among themselves.

nefariousmeans.bsky.social•2 days ago

WaPo is state media.

ronh999.bsky.social•3 days ago

Because the NYT and WaPo are not credible news sources anymore.

krisnordstrom.bsky.social•3 days ago

It’s also not “an aggressive push to catch and combat voter fraud,” but an effort to disenfranchise voters

egality.bsky.social•3 days ago

More like a mere verbal flex to see if he causes Dem parties and entire states to completely fold to his will, even tho he has no legal authority.

That’s the real story here, and the story is about State and Dem party and journalistic cowardice and capitulation.

melissamermaid.bsky.social•3 days ago

But for the willfully ignorant, it's fine by them that he THINKS he does.

krtmd.bsky.social•3 days ago

the president does not regulate elections AND an EO is not a law.

itseasybeinggreen.bsky.social•3 days ago

Despite the valorization of journalism I think a lot of journalists just don't have a good understanding of civics.

philosodork.bsky.social•2 days ago

Because nobody reads the Constitution.

rustyrotten.bsky.social•2 days ago

He's trying to. That is the point.

r5-to-philly.bsky.social•3 days ago

Because they have whitehouse stenographers or political reporters writing this instead of their legal or election law reporters.

Do these papers even have election law reporters?

The papers in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, and Minnesota have the experts

r5-to-philly.bsky.social•3 days ago

The nonprofit news desk at @votebeat.org has the actual experts on the ground in the states that have been under attack for years

They understand and actually still report rather than regurgitate WH talking points.

https://bsky.app/profile/votebeat.org/post/3llarn6cyjs2h

kittykat-reynolds.bsky.social•3 days ago

The order: It would require the Election Assistance Commission to ask for proof of citizenship on voter registration forms; call for states to reject mail-in ballots that aren’t received by Election Day (even if postmarked by then); and empower DOGE to review voter rolls. [Politico]

kittykat-reynolds.bsky.social•3 days ago

Legal questions: The Constitution leaves it to states to set their own election rules and Congress to make or alter regulations. It doesn’t mention a role for the executive branch. The order, which is likely to be challenged in court, raises other questions too. [AP]

deborahelizabeth.bsky.social•3 days ago

As a U.S. citizen, I know that loyalty to the constitution is more important than loyalty to the U.S. president. When he tries to usurp the authority of the legislative branch to make laws, that is unconstitutional. The president is not above the law.

oldbrownshoe.bsky.social•3 days ago

*unless we let him

phreba.bsky.social•3 days ago

It’s so maddening, they did the same with so many EO’s. Just because he declares his usual bullshit, doesn’t mean it’s law!!!

ridder.bsky.social•2 days ago

Thinking it's another form of "compliance in advance". Researching or careful writing take effort and maybe face fears this will become reality, and like us they are exhausted so it feels easier to just transcribe what the EO says.

Which isn't journalism.

conaldarcy.bsky.social•3 days ago

The Times' motto is: Don't! Obey in advance.

tobybartels.bsky.social•2 days ago

conaldarcy.bsky.social•2 days ago

I'm glad someone made it.

rednecklefty.bsky.social•1 day ago

Erica Green is a closet Trumpist? Or merely a good @nytimes.com sycophant? Anybody check on her qualifications?

leonceg.bsky.social•3 days ago

I fear it’s because these are political reporters who have zero subject matter expertise in… anything. They simply may not know and consider it their job to transcribe what the powerful say and their contacts tell them.

dantlux.bsky.social•2 days ago

Ever since I moved to the US in 2003 that's the excuse given as to why there can't be federal election standards, because it's up to the states.

