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Yes, but post Watergate our press reveled in their self-created (and, I would have hoped, self fulfilling) image of journalistic bravery
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Most of our reporters are either collaborators or cowards. Had Biden or any other president said this, every reporter would have yelled out “he didn’t start it, Putin did.” Why are they so scared of him?
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Pointing out the ridiculousness of blaming Biden in reply to a post about about two children held hostage and murdered by Hamas, isn’t supporting genocide. No adult discussion of Gaza (including legitimate criticisms of US and Israeli policy) is possible without admitting the malign nature of Hamas
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The allies did not deliver food to Germany during the war, and Israel is at war. Egypt, which is not, also shares a border with Gaza, and has blockaded Gaza since Hamas took it over nearly 20 years ago. Ignoring Hamas and solely blaming Israel, like the previous post blaming Biden, is an odd choice
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Allied bombing killed between 350,000 and 500,000 German civilians in WWII. Germany never should have started that war (and we consider the men of the Army Air Corps to be heroes). What happened to Gazan civilians is terrible, and it is primarily Hamas’ fault. Blaming Biden is an odd choice
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You’re a journalist. Contact his press secretary and demand clarification. The NBC reporter in his press pool should ask him if the administration will follow court rulings (bet no reporter will have the courage to ask Trump today). The time for responding to this stuff on social media has passed
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They were protesting this fall, right before the election. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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The left’s failure to vote, or to waste it on third party protests (both for Hillary and in the off-years) left us with a Supreme Court that granted Trump immunity. Biden did not have the power you suggest, but Ketanji Brown Jackson and all of Biden’s picks for the federal bench were excellent.
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Most are simply anarchists , or at least cos-playing anarchists. The “give me everything what I want, immediately, or I will burn it down” crowd doesn’t want to admit that Trump is their torch, so they’ll keep blaming Harris/Biden.
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“Always?” Meaning before October 7th, 19 years after Israel withdrew from Gaza and evicted all Israeli settlers, it was its plan to “level” Gaza? I am no fan of Netanyahu or Trump, but ignoring (and thus forgiving) that Hamas is primarily responsible for the suffering of Gaza is odd
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Find non-pardonable state crimes that he can be charged with in blue states
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Before Trump, that chair bit was the single most racist tirade ever shown on national tv and justified by our media as-if normal political debate
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Importantly, they’re around on the state level, (CA, NY, NJ, etc.), but too many in Washington seem to exist only on social media. Republicans brought down Gaetz- there is no evidence that Fetterman level cooperation is doing any good, and actually seems to be whitewashing the destruction
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Someone wants to end the use of fossil fuels. Candidate A: “It is our 20 year goal and we will take the following steps.” Candidate B: “drill baby drill.” So, he says “candidate A isn’t giving me everything I want right away, so I’m going to help elect B.” They’re either idiots or anarchists
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If we still had an independent press in this country, he would be asked at his next press conference to cite one verse from the Bible that contradicts the Pastor’s sermon
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In a democracy, the electorate bears a certain responsibility to educate itself. We are all about to pay for those who voted for Trump due to selfishness and/or hatred, as well as those who stayed home due to self-imposed ignorance
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He was able to forgive $188.3 Billion in the student debt of 5.3 Million borrowers.
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Harris lost (and Republicans took over the Senate and kept the House) because people didn’t vote - because they don’t understand that democratic progress comes incrementally and with hard work- and that Biden wasn’t somehow bad because he couldn’t instantly give them everything they they wanted
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You’re saying that Biden could create SAVE, say he is the ultimate power, magically bar republican states from challenging it and the federal courts from issuing an injunction? That’s not the way our system works. Want programs like SAVE? Work to elect more Democrats and the state and federal level
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What are you proposing he does? We can oppose dictators or want them. There is nothing he can unilaterally do that takes this out of the courts
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Is that the test? Imagine the government trying to restrict propaganda controlled by the NAZIs during WWII, and the argument against it being “we shouldn’t do that because the propaganda by Imperial Japan is just as bad.”
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Apparently so. From Roberts down, our once vaunted legal system is in ruins
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Every journalist at the Post who doesn’t quit is part of the problem. If they put their short term interests aside for the good of both the country and their profession, they could make a difference (and I am very afraid that we, as a nation, are running out of chances to make a difference)
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Some like using TikTok, so I think an adversarial, totalitarian state should be allowed to use it for it own purposes vs some like using TikTok, so I support forcing a sale to a non-Chinese controlled owner. I do not understand the argument you are making
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What is the objection to TikTok being sold to an owner not under the control of the Chinese government?
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Are you comparing Facebook to TikTok, or Facebook to the Chinese government? Yes, I think the US government can and should pass regulations on the malign influences of social media. However, the Chinese government owns a “golden share” of, and is alleged to control, TikTok
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Go to China, publicly post that Xi is fascist and see how it goes. Trump certainly aspires to oligarchy. But, thinking that we have problems so China’s must be good (or not worse than equally bad) is silly and reminiscent of Trump’s answer when confronted with Putin’s killing of journalists
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I’m no fan of Facebook, but it hasn’t put Uyghurs in concentration camps; supported North Korea; aided Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; threaten Taiwan; and lie about a disease spreading through their country leading to a worldwide pandemic and the deaths of millions. China is not our friend
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Accept for a minute, as an intellectual exercise, that Tim Tok is sharing user’s personal data with the Chinese government. Why would you think the Chinese gov’t would be collecting that data, and what do you think the US government should do about it?
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Accusing him of colluding may be dumb, but his job, once Trump was indicted, was to try and convict him. He failed. We need to learn from Garland’s failures. There will be a lot more MAGA judges on the federal bench in four years, and we need the deterrence of potential accountability
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Volunteer for candidates or to register voters, drive voters to polls, donate if possible, etc. Vote in every election, including local.Step one must be to win to upcoming special elections and then the midterms.
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When you realize the jokes at your funeral will be of an entirely different type
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Like Wikipedia a few weeks back, looking forward to a record fundraising day for the Sierra Club
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Do they have to appeal it? If some random federal judge (not assigned to a Smith case) issued an order today saying they had to issue it, all sides would just say “no jurisdiction, no authority, and ignore it.” Why can’t Smith/Garland just ignore and force the defendants to seek 11th Circuit review?
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Cars for Kids
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Putin may love his country- but his country is the Soviet Union
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2. When Democrats return to the White House, they will face even greater right wing federal judiciary. It is more important to learn from Garland’s shortcomings than to defend him on the theory that Republicans are the problem— Republicans aren’t going away