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George Will argues Trump presidency is weakening after controversial Iran agreement

📰 Original title: 'Neutering of Trump' to start as disastrous deal launches presidency's autopsy: column

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The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
-- George Will

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GeorgeWill #TheFuture

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #StPeteBeach #Florida

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
-- George Will

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GeorgeWill #TheFuture

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #StPeteBeach #Florida

Kyshawn George diagnosed with UCL tear in his left elbow https://www.rawchili.com/nba/679226/ #Atlanta #AtlantaHawks #Basketball #GeorgeWill #georgia #JalenJohnson #KyshawnGeorge #MandatoryCredit #NBA #StateFarmArena #UlnarCollateralLigament #USA #Washington #WashingtonWizards #WashingtonWizards #Wizards

Wizards announce F Kyshawn George has a partially torn UCL in his left elbow https://www.rawchili.com/nba/640717/ #Atlanta #Basketball #GeorgeWill #Houston #KyshawnGeorge #NBA #TraeYoung #Washington #WashingtonWizards #WashingtonWizards #Wizards

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"During a cabinet meeting filled with confusing economic claims and rambling remarks, Fox News abruptly cut away from Donald Trump mid-speech. No spin. No cleanup. No defensive commentary. Just a commercial break.

When even a network that has spent years defending him decides they can’t keep airing the footage, it raises serious questions.

In this video, we break down:

• What actually happened inside that cabinet meeting

• Why Trump’s own team appears to be managing him instead of serving him

• The growing signs of physical and mental decline

• His obsession with monuments and legacy preservation

• The Gateway Project funding controversy involving Chuck Schumer

• The Kennedy Center renaming situation

• The pattern of authoritarian leaders accelerating monument building

• The systematic erasure of Black history under this administration

• Why fascism depends on historical amnesia

• And why the real monument of this era won’t be buildings — but resistance

We connect the dots between Trump’s monument obsession, federal funding leverage tactics, attacks on education, ICE enforcement expansion, and the historical parallels that experts have warned about for years.

This isn’t partisan outrage. This is pattern recognition.

History matters. Memory matters. Accountability matters."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqwKXzE5vKQ

#GeorgeWill #conservatives #TrumpRegime

"During a cabinet meeting filled with confusing economic claims and rambling remarks, Fox News abruptly cut away from Donald Trump mid-speech. No spin. No cleanup. No defensive commentary. Just a commercial break.

When even a network that has spent years defending him decides they can’t keep airing the footage, it raises serious questions.

In this video, we break down:

• What actually happened inside that cabinet meeting

• Why Trump’s own team appears to be managing him instead of serving him

• The growing signs of physical and mental decline

• His obsession with monuments and legacy preservation

• The Gateway Project funding controversy involving Chuck Schumer

• The Kennedy Center renaming situation

• The pattern of authoritarian leaders accelerating monument building

• The systematic erasure of Black history under this administration

• Why fascism depends on historical amnesia

• And why the real monument of this era won’t be buildings — but resistance

We connect the dots between Trump’s monument obsession, federal funding leverage tactics, attacks on education, ICE enforcement expansion, and the historical parallels that experts have warned about for years.

This isn’t partisan outrage. This is pattern recognition.

History matters. Memory matters. Accountability matters."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqwKXzE5vKQ

Opinion – How media lost power in the age of Trump and the internet – The Washington Post

Opinion

By George F. Will

What killed print media — and what died with it

The waning of newsprint is about cultural changes more momentous than digital publishing’s arrival.

October 17, 2025, 4 min

A sound of morning silence is coming to Atlanta. The sound of newspapers landing on sidewalks in residential neighborhoods will vanish when, at year’s end, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, joining a national trend, stops publishing print editions.

Turning trees into paper, marking it with ink, trucking it to people who deliver it to readers — soon this laboriousness might be as forgotten as men with tongs lugging large slabs of ice for home iceboxes. The waning of the 400-year era of newspapers is, however, about cultural changes more momentous than the efficiency and convenience of written words presented digitally.

The Economist reports that the share of American adults who read for pleasure has fallen 40 percent in 20 years, and students’ ability to read in quantity, with comprehension, is in parallel decline. An Oxford professor of English says students “struggle to get through one novel in three weeks.” Students lack, another professor says, “habits of application and concentration.”