Love that Republicans will cave on every single principle if it's them mandating the caving.

libelandprivacy.bsky.social•3 days ago

Fact investigations have dipped in popularity among journalists for years now. It’s all about the byline, page one above the fold, fame, ratings, hits and dollars to riches. Journalism grad student eyes glaze over during workshops re investigative tools, resources and techniques to get at truth.

tazmah.bsky.social•2 days ago

Seriously, can we put a limit on his sharpie time?

monstorpupz.bsky.social•3 days ago

Americans don’t remember (or apparently care about) their HS civics anymore

maurizio.bsky.social•3 days ago

The fix in on it's way in

votevaxresist.bsky.social•2 days ago

The president has all the power we are GIVING him.

megabyterose.bsky.social•3 days ago

Because of who funds them and that small group’s agenda. It’s like 6 people who own all mainstream media and they’re filthy rich and pro-Trump.

creyna.bsky.social•2 days ago

Ok..so what if foggy bottom
does not renew my U.S passport…why do I ask…I mailed paper renewal w/items required n they write saying, I did not sign in blue ink. I respectfully resubmitted but only signature since they have my last passport and up to date photos.

latinbishop.bsky.social•3 days ago

Because they just readers, proof of citizenship is already the law

cheztortoni.bsky.social•3 days ago

Can you name another country where the president or leader regulates his own election? I can think of a few….

kimoco.bsky.social•2 days ago

They want to get us SCARED so we click and repost I assume.

averagejoe708.bsky.social•2 days ago

Bc they make a ton of money off fear mongeringbto stupid ppl

lizzcoop.bsky.social•2 days ago

I was wondering the same thing.

radiogirl1071.bsky.social•3 days ago

I agree with you!

burkerunner.bsky.social•3 days ago

Why do we still refer to them as Executive Orders when they really are Royal Decrees? I'm surprised he hasn't replaced his oval office chair with a throne.

ridem24.bsky.social•3 days ago

Never did and can’t do it now. This is just another lawsuit we the taxpayers have to pay for.

mossiegirl.bsky.social•2 days ago

Right? I was thinking states make these determinations?

brianpodolsky.bsky.social•3 days ago

Not yet, at least! Let’s keep it that way

alexwithak.bsky.social•2 days ago

@npr.org today did that and at the end of the headline said, "Voting rights advocates say the order has no effect," as if it's a matter of opinion depending on who you ask when the truth is that is NOT how EOs work.

luigithirty.bsky.social•2 days ago

next you'll tell me he doesn't have the power to send people to concentration camps in el salvador either

reinheimerwehrle.bsky.social•2 days ago

I think the reason it's not story #1 is because it's laughably unconstitutional.

furtherexchange.bsky.social•2 days ago

Because they’re stupid and afraid

alecperkins.me•3 days ago

Obligatory https://bsky.app/profile/mtsw.bsky.social/post/3ll7l3zmzek26

profmattdecarlo.bsky.social•3 days ago

Thank youuuu

skinnerboxusa.bsky.social•2 days ago

Institutional cowardice and complicity, fear of being sued for not carrying his water properly.

Whatever the case, they *know* what they're doing and why.

bathshebablue.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is just another example of mass normalization of a fascist leader by the press.

dawningawake.bsky.social•3 days ago

Compare and contrast when Biden tried anything, they knew how to write headlines then

leosstankytaint.bsky.social•2 days ago

The order might actually state that, but they need to expand so full context is explained. So many people do not understand what an EO is and the scope. Also, judges blocking EOs that are unconstitutional is NOT overreach. It IS their reach.

kevinmcnamee.bsky.social•3 days ago

Call it “the McConnell Rule”.

weary-eyes.bsky.social•3 days ago

While DT can't require it, red states will fall all over themselves trying to comply. My 83yo mom has a typo/misspelled her name on her birth certificate, couldn't get a real ID, they told us to hire an attorney. My red state will likely adopt DT's EO, and she'll be unable to vote.

msfiggy2u.bsky.social•2 days ago

MagaTs are lemmings: they just go along to get along. WTH would they know about ANYTHING, really??? Other than being whitewashed into believing DEI has everything to do with POC and whatever gibberish spills out of #ConvictedFelon47's crayon deserves a heel clicking, arm raising HEIL.
#Let'sGetReal

feistybrunette.bsky.social•3 days ago

Why start now?

