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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBoth sides. Both sides. Both sides. Both sides. Both sides. Both sides. Both sides. Both sides . . .
NO!
One side. In fact, one person.
ONE PERSON.
Not both sides.
Why does every dipshit media yakker always go there?
THEY/HE started this. He owns it. He said so.
dalton99a
(81,637 posts)Squinch
(51,053 posts)MLAA
(17,340 posts)And my hope is that everything the asshat owns (what little there actually is) will be taken away by RICO! 😬
live love laugh
(13,161 posts)in three weeks, of course, with a reframed narrative.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)It's the Trump McConnell partnership shutdown, with a strong possibility of a silent 3rd partner named Putin.
LenaBaby61
(6,979 posts)I believe I know what you're referring to, the woman on Brian Williams show with the brown hair just now who continued the corporate media's narrative, and its that BOTH sides are responsible for the government shut down 🙄
Yes, it's sickening isn't it? 🤢
Stinky The Clown
(67,832 posts)Not just her, but she was so maddeningly blatant about it it was either make this post or kill my TV
My son bought a Nerf dart gun on Amazon. He shoots the darts at his TV.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Apparently it's a safe place in a crowd for people in front of and behind the cameras who like their jobs way too much to do them honestly.
jalan48
(13,901 posts)Gothmog
(145,667 posts)Link to tweet
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kentuck
(111,110 posts)..is another one.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,446 posts)That was the most appalling readout.
diva77
(7,667 posts)I have yet to hear corporate media using the phrase "abuse of power."
Time to call my local media outlets and show sponsors to complain. I'm also gonna call to tell them to stop showing high speed chases too -- use the time and money to cover important civic issues instead.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Cha
(297,812 posts)cstanleytech
(26,334 posts)for a clean budget if they so wanted to and Trump could not do shit other than veto it and then they just override it.
calimary
(81,527 posts)FUCK THAT. I don't think we owe trump any fairness anymore. He's squandered all rights to that kind of consideration.
rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)again and again.
I want to have the Fed workers paid now, but this president is loco. He will latch onto a win, and do it again. We are in a bad way. Here we are. I dont know what to do. My hope is with Nancy Pelosi.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,496 posts)that's what their GOP-controlled corporate board members and directors tell them to do. Some honest journalists have already let that cat out of the bag.
This shutdown is a Libertarian's wet dream shutdown - they get to see chunks of our government ridiculed and then destroyed.
Trump, Pence and the turtle are their useful idiots............
RobDennis
(16 posts)ffr
(22,674 posts)It gets on my last damn nerve when I hear anyone say "both sides..."
mnhtnbb
(31,408 posts)was spewing both sides crap. I immediately turned it off.
Not both sides. The Republicans can't stand the fact that Nancy and Chuck are standing up to the orange bully in the White House.
Two people--Turtle and Hair Shitler-- are responsible for this mess.
Both sides my ass.
Trumpocalypse
(6,143 posts)who spent the 90s blaming the Clintons for everything wrong in the country. No credibility.
barbtries
(28,815 posts)manacle, is that his name? what is just as bad is how nobody calls him out on it. it is infuriating.
Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)barbtries
(28,815 posts)older white guy. he's been pushing that both sides bullshit pretty hard and it's infuriating.
pwb
(11,294 posts)And they want it from both sides.