I thought Biden’s speech was excellent. I didn’t watch it until this morning, and before I did, I read a couple of stories to see if I could get the gist of it and skip the speech. Man, that’s hard work.
First, the Post’s political team seems to have finished their recalibration from Trump to Biden. The third “big takeaway” of their main story is that Biden pumped up his vaccine record a bit too much. Oh really? Basically, they’re quibbling about the size and shape of the shitshow that Biden inherited.
Second, Glenn Kessler, who showed the utter impotence of his fact checking project when applied to Trump (unlike, say, Daniel Dale) is also quibbling with Biden’s death math, saying that there were 583,000 deaths from WWI, WW2, Vietnam and 9/11, which isn’t more than the 527,726 who have died from COVID so far. First, as usual, Glenn exhibits his failure of tragic imagination to believe that we won’t hit 583K by the time Texas and Florida are done with this pandemic. Second, Biden’s math is based on battlefield deaths, and Glenn is lumping in pandemic deaths for WWI, and he disputes that 9/11 deaths were battlefield deaths, which, to put it mildly, is not a widely shared belief.
Anyway, fuck that guy, but I think part of the failure of the political team at the Post is a reflection of the calcification of a press corpse that had four years of really easy pickings with Trump: he tweets, you report, he repeats. As a comparison, The Guardian’s story is head and shoulders above the lead Post story just in terms of being straight news. I did not check the Times because I didn’t want to burn a free click, and I also didn’t want to self-induce nausea this morning.
Another thought on Kessler et. al.: who are they writing this shit for? True Republicans don’t read the mainstream media — they’re pure Fox consumers. Democrats have no time for this petty quibbling, since we are focused on the giant unfuck that Biden and Congress have to accomplish. Who’s left?
Marcelo
They’re writing it for each other – other centrist/data pundits. It’s all a circle jerk.
germy
They write this shit for each other.
It’s a club and they’re always trying to impress and top each other. They’re careerists
EDIT: or as Marcelo said above.
The Thin Black Duke
If the news was a sentient being, it would sue the Post for defamation of character.
charluckles
I find this **** absolutely infuriating. We’re these people on a different planet between November 3rd and January 20th? The Trump administration completely surrendered to the pandemic and were actively trying to sabotage the transition. Tens of thousands of Americans suffered and died because of the Trump administration’s malfeasance. Our country should be demanding accountability.
elm
Who’s left? ? Twitter is left. They’ll use anything to prove both parties are the same.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
OT:
and what I’m guessing is a big blow
wenchacha
It is disappointing to see the both-siderism in WaPo, though I guess we gotta be used to it, by now. Am I misremembering that former guy didn’t get poked about small stuff like this? Former guy did small stuff All the TIME. It never ever ever stopped.
I appreciate all that Daniel Dale has done on the last admin. I appreciate the desire to fact check one POTUS because you maybe recognize you didn’t do it enough on former guy.
Until the grope-under-blouse incident from Cuomo, he might have skated. This alleged incident, along with the rest, and the current desire for less crumbly feet of clay in elected officials, should really finish him.
Baud
At this rate of lying, Biden will surpass Trump in 25,000 years!
(Don’t fact check my math.)
bbleh
@Marcelo: @germy: Exactly. They write for the Village, notably including their sources, whom they can’t write mean things about because it might jeopardize their access (and thereby their celebrity, not to mention the dinner parties).
MattF
Also, the actual number of pandemic deaths at this time is undoubtedly larger than the official number while the number of historical battlefield deaths at this time is close to the actual number.
Marcelo
@germy: You said it better :)
Baud
I’m just glad Biden wore a dark suit.
OGLiberal
@bbleh: Yup, like y’all said. When they get together at the pub after a long week of spending hours griping about how Biden hasn’t had an official “presser” yet, do let get in huge “who both sided best this week” disputes?
The BS Kessler pulled with the COVID deaths v. wartime deaths is just a ridiculous stretch. Does he think by doing this Tucker Carlson will give him a trophy and tell his viewers to shower Glenn with gifts?
Brachiator
This shit is insanely trivial. It would be like a reporter writing “Did Lincoln get it right when he said, ‘Four score and seven years ago?'” Totally misses the freaking point of the Gettysburg Address.
From the Guardian story:
The Republicans are pathetic, and don’t know what to do with themselves. This Twittering twit only magnifies Biden’s achievement here by simultaneously trying to minimize it and take partial credit for it.
