

Wtf? I was speaking to a bunch of people I know last weekend about this. Did all of the Trump stuff happen under Bush, and we were shielded from most of it because he didn’t say it out loud? Twitter wasn’t a thing yet either, so people didn’t have an easy way to whistle blow or keep track.
I know that trump and the republicans did a lot of this same stuff last term. Most of it really, it was just that Republicans are in charge of every single branch now and cheating more and more. They’re also setting it up to cheat even more in the future, so the new parts are really scary, but this went on last term too.
America has been compromised for a long time.
The White House faced fresh accusations of a clandestine propaganda campaign yesterday after it emerged it granted regular access to a rightwing blogger with a habit of asking President Bush easy questions.
The fake White House correspondent quit his job at the Talon News site on Wednesday after liberal bloggers found he had been operating under a pseudonym, and that he was linked to several gay pornographic web domain addresses under his real idenity, James Guckert.
The extent of Gannon’s links to an earlier White House scandal - the leaking of the name of the CIA agent Valerie Plame - also remained unclear yesterday. Gannon has been targeted for questioning in that case.
“It’s just common sense that the White House knew who Jeff Gannon was, and they were waving him in for a reason,” said David Brock, director of Media Matters for America, the liberal monitoring group which named the reporter last week.
Gannon’s unmasking comes only weeks after the Bush administration admitted paying handsome sums to three conservative commentators to promote its social programmes in print, radio and TV, and has led to calls from Democrats for an explanation.
I run an adblocker, so I don’t see any of that. I know it’s harder on your phone sometimes, but firefox lets you there too.