The last time was awful, but now that seems a mere dress rehearsal. From a public health crisis to the end of Nato, the threats are clear, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
Yep, it will be up to 5 republicans in the house to save anything, ACA, IRA, Medicaid, etc. Our only hope is that they remember the blue wave rebuke of Trump in 2018 and choose to be moderate. But they can easily flip the coin the other way and know this is the end times and they need to ram through all the terrible shit fast.
Here comes? They never stopped! And they worked overtime framing everything Harris needed to be perfect, then cover Trump talking just word salad and writing a positive interpretation of what they thought he meant by it.
You're right, that was my last shred of light hearted banter regarding the shift that about to happen. It's all downhill from here, but good news is that after this is all said and done I'm sure democrats will be right there to state the obvious after the fact. Always a day late and a dollar short.
And all of the corporate news execs are elated because for the next 4 years they don't have to worry about running out of news; because they think they're safe.
They're just going to reshape in his image. Kowtow. Then, what you think is news and what you need to hear won't be on any network. Many of the same people may still be there. They just won't be saying the things they used to say and will be trying to sound like the winning side, and that they were always there. Showing that they never had any backbone to begin with.
No, the uber-wealthy who control the media - among extreme influence over most other things through their financial sway - have been doing most of the damage for at least a few decades now. It's a story repeated throughout history.