But this “refuses to say the truth shit” is rich coming from an administration which tried to claim that Obama had been the worst president ever and that the Orange Beast was singlehandedly responsible for the sunshine that would shine up your ass and cure the Covid virus.
These fools are shameless even in their march into irrelevance.
PJ
@Marcelo:
@germy:
@bbleh: Y’all beat me to it. The media “mind” has been locked into the “both sides” narrative since the ‘90s, and I think a lot of these writers 1) genuinely believe there is no real difference between the parties and politicians, any more than there is between sports teams; and 2) they also believe that Republicans are the party of “responsibility” and the Democrats are “irresponsible”, in part because they have swallowed Republican messaging for so long but also because many of them are, or want themselves to be considered, in the upper class above where Democratic economic efforts are aimed.
Trump and Republican support for him over the last four years have given the lie to this in a way that most citizens cannot ignore, but the journalists who write these things, and the editors who print them, remain oblivious to what is obvious to everyone else.
Hildebrand
I think that all of the ‘politics’ writers of both the NY Times and the Post need to be sent to their own publication (they all seem to want to be like Politico, so send them there) and let the actual journalists and reporters do their thing. That way they can offer their ‘hot takes’ for each other and we can more easily ignore them since they will all be in one place.
It’s either that or all the ‘hot take’ writers need to be shoved into their own section of the paper (and website) – and before you can enter, you have to read and click ‘ok’ on the disclaimer: ‘What you are about to read contains no actual substance – you were warned, please don’t take this seriously. We print this here as a public service so that these people don’t inflict their knavery on unsuspecting people at the bar, in the elevator, at family gatherings, or just random folks on the street. We, of course, encourage you to read something else on our site, but if you are determined to lose IQ points, well, as we said, we warned you.’
different-church-lady
@Baud: He only wore a dark suit because Democratic Socialists pushed him into it.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Clearly, a governor in the mold of Carl Paladino would have handled COVID better and would never have sexually harassed anyone.
Also, replacing Gavin Newsom with a California Republican will ensure that you would have a chief executive who would be laser-focused in COVID and would never go to a restaurant during a pandemic.
Benw
Every time Biden lies, an angel gets a pair of aviators
SiubhanDuinne
Reading this post, and the comments, I realise I haven’t seen Villago Delenda Est around these parts for a while. Anyone know if VDE is okay? Or perhaps they’ve been around and I’ve simply missed those threads.
Baud
@SiubhanDuinne:
Two days ago.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
I think some people need to get it hammered into their skulls that there’s no going back to the pre-Trump world, the same way that there was no going back to the pre-atomic world once the atom bomb was used.
MattF
@SiubhanDuinne: This post is certainly VDE bait, but I’ve seen their comments recently.
Doc Sardonic
@Baud: Personally, knowing it is not his style, I think he should roll up for one of his speeches in either a seersucker suit with a Panama hat(going for the Strother Martin failure to communicate vibe to Republicans),or just do the the leather jacket, jeans and aviators and watch the beltway press lose their shit.
The Dark Avenger
The
Cossacksreporters work for theCzareditors.Chief Oshkosh
A better question might be: Who are they publishing this for? Kessler and the other limp-dicks are writing for their paychecks. Why are they paid to write such dreck? Who profits? Put another way: would we all be talking about this (and some of us potentially then going to WaPo and providing “hits”) if Kessler et al. were honest? Heck, the Guardian played it straight and might get one extra hit for that.
Anoniminous
All you need to know about American newspapers:
“You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.” — William Randolph Hearst
More recently:
“In Senate testimony in September, Rumsfeld said Hussein’s regime “has amassed large, clandestine stockpiles of biological weapons — including anthrax and botulism toxin, and possibly smallpox . . . large, clandestine stockpiles of chemical weapons . . . including VX, sarin, cyclosarin and mustard gas . . . [and] has an active program to acquire and develop nuclear weapons.” WaPo – November 10, 2002
CliosFanBoy
Squishy centrists and NPR liberals.
Raven
I gotta take a break from this constant outrage an watch some hoop!
piratedan
@Brachiator: guessing that the only reason any Big or Little Pharma company got federal cash for vaccine development was because the 45 admin was invested in them. It would have been even more remarkable if the Feds hadn’t backed any vaccine development but considering their repeated downplaying of the pandemic, and any national guidelines and undercutting their own medical experts, it wouldn’t have shocked me.
We sit there and listen to Azar say that they’ll release the National Reserve and then find out a day later it doesn’t exist. The ask the 46 Admin about the plan regarding distributing the vaccine and they inform them that 45 left them no plan. They can’t even remember running the stories where the 45 admin didn’t buy additional vaccine when placing the original order nor did they mandate that its production a national priority.
and I’m just a blog commenter, if I KNOW these things, why in the hell don’t they mention it?
Chief Oshkosh
@Anoniminous: Ah yes, the stockpiles of bullshit that are west, and some north, and piles south (where most piles are), and a bit east.
“There may be some still left up my ass,” Mr. Rumsfeld continued. “It’s where most of this shit is coming from.”
BruceFromOhio
@Marcelo: @germy: Was about to write exactly these. Thanks, you two, this is a much better way to start a comment thread.
@Chief Oshkosh: Excellent questions.
Ruckus
My comment is superfluous, because others have said the same as I was going to say.
But I will say that they write the news also for the people that pay them. We think the “news” is something special, that it has to be the truth. That ship sailed long ago, the news is now an entertainment industry and as such they print/say whatever the hell they want to say, whatever they get paid to say. Are some “news” profit centers better than others? It’s only because we see them print/say crap closer to what we want to hear. Just as the hard right crap “news” says what they want to say and print what they want. It’s infotainment. Nothing more, always less.
We have to get it out of our heads that they will ever be anything more than mouthpieces for the owners of the check writers/receivers. They write what they think will make money. Notice that they make it very difficult to read if you don’t pay them. The TV news is no different, notice that many will not visit/purchase from any business that supports the news that that we don’t approve of. News has turned into a 24 hr a day money machine. And notice that stories are written many places, such as here about the news, good or bad and that sends eyeballs to that source, it creates a money flow. And to the uber segment of business, money means more than anything else, by a very, very large margin. Forbes is an example but they do one thing that explains much, their 600 richest list, which is all billionaires. Most of whom did absolutely nothing of value to get that money. We live in a country that many can not find work that pays more than shit, entire states are saying that a higher minimum wage than $7.25/hr is theft from owners and that we should do away with it entirely. Our most prosperous states have a minimum wage far higher and they not only survive, they prosper. One reason is that the very wealthy do not spend money the same way everyone else does, spare change to them is far more than a lot of people’s yearly wages. And of course they made/earned their money honestly and legit, which is bullshit.
No one is worth that sort of money. NO ONE. And yes they should be rewarded for their work, but they actually have to do some before the reward, not be rewarded for doing nothing of actual value. Which is the long way around to saying that the news business is not about news, it, like everything else today, especially in this country (but others as well) about money, earning the most for doing the least, not about doing anything of value for more than their bank account/Forbes listing.
feebog
You think this is bad? Wait until May when Biden breaks out the tan suit and wingtips.
laura
@Marcelo: it’s all a circle of jerks circle jerking.
Four Seasons Total Landscaping mistermix
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: If you watched the Cuomo show, none of the reps who have called for his resignation were regulars, or even appeared. Hakeem Jeffries, for example, was at a lot of press conferences. He’s not on the list.
I still think that Cuomo will not resign. He may be impeached (majority vote in the Assembly) but it will be a big push to get 2/3 of the Senate.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Frankensteinbeck
@Marcelo: and @germy:
I’ve been saying this for years. They’re a social club, and one led by rich old white men whose major job skill is being able to fill a full day’s reporting with almost no content. It skews the Hell out of their priorities, and gives them immense egos.
jonas
Fucking Kessler. What a douchenozzle. I would also remind him that once the forensic scientists and demographers get through with this whole year, we’re likely to learn that, especially in the early months of the pandemic, we undercounted many thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of deaths, either because they were people who died at home or in nursing facilities with no doctor in attendance, or because they lived in a state (*cough!* Florida *cough!*) where the governor’s a crook and cooked the books.
Ken
At a barbeque…
(To which none of the villagers were invited, which is the real crime.)
chopper
“we just really think biden should give credit to the guy who sat on his ass and did less than nothing while hundreds of thousands of americans died from a preventable illness” is gonna be the beltway media’s take for a while, innit.
leeleeFL
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: It drives me completely nuts that running for NY Governor seems to attract flawed people from the Democratic Party. I know the pool isn’t deep, I did live there for a very long time. But Spitzer, and now, Andrew Cuomo, are really disappointing. Especially since they were both, along with the sketchy Eric Schneiderman, were such good AGs. They make us look beyond pathetic. Even when they do a good job, their feet of clay leave Dems in the mud.
DAMNIT!
gene108
Isn’t Kessler the guy, who said Obama’s statement of (paraphrasing), “if you like your insurance, you can keep it” as the biggest lie of year, regarding the ACA, because insurance companies canceled a whole bunch of plans all at once, though they were not required to by the ACA?
Salty Sam
I bow to you Sir.
HinTN
@bbleh: The mighty cocktail weenie rears its ugly head.
tom
OT, but the state of Michigan announced that all adults will be eligible for vaccination beginning April 5. It is also opening a mass vaccination site at Ford Field (Lions football stadium) in Detroit, administering 6,000 doses/day for 8 weeks. https://twitter.com/DavidEggert00/status/1370411273503002624
Keith P.
@Marcelo: This.
Cameron
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: They have, too many times. And worse, they believed her. That may be changing….
hitless
@chopper:
This is the same outfit that think that it’s wrong to say Trump had no vaccination plan…his plan was for the states to plan it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/17/harriss-claim-biden-vaccine-plan-was-starting-scratch/
That’s so stupid as to make it clear that this is just a game to them.
leeleeFL
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Maybe because she’s a lying, conniving sack?
lee
I’m pretty sure Glenn Kessler is fascist adjacent. There were numerous times during the Trump admin he completely waffled on some of Trump’s lies.
SiubhanDuinne
@MattF:
Thanks, glad to know that.
Cameron
@jonas: You’re saying Governor DeCovid has not been entirely upfront with us? I may have a fit of the vapors.
Ruckus
@chopper:
A while?
More like fucking forever.
This post is about the WP, it will get them eyeballs, and eyeballs cost money to fulfill so success, money made. They aren’t in the business of the news, they are in the business of pushing access to rage, because that rage insures money coming in.
Business today is not about the business one is supposedly in, it is about the bottom line, and that is fucking money. The product is of little value, it is the selling of the product. News makes money by pissing us off. And when I say us I mean all of us. It doesn’t work different on the other side of the aisle, the news is an equal opportunity screwer. The WP has to change it’s style now, there is a new sheriff in town and money is made opposing the leader.
opiejeanne
@OGLiberal: Kessler is getting thoroughly dragged in the comments. The readers are not having it.
Another Scott
[pedant] et al. Et is a word (the word and), not an abbreviation. [/pedant]
Good post.
Cheers,
Scott.
Ken
Though as Ruckus and others noted, to the WaPo “dragged in the comments” = “generated lots of hits and delivered ads”.
Ruckus
@leeleeFL:
How badly did Cuomo screw up his Covid response? Or Newsom?
Is anyone perfect? You, me?
Who could run the states of CA or NY?
The people asking for Cuomo or Newsom to resign, over what? Less than perfection? CA and NY are very populous states, with a wide political variety of humans living in them, no one is going to satisfy everyone, no one. Have they done a decent job of handling a pandemic, say better than most of the rest of the governors? Yes they have, in a situation that no one really has a lot of control over in a government such as ours. China has done better and so has New Zealand. Both because they did, not what a lot of people wanted but what was necessary, shut down their countries. And that is what Cuomo and Newsom both did, even as shitforbrains did every damn thing wrong, as he always does. I say give them a break, they have done better than most people in their positions, even if they aren’t perfect. Joe Biden isn’t perfect, even if he is a million miles closer than shitforbrains. NYC is about the worst case for a pandemic, a lot of people in not a lot of space. Compare that to say South Dakota, not a lot of people in a lot of space, and their governor did almost everything wrong. Who is calling for her head?
Villago Delenda Est
@SiubhanDuinne: I’m just fine. I spend most of my commentating time at the dick joke emporium, though, and gaming, and tending to Her Serene Highness who is VERY high maintenance.
As for Kessler and the other vermin of the Village, the old adage applies:
Wipe them out, all of them!
Villago Delenda Est
@Ken: DING DING DING DING DING. They’re happy they’ve got Kessler trolling for them.
James E Powell
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
If Cuomo was thinking it would die down, he badly miscalculated.
