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@wdlindsy@toad.socialElie Mystal gets it absolutely right when he say people need to stop demanding that Democrats play by different rules than Republicans. He writes,
“I do not believe I have read a worse collection of takes in the weeks since Donald Trump’s reelection than the endless array of white columnists and pundits whining about Joe Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter Biden.”
#Biden #Trump #media #pardon
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https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/joe-biden-hunter-pardon-was-right-mystal/
“Fundamentally, these pundits are committing the same mistake that has plagued American media for at least a decade: demanding that Democrats play by a set of rules that Republicans have long rejected. And I am tired of it.”
It’s hilarious they think we’re still willing listen to them talk down at us from their lofty heights. As if we don’t see exactly who and what they are.
@wdlindsy I know, right? 
@wdlindsy Once again, “they go low, we go high” doesn’t work in the arena of dirty politics, where power is grabbed by any means possible whenever there is an opportunity, not requested via Robert’s Rules of Order.
Quite the closing argument by Elie:
"If you can’t spot the difference between pardoning your son who was persecuted because of your job versus pardoning your criminal co-conspirators or pardoning terrorists who attacked the Capitol at your request, you should take your head out of your ass."
@thegreenpagesBC I agree, very good summary.
@wdlindsy
Thank you for your post.
The rule of law is not as technically defined, it's what the GOP wants it to be. Why do you think that the less than Supreme Court has been able to make so many unfair and illegal rulings?
Peace
@wdlindsy
I admire your optimism, I'm fresh out myself.
@trumpresistance I myself don't see Elie Mystal as an optimist, but as someone determined to keep defending human rights against the odds.
@wdlindsy I agree wholeheartedly. Why don’t they shut up about their disappointment and his legacy? I will always remember Joe as a great president at a time when disaster hung in the air. He never got credit from a fatally sick press for the many good things he accomplished in a hostile political climate while pretending Trump was normal. I will never forgive or forget the betrayal we suffered at their hands. Not that they care.
@Janef I completely agree, and I take note of your accurate characterization of our media: "fatally sicki."
@wdlindsy even the New Yorker has lost the thread. I am appalled with the pundit class.
@Flowermob I share your outrage at the pundit class.
@wdlindsy
The thing the Democrats have always misunderstood is : If you have the hammer, use it.
When a Republican resigns the Senate because of a questionable act (e.g. Al Franken's cringy photo) I may give them some credit.
Until then, they have no morals and are only interested in their own power and agenda.
@ArchonOSX Lots of institutional constraints — the Supreme Court as it's now configured, the Electoral College, the unrepresentative Senate, corporate media outlets that are persistently hostile to the Democrats while sanewashing Republican fascism — have made it hard, seems to me, for the Democrats to take hold of the hammer.