Trump suckling piece (of 💩 piece ) of the week

We have a STRONG opening contestant! If you have one you see this week, share it in comments!

To say the main stream media has been a disappointment in their coverage of our collapsing Jenga-pile speed fall into authoritarianism is both an understatement and wrong. We don’t have a mainstream media anymore, we have various degrees of state media run. Still, it’s always a treat - by the way that’s sarcasm - when a company you assume would run like a Miami Herald ends up putting Bari Weiss’ CBS News to shame.

Trump lost a Supreme Court ruling on his favorite issue: Taxing Americans to create a slush fund for himself. Hey, those giant posters hanging around Washington with a 50 foot Trump eying you like a teen beauty pageant contestant don’t pay for themselves.

He responded like he always does: Like an abusive father. This backhand was a quite a unilateral 10% tax on everything everywhere, which became 15% as of me writing this, but it’s like a fucking roulette wheel with this guy. By tomorrow it could be eleventy-five.

But every Trump “breaks norms” is a chance for some journalist to get on Trump’s radar for access, cookies and maybe not being thrown in a Gulag one day. Enter CNN:

“True to his philosophy of never accepting a defeat, he’s already battling back after the Supreme Court declared his exercise of emergency trade war powers unlawful,” writes CNN’s Stephen Collinson“

The full article is here and at least to me, it sane washes his behavior. Casting this as something Trump did because of some deep seated intellectual belief that he pondered as opposed to reacting like a drunk Dad is something else.

You expect it from Fox News and News Max. You expect it from the Washington Post, and the “new” CBS. Seeing it happen to CNN before they end up controlled by an Technogarch… it’s not that it’s unexpected it’s just glaring and disappointing.

And I think we’re all tired of things that are glaringly disappointing from the few places that don’t HAVE to be. It’s worse, because they CHOOSE to be.

Cartoon by the brilliant Ann Telnaes who left the Washington Post when Bezos killed this cartoon and now shares her art on the absolutely fantastic “Open Windows” Substack. It was one of my first paid subs.

So, we’re off to the races on our very first “Trump Suckling of the Week” and it’s a strong contender.

Feel free it drop yours in the comments.