The New York Times gives us Michael Milken — the "swashbuckling financier" of the 1980s — apparently because Trump's "opportunity zones" — presented as a boon to distressed communities — can be disparaged as benefitting this ancient fiend:
Trump is a such colorful villain of today, but it can't just be Trump Trump Trump all the time. I hypothesize that the newspapers are looking to the past for a new infusion of colorful villains to excite readers.
We're so childishly into villains these days, and political partisans must worry that that we will satisfy our appetite by regarding anyone who makes it into the limelight as a villain. So bring back some old villains to feed our shameful hunger and leave, say, Adam Schiff, in the darkness of the basement.
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Milken is also an example of prosecutorial misconduct similar to that with Flynn. He was convinced to plead guilty by threatening to prosecute his brother,
Bad white people
That Opportunity Zone "solution" goes way back. That's nothing new.
Sorry to see he's retreading it.
Sort of like Althouse remembering Klan murderers.
"...symbol of 80s greed.." - yep, just straight down the middle news reporting.
Blacks LOVE. Susan Smith, and will never forget her, even though her name is nearly Anonymous. Meanwhile, who remembers Aaron Alexis, Omar Thornton, or Samuel Little? Their victims don’t.
They ran out of false flag operations to distract folks. So it has to be old re-runs.
Ah, the NYT style guideline for close associations. This usage implies that the investigation is close to uncovering NYT and WaPo-aligned special and peculiar interests that are responsible for spying, colluding, obstructing, and raging for the machine.
The NY Times and WaPo are really missing an opportunity here. Schiff and the Penquin are not only villainous, they look the part. And Strzok testifying, wow, villainous. It is like living in a Dick Tracy strip.
Trump is a strange kind of villain. He hasn't done anything wrong!
I think we're reviving old villains because today's villains are all on the left side of the aisle.
We[sic]'re so childishly into villains these days,
Just like any other previous days.
evil, journalism
Coma splice! Where I got my degrees you'd get flunked just for that.
And you'd get flunked for spelling comma with one m.
Sadly, I think Whitney nailed it at 1:25.
Demonizing White people reinvigorates the White Guilt complex that was once legitimate. Now it is a scam.
What does it mean? It means that (1) they have grasped that their readers are tired of Trump! Trump! Trump!, but (2) all the evil villains since Susan Smith and Michael Milken have been Democrats.
They are all white monsters initially we thought they were good people. Hint hint: eventually we're going to find out that Trump is a monster.
Except that Trump is not a monster, the real monsters are the Adam Schiffs and the rest of the swamp creatures. What happens to the collective liberal consciousness when the schemes of John O. Brennan and Barack Obama et al. are revealed? Take a look at Brennan's twitter feed to see what a desperate monster looks like.
like Smollet tapping his Nigerian 'racists',
... you go to war with the villains you have.
Hey-- didn't some right-winger bomb an abortion clinic in the 90's?
The Washington Post is nothing more than a sensationalist scandal sheet.
well the sdny brand of pirates, was something guiliani had some part in, but compared to the tech scammers like henry Blodgett, or the cassanos, and other nazguls, that arose from the cra revision push, no major figure was really touched there, in fact countrywide has revived like a zombie plague,
it can't just be Trump Trump Trump all the time
Sure it can. He's the gift that never stops giving!
What are the NYT and WaPO going to do in 2025 when Trump leaves office?
Ah, no mention of Emmett Till? They're slipping.
What are the NYT and WaPO going to do in 2025 when Trump leaves office?
Write about his legacy of racism, homophobia, xenophobia, Islamophobia, misogyny and so on. You know, the way Hillary described us deplorables.
When will they get to Jimmy Carter—history’s greatest monster?
The villain is in the mirror.
But I do admit that your idea of putting the Schiffster into a dark basement is an excellent one.
Chains optional.
The opportunity zone corruption hasn't just been Milken. Another friend of Trump's and big donor got the big tax breaks even though his locations were not eligible according to the criteria specified.
By this time people should realize if Trump says something 90% of the time it is a lie, 80% of his associates are also criminals, and 70% of his actions involve corruption.
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-a-tax-break-to-help-the-poor-went-to-nba-owner-dan-gilbert
The party of youth drags out 40 year old villainies. Well done youthful party.
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The opportunity zone corruption hasn't just been Milken.
I see we have a new troll.
I've been using an app called pocket for years. See a page or article you'd like to read later, click pocket, and all the ads are striped and the article with pictures is saved to your pocket for later reading on any device. I can save on my desktop read on my phone or vice versa.
It saves the article rather than the link so even if the original is taken down, the article is still in my pocket library.
Www.getpocket.com
Today I found that it will save the underlying ny times article even if the NYT page asks me to log in.
Works with Android, dragon, Firefox, Dissenter and other browsers.
John Henry
“So bring back some old villains to feed our shameful hunger and leave, say, Adam Schiff, in the darkness of the basement.“
Not good enough. I say chain Adam Schiff to a chair, staple his eyelids open and force him to watch films of Trump rallies, on an endless loop.
Beats talking about Culiacán, Sinaloa.
México, doesn’t it?
It saves the article rather than the link so even if the original is taken down, the article is still in my pocket library.
I use my blog for that. Blue Host is a very stable platform so I save posts of stuff I want to look at later. For example, this article by David Warren, whose writing is always worth reading.
He compares Obama to Gorbachev, a valuable insight.
"We're so childishly into villains these days..." says Our Hostess.
Speak for yourself, Hostess.
I know that this particular pattern (writing "we" when what is meant is, the writer and people who agree with the writer) is popular. It has been for decades, and it has annoyed me for decades.
It is bad writing! Sloppy and lazy. A writer should show, not tell. And especially not "tell" things to readers they've never met--about what those readers are supposedly thinking!
Please don't protest that the writer is just being informal. The writer is being presumptuous.
Very annoying. /rant
Villains are the magic ingredient in soap opera. Clickbait.
As in, for example, Trump.
That's where all this anti-Trump news comes from. It gets revenue from advertisers. The dems free-ride on it.
Hey-- didn't some right-winger bomb an abortion clinic in the 90's?
Can't go there since people would remember the FBI's actions on Richard Jewell. Don't want the peasants realizing how corrupt the FBI can be.
"=... symbols of 80s greed ..."
Oh, like the Clintons?
Adam Schiff should be left in the darkness at the bottom of the sewers in the largest city of some sh*thole 3rd world country.
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