https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1304998365676015621
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But the far-right maniacs supporting Donald Trump are burning crosses and chanting “Jews will not replace us.” Not really that close of a call…
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Fuck!
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Easier to destroy than create.
I didn’t know Antonio Banderas had covid!
and the racism just got dailed up yet another notch
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We have laws against that. LAW AND ORDER!
This and the law and order stuff is his highest EV messaging. I’m disappointed they got onto it after the conventions, up until then he was flailing. I do not like this, I do not like it one bit.
Meanwhile, Biden is going with the decency and normalcy message, which does not have a good lifetime record against incompetent fascists. Running on your policy has a better record.
If we weren’t in a massive pandemic and recession, Trump would be kicking Biden’s teeth in.
Can someone explain to me why it is that Crow T. Robot is one of the best media critics out there today? It’s like, Bob Garfield and Brooke Gladstone and… that puppet guy who was on a cult cable TV show from the 90’s?
https://twitter.com/BillCorbett/status/1304996141470277632?s=20
I’ve been saying this over and over again, it has almost become my catchphrase: “The key to being a serious mainstream pundit is to pretend that you are completely fucking obtuse.” “Why Does Trump Want an Inaccurate Census?” is an actual, honest-to-god headline from a legacy media source.
Damn, I have no idea, I just don’t know. This is an esoteric, unsolvable riddle right here! I just can’t figure out why!?!
Fuck this bullshit, my fellow Midwesterner Crow T. Robot is correct: they are complicit as hell. Crimes committed in broad daylight for obvious reasons and the NYT thinks it’s all a profound mystery. And one of the best media critics we have right now is some guy who was a puppet on a Comedy Central show in the 90’s. Not Rachel Maddow, this guy right here.
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I have no background in reporting or the media or whatever, but here’s a new rule for journalism that I am proposing right now:
Absolutely no headline should ever end with a question mark. I’m calling this Trolly’s Rule right here. When the newspaper is asking the reader questions, things are fucked.
Seriously, fuck this bullshit. Why are you asking me questions? I fucking pay you to go out there and do journalism and shit Why are you asking me questions? I’m just a dumb Midwestern slob, I don’t know why Trump wants an inaccurate census. It’s kind of your job to figure this shit out?
Like, when you’re a college student you pay professors to quiz you on stuff, but there’s the implicit understanding that the profs know the real answer and they are testing you. Fuck this bullshit where we give the NYT money and they ask us why Trump wants an inaccurate census. Goddamn, you people have one job. Do your job. Tell me why Trump is fucking with the census.
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Has there ever been a good headline that ended with a question mark?
“Hitler declares war?”
“Man lands on the moon?”
Man, fuck off, I don’t know what’s going on. What do I pay you for, you people figure this shit out.
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Because if they give you the answers right there in the headline you won’t click through. I’d bet the advent of questions in headlines came shortly after the Internet, with the exception of editorial columns.
Example, let’s say you’re with the Houston Chronicle…
Hurricane Laura Shifts, Expected to Miss Houston - nobody reads it
Hurricane Laura Strengthens, Will It Hit Houston? - everyone reads it
And most journalists are now paid with incentives for clicks. Capitalism is killing real journalism.
They buried it way down in there…
Anyone who has been paying attention for the past four years knows exactly why: The Trump administration has, time and again, used its executive power to try to keep and maintain political power.
Headline should be:
Trump Ends Census Early in Partisan Power Grab
And the above graph should be worked into the lede.
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Why do headlines have question marks?
by Maggie Haberman
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Trump loves the troops so much he salutes with both hands.
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How am I allowed to call myself a journalist?
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ALL COPS ARE BASTARDS
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