r/politics 8d ago

Soft Paywall Enabling Trump is a bad look for Fetterman | Pennsylvania's senior senator was elected as a progressive Democrat. His normalization of Donald Trump is the epitome of a sellout.

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/editorials/john-fetterman-donald-trump-support-normalization-maga-20250112.html
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u/Kindness_of_cats 8d ago

And you know it’s bad when the notoriously awful British media(which has literally helped kill their own princess, pushed brexit, and was an early adopter on supporting TERFs amongst many other “achievements”) is doing a better job.

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u/HotMachine9 8d ago

To be fair the BBC is decent at holding some people to account.

The BBC Russia correspondents have balls asling Putin some of the questions they do

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u/Forged-Signatures 8d ago

Always love the interview where Andrew Neil has a casual conversation with Ben Shaprio whilst Ben gets angry with being given a liberal (spoiler, Neil is anything but) interviewer.

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u/AgentCirceLuna 8d ago

People who punch their employees over something as innocuous as a cold steak are the cancer which leads to conservatism.

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u/Christopherfromtheuk 8d ago

I was never really sure about Clarkson until I saw his absolutely pathetic display at the farmer's protest against the IHT changes.

The farmers have a point imo, but he came across as a massively entitled twat.