All purpose news and politics thread part VI: This Is Not The Time For Posing

[Tami]

How white journalists fail in their coverage of Vice President Kamala Harris

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed last week, columnist Peggy Noonan attempted to make the argument that Vice President Kamala Harris is unprepared for, and unserious about, her job.

She was deservedly dragged online.

Noonan deployed tropes frequently used against Black women to depict the first nonwhite, female vice president as unstudious, overly ambitious and too friendly for the role.

“People would be relieved to see you look chastened,” Noonan wrote, adding her belief that Harris has “a lot to be humble about.” She also downplayed the racism and sexism Harris has faced while in office. “A competent politician doesn’t blame bigotry but beats it,” Noonan wrote.

Noonan snidely criticized Harris for saying she wanted to explore the systemic issues fueling America’s immigration challenges.

“Studying ‘root causes’ is a way of saying you want to look busy while you do nothing,” she wrote.

Suggesting a Black person is lazy while you encourage them to do less work is remarkable evidence of cognitive dissonance.

[Zauriel]

This breaking from NBC news. A Federal judge tosses Trump Lawsuit to stop his taxes from being turned over to Congress.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...s-his-n1285973

The judge did also say that Trump has 14 days to file an appeal which I am sure he will do.

Tax fraud is the least of Trump's crimes. But then Al Capone was convicted of tax evasion.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/14/n...d-inquiry.html

[Robotman]

This breaking from NBC news. A Federal judge tosses Trump Lawsuit to stop his taxes from being turned over to Congress.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...s-his-n1285973

The judge did also say that Trump has 14 days to file an appeal which I am sure he will do.

He’ll file an appeal, this will just keep going and nothing will come of it.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

How white journalists fail in their coverage of Vice President Kamala Harris

Bigots like Noonan have no idea how to cover a black woman in the second most powerful position in the country, so yeah, they fall back on the old racist tropes they feel most comfortable with. Revolting.

[kidfresh512]

Fox News hosts blast House committee for releasing their Jan. 6 text messages to Meadows

Fox News hosts Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham lashed out at the Jan. 6 committee Tuesday night for releasing text messages they sent to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows during the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The messages — provided to the committee by Meadows and read aloud Monday evening by Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., during a committee meeting — showed that at least three Fox News hosts were urging Meadows to get President Donald Trump to call off the rioters and end the violence on Jan. 6.

Hannity said Tuesday that a message asking whether Trump could "make a statement asking people to leave the Capitol" was "one of" the texts he sent to Meadows. But he focused his criticism on what he described as the committee’s partisan work, and he said the release of his texts was an invasion of privacy.

“I am an honest, straightforward person. I say the same thing in private that I say to all of you. Liz Cheney knows this. She doesn’t seem to care. She’s interested in one thing and one thing only — smearing Donald Trump and purging him from the party,” Hannity said.

This dude legit tried to say he is honest....

I'm surprised they addressed it at all though. Their viewers don't care if they are two faced liars and are exposed as such. Nothing ever happens to them. But, using it as another tool to bash Cheney as a "traitor" and disloyal works for the agenda I guess.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Fox News hosts blast House committee for releasing their Jan. 6 text messages to Meadows






This dude legit tried to say he is honest....

I'm surprised they addressed it at all though. Their viewers don't care if they are two faced liars and are exposed as such. Nothing ever happens to them. But, using it as another tool to bash Cheney as a "traitor" and disloyal works for the agenda I guess.

Hamhocks and Ignoramus got caught with their pants down, so lashing out at Cheney and the commission was the only card they had to play. But, yeah, I wonder why they bothered because their viewers don't give a damn.

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Bigots like Noonan have no idea how to cover a black woman in the second most powerful position in the country, so yeah, they fall back on the old racist tropes they feel most comfortable with. Revolting.

It's so bigoted not to give someone a free pass because of skin color.

[Tami]

The military-intelligence veterans who helped lead Trump’s campaign of disinformation

After Donald Trump lost the White House, ex-National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and three other current and former U.S. Army officers challenged the vote’s legitimacy and pushed baseless conspiracy claims. Military ethicists say their actions threaten to weaken the public’s faith in democracy.