anthrodiva.bsky.social•2 days ago

Ooh ooh I know!!

decay67.bsky.social•3 days ago

Because that keeps their ACCESS. And ACCESS is more important than facts.

smith816.bsky.social•3 days ago

It’s not about access. It’s about incompetence in journalism.

levynche.bsky.social•3 days ago

And cowardness!

dungeoncrawler13.bsky.social•3 days ago

Pretty sure the constitution already say you have to be a citizen. What does he want us to do? Make proof hard to obtain if you don’t vote his way.

skuzy1572.bsky.social•3 days ago

To give plausible deniability to white Americans who want to keep pretending everything is fine. the media continues to down play deny or sanewash all of the illegal acts of republicans in power. legacy media journalists are working for billionaires not the truth.

1gregtodd.bsky.social•3 days ago

That’s one reporter, not “the news media.”

dpilley.bsky.social•3 days ago

The press is part of the problem, pup

totophilly1963.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yes. Very much so.

willl.bsky.social•3 days ago

Because they don't want to be kicked out of the press pool.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/25/trump-white-house-press-pool-access-00206001

akajuhlz.bsky.social•2 days ago

The answer to the "why" question should be obvious by now.

stevedakoyote.bsky.social•2 days ago

Just thinking out loud here, but perhaps this is what they are told to say, how to say it, and what to avoid saying. "Legacy Media", or whatever mainstream media is called right now is nothing more than a different avenue to deliver the same messages. They are told what to say, how to say it.

markgrueter.bsky.social•3 days ago

Because they are run primarily by affluent j-school grads who care more about their careers than speaking truth to power?

eskimojake.bsky.social•2 days ago

What a criminal act. Wants to steal the 2026 midterm elections. He wants Dog-E outlaws to purge the voting rolls

one-woman.bsky.social•3 days ago

Stupidity runs strong throughout this once great nation. Fear of the fascists.

walterdragon.bsky.social•3 days ago

Because as @mtsw.bsky.social says, they like Trump and want him to rule us like a king.

deblongway.bsky.social•3 days ago

Outrage sells. Profit before truth.

oddballwoofwoof.bsky.social•3 days ago

Add it to the list of things he doesn't have the power to do but everyone is pretending he does simply because they say so.

"You owe me money!"
"What? No I don't. Who the hell are you?"
"I say you owe me money, hand it over now!"
"Oh, ok... here you go."
"I can't believe that worked!"

coachdondelotell.bsky.social•2 days ago

Because these young reporters know zip about the Constitution and Gov’t works—take a Civics class!

stevethdemocrat.bsky.social•3 days ago

An important take away is

stefentower.bsky.social•3 days ago

We should have political parties based entirely on whether one knows that states + DC run 51 separate presidential elections, or doesn't know this basic civics fact.

ericjgeller.com•2 days ago

He's requiring the EAC to change its national form. I think that's what this is referencing.

nycsouthpaw.bsky.social•2 days ago

He can’t lawfully require an independent, bipartisan commission to take specific actions either.

ericjgeller.com•2 days ago

Correct -- I thought you were referencing the complaint that stories are mischaracterizing state versus federal power over elections.

nycsouthpaw.bsky.social•2 days ago

My complaint is broadly that in our system the president doesn’t get to compel this result without first bending some de jure independent entity to his will. In the hopes of not encouraging our transition to a dictatorship, I’d submit that makes it really just a recommendation not a requirement.

jaredhardd.bsky.social•3 days ago

Erica Green consistently gets this wrong 😑

captkickback.bsky.social•2 days ago

EOs are not law.

dashwallkick.bsky.social•3 days ago

news orgs seem to really want to keep out of his gaze, which, pfft, okay, worked out pretty well for Colombia, right?

