Ah, but you see, covering Biden means you can play act at being a hard nosed journalist without taking any risks or having to reflect on the morality of your own profession!

May 22, 2025 - 00:23 UTC

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Biden is an easy target. When you write negatively about him, he won't get his followers to send death threats to your family
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When you don't stand up and defend yourself, people like to make you their target.
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This!
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I mean, equal coverage.

They should have asked much better and more pointed questions about Biden from the 2020 campaign and before, and they should have been accurately calling Trump a senile maniac since 2020, as well. They're both senile lunatics.
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Yeah, the time for that is not now while a senile fascist burns the government down.
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...or needing to learn anything about policy or how policy impacts real people and businesses
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Remembering the history of Vietnam War reporting.
Every time the U.S. replaced their puppet leader, all this media criticism of the previous leader suddenly came out (violent, repressive, cruel, illegal arrests etc.).
But the new guy? The new guy was *great*. So much better.
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AND you can hang onto it to cash in on that sweet, sweet book deal c. 2029 - 2030. (Of course whether free speech will be permitted then is anyone's question. After all that decision appears to rest in the hands of a senile/demented individual who is President now.)
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Exactly!
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I’m afraid it goes further than this: Discussing Biden and not Trump allows the GOP to carry out its extreme racist, murderous program. If these journalists objected to it, they would cover it.
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Also in a few years you get to write a book about how the GOP and the media were complicit in a cover-up. And everyone will be shocked! Shocked!
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Exactly right.
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Such a good point!
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Plus they’re mad at him because he didn’t provide Palace of Intrigue crap, competent government is bad for their bottom line
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Yes! This is what it reminds me of. When I kid has a hard day at school and is an absolute shit to their mom since they know Mom will stay by them.
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You also can get a book deal a few years down the line
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There is no rule by which we can measure these things, it is frivolous to think journalism may take a break.
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Exactly - nor will Biden cause cult members to issue death threats. That is an important distinction.
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