Citizen K says "Rebuild The White House"
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I’d be more sympathetic to “Nuzzi and Lizza are uniquely bad and not at all representative of political reporters in general” if political reporters haven’t spent the past 10 years torching their own credibility all the way back to the full court press on Hillary’s emails.
November 27, 2025 at 4:31 AM
I’d be more sympathetic to “Nuzzi and Lizza are uniquely bad and not at all representative of political reporters in general” if political reporters haven’t spent the past 10 years torching their own credibility all the way back to the full court press on Hillary’s emails.
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Also these are people at the heights of the industry, and both Nuzzi and Lizza were almost instantly rehabilitated by top media companies after a first round of scandals that should have made them radioactive. Now lo and behold, much bigger shoes to drop, and we probably haven't seen the last of it.
The reason that we reporters are focused so intensely on the L'affair Nuzzi is that, as Olivia notes, it is a basically apocalyptic scandal in the most literal sense of that term: a dropping of masks. It's acting as confirmation of every hideous story anybody's ever told about political journalists
this was bad before, but these are the most troubling and serious allegations you can make about a journalist. if they’re true, i genuinely can’t think of a worse scandal in the history of political journalism. devastating to our industry, to public trust as a whole, and to everyone in its orbit
November 27, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Also these are people at the heights of the industry, and both Nuzzi and Lizza were almost instantly rehabilitated by top media companies after a first round of scandals that should have made them radioactive. Now lo and behold, much bigger shoes to drop, and we probably haven't seen the last of it.
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Also these are people at the heights of the industry, and both Nuzzi and Lizza were almost instantly rehabilitated by top media companies after a first round of scandals that should have made them radioactive. Now lo and behold, much bigger shoes to drop, and we probably haven't seen the last of it.
The reason that we reporters are focused so intensely on the L'affair Nuzzi is that, as Olivia notes, it is a basically apocalyptic scandal in the most literal sense of that term: a dropping of masks. It's acting as confirmation of every hideous story anybody's ever told about political journalists
November 27, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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Reposted by Citizen K says "Rebuild The White House"
Sure, Nuzzi isn’t all journalists. Sure, Larry Summers isn’t all academics. Sure, Musk isn’t all CEOs. And also, if you don’t think their prominence & behavior tells us something about those professions & our National Conversation™️ in this authoritarian era, I don’t really know what to tell you.
you know, what if they aren't actually a commentary on journalism or the state of media. what if these people are just extremely weird
November 27, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Sure, Nuzzi isn’t all journalists. Sure, Larry Summers isn’t all academics. Sure, Musk isn’t all CEOs. And also, if you don’t think their prominence & behavior tells us something about those professions & our National Conversation™️ in this authoritarian era, I don’t really know what to tell you.
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And it's not the first time that's happened either! Anyone remember Weigel's open misogyny getting papered over?
November 27, 2025 at 5:03 AM
And it's not the first time that's happened either! Anyone remember Weigel's open misogyny getting papered over?
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I dunno personally I'm probably not going to trust many people in the media's assertions that this isn't a commentary on journalism or the state of media considering how half of media promoted/hired/wrote positively about Nuzzi, while a good number of journalists closed ranks around her.
you know, what if they aren't actually a commentary on journalism or the state of media. what if these people are just extremely weird
November 27, 2025 at 5:03 AM
I dunno personally I'm probably not going to trust many people in the media's assertions that this isn't a commentary on journalism or the state of media considering how half of media promoted/hired/wrote positively about Nuzzi, while a good number of journalists closed ranks around her.
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I think plenty of it speaks to the state of the media, but an obvious one is that Vox and Vanity Fair barely investigated her and that she managed to commit an unforgivable journalistic crime before getting a book deal and walking into another prestige job, while plenty of others are being laid off
you know, what if they aren't actually a commentary on journalism or the state of media. what if these people are just extremely weird
November 27, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I think plenty of it speaks to the state of the media, but an obvious one is that Vox and Vanity Fair barely investigated her and that she managed to commit an unforgivable journalistic crime before getting a book deal and walking into another prestige job, while plenty of others are being laid off
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yep. also really can't overstate how much nuzzi is very much the product of an environment that rewards amoral ambition and frowns on people who sincerely believe anything
November 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
yep. also really can't overstate how much nuzzi is very much the product of an environment that rewards amoral ambition and frowns on people who sincerely believe anything
Reposted by Citizen K says "Rebuild The White House"
We proved Keynesianism is objectively true! And the voters rewarded this by returning the most manifestly unfit man to hold the White House to power!
