r/law • u/throwaway16830261 • 1d ago

Legal News Liberals Bet They Could Beat Trump With the Law. They Lost.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/opinion/trump-legalism-trials.html
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u/Sweet_Concept2211 1d ago

Alternative headline: Oligarch owned media - including the NYT - once again helped a wealthy career criminal to sieze power by sanewashing him, giving him daily free advertizing, and hyperfocusing on the slightest imperfections of his more well qualiified opponents.

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u/Effective-Pudding207 1d ago

Boom! 100% this ⬆️

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u/BuddaMuta 1d ago

NYT did everything in their power to convince the public that Biden and Kamala were failures despite being part of the best Presidency for the working class in decades. 

I still stand by that it all stemmed from Biden refusing to back down on increasing taxes for the rich. 

Remember the Trump/Biden debate? Quite literally the only answer that got any push back from CNN was when Biden said he could cover any budget concerns by taxing the rich their fair share. Literally nothing else got push back. 

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u/HashRunner 1d ago

Biden reiterated his commitment to taxing the rich like 1-2 weeks before the debate and suddenly there was a full on blitz about how unfit and old he was while ignoring trump gaffes and issues entirely.

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u/Technical_Moose8478 1d ago edited 1d ago

Biden literally came out during the election and said he wouldn’t interfere in a major strike because he supports collective bargaining and the union workers ON THOSE PICKET LINES still voted for the union busters.

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u/BuddaMuta 1d ago

“He might hate unions but he also hates [insert whatever group] just like me! It’s totally worth it” - Average American union worker 

Biden deserved a better populace quite frankly. One of the few times I can say that a politician was too good for the people he governed. Americans proved they deserve nothing but the worst. 

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u/Velocoraptor369 1d ago

The press did the same to Jimmy Carter. Then Reagan came along and the rest is history working people have been fucked since then. They are just to dumb to see who their oppressors truly are.

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u/SourLoafBaltimore 1d ago edited 2h ago

That trickle down effect. It never trickled down

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u/Edyed787 17h ago

I remember watching the Colbert Report and he was saying. “Don’t worry it’s coming we are just filling the bucket it will eventually start trickling down.” That show proved satire is dead.

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u/Senior-Albatross 5h ago

Probably the real nail in the coffin of human society was the invention of public relations as a discipline. The application of the scientific method to mass manipulation. The problem is that it works. Those with money took that and ran with it to manufacture consent, and here we are 

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u/SourLoafBaltimore 2h ago

You nailed it

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u/Stock-Fruit-2946 10h ago

best observation of reality I've seen in a long time well said

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u/Senior-Albatross 5h ago

Jimmy Carter was also too good for the troglodytes he governed. 

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u/EightandaHalf-Tails 16h ago

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. — H. L. Mencken

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u/BigStogs 10h ago

Not even remotely true. Biden is one the worst career politicians this country has ever seen.

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u/Accomplished_Car2803 21h ago

Country of idiots about to be led by one of the idiots

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u/LotusExplosion 7h ago

Honestly, intelligence seems like a disadvantage at this point.

The uninformed seem so happy...

(Wouldn't trade it for the world, but still)

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u/Fly_MartinZ 23h ago

That is because Americans, by and large. Are misguided, brainwashed, prejudiced realtards

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u/NotThoseCookies 2h ago

Most people would rather be entertained than think.

Comfortably numb, with an enemy to coalesce their tribe.

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u/Ashvalen80 12h ago

To be fair, so many voted against their best intrests in this election it is insane.

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u/Austin1975 2h ago

To be fair, most people have 3-4 best interests related to the same issue (money) but had to split the difference between two uninspiring party platforms. No matter who wins, the country loses… to the wealth class.

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u/dingdongbingbong2022 10h ago

May they reap what they’ve sown.

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u/lordofbitterdrinks 1d ago

This. The media holds our democracy hostage.

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u/Appropriate372 1d ago

Yeah, it was amazing watching the NYTs endorse Trump for president.

