The contemporary New York Times isn't even good fishwrap. Too often, it really is an "enemy of the people" due to the way it both-sides things and generally gets important facts wrong or left out, as with the article on Biden's budget.
If we were to have a ceremonial meal during which we asked questions, here are the four questions I would ask:
1. What is happening to the New York Times that it forgets so quickly and easily that Joe Biden submitted a budget in March?
2. At a time when fabulist JW Majewski was soundly defeated by old pro Marcy Kaptur (OH 09), will the people of NY 03, FL 13, and TN 05 dispose of George Santos, Anna Paulina Luna (whatever her name is), and Andy Ogles in 2024?
3. Will Jack Smith and other prosecutors finally rid us of the moral stain of Donald Trump?
4. Will the dam break and a slew of Supreme Court Justices resign or must we (can we win thoroughly enough in 2024) add seats to the Supreme Court?
I am still livid about Amy Klobuchar's public whine that President Biden needs to sit down with McCarthy. Such a scummy way to test the waters for her possible run at the presidency once more.
I constantly think of the 13 year old girl (allegedly) raped by Trump and Epstein whose moment in court never happened because of threats.
The other day there was a post on LinkedIn regarding a missing young teen girl in Arizona and some buzzard posted that 'the lefties' allow their children to drink and smoke and.... When are there going to be actual truths that can penetrate that misinformation sodden brains of millions of Ugly Americans?
The gross moral turpitude and evil that encrusts the U.S. must have always been there, but that a piece of filth who has trials for rape, for theft, for plotting to overthrow our government can run once again for the highest office in the land...
It would be appropriate for every reader of Today’s Edition to write The NY Times to point to their failure to write of Biden’s budget and plans therein to reduce the deficit. Honestly, the absence of this point while they concurrently point to pressure on the President to negotiate represent a lack of good faith journalism or editorial authorship.
As a regular reader of The Times, I found this piece unbalanced and lacking in authenticity. Why? Are they simply seeking profits rather than speaking to the failure of Kevin McCarthy’s Republicans to clearly address their budget goals?
It has always been a legitimate position to offer tax options to reduce deficits in view of the fact that every Republican president in recent history has increased our debt with greater deficits due to tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations while concurrently attempting to ignore the need for responsible regulations to capitalist’s failure to take actions in regard to some of the country’s most obvious needs from climate to childhood poverty to a major opioid crisis.
We must make our voices heard loud and clear. We are engaged citizens. We are democracy. Let’s speak truth to power.
Thanks Robert, you are right that the soul of this nation is the issue of 2024. What thing that confuses me is how can people not like Joe Biden. How can 35 percent of the country worship trump. This is frightening.
Being an American 1st and a Montanan 2nd I would request that you keep alive the GOP in Montana trying to silence Zooey Zephyr. She is following her Constitutional rights of free speech, as were the people in the gallery. Please help keep this issue alive. It's not over.
I do find it interesting that in the GOP's attempt to silence her she has been raised to a national and international platform (BBC).
She has expressed herself well. Hopefully, she will get on some talk shows.
While I do not know her personally, it's MISSOULA...1 degree of separation, she is my neighbor and she represents my neighbors in Missoula.
Apr 28, 2023·edited Apr 28, 2023Liked by Robert B. Hubbell
"The media is already falling into the trap of treating McCarthy’s proposal as serious."
"Trump has normalized depravity to the point that his party is not fazed by..." ANYthing! apparently.
"Trump has also normalized lying about education, experience, and credentials."
From the MSNBC piece "...nearly 10% of new House GOP members are alleged fabulists." and "This is lying on an industrial scale..."
"...two disparate visions of America...moral leadership and moral disintegration."
And it's only Friday. 🤯 On the other hand, E Jean Carroll is having her day in court - go, girl, for all of us! Democratic state representatives are holding their own, and the rest of us with them. Freshmen Democrats in the House of Representatives are using their credentials (not lying about them) to get the hard work done, for all of us. We must persist.
Reading Today’s Edition Newsletter is an example of how we are all overwhelmed by the sheer volume of events from alleged rape trials to several federal investigations to ethics of the Supreme Court. It’s some days it’s too much to comprehend and process. What concerns me greatly is we are losing focus on the real challenges to our Democracy and that is how Republicans in gerrymandered states are rushing to pass laws that are not wanted or desired by a majority of Americans. The reality is there are very few House of Representative seats that are competitive and until we change that dynamic we will continue the hand to hand combat in the trenches with Republicans. That has to be our focus in 2024 and ask yourself how I can help get just one house seat flipped in my state. That is where the focus has to be.
