Steve Silberman
It's as if our press just can't process a threat as grave as Trump. They no longer have the skills or backing from their top editors to grapple with such a grand-scale horror as the death of our democracy. So they've shrunk the issues down to a size they feel comfortable with: Shaming an old man.
Jul 3, 2024 at 9:39pmWeb
Show threadSpace WranglerJul 3, 2024
@stevesilberman
Thats fine. Could they just pick on the one advocating military tribunals for his political opponents?
Are editors so daft as to think TFG wont come for them after he gets done with his opposition?
- Evil angry grandpa vs. Batty kind grandpa is a *choice*
Show threadMirishuliJul 3, 2024
@stevesilberman Steve, they can process it. These are not stupid people. But they need a paycheck and they will normalize fascism all the way to the bank in the name of paying their mortgage and educating their children.
Show threadDarwin WoodkaJul 3, 2024

@stevesilberman

from "democracy dies in darkness" to "well, is that such a bad thing?" smdh.

Show threadPirateRoJul 3, 2024
@stevesilberman they are clearly complicit.
Show threadMessagingMattersJul 3, 2024
@stevesilberman I'm tired of hearing this. If the mainstream #media can't process #Trump 's existential threat to #America (or are elite enough to feel protected from it), we can.
Show threadPeter ButlerJul 3, 2024

@stevesilberman It’s honestly one of the most surprising and disappointing things about American fascism/Trumpism, and I cannot fathom it

I knew for-profit media was bought and sold but not to this extent of serving the masters of wealth

Show threadWilliamJul 3, 2024

@stevesilberman it's not incompetence, it's complicity.

They are advocating for the outcome that they want, exactly the same as they did in the 1930s.

Show threadSlimJul 4, 2024
@stevesilberman
Show threadBotahamecJul 4, 2024
@stevesilberman If Biden performed at a C+ level at that debate, we'd all be talking about how bad Trump was. But Biden somehow managed to do even worse than Trump.
Show threadChrisUJul 4, 2024

@stevesilberman

I have just fired the NYT because of the rightward drift and increasingly biased reporting and gaggle of right wings opinion writers
Sad 😪 but when a friend betrays you…

Show threada1Jul 4, 2024
@stevesilberman billionaire owners tend to lean towards authoritarian Mr Trump
Show threadˈdälfən™🐬 💥 🌊Jul 4, 2024
@stevesilberman That and they probably get a bunch of money from the Right.
Show threadJ$Jul 4, 2024
@stevesilberman Simplify. They can, but they’re just all-in on the death cult.