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I’m not sure the word Dictatorship is a strong enough term for this nightmare. Oligarchy Totalitarianism and unbridled corruption describes it better, i.m.h.o.

Legacy Media is utterly disgraceful They have abandoned their mission & are nothing more than a MAGA/GOP echo chamber of lies & Trumpaganda We support Independent Media

It's a perfect storm. Voters failed, politicians failed, media failed, courts failed.....

We already know.

If by “missing” you mean actively rooting for it

They’re all hoping they’ll be able to capitalize off of this somehow…and many of them have already.

They're not "missing' anything. THEY. ARE. ASSISTING. IT.

That's a good image. It hurts the eyes.

there’s one standalone, it is MSNOW and was sounding the alarm back in 2024 and before, Rachel Maddow in 10/24 said you’re not voting for the person but for a democracy or an autocracy-it’s that simple, repubs aren’t interested in governing only controlling & ‘watch what they do not what they say’

Many outlets ENABLED this.

It'll be February 30th before that happens because most major media is owned by Trump supporters who own most major media so they can get bribes from Trump in exchange for favorable coverage.

I'd venture to guess that it will definitely be the latter.

Oligarch-owned media won't tell you, but the BBC will.

America belongs to the oligarchs. Nobody will fight back. Project 2025 is a success. The "elections" are pointless. Too bad Americans can't be bothered. Hurray for America.

Sliding toward? What would be the line to cross to define it is a dictatorship?

Their mission is to normalize it which they been trying to do since January. Thats what they were purchased for.

Watch MS NOW. They are sounding the alarm all the time.

In politics, shame used to work as a deterrence, now doubling down is a worn as a badge of honor. This is why imo we are unable to hold the media and politicians to account.

It's not the media's job to comment on what is actually happening. Journalists are only allowed to report on what people are saying is happening. The only legitimate voices allowed to be unquestioningly reported are Republicans.

I tried. From October 2020: niemanreports.org/it-can-happe...

I put this comment out yesterday and even though I clearly anticipated it, I'm still a bit shocked how little Trump's outrageous South Korean treachery moved the legacy media. bsky.app/profile/jimt...

from the privileged perspective of their pinnacle atop mounds of money they see themselves as saving us from our ignorant needy selves -we Always feel justified in how our experiences have shaped us and our views -& isolation from understanding what others go through & care about harms All of us. ✌️⚖️

2/2 Her view on Trump is dimmer than her view on Satan. She's called the cops on a former When a former family friend showed up, aggressively expressing Trump support, she ended up threatening to call the cops on him to get him out of the house.

They are driving the F-ing car towards the cliff. Of course they won’t say anything.

They’re either complete cowards or in on it. I haven’t decided which yet. Maybe some of both. Either way they are failing us. When this is over and we take back control, I vote to dismantle and shut down every single one that failed to do their jobs on behalf of our country.

The Fourth Estate has become a disgrace to the definition. Who the hell is teaching journalism these days? The reality is it’s only become terrain for empty headed pretty faces and others too stupid to know how to create meaningful follow up questions during interviews.

It's a race to see who dies first for them, Trump or our democracy. They're just waiting it out.

They will never give up the access.

Corporate media is in on it.

The major media are owned by billionaires who are happy with the slide. Of course they won't object. They're cheering.

The corporate media reporters are intimidated by their overlords. Independent media is all over it.

Please educate your silly conservative acquaintances To the dangerous anti democratic philosophy of Curtis Yarvin whose madness has been thrust on us by Peter Thiel And Elon Musk who bought the government from Resident Rump They aim to destroy the USA turning it into aplayground for Technocrats!🇺🇸💩🇺🇸

At this point, you really have to wonder what it'd take for them to state the obvious. It's functionally a dictatorship already. Armbands and "Roman salutes," maybe?

www.democracynow.org/2026/8/17/gi... And then there is this. Horrifying.

How about we're sliding into a recession. We're already in a dictatorship. We are being dictated thru TFG and now DOJ. What happens in the next two years is up to US. Accept or Reject. CHOICES!! Vote for your choices!!

The odd thing is that their silence will not protect them. The press will still be at the top of the menu.

It’s ironic that in a post on journalism not speaking reality, you’re using waffling words.

I read the article. Your post says “sliding toward” and that’s what I’m commenting on.

Sliding?

They are complicit.

Those who can see, chose to be led by those who are blind,

I just watched Nuremberg, NOW is a good time to speak up

Totally agree about language like "testing norms" -- always hated that, so dry and lame, as if our ideals are based on humdrum norms and combatting fascism is really just about wanting everything to be safe & milqtoast. Here is another (similar) take on it: luminoushand.wordpress.com/2025/06/13/g...