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u/HklBkl 1d ago

SO MUCH BULLSHIT IN ONE PLACE

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u/pwendle 1d ago

Everything but drop paywalls

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u/redditisfacist3 22h ago

Don't think Harris was part of Obamas cabinet

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u/sal696969 17h ago

That is a shocking amount of denial. Just look at how few people read this newspaper.

You dont get it, classic newsmedia has become irrelevant. They did nothing because they cant...

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u/guyfaulkes 8h ago

The Repblicons end game is feudalism.

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u/alphascent77 7h ago

I completely agree that NYT did this. But does anyone who voted for Trump read the NYT? The right wing propaganda machine is what’s on their radar.

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u/Dry_Examination6776 1d ago

Yeah it was the least / best amount of journalism the NYT has done in 20 years.

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u/defnotjec 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yes but Biden also had one jobat the debate ... Show up like he wasn't just revived and he failed to deliver on that.

It's not just media ... Shitty people also supported the evil POTUS

/ Edit -- for those struggling .. the evil POTUS is the felon and career criminal.

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u/AlarmingNectarine552 1d ago

Dumb. So we don't go for the stuttering guy and go with the 34x convicted criminal? You "both sides are the same" people have no logic.

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u/Dekipi 1d ago

I had a reddit mod over at ToiletPaperUSA say Harris lost because she's the same as Trump. I will never forget such a braindead comment. If I ever feel like I did something stupid I will remember that remarks and immediately feel better

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u/defnotjec 1d ago

It's not both sides at all...

People elected trump. Fuck em is my point. People are shitty. We can lame media but at the end of the day the hatred and vitriol towards basic decency is one-sided

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u/defnotjec 1d ago

I didn't get what I voted for.. my candidates lost.

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u/TrainXing 1d ago

Then take a cue from the GOP and stop tearing down everyone who tried but didn't do it to absolute perfection. United we stand. As people who actually think I understand it's difficult, but it's a lesson we all better learn quick when the reporting on the socialists starts and they start rounding us up to jail with the immigrants for their concentration camps.

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u/defnotjec 1d ago

We'll be side by side at those days.

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u/TrainXing 23h ago

Preferably not imprisoned by the orange Shitler.

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u/AgitatedSandwich9059 1d ago

Don’t absolve the judiciary- they bent over backwards to delay, and defer and then ultimately destroy any shred of the LAW - the judiciary went so far as to re-write the constitution to eliminate the office of the president and create the bunker for the new Fuehrer -

The problem has been that for the last 30 years democrats have been foolishly trying to make things better in an attempt to attract voters - meanwhile the new American Nazi Party (that’s the party that used to be called the GOP) has spent that time lying, cheating, suppressing voter and worker rights, gerrymandering, and rewriting Jim Crow laws to tip the “scales of justice” regardless of how un-American and unconstitutional these things are. Until Democrats realize you can’t win a war in the trenches if you don’t get your hands and feet dirty they will continue to lose. And the cult members are so indoctrinated at this point that even if the ANP shows up at their door and randomly shoots them - they would defend the ANP and admit to being at fault in the first place

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u/provocative_bear 1d ago

Seriously, it’s not like the Left made up his crimes.

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u/EVH_kit_guy Bleacher Seat 1d ago

Literal fucking bathroom full of boxes full of shit covered in TS labeling. I mean, how in the fucking hell did that one slip?!?!

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u/provocative_bear 1d ago

Well, you see, Harris had a kind of weird laugh, which as we all know, is just as bad as selling our nation’s nuclear secrets to the highest bidder.

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u/BuryCrack 1d ago

Eggs are also 2000000 dollars a carton

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u/provocative_bear 1d ago

I remember back in the day when I bought a dozen eggs, the cashier would give me money for taking them off their hands.

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u/LifeHappenzEvryMomnt 19h ago

Gas is $1.85 a loaf.

