Well reported. I agree that “Trump’s racism is a driving force in everything he does and failing to explain that to readers and viewers is a disservice.” The failure to emphasize and continuously report on his racist and misogynistic campaign against Vice President Harris remains a glaring hole in election coverage, particularly the obsession of nearly every commentator, including those outside of corporate media with those who voted for Trump because of “the economy” or listening to Joe Rogen is sickening. Harris, despite her qualifications and presence and ideas to help small businesses and first time homeowners, lost because she was a mixed race woman. The MAGAs are going to live in the hell of their own making….too bad the rest of us are on the same doomed course.
Actually, there seems to be increasing evidence that she didn't actually lose. Apparently there have been some serious anomalies in vote tallies documented in Pennsylvania, and even in one upstate New York district.
Aside from that, there's no question Trumpkopf and his MAGAnut cult attacked her for being a mixed race woman, and that almost certainly had an effect on the outcome.
It's abhorrent and shocking that a US president would treat the leader of an allied country that way. It's abhorrent and shocking that our president, who has access to the most up-to-date and reliable intelligence and statistics of anyone in the world, gets his information from anonymous trolls and bases policy on that garbage. It's abhorrent and shocking that he spews racist conspiracy theories the way he's been doing constantly since kicking off his presidential campaign in 2015. And it's abhorrent and shocking that the media is more focused on the fact that nobody told them two years ago that if Joe Biden had a bad fall, he might need a wheelchair.
Didn’t Joe Biden fall off his bicycle during his presidency? He was a very active man, exercising, probably eating a healthy diet, etc., and he didn’t need a wheelchair after that fall. I wasn’t his biggest fan, but he did a lot of good things.
Trump is a senile old man, who honestly couldn't tell if a photoshopped gang tattoo was fake, earlier this month. That he believed made-up RW Fake News "articles" on this supposed genocide to be legit, is just further proof of his cognitive decrepitude. His implicit racism is considered an asset by the GOP Base; not a liability.
But RW Media led by FOX News--and now unfortunately parroted by subdued billionaire-owned MSM outlets like WaPo & LA Times--refuses to paint Trump as anything other than a supposed business messiah at the top of his game. Instead of an incompetent nepo baby who bankrupted casinos. The only real losers in this sad, sick scenario, are the United States and its people.
Indeed, Trump's father was a racist landlord who refused to rent apartments to Blacks. And Trump's parents also suffered from dementia, so there's also that. Trump has completely taken the brakes off in his behavior.
That Post lead is atrocious. No writer would write that unless they were flinching and looking over their shoulder; no editor would let that into print if it were about anyone else. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn it was written by multiple managers.
Again, given how people read the news, the headlines need to reflect the overt racism, and then truth-sandwich the first couple of grafs. Unfortunately, too many other media take their lead from the NYT framing, so it grows like a cancer through the media sphere.
The fecking Orange Felon was in fine fettle, treating the SA president as a decorative lawn jockey, while he went all racist white grievance. How much is actually too much for even the z-z-z-zoned out Murkan public?
I honestly think the public is reacting with utter fecklessness, not knowing what to do. Peaceful protests have not worked. Trump ignores them, as do the news media. We know what comes next, but for Americans not yet directly affected by Trump's regime, it is unthinkable. While Trump has disappeared non-citizens, arrested judges and a member of Congress, and tariffs have not yet had a major impact on the economy, people are going along to get along, telling themselves that next year the midterms will change things.
You mean >yet<. We've only just begun. Remember, it's now only 126 days. It takes time to build up the momentum to the 3.5% that we need to move the needle.
It's a great reminder of the imperative that we continue to Rise! Resist! ✊✊✊
The next nationwide rally is June 14, yes >that< June 14, be there or be square!
Let's ruin Chump's B'day. We need 3.5% or the population, or around 12,000,000 people to be present. So bring all your friends and families. Spread the word as far and wide as possible. Let's all get out there with a Howard Beale spirit and yell "We're as mad as hell, and we're not gonna take it anymore!".
One thing that confounds me is why anyone still thinks that highlighting Trump’s racism, which we’ve known about for decades, is going to hurt him politically. It doesn’t and it won’t.
I think it’s more advisable to highlight his stupidity. In this case, he shows pictures of body bags that some troll stuck in his hands, purportedly of slain white farmers, that turned out to be victims from a civil war thousands of miles from South Africa. This should be reported as a huge embarrassment—that the POTUS is such a fool that he lets himself be used by some fringe wackos without vetting it, and embarrasses our country in front of the leader of another major country.
And those weird speeches and monologues that Trump thinks he's covering up by claiming they're deliberate "weaves." The babbling about a giant faucet that would send water to Los Angeles, the "big, beautiful" Civil War battles, among many other incidents that would have sent Joe Biden to the funny farm had he uttered them,
That one was utterly weird, bizarre, strange and insane. I also read that he'd repeated the "little pieces of wood" anecdote Trump related, from a speech a couple of years ago. I keep wondering when someone is going to deal with his deteriorating mental condition. Reagan had Alzheimers in his second term, and Trump has it in his family tree. I don't think he would know what to do if we were attacked by foreign country or experienced another 9/11 style catastrophe. And he doesn't even have a staff that could keep things running and carry Trump's water.
