I am 100% certain that some of the usual big names in journalism are already preparing books admitting "everyone knew" that Trump was suffering from dementia and governing by irrational impulse. They'll all want to be seen as in the know—but only after they no longer need access to his admin.
As I said earlier, at this point I have to suspect journos are in on efforts to cover up Trump's deranged state. A 'you can't tell the truth, the country can't handle it' deal between admin insiders & WH journos. They'll let us in on it only after he's gone.
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bring back shame
Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):
NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2
2 days ago.
So it's 100% clear at this point that Trump's Friday announcement of an Iran deal was made up. He either hallucinated the whole thing—likely!—or it was an intentional lie to manipulate markets.
There's been zero outrage over it, and no discussions of fitness. Huh.
(It also may be an outgrowth of the pure hucksterism now infecting Silicon Valley and other elite centers. Brazenly lying in order to scam unwitting investors is one of the top 'growth' schemes out there right now.)
And it keeps escalating: we've seen SCOTUS justices glibly lie about the facts of cases—things that are easily checked!
I think it's an outgrowth of 'debate me bro' culture; a premise that nothing is ever really true or false and that reality itself hinges on who shouts the loudest.
There's this now-entrenched conservative belief that lies are just as good as truth, should be treated with the same respect, and that liars must not face consequences. Climate, vaccines, etc. They say you're 'discriminating' against them if you call out the falsehoods.
So is there just never going to be a point where people get alarmed by a sitting POTUS making up nonsense on an hour-by-hour basis.
I'll presume this is for stock market manipulation, but I really don't think shipping companies are going to be rushing into the strait based on the frequently-delusional habitual liar's say-so.
Clarence Thomas hitching his movement to a manslut seditionist rapist while whining that Trump's _opponents_ lack commitment to "righteousness" and "morality" and "piety" is, if possible, even more embarrassing than JD Vance explaining Catholicism to the Pope. Buddy ... look around?
Cons like Thomas used to try to project faux-dignity, presumably b'c they felt it was needed if they were going to convince the public they were serious people. That's looooong gone, and I don't know if it's b/c they no longer have the _ability_ to pretend at it—or just don't think they need to.
Genuinely funny that Sonia Sotomayor issued a public apology today for her mild criticism of a conservative colleague on a specific, substantive issue, and then a few hours later Clarence Thomas picked up a mic and was like ALL LIBERALS ARE AMERICA-HATING COWARDS
It's not clear what Trump's "blockade" entails or how China, in specific, will react, but Wall Street remains convinced that none of this could possibly be a problem.
My hypothesis, re: 'sending shares soaring,' is that everyone who trades stocks is on so much cocaine that they think they're interstellar spice pirates.
Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.
I have seen today's viral story and honestly my biggest question: What is a "prestigious" crematorium. How do you get "prestige," in the crematorium industry. Are there crematorium awards, like the Oscars but for burning corpses really good.
Little did I know, in my coding career, that the path to wealth was to write indecipherable code and, when asked, claim the errors proved the computer was dreaming.
"Why does the search function claim the first pope was a hedgehog named Sonic."
"Aw, how cute. It must be sentient now."
You guys what if an asteroid hits Earth but instead of rock it's filled with adorable puppies, is the Fed pricing that in or are they jerks.
I do admit that to tech billionaires, "what if you had an underling that didn't know how to do their job but brownnosed you at every opportunity" probably does seem like a breakthrough in computer "intelligence." Wow, it's so lifelike, etc.
The tech companies abandoned their climate pledges because they all agreed that shoving this product into your every orifice is more important.
Normally I'd say Do What You Want but all the important ppl in a society getting face surgery TO LOOK LIKE EACH OTHER is Russian novelist stuff.
I know this is a delicate area but I am _alarmed_ by this trend of rich people getting surgery to intentionally look fake & fishlike—like a boardwalk artist's caricature of themselves.
Is this rich ppl's attempt to pretend they're a different species than the rest of us? Dystopian and weird.
You know what would also help her afford her husband's cancer treatments? UNIVERSAL FUCKING HEALTH CARE JESUS FUCKING CHRIST HOW IS THIS GODDAMN COUNTRY STILL LIKE THIS MAYBE GRANDMA SHOULDN"T HAVE TO DELIVER FOOD LIKE A TEENAGER IF WE HAD A DECENT FUCKING SOCIETY!!!!!!!!!!
burn it all down.
We call it the Cheeseburger Prophecy.
This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist
