Fucking NY Times!

[edhopper]

Fuck their cheerleading.
From today's email newsletter.

Democrats may not approve of Trump’s targets — foreign aid and consumer protection agencies — or the potential constitutional crisis he initiated when he tried to eliminate them. But some Democrats might envy the speed at which he cut through red tape. After all, liberal lawmakers have for years complained about bureaucracy that moved too slowly and rules that stifled their ambitions.

America might not approve of Hitler's targets, Holland and France--or the potential war crimes they initiate. But American's might envy the speed of his Blitzkrieg to cut through the defenses of peaceful countries. After all, hasn't America been just as aggressive in trying to take over the World.

[Aviation Pro]

1. So, when we take back all three branches of government

We can starve out the red states with reckless abandon?

[markodochartaigh]

48. "...starve out the red states..."

That's what the red state oiligarchs want. Of course they would prefer to be in power nationally and rule over an ignorant population bereft of hope and control over their lives. But the oiligarchs' plan B is to be out of power nationally and rule over an ignorant population bereft of hope and control over their lives. One of the red state oiligarchs biggest struggles is against Democratic politicians on the national level trying to provide aid to the poor and working class in the red states, or at least to take credit for the aid which does seep through.

[Bluethroughu]

58. Or get their filthy hands on the money for themselves and

Their pig friends willing to take food out of childrens' mouths, for recognition of providing volleyball courts for private institutions they like.

[markodochartaigh]

60. Exactly.

30% off the top for themselves. Another 20% off the top for their friends and family plan, those friends and family who set up middle man businesses. Another 20% off the next level for junior associates, and the rest to buy whatever from other friendly businesses to give something to the needy.

[Bluethroughu]

2. NY TIMES, IT'S CALLED BREAKING THE LAW!

Breaking our country's Constitution is nothing to envy! That's called a dictatorship!
Stupid news.

[sop]

8. If "liberals" did what Trump is now doing, the NYT would compare them to Stalin, Mao or Jung Un.

[Bluethroughu]

47. Exactly!

[MacKasey]

53. You are exactly correct!

The reason he's going so fast he's doing it illegally

[John1956PA]

3. The difference being the Dems respect The Constitution. n/r

[Ocelot II]

4. A whole lot of really good ones, though:

THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Don’t Surrender to the Coercion Presidency
The Trump administration is trying to bake quid pro quo deal making, coercive tactics, loyalty tests and other dishonorable practices into American government.

DAVID FRENCH
The Disrupter in Chief Can’t End a War Like This
The Trump team’s vacillations may not just cost Ukraine its independence; it could set the stage for a cataclysm.

THE CONVERSATION
Trump’s First Four Weeks Felt Like Four Years
The problem is that if we have another three years and 11 months of this, there won’t be a rule of law left in the United States.
By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens

GUEST ESSAY
The 1980s Are Back, and Not in a Good Way
I worshiped Ronald Reagan and big hair in the 1980s. The MAGA youth of today remind me of myself.
By Elizabeth Spiers

GUEST ESSAY
Sorry, Mr. Kennedy, Most Americans Want to Get Their Shots
Threatening vaccine access is not only bad science, it’s bad politics.

MAUREEN DOWD
Who Will Stand Up to Trump at High Noon?
Trump and Musk are destroying the magic of America.

GUEST ESSAY
This Is What the Courts Can Do if Trump Defies Them
How the escalating measures available to courts would work.
By Trevor W. Morrison and Richard H. Pildes

NICHOLAS KRISTOF
Not Quite a Unified Theory of Trumpism, but Still an Alarming Pattern
Trump’s actions remind me of authoritarians I’ve covered for four decades around the globe.

https://www.nytimes.com/section/opinion

[edhopper]

13. Editorials are meaninless

when their headlines scream support for Trump.

[bif]

24. Wait! What?!?! You're defending the NYT?!?!

They actually published some decent op-ed pieces?!?! How dare you!

[Ocelot II]

25. Shame on me.

I was supposed to have unequivocally condemned them for their weak-ass headline.

[58Sunliner]

27. It's called gaslighting.

I don't give a shit how many puff pieces they post as opinions when the weight of the balance of their news is condoning Trump, or not countering Trump with the truth. They have been utterly negative about Biden. The bias is evident.

[Lonestarblue]

26. All opinions. The hard news still flatters Trump in coverage and headlines..

[sop]

5. "Liberal lawmakers have for years complained about bureaucracy that moved too slowly and rules that stifled

their ambitions." That is a breathtakingly stupid comment, even for the NYT.

[edhopper]

15. Liberals

have been railing against the reactionary, right wing court. Not the bureaucracy. Fuck the Times.

[cbabe]

6. Is it real or is it AI?

TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com › 2025 › 02 › 17 › the-new-york-times-has-greenlit-ai-tools-for-product-and-edit-staff

The New York Times has greenlit AI tools for product and edit staff

TodayThe New York Times is now allowing its product and editorial teams to use AI tools, which might one day write social copy, SEO

[edhopper]

16. What does it matter

they put it out there, they own it.