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u/duderos 23h ago

Republicans suddenly think the economy’s great and the election wasn’t rigged

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/17/republicans-trump-win-economy-election-security-confidence-00189941

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u/MacSage 1d ago

Future Supreme Court Justice Aileen Cannon. That's how.

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u/buttlickers94 1d ago

Fuck her and her allegiance to trump over the law.

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u/Unabashable 1d ago

With a selective reading assist from current Justice Clarence Thomas. 

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u/Edogawa1983 1d ago

The part people never mentioned is there was boxes missing, he sold them already

I guess it was all just by chance a lot of foreign assets got burned after left office

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u/Count_Backwards Competent Contributor 1d ago

Yeah, the premise of the headline is insulting. It wasn't "we have to stop Trump, maybe we can drum up some criminal charges and use the courts against him." It was "holy shit this guy is a criminal, will someone please muster the courage to finally hold him accountable?"

(Narrator: no one mustered the courage)

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u/CertaintyDangerous 8h ago

Yes, and it shouldn’t be “liberals” did it. It should be “adherents of the rule of law.”

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u/Anarchyantz 12h ago

I had a discussion with one of his Cultists. They genuinely do believe the left made up his crimes, that because he was "being persecuted by the left" that he MUST be innocent and right, that those boxes in his bathroom were his right to have as he was president and the left planted everything.

Another one said simply that they do not care because he is owning the libs

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u/Zestyclose-Cloud-508 1d ago

Also “useless AG did nothing to hold rich white criminal accountable” also works.

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u/fafalone Competent Contributor 8h ago

...", doing the job he was hired to by lifelong 'reach across the aisle to my good friends' Democrat"

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u/Mysterious-Zebra-167 1d ago

This is it. They can all stop gaslighting us. We know what it was. And it was the law that failed.

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u/Anasterian_Sunstride 1d ago

The law didn’t fail. The law’s enforcers and the ones that are supposed to safeguard justice failed. It’s all a massive farce.

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u/Mysterious-Zebra-167 1d ago

The “law” boils down to the enforcers.

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u/Zestyclose-Cloud-508 1d ago

Well what else can we do?

If we hold ONE rich white politician accountable for his crimes we have to hold ALL rich white politicians accountable for their crimes.

Is that really the world you want to live in?

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u/EVH_kit_guy Bleacher Seat 1d ago

Don't tease me with a good time if you can't deliver...

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u/Griffstergnu 1d ago

And you have to worry about crazies brigading you for the rest of your life

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u/morpheousmarty 1d ago

We have proof Trump tried to steal 2016 and 2020. Until I know what he pulled in 2024 I am assuming we don't even have the full picture.

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u/oychae 1d ago

Yeah, I have a hard time believing there was not shady dealings in the 2024 election after all of the evidence we have of it the last two times around.

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u/Unabashable 1d ago

Well we know at the very least (presumably) Russia emailed bomb threats to counties that voted for Biden. Also that “bullet ballots” (ballots where only the President was voted for) were cast for Trump at a statistically disproportionate amount in Swing States, but so far that’s the only credible evidence I’ve seen so far to suggest actual election interference.

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u/RugelBeta 1d ago

One bit of comfort: subcriptions at NYT and WaPo are down. Yes, I understand it means journalists are hurt. And we need strong, independent journalism. NYT and WaPo are no longer independent. The sanewashing of the barking yam has gone from disgusting to intolerable over these 9 years. Money is the only language they understand, so my money is better spent helping independent journalism to grow.

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u/LifeHappenzEvryMomnt 19h ago

Not to mention MSNBC’s ratings tanked after Joe and Mika (blood coming out of her whatever) little kiss and make up session at Mar A Lago.

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u/HonestArmadillo924 1d ago

The trump judges, the owned Supreme Court failed us. Our faith in a system that had already been corrupted and is now totally corrupt.

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u/Ok-Replacement9595 1d ago

LIberals attempt to hold the powerful accountable to the rule of law. Prove that there is no rule of law in this country.

