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Get fucked, D. Earl Stephens. Biden normalized it by appointing this Grand Fuckhead. I never voted for Merrick fucking Garland so you can stop blaming me and other voters for "normalizing" anything when all we're doing is noticing patterns and responding to them accordingly. We've had thirty fucking years of the national Democratic party normalizing getting absolutely reamed by the Republicans and mostly just bending over and taking it, so seriously stuff it. We didn't normalize it, the lawmakers, judges, and executives normalized it, we're just taking notice and aren'tquiet about it.
He's right, we're not a serious country. Prior to this, we had Salt Typhoon where Chinese hackers infiltrated all the communications government backdoors that our communications companies have made for law enforcement. Despite the literal actually happening evidence that backdoors are a bad idea, the FBI still wants backdoors into our chats. He can stop kidding himself about it, we're currently the least serious country on the planet, especially in regards to National Security. Trump selling secrets is honestly the least of our concerns.
Uhm, they always owed us the damn truth Jesus Christ.
I feel like D. Earl Stephens just realized how fucked we are.
that first quote of yours pretty much encapsulates his.... remarkable lack of PAYING THE FUCK ATTENTION.
People have been raising the alarm. People have been begging, praying, demanding that Trump face consequences. Garland, Biden. most the centrist DNC's that are too scared of appearing sane. They're all complicit, not because of their actions, but their inaction. Yes, there were challenges. yes. Cannon deserves a special place in hell. Yes, Trump has the SCROTUS on his side.
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And lets be increasingly clear about who the fuck normalized this trumpian shit-dip we've found ourselves in. journalists. Especially mainstream journalists. who refused to express just how fucked up the lot of this is was, sane washed his every tweet; and refused to give equal airtime to their political opponents; or held dems to task for the most quibbling little detail they could find.
Not so much the journalists, but the editors. Journalist can write an article with every scathing detail left in and it won't get published if the editor says 'tone down your language'.
and they tone down the language. or they never have it in to begin with.
but you can not-sane-wash and still keep it fairly "journalistic". you just have to be honest. How many news anchors saw what was happening live, were shocked and horrified and the next week it wen from 'riots' and 'insurrection' to "protest"?
Well yeah. Their choice is to either give in to the editor's/owners demand that the language change or they don't have a job anymore. I'm not saying the phenomenon you describe isn't real. Just hold the appropriate people responsible and it is the editors setting the agenda, not the journalists 99% of the time.
Sorry. He compromised as a journalist and helped normalize the shitheal. He’s part of the reason why people laughed and refused to believe that Trump was spouting Nazis rhetoric practically cloned from the Nuremberg address in 2016.
And this asshole in particular thinks it’s my fault?
I’ve been calling trump out for being a Nazis- and journalists and editors collectively ignored the signs that were sitting right there in front of everyone.
You’re right. He could have lost his job.
Booohooo. Millions of Americans have died as a direct result of trump’s presidency. A president journalists everywhere helped normalize.
You don’t get to pass that buck.
Yeah, but gaza!
/s because people can't tell
Yep, same with all the other surveillance stuff they passed over the years. Now they're being all panicky about Trump having access to this entire surveillance apparatus, and all we can say is: we told you motherfuckers this would happen, and you voted for it anyway.
Yeah, never trust anyone whose name starts with an initial! Except for H. Jon Benjamin, of course.
You're spot on about the rest too, btw ✊
I'll remind you that he did a series of commercials for Arby's.
I can forgive that because he's put his money where his mouth is for a lot of progressive politics. You can find him in lots of places where right-wing shitfuckery is being deconstructed, like when he played Saddam Hussein on the BLOWBACK podcast about the horrors of the Iraq war and how it came to be. Or when he backed Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All bill and explained it in a series of YouTube videos.
Everyone needs a paycheck, and getting paid doesn't invalidate the other work they do.
(Also H. Jon Benjamin and Sam Seder go way back to the Home Movies days.)