s0laireofastora.bsky.social•3 days ago

Sanewashing, plus they've been collaborators all along

puzzlegirl65.bsky.social•2 days ago

from their newsletter this morning. better? um … not really

dmax12345.bsky.social•2 days ago

Media folks seem to accept without question the idea that Trump’s EOs are “law” when, of course, they are not. For folks unfamiliar, states run elections for the most part. Congress can regulate them to some degree, but there is no role for the president at all. An EO has no legal effect at all.

nooneletgo.bsky.social•3 days ago

Because they're ignorant. No, really...and I don't say that to give them a pass. They went to journalism school where they learned to write. But they simply don't understand what it is they're writing about. Which of course means they shouldn't be writing about it at all.

nooneletgo.bsky.social•3 days ago

I'm wracking my brain trying to remember a Lawrence O'Donnell clip in which he talked about everyone, including the guys who loaded the trucks, understanding a basic point about politics/economics/whatever it was. Watch this space (ha ha). If I remember it, I share.

nooneletgo.bsky.social•3 days ago

I think it's in here, but I don't have time to find the exact quote (gotta' go to work!) https://youtu.be/sFd4zflqfeA?si=PBe0gbofH2bITbGQ

lurkeyloo.bsky.social•3 days ago

This appeared next on my timeline after the post about the election executive order. Soft language in their post.

nooneletgo.bsky.social•2 days ago

And here's the exact moment... https://youtu.be/sFd4zflqfeA?si=etHzHDMW2EqnpESU&t=278

vigeo93.bsky.social•2 days ago

Thank you!!!

satyarta.bsky.social•3 days ago

The quality of news organizations is at an all time low, the results of actually believing everything, without question, the fascist POTUS pronounces.

wankerjustice.bsky.social•2 days ago

click bait

positivesubway.bsky.social•3 days ago

Some people have advanced a theory that the leaders and key staff at these institutions generally like Trump and his policies and want to help him rule us like a king

liquidcarb.bsky.social•3 days ago

Isn’t this already a thing?

sqlrob.bsky.social•3 days ago

I don't think they're misstating the effect. No, it's not within the powers of the president.

But neither is tearing down departments. Or withholding funding.

egality.bsky.social•2 days ago

To do what they’re claiming, he would, without legal authority, and against the legal authority of 50+ state and territories, abolish all those state election systems, coup the state legislatures and governors and national guards, create a brand new Fed bureaucracy in those states to replace it.

sqlrob.bsky.social•2 days ago

You're forgetting about the preemptive compliance that's going to occur in a lot of the states.

egality.bsky.social•2 days ago

No, I’m not forgetting it.

swisscake.bsky.social•2 days ago

As the GOP continuously reminded us when Dems asked for more secure, accessible elections for all citizens, election administration is left to the state attorneys general.

kohnan.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yes why not “…signed an executive order in which he seeks to require proof of citizenship…”?

chicagoray.bsky.social•2 days ago

I'd like to see news organizations refer to them as Royal decrees or if they don't want to be snarky just decrees.

lindajw2456.bsky.social•3 days ago

Trump needs to stay in his lane.

tyoder.bsky.social•3 days ago

how many states w/ Repub legislatures will just... comply with it, though?

dirtside.bsky.social•2 days ago

because they're owned by the billionaire investor class and they want us scared and misinformed. know who owns your news sources. get news from independent sources. https://www.trustworthymedia.org/list-of-independent-media/

benwrightatl.bsky.social•3 days ago

He can't require it, but most red states will bend over backwards to institute it.

unholymoses.bsky.social•3 days ago

I am once again asking journalists to take a remedial civics course.

Like, this is Schoolhouse Rock level of basic shit.

dingokayfabe.bsky.social•3 days ago

Letting them play dumb is letting them off east. They know damn well what they’re doing

sorocchungus.bsky.social•3 days ago

News orgs: the consent manufacturing machine goes brrrrrrr

roncharest.bsky.social•3 days ago

Because the owners of these news organizations are supporting trump and his actions - to stay on his good side and keep their profits rolling in.

mcostura.bsky.social•3 days ago

So that when the midterms come he can refuse to acknowledge a loss on “grounds” and throw us further into constitutional crisis with his enablers screaming “but the EO!” We need to give I all pretense that they intend to acknowledge the law.

gsirc.bsky.social•3 days ago

I'll answer the question you pose with another: Does anyone work as a "WH Correspondent" now who isn't a tool? That's why.

rudymadrox.bsky.social•2 days ago

He’s not supposed to regulate elections, yes. But he probably can.

