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crud

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15. Dems need to remind everyone

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Fri Sep 26, 2025, 04:07 PM

Friday

every time they refer to the criminal president or his unlawful actions...that they are criminal and unlawful. They need to refer to the corrupt president and his corrupt Whitehouse as being corrupt. The threats to government workers is political corruption, the indictment of Comy is political corruption. I could go on. Force the media to report THAT! Make it THE message and tell the media what you are doing, so they talk about how dems are accusing the felon, Trump of corruption. Then they can start exploring why they have made their message 'corruption" and if it will work. They will get corruption experts on the TEE VEE and ask them to explain what it all means. They will force the R's to defend the criminal president and try to excuse or deny that he is corrupt. that is how to win this shutdown battle too.

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Timothy Snyder: Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"? [View all] highplainsdem Friday OP

Yes! EarthAbides Friday #1

Finally someone (important) says that! To the average person spooky3 Friday #2

And to Republicans markodochartaigh Friday #19

Good question. NNadir Friday #3

Because it's our Fascist "media" Cha Friday #4

I'd just drop the "enabling" from your title, Cha. The M$M is fascist to its core. erronis Friday #7

Right? I used to say that and then Cha Friday #9

The use of "norms" has always bothered me MadameButterfly Friday #5

"Breaking norms" sounds like an alternate usage for "innovation." hay rick Yesterday #31

Because institutions like the media/press BaronChocula Friday #6

Maybe all their talk of "killing" and how "norm-ish" it is to do and say such things... BurnDoubt Friday #11

And yes, how about a thesaurus BaronChocula Friday #14

This message was self-deleted by its author sop Friday #8

Yep. kentuck Friday #10

The media framing gets to the point of being vomit inducing. nt moniss Friday #12

It has gotten to the point where markodochartaigh Friday #21

Excellent question! Thank you for asking it! liberalla Friday #13

Dems need to remind everyone crud Friday #15

I'll bet their lawyers require it. Kablooie Friday #16

I would still prefer "alleged crime" or "alleged lawbreaking" to "norms shattered." Nt spooky3 Friday #28

Yes, The norms reference is understatement, but there needs to be something in between. thesquanderer Yesterday #32

And why doesn't the media call Trump out on his bottomless pit of lies? agingdem Friday #17

Agree malaise Friday #18

This x 1000. These people are just criminals. travelingthrulife Friday #20

Very good point. It is a kind of normalization suggesting it is just bad manners, not illegal. Martin68 Friday #22

Because a bunch of thugs are running our govt, with no oversight or even good Scrotus judgements to stop them mdbl Friday #23

... Solly Mack Friday #24

I miss the days of sitting with a cup of coffee and a newspaper. Buddyzbuddy Friday #25

Kick SheltieLover Friday #26

For the same reason they will say Trump mispoke or was inaccurate drray23 Friday #27

The SCOTUS majority has Trump's back. Frasier Balzov Friday #29

There is nothing "norma"al about what is going on. yellow dahlia Friday #30

With few execptions, our media is awful. CaptainTruth Yesterday #33