True, but I think he actually WANTS those wacko trolls to bring him stuff that confirms his ugly and evil beliefs. He is definitely the stupidest man ever to gain so much power, but a couple of times in my life I’ve run across men who “pretended” stupidity either so they could get away with something or so their colleagues wouldn’t give them tasks they didn’t feel like doing.
I don't think that describes Trump. He really does think he's a genius despite the fact that his businesses failed and he lost $2 billion in one year due to stupid investments.
Whoever is running CBS now is so terrified of Trump that they don't dare speak truth. PBS is just as frightened, and both networks have regressed to using terms like "incorrect claims" as a euphemism for lies. But no one watching the meeting between Trump and Ramaphosa could fail to see the ugliness and the bully mentality displayed so blatantly by the openly racist president of the US.
Trump took great care this time in choosing the lackeys he surrounds himself with. None will ever speak against him.
But MSM has mostly capitulated, as in the NYTimes bland DPRK reportage of Trump's vulgar raving at West Point cadets- Onion-level of sanewashing:
President Trump told cadets in a commencement address at the United States Military Academy at West Point on Saturday that they were the first graduates to serve in a “golden age” of the nation that was a result of his efforts to rebuild the military and reshape American society.
I don’t disagree with you. Personally, when I read a headline, I ask myself “whatever in hell did they mean by that?” and then read the article or column. There are times, however, when I don’t read the article to the very end.
Well reported. I agree that “Trump’s racism is a driving force in everything he does and failing to explain that to readers and viewers is a disservice.” The failure to emphasize and continuously report on his racist and misogynistic campaign against Vice President Harris remains a glaring hole in election coverage, particularly the obsession of nearly every commentator, including those outside of corporate media with those who voted for Trump because of “the economy” or listening to Joe Rogen is sickening. Harris, despite her qualifications and presence and ideas to help small businesses and first time homeowners, lost because she was a mixed race woman. The MAGAs are going to live in the hell of their own making….too bad the rest of us are on the same doomed course.
Actually, there seems to be increasing evidence that she didn't actually lose. Apparently there have been some serious anomalies in vote tallies documented in Pennsylvania, and even in one upstate New York district.
Aside from that, there's no question Trumpkopf and his MAGAnut cult attacked her for being a mixed race woman, and that almost certainly had an effect on the outcome.
It's abhorrent and shocking that a US president would treat the leader of an allied country that way. It's abhorrent and shocking that our president, who has access to the most up-to-date and reliable intelligence and statistics of anyone in the world, gets his information from anonymous trolls and bases policy on that garbage. It's abhorrent and shocking that he spews racist conspiracy theories the way he's been doing constantly since kicking off his presidential campaign in 2015. And it's abhorrent and shocking that the media is more focused on the fact that nobody told them two years ago that if Joe Biden had a bad fall, he might need a wheelchair.
He's not my president, and he has never been my president. I utterly repudiate him.
Didn’t Joe Biden fall off his bicycle during his presidency? He was a very active man, exercising, probably eating a healthy diet, etc., and he didn’t need a wheelchair after that fall. I wasn’t his biggest fan, but he did a lot of good things.
Trump is a senile old man, who honestly couldn't tell if a photoshopped gang tattoo was fake, earlier this month. That he believed made-up RW Fake News "articles" on this supposed genocide to be legit, is just further proof of his cognitive decrepitude. His implicit racism is considered an asset by the GOP Base; not a liability.
But RW Media led by FOX News--and now unfortunately parroted by subdued billionaire-owned MSM outlets like WaPo & LA Times--refuses to paint Trump as anything other than a supposed business messiah at the top of his game. Instead of an incompetent nepo baby who bankrupted casinos. The only real losers in this sad, sick scenario, are the United States and its people.
Too generous, I'm afraid. Devout racism was baked into this man at a young age, and is unrelenting today.
Indeed, Trump's father was a racist landlord who refused to rent apartments to Blacks. And Trump's parents also suffered from dementia, so there's also that. Trump has completely taken the brakes off in his behavior.
We can never know what he truly believes because he lies about everything, and always has.
The more they avoid upsetting him, the more outrageous he becomes.
BOOM
That Post lead is atrocious. No writer would write that unless they were flinching and looking over their shoulder; no editor would let that into print if it were about anyone else. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn it was written by multiple managers.
Self-promotion alert: https://open.substack.com/pub/forgetisaidanything/p/what-our-media-need-to-do-and-stop
Either by multiple managers or AI.
Again, given how people read the news, the headlines need to reflect the overt racism, and then truth-sandwich the first couple of grafs. Unfortunately, too many other media take their lead from the NYT framing, so it grows like a cancer through the media sphere.