BBA
@Ruckus:
I for one think Cuomo should resign because he’s a sexual predator. I know my views aren’t popular, but I have never courted popularity.
Eljai
At the end of December these assholes were warning us that it would take ten years to reach herd immunity at the then-going vaccination rate. But today, it’s all “why doesn’t Biden bow down to his predecessor?”
RepubAnon
@wenchacha: DC Cocktail Weenie media types: “I know the Republicans have 6×6 beam in their eye, but the Democrats have a small speck of sawdust in theirs – so both sides!”
James E Powell
@PJ:
That explains why “both-sides” and false equivalence are only used to defend Republican evil or diminish Democratic achievements.
leeleeFL
@Ruckus: I guess I wasn’t clear. I think Cuomo and Newsome both did a good job on COVID. I was referring to the things that now have them in hot water. I know asking for perfection in a politician is a fools errand, but why do so many Dems have issues with women, or take for granted the rules can bend for them like Newsome did?
It undercuts our argument for Dem leaders and that’s something we can live without. The electorate is too easily swayed by this crap into thinking there’s little difference between Parties
Kristi Noem is a Republican. IOKIYAF is rule number 1
Princess
@Ruckus: I don’t compare Cuomo with perfection. I compare Cuomo with Pritzker in Illinois and I think Cuomo was a disaster. He should resign for this alone.
Brachiator
@BBA:
I get the impression is that the consensus here is that he should resign. I don’t agree, but I respect the views of those who think otherwise.
A number of politicians have issues with women. But only Democrats are actually expected to resign.
Newsom screwed up big time. He handed his political enemies a stick and they are beating him up, as is to be expected.
Ruckus
@BBA:
I’m waiting for more details but if it’s true, and given the numbers I’m thinking you are probably more than right, IOW I want to actually know more before I condemn him.
cmorenc
BothSiderIsm is alive and well with most of the DC and National Press Corps. St. Broder would be pleased.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Historians are fond of saying “History isn’t a Che T shirt, it takes more than two colors to understand”. Clearly people whose’ chosen medium is black and white print are horrible under equipped to deal with the topic.
leeleeFL
@Brachiator: Maybe vetting the Dems for issues with women would be the take-away here, since they are expected to resign. I will not adopt the Republican plan of brazening it out.
I am giving Cuomo the benefit of the doubt until the investigation is done, but we can’t demand justice for tRump’s victims if we look the other way for our own guys, right?
Newsome should survive, but he needs to get a major ass-kicking for his stunt.
Soprano2
@piratedan: and I’m just a blog commenter, if I KNOW these things, why in the hell don’t they mention it?
I find that this happens to me a lot, that I seem to know more about a story than the reporter asking the questions does. Sometimes I talk to the radio, saying “Why didn’t you ask about “x”?” It makes me crazy, it seems sometimes they don’t even do the slightest bit of research.
L85NJGT
The media status quo of 1996 called and noted it might be time for “the village” to join the 21st century.
Some go into their dotage never realizing how much the world of their youth has changed, and some go full on Trumptard, pining for the days when tanneries were one of Chicago’s largest industries.
Ruckus
I’d bet I have some different standards for a lot of things than other do.
I’ve owned two businesses, employed people. I ran a department on a medium US navy vessel for a year, people served under me, I was an E5 and there was supposed to be 2 people above me, we had 100% up time. I worked in professional sports for over a decade. I am now, once again, a high precision machinist.
I’ve learned that one will never be 100% right, no matter who they are, what they know. I’ve seen this countless times in my 7 decades. Perfection is always just over the horizon, no matter how fast you run towards it. I can make metal things close to perfection, but never more than close and I can live with that. Humans suck, some far more often than most, some far less, and I’m human. Some humans are shit, some smell pretty good a lot of the time. I try not to judge too critically, mistakes are easier to make than successes are. I know a lot, I also know nothing, and yes it gets confusing sometimes which is which. I have respect for humans that make the attempt, I have none for those that don’t try. I have respect for those that like humans, I have none for those who only worship the golden calf.
leeleeFL
@Ruckus: Sounds like we mostly occupy similar space, although our experience is very different.
I love humans, even the ones that make me nuts! I cannot abide cruelty, it is never necessary, and always ugly and damaging.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
If the stunt you are referring to is that dinner, yep, Newsome should get a beating; he’s from the SF Bay Area and if he should know Cal voters really don’t like hypocrisy and abuse of power.
