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[Smallpotatoes]

Officially official

BREAKING: Vivek Ramaswamy will not serve in the new Department of Government Efficiency, the White House says. Trump had selected him to lead alongside Elon Musk.

Having two people in charge of a Department of Government Efficiency never seemed very efficient to me.

 

[Deskgrunt50]

Biden's inability to do the job after the 2022 mid-terms. Ignored. By almost everyone. Full-court press coverage on Trump and Stormy Daniels, part whatever. Blithe cluelessness on Biden. The least amount of leaks of any administration ever! Eh. People knew, and didn't report. Wasn't the cool thing to do. Just like Newsweek sat on Clinton/Lewinsky.

The cools! Rolling out the greatest hits!

And it's also lazy that you try to frame an issue with the false premise and starting point that Biden's age and ability were somehow not reported. JFC. It was covered extensively. It was a daily talking point.

And is there some universe when the election interference trial of a former president paying off a porn star isn't going to be covered extensively? Hell, even Fox had to cover it.

 

[SoloFlyer]

Biden's inability to do the job after the 2022 mid-terms. Ignored. By almost everyone. Full-court press coverage on Trump and Stormy Daniels, part whatever. Blithe cluelessness on Biden. The least amount of leaks of any administration ever! Eh. People knew, and didn't report. Wasn't the cool thing to do. Just like Newsweek sat on Clinton/Lewinsky.

1. If sources aren't willing to talk, or the ones who are willing aren't actually in the know or in the room, you can't report something that sensitive without detail and context.

2. A former president/current presidential candidate being investigated/sued/prosecuted is significant news and deserves ample coverage.

Doing due diligence about sensitive information isn't having a liberal bias. It's good journalism.

 

[garrow]

Don't forget student loan forgiveness is way worse than gorging yourself on tax dollars via Secret Service room rates at the hotel you own.

 

[Alma]

Doing due diligence about sensitive information isn't having a liberal bias. It's good journalism.

Well, I don't think that's what it was, but whatever. We disagree. That's not a new development for me here.

No liberal bias, no left lean, totally politically neutral, hell your standard metro newsroom leans right. Yep. A bunch of young Republicans, right out of academia, which also leans right.

 

[Twirling Time]

It has struck 12.

Just wait till it strikes 13. #1984

 

[Twirling Time]

How's she gonna outdo her transformative "Be Best" initiative in this term?

Be Bester

 

[garrow]

GMAFB!

 

[Starman]

1938: Let's give Hitler the benefit of the doubt.

 

[Brooklyn Bridge]

Yes, appears. WTF. I hate this timeline.

 

[FileNotFound]

I watched a few minutes of the thing going on at Capital One Arena, and it was a few minutes more than I should have watched. The only thing in which I can take heart is that he really doesn't sound healthy.

 

[Dyno]

My step-grandmother lost seven siblings and I don't know how many other family members in the Holocaust. No word yet from my MAGA cousins, who also love Elmo, on today's salute.