The sentences that are being read are shorter and simpler. The Economist says an analysis of hundreds of New York Times bestsellers “found that sentences in popular books have contracted by almost a third since the 1930s.” Readers, if they can be called such, who are mentally wired for driblets of 280 characters cannot cope with Charles Dickens’s “Bleak House” (1.9 million characters). Can people unable to decipher sophisticated prose manage sophisticated political ideas?

But sophistication is not in the repertoire of journalism devoted to what Andrey Mir, a Canadian, calls the retribalizing of society. In his epigrammatic 2020 book “Postjournalism and the death of newspapers,” Mir, a self-described “media ecologist,” says the media lost agenda-setting power when the internet enabled crowdsourced agenda-setting.

As advertising dollars migrated to the internet, newspapers, which hitherto were funded from above by selling readers to advertisers, became funded from below by selling themselves to readers. Newspapers encouraged readers to think of subscriptions as donations to political causes. Subscribers enjoy their “slactivism,” outsourcing their activism through “donscriptions” — subscriptions thought of as donations.

Mir says “the last newspaper generation” was born in the early 1980s. It came of age as the internet did. Soon journalism stopped being about informing people to make them citizens, and began to be about making them agitated.

The new business model depends on polarization, amplifying readers’ irritations and frustrations. “A newspaper,” wrote Vladimir Lenin, “is not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organiser.”

“Americans,” Mir says, “consume media 12 hours per day. Counting weekends, this is twice as much as a full-time job.” Because there is insufficient news to fill the time, emphasis has shifted to “expertise, commentaries, and opinions.”

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Opinion | How media lost power in the age of Trump and the internet – The Washington Post

#2025 #AgeOfInternet #America #CNN #DonaldTrump #Education #Film #GeorgeWill #Google #Health #History #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #Media #Opinion #Politics #PrintMedia #Resistance #Science #Technology #Television #TheWashingtonPost #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates #YouTube

Opinion – How media lost power in the age of Trump and the internet – The Washington Post

Opinion

By George F. Will

What killed print media — and what died with it

The waning of newsprint is about cultural changes more momentous than digital publishing’s arrival.

October 17, 2025, 4 min

A sound of morning silence is coming to Atlanta. The sound of newspapers landing on sidewalks in residential neighborhoods will vanish when, at year’s end, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, joining a national trend, stops publishing print editions.

Turning trees into paper, marking it with ink, trucking it to people who deliver it to readers — soon this laboriousness might be as forgotten as men with tongs lugging large slabs of ice for home iceboxes. The waning of the 400-year era of newspapers is, however, about cultural changes more momentous than the efficiency and convenience of written words presented digitally.

The Economist reports that the share of American adults who read for pleasure has fallen 40 percent in 20 years, and students’ ability to read in quantity, with comprehension, is in parallel decline. An Oxford professor of English says students “struggle to get through one novel in three weeks.” Students lack, another professor says, “habits of application and concentration.”

The sentences that are being read are shorter and simpler. The Economist says an analysis of hundreds of New York Times bestsellers “found that sentences in popular books have contracted by almost a third since the 1930s.” Readers, if they can be called such, who are mentally wired for driblets of 280 characters cannot cope with Charles Dickens’s “Bleak House” (1.9 million characters). Can people unable to decipher sophisticated prose manage sophisticated political ideas?

But sophistication is not in the repertoire of journalism devoted to what Andrey Mir, a Canadian, calls the retribalizing of society. In his epigrammatic 2020 book “Postjournalism and the death of newspapers,” Mir, a self-described “media ecologist,” says the media lost agenda-setting power when the internet enabled crowdsourced agenda-setting.

As advertising dollars migrated to the internet, newspapers, which hitherto were funded from above by selling readers to advertisers, became funded from below by selling themselves to readers. Newspapers encouraged readers to think of subscriptions as donations to political causes. Subscribers enjoy their “slactivism,” outsourcing their activism through “donscriptions” — subscriptions thought of as donations.

Mir says “the last newspaper generation” was born in the early 1980s. It came of age as the internet did. Soon journalism stopped being about informing people to make them citizens, and began to be about making them agitated.

The new business model depends on polarization, amplifying readers’ irritations and frustrations. “A newspaper,” wrote Vladimir Lenin, “is not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organiser.”

“Americans,” Mir says, “consume media 12 hours per day. Counting weekends, this is twice as much as a full-time job.” Because there is insufficient news to fill the time, emphasis has shifted to “expertise, commentaries, and opinions.”