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We shouldn't have a debt limit. The debt has already been incurred (including programs approved during the Trump administration for which the bill is coming due), and so the current limit has to be raised to pay it off. That's all the debt limit is - a limit on the country's ability to pay its existing debt. Naturally, if that limit is less that the actual amount that is due, then the USA goes into default. That would cause Treasury Bond ratings to drop, resulting in those bonds' having to pay out higher interest rates from now on, and consequently inflation would take a huge jump upward. Increasing the debt limit just staves off a major blow to the economy, but the GOP portrays it to their base as "more new Government spending", which it isn't. The debt limit needs to be abolished once and for all - the country should just make its debt payments every time they come due, without the need for special legislation to enable it - but as long as the Republican Party can use a misrepresentation of what it is as a propaganda tool, then we shall go through this game of "chicken" in the weeks leading up to each payment date.

The debt limit is simply a measure to keep the Government acting like an Adult with a credit card i.e. being aware that money has to come from someplace in the real world. Otherwise things like inflation and payment failures sneak up on you. Even Socialist hand waving over the current inflation isn't able to wish away the fact that the world economy is still a bounded system where bills come due. The bonds that you speak of are held by real people wanting real values.

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Hamhocks and Ignoramus got caught with their pants down, so lashing out at Cheney and the commission was the only card they had to play. But, yeah, I wonder why they bothered because their viewers don't give a damn.

Where is the lie exactly? They may have wanted to pull things back and where concerned about the optics to fence sitters but essentially they know it was was the right thing to do to stop the steal.

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The military-intelligence veterans who helped lead Trump’s campaign of disinformation

America’s trust in its military is somewhat eroded,” said Herbert. “But when those conspiracies contend that the current government of the United States is illegitimate, those primal fears of a standing army ready to turn its guns inward and topple our government are justifiably awakened. In short, these people are doing great harm to the legitimacy and efficacy of our military.”

And if it is NOT untrue or partly true should the legitimacy question NOT be raised - Putting institutions before the principles they are based on is one of the definitions of fascism. This is the same cant of blue liners about undermining confidence in the cops because of cops we don't approve of. That and you got to laugh at the oxymoronic "military ethicist" designation. I guess the Left is happy to have some people with guns.

[shooshoomanjoe]

And if it is NOT untrue or partly true should the legitimacy question NOT be raised - Putting institutions before the principles they are based on is one of the definitions of fascism. This is the same cant of blue liners about undermining confidence in the cops because of cops we don't approve of. That and you got to laugh at the oxymoronic "military ethicist" designation. I guess the Left is happy to have some people with guns.

It's over a year since President Biden won the election and the right still believes it was stolen despite no proof. There needs to be a way to get the right grounded in reality again.

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It's over a year since President Biden won the election and the right still believes it was stolen despite no proof. There needs to be a way to get the right grounded in reality again.

Maybe when the companies that sell the voting machines win their multi-million dollar law suits against the people who have been falsely claiming that the machines switched votes or were hacked or otherwise led to an inaccurate vote count, then those people will be a lot less likely to continue spreading claims of "fraud" with no evidence of it.

[babyblob]

Maybe when the companies that sell the voting machines win their multi-million dollar law suits against the people who have been falsely claiming that the machines switched votes or were hacked or otherwise led to an inaccurate vote count, then those people will be a lot less likely to continue spreading claims of "fraud" with no evidence of it.

Nope that wont work. it will all be a set up by the courts and all that garbage. You can hit these idiots in the head over and over again with facts and they will still ignore them. Either because at this point it is their pride or they are brain washed or they are just too stupid. I am not sure.

I mean Hell look at all the tornados we just had, destroyed huge parts of Kentucky. near 70 degrees in Cincy this week and f3 Tornados in KY in December but no Climate Change is not real.

[Tami]

An Instacart driver saw an elderly couple’s ‘thin blue line’ flag. So she ran over their groceries, police say.

When an Instacart driver arrived at an elderly Minnesota couple’s home last week, they expected to open the door to groceries. Instead, they found their order strewn about the driveway and a note tucked in the Christmas wreath on their front door.

It denounced law enforcement as “police pigs” and told the couple to “find another slave.”

After reading the note, the couple looked toward the scattered groceries and realized the woman had run over them with her car.

Blaine Police Chief Brian Podany gave those details of the Dec. 6 incident at a news conference. Podany said the 36-year-old driver appears to have been upset by a sign in the couple’s front yard praising his officers. The sign read, “THANK YOU BLAINE P.D.,” the “o” replaced by a heart filled with the “thin blue line” flag. The flag is viewed by some as simply a sign of support for law enforcement, while others see it as a rebuke of the Black Lives Matter movement.