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"The coverage lacks intellectual rigor" that's an understatement!

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Thanks again David for your

opening remarks. This is one

of the reasons I'm a member

of TPM. Independent News

Media is far above MSN at

this point in time.

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I'm going to say this until the cows come home:

The longer we react to Trump saying outrageous things by talking about the outrageous things and our outrage, the less we talk about Trump being a fully bought-and-paid-for Russian asset gunning to end to fulfill Putin's goal of dismantling our post-war security system.

And here we are still talking about name calling and pearl-clutching. Just like we did in 2016! - and little else. And the days until the election and the opportunities to talk about this keep dwindling and instead he continues to play the news cycle like a fiddle. Infuriating!!

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We never learn...

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That Electoral Count Reform law: who’s going to enforce it and who are the final arbiters?

I know; I’m disgusting with all the cynicism. Happy to be proven wrong by events. But that’s gotten happen before the criticism gets thrown at me, sorry.

First tell that the law doesn’t offer much is that it was passed on a bipartisan basis. You know, by the same bipartisan cohort that couldn’t pass the John Lewis bill.

Time will tell…

But wait, almost forgot the recurring rant, it this case in connection with Biden’s gaffe, or maybe just Freudian slip: I keep saying the establishment news media are worthless at best (as a rule, and probably actually harmful) and the keep proving me correct with the garbage about which today’s post leads. Guys, they know better. They spew this stuff by choice.

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Oh, for Pete's sake! President Biden is a decent, honorable man who is gaffe-prone. Anyone who has been paying any attention at all knows that he doesn't think of Trump supporters, or anyone else as garbage.

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Media off and running with "Garbage" 2.0...they barely completed working over the MSG "Garbage" 1.0, so now, as David has noted, is what quality of lameness will the media bring to the Biden comment vs the Puerto Rico slander. I'm betting that there will be a couple of days of recalling Hillary Clinton's "basket of deplorables", and Barack Obama's "clinging to guns or religion" remarks, while the PR slur fades quickly...anything to raise the spectacle of "attacking" the "honest American working class" shite that the media love in order to employ their go-to tag of - wait for it - Democrat elitism"! Jaysus, it's so bloody predictable, innit!?!

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Archivist: is CBO next? CRS? LOC?

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Once again, the over-educated, under-intelligent, otherwise-unemployable low achievers of the white upper middle class live down to their previous standards of professional fuckwittery.

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