Why would MSM not cover Trump’s agenda and the extreme policies he’s planned to enact? Because that’s the United States MSM's oligarch owners want. Don’t be fooled by the gaslighting about horse races and ratings. You could get higher ratings by telling the truth.
@StillIRise1963 The US MSM was very successfully cowed by the deliberate attack on the MSM by conservatives decades ago to portray them as propagandists of the elite liberals, that they have spent decades to prove they were not liberal propagandists by becoming either overt propagandists for the Right (relentlessly publishing rightwing smears about Hillary and Hunter, endlessly devoting space to diner interviews with MAGA, printing Trump lies about crowd size as fact) or frozen in fear and suppressing reporting on actual RW facts that threaten actual liberty (Alito, Trump, ties to White Nationalism, corruption) that they have become actual propagandists for fascists.
Yes, truth has a liberal bias. So to seem unbiased, they deliberately suppress the truth.
ATTN: If you plan to attend the Mastodon meetup at the Tampa Marriott this weekend and you are a VIP attendee, please ensure you bring your official VIP lanyard or else you risk being denied access to the VIP soup bar.
@Alice Language and its rules have evolved and, as a not dead language, it will continue to evolve; When language ceases to adapt it will fade from usefulness, will be abandoned for that which more closely does what the purpose of language is: as a utility to communicate our experiences.
Those folks who fear or are enraged or claim they cannot adapt to gender changes in language use or to the world as it exists are Darwinian volunteers for extinction whether they know it or not.
I am old enough to remember being told a woman could never deliver the mail because it was "postman", and therefore a gendered occupation outside women's capacity.
If you can say "mail carrier" you can figure out they/them. And if you say you can't, you mean you won't.
Rep. Jamie Raskin & Sen. Richard Blumenthal have intro’d legislation to enforce the Constitution's explicit language banning foreign #emoluments by prohibiting the President, VP, Cabinet officials and Members of Congress from accepting payments from foreign governments without first obtaining the consent of Congress.
Officials would be prohibited from accepting foreign payments without Congressional approval during the entire time in office and for two years after leaving.
An elderly resident who moved to our rural town asked me if it was true that potato beetles from the farm next door crawled into your ears at night and ate your brain. I said "Only if you're Mrs Potato Head, otherwise your brain is safe."
Media coverage of Republicans stampeding to NYC to attack Trump's trial as illegit is marred by euphemism. This isn't just "currying favor" w Trump or "expressing loyalty" or auditioning to be his VP. It's placing Trump over rule of law
Rs are attacking judge, witnesses, prosecutors & trial as illegitimate. This isn't just helping Trump evade the gag order. The point is also to display in spectacle form that their fealty is to him over the rules that make the system function
@GottaLaff The spectacle, the disruption, is the entertainment, it's the point. Entertainment meant to amuse, anger, rally, foment, distract...so lies are the feature. Trump was a moderately successful actor, even as he was a terrible failure as a businessman. He was successful as an illusionist for tv, which is where he honed is abilities to create a fictional character, and sell it to fans.
My question about his narrative for his criminal case is this: if his made-for-tv storyline is that he is the innocent victim, how does Mr "I only hire the best" (tagline) explain why he, for decades, continually hired, employed, praised, promoted, retained, and $2 Million severanced -- and repeatedly surrounded himself with -- convicted felons and perjurers like Allen Weiselberg and Michael Cohen?
The entertainment storyline we're now supposed to follow is that the ONLY CLUELESS man is spectacular business genius Trump?
These rotten apples (including convicted perjurer and felon Weisselberg whom Trump recently awarded a $2,000,000 severance for valuable services rendered) do not fall far from the rotted tree.
It's so weird that we are all supposed to be ashamed for burping and farting. I deeply apologize to everyone for keeping my body from literally exploding, so uncouth.
@RickiTarr After a nice dinner on my nephew's first date with a woman he really really liked, he suddenly had severe gastric distress while in her tiny apartment with thin walls. He urgently used her bathroom and was in there for a long long time making horrible diarrhea noise, and smelling up the joint. When he emerged he was terribly embarrassed, and she was like "??? You okay???" He thought, "She'll never go out with me, again." He told this story at their wedding reception. They now have two girls.
@DrALJONES Wow. Your bio claims you are "fact based", yet you cite as proof for an inflammatory assertion an "analysis" by Elijah Magnier who also asserted the the "US dragged Russia" into a war in Ukraine, Ukraine is choosing war because it has refused a "Russian Peace Plan" which required it to abandon any plan to seek NATO membership "in exchange for a tank withdrawal around Kiev and some armaments" ie Capitulation to a Fascist Aggressor Invader of a sovereign nation, and the same journo who praised the "Imma Dictator Day One" Trump.
By being true to our shared commitment to democracy and justice and the protection of the vulnerable, abroad and at home.
I voted for Obama in 2008 despite his opposition to marriage equity, because I believed in his core progressive principles.
Joe Biden was the reason the politician Obama became the moral human Obama and supported marriage equity.
We are all imperfect beings, who need to be reminded that while we cannot allow the perfect to be the enemy of the good, we must still strive our best to do good. The starving people of Gaza deserve our best.
I, too, will vote for Joe. As an American President, the GOP alternative is catastrophic for Gazans and Americans, Joe is our (and their) best hope.
@AnOldGuy That's a surprisingly Trumpy thing to say.
I have no idea of your intent, but to suggest female attractiveness or lack of attractiveness to men is the cause or defense of rape is offensive.
Bedridden elderly women are raped, for example, because rape is not romance but a brutal violent act of power and domination, in some cases by nursing home staff or caregivers.
It's not funny.
It's why women feel safer risking their lives alone with a feral bear than with a random man. Bears have raped Zero women, and killed only six women in the last 4 years in the US. Odds for safety favor the bear.
If I have misunderstood your point, I apologize, but this post doesn't read well to me.