President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

[TigerVols]

In before the lock. /crying profusely emoji

 

[TigerVols]

Congress passed the law to ban it. The Supreme Court ruled it constitutional. The president does not get to just wave a pen and change it. Balance of power issue.

Not unless the House wants to kiss his ass and changes the law, anyhow, and I would hope that the Senate squashes that stupid abdication of their power.

You still don't get it.
Trump doesn't need to wave his Sharpie. He just has to instruct his DoJ not to enforce the law. And then it won't. And if anyone is foolish enough to attempt to force enforcement via the courts, any number of MAGA judges will be happy to throw their case out with a laugh or more likely a sneer.
This exact process will be repeated over and over again in the next few years.

 

[MileHigh]

In before the lock. /crying profusely emoji

You still got about 48 hours.

 

[garrow]

You still don't get it.
Trump doesn't need to wave his Sharpie. He just has to instruct his DoJ not to enforce the law. And then it won't. And if anyone is foolish enough to attempt to force enforcement via the courts, any number of MAGA judges will be happy to throw their case out with a laugh or more likely a sneer.
This exact process will be repeated over and over again in the next few years.

 

[Pilot]

I'm having a really hard time with the stories about CBS News settling with Trump over the Harris 60 Minutes interview. That, along with the ABC settlement, feels like such a betrayal.

There's a "local" "news" "outlet" (each word there is independently questionable) here I've been following recently, almost exclusively on Facebook. The guy behind it had some seemingly inside stuff on a big story a few months ago and that drew me in. It's right-wing-ish, not always aggressively political but always batshirt crazy.

There's some normal stuff, photos from traffic accidents and restaurant comings and goings. "Remember when" photos of different parts of town. A ton of it is scanner traffic. When talking about suspects he doesn't use 95% of the care journalists are taught to avoid lawsuits. He injects tons of opinions about who is scum and who is trash, who deserves to be charged and who's a local hero for punching someone bad. He's aggressively personal with anyone who crosses him, dedicating series' of posts shirtting on them and their local businesses.

He created (or took over?) a Facebook group of people who didn't like him, then outed anyone who'd posted anonymously about him.

He got really fired up about women (always women) who he thought were scamming Toys For Tots, picking out toys then returning them to Walmart, and he named and shamed a bunch of them, using (and often mocking) their Facebook photos. He's cultivated lists of "slumlords" and "bad renters" and named and shamed them.

Whether or not he's cruising to get sued into oblivion, THOUSANDS of people follow this page and comment daily. He claims he clears $45,000 a year just from Facebook monetization. (I assume it's not his full-time job, but don't know that.)

These are white trash people soaking up white trash news, but it terrifies me this is the journalism of the future. Settling vendettas, going with what feels right rather than what's true, or what may take some nuanced reporting to understand. (For instance, maybe someone's returning a Toys for Tot gift to get something more appropriate for their kid, or to buy Christmas dinner. But it's way easier to assume they're returning to buy drugs or booze.)

There are way, way too many people who trust this insane asshole more than the (struggling) local newspaper. Logic, education, facts... reason, these are the targets in this war on the media and now you have organizations like CBS, ABC and even the Washington Post giving up, admitting they were "wrong" and caving in because they either are so desperate for the traffic or are so desperate to be in the administration's good graces.

It's forking depressing. I'm as scared for the country as I've ever been.

 

[Oggiedoggie]

I'm feeling a bit nostalgic for the days when large media companies put up a fierce front of being independent muckrakers while quietly selling out to the corporate interests that buttered their bread.

 

[dixiehack]

I'm amazed one of the Big 3 networks hasn't decided that broadcast news in its entirety is more trouble than it's worth. Every trend line is downdowndown, to steal a once-popular phrase. Keep the morning show, pay somebody to read the AP headlines between celebrity interviews and soft-focus gauzy bullshirt and call it a day.

 

[garrow]

For much of my life, Democrats came in to clean up colossal Republican f*ckups. They might not get the chance again.

 

[HanSenSE]

Gimme the tweet boys and grift away

In other words, it's worth as much as a Jose Canseco rookie card?

 

[Michael_ Gee]

I'm amazed one of the Big 3 networks hasn't decided that broadcast news in its entirety is more trouble than it's worth. Every trend line is downdowndown, to steal a once-popular phrase. Keep the morning show, pay somebody to read the AP headlines between celebrity interviews and soft-focus gauzy bullshirt and call it a day.

That's pretty close to a lot of days on the air now.

 

[garrow]

The Biden Presidency in 9 charts

I made my own graph that's not included

 

[Baron Scicluna]

I'm having a really hard time with the stories about CBS News settling with Trump over the Harris 60 Minutes interview. That, along with the ABC settlement, feels like such a betrayal.

There's a "local" "news" "outlet" (each word there is independently questionable) here I've been following recently, almost exclusively on Facebook. The guy behind it had some seemingly inside stuff on a big story a few months ago and that drew me in. It's right-wing-ish, not always aggressively political but always batshirt crazy.

There's some normal stuff, photos from traffic accidents and restaurant comings and goings. "Remember when" photos of different parts of town. A ton of it is scanner traffic. When talking about suspects he doesn't use 95% of the care journalists are taught to avoid lawsuits. He injects tons of opinions about who is scum and who is trash, who deserves to be charged and who's a local hero for punching someone bad. He's aggressively personal with anyone who crosses him, dedicating series' of posts shirtting on them and their local businesses.

He created (or took over?) a Facebook group of people who didn't like him, then outed anyone who'd posted anonymously about him.

He got really fired up about women (always women) who he thought were scamming Toys For Tots, picking out toys then returning them to Walmart, and he named and shamed a bunch of them, using (and often mocking) their Facebook photos. He's cultivated lists of "slumlords" and "bad renters" and named and shamed them.

Whether or not he's cruising to get sued into oblivion, THOUSANDS of people follow this page and comment daily. He claims he clears $45,000 a year just from Facebook monetization. (I assume it's not his full-time job, but don't know that.)

These are white trash people soaking up white trash news, but it terrifies me this is the journalism of the future. Settling vendettas, going with what feels right rather than what's true, or what may take some nuanced reporting to understand. (For instance, maybe someone's returning a Toys for Tot gift to get something more appropriate for their kid, or to buy Christmas dinner. But it's way easier to assume they're returning to buy drugs or booze.)

There are way, way too many people who trust this insane asshole more than the (struggling) local newspaper. Logic, education, facts... reason, these are the targets in this war on the media and now you have organizations like CBS, ABC and even the Washington Post giving up, admitting they were "wrong" and caving in because they either are so desperate for the traffic or are so desperate to be in the administration's good graces.

It's forking depressing. I'm as scared for the country as I've ever been.

From what you describe, it sounds like it's a miracle that the guy hasn't yet either been sued or beaten with a stiff club.