November 26, 2025 at 9:37 PM
We proved Keynesianism is objectively true! And the voters rewarded this by returning the most manifestly unfit man to hold the White House to power!
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also, like, he was old, and he talked like old man, especially one that grew up with a stutter, to run at that full force and ignore the other drooling old man yelling awful things clearly was obscene, I don't know how any old people weren't offended to the point of not voting maga, but they did.
November 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
also, like, he was old, and he talked like old man, especially one that grew up with a stutter, to run at that full force and ignore the other drooling old man yelling awful things clearly was obscene, I don't know how any old people weren't offended to the point of not voting maga, but they did.
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Look I don't want to say you're a rube if you fell for the "Biden's incompetent" trope but it was clearly a con coming almost exclusively from bad faith actors and had almost zero solid evidentiary basis.
November 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Look I don't want to say you're a rube if you fell for the "Biden's incompetent" trope but it was clearly a con coming almost exclusively from bad faith actors and had almost zero solid evidentiary basis.
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No matter how many times they acknowledge the manifest failures of the media or the endless lies of the GOP, they will ALWAYS believe an unnamed “Democratic consultant” in Axios. They don’t even have a moment’s pause to believe them.
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 AM
No matter how many times they acknowledge the manifest failures of the media or the endless lies of the GOP, they will ALWAYS believe an unnamed “Democratic consultant” in Axios. They don’t even have a moment’s pause to believe them.
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Oh dang the article that started the avalanche of Biden Old push notifications from every major news outlet was written by a woman who was sleeping with a *different* presidential candidate *at the time*?
Now does everyone understand what I mean by "ratfucking operation"?
Now does everyone understand what I mean by "ratfucking operation"?
November 27, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Oh dang the article that started the avalanche of Biden Old push notifications from every major news outlet was written by a woman who was sleeping with a *different* presidential candidate *at the time*?
Now does everyone understand what I mean by "ratfucking operation"?
Now does everyone understand what I mean by "ratfucking operation"?
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Now do y'all understand my absolute incandescent rage at "journalists" who respond with "I'm not going to do Free PR for Democrats!!!11!!!"?
Republicans get anyone and everyone in the media to line up to do their dirty work for them. Democrats can't get that.
Republicans get anyone and everyone in the media to line up to do their dirty work for them. Democrats can't get that.
November 27, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Now do y'all understand my absolute incandescent rage at "journalists" who respond with "I'm not going to do Free PR for Democrats!!!11!!!"?
Republicans get anyone and everyone in the media to line up to do their dirty work for them. Democrats can't get that.
Republicans get anyone and everyone in the media to line up to do their dirty work for them. Democrats can't get that.
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It's not just that the United States has stopped trying to promote liberal democratic ideas internationally. It's that the United States is actively trying to promote the contrary. It's trying to turn more countries into Hungary.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
U.S. to Press Europe and Other Allies on ‘Mass Migration,’ Document Says
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
It's not just that the United States has stopped trying to promote liberal democratic ideas internationally. It's that the United States is actively trying to promote the contrary. It's trying to turn more countries into Hungary.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Reposted by Citizen K says "Rebuild The White House"
Biden was old, tired, sick, stuttered, & clearly wasn't what he once was, even ten years ago.
But everyone, especially Tapper, Thompson, Nuzzi, & the rest of the elites, who made it something else & pretended he was just like Trump should be deeply ashamed. But we don't seem to do shame anymore.
But everyone, especially Tapper, Thompson, Nuzzi, & the rest of the elites, who made it something else & pretended he was just like Trump should be deeply ashamed. But we don't seem to do shame anymore.
Look I don't want to say you're a rube if you fell for the "Biden's incompetent" trope but it was clearly a con coming almost exclusively from bad faith actors and had almost zero solid evidentiary basis.
November 26, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Biden was old, tired, sick, stuttered, & clearly wasn't what he once was, even ten years ago.
But everyone, especially Tapper, Thompson, Nuzzi, & the rest of the elites, who made it something else & pretended he was just like Trump should be deeply ashamed. But we don't seem to do shame anymore.
But everyone, especially Tapper, Thompson, Nuzzi, & the rest of the elites, who made it something else & pretended he was just like Trump should be deeply ashamed. But we don't seem to do shame anymore.
Reposted by Citizen K says "Rebuild The White House"
Again, no one is able to identify a single part of governance or policy that Joe Biden wasn't able to do while in office. This entire offensive National Conversation™️ needs to end & everyone needs to focus on the criminal fascism going on now, being committed by the other party & the other old man.
