How do you justify the grift?

[neurosis]

Overall, we rate MeidasTouch

The original report came from TNR

Bias Rating: LEFT
Factual Reporting: HIGH
Country: USA
MBFC's Country Freedom Rank: MOSTLY FREE
Media Type: Magazine
Traffic/Popularity: Medium Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: HIGH CREDIBILITY   <----   Is that better? 

[beej]

The original report came from TNR

Bias Rating: LEFT
Factual Reporting: HIGH
Country: USA
MBFC's Country Freedom Rank: MOSTLY FREE
Media Type: Magazine
Traffic/Popularity: Medium Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: HIGH CREDIBILITY   <----   Is that better? 

no, If we don't like what the article says, we just find a way to discredit the people who tell it to us. 

and then you mumble something incoherent about critical thinking.

[neurosis]

no, If we don't like what the article says, we just find a way to discredit the people who tell it to us. 

and then you mumble something incoherent about critical thinking.

I almost wish I was on that mailing list.    I'd like to have a copy of the original email.

[CNCAppsJames]

...
Factual Reporting: HIGH
...
MBFC Credibility Rating: HIGH CREDIBILITY

Tracks like most Universities today; grading on a curve. 

 

[Smit]

If you voted for Trump you voted for this:

  One year ago, Donald Trump took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he has focused on using the presidency to enrich himself.  Opinion  The Editorial Board How Trump Has Pocketed $1,408,500,000

Excerpt:

President Trump has never been a man to ask what he can do for his country. In his second term, as in his first, he is instead testing the limits of what his country can do for him.

He has poured his energy and creativity into the exploitation of the presidency — into finding out just how much money people, corporations and other nations are willing to put into his pockets in hopes of bending the power of the government to the service of their interests.

A review by the editorial board relying on analyses from news organizations shows that Mr. Trump has used the office of the presidency to make at least $1.4 billion. We know this number to be an underestimate because some of his profits remain hidden from public view. And they continue to grow.

[neurosis]

That article is paywalled for me. 

I was able to find the archived version of it, but it's a little funky to sift through

https://archive.ph/WzzXY

[neurosis]

Seriously though with all of this shit, what's anyone going to do?

My guess, MAGA will continue to celebrate the corruption and Executive abuse of power while reasonable people sit around and whine about it.    That's about it.

[TylerBeer]

Maybe get some of it back when he's brought into The Hague

[MIL-TFP-41]

My guess, MAGA will continue to celebrate the corruption and Executive abuse of power while reasonable people sit around and whine about it.    That's about it.

I would add that the democrats will take the house by a landslide, Trump will face 2 years of impeachment shiz, strong possibility of a few repug senators jumping the isle and actually will get him out of office. Vance will pardon. People will expect change when it will be rinse/repeat.

[TylerBeer]

I would add that the democrats will take the house by a landslide, Trump will face 2 years of impeachment shiz, strong possibility of a few repug senators jumping the isle and actually will get him out of office. Vance will pardon. People will expect change when it will be rinse/repeat.

Too, too accurate

[SuperHoneyBadger]

It's a UniParty.
I REALLY cannot understand how only a very few, see this

It's hard to step away from lifelong convictions, I get it, given the evidence comes from independent and spooky sources. Sources that are targeted and discredited as often as possible by the loudest voices beholden to the status quo. And in the US the left vs right busine$$ is societal bedrock that may be impossible to shirk at this point.

It takes a lot of effort to get people to look, and even more for them to see.

You gotta start young, maybe a high school course: "Western Media Lies - The 5th Column and You"

[mowens]

I don't use twitter.

[SuperHoneyBadger]

I don't use twitter.

Good call, I never have either. Just another tool with the veneer of democratization to funnel folks deeper into their respective fish ponds of thought, digital noise.

[mowens]

I don't have much of a social media presence. It would take away the time I use for watching mindless Youtube videos and eating junk food.

[SuperHoneyBadger]

It would take away the time I use for watching mindless Youtube videos and eating junk food.

So you're saying you've made it? A true patrician's pastime.