Pretty terrifying honestly.
I'm kind of astonished that even republicans can't see anything wrong with everything happening. Like conservative ideals are one thing but dismantling the rule of law is a whole other thing.
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Uh... What did you think conservatives stood for again? Conservatism has always been about putting wealth in the hands of the few and scapegoating vulnerable people to distract the masses; everything else is camouflage.
I don't think the majority of conservatives actually want that.
They claim they don't want that, but every single one of their positions feeds into one or both of these two results.
If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you. ― Lyndon B. Johnson
The majority of Republicans are fucking morons that have no idea what is going on in the world and have no desire to so long as they have identified which group they are supposed to hate.
They just want to hate the people who they fear
Because they're fucking idiots who choose ignorance because thinking is difficult for them
I wish more people understood this. Fear drives them just hate is an easier emotion that they can handle.
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Capitalism is the entropy lottery, and the more you remove the graphite the more the reaction runs away toward total meltdown
Conservatism is the belief that we should ban pencils because how dare you limit my chances even a little before everything breaks
I've lived in several countries and watched conservatives in all of them over half a century. Nothing I have seen has ever changed my view that conservatism is pathological selfishness disguised as a political philosophy. While other political movements agree on making life better for people in general but disagree on how to do it, conservatives indulge their personality disorder, call it politics, and demand to be taken as seriously as those who actually try.
The only reason why Trump’s approval rating has sunk a bit amongst conservatives is that tariffs are directly affecting them. As you said, they are selfishness incarnate.
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This is what every journalist in America needs to be doing right now.
I would argue it's what every journalist in America should have been doing 8 FUCKING YEARS AGO, but no, they helped create this monster so they could report on it. They are a human/media centipede crossed with an Ouroboros eating it's own shit. Support independent media, not partisan sources in either direction, they're ALL compromised by capital.
OK, but this is also what every journalist needs to be doing right now.
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Make no mistake, the only reason we're seeing this in the media now is because big business is getting hit. Mostly a shot in the foot with tariffs but let's keep those boycotts up!
I assume the big boys lost more money from the tariff insanity than they made from getting their next tax cut. Losing money is the only thing they do not tolerate because it hurts them in their inhouse pissing contest on who can be the biggest societal parasite.
Absolutely. This kind of media is owned (literally) by big business investors. I know it's obvious but it needs to be said plainly, mass media is the mouthpiece of the rich. It's no coincidence that Musk bought Xitter and Bezos bought Washington Post.
They will only cry alongside us when they're being hurt. They sure didn't care until now.
It's insane, because it's not some sassy or hyperbolic report. It's perfectly measured and...logical. A well made report.
Jesus Christ. What subject, other than abject flattery, is Trump not sensitive about? No matter what they do, any story that's based remotely on fact is gonna piss that fragile little man off, so why not just have at him?
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I love this. It's kind of a rule of the internet that if you tell it to stop doing something it'll just make everyone more determined. I want to see every group that interacts with the administration be so resolute to give them shit.
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This is real journalism, which has become increasingly rare these days. Everything else is just PR.
Extortion of law firms. What the fucking hell scared these businesses so much? Just stopping federal contracts with them?
And with that threat looming overhead, how do they not have the motivation to quietly resist? You want to talk about respecting the law and fighting back - that's who needs to do it.
Except they bent the knee anyway. We know they're just as complicit in the Regimes acts now.
And that's just one issue.
It’s a shit spot to be in, as basically all of them work cases in federal court. If your lawyers are physically prevented entry to federal property because some orange buffoon bans the entire firm by the stroke of a pen, that law firm is completely impotent and unable to argue in federal cases, even those that don’t end up in a courtroom. Judges chambers, pre-trial motions, informal meetings, etc all are impossible or vastly more difficult.
It was a very targeted and deliberate move to put these firms in a lose:lose scenario - give an absurd amount of pro-bono work to your abuser, or wither and die as your clients are forced to move to another firm:
The orders threatened to bar attorneys from where they work, courthouses and federal agencies and cancel the contracts of law firm clients. For example, an aerospace company could lose its federal contracts if it stayed with the firm. A senior partner at one firm told us the president's orders were, quote, "diabolical." "Intended to bankrupt [us]."
Man that's such a small detail I glossed over, that they can bar them from courthouses.
I never realized until Trump came along how strong the urge to lick boots is in humanity - because if anyone is in exactly the right position with the capabilities and know how it these high-powered firms. And yet they'd rather supplicate themselves? Pathetic.
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Lawyers and law firms lean very very heavily on relationships. Far too much honestly. Who your lawyer knows really shouldn't matter when it comes to legel matters, but often it means more than the law. So being in the sights of the leader of the republican party really reduces the image of a lawyer with connections. Thus it is very very bad for business.
Only nine years too late.
Still, hope this marks the start of a trend.
Glad legacy media still has a few balls left
They hurt TRUMPS FEELINGS? DEPORT THEM!
-Fuck Your Feelings Conservatives!
I hate 60 minutes but watched that on YouTube. Anything to piss on trumps shallow ego.
Good on Pelley.
That pesky first amendment comes back to bite again!
Anyone have a link to th video?
I suspect it's this one. Looks like 60 minutes posts their show online on their website.
Edit-- turns out they also publish the show as a podcast (which I prefer)
60 Minutes
As I always say, that'll teach'm.
Ah, so more compromised media sources creating hype and WWE theater spectacle out of a crisis they helped create.
I am done with the "nightly news segment" Uroboros of creating massive problems then reporting on the massive problems they made.
edit: keep whinging, this is just another "cut to YOUR fighter" segment that makes everything think "whoohoo we're winning!" and feeds this cycle of thinking someone is in control, that there's an actual "back and forth." There is no "back and forth." There is nobody coming. There is nobody in charge. This is all so much worse than even the best media reporting is letting on.
Shut the fuck up with that.
Networks and even shows aren't a giant monolith.
This is a good, ballsy move by actual journalists that is going to upset a lot of people and get a lot of pushbavk, even from within.
This should be getting acclaim, not...whatever lazy defeatest response this is.
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My only hope at this point is that, by firing most of NOAA, they somehow miss or are otherwise unprepared for a freak hurricane that blows right through DC while congress is in session and Trump is doing a photo op while signing a new bullshit order.
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