The Republican party controls all three branches of government, and Donald Trump controls the Republican party. Entities like the DoJ that are supposed to be independent are openly being controlled by Donald Trump.

motown.bsky.social•3 days ago

Compliant, or stupid, or both.

grungehamster.bsky.social•3 days ago

They are gearing up to not have any record of clearing up the confusion when "Trump announces suspending elections in 14 states violating EO" is a headline next year and they need to he said/she said if Governors ignoring him and having elections anyway is constitutional until Supreme Court rules.

grungehamster.bsky.social•3 days ago

People forget that Trump announced he was suspending/delaying the 2020 election multiple times because of COVID or because the states were implementing election laws he didn't approve of, and the media/Congress mostly ignored it. This time Congress is on board that Trump's word is law.

screamhowl.bsky.social•3 days ago

“which purports to require” would be much more accurate!

anemiab.bsky.social•2 days ago

Because they are belly crawlers.

jokesamurai.bsky.social•2 days ago

"white house correspondent"

kmt11.bsky.social•3 days ago

Click- doom bait 👀

johnbrownbread.bsky.social•2 days ago

Manufacturing consent

marleywrites.bsky.social•3 days ago

The idea that he’s a king makes for such good content that they’ll pretend it’s true, I guess.

rockwils1.bsky.social•3 days ago

harminsky.bsky.social•3 days ago

They legitimately actually don’t know anything, and most are power fetishists who will believe what anyone in the big white buildings say unless they’re “weak”

tamslick.bsky.social•3 days ago

“President Trump issued an executive order today making himself ten feet tall, bulletproof, and able to fly. Some legal experts question whether he actually has the constitutional authority to make himself fly.”

C’mon, @nytimes.com, what the heck are you even doing here?

rex-remi-frenchies.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is greatness.

troutish.bsky.social•3 days ago

Because they're complicit

njtraindelays.bsky.social•3 days ago

For clicks

wishda.bsky.social•2 days ago

We really need to rethink the press’s self-appointed role as The Fourth Estate.

They aren’t very good at it.

apowhichiapi.bsky.social•2 days ago

Dumbest thing I ever saw, because I have to provide that when I registered to vote

Smoke and mirrors, people smoke and mirrors

observationpost.bsky.social•2 days ago

He's not trying to regulate elections. He's creating a framework to declare blue-state elections invalid. It's not about building a regulatory apparatus, it's about providing cover to intervene and to reject unwanted outcomes.

sushiforlunch.bsky.social•2 days ago

100%

dmax12345.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is the correct take. 100%.

birddecentralise.bsky.social•3 days ago

Cowards afraid of attracting the eye of Sauron?

inthemix.bsky.social•3 days ago

It is all a part of the normalization of Trump.

imdaviddunn.bsky.social•2 days ago

Because there are no editors for this rapid fire posts. And reporters who literally are stenographers, for no reason. This info is not urgent beyond clicks.

hard2phathom.bsky.social•3 days ago

Its amazing how much damage a criminal can do when given the White House. It doesn't seem to matter that we all know he is a sexual predator, liar, and cheat. He still gets to destroy our country. Everyone seems to be willing to let him.

levynche.bsky.social•3 days ago

Including Joe Biden who swore an oath to protect this country from enemies foreign and domestic 🤬

hard2phathom.bsky.social•3 days ago

What are you complaining about? How did Joe let you down?

nick.goede.cc•2 days ago

Because they want it to sound the way they are saying I assume

brianforcanada.bsky.social•2 days ago

New York Times organization is all-in on supporting the autocracy.

