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[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

President Obama: “We can have debates about what our marginal tax rates should be and I would argue wealthy people in this country do not pay enough in taxes and the ultra-wealthy oftentimes pay no taxes and have figured out how to game the system. But when I hear billionaires, folks who cannot spend ever a fraction of their wealth and neither can their kids or their grandkids, say they are moving to Florida because they’re trying to avoid a state tax which is a rounding error in their wealthy, there is a certain mentality there that says I should not have to give up anything”

[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.

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

Trump’s arch will also be able to charge the new iPhones. They will also store Coke and Starbucks there too because the MAGA arch will keep hot stuff hot & cold stuff cold. It will also have space inside for karate lessons & Halloween candy… And not that fun-sized bullshit either. EXTRA LARGE Snickers that taste like freedom and Christmas

Seriously… I saw the plans

[Middle Age Riot @middleageriot]

What Republicans say: "I think the president is getting bad advice."

What Republicans mean: "I think the president is a fucking moron and I'm too big of a pussy to say so."

[Tim @trouble_man90]

Every single quality of life gain we’ve gotten over the past 100 years has been at the hands of liberals/democrats

People think “both sides are the same” is some enlightened mindset but it’s actually the opposite; it’s historically inaccurate, it’s lazy, it’s weak. Get better material.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Better question is why we subsidize billionaires.

[Patrick Gaspard @patrickgaspard]

The only thing more irrelevant than Hasan Piker is the online debate about him. Meanwhile we have a VP with real power who went to Germany to campaign for actual Nazis. Far less frenzy in the U.S. about that.
We have a govt that’s abducting people from our streets and delivering 2,000 lb bombs to be used on civilians.
But Hasan Piker!!!

[Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC]

At the White House in October 1963, six weeks before his assassination, JFK and a model of the National Cultural Center, later renamed the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts:

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

You’d think our super alpha, super high IQ president could stop Joe Biden from raising gas and grocery prices, driving up inflation, and apparently running the entire country 608 days after leaving office.

[Sean Casten @SeanCasten]

It has always been, and will always be true that immigrants (documented and otherwise) are a net gain for our economy. They are working age, they come here to work and they pay taxes. The inverse of is also true: Trump’s anti-immigrant policies slow US economic growth.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

This is good and inspiring, and those downplaying it are completely misreading the mood of the country.

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

For the umpteenth time: Quit trying to analyze Trump. Quit trying to figure out why he says and does the things he says and does. I’m so fucking sick of listening to some panel on CNN try to discuss his latest bizarre pronouncement like he’s some normal human being. Stop that. This isn’t complicated- He’s not a normal human being. He’s a sociopath. He lies as he breathes. He’s an idiot. He’s a Russian asset. He gets off on being cruel. He’s never been held accountable for anything he’s done his entire life. He’s a horrible person. And he’s the biggest fucking crybaby who’s ever lived. That’s it.

[George Wallace @MrGeorgeWallace]

Spoiler alert and whatnot. You don't have to completely understand how someone lives their life in order to LET someone live their life.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Leavitt: “Americans need to get out and vote like President Trump is on the ballot.”

Oh, honey. Bless your heart. We are.

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

Today, I went to the grocery store and purchased $20 worth of vegetables.

I now have a $20 trade deficit with the grocery store.

They clearly ripped me off.

I will now cut off all trade with the grocery store and let my family starve in order to Make My Household Great Again.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

I usually attribute Trump's bizarre ramblings to either his psychopathic lying or his psychotic delusions, or some combination of the two.

But this is just him being an economically illiterate moron.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

For an administration packed with men who call themselves “alpha males,” they sure are a bunch of whiny little bitches who blame Biden for everything.

[Sean Casten @SeanCasten]

“If you stop buying food, you’ll save money” is no basis for an economic policy.

[theleahfiles @leahfiles]

People keep saying Trump term II is the most corrupt administration ever, so I built a model to find out if it was true.

I took the UN's definition of corruption, turned it into eight criteria and 100 points, and scored the leaders history remembers for looting their countries: Marcos, Suharto, Mobutu, Abacha, Obiang, Putin.

Then I put every president since Eisenhower on the same scale, both parties, with every exoneration counted right alongside the convictions.

Nixon scored 41 and no other American President scored over a 25.

Trump's second term scored a 91, which ties him with Suharto and Mobutu and puts him above Marcos and Abacha.

So he is not only the most corrupt president in American history. At this pace he finishes his term level with the most corrupt rulers of the last hundred years.

PSA: don't come in my comments arguing about the results if you haven't read the full article, because ignorance is a choice.

Full article is up now on my Substack (link in bio) and it's free.

[David Corn @DavidCornDC]

My book "HOW RUSSIA WON: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, the Fight for America" is out today. It's time to reclaim the Trump-Russia narrative and recognize Putin is continuing his years-long war on America and Trump is complicit.

Learn more or order it at https://t.co/HpKYLZGpSD