DL Open Thread Wednesday, April 14, 2021 – ONLY WORLD NEWS EDITION
Biden to announce withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan by September 11
Washington (CNN)President Joe Biden, having concluded there is no military solution to the security and political problems plaguing Afghanistan and determined to focus on more pressing national security challenges, will formally announce Wednesday that US troops will withdraw from the country before the 20th anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks, a senior administration official said.
Seems Northern Ireland misses the good old days of riots, bombings and general mayhem as nostalgia takes a strange turn. Really disappointed with Japan dumping nuclear wastewater into the sea, sounds like something the Republicans would do. As for getting the hell out of Afghanistan Hoo F*ckin’ Ray, it only took twenty years, a trillion dollars and thousands of deaths to wake the hell up.
We’re on tenterhooks waiting for the big reveal: who’s the Delawarean?
Krista Griffith. The gag is she’s wearing a GOP pin.
Nothing funny about that DINO!
Dave Weigel tweeted out a good point this morning:
When toting up the Republicans’ structural advantages, people usually leave out the fact that mainstream media almost always adopts the GOP framing on issues. This is why they react so badly on those issues — think trans- and other gender stuff, for example — in which the media adopts liberal framing.
Sorry, I don’t get the connection.
The media made a constant theme of Republicans’ support for Trump. It was never a story — his numbers were in line with own-party support of every president — yet it was a constant story, and a constant buttress for Republicans, who were told daily that all their fellow Republicans were staying in line. The barely subtextual message is “so should you.”
This is an unacknowledged structural advantage for Republicans. See, for example, the media’s attempts to turn a surge in migrant children at the border into a “crisis,” or their failure to feature how much public support there is for progressive programs and Biden’s agenda.
OTOH, the media sometimes adopts certain liberal positions — for example, that racism, sexism and xenophobia are bad — and because conservatives are so accustomed to the refs calling things their way they explode into rage (their only discernible reaction to anything, I realize) about the “biased media” on those issues where it doesn’t.
Yup. GOP tidal wave is Dems squeak out a win. See it all the time.