Elbert de Bruin

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[Elbert de Bruin @elbertdebruin]

@MiesBee Jip is leuk.

[Bart Ervenborg @BartsTwitt]

Wie had er dan naar de jaarlijkse VN vergadering moeten gaan @VictorVlam De begroting is deze week nog niet behandeld en volgens mij doet de @Minister_FIN en de staatssecretaris van Financiën dit altijd. Echt @Nieuwsvandedag_ jullie moeten dit soort onzin van hem tegen spreken. Als @MinPres niet de bijeenkomst had gehad, was hij nog steeds niet bij de behandeling aanwezig geweest. Een ervaren journalist als @TvanGroningen moet dat toch ook weten. Hou eens op met die onwaarheden te verspreiden en ga er inhoudelijk op in. Het mag duidelijk zijn dat Victor Vlam niet bijster veel weet over de politiek anders zou hij niet dit soort onzin uitkramen

[Beach Roy 🤙 @Beach_Roy33]

Ralf Dekker van FVD is een gore landverrader en gezien zijn functie ook een staatsvijand.

We moeten de platte karren klaar zettten en de tondeuses oliën voor bijltjesdag 2.0. Tijd dat Ralf Dekker een rondje over het dorpsplein gaat maken.

De smerige Vatnik.

Het gore lef om Russische propaganda te verspreiden over 196 door Poetin vermoorde landgenoten én een mes in de rug van de nabestaanden. Bah bah! 🤢

[Milos @milos_gis]

Every Dutch train, one ordinary Tuesday, from first departure to last.

[Elbert de Bruin @elbertdebruin]

@dieworkwear May I respectfully draw your attention to https://t.co/s6IMXaxQC1 from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Very good quality and an in-house repair service.

[PG Kroeger @PGKroeger]

Russen die ook op #Malieveld opdoken. Allemaal toeval.

[Peter Boonssen @PeterBoonssen]

1 zetel in de peilingen. Toch zit onbenul @henkvermeer in elke talkshow. Daar waar het bedrijfsleven streng selecteert op kwaliteit, dringen in het belangrijkste orgaan van ons land dit soort 3e rangs dartclub bestuurders door. #bbb #pauwendewit #domvolking #Algemenebeschouwingen

[Tom Scott 🇺🇦 @Tom___Scott]

The BBC has been showcasing the views of oil tycoon Jim Ratcliffe in every news show for the last 24 hours, noting that he's "one of Britain's richest men".

Shouldn't this be "one of Monaco's richest men"?

How about similar airtime for (say) one of Britain's poorest women?

[Jamesetta Williams 💕 @jamesetta_w]

Long rant @ddiamond but stay with me. Journalists counter my criticism all the time by saying "but we did write 1 or 2 articles on that!" That's great, but the issue is what achieves agenda-setting salience.

Biden's health was regular front page news for months. His footwear choices generated headlines. He tripped once on stage and it generated a week of commentary. If he flubbed the name of a foreign leader, it was covered in multiple outlets even if he corrected himself. @peterbakernyt @nytimes ran a high profile story implying he was hiding Parkinsons that turned out to be false. After he left office, @jaketapper went on a book tour to continue to criticize Biden's age and fitness. You will not convince me Trump receives this level of scrutiny, because he simply doesn't in any study of actual headlines I've seen (Media Matters did a great one.)

In fact, Trump has appeared to fall asleep about 19 times in public in his current term (most recently at a 9/11 memorial event which generated no major headlines outside liberal outlets). I counted them myself mostly using social media clips from accounts like @atrupar and asking AI to debunk the fake ones, which I was forced to do because the only journalist at a major outlet that I could find who tried to compile that kind of list is @khaleda who does not even work in the US! (By the way, Dan, I'm more than happy to send you that list via email.)

The media never pursued sustained follow-up on Trump's hand bruising, his gait, his multi-day Walter Reed visits, the obvious falsehoods in his health reports, or the true nature of Natalie Harp's role as his aide. When he is incoherent in remarks, WH press so regularly sanitize his speech it has its own name ("sanewashing"). Scrutiny of Trump's health is so sparse there was a multi-day period in which social media was full of rumors that he had died. There are viral social media accounts alleging serious health complications that at minimum suggest continuous fact-based reporting that is seriously lacking.

I could write the same rant about a number of other high profile issue: why is it not treated as sustained scandal news that Don Jr's wedding was paid by the Russians Why is it not treated as scandal that Jared Kushner has a role in govt at all? Hunter Biden's laptop and paintings were months-longs stories. Why aren't we seeing journalists post pictures of their receipts or gas station prices like we saw during inflation coverage under Biden? When do we get an update on @brikeilarcnn's milk guzzling family from 2021?