dcshuford.bsky.social•3 days ago

Saw some nonsense in another article that the GOP “passed an executive order” like it was actual legislation! Complicit most likely, or incapable hacks at best

ravenna321.bsky.social•3 days ago

The MSM is failing us utterly. This is the biggest story of their lives. Step up, people.

telephonebooth.bsky.social•2 days ago

almost like they are synced with similar prompts to an ai newsfeed and too overwhelmed to to notice what is shifting but also they are paid to do this, weird

ellenmarie.bsky.social•3 days ago

He wants to, and do what he can to restrict them.

cassanbruh.bsky.social•3 days ago

Because they're hacks and not journalists?

hardklaw.bsky.social•3 days ago

Gotta keep the boss happy

maxtropolitan.bsky.social•3 days ago

Can we expect Republican-governed states to comply?

pinksalad.bsky.social•3 days ago

It’s almost like all the decent, smart people who in the past went into journalism have taken their careers in other directions, and the few smart, ethical, experienced journos who stayed the course are leaving in disgust. It’s a real problem that news orgs don’t explain gov — or understand it (?).

missbingley.bsky.social•3 days ago

Because the average reader will believe this is now a law.

It’s intentionally misleading, they are writing for the masses who truly do not know what an EO can achieve

edumblue.bsky.social•3 days ago

They also took the bait & focused on the citizenship section. Other sections of the EO are even more authoritarian. DOGE reviewing state voter rolls. Administration withholding funding from states it doesn’t believe comply with Federal voting laws. Prosecution of state election officials. Etc.

nelsonoftrafalgar.bsky.social•3 days ago

Not sure you noticed, but a lot of journalists don’t know shit.

egality.bsky.social•3 days ago

Because literally no one understands that we don’t have a federal election system. They all think we do hold federal elections, instead of state elections, so they think the president is the boss of it. Our Demos is very under trained.

egality.bsky.social•3 days ago

Plus, our “news” has been pushing the idea of the unitary executive and federal override of state functions for decades. It’s our “news” that’s the problem here, poisoning the Demos rather than informing us.

plasticpig.bsky.social•3 days ago

I thought he was all about states’ rights

specialguest.bsky.social•3 days ago

glowingfish.bsky.social•2 days ago

Because it's deeply built into our culture that the things the US President does are Serious. There's no cultural mechanism to communicate that this is all a joke.

aleksnotx.bsky.social•2 days ago

I am so pissed off about this and his other illegal EOs being reported on as “Trump changes X” as if he can just change laws and the Constitution unilaterally.

farebane.bsky.social•3 days ago

Because, if they misstate it, and the person handing local ballots believes it, then it doesn't really matter that he doesn't legally.

riversfan.bsky.social•2 days ago

this is not worth the paper it's written on, as are most of the vcb's exec orders, because it's unconstitutional and we don't have to pay attention to it.

mrga.bsky.social•2 days ago

He does when his lackeys will do his bidding as long as no one imoesches him. The legalities of his orders are about to become completely irrelevant.

ulyankee.bsky.social•3 days ago

Once again he’s relying on an EO in case they can’t pass legislation like the so called SAVE act. Not legal but since the orange one thinks he is the law that isn’t stopping him or the regime. https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8281

patrickrcrotty.bsky.social•3 days ago

For that reason, I expect the 2026 midterms to go reasonably smoothly.

The real question is, when (not if) the Democrats win back the House, and when (not if) Felon-47 bleats that the election was “stolen,” what happens?

numtini.bsky.social•2 days ago

Because they are realistic that the Democrats won't do a damned thing about it. We're in a dictatorship where Trump is ruling by decree. Half the congress supports it. The other half doesn't, but doesn't want to make a fuss.

bathshebablue.bsky.social•2 days ago

Don’t be daft.

The president doesn’t have legal authority over elections. That’s a matter of fact and law, and should be made clear in reporting.

And of course Dems will fight back - just like they are on myriad other fascist actions.