Only if nullification was not a possibility. Nullification sends a much stronger and important message. Namely we don’t give a fuck if they’re guilty or not. Because this is a bullshit show trial that does not have Justice in mind. Yes I’m aware prosecutors often ask for the largest applicable sentence possible eventually negotiating down. That doesn’t make this any less bullshit.

In this one isolated instance Carville isn’t wrong for once. Which is actually very notable. That said fuck both Maher and Carville

I really don’t like jury duty. And would do plenty to get out of it. If I got called for this one. I would happily nullify it as hard as I could.

What’s causing the rise in cases is actual diagnosis. For many generations. Theirs and mine included. Either you were institutionalized. Or you were undiagnosed. People would just refer to you as Quirky or eccentric. There was no Spectrum to be on. It was treated as largely binary. Only in the last 40 years at the earliest did they start to fully understand the condition. And even now they still have a long way to go. But they’ve at least started recognizing the larger condition.

Thinking that the rise in diagnoses at this point is some sort of crisis/pandemic or Healthcare emergency that needs to be addressed. Is like blaming the Exterminator coming out and finding your house is filled with termites. It wasn’t filled with termites before they came just a few odd little ones that you saw skittering about on the surface. All these other ones must have been brought by them or someone else right? It’s not like they could have been there all along and we just didn’t notice?

Whole bunch of Chamberlain looking motherfuckers.

Hah good catch! I should always proof read voice to text. Even simple shit like this. Because AI will find a way to fuck it up.

They can 100% report on the goings on without even being in there. All that’s being aired in there are lies.

One of the core tools of fascism and propaganda is repetition. All of these Outlets just reporting what they say, fulfill this succinctly. Fuck what they say. It doesn’t mean anything anyway.

And you are right about the fact that Trump won’t care in the least. That is undeniably true. And not at all the point of such a boycott. Trump will happily fill it with ass kissers and yes men just like he has everything else. But when that’s all that’s there. It sort of becomes obvious what a joke it all is. When long time conservatives have to question who the hell cat turd is and what his credentials are to be in the White House Press pool. It will wake a few people up. A few that would never snapped out of it as long as CBS, NBC, ABC continue to let the Whitehouse use whatever reputation these outlets have left to pretend to have any legitimacy.

If you are simply reporting and ultimately repeating what a fascist says. You’re part of the problem.

I mean he’s a literal fascist. What else should anyone have expected this is exactly what they do. When you show them your weak. You’re just a bigger Target.

Yes they like to pretend. But that’s the point. They are all still there. And in my view if they ever were truly legitimate. Are clearly not at this point

CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC Etc are still there I’m sure

I said it before and I will keep saying it. Any legitimate outlet would be boycotting the Whitehouse in solidarity with the AP till the AP is allowed back in. If you aren’t allowed to push back against their lies and misinformation without fear of reprisals. Then what’s the point of attending? You’re just giving legitimacy to the propaganda. Walk away and let it devolve into an embarrassing circus of no names and bigots whom no one respects.

If they cannot dissent or ask actual valid questions what’s the point of even being there? The fact that all of them have not stopped going until the AP is allowed back in tells you all you need to know about how trustworthy any of these Outlets are. Not.

I agree. My nitpick was with the headline framing the corruption as new and different. It’s much the same old corruption. Just now it’s flaunting itself, daring the law and any checks and balances to do their job. And when they inevitably fail, as they generally do. Instead of happening quietly in the background where most won’t notice. It absolutely will be on display, encouraging others to be similarly corrupt.

There absolutely is some value in appearances. The mistake was to rely on appearances instead of effective and meaningful punishment.

Oh absolutely. I never claimed otherwise. As you and I both stated. The brazenness and openness with which it was done is the only new thing.

They always were part of the system. However the system did pretend to care about it Once Upon a Time. Trump is just brazen and in your face with it. And if you take offense somehow it’s all your fault somehow.

That’s communism though not leninism.

Not going to lie. I had a bit of a start at first before I read the article wondering if that were the case. Which I think is exactly why the media framed it the way they did. A lot of people will only see the headlines.

Agreed. But a lot of this isn’t rational and people aren’t thinking that far ahead. They just know that things aren’t right that they should be better but they cannot articulate why or how. They’re just angry and looking for an outlet. Which as you said stands a good chance of coming back down on them hard.

Doesn’t matter what party a politician identifies. The average person may know jack shit about politics or general stance of most elected politicians. But they know enough to know that some of them. Even if they can’t personally identify them correctly are responsible for the dysfunction. And they will lash out at the ones they can to get attention.

Even if your average Republican voter is wrong about nearly everything. And they are. There is one thing they are right about. And we need to acknowledge it. Government has become the problem. Yes their every action has only made it worse. But if you can engage them with non-team sport rhetoric. You can get many of them to acknowledge it and turn from an enemy to an ally.

I wouldn’t say it can’t. Politicians and oligarchs have worked hard to make peaceful change almost impossible. And as the saying goes. When peaceful protest/change becomes impossible. Violent protest/change become inevitable.

I would rather live in a world where the representatives we elect represent us. Instead of ignoring us and representing wealthy donors. After all, what are we going to do? Elect someone else like them?

This will definitely get their attention. There’s no ignoring this, whether or not you agree with it.