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Two facts (lemmy.world)
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If we survive this time, two facts mustn't be forgotten: ① Corporate journalism couldn't tell the truth, that a madman was in the White House, and ② Democrats were never an opposition party.
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[–] [S] 0 points 8 months ago (5 children)

After that, I’m not sure what you’re asking for.

Well, wouldn't say I'm "asking," because you & I already know the answer is no. Sanewashing is all we'll get, with Trump's meandering statements and destructive policies presented blandly. Months and months of his tariff pronouncements, with media rarely mentioning that they're illegal; his routine insults and firings for blacks and women, without mentioning in the headline or paragraph one that the insults and firings are wildly black- and woman-centered; all his daily drivel on Truth Social, without saying in plain English that it's crazy.

Your listed links are all op-eds or reports quoting someone, but America needs to hear Trump is a madman as news coverage, not a column or commentary. It's not an opinion; Trump is a madman, ipso facto pepto bismo. Facts ought to be reported factually.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago* (4 children)

    Months and months of his tariff pronouncements, with media rarely mentioning that they’re illegal;

    I mean, they're not illegal in any material sense. Even when the SCOTUS finally got off it's ass to give a ruling (5-4) they didn't actually establish a way for anyone to get their money back

    Your listed links are all op-eds or reports quoting someone

    That's all modern journalism is anymore.

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  • [–] [S] -1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Tariffs are a Congressional function. They've handed limited tariff authority to the White House, pre-Trump, but Trump's tariffs are beyond those bounds, and were illegal via common sense long before the Supremes heard the case.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Tariffs are a Congressional function. They’ve handed limited tariff authority

    Like so much else, they're functions that the legislature has empowered the executive to administer.

    Congress hates doing anything. And so we've spent decades vesting more and more power into the President, creating the modern day unitary executive.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    And I've always wondered ... why?

    The Congressional habit of yielding power seems so at odds with... everything I've ever seen and (pretend to) understand about human nature.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Because Congress operates slowly and as a majority lead unit, any individual representative rarely gets everything they want. But a friendly relationship with an autocrat can deliver so much more.

    Especially when you pull a Rubio or Cheney and jump from the legislature to the executive.

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