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Old quote, often attrib. to Winston Churchill: "Always vote conservative. If you're a liberal and scandal hits, people will say, 'HAH! Your idol has feet of sand." But if you're conservative and do something NICE, they will be forced to say, "Gee! He wasn't such a bastard after all!"

Familiar to anyone who’s ever studied gender politics, dysfunctional family relationships, domestic violence, etc. The victim is always responsible and the abuser is never held to any accountability.

Especially when Trump appointee David Weiss reneged on Hunter's plea deal and the MSM didn't give a damn. It makes me furious that the MSM has been a major factor in destruction of justice in this country. Was there any outcry when Trump pardoned hundreds of evildoers on his way out? Of course not.

Works out well for Trump.

Exactly!

ON TARGET!

Fk media.

It’s a loaded deck and everybody knows it, but we’re all supposed to see balance!

Truth is that 24hr honest news channels are now unsustainable. The ad revenue is drying up so they need to create ever more controversy to retain a shrinking viewership. They literally have become nothing more than another reality TV "entertainment" show looking for eyeballs. #MSMJumpedTheShark

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Yep. Trump's crazy has been the norm and is no longer even mentioned by the corporate news media.

I am so over it.

forget the idea of anything that might seem suspect. even if there's no scandal at all, dems are still forced to answer for something being fabricated out of thin air or have their very existence treated as a scandal

Yes! It is so outrageous. I have stopped watching cable news and am subscribing to newsletters written by smart, insightful people.

It’s called basic journalism which they have refused to do since he came down that escalator. 🤬

I got an MSNBC super cut on my insta feed of all the times Biden said he would not pardon with a tone of “tsk tsk tsk.” It was enraging.

They’re playing PIG but we’re playing LAMBORGHINI

It’s almost like 5-year olds are running the place….each running to Mom as they tattletale on their siblings.

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A million times this. It’s so frustrating. Whose interest are they serving.

That are truly hypocritical jackasses in every sense of the word. They want to change the rules for their own purposes and to heck with the rest of the world.

I wrote a similar post: But tRump can say or do anything and gets a pass because everything he says is so scandalous and egregious it’s become normalized. When Biden gets a toe out of the status quo, heads explode and hair catches on fire.

This! Thank you Aaron!

Lottsa clear and understandable descriptors which distinguish one party from the other…60 years ago my father reduced it to these words: GOP policies take from the middle class… Dem policies are giving, caring for, and supporting the poor & middle class.

A pathetic paradox

Likewise, Democrats play by the rules and norms, to a fault (Garland) whereas Republicans violate them with abandon (McConnell, Barr, Thomas, Alito, Roberts). There's a reason why the GOP, which consistently has broadly unpopular policies, remains the dominant political party.

Because as a society, we’ve collectively accepted Republicans/conservatives are bad actors. So when they do the bare minimum, it’s celebrated. When Dems/liberals/progressives don’t live up to an absurd standard, it’s a moral failing.

If the Democrats are going to market themselves as more principled than the other side, they need to *be* more principled than the other side, even -- indeed, especially -- when it's inconvenient.

Rape and corruption 🚫🟰tan suit

Unfortunately that's the way it seems with justice in this country as well

Got a name?

IMO we need a *moon shot effort* and a GENIUS ad agency To figure out how to combat Trump’s firehose of lies & disinformation — given a poorly educated, gullible, and self-serving electorate with little time, attention span, or interest in ferreting out truth or understanding complex issues.

Rahm Emmanuel

We need to change that reality. Dems shouldn’t do bad and corrupt things, but Dems do need to quit worrying about being beyond reproach. And when we respond appropriately to a corrupt administration, we need to own that response proudly.

Dems are expected to be perfect while Trump and Republicans throw sh!t all over the place.

We love our purity tests. Nothing else matters as long as our leaders pass every BS test. SK is under Marshall law; could we discuss that instead of this BS?

I’m sick of it!

Like wearing a tan suit.

I think Biden's action was bad. BUT, Trump calls it an abuse of power. The media characterizes it as a miscarriage of justice. Did I miss the media saying all charges and convictions dropped against Trump was a miscarriage of justice? It was, it is, and the media is complicit.

