"I have come to think of this as the hidden, unspoken ideology of our media and political elites. They behave, in word and in deed, as though what is most important is the protection and maintenance of the status hierarchy."

~ Dave Karpf

#Trump #Hegseth #Patel #Biden #pardon #media
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https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/uncouth

"Hunter Biden’s pardon is front page news — not because anyone cares about Hunter Biden at all, but because it is the type of Presidential misbehavior that our elite media knows how to object to.

Kash Patel’s intent to turn the FBI against his 'enemies list' is a lesser news story, right up until the moment he throws those enemies in prison."

#Trump #Patel #Biden #pardon #media
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"The Hunter Biden Pardon Discourse is a perfect distillation of our dominant political asymmetry. ...

Hundreds upon hundreds of columns in the mainstream media are being written about Biden and the pardon. Most of them seem critical.1 Even supposedly nonpartisan analysts took the Hunter Biden pardon and extrapolated it to the moon as a litmus test for the Democratic party writ large."

~ Jonathan V. Last

#Trump #Biden #Patel #pardon #media
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/then-now-and-forever-the-people-are

"Meanwhile, the actual incoming president of the United States has signaled that he’s going to fire the director of the FBI for [reasons] and replace him with a psychopath. And everyone just kind of shrugs."

#Trump #Patel #Biden #pardon #media
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