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Opinion | How media lost power in the age of Trump and the internet – The Washington Post

#2025 #AgeOfInternet #America #CNN #DonaldTrump #Education #Film #GeorgeWill #Google #Health #History #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #Media #Opinion #Politics #PrintMedia #Resistance #Science #Technology #Television #TheWashingtonPost #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates #YouTube

Lindsay Graham warns Trump will “crush” Russia if Putin skips Ukraine talks, yet Trump's Alaska summit showed weakness instead of promised strength. Experts like Anne Applebaum note his empty threats and GOP’s image spins mask real failures. This exposes deep party frailty against Putin’s aggression. Read more: https://www.alternet.org/trump-news-putin/ #LindsayGraham #DonaldTrump #VladimirPutin #Ukraine #USPolitics #RepublicanParty #ForeignPolicy #PutinSummit #Weakness #RightwingMedia #AnneApplebaum #GeorgeWill

80 Years After the Atomic Bombings, Reconciling Idealism and Reality

As we mark the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings against Japan, discussions on the significance of nuclear we…
#Japan #JP #JapanNews #atomicbomb #atomicbombs #georgewill #Hiroshima #Nagasaki #news #non-proliferation #nucleardeterence #nuclearweapon #nuclearweapons #politics&security #trump #vladimirputin #yoshihisakomori
https://www.alojapan.com/1345968/80-years-after-the-atomic-bombings-reconciling-idealism-and-reality/

80 Years After the Atomic Bombings, Reconciling Idealism and Reality

As we mark the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings against Japan, discussions on the significance of nuclear we…
#Japan #JP #JapanNews #atomicbomb #atomicbombs #georgewill #Hiroshima #Nagasaki #news #non-proliferation #nucleardeterence #nuclearweapon #nuclearweapons #politics&security #trump #vladimirputin #yoshihisakomori
https://www.alojapan.com/1345968/80-years-after-the-atomic-bombings-reconciling-idealism-and-reality/

https://www.alojapan.com/1345968/80-years-after-the-atomic-bombings-reconciling-idealism-and-reality/ 80 Years After the Atomic Bombings, Reconciling Idealism and Reality #AtomicBomb #AtomicBombs #GeorgeWill #Hiroshima #Japan #JapanNews #Nagasaki #news #NonProliferation #NuclearDeterence #NuclearWeapon #NuclearWeapons #Politics&Security #trump #VladimirPutin #YoshihisaKomori As we mark the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings against Japan, discussions on the significance of nuclear weapons have also taken place in the United States’ c

https://www.alojapan.com/1345968/80-years-after-the-atomic-bombings-reconciling-idealism-and-reality/ 80 Years After the Atomic Bombings, Reconciling Idealism and Reality #AtomicBomb #AtomicBombs #GeorgeWill #Hiroshima #Japan #JapanNews #Nagasaki #news #NonProliferation #NuclearDeterence #NuclearWeapon #NuclearWeapons #Politics&Security #trump #VladimirPutin #YoshihisaKomori As we mark the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings against Japan, discussions on the significance of nuclear weapons have also taken place in the United States’ c

So true. I've enjoyed #NewsNation a bit more than Dennis shares in his @ofb story (#LelandVittert, #ChrisStirewalt and #ChrisCuomo do a good job of offering sensible takes, especially with great guests like #GeorgeWill and #ChrisCillizza), but the critique of the #CableNews genre is so true. https://ofb.biz/sa1329

George Will, that noted libtard...

'This. Will. Not. End. Well': George Will slams Trump’s 'fanciful assumptions' on economy
https://www.alternet.org/trump-economy-george-will/

#GeorgeWill #Tariffs #EndDonaldTrump #NoRepublicansEverAgain #RepublicansOwnItAll #RepublicanKakistocracy #VoteBlueToSaveEverything #NoFascism #USPol

George Will, that noted libtard...

'This. Will. Not. End. Well': George Will slams Trump’s 'fanciful assumptions' on economy
https://www.alternet.org/trump-economy-george-will/

#GeorgeWill #Tariffs #EndDonaldTrump #NoRepublicansEverAgain #RepublicansOwnItAll #RepublicanKakistocracy #VoteBlueToSaveEverything #NoFascism #USPol

George Will trying to squeeze Trump and Harris into a false equivalence.
#GeorgeWill #Opinion #Trump #Normal

#GeorgeWill is endorsing @KamalaHarrisWin in the #2024election. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/9/12/2269978/-Pigs-Fly-George-Will-Endorses-Harris

He is not pro-#DemocraticParty , he is simply anti-#fascist. #USpol

#VoteBlueNoMatterWho to #SaveAmerica from #BananaRepublicans.
🗳️ 🌊 💩 👉 🚽

#GeorgeWill is endorsing @KamalaHarrisWin in the #2024election. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/9/12/2269978/-Pigs-Fly-George-Will-Endorses-Harris

He is not pro-#DemocraticParty , he is simply anti-#fascist. #USpol

#VoteBlueNoMatterWho to #SaveAmerica from #BananaRepublicans.
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George Will endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president.

