Lol when he was dooming kids in Africa to die of AIDS with illegal agency cuts it was "muscular Trump gets results" but now that he's crashing the stock market with tariffs it's "Missteps" - ThreadSky

mtsw.bsky.social • 9 hours ago

Lol when he was dooming kids in Africa to die of AIDS with illegal agency cuts it was "muscular Trump gets results" but now that he's crashing the stock market with tariffs it's "Missteps"

Reposted from Kai Ryssdal

Veneer of discipline? Whaaaaat?

With Latest Missteps, Veneer of Discipline in 2nd Trump Term Falls Away www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...

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idiokratie.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Ever notice how media and "pundits" frame everything Trump and his accomplices do as "dumb" or "reckless"? Never as #criminal, let alone #treasonous?
In the exact same way they NEVER do that for ANY other convicted #felon with a miles-long #fraud rap sheet?

idiokratie.bsky.social•2 hours ago

As if "dumb" or "reckless" were actually valid excuses for the POTUS.

Or even just for the Secretary of Defense.

Or Sec State for that matter.
Who is a Russian puppet full of Russian Mafia blood money.
Which all Dem Senators knew when they ALL voted to confirm him in office.

exiledsocscientist.bsky.social•9 hours ago

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It's all fun and games until it hits the performance bonuses of fund managers.

davetuffs.bsky.social•9 hours ago

I hope James Fallows is sitting down when he sees this headline.

bvigeant.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Ok we're giving you your seven thousandth chance... But after this you get another chance

mrcott.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Ha ha! We're going to have to make up a whole new game with all the strikes we're giving you. What do you think the rules should be though

militantnerd.bsky.social•2 hours ago

"China's final warning" with American media characteristics.

canuparadigm.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Right, "veneer of discipline" ha ha ha just like his "facial skim coat of orange Venetian plaster"

fastbreak78.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Nyt is in the bag for trump

fiftyburger.bsky.social•9 hours ago

post the kool aid man

peoplepaula.bsky.social•9 hours ago

I knocked my front tooth out as a kid, and now I'm not allowed to bite into apples, or drink straight from glasses, or do anything else that might snap off my fake tooth... which I will henceforth refer to as my "veneer of discipline."

holgate.permanent.red•8 hours ago

Dead kids in Africa is Opinion; stock prices are News.

nclud.bsky.social•9 hours ago

But it was these outlets that applied that veneer and they’re doing it again by calling it “missteps” when it was exactly what he said he’d do and they tried to pretend that wasn’t so!

jmteo.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Every sentence of this is wildly insane. Maximalist policies like sentencing millions to death in the developing world

militantnerd.bsky.social•2 hours ago

"Efficiency" seems to be a word routinely misused by US media.

drmaki.bsky.social•4 hours ago

There is no internal conflict because all of the sick people involved love the disease

dvdbutler.bsky.social•3 hours ago

The genius of that!!

nickwidzowski.bsky.social•2 hours ago

“Ice Maiden”?

Well, I guess the retort to the Times and its pathological urge to find positives in the Trump regime suggests itself

spacejamveteran.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Fucking idiots man. This is the "press" in America

enginerdnate.bsky.social•1 hour ago

humanspareparts.bsky.social•1 minute ago

that's how you do, Nate. well done

scottgoeke.bsky.social•9 hours ago

crashing the economy, ruining businesses, potentially getting the rest of the world to reject the dollar as the reserve currency

…just widdle tiny missteps

cogbarn.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Oopsie! Just creating a teensy bit of widespread crushing generational poverty that will require a New Deal on steroids to fix! 🤭

swordygryph.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Dude edited a tornado map with a fucking sharpie cuz he was stupid enough to say it'd hit Mississippi and just couldn't admit to it 💀💀💀

ianausbrit.bsky.social•7 hours ago

I don't get how any one thinks he's muscular or a tough guy, being a big mouth with limited intellect is not tough or muscular. I've never seen one thing Trump has done that I went "wow that was muscular" or "wow that was tough"

jymdyer.bsky.social•5 hours ago

It was all the headlines about Trump's "muscular" moves that prompted me to shut off all news notifications on all my devices. The media should be ashamed of themselves for that utter tripe.

ianausbrit.bsky.social•5 hours ago

I learned political media scepticism as a boy. Some tricks are very subtle, Split screen with conservative leader bigger than lefty leader is one, RW leader smiling / confident ,lefty looking shy & nervous, these and many more are ways of making RW leaders appear tough or " muscular". Always 🐂💩.

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