For all his bluster, McCarthy seems to have no clue about how to actually govern, and we'll all suffer for it. President Biden should not blink on his insistence that the debt ceiling should be raised without conditions. Clawbacks, budget revisions, and appropriations are different matters altogether. That McCarthy has conflated them with the debt we've already incurred betrays his thorough and utter ignorance.
Thanks for gifting the NYT article. I read it and the comments and posted this in the comment section.
No to negotiating with Republicans who are holding our economy hostage in order to get what they want.
The Democrats have already proposed an actual budget bill. Republicans need to do the same, then actual negotiations can begin, separate from the obligation to raise the debt limit.
The thing is, Trump has no moral or intellectual center. His next utterance is a reconstitution of the latest thing he has been told. He chose, or Jared and Don jr. chose, his next level down counselors who screened and reinterpreted everything that came into the Oval Office. It is they who are especially responsible for the depravity of the Trump years. Bannon, Navarro, Miller, etc. would right run over the Secretaries of Defense, State, Homeland Security, Treasury etc.
Regarding "The analyst, Ken Block of Simpatico Software Systems, forwarded his conclusions to the Trump campaign in late 2020. Trump continued to claim that the election was marred by massive fraud despite being told by two data analysis firms that there was no fraud."
The thing is: Trump doesn't read! The results of this firm's analysis was run through the mix-master of Stephen Miller, Peter Navarro, Don Jr., Eric, someone else. It was them, not DJ Trump, who were selective, specious, or in denial. Remember, Trump doesn't read. Everything he has ever said is because he was told something.
The contemporary New York Times isn't even good fishwrap. Too often, it really is an "enemy of the people" due to the way it both-sides things and generally gets important facts wrong or left out, as with the article on Biden's budget.
From Denialad: donbialostosky.substack.com
In Sum
Pence testified Friday to the grand jury;
The Proud Boys trial’s in the hands of their jury.
Under cross-exam E. Jean Carroll shot
Back, “He raped me whether I screamed or not.”
Bob Hubbell sums up Trump in this short list:
“Coup-plotting rapist white supremacist.”
If we were to have a ceremonial meal during which we asked questions, here are the four questions I would ask:
1. What is happening to the New York Times that it forgets so quickly and easily that Joe Biden submitted a budget in March?
2. At a time when fabulist JW Majewski was soundly defeated by old pro Marcy Kaptur (OH 09), will the people of NY 03, FL 13, and TN 05 dispose of George Santos, Anna Paulina Luna (whatever her name is), and Andy Ogles in 2024?
3. Will Jack Smith and other prosecutors finally rid us of the moral stain of Donald Trump?
4. Will the dam break and a slew of Supreme Court Justices resign or must we (can we win thoroughly enough in 2024) add seats to the Supreme Court?
I am still livid about Amy Klobuchar's public whine that President Biden needs to sit down with McCarthy. Such a scummy way to test the waters for her possible run at the presidency once more.
I constantly think of the 13 year old girl (allegedly) raped by Trump and Epstein whose moment in court never happened because of threats.
https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/1651296664412356626?s=20
The other day there was a post on LinkedIn regarding a missing young teen girl in Arizona and some buzzard posted that 'the lefties' allow their children to drink and smoke and.... When are there going to be actual truths that can penetrate that misinformation sodden brains of millions of Ugly Americans?
The gross moral turpitude and evil that encrusts the U.S. must have always been there, but that a piece of filth who has trials for rape, for theft, for plotting to overthrow our government can run once again for the highest office in the land...
It would be appropriate for every reader of Today’s Edition to write The NY Times to point to their failure to write of Biden’s budget and plans therein to reduce the deficit. Honestly, the absence of this point while they concurrently point to pressure on the President to negotiate represent a lack of good faith journalism or editorial authorship.
As a regular reader of The Times, I found this piece unbalanced and lacking in authenticity. Why? Are they simply seeking profits rather than speaking to the failure of Kevin McCarthy’s Republicans to clearly address their budget goals?
