Is this a live stream?But what happens when he shows up on the gates of the Capitol like this? Then what Nancy!
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US PoliERA 2019 |OT1| You down wit' NDP? (Yeah you know me!) Who's down wit' AOC? (This whole party!)
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Kelly trying to regain that Moderate Darling/Adult in the room cred back
Also we got our Sue back /s:
I just can't believe Carter Page is a real person. It's like some Andy Kaufman shit.
Slowly ticking closer to a world with all punditry, no journalism. Probably just the beginning as online news of any sort is really just not sustainable in the long term and it's too late for Facebook and Google to save it.
I work in the field and boy ... it's going to be hard to keep an eye on politicians in large parts of the country going forward.
I don't think there's any need to "be prepared" because nobody gives a fuck how Trump is gonna spin something anymore.
There never really has been a solid how to save journalism as we know it plan.
People like Kelly and Flake are hoping that eventually they get their party back. They just have not realized that enabling such a dumpster fire in Trump there is no party to get back.
Like, is he just flat out stupid? How does he think you pay for this education without taxes?
I mean, I don't doubt he may go for that play, I just don't think right-wing media nor his base are going to eat that up like they've eaten up everything else. The promise of the wall has turned into a kind of required milestone for his presidency, so to try and say "I didn't really mean it!!" I think will go over like a lead balloon, even with his usual supporters.
This entire situation is no fucks given by the administration. This is what happens when you let kids into the white house.
The fact that it's happening shows they're scared. They know if young people get behind it, it could be a possibility.
The big issue as well is that venture capitalists have arrived, bought up many papers and chains, merged them into behemoths and cut staff and corners to bleed these news organizations dry while extracting maximum profit for themselves and shareholders.
The venture capital groups don't intend to save journalism. They intend to milk it dry of profit and kill it when they've had their fill.
But what happens when he shows up on the gates of the Capitol like this? Then what Nancy!
Im not someone who ever worries about air travel but my parents are flying next week and I'm really not psyched about it.
It's why I think Bezos sucks in many ways, but his attitude to the WaPo isn't one of those ways. He just funds the paper and lets them do what they want - hire more staff, follow stories, whatevs. He's happy owning a piece of American history and letting it chug on.
Well, the main point of those venture capital groups is to strip mine those papers for profit. The Post is just a capstone for Bezos.
I don't believe he owns WAPO out of keeping a relic alive. Owning a news org is one of the best ways to know where all the skeletons are in everyones closets. He bought in at a great time and is a business man.
Yeah, he's made it very profitable by leveraging Amazon, selling subs on Kindles, etc.
Digital media in general is struggling (or perhaps consolidating)
Which is scary as the lack of strong media competition makes it easier for corporate propaganda to flourish — because those outlets don't need to be independently profitable if they're just seen as an investment for other interests. I say corporate but I'm including funding for right wing culture warring that is seen as an indirect way to push back against progressive economic policy.
Can we also blame Google and Facebook for keeping most of the ad revenue and making money on content that isn't theirs?
This was predicted by many people years ago. Facebook gave out traffic to media companies like candy and then turned it off to start charging for that same access.
In the process, the media abdicated it's responsibility to build and maintain their audience, to acquire customers and completely became dependant on Facebook and the other social networks
Amazing to think that, motivated by fear, the GOP and by extension conservative media in trying to neuter AOC have ended up helping her create a platform not only domestically but globally.
If they had just left her alone she wouldn't have anywhere near the visibility (and credibility) she currently does.
Dream start to her professional political career.
Trump mentioned "his other clients", more threats to Cohen about Cohen's business. I only know who one of his other clients is. Friendship ended?
Given the lack of readership in the past decade I can see a mass consolidation happening. This is not good for anyone as most of the major city papers are not independently owned anymore.
Trump looked like shit today in that press spray. I think not being able to go to his golf courses is getting to him.
He's had a few negative stories about him since the election and is not campaigning (or saying much of anything) the last couple months, so until he does announce his numbers have nowhere to go but down.
I like how we have news that despacheeto intimidated a witness in a federal probe but it's like the 4th story of the day.
House dems are silent on it too. They should be on every news station yelling for impeachment proceedings
well by not going he cant get the next steps from his boss
Interesting thing I just read - my pflugerville TX Facebook page has a thread about being frustrated about losing insurance and paychecks. Not very partisan, a few hits at trump and McConnell, but overall 98% are in an agreement and supportive in a city purple with slight blue hue. What really surprised me was someone came in with talking points bashing dems, the admins told him to cool it as they joined 1 hour ago, and then another user noted they had their location as Lubbock which is hundreds of miles away, and the guy changed to pflugerville just before getting banned. God damn, Russian trolls in small city groups.
Look how well that worked with the BuzzFeed story.
Also, Cohen is a serial grifter. His default state of being is "full of shit".
The Democrats' responsibility is to investigate and to bring charges that have weight, not to engage in a media spectacle that can easily be twisted and also disincentivize future testimony from other witnesses and co-conspirators.
Been meaning to say it, but I love the new av. Finally!
Also lmao @ "despacheeto."
Trump threatened a witness multiple times. That's a crime and an impeachable offense.
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