“The restoration of normal politics will require two things: The removal of Donald Trump — that Krakatau of volcanic, incoherent, fact-free bombast — from public life. And the rekindling of an irrepressible conflict.”

“It is between progressivism, of which Kamala Harris is full to overflowing, and actual conservatism, about which Trump is contemptuous.”

#HarrisWalz #GeorgeWill #VoteBlueToSaveEverything

George Will endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president.

“The restoration of normal politics will require two things: The removal of Donald Trump — that Krakatau of volcanic, incoherent, fact-free bombast — from public life. And the rekindling of an irrepressible conflict.”

“It is between progressivism, of which Kamala Harris is full to overflowing, and actual conservatism, about which Trump is contemptuous.”

#HarrisWalz #GeorgeWill #VoteBlueToSaveEverything

#GeorgeWill, author of the worst book I ever read about baseball (I can't be bothered to look up the title; maybe that /was/ the title: "The Worst Book You'll Ever Read About Baseball") and all-around terrible right-wing pundit, is STILL a terrible right-wing pundit and author of the worst book I ever read about baseball.

Nothing can change that.

#GeorgeWill, author of the worst book I ever read about baseball (I can't be bothered to look up the title; maybe that /was/ the title: "The Worst Book You'll Ever Read About Baseball") and all-around terrible right-wing pundit, is STILL a terrible right-wing pundit and author of the worst book I ever read about baseball.

Nothing can change that.

I am definitely gettin’ a wicked case of the vapors! I’m seeing spots! The room is whirling… someone get me my fainting couch…!

#GeorgeWill endorses #KamalaHarris

https://x.com/rpsagainsttrump/status/1835110009719472537?s=46

I am definitely gettin’ a wicked case of the vapors! I’m seeing spots! The room is whirling… someone get me my fainting couch…!

#GeorgeWill endorses #KamalaHarris

https://x.com/rpsagainsttrump/status/1835110009719472537?s=46

⬆️ @jeffjarvis

>> Fucking #GeorgeWill. His "optimum" outcome is #Harris as President & a #Republican #Senate, thus what "conservatives" always want: deadlocked, ineffective government.

I didn’t click through to read the linked #WAPO story because I don’t think that is necessary.

From this summary alone, it is clear that Republicans are giving up on the presidency and now just want to hold the Senate.

They are in retreat. Let’s complete the rout. No mercy! Go for #Trifecta

@KamalaHarrisWin

I really hate agreeing with #GeorgeWill, but he just demolished the #Trump argument against the #14thAmendment guarantee of birthright #citizenship. (And yes, the column contains a bit of typical Will nonsense, too). https://www.timescall.com/2024/08/25/opinion-george-will-memo-to-trump-birthright-citizenship-is-a-constitutional-right-period/

I really hate agreeing with #GeorgeWill, but he just demolished the #Trump argument against the #14thAmendment guarantee of birthright #citizenship. (And yes, the column contains a bit of typical Will nonsense, too). https://www.timescall.com/2024/08/25/opinion-george-will-memo-to-trump-birthright-citizenship-is-a-constitutional-right-period/

@MariaHill @PamelaBarroway @TonyStark. I hear you. I canceled my WaPo subscription a few months ago. One too many "both sides" plus "horse race" articles plus #GeorgeWill and #RuthMarcus (has she changed her tune about the lack of merit regarding the election interference case?) pushed me over the edge. Even so, it wasn't a decision I made lightly and I still do miss some of its reporting; for example, the articles on inadequate nursing home care/assisted living were very, very good.

@MariaHill @PamelaBarroway @TonyStark. I hear you. I canceled my WaPo subscription a few months ago. One too many "both sides" plus "horse race" articles plus #GeorgeWill and #RuthMarcus (has she changed her tune about the lack of merit regarding the election interference case?) pushed me over the edge. Even so, it wasn't a decision I made lightly and I still do miss some of its reporting; for example, the articles on inadequate nursing home care/assisted living were very, very good.

