Lipless?
Like Kenneth Branaugh?
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As I’ve mentioned a couple of times before. I don’t watch network or cable news anymore. I finally gave up on MSNBC about 5 years ago. Inevitably, folks in the news media are drawn toward those in power or whoever they perceive to be advancing to power regardless of whether or not these people have anything important to say or not. There’s a lot of bet hedging going on. MTG already has a modicum of power thanks to Kev, and she just might be the veep nominee so she needs to be listened to and access must be maintained.
ETA. There’s a type of logic (circular?) in the news media. These people are in power, so whatever they say must be important and valuable and the reason they’re in power must be because they have important and valuable ideas to contribute.
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I’m all but certain it’s a coincidence, but it’s interesting how close his indictment came to when he held a rally to memorialize the vile and thoroughly execrable, anti-government cult leader David Koresh in Waco, TX.
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Bill Barr isn’t just an April Fool. He’s one the rest of the year, too. Rule of law sound familiar at all, Barr?
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Wait. Does that mean it’s not going to be Tacopina Tuesday? And I was going to be at my favorite food truck to celebrate…
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There is still some value to this kind of dog and pony show if the interviewers are committing any actual journalism, asking questions that pin down the subject to statements that can’t be denied later on. I’m wondering for example if Stahl asked MTG what her position on abortion is, or support for Ukraine, or gay marriage. It’s a total puff piece if that’s ignored.
It would be hilarious if Stahl asked MTG what she thinks about expanding the NATO alliance, plans for the defense of Taiwan, or the status of our strategic nuclear triad, just to see the gears in MTG’s head cranking furiously to come up with an answer for something she’s completely unprepared to talk about. But I doubt Stahl will go that far.
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We have Tacopina trucks all over Tucson.
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This!
https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1642142289438068737?s=20
ETA: From the piece
Many are taking the position that any charges against Trump (who has denied wrongdoing) should be seen as presumptively illegitimate no matter the counts against Trump or the facts that underlie them.
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And yet, this guy is the odds on favorite to once again win the Republican nomination. Yikes!
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This is a problem for Donnie to explain away.
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What I speculate might happen is MTG tripping herself up in spite of Stahl’s attempts to “rescue” her.
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Come November 2024 GOPers will be voting (potentially) for a criminal. They should remember that. Of course I am assuming trump survives the primary season as the GOPers selection. In any case I can now say that trump has been criminally indicted. He is a criminal.
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No he isn’t, not under our system of justice. He’s presumed innocent before trial, just like you and I would be. Even an indictment still carries that presumption; it says he may be guilty of a crime. It doesn’t make him a criminal.
Use that label if you want, but personally I’m going to avoid it until he’s convicted and loses all his appeals. Then he’s a criminal. I doubt he’ll achieve that status before November 2024, but it’s possible if one of the pending trials moves quickly enough.
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If you talk to people who have known Trump for a while, they all say Donnie has one emotion: Rage.
Donnie just found a way to channel the rage of weak, stupid white people.
And the rest of the craven R’s just went along for the ride.
Now, they’re stuck with the bastard.
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I think that’s exactly right. If he goes down he will blame them for not having done enough to fight for him and to protect him. Ultimately, he will blame Republicans more than he blames Democrats. That was how this was always going to go for them.
LLLOL I didn’t even notice the white hand. I couldn’t get past the horrible impression of Freeman’s voice. I think I can do a better Morgan Freeman.
They booed John Lewis. I will never forgive them for that.
I’m not surprised that a few hosts are having these discussions, especially Andrea Mitchell, Chuck Todd, and Katie Tur who are all quite awful, but how does that damn the entire network? The flip side of this is suggesting that Fox is indeed fair and balanced because some of their daytime hosts didn’t push the big lie. Also, to me, a discussion about whether or not voters might feel sorry for Trump is neither liberal nor conservative. It’s less about pushing out a view and more about discussing a contrarian position. It’s incredibly unlikely that most Americans will feel bad for him, but then I never thought so many women would feel bad for Brett Kavanaugh.
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He doth protest too much–perhaps because he might be next, at the federal level, for obstructing justice and engaging in conspiracies to do same? Collectively all of these investigations are going to entangle lots of people beyond Trump, as indictees or as witnesses, and they’re naturally going to find common cause and put aside whatever differences or animosities they have and circle their wagons. Barr has hedged against Trump in the past but here he probably senses that he’s wiser to take his side. They’re all going to either hang together or hang separately, as the saying goes. Or so they think. In the end many will end up hanging, metaphorically of course, the only question being which ones, and whether it’ll include Trump.
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Yah, you’re right of course. My personal hatred of tfg got in the way. My feelings are more personal than political with trump. He is everything my dad taught me NOT to be as a man. His incompetent nature led to 3 elderly family of mine to get very ill with covid. 800,000 died on his watch and he cared only for himself. For more than 4 decades i have thought no president could be as corrupt and evil as Nixon. I was wrong. trump is waaaay worse.
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Danger! Slippery slope!
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