As far as Cumuo goes, any presidential ambitions that guy has need to be stopped now. That is the type of man who would follow Trump’s example and be effective with it. Remember, there were a whole series of well bred clowns in togas who set the precedent for Julius Caesar to become dictator.
Just Some Fuckhead
More like “he tweets, press repeats, he retorts, blog reports”.
Hoodie
@Ruckus: That’s correct in some ways, but the news has always been in the entertainment business. The change is the audience. It’s important to realize that the subscriber base for even the WaPo or NYT is relatively small and they’re writing for an audience that is increasingly less economically diverse. In particular, it’s an audience that believes in – and has the money to indulge in – fairytales like bipartisanship and, more tellingly, subscribing to daily newspapers.
The news business many of us may have known when growing has been dying for several years and, in some sense, what we get now is a corpse that is gussied up to entertain necrophiles. I have a friend who is a reporter for the local paper. The paper used to be owned by a prominent local family and, while they ran it it was good, with several local bureaus and even some own-sourced national reporting. It managed to survived on things like auto dealer and furniture store ads, along with a lot of classified advertising. Of course, that’s all declined. As with a lot of regional dailies, the family sold the paper to a national chain a decade or so ago. Since the 2008 financial crisis, it has withered away to something just north of a supermarket mailer. I finally canceled our subscription because it wasn’t worth the money or the time to read its thin stories.
Brachiator
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
It is interesting that I have read as many “Cuomo’s ambitions must be blunted” posts as I have read “Cuomo is a bad person and should resign posts.”
Never know about unintended consequences.
Brutus and associates: We had to assassinate Caesar. We have saved the Republic.
Octavian: Let me introduce you to my Empire.
Jude
A backdoor to NYT through an archive site. I’ve never had it work against my 10 clicks so far.
https://archive.ph/https://www.nytimes.com/
Ruckus
@leeleeFL:
We agree fully.
Ruckus
@Hoodie:
I believe that the news industry was a lot better and more truthful when it was not 24 hrs a day and on every available TV, computer, phone….. In reality there isn’t a lot more actual news that can be transmitted but now there is an entire world, rather than a city to inform and be listened to and read. The commentary segment was at a different time or a different page in the paper. But now it is a large business, providing something, something, something 24 hrs a day, having to discuss the concepts of the stories, having political (and all other) news slanted the way that suits the owner of the media provider – think Rupert Murdoch. Add in the insane amounts of money that hate generates and you have a business model that creates crap, is only designed to do that, not to inform. Yes this has been with us for a long time, but generally there were other sources, now most of them work on selling something that gets ears and eyeballs. Thinking not actually required, but helpful.
H-Bob
@jonas: On cooking the books, I still remember one state (I think it was Georgia) put out a bar graph in Spring 2020 that appeared to show COVID cases declining; however, they had put the columns in non-chronological order (i.e., April Week 2 before March Week 4, etc.). The brazenness of the fraud was even beyond Trumpian!
Morzer
What is Kessler?
“A parrot sways upon a tree,
Raging at his own image in the enameled sea”
– W.B.Yeats
sherparick
@Marcelo:
Yes, that is their audience. The Village who rides the Acela Express between NY & DC.
Bill Arnold
@Jude:
Couple of other things to try:
– Cookie Remover plugin, press button then reload page.
– For the adventurous, on github.com there is a “bypass paywalls” project with plugins for Chrome (and related browsers) and Firefox (and related browsers). I suspect it’s not particularly legal, depending on jurisdiction, and use of it is disrespecting of intellectual property. Probably best to use it with a VPN plus tracker blockers, if at all.
Would be nice if they replaced (or at least rebalanced) their political team and related editorial policies.
TomatoQueen
@Jude: This is a dead thread, but in case you return, thank you for the link. So far it’s working nicely.
206inKY
Kessler is a real asshole but 583,000 isn’t even close to the American death toll from those wars. Over 1,000,000 Filipinos died in World War 2 — all US citizens since the Philippines was a American territory until 1946.
The Philippines were actually attacked on the same day as Pearl Harbor but FDR deleted it from his address to the nation since he thought Filipinos didn’t seem “American” enough for mainlanders to care, even though they had the exact same territorial status as Hawaii. The truth is that no Americans have sacrificed more than Filipinos in WW2, yet they’re routinely omitted from statistics of past American war deaths.