The sliding is finished. It may not be a competent dictatorship, but it is in place.

Most major media outlets are owned by loyalists to trump so to expect any bad press is pretty naive

They say nothing. How can you blame the people who don’t have the money for Cable who worked their asses off two jobs maybe three. Have children. But the half hour news should have a fucking announcement that we are in an insurrection. Every fucking night.

As few people are watching or reading “major media” any longer, not sure how much this really matters. If the alarm would anyone hear?

Julius Streicher publication Der Stermer. He published Nazi propaganda for Hitler. He was tried alongside Himmler at Nuremberg for crimes against humanity. He was found guilty. He was hanged. Gonna be lots of these legacy media journalists that will find themselves in similar circumstances 🥰

Oh come on, 'sliding toward'? Pres PIzda has tried to be a dictator since the start of his second term. Only sporadic remnants of democracy have prevented him up to a point.

Can they fail us any more than they already have? is the painful question.

Do you have a Substack alternative, Mark?

My guess is that they won't. Given their track record, they're more than happy to be complicit because that's the easy way out.

“Sliding towards” and “looming” are not the correct words. They imply that we’re not there yet. What are the red lines we haven’t crossed yet? Care to enumerate them?

 too late… IMO 😔

Sliding? We're screaming towards it. On fire. With tassels.

He wears a Trump 2028 cap because he plans to install Don Jr.

Trump lies with virtually every utterance, but once in a while there's a kernel of truth buried in his logorrhea. When he called "The Media" the enemy of the people, everyone gasped. But in fact, there's a very real sense (which you point out in your newsletter) in which this is true.

They are not journalists. Journalists are dedicated to the truth and democracy. They are merely entertainers and propagandists.

But that would be TAKING SIDES!

not sliding into a dictatorship -- it's been here for sometime!

Maybe because we had been sliding toward it for 50 years? Now, in the famous words of Palmolive, “we’re soaking in it.” You seem to have noticed that the frogs aren’t questioning whether the pot is getting hotter anymore.

Thank you

NYT is the worst, because it is knows the truth yet dishonestly sanitizes ever bit of Trump admin corruption. You can't be "independent sometimes". An AG is either independent or not. Blanche made it clear he's corrupt. But Glen Thrush cleans up for him www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...

They are getting paid to divide the democratic vote instead of telling the voters that this is war on our nation by the Republicans.

The media companies are owned by the people pushing us toward dictatorship, so no.

They are afraid of the consequences.

They are the ones who haven't quit or have the guts to say anything is brought and paid for. Their middle class existence depends on them maintaining a decent job with benefits. Just look at the journalists who attended the WH Dinner yukking it up in front of Trump and his minions.

Sliding towards? Sliding towards? Look around you, Mark Jacob, you’re soaking in it.

More like slid, use the past tense.

- Fascinating interview on PBS recently revealed that an independent non-commercial organization has apparently noted that USA is no longer a Democracy - Expected pushback included clarifying a huge difference to Russia, N Korea etc and discussed Hungary’s experiences and its task of recovering

Hopefully death will catch up with him before long💀

#30million8/30 Using the profound legal theory that enough is enough. When will it be enough? No Kings fucked us. 50501 is not organizing mass protests. When do we take it upon ourselves to spread the word about a self initiated mass protest? NATIONWIDE PROTEST 8/30 END FASCISM IN AMERICA!

It's not looming. It's here.

NY Times couldn't bring themselves to cover the inflammatory claims made IN A COURT OF LAW by Capital One that they closed 300 Trump accounts out of money laundering concerns. That's just appalling - especially since they had a P. 1 story on Hunter Biden's 2016 "corruption" just last October.

Instead of fitting their analyses into the paradigm of a president hostile to US interests and using US resources to support and ally with brutal dictators, the media exclusively try to fit Trump's actions into traditional foreign policy categories, thus normalizing him.

Our crack media have forgotten how to spell - or pronounce - the words fascism or liar. #GutlessJournalism

Project 2025 was not taken at all seriously! Bet people will wish they would have!

They know it will be bigger business for them to breathlessly report on the end of democracy than to warn about how it is 100% about to end

Mr. "Even When I'm Wrong I'm Right" Tom Nichols will insult you with a 35 post tantrum if you try and point this out.

Sure, they'll sound the alarm. Just go to YouTube and watch some episodes of "Die Deutsche Wochenschau", especially the March 22, 1945 episode.

‘Sliding towards’ ? Too bloody late for that!

Wait!!! We have Media??

The most shameful since Hitler, I suppose.

I’m leaning towards number two .

"the most shameful episode of journalism neglect in our nation's history" started waaay before Trump.

I wouldn’t say “looming” anymore. It’s here, so long as the walking, talking human pig remains free.