My opinion is that the media is stuck over-covering itself (press access or DC-specific stories like the Reflecting Pool) instead of hammering the issues that put Trump into office that actually don't require White House press access. I don't know whether this is disinterest, corporate pressure, or appeasing GOP sources, but often it feels that way.

[Maarten Hopman @maartenhopman94]

Mona Keijzer en Geert Wilders zitten er normaalgesproken altijd strak bovenop wanneer er jodenhaat plaatsvindt. Maar nu, na de Hitlergroeten en antisemitische leuzen bij extreemrechts zijn ze plotsklaps stil. Is toch vreemd?

[Henri Bontenbal @HenriBontenbal]

Bizarre beelden van rechts-extreme rellen in Den Haag. Een demonstratie met antisemitisme, racisme en homohaat: dit is niet wat bij Nederland hoort en daar ook nooit bij mag gaan horen. (1/2)

[Elbert de Bruin @elbertdebruin]

@ditisIra Gewoon doen 🚅

[Wim Voermans @wimjmvoermans]

Hieraan zie je dat @henkvermeer onervaren is. Hij steunde de motie van wantrouwen om een “signaal af te geven”. Hij had moeten weten dat zoiets hoog wordt opgenomen en contraproductief werkt als je wil onderhandelen https://t.co/Rei9Irhmrl

[Petra van Dam @PetravanDam3]

#algemenebeschouwingen

Yesilgöz, geobsedeerd met een rechtse samenwerking, rechtse meerderheid en met anti-links, wil BBB na motie van wantrouwen toch aan tafel.

Nul komma nul principes, En MP Rob Jetten, die een gesprek nu niet ziet zitten, wordt geschoffeerd.

Dat het kabinet niet op één lijn zit, komt door de VVD die de boel frustreert, traineert en domineert.

[Jan Willem Prosje 🇺🇦 🧴 @jwprosje]

Een sterke reactie van @jesseklaver op @rubenbrekelmans . Dat je nog het lef hebt om te zeggen dat werken moet lonen. Jouw schofterige partij is al 15 jaar aan de macht.

[MizzLizz. SilverFox. Old,bad and ugly @elisabethswart]

En gelukkig komt Jort Kelder alles even duiden bij @Eva. Gesecondeerd door Wouter, die altijd kijkt of hij iets viezigs ruikt, maar zelfs een compliment voor Klaver had. Het is dieptreurig, dat alles talkshows bijna uitsluitend rechtse meuk uitnodigen.

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

This might be the biggest admission in any of the 100+ AI copyright lawsuits.

OpenAI & Microsoft execs admit the case is about “the largest theft of labor in human history”, that publishers face an “existential threat” from their products, and that those products “are largely substitutive, period.”

They are right, of course. But it is huge that they have admitted it.

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

woah. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft.
Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

[Jake Broe @RealJakeBroe]

Does anyone else assume at this point that Putin now has XXX tapes of all of Trump's kids? If Putin's oligarch, Umar Kremlev, paid for the island and handled all of the setup for the "entertainment," then that means Putin's FSB had the ability to bug and setup cameras in every room.

[medoyid_ua @LetsArmUKR]

The performance is consistent. Trump sits there with both fists up, playing the strongman for the cameras.

He announces that countries which did not help the United States against Iran will have to reimburse Washington once the conflict ends.

The Strait of Hormuz framing holds that America does more for others than for itself, so the bill is coming due. Fine.

This domestic fundraising pitch masquerades as foreign policy.

But watch what occurs once the conversation shifts from allies to authoritarians.

With NATO members, Trump puffs his chest and demands compensation. With the EU, he lectures about burden-sharing.

With Ukraine, he has long treated support like a loan negotiation. Yet the same man becomes remarkably gentle around Putin, Xi, and Kim.

No invoices. No public ultimatums.

No talk of reimbursement for decades of moscovian sabotage or election interference or the war in Europe. Just warm words and deference.

The contrast is obvious. It is structural.

The Hormuz statement offers no strategic plan. This counts as a midterm prop.

Trump needs to look tough before American voters, and allies are the easiest target because they pose no personal threat to him. Authoritarian leaders do.

Putin, Xi, and Kim all hold power. So the strongman routine collapses exactly where strength would matter.

Allies already understand this. They have watched the pattern for years.

Trump talks loudly, signs nothing durable, and folds when confronted by actual power. The TACO label exists because the behavior is predictable: tough at the camera, capitulating in the room.

European capitals now plan around American unreliability instead of waiting for Washington to lead.

The weakest American presidency in modern history. Not because of one statement, but because the entire posture is performative.

When you elect a clown, you get circus governance. The show continues, but the audience has stopped believing the act.