Post ATk3bWcHsZjnsVL0Nc by JenX@toad.social
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(DIR) Post #ATk14op6xwv0sgc3Rw by GottaLaff@mastodon.social
2023-03-18T12:53:16Z
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#FlopsweatTrump may finally be right about something:“ #Trump says 'illegal leaks' indicate he will be arrested Tuesday in N.Y. hush money probeTrump referenced reports that he could soon face possible criminal charges in New York relating to a hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels.”https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-illegal-leaks-indicate-will-arrested-tuesday-ny-hush-money-rcna75577
(DIR) Post #ATk14pROfbXknQWd7o by GottaLaff@mastodon.social
2023-03-18T13:10:29Z
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2/ And @emptywheel, as usual, makes some good points:Here's a headline that is accurate:The former President is using reports of an imminent arrest to incite violence on social media.You don't have to name him, accept his label of violence as protest, or disseminate his all-caps language. Don't reward him for this incitement.🪡 More coming…
(DIR) Post #ATk14q8e4o8cxYlAXI by GottaLaff@mastodon.social
2023-03-18T13:14:46Z
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3/ @emptywheel, who is spot on, cont’d:As journalists, you are NOT required to treat "Take our nation back" as anything but incitement --not least, bc it was a key cry used last time former Pres attempted a coup.You are also NOT required to ignore the coded anti-semitism of reference to Soros.Trump has spent YEARS training journalists to reward him every time he ratchets up his language.The more outrageous, the bigger reward from the press. Pavlov's pups exercised more self-control.
(DIR) Post #ATk14qiRvgmIkbVlLM by GottaLaff@mastodon.social
2023-03-18T13:16:18Z
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4/ She did an earlier thread, too. @emptywheel:A reminder to those who are reporting on the definitely newsworthy detail that the FPOTUS expects to be arrested on Tuesday: He is attempting to incite #violence. Don't HELP him by disseminating his incitement without breaking it up in some way.That #incitement is, like virtually EVERYTHING FPOTUS writes these days, coded anti-semitism. Again, don't be a mule for his anti-semitism. Break through the spectacle he is relying on.More…
(DIR) Post #ATk14u0dgW6uxt2pc0 by GottaLaff@mastodon.social
2023-03-18T13:18:50Z
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5/ @emptywheel:So far at least five journalists, all smarter than this, are willingly playing mules for the former President's violent anti-semitism. You guys are so easily played. Holy hell.The other journalists RT the original journalists who willingly chose to be data mules for the FPOTUS' violent antisemitic speech.This is not journalism, folks. It is being played.
(DIR) Post #ATk14vzIKUDv6IQmnI by GottaLaff@mastodon.social
2023-03-18T13:21:04Z
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6/ 🎯 @emptywheel:Look, the AP **reported** on Trump's speech without being willful mules for his anti-semitic incitement. It turns out it can be done!
(DIR) Post #ATk3bWcHsZjnsVL0Nc by JenX@toad.social
2023-03-18T13:41:49Z
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@GottaLaff 1-Trump is the leaker. 2- They should get ahead of Trump’s incitements to riot by arresting him this weekend. 3- Agree 100% about the weak pandering of the Fourth Estate. That may be the scariest part about all of this. Trump, even if he isn’t the frontrunner, won’t be the last fascist standing. And too many in the press are already folding to fascists in the GOP like Russia Ron, and normalizing them.
(DIR) Post #ATk4jXp9NENBtTk4bw by GottaLaff@mastodon.social
2023-03-18T13:24:58Z
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7/ @emptywheel is still going, and for good reason. She’s nailing it: Friday: White prosecutor gets several steps closer to indicting Trump for stealing classified documents.Saturday: Trump distracts entire press corp by wailing about Black and Jewish prosecutors persecuting him, calling for riots.Works every time.
(DIR) Post #ATk4jYmhno0msBbdRI by GottaLaff@mastodon.social
2023-03-18T13:27:09Z
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8/ @emptywheel:Maybe rather than rewarding the former President for anti-semitism and incitement, you should use this as the image for your story?(And she reminds us of this FlopsweatTrump quote: "When you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon. You just see them thrown in – rough. I said, ‘Please don’t be too nice”)