Blow is progressive. Paul is not:
You trust what an author says about themselves in a promotional piece?
I read some of her columns. If she was here, she would be pitted (and classed with J. K. Rowling).
January 30, 2025:
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I looked at that column. Branding her anti-progressive and even pittable on the basis of it is ludicrous.
You seem to be equating “progressive” with “idiot woke tribal screamer.” I don’t. I think Krugman is a progressive and he never expressed those sentiments. And neither do I.
Is or was?
From that paragraph I dont see that.
It is certainly true that the Far left has some radical and crazy positions. However, the far left has very little political power in the USA. We still have people in the USA that claim to be “true” communists. People have called for the end of capitalism, etc.
NYT in the tank for Republican and Trumpist framing:
Lots of talk about numbers of deportations and sanctuary cities. Not even a mention of eVerify, the program for addressing employment of undocumented workers. It could be strengthened a lot, but Republicans have no interest in that. Local law enforcement may or may not cooperate with ICE, but there’s no discussion of whether businesses do or don’t.
This is all PR. Sure, it’s cruel, and appeals to hearts of malice. That’s the point. The point certainly has little to do with curbing illegal immigration itself. If it did, it would run into a tsunami of business opposition. A scared labor force is a cheap labor force: performative cruelty appeals to both nativists and those wishing to displace American born workers.
[[Some will want to point out that empirically speaking immigration tends to help US citizens. The data indeed supports this contention. I’m discussing politics and perceptions.]]
I agree with Donald Trump on something – the New York Times is far from pro-Trump:
Trump Sues The New York Times for Articles Questioning His Success
I hadn’t planned on reading the book Trump is trying to suppress, but will now. It Is:
Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success
Here’s the Fresh Air interview with the authors. I heard it when it first came out. Worth a listen (transcript follows):
‘Lucky Loser’ dispels the myth of Trump as a self-made billionaire
Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporters Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner spent years examining Trump’s finances and businesses. They trace how he squandered his father’s fortune in a new book.
If you read this thread, it wasn’t so much the NYT being PRO-trump as it was running front page attack articles vs Biden, and to a lesser extent Harris, as they wouldnt give the NYT an exclusive interview. That hurt Harris.
I doubt it. I’m pretty sure the readership of the NYT mostly votes and almost all voted for Harris.
Good Fresh Air interview - thanks.
Judge throws out Trump V NYTimes $15 billion lawsuit because it doesn’t state a claim:
Re last post, the article says the plaintiff can resubmit if the suit is cut in half (40 pages down from 80). I wonder if they can reduce the font.
I guess it is notable that a Bush the Elder judicial appointee who previously seemed on the Trumpy side quickly threw it out.
2022:
Returning to this thread because today’s email drop shows that in 2015, Jeffrey Epstein offered the Times photos of Trump in his house with (presumably underage) girls in bikinis and told them about an incident where Trump was so busy staring at said girls that he walked straight into a sliding glass door.
The Times, of course, never reported this.
Her emails, though.
Jesus! On a lesser note, there’s this both-sides from the Times, as pointed out in today’s Krugman substack:
But the Times went on to engage in some serious false equivalence:
“Mr. Trump risks being in a similar position as his predecessor, defending his record by pointing to statistics that don’t capture a troubling reality that many Americans are feeling.”
Sorry, but that’s a false comparison. You might even call it fake news — because Trump is not, in fact, pointing to any statistics. He’s just lying.
Trump is pointing to stats. Didn’t you hear that the economic think tank institution Door Dash said inflation is down?
And, if you can’t trust Door Dash, well, it adds no information about who you can trust.
That’s how the Democrats won the 2024 elections.
No, Times, he didn’t “choose” her. She’s first in the constitutionally-established line of succession. What kind of Pravda bullshit is this?
The Times is running the “Is Trump secretly a genius?” editorials again.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/us/politics/trump-one-year-unpredicatability.html