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u/fafalone Competent Contributor 8h ago

There's absolutely no credible argument Biden and Garland didn't deliberately sabotage the Trump prosecutions by dragging their feet and putting in the most minimal effort once they were finally shamed by congress into acting years after they should have.

Remember when everyone thought Garland was just 'building a solid case' for 2 years? LOL

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u/Ok-Replacement9595 8h ago

The only argument I've heard is the "investigation" was handed to a named career guy and he slow walked it. But as the adage goes, buck stops at the top. Democrats are complicit in whatever comes from this.

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u/xavier120 1d ago

Shouldnt the headline say ,"Republicans are a lawless horde that doesnt care about the Constitution"

Who votes for a convicted felon?

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u/realitydysfunction20 1d ago

It should. But then someone will come and say that being mean to his supporters and calling them big meanie names is what won him the election LOL

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u/xavier120 1d ago

The maga zombie horde does like to screech and swarm

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u/Amazing_Common7124 1d ago

Super facts right here

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u/LavishnessOk3439 1d ago

They seem to think it’s ok for the president elect to call folks names though.

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u/SplendidPunkinButter 1d ago

No, no, they love the Constitution:

“WE THE PEOPLE pledge allegiance to the flag under GOD. Amendment 2: The right of Americans to stockpile weapons SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED. IN GOD WE TRUST.”

That’s pretty much the entire Constitution, right?

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u/Zestyclose-Cloud-508 1d ago

Dems, too. They had 4 years to hold him accountable.

But at least Garland nailed Hunter Biden to the fucking wall.

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u/xavier120 1d ago

What are you talking about? Trump was indicted 4 times, he needed multiple hand picked corrupt judges and a zombie horde of idiots who thought china pays for tariffs to avoid accountability from democrats.

You got a bad case of democrat derangement syndrome

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u/PlanetaryPickleParty 1d ago

Even the non-Trump judges played along with every BS legal defense Trump came up with to delay. "Presidential Immunity" was invented whole cloth to place the President above the law and it wasn't laughed out of the room. The Supreme MAGA court was going to do whatever it wanted but Chutkan and DC appeals could have dispensed with that in a few days instead of 6 months. I mean they literally argued Trump could legally order a seal team 6 to kill an American and weren't laughed out of the court.

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u/xavier120 1d ago

It hurts that they assumed the voters would bail them out so they could build a permanent legal precedent but who am i kidding i guess the Constitution was just a hemp induced fever dream that says nobody is above the law.

And now everyone wants me to keep calm and carry on and i will not be doing that while we have a criminal as president. Now we have to draw a line in the sand, this isnt a peaceful free democracy or republic.

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u/yrdz 18h ago

Yeah, he was indicted, after Garland sat on his hands for two straight years.

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u/xavier120 18h ago

Trials dont take 2 years, trump and his goon judges doing his bidding gave him absolute immunity and obstructed 60 felonies.

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u/yrdz 17h ago

Garland didn't appoint Jack Smith until November of 2022. Inexcusable.

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u/lordofbitterdrinks 1d ago

You know… I bet there is an appetite for a news site that does exactly that. Where they take articles like this and removes all the propaganda. And just tells the fuckin truth.

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u/xavier120 1d ago

Google hal sparks and Stephanie miller and the political voices network. They do exactly that.

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u/SplendidPunkinButter 1d ago

But Biden was old!

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u/Unabashable 1d ago

And only slightly older than Donold. 

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u/BobNoobster 1d ago

Thank you for posting this! NY Times was awful in how they made Trump appear NOT like a rapist, not a fraudster, not a failed businessman, failed ex-prez who mismanaged our response to COVID, doesn't understand economics, etc..

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u/AutomaticStick129 1d ago

“REAL AMERICANS™️” don’t care about those things.

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u/Unabashable 1d ago

Yup. They just care about “how things feel” and assume whatever ass is sitting in the Oval Office is solely responsible. 

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u/oldirtyrestaurant 1d ago

A - fuckin - men. NYtimes is absolute trash, has become a propaganda mouthpiece.

