Mike the Mad Biologist/weblog:
Skilled Democrats Do Not Comprehend What They Are Dealing with
What Republicans put Jackson by means of immediately was appalling. The QAnon Reddit smear was appalling, the relentless shouting that she ought to reply questions she had answered a number of instances was appalling, the snide insinuations that perhaps she wasn’t bothered by violent baby pornography as a result of she’s OK with it was appalling. To be topic to an all-out inquisition about not having clairvoyance about which intercourse offenders would reoffend by among the exact same individuals who invited and justified the Jan. 6 assaults on the Capitol beggared perception.
The opposite current Republican propaganda stream has been to accuse Democrats of supporting ‘grooming’ of children by gay people–a vile and pernicious smear–as a result of Democrats are opposing “don’t say homosexual” (in colleges) payments.
These may not appear associated, however they’re each a part of an try and hyperlink Democrats with pedophilia and baby abuse. Whereas that is crimson meat for the numerous Q-Anon wing of the Republican Occasion, additionally it is an try and utterly smear Democrats in probably the most vile method. But skilled Democrats do nothing. In the meantime, when a Republican senator says the Supreme Court was wrong to legalize interracial marriage, skilled Democrats are quiet.
Skilled Democrats suck at their jobs.
Pizzagate on steroids, now pushed by Republican Senators and Congressmen/girls.
Greg Sargent/WaPo:
‘Morning Joe’ shock over Ginni Thomas factors to a hidden Jan. 6 fact
[Trump CoS Mark] Meadows texted to Ginni Thomas that the “King of Kings” would in the end “triumph” within the quest to overturn the election, which Meadows characterised as “a combat of fine versus evil.” Thomas, a longtime conservative activist, replied: “Thanks!! Wanted that!”
This sparked critical consternation on “Morning Joe,” with host Joe Scarborough delivering an emotional diatribe about it. “Take into consideration the illness of this,” Scarborough said Friday. “He summons the title of Jesus Christ for his assist in overturning American democracy!”
The sentiment is comprehensible. However what this stage of shock actually signifies is that this: We haven’t paid sufficient consideration to the function of right-wing Christian nationalism in driving Trump’s effort to destroy our political order, and within the abandonment of democracy amongst some on the appropriate extra broadly.
Edward Luce/Twitter:
Have acquired numerous challenges and pushback to my equation of Putin’s horrific Ukraine blunder with George W. Bush’s Iraq one. Right here’s my reply (forgive me: it’s a quiet morning)
This isn’t an ethical contest, which I wouldn’t start to know learn how to measure. It’s not moral math. One’s invasion is a narcissistic swing for historical past based mostly on unhealthy intel bullied out of nervous professionals. The opposite is what Putin is as much as.
Each invasions have been based mostly on manipulated ignorance. Fwiw, Ukraine is subsequent door to Russia. Iraq is midway around the globe from us. I emphasise geography as a result of some nonetheless consider Bush was nicely intentioned whereas Putin is darkish. I agree Putin is a conflict felony.
However for those who seek the advice of a map, it ought to offer you pause. Bush/Cheney acquired the system, together with the media, to border Iraq. My equivalence is about geopolitics. I don’t doubt Putin’s menace is existential & he should lose. Should you’re a small nation, you’ll really feel Putin’s menace extra keenly
In different phrases, the 2003 bloggers acquired it proper.
Chris Wallace Says Life at Fox Information Grew to become ‘Unsustainable’
As he begins a brand new streaming present at CNN, the longtime TV anchor displays on his choice to depart Fox Information after 18 years.
“I simply now not felt comfy with the programming at Fox.”
Chris Wallace uttered these phrases matter-of-factly, in between bites of a Sweetgreen salad at his new desk contained in the Washington bureau of CNN, the community he joined in January after practically 20 years at Fox Information.
For these on the left who admired him, and people on the appropriate who doubted him, it’s a press release that was a very long time coming…
So why did Mr. Wallace change the channel?
“I’m wonderful with opinion: conservative opinion, liberal opinion,” Mr. Wallace mentioned in his first intensive interview about his choice to depart. “However when folks begin to query the reality — Who received the 2020 election? Was Jan. 6 an rebel? — I discovered that unsustainable.”
Margaret Sullivan/WaPo:
The Kremlin tries to stifle Radio Free Europe — and its viewers surges
Because the U.S.-funded broadcaster is compelled to close most of its Russian operations, its Internet visitors signifies that Russian individuals are eagerly consuming its tales
However the story didn’t finish there. The Russian individuals are trying to find data, nevertheless they’ll. The proof is within the numbers,[Jamie Fly, the CEO of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty] informed me.
Within the first three weeks after the invasion, web page views from Russia to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty websites skyrocketed to 26 million, greater than 50 % greater than an earlier corresponding interval. Video views from Russia to their YouTube channels greater than tripled to 237 million. And this was taking place regardless of websites being blocked inside Russia.
“Regardless of the Kremlin stress, individuals are nonetheless hungry for the reality,” Fly informed me. “To some extent, they see by means of the propaganda, they usually need to discover broader sources of knowledge.”
See remainder of thread.
Pizzagate = QAnon = quite a few parts of the Republican occasion. I hope the beltway media is attempting to know how deep QAnon goes within the trendy GOP. This is not fringe, it is core.
Oh, and this in Ukraine:
David Rothkopf/Every day Beast:
Biden’s Details Don’t Care About Putin’s Emotions
Whereas America’s media is embroiled in another confected controversy, this one about whether or not Joe Biden damage Vladimir Putin’s emotions by talking the reality, it’s lacking two far larger tales.
A type of tales is the historic shift signaled by Biden’s Warsaw speech. Whereas some in contrast it to Kennedy’s “Ich bin ein berliner” speech or Reagan’s “Mr. Gorbachev tear down that wall” deal with, Biden’s was extra just like the speech given by Winston Churchill in Fulton Missouri on March 5, 1946. In that speech, with the phrases “From Stettin within the Baltic to Trieste within the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended throughout the continent” the previous British Prime Minister outlined the entrance line of Europe’s new Chilly Battle actuality.
Along with his remarks, Biden acknowledged that, solely as a consequence of the ruthless aggression of Vladimir Putin, Europe was as soon as once more divided. Extra broadly, he outlined the battle of the second as “a brand new nice battle for freedom: a battle between democracy and autocracy, between liberty and repression, between rules-based order and one ruled by brute power.”
And this within the US:
