Fucking unbelievable that the big publications are running with this as the lead story after the Supreme Court just promised to install a convicted felon rapist insurrectionist as Emperor for Life. - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

faineg.bsky.social • 234 days ago

Fucking unbelievable that the big publications are running with this as the lead story after the Supreme Court just promised to install a convicted felon rapist insurrectionist as Emperor for Life.

Reposted from David S. Bernstein

IMO this is a straight-up ageist and ableist image, no?

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arielgordon.bsky.social•234 days ago

Who also had a notoriously lax work ethic as president! Do we not all remember “executive time”?

What reason is there to believe Trump is any more up to the rigors of the job than Biden? Because he’s shouty?

wrongbottom.bsky.social•234 days ago

Only mornings he was up and at 'em were at Bedminster, Maralago, or Doral...for golf...the loafing Scotsmen's game of kicking rocks.

joeaconite.com•234 days ago

How old is a Koch brother? Murdoch? and the mummies in the Right Wing? FU Economist.

joeaconite.com•234 days ago

The head of the Economist Group is fuckin' 76.
This is a hit piece.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Pennant-Rea

queengwenevere.bsky.social•234 days ago

To say nothing of certain conservative judges…

joeaconite.com•234 days ago

Mitch McZordon and his Term Limit Power-Trip Rangers.

zoonie.bsky.social•234 days ago

What The Fuck Is Going On.

Man, I really would have thought better of The Economist, that is a disgrace.

michaelmassing.com•234 days ago

The Economist can be useful when presenting numbers, and even their implications, within their news stories—as when they frankly describe the world as divided into rich countries and poor countries. This seems not to affect the ability of their editorial stances to be breathtakingly infuriating.

ariofthesea.bsky.social•234 days ago

Serious question: what the fuck is it gonna take to fight back against the media doing this again? Is it deep dives into the authors and exposing them as hacks (I know the anti-voting NYT article was penned by a hack)

csimmons21.bsky.social•234 days ago

Who owns the media in the US? Rich republicans.

riwoche.bsky.social•234 days ago

Oh the sweet irony of the UK's most glib magazine deploying that cover story just as the Conservatives get crushed at the ballot boxes across the UK.

vfxpapa.bsky.social•234 days ago

They want to suck Trump’s tiny dick so bad.

drgdave.bsky.social•234 days ago

Yeah, I expected better from the Economist which, while right-leaning, isn't marinating in the U.S. right-wing cesspool.

hmcd.bsky.social•234 days ago

I mean I would love to believe that they are doing it to piss off and energize the Democrats but I think we know that ain’t it

bearku.bsky.social•234 days ago

JFC I’m so sorry to leave this legacy of chaos to my son who’s just starting out.

13jdzeri.bsky.social•234 days ago

So ableist.

boristhewizard.bsky.social•234 days ago

No if you're to old to drive a car and show signs you might injury people the DMV will suspend your license.

alexqgb.bsky.social•234 days ago

Uhh, this is exactly *why* they're running this story — because the one person in a position to respond to the Court's overreach is clearly not up to the job of stopping the guy who will end the Republic with the power he has just been handed.

alexqgb.bsky.social•234 days ago

Maybe it's because they understand the stakes and are freaking tf out because they know Biden isn't up to the task.

Also, that opinion dropped on Monday afternoon, London time, and this is a weekly news magazine.

bornonagreenlight.bsky.social•234 days ago

Not entirely surprising though.

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kathleena.bsky.social•234 days ago

thanks for posting this

bornonagreenlight.bsky.social•234 days ago

3dogdad.bsky.social•234 days ago

People do know that Trump will be older than Biden is now in 4 years, right?

hearkittykitty.bsky.social•234 days ago

Biden will also be older than Biden is now in 4 years like what are you trying to say

3dogdad.bsky.social•234 days ago

That Biden is too old, and that Trump is also too old.

lfschleusener.bsky.social•234 days ago

Given that they’re stacked with TERFs and anti-semites, I guess this tracks.

numb.comfortab.ly•234 days ago

If they're going there why not do Trump https://bsky.app/profile/numb.comfortab.ly/post/3ku6pao2dsk2w

vertiblank.bsky.social•234 days ago

All of the top US presidents have been famously able-bodied and have never had to use mobility devices.

