And it's not as if it was written by some schlub in a trailer park or something - the division of CNN responsible for that undoubtedly has a budget in at least seven figures and dozens of employees who are by definition professionals.
And that's the best they could do? How is that even possible?
On a related note - I kept thinking, reading through that - how can something from CNN be that poorly written? It's not as if it's a jetliner or a bridge or a skyscraper - it's an article and an accompanying set of news briefs that a high school English student could've knocked out in an hour, and the student would've done a better job.
How many employees does CNN have? And how is it that none of them could manage to make sure that that didn't go out until it was competently written?
One would think that CNN could at least afford a proofreader.
Feeling a bit North Korea in here.
It's weird and disturbing that the headline is probably true.
If the world made sense, it would be more than enough that he is, right now, moment-to-moment, obviously deeply mentally ill and wantonly destructive - a grotesquely corrupt pathological liar, vindictive narcissist, and raging sociopath who blatantly has done and is doing more harm to the US than any president at least in the modern era and quite possibly ever.
How has that not already been enough? I don't think I'll ever really understand that.
How perfect.
This is a great example of how it is that the right is always wrong, but always has followers anyway. It's because they live in a doggedly self-affirming fantasy world in which they blithely believe unsupported nonsense like QAnon while just as blithely disregarding simple fact like the Epstein files, all based not on evidence or logic, but just based on whether or not it fits their preconceptions.
It's a perfect little delusional universe where they're free to be told whatever they want to believe and ignore whatever they don't want to believe.
This is a large part of why Republicans love "privatizing" government services - so they can then collect bribes and kickbacks from the often nepotistic contractors who get the no-bid contracts.
And as always, the Trump regime does it more and bigger than anyone ever.
So doesn't that mean that the next step is for Trump to call TruthAI mean and nasty, then sue it?
Because he's a corrupt piece of shit, owned by the same moneyed interests that own the Republicans.
So the message to poor Americans from Trump and the Republicans is "If we can't take away your health insurance assistance, we'll take away your food assistance."
And all so that they can pay for tax breaks for billionaires.
They're psychopaths. They really are - they are, and rather self-evidently, entirely unconstrained by morals, principles, empathy or conscience, so meet the DSM standards.
That don't just need to be voted out of office - they need to be institutionalized.
Huh... that sounds about right.
Alito, for instance, was always a demagogic piece of shit, and Thomas was always a corrupt piece of shit, but for a while there, Roberts was a relatively decent justice, all things considered. But no more - now he's at least as corrupt/compromised as the rest of them. But I was never quite sure how that happened, and that's a plausible explanation.
They could - Congress has the exact same authority to impeach a supreme court justice as they do a president (or any other federal office-holder for that matter).
But they won't.
A Dem majority wouldn't be enough, because Schumer and Jeffries and all the rest of their neolib hack allies would still be there, and they're owned by most of the same big money donors that own the Republicans.
The only way there's any chance that Congress would actually exercise its authority is if all of the corrupt shitweasels are primaried and the Dems end up not just with a majority, but a majority of actual leftists with actual principles and integrity.
And that's terribly unlikely, since both the Republicans and the Democrats would fight it tooth and toenail.
So the American elite are really speedrunning the whole Ancien Regime France thing.
Somehow they seem unaware of how that story ends.