Classic!
(Not classy, though.)
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Guess why:
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Magical History Tour Edition
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Like parties, IMHO the paper has changed a bit since then.
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Well, that was an infuriating read!
Get this, turns out the Dems didnât mean for anything to pass 
The Democratsâ Christmas Eve gambit on the House floor was never meant to pass, but the partyâs leaders hoped to put Republicans in a bind â choosing between the presidentâs wishes for far more largess and their own inclinations for modest spending.
By Emily Cochrane and Luke Broadwater For future referenceâŚ
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Quite beautiful rhetoric: the blame on it not being passed is not placed on those who voted against it, but rather on those who voted for it. Thatâs some doubleplusgood centrism at work right there.
Thinking it could be passed and thinking it should are different things. Iâd guess that at some point they were even optimistic given that the leader said he wanted it too. Fucking NYT didnât though.
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Yeah, I hadnât heard of this guy before but he wrote a good run down of media failures 2020 here:
From the article:
Since April, Republicans have been sabotaging all negotiations, and since April the press has tagged Both Sides for not passing a relief package that is universally seen as crucial to the countryâs economic survival. Itâs an astonishing abdication of journalism. When McConnell last week torpedoed the bipartisan bill being worked on in the Senate, a Politico reporter tweeted, âMCCONNELL puts out message that the bipartisan deal wonât work for senate Rs.â
Wouldnât normalcy and clarity call for, âMCCONNELL blocks bipartisan dealâ? Indeed, why havenât we seen a yearâs worth of âRepublicans Block Covid Reliefâ headlines from the Beltway media? The irony is that last winter, the press relentlessly attacked Democrats for âblockingâ the first Covid relief bill, when Democrats briefly held out for key improvements to the HEROES Act.
Sometimes when I try to donate blood, my blood pressure is too low and they wonât let me donate. I have the feeling that bookmarking this site will solve that problem. Blood pressure already seems higher than normal.
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jebus. they do realize the gigantic tax gifts the republicans gave out even before the pandemic are also spending, right? the modern republican party has never been shy about spending
i guess some people only like to listen to what people say, not look at what they actually do
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The large percentage of voters that fall into this category is why we are in our current political situation. One day, someone will figure out how to exploit this (through subliminal messaging, pirate podcasts, hijacking the signal, etc.) to bring them back from the dark side.
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Online version has under the mob article five big grey quotes about it rotating. Biggest words on the page after the initial head. The quotes are from McConnell, Graham, Mittens, Loeffler, and Hawley.
NYT is all in on having them arbitrate where the centre is.
Fuck that none of them has rejected their partyâs behaviour and racism, the vote suppression and failure of government.
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Instead of letters from people supporting democracy and fighting the insurrection?
Must be trying to market subscriptions to all those people kicked off Twitter and who miss their Parler right now.
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What the actual fuck?!?
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Thatâs from 2018⌠but still. WTAF?
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Is there such a thing as stochastic journalism?
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Sorry- didnât notice that!
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Well, itâs so on brand for the NYT and very easy to believe even now theyâd do something like this⌠letâs not forget that infamous editorial by Cotton this summer about the BLM protests.
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