Journalists don’t seem to know how to report on politics when people are not acting in good faith

This is exactly it. They either don’t know how to react to it or they simply refuse to acknowledge it out of fear of jeopardizing their disingenuous absolute neutrality facade.

Why assume that Republicans stated motivations are genuine at this point?

Literally no good reason.

Republicans know that they will always be given the benefit of the doubt by the media and that their radical messages will be transmitted directly to their supporters and then sanitized and normalized when repeated by other media outlets.

Yup!

Sartre described their bad faith perfectly when he talked about antisemites:

“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

The guy who pulled the alarm deserved a censure.

I disagree. Since they can’t fine each other, censure is the strongest condemnation short of being stripped of committee assignments. While what he did wasn’t great, it was nowhere near serious enough to warrant censure.

You don’t fuck with fire alarms

Yeah you do. Schoolkids do it all the time.

but let’s not defend the guy who made the building less safe because he was late to a vote.

I’m not saying it wasn’t a bad thing to do but he didn’t make the building less safe. That’s a ridiculous hypothetical based on assuming likelihood of an extremely unlikely confluence of events.

You need to relax with the learned alarmism, pun intended.

the “trio of Democrats censured by the House this year marked a milestone not seen in more than 150 years, raising questions over whether the historically rare form of punishment is becoming weaponized in the lower chamber.”

If you for even a moment pretend there’s any doubt about it, you’re an idiot, a cowardly journalist or both.

One was for competently chairing a committee, another for speaking truth to power about Palestinians not being disposable sub-humans and the third for pulling a childish prank that was still more professional than 99% of what any of the Republicans have done this year.

To quote Fight Club: I am Jack’s utter lack of surprise.

Both, and also he just loves Hitler and everything he stood for.

Personally, I’d rather see “misinformation” than have anything censored. This at least gives you the power to infer what you want, and decide who the good and bad actors are

Well that’s fucking idiotic! You’re acting like you’ve never encountered humans before, especially on the internet.

Propaganda works, and not only on gullible and/or dumb people. That’s why there needs to be safeguards against dangerous lies like the ones of Musk, Trump, Hitler and other fascists with huge cult followings.

Accurate headline:

Millions of dollars lost as NFTs worth a total of $0 stolen

He said he is willing to have a discussion about immigration policy with republicans.

“Let’s hear the literal fascists who compare even legal immigrants to vermin and invading armies out. I’m sure they’ll be willing to reach a reasonable compromise” 🙄

Being a shill for the Israeli apartheid regime is the LEAST “maverick” thing you can possibly do in American politics. To break with the left to join everyone else in enabling genocide isn’t a brave and principled stand. It’s ignorance at best, but more likely morally bankrupt cowardice.

Go home NBC, you’re drunk on neoliberal gaslighting. Again.

Who told you I’m human‽ That was supposed to be a secret!

Raise your hand if you’re a fool who forgot how reading works!

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In his first term, Trump’s plans

Who gave this idiot a time machine?

That’s like saying that all politicians are identical 🙄

For when you need some advice on whether to pursue large bodies of cascading water or the desirability of the sanitary clothing worn by workers involved in patient care.

And Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, a militant Basque seperatist group that dissolved in 2018.

Probably only a couple people who thought that was what he meant, though. Three at most.

That’s called Betteridge’s law of headlines and, while there are exceptions, it usually applies.

He’s an incredibly impulsive malignant narcissist demanding sweeping changes without considering whether they’re feasible, amongst other ways by reacting to criticism in real time and often in the stupidest ways possible.

He’s not technically handicapped, but he has the emotional maturity and judgment of a toddler who’s overdue for a nap.

Why is this “news”?

In a word: Schadenfreude. In two words: delicious Schadenfreude.

That’s how it goes with a government of one party who only wants bad things and one that wants some good things but extremely slowly so it doesn’t upset their owner donors too much.

A good start?

That’s not really fair, though. A lot of lawyers are fighting the good fight, such as environmental lawyers, those of the Southern Poverty Law Center, the ACLU and various other organizations who provide pro bono representation to those who couldn’t afford a good lawyer otherwise.