You know, I figure I might try this, even if I doubt I'll get many bites.

Found it! Credit to Twistwood, who created it off this prompt:

Gotta love how folks, when presented examples of media being uniquely hostile and mendacious toward Dems, will insist, "If Dems just brute forced the media then the media would of course be just as beholden to them as they are to Repubs!" And like...what world has that ever been true?

I uh...not sure about these ratings.

It's really impressive when self-demonstrative replies just offer themselves up like this...

Man, what is that line again? "When you're used to privilege, equality feels like oppression"? Seems relevant here...

If you know, you know. New Clutch City.

Welp, it happened, someone came out and said outright that politics really DOES happen at the speed of posting. (I want to give grace for the possibility of sarcasm, but the post construction and timeline don't suggest so...)

Unfortunately, I'm not so sure it was sarcastic, or at least in the way that gives Dems any grace.

I'm not gonna lie...this particular "Shot / Chaser" example is something that makes my eye twitch.

For context, since Ryan decided to remove it:

Feel like I need to repost this in light of some posts popping up, like this one. Apparently, actually passing and renewing a law isn't "codifying"

Don't you love it when people live down to your expectations?

Remember this scene in Guardians of then Galaxy? This is my attitude toward the USA. Yes, it has far too much red in its ledger. But that's reason to want it to be better. Not to claim that it was always bad and thus deserves to burn nor to erase the good, idealistic parts of its foundations

The movie was crap, but the soundtrack was top shelf. I waffle between this and Mortal Kombat as the top Soundtrack of the 90s

Gotta love folks with a sober conception of how the government works, and the absolute insistence that one wrong plus one one completely unrelated wrong necessarily makes a right.

Because Murc's Law is god. And being a sketchy dude with zero credentials and a tattoo he claimed no knowledge about for nearly two decades is less of a sin than being old and 'establishment liberal'. And of course 'libs should know better so of course it's their fault'.

Meanwhile, folks are still out hear taking Axios reports on what Dems say or do at face value, as a means to damn Dems...

What we have here are two sides of why Trump gets away with what he does: 1) treating his corruption as 'secret genius' as if he wasn't explicitly normalized by enablers, and 2) folks acting like he's really a paper tiger that Dems refuse to fight, therefore making THEM the real monsters responsible

It's amazing that this is the kind of reply something this blase gets. Defeatism and doom cosplaying as revolutionary righteousness and radical action

Someone in the replies LITERALLY claiming Hillary did universal healthcare wrong on purpose back in the 90s to derail it because liberals hate the people and all things good. At some point the hatred of liberals is axiomatic and backfills any explanation for the world they have.

Doesn't matter because Schumer has already been designated as a betrayer. So either he walks back, or if he actually follows through, it's onlly because he was scared by the power of REAL heroes rather than because he actually meant to. Dem'd if you do, Dem'd if you don't. You lose either way

This? This shit is what I meant by "believing in the better angels of the GOP" The GOP is the architect of this shit, and yet somehow the Dems are being held more accountable for not being perfect party line vote? For not finding mythic defectors from the GOP that were surely there if Dems "tried"?

Everything must necessarily be the Dems' fault in the end, Example #500383333

Shit like this is how you know how many of the folks pissed at Schumer and Jeffries don't even know what they actually did or didn't do.

What's with folks constantly couching deserved praise of folks doing the work on the ground in a dire situation with the constant need to flip it into a reason to burn Dems in effigy? "These folks are heroes *and they're why we need to purge the entire Dem caucus and replace them with activitsts!*"

The replies to both the quote post and the original are exactly why accurate reporting is more important than live reporting. The fact that the reporter being highlighted here literally recanted with an update saying the exact opposite 45 min later has been lost so folks can get their 2 Min Hate on.

Trump is doing this exactly because the Dems on the ground have been treating ICE and Trump himself as an existential threat, what the fuck are we even doing here?

Unfortunately, many are instead choosing the "the fact that it was believable says alot about them" past. (Note, I think only the middle comment here is actually guilty of this)

Exhibit B: