The Daily Populous Monday March 10th, 2025 night edition
Authored by newrepublic.com and submitted by Silent-Resort-3076

Folks, it’s time to reengage. Trump will take the oath of office at noon on Monday. Soon thereafter, this parade of misfit toys we’ve been watching testify this week will occupy their Cabinet positions. Orders will start percolating out—from Stephen Miller, Russell Vought, and other Trump deep staters—to start doings things differently. Trump already knows certain leverage points in the federal bureaucracy that took him months or years to locate the first time around. And he’ll have one big thing that he didn’t have in 2017: a pliant and willing establishment that signals a desire to be 100 percent on his side and that will give him every benefit of every doubt as he pulls at the republic’s threads.

It blows my mind, and ought to blow yours, that the three richest men in the world will be on Trump’s inaugural podium. It’s significant because, whatever their other powers and properties, they are three of the country’s most powerful media titans. Elon Musk owns the country’s most prominent news-oriented social media platform. Mark Zuckerberg owns the largest social networking service. And Jeff Bezos owns a newspaper that isn’t the ubiquitous behemoth that X and Facebook are, but even so, The Washington Post, at least to people on the broad left in the nation’s capital, means far more emotionally than the first two.

It’s worth staying with the Post for a paragraph here. Bezos bought the paper with seemingly good intentions in 2013 and poured a lot of money into it. Maybe, in retrospect, he went on too big a hiring spree. But that doesn’t excuse what’s been happening there lately. It’s a tragic mess, with its Murdoch-tainted publisher causing many excellent staffers to head for the exits. Bezos not long ago declared himself “very optimistic” and “very hopeful” about Trump’s return. This week, Post executives voted to adopt a new tag line/mission statement: “Riveting Storytelling for All of America.” Wow. This statement commits the paper to … what, exactly? I guess it’s quaint and hopelessly antique of me to mention that newspapers were once meant to be the people’s eyes and ears against corruption and assaults on the civic weal. The Post decided to keep “Democracy Dies in Darkness” for now. At least they didn’t vote to add, “Hey, if it happens, it happens.”

SicilyMalta on March 9th, 2025 at 15:30 UTC »

The Sane Washing was brutal. The NYTimes beat the drums for the Iraq war, apologized, but learned nothing.

When they sane washed Trump, I cancelled my subscription. Now I read through my free library account, reminding them in my comments of how their both sides and sane washing are to blame, and I refuse to support anymore with my money.

I'm also tired of the myth that the GOP is better with finances. The GOP is better at protecting the finances of the 1%.

> Jimmy Carter added $25 billion to the deficit.

> Ronald Reagan added $74 billion. That seemed bad at the time; just you wait.

> George H.W. Bush added $102 billion.

> Bill Clinton reduced the deficit by $383 billion, leaving the budget in surplus when he left office.

> George W. Bush added $1.54 trillion to the deficit.

> Barack Obama got the deficit down to $585 billion; that is, he reduced it by $825 billion.

> Donald Trump added $2.1 trillion to the deficit. Joe Biden reduced the deficit by about $942 billion.

Faucet860 on March 9th, 2025 at 15:12 UTC »

Hey they owned the libs who care if they trade their house for a cardboard box right!

kneeco28 on March 9th, 2025 at 15:10 UTC »

> • Jimmy Carter added $25 billion to the deficit.

> • Ronald Reagan added $74 billion. That seemed bad at the time; just you wait.

> • George H.W. Bush added $102 billion.

> • Bill Clinton reduced the deficit by $383 billion, leaving the budget in surplus when he left office.

> • George W. Bush added $1.54 trillion to the deficit.

> • Barack Obama got the deficit down to $585 billion; that is, he reduced it by $825 billion.

> • Donald Trump added $2.1 trillion to the deficit.

> • Joe Biden reduced the deficit by about $942 billion.

Sure, according to the experts and data!