The WSJ steadily becoming a more vitriolic opposition to Trump than actual democrats is kind of funny - ThreadSky

schnorkles.bsky.social • 6 hours ago

The WSJ steadily becoming a more vitriolic opposition to Trump than actual democrats is kind of funny

Reposted from Noah Shachtman

The WSJ is now comparing Trump to Herbert Hoover.

www.wsj.com/economy/is-t...

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niftyfire25.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Plus WSJ had a great story today about trump voters reacting to their 401k’s tanking

cv-danes.com•5 hours ago

This is my sad face.

minerva1.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Makes sense when you think about it. WSJ can’t afford to lose the trust of high-information investors.

kilgore12.bsky.social•6 hours ago

It's also depressing, in that it shows how useless dem leadership currently is.

mrorange67.bsky.social•6 hours ago

WSJ has always been true to one concept: corporations and billionaires making as much money as possible off the stock market. Their stance here is right in line with decades of their reporting.

ellengrove.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Who’d have ever imagined Teen Vogue, Wired, Rolling Stone and the WSJ lining up on the same side of anything?

rowyourbot.bsky.social•5 hours ago

The mainline Democrats are always the last to know.

cv-danes.com•5 hours ago

They're ok with leopards eating faces but when the leopards come for the 401ks they're suddenly very concerned.

joyouspanther.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Non-scammer money people are like "what the fuck is all of this?"

byrdturgler.bsky.social•5 hours ago

To be fair, Biden regularly compared him to Hoover.

delbertgseasons.bsky.social•6 hours ago

When I said the WSJ sucked I didn’t mean that they sucked at math. Their slide rules function as well as anybody’s

mpinga.bsky.social•6 hours ago

If it bleeds over into Fox, that’s when it becomes significant.

johnnyrenton.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Legit business press (like FT or WSJ) are often the most blunt in times like this because their readers need *real* news and facts to stay informed and avoid losing massive piles of cash. They operate for an audience that has no time for misinformation when it comes to their portfolios & business’s

ridgewaygirl.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Their Post Reports podcast had a reasonably good episode on Mahmoud Kalil’s illegal detention. They pulled their punches at the end, but got 2/3s of the way there.

20000thorns.bsky.social•4 hours ago

pgriff6.bsky.social•6 hours ago

It’s the least they could do.

padathir.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Leopards, faces.

megaweapon5.bsky.social•6 hours ago

The Bulwark too

rootbeerbaron.bsky.social•6 hours ago

The WSJ news staff was always fairly cosmopolitan/center-left

xtophersd.bsky.social•4 hours ago

And kinda sad, and kinda frustrating, and kinda maddening...

butters55.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Yup. I actually just restarted my WSJ subscription after letting it lapse last year. But WaPo? That one goes bye-bye soon.

mkweber.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Funny in a "ha ha oooh we're in danger" kinda way

tillman.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Kind of wild how Donald has done more to reduce the wealth of billionaires in 30 days than any democrat in history.

harrydamour.bsky.social•5 hours ago

I mean he's already taking Elon down faster than Biden ever did.

chrislabarthe.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Lowering tide sinks all boats

robvarak.bsky.social•6 hours ago

It's a Harding/Hoover hybrid. Fuck up the economy while also grafting with gusto.

worldofcardboard.bsky.social•6 hours ago

WSJ - Look, we might be soulless husks of former humans but we do at least recognize that number go down is bad.