YES!! I thought this about the cabinet picks that seem ridiculous. Maybe they are a distraction so that anyone else would seem better.

This is what is happening in the UK too. 14 years of Tory scandals, but the new Labour government gets criticised for all. Although I thought Starmer would have seen that and made sure his cabinet was beyond reproach. Terrible state of affairs.

In America, the moral high ground and 3 bucks will get you a cup of coffee.

Similar to what we saw on the campaign trail in the recent election.. Kamala/Tim had to be flawless and when they weren't they were held accountable.. Old Don/Hillbilly were essentially lawless, but the media still highlighted and praised them..

Dems need to stop eating their own and going along with the scandal accusations.

100 percent this and the “era”goes back a LOOOONG way, at least to Nixon/Ford.

Agreed. The news media is soft on Trump. Could that be because of who owns the news organizations?

The media is now in fear of criticizing Trump and MAGAs so they have lots of free time to criticize the Dems

Exactly. The rules only apply to democrats. Trump is literally changing the nature of our democracy every moment of the day but if a democrat does something in response to Trump that is not normal then the media freaks out. Biden pardoned Hunter to protect him not from consequences but from Trump.

As I've said several times, the media is like a parent that has an extremely bad kid they can't control, so they're extra hard on the other kid to prove they're a good parent.

Bullseye. And the media is still entertaining the notion that Trump will have some limits because Matt Gaetz stepped down. That’s the same bait-and-switch BS that Bush pulled nominating Harriet Myers for SCOTUS so Nazi Alito would look palatable by comparison.

And. The. Mainstream press. Is. Smart. Enough. To. Get. This!!!! Hanlon’s razor doesn’t apply here. The elite political press is putting their fingers on the scale and they KNOW IT. Especially at the executive level.

Exactly this.

Absolutely. It's infuriating!!

Exactly, which raises the question of why anyone still covers anything Trump says that doesn't directly address his malignant plans, since we already know anything else he or his sycophants say is propaganda, misinformation or outright lies. "News" coverage shouldn't normalize it.

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Yes, and I am damn sick of it. CNN talking about the Hunter "family" pardon setting a "precedent" like Charles Kushner didn't happen. COMPLICIT!

Yeah, those MAGA, I mean maggots, are trying to make bad the new good, and good the new bad in this country

It’s fucking exhausting. How do we get these standards changed (meaning the Press in line and not all cattywompus against Dems)?

Yes, all true.

Stop already everyone with the handwringing and absolute nonsense about "this tarnishes his legacy." Let's keep our focus on the incompetent and dangerous proposed appointees and the upcoming harm coming to everyone. Enough about Hunter Biden.

Yep. And the D’d have internalized it so when a D breaks a norm he gets blasted by the media, the D’s and the R’s! Bipartisanship! The public loves bipartisanship and thinks it’s a stamp of credibility. When the R’s break a norm? Only the D’s yell about it and it looks partisan and suspect.

So true. Every word.

Yup

The media knows they are on the chopping block if the dare report the truth. Trump is their cash cow.

Dems need to start doing worse things. Turn the tables on them. I’ll accept some bad as long as only Trump and his minions get hurt.

…involving ordinary ppl in the abuse to foster complicity, and dilute all personal accountability; while presenting all of this destructive, immoral nonsense as being in the service of some higher ideal. How far along are we?

It's the most immense double standard in the history of Christendom.

Welcome to what women and POC have dealt with all their lives for generations!

WOW! That is an excellent narrative, thx for putting it in such understandable terms. I'm going to follow you.

I think we as liberals need to fight back with vigor and aggression instead of being so polite and passive. Obviously good manners didn't Harris elected.

It is complete manufactured junk by the MSM. There are two standards and it is only getting worse. The Dems need to continue to follow the rule of law but we have to start seeking out the loopholes that exist and exploit them. If not, the slide toward fascism will continue.

This, a million times. There is no bothism here. And the level of shit that Thing pulls is staggering while Democrats swear & they're excoriated.

Yep. It’s not normal. And we cannot normalize it.

I was brought up Dem and moderate, but was scolded all over by those more liberal (and richer, BTW) for not being a good member of the new clique. Rankled. Almost turned me around. So when someone says "They go low; we go high" I feel that as a claim of superiority and have the "low" reaction.