It has always been a legitimate position to offer tax options to reduce deficits in view of the fact that every Republican president in recent history has increased our debt with greater deficits due to tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations while concurrently attempting to ignore the need for responsible regulations to capitalist’s failure to take actions in regard to some of the country’s most obvious needs from climate to childhood poverty to a major opioid crisis.
We must make our voices heard loud and clear. We are engaged citizens. We are democracy. Let’s speak truth to power.
Thanks Robert, you are right that the soul of this nation is the issue of 2024. What thing that confuses me is how can people not like Joe Biden. How can 35 percent of the country worship trump. This is frightening.
Being an American 1st and a Montanan 2nd I would request that you keep alive the GOP in Montana trying to silence Zooey Zephyr. She is following her Constitutional rights of free speech, as were the people in the gallery. Please help keep this issue alive. It's not over.
I do find it interesting that in the GOP's attempt to silence her she has been raised to a national and international platform (BBC).
She has expressed herself well. Hopefully, she will get on some talk shows.
While I do not know her personally, it's MISSOULA...1 degree of separation, she is my neighbor and she represents my neighbors in Missoula.
Thank you for the reminder about President Biden’s budget! It is a talking point that I’m sure to be using.
"The media is already falling into the trap of treating McCarthy’s proposal as serious."
"Trump has normalized depravity to the point that his party is not fazed by..." ANYthing! apparently.
"Trump has also normalized lying about education, experience, and credentials."
From the MSNBC piece "...nearly 10% of new House GOP members are alleged fabulists." and "This is lying on an industrial scale..."
"...two disparate visions of America...moral leadership and moral disintegration."
And it's only Friday. 🤯 On the other hand, E Jean Carroll is having her day in court - go, girl, for all of us! Democratic state representatives are holding their own, and the rest of us with them. Freshmen Democrats in the House of Representatives are using their credentials (not lying about them) to get the hard work done, for all of us. We must persist.
Reading Today’s Edition Newsletter is an example of how we are all overwhelmed by the sheer volume of events from alleged rape trials to several federal investigations to ethics of the Supreme Court. It’s some days it’s too much to comprehend and process. What concerns me greatly is we are losing focus on the real challenges to our Democracy and that is how Republicans in gerrymandered states are rushing to pass laws that are not wanted or desired by a majority of Americans. The reality is there are very few House of Representative seats that are competitive and until we change that dynamic we will continue the hand to hand combat in the trenches with Republicans. That has to be our focus in 2024 and ask yourself how I can help get just one house seat flipped in my state. That is where the focus has to be.
Here's a link to talking points about Biden's 2024 Budget proposal: https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/briefing-room/2023/03/09/fact-sheet-the-presidents-budget-for-fiscal-year-2024/
For all his bluster, McCarthy seems to have no clue about how to actually govern, and we'll all suffer for it. President Biden should not blink on his insistence that the debt ceiling should be raised without conditions. Clawbacks, budget revisions, and appropriations are different matters altogether. That McCarthy has conflated them with the debt we've already incurred betrays his thorough and utter ignorance.
Thanks for gifting the NYT article. I read it and the comments and posted this in the comment section.
No to negotiating with Republicans who are holding our economy hostage in order to get what they want.
The Democrats have already proposed an actual budget bill. Republicans need to do the same, then actual negotiations can begin, separate from the obligation to raise the debt limit.
To Robert Hubbell, Thanks for powerful summaries, especially of Ms Carroll, Mr Smith, and as always positive support. SRGray
The thing is, Trump has no moral or intellectual center. His next utterance is a reconstitution of the latest thing he has been told. He chose, or Jared and Don jr. chose, his next level down counselors who screened and reinterpreted everything that came into the Oval Office. It is they who are especially responsible for the depravity of the Trump years. Bannon, Navarro, Miller, etc. would right run over the Secretaries of Defense, State, Homeland Security, Treasury etc.
Regarding "The analyst, Ken Block of Simpatico Software Systems, forwarded his conclusions to the Trump campaign in late 2020. Trump continued to claim that the election was marred by massive fraud despite being told by two data analysis firms that there was no fraud."
The thing is: Trump doesn't read! The results of this firm's analysis was run through the mix-master of Stephen Miller, Peter Navarro, Don Jr., Eric, someone else. It was them, not DJ Trump, who were selective, specious, or in denial. Remember, Trump doesn't read. Everything he has ever said is because he was told something.
Trump is only 3 yrs younger than Biden… Why is 77 way less old than 80?