NYT - What if number go down... is good?

entertainer13.bsky.social•6 hours ago

This 100%

skidsolo.bsky.social•5 hours ago

But those Murdoch muppets will still vote for him

entertainer13.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Of course!

drdoofenschmirtz.bsky.social•5 hours ago

The business community should have known from his first term, it was going to be chaotic and unpredictable. Its fiduciary irresponsible to vote for someone like that as a business owner and think the chaos won’t affect you

danbongard.bsky.social•6 hours ago

The WSJ's readership skews economically conservative, and you can't get much less economically conservative than what Trump and Musk have been doing.

errk-fu.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Tbh not surprising as the pro-biz publication. Anyone not holding a crypto or AI bag can see where this is going.

seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Them running "Trump is losing a trade war that he picked and he deserves every bit of it" yesterday was refreshing. Shame it was squeezed between two "Transsexuals: threat or menace?" opinion pieces.

teorema.bsky.social•5 hours ago

They can absorb Trump 1.0 level chaos but this is different. He’s fucking with the money.

johnhovious.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Unfair to Hoover.

chessercat.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Yeah, he actually wanted to end famine, on top of having a slightly less deleterious economic policy.

progcapitalism.bsky.social•5 hours ago

The plan: Trump thought he could bully other countries into submission with Tariffs and look like a genius on day one.

What happened: Trump’s tariffs are flopping and other countries are standing strong.

New Plan: it’s going to get worse before better. Have you seen the new Teslas?

apoapsis.bsky.social•6 hours ago

It’s a natural outgrowth of them being amoral bastards who only care about money—having the largest economy in the world be run by a demented narcissist and an apartheid baby ketamine addict is bad for business!

apoapsis.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Similar, in a less “wow, good for you” way, to Bill Kristol and a couple of the other old neoconservatives fucking DESPISING the modern Republican Party because they did, actually, believe that bit of their espoused ideology about how democracy is an inherent good

wellestarr1.bsky.social•4 hours ago

They love their money more than they love their ideas.

janmug.bsky.social•2 hours ago

The WSJ is only willing to tolerate politicians as long as they make the money flow.

mulledwine.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Little surprise there when it’s so corporate-aligned. Business is taking a shellacking due to this idiot’s haphazard economic policy

rationaltexan.bsky.social•6 hours ago

One thing I never see get called out enough is that this was still a business decision. They shellacked themselves because Big Business is actually quite auto-cannibalistic.

oldtimerarmy.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Trump is a fucking Fool. And if someone doesn’t stop him he will destroy the country and possibly the world.🌎

chessercat.bsky.social•1 hour ago

I’ve noticed that too. It’s been swift, relentless, and hilarious.

mspragmatist.bsky.social•6 hours ago

All it took was Drumpf actively and persistently destroying the economy. I guess it ain't called the Wall Street Journal fer nuthin'.

allengarvin.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Except, I assume, the part about Hoover being a workaholic, a scrupulously honest and honorable man, and a worldwide hero for his work relieving hunger (in WWI, not the depression).

kauaihorses.bsky.social•1 hour ago

"Trump's...technological imperialist/monarchist plans of Elon Musk’s Neo-Reactionary (NRx)...philosophy. NRx is a belief that democracy must be eliminated and the country run under a corporatist, technological dictatorship..."

https://malcolmnance.substack.com/p/urgent-warning-trump-is-planning?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2fxdua&triedRedirect=true

templeoffree.bsky.social•6 hours ago

The POS Murdochs just don’t like losing money. They would watch us all march to the gas chambers if they thought it was profitable.

shayhoffman.bsky.social•6 hours ago

The people who assured me most sanguinely that Trump would never start a suicidal trade war with our allies…are also the people who worship at the altar of the WSJ.

isammis.bsky.social•6 hours ago

They're dynamite at "We just lost money! DAMN YOU TO HELL!!!!!!!!!!!"

As futurists, though, they're abysmal. Their crystal ball is where they keep the really good drugs.

rationaltexan.bsky.social•5 hours ago

On the one hand you’re exaggerating the Democrats’ weakness.

On the other hand, they’re still way too weak.

vineeta.bsky.social•5 hours ago

True. Except that the WSJ just purged its tech team in San Francisco, down from Jason Dean, "a well-liked technology editor who had been at the financial broadsheet for nearly a quarter of a century." I see Musk's fingerprints all over this.