No One Said What Everyone Was Saying

No one says this, @maxwelltani. It's a flimsy straw man.

Indeed, note you're literally excusing NOT covering these things (many outlets did sporadically, often burying it).

NYT literally buried its own "Trump is fascist" story same days it ran 3 stories on Biden's stutter. https://t.co/PlEGkrvlIk

— emptywheel (mr. blue sky) (@emptywheel) November 15, 2024

I recognize the subtleties of distinctions here, but: Come on!

Imagine if there had been journalists around who could have made that clear BEFORE the election?

🤔 https://t.co/2S9ToWkrwD

— emptywheel (mr. blue sky) (@emptywheel) November 14, 2024

Social media is not about discourse (and isn’t very social). It’s about outrage generation. It makes me think I’m not in the position of François Heisbourg, senior adviser for Europe at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, who is simply outside looking in:

"This is seriously big and bad. I hope the Senate will block her confirmation — but I don’t expect that to happen.”

When I am. I literally am. And nothing I say on this blog is going to change that.

“Courage to accept the things I cannot change.”