michaelmassing.com•234 days ago

FDR is said to have been so skilled at small talk and joking that, the code of silence aside, it kept anyone observing from feeling awkward at seeing him being carried around in sometimes unavoidably public places.

osana.bsky.social•234 days ago

The owners would like a bit of fascism unfortunately...

celticdragon1.bsky.social•234 days ago

The Economist, 1941

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maryvarshini108.bsky.social•234 days ago

Ugh!! I'm so sick of it.

hellokaiju.bsky.social•234 days ago

That photo is seriously ablist, too. Dementia does not necessarily cause physical disability, and the need for a mobility aid most assuredly doesn't cause dementia or mental instability.

queengwenevere.bsky.social•234 days ago

Weird Ass Priorities

chickenlady.bsky.social•234 days ago

Her picture needs to be a poll:
Do you think she's far from a walker?
(Editor in chief)

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chickenlady.bsky.social•234 days ago

I mean: she should really be thinking about resigning and giving her seat up to younger editors,no?

haere.bsky.social•234 days ago

the white house staff really needs a full turnover to people willing & ready to confront this stuff. by the end of the long weekend or so
they should be pushing "he can't run. you need to pick a new guy" and rolling up the chuds with all the fake authority the supreme court just handed him

haere.bsky.social•234 days ago

(that trump can't run, to be clear)

petestaiano.com•233 days ago

Especially when one of the people who’s listed as one of the greatest presidents of all time was a guy in a wheelchair

dallas-taylor.bsky.social•234 days ago

I guess letting private equity buy up the Fourth Estate wasn't the best idea.

lizdynan.bsky.social•234 days ago

Yes it is.
I hate that fucking rag.

germaricanmix.bsky.social•234 days ago

I wonder what cover they'd use for a convicted felon who rapes his own wife.

mashamasha.bsky.social•234 days ago

But, but he's a whole three years younger, and, while the angry bullshit that comes out of his mouth makes zero sense, look how powerfully he's saying it, with what energy! Vigor, even.

bradiscranky.bsky.social•234 days ago

hipstersasquatch.bsky.social•234 days ago

Goddamn it I am fucking howling at that image. May the jackass behind this end up needing a walker REAL SOON.

hipstersasquatch.bsky.social•234 days ago

There's a valid conversation to be had about presidents needing to not be too senile or physically frail to be able to handle the rigors of the job -- which are *considerable*, there's a reason most presidents look ages older when they are done. But a fucking walker?! That's nothing. Fucking trash!

hipstersasquatch.bsky.social•234 days ago

I really, REALLY don't like how the Democratic party has frozen out younger members from key positions, leaving us with very old members in power. It's shortsighted, and leaves the party in the hands of people who overwhelmingly seem to have stopped paying attention to how things are going.

lizamazel.bsky.social•234 days ago

if, IF we somehow survive this cycle and stagger on to the next, there is a slate of younger Senators and even younger and/or at least very vibrant Reps on the bench now.

hipstersasquatch.bsky.social•234 days ago

But the people doing this aren't bad simply for being old, they're bad for refusing to let the party move on to the next generation(s).
I don't like how old Biden is, either - though at least he DOES appear to be in excellent shape for a man his age - but that's not why I didn't want him running.

hipstersasquatch.bsky.social•234 days ago

Making this all about the age of the candidates is a moot fucking point when they're both old coots!

jaytingle.bsky.social•234 days ago

Priorities.

karlrolson.com•234 days ago

I mean, many of those who own said publications don't mind seeing themselves reflected in the government.

kateweb.bsky.social•234 days ago

It's aThe ruling's so outrageous, big chunks of the media are reporting as though it's not true/hasn't happened.

brooklynmarie.bsky.social•234 days ago

They've lost it! Absolutely insulting

lgbookworm.bsky.social•234 days ago

Thanks for WTF-ing about this, Faine, I feel like I’m living in Bizarro World

lfccinti.bsky.social•234 days ago

If Trump wins they will run stories about how did we let this happen.

vfxpapa.bsky.social•234 days ago

They won’t run anything at all because he’ll probably have them rounded up and black-bagged.

threnody.bsky.social•234 days ago

i can’t wait to see one of the young conservatives who skimped on a fact checker bring up ronald reagan as a point of contrast.

we live in that timeline. it will happen.