[cbabe]

19. True. Wonder if a human editor reviewed or simply waved it by.

[edhopper]

21. The byline

is German Lopez.

[WarGamer]

7. I'll agree with one thing...

I wish it was US slashing the size and cost of Gov't...

And using the saved $$ to fund increased base SS benefits, Medicare for all and a moon-shot "Housing for all" plan.

[John1956PA]

11. Yes! Cutting unnecessary spending in order to aid the programs you mention . . .

. . . rather than ordering more unnecessary products to aid Musk's companies.

[BootinUp]

9. Who wrote the above? Ty

[edhopper]

17. German Lopez

[AStern]

10. Link and author please

nt

[edhopper]

18. German Lopez

no link, in this morning daily email newsletter.

[AStern]

46. Thank you

Someone stated that he got all pissy when Vox wanted to unionize. He allegedly reversed his opinion but is getting dragged fiercely on bluesky.

[Ocelot II]

31. Here's a link. It's in their email newsletter, not the main publication.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/briefing/cutting-red-tape.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xk4.Ogx5.2N0e6dxglyT6&smid=url-share

[DinahMoeHum]

43. German Lopez is his name. . .

https://www.nytimes.com/by/german-lopez#contact

[claudette]

12. Haven't read the NYT in ages

Too magat for me

[Martin Eden]

14. That "red tape" is the United States Constitution

The red tape Democrats have to deal with has been pure obstructionism by Republicans to block any legislation that seeks to help Americans who are not millionaires.

[senseandsensibility]

22. I agree

Dems are not the ones complaining about regulations and the rule of law. They do everything by the book legally without complaining. This both siderism is disgusting but typical of the NYT.

[bronxiteforever]

32. This!

[senseandsensibility]

20. They are disgusting

Your post is merely the latest example. They have pushed the RW agenda for decades. Thanks for calling them out.

[mzmolly]

23. Liberal lawmakers have for years complained about bureaucracy?

When? Where?

WTF kind of shit article is this?

[somsai]

28. The article continues with quotes from Biden and Obama

One such Democrat was Joe Biden. Toward the end of his term as president, he said his administration was too slow to roll out his infrastructure law. “Historians will talk about (how) great the impact was,” Biden told USA Today last month. “But it didn’t have any immediate impact on people’s lives.”

Similarly, Barack Obama promised “shovel-ready” projects to help revitalize the economy, but they were slow to get started. “Shovel-ready was not as shovel-ready as we expected,” Obama said in 2011. Gov. Gavin Newsom of California has criticized his state’s troubled high-speed rail project. “I watched as a mayor and then a lieutenant governor and now governor as years became decades,” he said in 2023. “People are losing trust and confidence in our ability to build big things.”

[mzmolly]

34. It takes time to actually get things done.

Firing federal workers en masse via email is a quick and thoughtless process.

The article is a joke.

The author also wrote this piece > https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/why-nothing-works-marc-dunkelman/681407/

[Skittles]

61. slow legislation is one thing

repukes are PUSHING FASCISM at lightning speed - THAT is entirely another

[orangecrush]

29. Cut through the Constitution

Is what he did, you NYT assholes

[Ocelot II]

30. Yes, it's a pretty useless article.

It appeared in "The Morning," NYT's daily emailed newsletter, but not in the full publication.
Here it is in its entirety: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/briefing/cutting-red-tape.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xk4.Ogx5.2N0e6dxglyT6&smid=url-share

I wouldn't lose any sleep over it.

[Jilly_in_VA]

33. Is there a newspaper we can depend on these days?

I tried trial subscriptions to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Philadelphia Inquirer and was dissatisfied with both. Basically too much local news and not enough national news in either. Any suggestions? I have canceled my WaPo account for obvious reasons and canceled my NYT account 2 years ago.

[spooky3]

49. The Guardian is good. nt

[Jilly_in_VA]

54. I check The Guardian every day

But despite its "American" edition, it's British. So, with that in mind, I'm still looking for a decent American newspaper that hasn't been corrupted.

[Dem4life1234]

72. Same it seems like the world can see the criminal for what he is

Except American newspapers. It makes me sick.

[PhylliPretzel]

50. The Guardian

I recommend The Guardian online. For TV news, try Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales. I have found Al Zajeera English the most comprehensive for international news.

[cilla4progress]

35. Right on,

Ed!

[calimary]

36. Is anyone writing a protest letter to the New York Times?

Um… aren’t they supposed to be objective, instead of routinely dumping on the Dems?

[Beck23]

37. That bureaucracy is called three branches of government

[Baitball Blogger]

38. Trump is a lawless criminal law-breaker. Liberals believe in following process.

The New York Times has idiots for reporters.

[Emile]

39. CONServative tabloid paper.

[MayReasonRule]

40. Brown Shirt Brown Nosing Fascists Waist Deep In Trump's Prolapsed Gaping Asshole

May they be flushed like the turds they are.