@CartyBoston @jeffjarvis. I had this experience with the #WashingtonPost, getting increasingly annoyed and yet unable to cut the cord. #GeorgeWill helped push me over the edge. I still do miss some of their coverage (their articles on assisted living, for example, were very informative) but all in all, I'm not looking back. You'll know when you've had enough!

@Jennifer. I did read it, thank you. The headline -- as if this were a game and not a matter of life and death/democracy and fascism -- did me in, despite, as you accurately say, the piece was making the case for support. I had been thinking for a while of unsubscribing (#GeorgeWill's columns/#MarkThiessen's) and this was the final straw.

@Jennifer. I did read it, thank you. The headline -- as if this were a game and not a matter of life and death/democracy and fascism -- did me in, despite, as you accurately say, the piece was making the case for support. I had been thinking for a while of unsubscribing (#GeorgeWill's columns/#MarkThiessen's) and this was the final straw.

I keep accidentally reading George Will pieces in the Washington Post.

They always start out the same, somewhat neutral to draw you in, and then they turn asinine, usually before the halfway mark. At which point I'm like "who wrote this?" and then I scroll to the bottom to see the author bio and realize that, once again, I had accidentally clicked on another George Will clusterfuck. Every time.

You have to love consistency!

#wapo #georgewill #bullshit #asininearguments #asinine

I keep accidentally reading George Will pieces in the Washington Post.

They always start out the same, somewhat neutral to draw you in, and then they turn asinine, usually before the halfway mark. At which point I'm like "who wrote this?" and then I scroll to the bottom to see the author bio and realize that, once again, I had accidentally clicked on another George Will clusterfuck. Every time.

You have to love consistency!

#wapo #georgewill #bullshit #asininearguments #asinine

Anyone else thinking of unsubscribing to the #WashingtonPost after today's opinion piece by #GeorgeWill ( I won't use a gift article for this poison) titled "A Constitution-flouting ‘authoritarian’ is already in the White House"? Yes, that's right. He is equating #Biden with #Trump. So many #media outlets, as @donmoyn and @jayrosen_nyu so brilliantly explain, are failing us.

Anyone else thinking of unsubscribing to the #WashingtonPost after today's opinion piece by #GeorgeWill ( I won't use a gift article for this poison) titled "A Constitution-flouting ‘authoritarian’ is already in the White House"? Yes, that's right. He is equating #Biden with #Trump. So many #media outlets, as @donmoyn and @jayrosen_nyu so brilliantly explain, are failing us.

@MaryAliciaZiff @jeffjarvis. This "reporting" from the news arm of the #WashingtonPost goes hand in glove with today's hateful opinion piece by #GeorgeWill, which includes this #transphobic aside or maybe, as I speculated earlier, this is the point of the piece and the rest is cover. "Democrats are uncomfortably connected to campuses, where there is one permissible ideology (progressiveness), many genders and even more pronouns." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/08/biden-polling-democrat-divorce/ (gifted)

@MaryAliciaZiff @jeffjarvis. This "reporting" from the news arm of the #WashingtonPost goes hand in glove with today's hateful opinion piece by #GeorgeWill, which includes this #transphobic aside or maybe, as I speculated earlier, this is the point of the piece and the rest is cover. "Democrats are uncomfortably connected to campuses, where there is one permissible ideology (progressiveness), many genders and even more pronouns." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/08/biden-polling-democrat-divorce/ (gifted)

Only #GeorgeWill & his ilk would find a way to include this hateful #transphobic remark in a column (seemingly) about #Biden's chances for reelection. This, for lack of a better word, cruel comment seems so beside the point, but I wonder if it really is the point and and all the rest of it is cover. "Democrats are uncomfortably connected to campuses, where there is one permissible ideology (progressiveness), many genders and even more pronouns."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/08/biden-polling-democrat-divorce/ (gifted)

#LGBTQpride

George Will: Trump and DeSantis will be GOP primary losers

https://thehill.com/elections/4098474-george-will-trump-and-desantis-will-be-gop-primary-losers/amp/

#GeorgeWill #GOPPrimary #Trump #DeSantis #RepublicanPolitics #Elections #Politics #News

George Will: Trump and DeSantis will be GOP primary losers

https://thehill.com/elections/4098474-george-will-trump-and-desantis-will-be-gop-primary-losers/amp/

#GeorgeWill #GOPPrimary #Trump #DeSantis #RepublicanPolitics #Elections #Politics #News