Balloon Juice - Better Late Than Never

The NY Times is finally bashing Robert Mugabe because he is… attacking the press in Zimbabwe:

In The Daily News of Zimbabwe readers could follow the long, cheerless saga of President Robert Mugabe’s slide into dictatorship. But the most telling illustration of Zimbabwe’s decline is the case of the newspaper itself. The four-year-old daily, the only one not controlled by the government, has been bombed twice, its staff and distributors beaten and harassed, its founding editor driven into exile. Now the government has closed the paper, using undemocratic laws to extinguish one of the last embers of free speech in Zimbabwe.

Imagine that! A dictator using undemocratic laws to shut down the opposition. Presumably it was too difficult for the Times to report what happened to any and all the white landowners (they dryly report that their farms were ‘confiscated’) or the opposition leaders- but shutting down the NEWSPAPER!!!! How dare he- time for him to go.

Note to Castro- keep the damned papers running on you are in a heap of big trouble.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

They punch you in the face and then start crying because their fist hurts.

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

White supremacy is terrorism.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

Second rate reporter says what?

It is not hopeless, and we are not helpless.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

Better Late Than Never