This is why we are in the nightmare we're in

[senseandsensibility]

The fact that the white house "press corps" did not get up and walk out when Leavitt said this in response to a question about the CBO estimate minutes ago is why I blame them more than any other entity:

"This is one of the most fiscally conservative pieces of legislation that has ever made its way through Capitol Hill."

They are not journalists. They are enablers.

And of course, walking out is more than justified after the countless lies told to them from that podium, but they are even too chicken to keep asking the same question until they are not lied to.

[BoRaGard]

1. Weak as water - the press serves the G.O.P. Owner Class

and shovels snow and ash out to the public

[mahina]

2. Depends on how they report it

and I urge you to tell *them*
cheers

[Permanut]

3. Same in Congress..

Every Dem should have walked out with Representative Green.

I know, off topic but enabling seems common these days.

[senseandsensibility]

4. No I agree

I don't like the way other Dems treated Green, who showed more courage than all of them. Also off topic, but a day or two ago I was watching a politician being interviewed on Capital Hill and a figure walked by in the background, alone, using a cane. It was Rep. Green and he just seemed so isolated. It made me sad.

[Gimpyknee]

5. I wait and wait for just one White House Press Corps reporter to stand up and speak out against the lies spewed daily.

[Uncle Joe]

6. That would make a strong national emotional impact if they did all or mostly all walk out.

Thanks for the thread senseandsensibility

[senseandsensibility]

7. You're welcome, Uncle Joe!

I know I sound like a broken record but I refuse to become numb to the damage they are doing.

[LoisB]

8. My question would have been: If that is true, why does it add $3-4 trillion to the deficit.

[HeartsCanHope]

9. Their bill is nothing but welfare for the rich.

The poor are undeserving of our tax dollars, but the rich are? B.S! And how is putting us deeper in debt "fiscally responsible"?
Leavitt is disgusting. A gold digger that got her rich old man to buy her a job in a corrupt government to tell lies. Shame on her, shame on them all!

[Buddyzbuddy]

10. The press has been reduced to Whitehouse stenographers.

Integrity, critical thought and tenacity are terms that are foreign to the press. They are incapable of criticizing Congress because they are just as guilty of cowardice and ambition. They are Knucklehead and Jerry Mahoney to Leavitt's, Paul Winchell.

[Hornedfrog2000]

11. They had multiple times they could have

Arrested the asshole, and they chickened out.

[BurnDoubt]

12. There was time to examine most of the issues proposed by this legislation...

and give some specifics as to how people will be affected by the individual parts. But, instead we focused on the daily drivel dribble and shared opinions where facts were what was needed.
The Media has given up even trying to appear unbiased.
The first mistake was adopting the Administration branding of this coup-in-the-box as the Big Beautiful Bill. Way to pitch-in on pitching the bill.

[maxsolomon]

17. I read articles that discussed specific pieces of the legislation

I read multiple articles about the Parliamentarian ruling parts ineligible for a Reconciliation Bill, but, you know, I subscribe to the hated New York Times and I read DU.

Since much of this was voted on overnight over the weekend, I don't know where you think this "time to examine most of the issues" existed.

And you do know most Americans don't read newspapers or watch national television news at all, right? Local news is mayhem, sports and weather.

[BurnDoubt]

23. Mea Culpa

You speak truth.

[maxsolomon]

24. Sorry, I'm in a really cynical place right now.

I know I should be more optimistic...

[BurnDoubt]

25. I get it. Standing-room only here on the sane patch. I'll try to mind my elbows.

I'm unprepared for dealing with this world that has evolved around us, having learned long ago I'm unlikely to change any minds out there and that hatred and violence never delivers an answer Humans can abide.
My initial point was to mean that I'm disappointed that the illuminati on our side of this miasma need to be more present at the forefront. We have exceptionally learned minds in our camp, and if we could have a group that stands ready to factually and unrelentingly refute the drivel squeegied-out every day by the Forces Of Evil. Turn back their shit-nozzle on them and "flood the zone"...
every issue, every day. Personalize it to their frame-of-reference and repeat, repeat, repeat... until they think it's their name... that's what got them there. Maybe that's what might bring them home.
The Media, though is a problem. They have NEVER asked hard questions, and NEVER asked a good follow-up question and insisted on an answer. Don't take MAGA as an answer. (I wanted them to explain what America would look like after the "Greatification&quot .
AND... PUSH BACK ON KKKAROLINE. MAKE HER ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS UNTIL YOU ARE SATISFIED. MAKE GOOD TROUBLE. FORCE THEM TO OWN THEIR DECEIT.

[maxsolomon]

13. Gee, I thought it was 30 years of Conservative Propaganda Media

brainwashing millions and millions of selfish, uneducated Americans 24/7 so they'd elect horrible people to control all 3 branches of government.

[BurnDoubt]

15. Is that your Hammer on that Nail-head?

[senseandsensibility]

18. You don't think the corporate media is part of that?

Really?

[maxsolomon]

22. I'm skeptical of laying it at the feet of "The Media". I think Corporate Media has become largely irrelevant.

They don't reach the mass of American voters any longer. RW Propaganda Media - AM radio, Fox, Sinclair, internet misinformation: that does.

[Hassler]

14. Our Press Corpse rightly mocked Baghdad Bob

Baghdad Becky? Not so much.

[BurnDoubt]

16. Oh, KKKaroline, No!

[bdamomma]

19. It is

called "reserve socialism" they are stealing from us and giving it to that 1%. Fuck the Billionaires/Millionaires and to this regime.

[uponit7771]

20. Yep, the M$M is 100% in on it the second TFG kicked AP out they all should've left and did a presser with Jeffries

[spanone]

21. If they don't (and they don't) expose the lies...we have nothing.

F U C K