INDIGNITY MORNING PODCAST

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: The New York Times would not allow itself to write a news headline asserting that the president is abusing his power, but it's perfectly happy to go fishing for a quote that will say that. In this case, the fishing line is still visible, as what Trevor Potter, the president of the Campaign Legal Center and a former Republican chairman of the Federal Election Commission says,...

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: It seems like there would be several more salient reasons why someone would avoid publicly attaching their name to a story about defying the out-of-control authoritarian president, but journalistic conventions are journalistic conventions. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: It is June 4th, the date the tanks rolled in, drawing approval, at the time, from Donald Trump for the Chinese government's display of the "power of strength," as he told Playboy in an interview. But that was all very long ago and surely not relevant here in the 21st century. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: It wasn't just a demonstration of the capacity for military action. It was a military action. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: The whole gambit of snatching people out of immigration court completely contradicts the message of the Trump campaign and administration, that it is turning ICE loose to seize and deport the most dangerous criminal elements in the country because Trump's preferred arms of federal law enforcement are lazy and incompetent, and because the real point is to create a spectacle o...

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: Driven by his subliterate vulgar Darwinian unto eugenicist belief system, Kennedy, in concert with Mehmet Oz, the Trump administration's head of Medicare and Medicaid, wants to import a diseased flock of birds to the United States and turn them loose on a ranch owned by Dr. Oz in Florida. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

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EASY LISTENING DEP’T. If you're a person who cares about Venezuelan babies, this may tug at your heartstrings. But given that the people who are running this country hate Venezuelan babies and want the worst for them, the story reads like a more literally constructed version of a triumphalist memo that the White House would put out. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity....

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: For an instructive contrast of approach, there is the lawsuit filed yesterday by Shira Perlmutter, on the question of who is in charge of the United States Copyright Office, in which the plaintiff identifies herself as Register of Copyrights and Director of the U.S. Copyright Office, while naming the defendants Todd Blanche “in his capacity as the person claiming to be Actin...

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: The president of the United States somehow becomes an adjective attached to a “broadside,” a broadside that then “embroils” the South African president. This generates a mood, a mood of “tension.” And then comes a little action, sharing a video, but the video is only "echoing false assertions over white genocide." “Over” is just a weird space-filler, wrong choice of preposit...

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: This all starts to sound a little bit like the episode where New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft handed Vladimir Putin one of his Super Bowl rings to show it off, and Putin tucked it in his pocket and declared it a gift. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: Saying Trump cares about supposed Afrikaner persecution because he cares about DEI is just an incredibly tortured way of saying that the president is a racist crank. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: The Times carries on its recent welcome habit of writing direct and unmediated assessments of the president's shortcomings, “President’s Opponents Getting Wise to His Ways / A Pattern of Blustering Negotiating Tactics Ending in Retreat.” Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: On the front of this morning's New York Times, four columns wide, is a picture of a greeting between the lawless strongman leader of a corrupt petrostate and Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, as the latter stretches out his hands to welcome Donald Trump. “During President Trump's first term,” the piece begins, “the idea that special interests and governments were b...

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: The story cites Trump telling Bob Woodward that he saved Mohammed bin Salman's ass by making the congressional hubbub over bin Salman's decision to murder Jamal Khashoggi of the Washington Post and chop his body up with a bone saw go away, and it recalls how the Saudi sovereign wealth fund gave Jared Kushner two billion dollars to play with, after Trump's first term was over...

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: This is only about “dueling perspectives” in the same sense that New York City and Al-Qaeda had different ideas about the best use for the World Trade Center. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: One thing that is missing from this morning is your Indignity Morning Podcast's physical copy of the New York Times. There is neither a bagged one nor a soggy, unbagged one anywhere to be found, and so this edition is going to face the news with only minimal hierarchical guidance. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

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