If you strip out the effect of the house being entirely on fire, it’s in great shape!
Oh, it seems more nonsensical than that - it’s more, “if you strip out the effect of the hole in his head, how did Mr. Lincoln like the play?” Except, even worse, it’s a declaration of how great things are (in an alternate reality), in the absence of that one tiny factor.
Gaslighting Victim Syndrome; Sunk Cost Fallacy; Cognitive Dissonance. If I had to guess that one group would find the current times interesting (in an academic, rather than in a Chinese curse sense), it would be Sociologists. (Although, in the middle of the night, some may suddenly wake up and—in a cold sweat—wonder.)
Before his term is up, I want to see Trump wheeled out of the WH and in one of those wheelbarrows.
"Put these on! Kiss my ring! Swear loyalty! Or it’s…
… for you!"
Musk in the back, still wearing that stupid fucking hat!
When did Presidential cabinet meetings start becoming media productions? I would much rather these meetings take place behind closed doors, because these aren’t real meetings. Also, half the people in that photo look absolutely miserable. Musk especially looks like someone just shot his dog. Well . . . now that I look closer, Kristi Noem is only two seats away from him . . .
When cabinet meetings were only useful as media performances, because no decisions were made there, because all the decisions were already nicely packaged in a a handy manual entitled Mein Kampf Project 2025.
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nternational travel to Philadelphia has dropped sharply this year, as potential visitors balk at President Donald Trump’s trade war and aggressive statements toward traditional allies like Canada and the European Union.
The number of non-U.S. citizens entering Philadelphia International Airport is down 10.5% since the start of the year, according to data compiled by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Steve NitWittkoff’s sole qualification for one-on-one (!!!) “negotiating” with Putin: He’s Trump’s golfing buddy. Hooray for Shit-For-Brains World!
(excerpt) “If Trump finally got serious about mediating an end to the war in Ukraine, he would appoint one person to talk to both sides — shuttle diplomacy — and preferably someone with some experience in diplomacy. **Witkoff acts as a mailman for Putin. He is not negotiating anything,” former US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul wrote in an X post.
(**Exactly as planned.)
‘Bumbling idiot’: Trump ally blasts White House negotiator in profane rebuke - Raw Story
Just like his Covid press conferences, they just cannot help themselves and should realize they are not news and they should not be covering them.
The press has a duty to report on the events they are invited to. The problem is that what they are doing can’t be considered reporting.
Oh I don’t agree with that at all.
Not an obligation, but a duty. If the White House is holding an event, it’s likely newsworthy in some respect to the people. That Cabinet meeting was newsworthy because it demonstrates the priorities of the administration: appeasing our toddler of a president by telling him what a very good boy he is and what an excellent job he is doing. The press has a duty to tell the people that, probably not with those words, but by reporting on the content, how fawning it was, how contrary to reality, and how it completely breaks precedent with what the office of the presidency has been up until now.
Cue.
How about several. “Serving suggestion”, if you will.
Organisations of all stripes invite the press to all sorts of events all the time - product launches, meaningless/irrelevant PR announcements, political stunts, etc. The press has no duty to attend them all just because they are being invited. The press has a duty to investigate and report. Speak truth to power, serve its audience - not pander to those in power. If it does decide it should attend things like WH Cabinet meetings (political stunts) then it should report them for what they are!