👇🎯💯 All of this. Not a single person or journalist is able to identify a single part of the actual <governing> & <policy> part of the job Biden wasn’t doing. And we never had this feeding frenzy for Reagan or Trump, both of whom weren’t able/willing to do the actual job during their terms. Enough.
I say all this to say, stop it. Biden was old, tired, not as sharp in language, recall or gait as two years before.
But he was doing the job and doing it well. Sadly he was not able to effectively do the Comms part of the job which requires vigor & charisma.
Now do a wellness check on Trump.
But he was doing the job and doing it well. Sadly he was not able to effectively do the Comms part of the job which requires vigor & charisma.
Now do a wellness check on Trump.
May 18, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Again, no one is able to identify a single part of governance or policy that Joe Biden wasn't able to do while in office. This entire offensive National Conversation™️ needs to end & everyone needs to focus on the criminal fascism going on now, being committed by the other party & the other old man.
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Again:
Again, no one is able to identify a single part of governance or policy that Joe Biden wasn't able to do while in office. This entire offensive National Conversation™️ needs to end & everyone needs to focus on the criminal fascism going on now, being committed by the other party & the other old man.
👇🎯💯 All of this. Not a single person or journalist is able to identify a single part of the actual <governing> & <policy> part of the job Biden wasn’t doing. And we never had this feeding frenzy for Reagan or Trump, both of whom weren’t able/willing to do the actual job during their terms. Enough.
November 26, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Again:
What pisses me off about this specific hobby horse is how pushes like this pretend we didn't actually impeach Trump twice over, but b/c there was no margin in the Senate to convict (something EVERYONE knew), the media treated Trump like he was innocent and folks blamed Dems for not wanting it enough
Impeach, convict, remove.
And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will.
And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will.
November 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
What pisses me off about this specific hobby horse is how pushes like this pretend we didn't actually impeach Trump twice over, but b/c there was no margin in the Senate to convict (something EVERYONE knew), the media treated Trump like he was innocent and folks blamed Dems for not wanting it enough
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This is the most DISGUSTING display of public human depravity. Why? Because they aren't subtle or secretive about its objective to use & validate the industrial deportation complex to give rich assholes the power to disappear & traffic ANY PERSON THEY HAVE POWER OVER.
That means me, you, all of us.
That means me, you, all of us.
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This is the most DISGUSTING display of public human depravity. Why? Because they aren't subtle or secretive about its objective to use & validate the industrial deportation complex to give rich assholes the power to disappear & traffic ANY PERSON THEY HAVE POWER OVER.
That means me, you, all of us.
That means me, you, all of us.
Oh, so we're transitioning to isolationism in tourism now, I see. I'm sure that'll go well in sectors literally built on tourism, because it's worked so well in other countries where nativism meets tourism...
The new $100+ price hike will affect 11 popular parks, including the Grand Canyon and Yosemite. https://cnn.it/44vIB9m
November 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Oh, so we're transitioning to isolationism in tourism now, I see. I'm sure that'll go well in sectors literally built on tourism, because it's worked so well in other countries where nativism meets tourism...
Apropos of absolutely nothing, I have a firm belief that key lime pie is the ideal chilled pie, and I will take no questions on the matter.
November 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Apropos of absolutely nothing, I have a firm belief that key lime pie is the ideal chilled pie, and I will take no questions on the matter.
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SARS-CoV-2 is not “airborne HIV” and I will not permit this narrative on my feed.
It’s an irresponsible and harmful claim made by people who understand nothing about viruses.
It’s an irresponsible and harmful claim made by people who understand nothing about viruses.
November 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
SARS-CoV-2 is not “airborne HIV” and I will not permit this narrative on my feed.
It’s an irresponsible and harmful claim made by people who understand nothing about viruses.
It’s an irresponsible and harmful claim made by people who understand nothing about viruses.
Reposted by Citizen K says "Rebuild The White House"
A roundtrip LAX-JFK flight in the late 60s was around $3K in today’s dollars. The people who wore suits on those flights were the people who regularly wore suits. Complaining about informally-dressed fliers is complaining that the wrong sorts of people are flying today.
November 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
A roundtrip LAX-JFK flight in the late 60s was around $3K in today’s dollars. The people who wore suits on those flights were the people who regularly wore suits. Complaining about informally-dressed fliers is complaining that the wrong sorts of people are flying today.