NBC News has confirmed that part of Trump's legal team met with special counsel Jack Smith and others at Justice Department headquarters in Washington on Monday, according to a person familiar with the matter. Three of Trump's lawyers — James Trusty, John Rowley and Lindsey Halligan — were at the Justice Department and met with the group of Justice Department officials, which included at least one other career prosecutor; the meeting did not include Attorney General Merrick Garland or Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco. Trump's team was first spotted by CBS News and then was seen emerging from the building just before noon.
Tuesday, June 06, 2023
Don't See How Donnie Two Scoops Wriggles Out Of This One
Maggie will keep writing around it, at least!
Monday, June 05, 2023
Death Is, Like, A Big Deal, Man
Fleshing this out a bit, I'm not saying it seems (to me) that people were less likely to cheer on cops murdering black people or vigilante justice or bombing the shit out of Those People Over There. Support for racist violence, as an example, is clearly nothing new.
It is more just a breezy dismissal, that deaths barely even matter. When Jordan Neely was killed on the subway, his death was largely abstract. The usual assholes thought he deserved it, but also his death was discussed as if it was a plot point in a story, or more fodder for an ongoing debate.
A person died!
The Moderate Chair
Haley is aiming for Sensible Centrist support.
Nikki Haley discussing trans girls in kids sports: "How are we supposed to get our girls used to the fact that biological boys are in their locker room. And then we wonder why a third of our teenage girls seriously contemplated suicide last year." pic.twitter.com/rA2lD06yVe
— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) June 5, 2023
Wow The People Who Hate CNN Hate It For The Reasons Conservatives Hate It
Gotta cater to the people who hate us most.
Seamless
How do people get labeled as "free speech advocates" when they are banning books and restrictng what happens in schools and universities?
How do we shift from "censorius lefties are demanding the n-word be removed from your favorite 1920s children's book" to "ban everything with gay people in it" without missing a beat?
This isn't about "hypocrisy" which is a separate concept. It is about reporters typing up the agendas-as-claimed instead of the agendas as they obviously are.
It is about laundering bullshit through our heroic journalists who are always eager to do it.
Sunday, June 04, 2023
Free Spech Discourse
Summed up succinctly if inadvertently.
She [Noem] wants the public colleges, which collectively enroll more than 33,600 students, to enact rules fortifying free speech while also banning drag performances on their campuses and references to preferred pronouns.
You Only Get One Go
This a purely vibes-based observation, but while I don't think Americans have become more cruel, precisely, I do have a sense (maybe wrong!) that there is just less recognition that people dying is actually quite tragic. Whether it's mass shootings, cop shootings, car accidents, covid deaths, whatever, just that someone dying is actually a big deal seems to have been lost.
Yes, I said, just vibes here.
Yes, I said, just vibes here.
Gotta Get More Republican
People think this piece by longtime conservative journalist Tim Alberta about CNN is scathing, but really it just misses the point that Licht was told to "make it more right wing" and there's no way to implement that without going full Fox.
There's already a Fox and also Newsmax.
The belief that CNN (Communist News Network) was alienating Real America by being too left wing was always ridiculous, but that hasn't stopped it being a constant belief not just of right wing operatives (like Alberta, who even as he is "scathing" of the current leadership also basically agrees with its given task), but of all those political journalists who never watch either but who believe, because their friends tell them, that "Fox is a bit right wing just like CNN is a bit left wing, The Same."
But, anyway, all this talk about CNN gives the whole thing too much credit. The new bosses want a MAGA network. There are already MAGA networks. There isn't actually a left wing network. Who do you think your viewers are?
There's already a Fox and also Newsmax.
The belief that CNN (Communist News Network) was alienating Real America by being too left wing was always ridiculous, but that hasn't stopped it being a constant belief not just of right wing operatives (like Alberta, who even as he is "scathing" of the current leadership also basically agrees with its given task), but of all those political journalists who never watch either but who believe, because their friends tell them, that "Fox is a bit right wing just like CNN is a bit left wing, The Same."
But, anyway, all this talk about CNN gives the whole thing too much credit. The new bosses want a MAGA network. There are already MAGA networks. There isn't actually a left wing network. Who do you think your viewers are?
I guarantee Alberta went in this to write about how brilliant the whole idea was, but had to shift gears when faced with the shitshow and ratings drop. He believed in the mission, as he said!Feel like I'm going insane with this CNN story. Licht's "theory" of CNN was and is "my bosses John Malone and David Zaslav want it to be a right-wing network now and I am doing that, as instructed"
— big whoop (@leftafire) June 4, 2023
I felt for Licht. Having spent long stretches of the past year in conversation with him as he attempted to build “the new CNN,” I often found myself agreeing with his principles of journalism.This was supposed to be a glowing profile. The Man Who Saved CNN (from what? who knows). It just couldn't survive contact with reality.
The truth is there aren't any "lefties" - defined as not simply being Republican-skeptical, but actually presenting any sort of left wing policy perspective - on cable news with daily slots (some weekenders sometimes) except for Chris Hayes. The rest of the cable news "lefties" are Never Trumpers, normie Democrats, and journalists who actual cover what Republicans are doing at "best."
That "no one" in DC journalism seems to be aware of this unarguable fact is interesting!!! And it's basically been true, give or take, for decades!
Saturday, June 03, 2023
Just Asking Qweschins (Then Running Away)
I'm not aware of everything so of course I could've missed it, but one way for the "JUST ASKING QWESCHINS BECAUSE I AM SO CONCERNED FOR THE CHILDREN" crowd to justify themselves is to make the slightest effort to pretend to think this might not be good and well...
Friday, June 02, 2023
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