I think they take their lead from threats - both overt and covert - from a now truly weaponized DOJ.
The fecking Orange Felon was in fine fettle, treating the SA president as a decorative lawn jockey, while he went all racist white grievance. How much is actually too much for even the z-z-z-zoned out Murkan public?
I honestly think the public is reacting with utter fecklessness, not knowing what to do. Peaceful protests have not worked. Trump ignores them, as do the news media. We know what comes next, but for Americans not yet directly affected by Trump's regime, it is unthinkable. While Trump has disappeared non-citizens, arrested judges and a member of Congress, and tariffs have not yet had a major impact on the economy, people are going along to get along, telling themselves that next year the midterms will change things.
"Peaceful protests have not worked"
You mean >yet<. We've only just begun. Remember, it's now only 126 days. It takes time to build up the momentum to the 3.5% that we need to move the needle.
It's a great reminder of the imperative that we continue to Rise! Resist! ✊✊✊
The next nationwide rally is June 14, yes >that< June 14, be there or be square!
Let's ruin Chump's B'day. We need 3.5% or the population, or around 12,000,000 people to be present. So bring all your friends and families. Spread the word as far and wide as possible. Let's all get out there with a Howard Beale spirit and yell "We're as mad as hell, and we're not gonna take it anymore!".
https://www.nokings.org/
P.S. Stay the hell away from D.C.! Don't give him an excuse to declare martial law!
Nice use of alliteration there. The only word missing is "feckless" in front of "fecking" :D
Edit: I wrote this before reading the comment by Marycat2021 who beat me to the use of "feckless" :D
One thing that confounds me is why anyone still thinks that highlighting Trump’s racism, which we’ve known about for decades, is going to hurt him politically. It doesn’t and it won’t.
I think it’s more advisable to highlight his stupidity. In this case, he shows pictures of body bags that some troll stuck in his hands, purportedly of slain white farmers, that turned out to be victims from a civil war thousands of miles from South Africa. This should be reported as a huge embarrassment—that the POTUS is such a fool that he lets himself be used by some fringe wackos without vetting it, and embarrasses our country in front of the leader of another major country.
Do I need to say it? If any other president…
And those weird speeches and monologues that Trump thinks he's covering up by claiming they're deliberate "weaves." The babbling about a giant faucet that would send water to Los Angeles, the "big, beautiful" Civil War battles, among many other incidents that would have sent Joe Biden to the funny farm had he uttered them,
Not to mention that incoherent commencement speech at West Point. That one was really off the charts off the wall.
That one was utterly weird, bizarre, strange and insane. I also read that he'd repeated the "little pieces of wood" anecdote Trump related, from a speech a couple of years ago. I keep wondering when someone is going to deal with his deteriorating mental condition. Reagan had Alzheimers in his second term, and Trump has it in his family tree. I don't think he would know what to do if we were attacked by foreign country or experienced another 9/11 style catastrophe. And he doesn't even have a staff that could keep things running and carry Trump's water.
And this is the guy that has the nuclear "football" within three feet of him at all times. Fun stuff.
Not to mention his incoherent commencement speech at West Point. That one was off the charts off the wall.
True, but I think he actually WANTS those wacko trolls to bring him stuff that confirms his ugly and evil beliefs. He is definitely the stupidest man ever to gain so much power, but a couple of times in my life I’ve run across men who “pretended” stupidity either so they could get away with something or so their colleagues wouldn’t give them tasks they didn’t feel like doing.
I don't think that describes Trump. He really does think he's a genius despite the fact that his businesses failed and he lost $2 billion in one year due to stupid investments.
Why not highlight both? Along with all his other s**t characteristics that make him unfit for office. Highlight all of it.
Whoever is running CBS now is so terrified of Trump that they don't dare speak truth. PBS is just as frightened, and both networks have regressed to using terms like "incorrect claims" as a euphemism for lies. But no one watching the meeting between Trump and Ramaphosa could fail to see the ugliness and the bully mentality displayed so blatantly by the openly racist president of the US.
Trump took great care this time in choosing the lackeys he surrounds himself with. None will ever speak against him.
But MSM has mostly capitulated, as in the NYTimes bland DPRK reportage of Trump's vulgar raving at West Point cadets- Onion-level of sanewashing:
President Trump told cadets in a commencement address at the United States Military Academy at West Point on Saturday that they were the first graduates to serve in a “golden age” of the nation that was a result of his efforts to rebuild the military and reshape American society.
The New York Times has ceased to exist.
The fact that we’re “inching”” and not charging in with sabres says it all. We’ve grown indifferent.
How many readers get to the fourth paragraph; or even beyond the headline. That headline title is cowardly.
I don’t disagree with you. Personally, when I read a headline, I ask myself “whatever in hell did they mean by that?” and then read the article or column. There are times, however, when I don’t read the article to the very end.
I will believe it when I see it.
And what took mainstream media so long?????
Thank you, Dan!
how about “Mainstream Media begins to fail slightly less badly” instead?