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Jennifer Steets's avatar

Todays NPR interview (Feb 18) you made great points. Thank you - please keep it up!

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Matt Colbert's avatar

It's a useful exercise to imagine what precipitating event could cause the press to wake up.

Will there be a Charlottesville rally 2.0? How many more Heather Heyers will die?

Will there be a market crash brought on by disastrous trade policy, by a technical default, or something else?

Another bungled pandemic response as the US has left the WHO, diminished the NIH and CDC, with RFK Jr as HHS secretary?

Unfortunately, it seems that for the press to wake up, many people are going to have to suffer dearly first. It is an extremely regrettable situation.

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Margaret J Park, M.Div. Writer's avatar

It was a very good wrap-up of a very bad week. It seems the "recommend" link is dead.

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Nevin Oliphant's avatar

The big picture really begins with the supreme Court's failure to enforce the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. Everything that has been blocked by lower courts will make its way to the supreme Court and, regardless of what the media reports, it will be up to the unelected supreme Court to defend the Constitution. https://nevinhoraceoliphant.substack.com/p/our-constitutional-republic?r=3sr22y

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The Celga's avatar

You’re mentally ill

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Mommadillo's avatar

At some point you have to start thinking this is what people want. Not all of them, of course - but enough. If there’s an alternative more people want, nobody seems to be offering it.

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Steven McCrary's avatar

I must disagree in part on this. Trump told everyone in the USA what he was about. There are many who were tantalized by the possibility of the idea of a strong daddy figure and inevitably bought it.

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Redline's avatar

Hey will, how do you feel about Trump becoming EVEN MORE popular with the latest poll from CBS?

https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1888704987745730745

You are fucked. Enjoy the gulag, will.

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RR El Salvadoran Cellmate's avatar

"Even if Trump had half the powers that Musk is claiming to exercise, he cannot assign them to Musk, for Musk to use on his own while Trump golfs. The United States doesn’t allow the president to deputize another, even-more-powerful president."

Will, this is logically incoherent.

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RR El Salvadoran Cellmate's avatar

"Even if Trump had half the powers that Musk is claiming to exercise, he cannot assign them to Musk, for Musk to use on his own while Trump golfs. The United States doesn’t allow the president to deputize another, even-more-powerful president."

Will, this is logically incoherent.

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