"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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"For years, the Press has played this same old broken record. They amplify Trump’s lies and normalize his criminal dealings, while launching vicious criticisms of Biden every single chance they get. …

Give me a break. The selective and fake outrage by corporate media is one of the biggest reasons we are in this mess in the first place."

~ Scott Dworkin

#Trump #Biden #pardon #media
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https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/press-goes-hysterical-over-bidens

"Biden is supposed to toe some imaginary line drawn by liberal op-ed writers and frightened congress-critters and pearl-clutching newspaper editors, even as Trump promises to pardon insurrectionists convicted of attacking Capitol police, damaging the nation’s Capitol, and attempting to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election."

#Trump #Biden #pardon #media
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https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/im-sick-and-tired-of-the-medias-double

"As one commentator put it in the 2024 presidential race, Donald Trump was held to a kindergartener standard while Kamala Harris was held to a presidential standard. As resisters, we will now reject that bullshit."

~ Malcolm Nance

#Trump #Biden #pardon #media
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https://malcolmnance.substack.com/p/five-steps-to-resist-the-coming-tyranny

Since the election, there's been considerable discussion of withdrawing from political engagement, protecting oneself and one's space.

There are different ways to do that. When Musk took over Twitter, I left Twitter that very day: disengagement. Refusing to give any energy to a loathsome, lethally dangerous man….

I have for some time now disengaged from corporate media, reading only select articles and refusing to subscribe to most outlets.

#Trump #Biden #pardon #media
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