[Pepsidog]

41. Astonishingly off the mark. So easy to destroy and dismantle illegally and illegitimately what took years to build. Rs

incapable of building anything good and useful so they unilaterally destroy, unless it helps the top income earners. Shame on NYT.

[wiggs]

42. Yes. TPTB (including MSM) want this to be about rules, authority, processes, conflicts between

branches of government. Instead, stories should be about damage to institutions, to national security, to public safety, to education, to our global standing, to long-held important alliances, to stability, and more. Impacts are VERY serious and very complex but I see very little good discussion about them.

[senseandsensibility]

59. Exactly

IMO they are afraid to spell it out so they tiptoe around the issue with Washington speak and legalities. It just sounds like business as usual to a lot of viewers. But then again, normalization is one of the corporate media's goals.

[Joinfortmill]

44. Who writes their shit?

[GreenWave]

45. NYET Times impressed by a Barbarossa Blitzkrieg?

[Progressive dog]

51. So crimes are ok if some people

approve of how quickly they were committed. Whatever happened to journalists who cared about right and wrong or at least legal and illegal.

[dchill]

52. We don't need no steenking Constitution! We're the New York Times!

(Oh please Mr Trump please give us access! We beseech thee!)

[Voltaire2]

55. sure but the trains are finally running on time

to Auschwitz.

[bif]

56. The day wouldn't be complete without a NYT rant.

[stillcool]

57. Absolute trash!

so sick, and so obvious. They're making Judith Milller look like an honest reporter. I think about this from time to time, with so many clusters turning.

https://www.salon.com/2007/01/31/aspens/
Scooter Libby wrote a jailhouse note to Judith, saying, "Out West, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them."

[Passages]

62. Sick. They are intentionally boosting his "style".

Shameful.

[kiri]

63. If only Merrick Garland ....

If only Merrick Garland had had an equal dispatch, dedication, and sense of duty we might well have avoided the present crises.

[soldierant]

64. It may not turn out to be so fast unless they ignore court orders - which might have consequences.

[Six117]

65. "Turd polishing"

Yup. Fits perfectly.

[Mblaze]

66. Yeah, that's right you incredible twit.

Dems are envious of how quickly Trump has brought our country to a constitutional crisis.

This is not a fucking computer sim. This is real and it involves real human beings.

The Gray Lady has succumbed to dementia.

[Blue Owl]

67. ESAD, NYT

[swong19104]

68. I think, about 88 years ago,

The NY Times did a similar knob-polishing of Adolph Hitler. That he was quick to get things working and getting people employed and...

[Figarosmom]

69. Yeah fu*k them

[augyboston]

70. The idiots running the NYT these days need a basic lesson in Civics and the Constitution

An un-elected (not one vote) Musk running around tearing apart the government without any oversight or authority may be fast, but that doesn't make it right.

The NYT I grew up with would be screaming from the rooftops for Congress to do its job!

What a total joke this once great newspaper has become.

[4catsmom]

71. wtf is wrong with these people?

they are complicit

[Martin68]

73. Bullshit! We're supposed to "envy" Trump's total disregard for the constitution and the rule of law?

Fuck the NYT.

[BannonsLiver]

74. I envy their ruthlessness in attaining power and how they use power when they have it.

I’m not for lawlessness or disregarding the constitution, however.

[Martin68]

78. The problem is that ruthlessness requires lawlessness and unconstitutionality. Democracy is not based on ruthlessness.

That is the fascist approach. If democracy is not strong enough to reject Trump, then our democracy has been a failure. Let's not assume Trump is going to win this fight in the long run. If he does, it will require a revolution and a rewrite of our constitution to restore democracy.

[BannonsLiver]

80. I don't agree with your point that being ruthless requires lawlessness.

Or that it equates to fascism.

[Daleuhlmann]

75. THE N Y TIMES, Like Most of the Other Mainstream Media, Is a Coward!

Yeah, it's easy to get things done in a totalitarian state that doesn"t have a democracy to slow it down. What a sell-out by this editorialist!

[Initech]

76. Wrong, assholes! We DO NOT approve of Trump's targets. There is no "may" here.

Fuck Trump, Musk, and this whole vile administration! They are a threat to the United States!

[Wingus Dingus]

77. Gardeners marvel at the speed at which lumberjacks prune trees.

Surgeons are impressed at the speed at which axe murderers amputate limbs. Hot nonsense from the NYT.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

79. I cancelled my NYT subscription back in 2016 after the NYT worked to elect trump

[Daleuhlmann]

81. NY TIMES Editorial Sounds Like "Deja Vu All Over Again!"

I agree with the blogger who called what Trump is doing "breaking the Law!" Mainstream media, judges, and politicians who praise, excuse, or even overlook Trump's crimes remind me of the same parties who did the same thing in having aided and abetted Hitler's rise to power. They also remind me of, again, the same forces who had openly admired and supported Benito Mussolini for having at last made the trains run on time in fascist Italy 🚈🕛🗾.