True. But another asymmetry I see is educational. The hand-written signs of MAGA are almost invariably full of spelling and grammar errors, suggestive of lack of good basic education, whereas signs of libs aren't. The educational level of media has also dropped markedly from 1950s.

Nailed it!!

We need to reject this box that the RW and corporate media are happy to construct and maintain. All Dem commentators need to reject this framing and reframe every conversation

It’s maddening

Yeah, double standard here.

Didn’t Dems sell themselves as the more ethical option?

The Michael Flynn pardon boils my blood more than anything in politics. That man plead guilty to being a unregistered foreign agent of two different countries, while holding the highest national security clearance in the nation. He is despicable.

Yes! I was scrolling instagram and I got an MSNBC super cut of all the times Biden said he would not pardon with a town of “tsk tsk tsk.” How dare they. We don’t care. Fight back for once! New democratic leadership!

Exactly

Al Franken. Damn I still miss him.

bro it's been this way since the fucking 80s. and I'll fucking say it again. I better not hear a FUCKING. WORD. about Clinton getting a goddamn blowjob after TWO MILLION GODDAMN AMERICANS FUCKING <DIED.>

Exactly. I agree with you.

Exactly right. The lopsided coverage the race was maddening

Which I think is why people are just turning off the television. Turn off, Tune out, Drop Out. Don’t give the media bastards clicks or subscribers or ratings. Of course I’m not speaking of all media, you of course.

You cannot put a qualifier before “justice” and be liberal. You are signalling an affinity with ancestral guilt and group guilt. This is antithetical to western liberal democracy

As far as I know, one person did that. His name was George Wilson. Here is the story: www.cbmcint.com/the-man-who-....

Exactly

MSM is responsible for this bullshit.

How do we fix it?

A pardon dating back to 2014 isn’t suspicious at all. You’re a moron.😂

Not that I disagree, but another angle might be "Coverage follows broken promises"

Especially when Trump appointee David Weiss reneged on Hunter's plea deal and the MSM didn't give a damn. It makes me furious that the MSM has been a major factor in destruction of justice in this country. Was there any outcry when Trump pardoned hundreds of evildoers on his way out? Of course not.

It’s the up is down & down is up syndrome. Good is evil & evil is good. So what does that make a Christian? Those who claim to be aren’t & those who don’t but act so and get mistreated.

Right out of the fascist playbook.

Exactly, remember Al Franken.

So in this way they spend as many hours with scandals from both sides… sure they barely glance on Trumps hundreds of scandals but can spend tons of time on a single Biden blunder. We’re not asking for equal total time, we’re asking for equal time per scandal based on it’s relevance

We can largely thank legacy media and by extension billionaires for that divide.

Exactly. And I am so tired of it.

Absolutely!

Yeah, but trump is cleaning up the swamp, so there's that, right?

Seriously. The double standard is absurd. And disgusting, frankly.

Thank you!

Because trump was able to tie up the courts & end the cases against him, we’ll never know the full extent of corruption in his first term. But, in the coming months, if you are one of the hated minority, those ‘both sides journalists’ will have no room in their attics, I promise.

Exactly that

And it’s f’ing infuriating.

Spot on. Low expectations for Trump normalize bad behavior, while Democrats are scrutinized for every misstep. This double standard warps accountability and distracts from real issues. Let’s demand integrity across the board—not just where it’s convenient.

I think that any Dem going on MSM must call this nonsense out. Even better would be to call it out and then let them know they will no longer deal with them. Let the viewers know they will be going to xyz as they report accurately and are not cowards.

It’s called enabling. We have to stop enabling him and those like him.

One way to neutralize that is for (D) to stop claiming to be better than (R). That is on them. That is the reason why (D)s are expected to be beyond reproach... because they claim to be.

You said the exact same thing I said, except your used Hilary instead of Biden as your example. Afghanistan too got wall to wall coverage, and everything Trump has done over the last 5 years has just gotten a quick blurb

This is so accurate

This has to change because it is obvious the assertion portion of the American population want the chaos and if the Dems wish to win next time, they need to have just enough chaos to make the mega people feel that the Dems have a pair of balls