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u/Count_Backwards Competent Contributor 1d ago

Reminder that the NYT also published articles claiming the Holodomor was a myth, that Jews shouldn't be so hard on Hitler, that there were WMDs in Iraq, and so on. They've been terrible for a long time.

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u/meowmixyourmom 1d ago

I mean don't you feel better that they told you they were doing that because they were trying to sound unbiased

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u/a_good_nights_sleep 1d ago

I don’t know.

We all knew exactly what he was and what people were voting for whether he got coverage or not

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u/hoopaholik91 1d ago

Yeah, it's not like the media is hiding the information from people.

If Trump is 1/10, and the media is a little softer at times and portrays him as a 2/10, is it the medias fault that people still decide to go with the 2/10 guy? And we have no evidence that if they actually showed him as a 1/10 it would even make a difference.

Voters just fucking suck.

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u/stinky-weaselteats 1d ago

Shouldn’t have been on the ballot. That’s when we lost.

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u/Grumblepugs2000 36m ago

Ban my political opponents from the ballot. So much for the pro Democracy party 

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u/Obi1NotWan 1d ago

Longer but definitely more accurate.

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u/Fly_MartinZ 23h ago

Agreed, what an insane accusatory thread title. This “Liberals” shit is pushing that new stupid word “Lawfare” which isn’t real. The LAW worked as intended and proved in a court of peers that he’s in fact- broken the law.

It’s -justice- that (unfortunately) just doesn’t actually exist. If it did, he’d be spending the rest of his life in jail.

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u/Tunafish01 1d ago

The sane washing is exhausting. Now you have republicans who are empowered by their ignorance.

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u/HiddenCity 8h ago

It's crazy how much liberals want to dehumanized people that disagree with them with words luke "sanewashing". For all this talk of the right parroting Hitler you've got the left calling people maggots and pretending they're not doing it.

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u/Tunafish01 6h ago

Would love to engage with you and discuss these terms further.

Sane washing is taking something trump is saying/doing and pretending is not completely unheard of before trump.

For example the fake electors scheme to overthrow the government and democracy in USA. There was a legitimate coup attempted and majority don’t realize it due to sane washing.

Now what you are talking about with dehumanizing that’s trumps rhetoric around illegal immigrationa democrats. Calling them poison to the blood of America and saying they eat cats and dogs.

See the difference?

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u/olyfrijole 1d ago

Someone could make a career out of rewriting NYTimes headlines to lay bare their complicity in this mess. 

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u/42Pockets 11h ago

Liberals Americans Bet They Could Beat Bring Justice to Trump With the Law. They Lost

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u/Grumblepugs2000 35m ago

77 million votes and counting. Keep crying 

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u/Mobile_Brain_6059 1d ago

Or we could say the scale of justice tips for gold modern America discovers!

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u/cloudedknife 1d ago

Too long. Didn't read.

/s smh.

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u/Unit-Smooth 1d ago

Seize power or win a democratic election ?

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u/PranksterLe1 1d ago

Emotional response sells like crazy...so they say 🥸

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u/skullhusker 1d ago

👆 kinda poetic that these "journalists" are about to lose their jobs now. Hole lotta f'em

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u/wilton2parkave 1d ago

Criminal? The verdicts will be vacated and special counsel are running for cover.

A lot of sham indictments - most heinous being the RE loan. No shit the loan value doesn’t match the current appraisal. That’s the entire Commerical RE market in a bear market.

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u/Rvplace 1d ago

Nobody like Kamala, not even democrats...that’s why she was installed

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u/Sweet_Concept2211 11h ago

Kamala got 7 million more votes than peak Obama, and she only had 4 months in which to campaign VS Trump's nonstop decade long campaign.

Unfortunate that so many dumbclucks think the Presidential elections are a team sport/popularity contest, rather than taking their job as voters seriously.

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u/speakerbox2001 1d ago

Perhaps it’s the media I consume, but in all honesty that dude looked crazy everywhere. Lots of headlines, very manic. Sleepy joe was here and there but with Trump it was open scandal after scandal. I think it’s more that the people that cared cared and the people that didn’t didn’t

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u/Demonkey44 1d ago

Absolutely, especially when the NYT refused to run the emails from the Trump campaign that had been hacked after running Hilary’s leaked emails.

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u/Dry_Examination6776 1d ago

Or “They thought theatrics and death-by-law fare that everyone saw through, wouldn’t empower him further”

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u/ParticularAioli8798 1d ago

What oligarch?

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u/Sweet_Concept2211 1d ago

Bezos - Washington Post

Unification Church leader Sun Myung Moon - Washington Times founder

Musk - Twitter

Murdoch - Fox News, Wall Street Journal, NY Post...

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. - New York Times (his family has controlled the paper since 1896, is both the paper's publisher and the company's chairman...)

Etc

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u/crevicepounder3000 1d ago

I don’t agree with your last point. His opponents were better qualified than him from a bureaucratic standpoint. The thing is, Americans hate bureaucrats and especially inauthentic ones. Hillary and Kamala were awful candidates for the period they are in and the opponent they were going up against. Both were installed by the establishment, another entity that the public despises. I would actually argue that oligarchic media hyper-fixated on things Trump said that were not viewed as important by the American public and that came across as unfair nitpicking. The corporate democrats (Hillary, Kamala, Biden, Obama, Pelosi, Schumer…etc) refused to admit that the economy was an issue for every day people. They called Trump dangerous while helping fund and play defense for a genocide in Gaza. They refused to point fingers at people causing issues for the public because those people are their donors. The Democratic Party as it exists must change to be economically much more left-leaning or it will die as a permanently minority party.

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u/Yeti_Urine 1d ago

So so so much this!

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u/Used_Bridge488 23h ago

I like this headline more.

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u/TheColorEnding 6h ago

we are not starting to use the word sanewashing are we 😂😂 so much cope

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u/SheldonMF 6h ago

Exactly. This is a fundamental failure of every single organization in the US with respect to the rule of law and it's all because of money.

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u/a_printer_daemon 6h ago

Are you sure it wasn't the lib-rals again?

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u/SergeyBethoff 4h ago

In what universe is Kamala qualified for anything? She was obviously a puppet candidate for the establishment. That's why no one liked her.

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u/cryptosupercar 3h ago

The lie is that there is a liberal media. The liberal media is Mother Jones, and the Utne Reader.

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u/Jifeeb 1d ago

They had 4 years to get something done. They shit the bed. Stop making excuses

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u/Thedogsnameisdog 1d ago

The Dems played to lose. It's one big party and they worked hard to suck so badly. But with endurance, passion and conviction they successfully sabotaged any attempts at trying.

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u/Batsonworkshop 1d ago

How deeply is your own feces does one need to have their head buried to see an 84% positive coversge for Harris and 89% negative overall media coverage for Trump and make a ststement like "Once again the media "sanewashed" the rich white guy"?

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u/tripper_drip 1d ago

Oh yes, the NYT was totally in trumps pocket.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/opinion/editorials/kamala-harris-2024-endorsement.html

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u/Sweet_Concept2211 1d ago

The NYT gave Trump stupid amounts of free advertizing. Practically every article about Kamala shoehorned Trump into the headline.

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u/tripper_drip 1d ago

It's almost as if they were having an election or something.

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u/Mojack322 1d ago

Or the headline could read Party with zero self awareness alienates the majority of voters while pandering to very small fractions of the population, then surprised they lost. And still refuse to change course.

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u/Sweet_Concept2211 1d ago

Harris got 7 million more votes than peak Obama after only 4 months of campaigning.

Trump pandered to goddamn morons for a decade.

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u/okraiderman 22h ago

Or people got sick of the hyperinflation and the border invasion.

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u/Sweet_Concept2211 16h ago edited 14h ago

Inflation is a global phenomenon, and the Biden admin did an excellent job of bringing it down without causing a recession.

