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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 11:03:18 JST Paul Cantrell

   Come on, you fuckers, knock it off, this is embarrassing https://mastodon.social/@appleinsider/113766618970266062

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 12:28:09 JST Paul Cantrell

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     Editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes just had a political cartoon expressing a similar sentiment killed by the Washington Post, and resigned in protest:

     https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-washington-post

     The cartoon the WaPo couldn’t handle:

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 13:06:14 JST Paul Cantrell

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     Even I, a fairly cynical person, am surprised at the shamelessness with which business executives and news editors alike are groveling before Trump.

     I realize bribery is age-old and leaders always have to negotiate with power, but this is something else. These are people who think they’re tough, think they’re special, think they’re a breed above the ordinary.

     I would have assumed that their own •egos• would have prevented them from engaging in such naked, self-debasing, pathetic displays of submission. But no.

     #uspol

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 13:12:51 JST Paul Cantrell

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     Say what you will about Steve Jobs, who was an insufferable asshole in so many ways — but at least he was an asshole with half a spine. Can you imagine him crawling on all fours and barking like a dog because Trump said to? I can’t, and that’s more than I can say for this current crop of quislings.

     #uspol

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     Thomas Depierre (di4na@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 18:29:03 JST Thomas Depierre

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     @inthehands I agree. And I would look at it differently.

     It is cheap. They are used to bribe people. This is just another normal business expense. They thing *he* is the one debasing himself by needing their money to prop himself up. The same way they would look at a homeless person.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 04:39:13 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Rebecca (Slatkin) Sloane

     A useful corrective to my previous post from @RebeccaSlatkin:
     https://mastodon.social/@RebeccaSlatkin/113777428690136273

     I still reserve the right to be grumpy, but she is of course correct.

     #uspol