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Nevilledog

(51,257 posts) Wed Aug 23, 2023, 05:29 PM Aug 2023

Charles Pierce: What Are These People Thinking, Eating Pudding With Team Trump?

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a44891839/milwaukee-reporters-trump-team-rare-steakhouse/

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https://archive.li/tsV5t

Excuse me, but what the unholy, unshirted, uncobbled fck is going on here? From Politico:

SPOTTED IN MILWAUKEE — Team Trump wining and dining with a number of top reporters at a steakhouse called “Rare” — and passing out pudding snack packs (a swipe at RON DeSANTIS’ “pudding fingers” story) as well as debate bingo cards to troll the Florida governor. Squares included: “dismisses polls,” “wipes snot,” “red ears,” “Dee-Santis,” “Duh-Santis,” “flip flops on Social Security… again,” “woke” and “pudding mention.” See pictures here and here

Who was there: Reporters Dana Bash, Shane Goldmacher, Kristen Welker, Bob Costa, Fin Gomez, Dasha Burns, Rachel Scott, Rick Klein, Josh Dawsey, Rob Crilly, Mario Parker and David Chalian along with Chris LaCivita, Jason Miller and Steven Cheung. And across the restaurant, feet away: members of Team DeSantis.

I could care less about the wounded fee-fees of Team DeSantis. He deserves every ounce of the ridicule that is being heaped upon him. But what are the people in my business doing sharing ha-ha's with the scurvy bastards in the employ of a treasonous indicted felon, and that's not even to mention Jason Miller, who is beyond even my gifts for invective. This is not only a throwback to the days when the Alsops were cozy with the spooks who lived in their neighborhoods, or Ben Bradlee and JFK, and Sinatra and Nixon. It's The Georgetown Set with cutting-edge technology. But it's also worse, because the people with whom these reporters are slow-dancing are infinitely worse. These are people who are willingly working to elect a treasonous indicted criminal to the presidency. Again.

There is no possible excuse for this. We've all had almost eight years to know what these people are about, and we've had seven years to learn that this malignant operation is not a conventional campaign with conventional goals and a respect for political and social conventions of any kind. 'Fi were king of the forest, I'd borrow a tip from the Amish and shun everybody who even thought of making El Caudillo del Mar-A-Lago president ever. Learn something, will you, before you all wind up taking helicopter rides again and worshipping at empty podiums.

*The end*