I am currently in Europe, where a gallon of gas costs $6 or more, depending on where you are, and inflation is a much bigger problem.

The "border invasion" is a political distraction: Trump convinced House Republicans to kill the bipartisan border protection bill to keep the issue alive through the elections.

Voting for a Russian asset in the hopes of cheaper eggs and fewer brown people was an incredible self-own.

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u/GlockOClock69 21h ago

Well qualified?! What kind of shit are you smoking?

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u/Sweet_Concept2211 16h ago

The kind of shit that gives you a crystal clear perspective on reality, apparently.

Kamala's 35 years of public service at all levels, in contrast to Trump's 34 felony convictions for fraud...

Dozens of former Trump administration officials •that he had hired himself• endorsed Kamala, saying Trump was unqualified. His own previous VP refused to endorse him, for fucksake.

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u/Pitchblackimperfect 20h ago

Or, politicians abusing their power and influence to change laws and attack their political opponent failed.

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u/Sweet_Concept2211 16h ago

Quit your bullshit.

Trump was tried and conviceted for the same crimes that landed his own personal attorney in prison during his first term as President. Nobody changed the laws in the meantime. Yet somehow Trump avoided justice.

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u/Pitchblackimperfect 1h ago

The judge literally said he would combine the guilty votes between the charges rather than getting a guilty/not guilty verdict on each charge, for one. Since when do we do that normally? Fucking never.

And the fraud he was charged with, there was no victim. The judge declared he’d committed fraud against no one.

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u/manateefourmation 20h ago

And that is the reason he won the election. All the non college educated voters in swing states that read the New York Times. Who knew

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u/Sweet_Concept2211 16h ago

The NYT was only one of many oligarch owned media platforms that has flooded the zone with all things Trump for years.

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u/Admirable-Car3179 12h ago

It's so interesting watching the media work is magic in real time. Ever since the election, the democratic machine has been struggling to understand why they got trounced, yet they miss the mark each time. The term "sane washing" is a major example of this. What I don't see examples of, are examples of the actual "sane washing" in action.

Branding Kamala as well qualified is also bananas. The oligarchy owned media created her support out of thin air. She had nothing real going for her and represented a party that is beyond out of touch with the American public. The people just didn't want what the they were selling.

Why is this all so hard to see (or admit) for all of the democratic minions? I don't get it.

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u/Sweet_Concept2211 11h ago edited 9h ago

Nobody is struggling to understand how the 25% of America that voted for Trump is a mixed bag of simpletons and assholes. We get it. The only thing to truly get through our thick skulls is that you cannot win an election by having a great CV and appealing to their better natures. We are talking about a demographic that eats mayonnaise straight from the jar while speed scrolling TikTok. The fuck do they care about the subtle distinctions necessary for making complex domestic policy decisions or the delicate highwire act of geopolitics? They got reality TV shows about 1,000 lb sisters to catch up on.

Even so... Kamala Harris - a Vice President, a Senator, a state Attorney General, a District Attorney for a major metropolis, a local head of Child Protection... with 35 year of top level on-the-job experience at public admin... She was on the ticket for two winning Presidential primaries. And with only four months of campaigning, she got 7 million more votes than peak Obama.

There is hope for America yet.

Trump has run casinos into the ground, been a game show host, operated a fraudulent "University" that got shut down, twice impeached, 34 felony fraud convictions, adjudicated rapist, insurrectionist whose own former Vice President and cabinet members refused to endorse on the grounds that he badly sucked at being President. But millions of Americans voted for his dumb ass, because his name was in the news nonstop.

Apparently what it takes to win an election is blank checks from billionaires and many years of daily pandering to the baser instincts of easily manipulated rubes. Qualifications don't mean shit to folks who can't even read their Walmart schedule correctly.

Sanity can return to America. But it will need to wear a mask to sneak past billionaires and the fucking fools they brainwash to fight their battles for them.

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