David Simon
Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.
- Our American horror show.
- This is an insightful overview of the anti-Semitism now coursing through the New Right and the opportunism that powers it. Blame the Jews is currency that never fails to spend with shitheels and angry rubes, and well, they're the elemental audience for that political movement.
- You can't shine shit. Not even if you coat it in gold. It's still a piece of shit.
- Thread: So on this day when one of the oligarchs of our digitized and dystopic world is emptying one of America's greatest newsrooms of trained and committed journalists, I thought I would regale you all with a wonderful little anecdote about our world to come. It involves two of the finest...
- ...reporters that I ever brushed against in my previous station as an ink-stained metro reporter, Steve Luxenberg and Scott Shane, both alumni of the old, grey Baltimore Sun. Luxenberg, who as metro editor, hired me as a 22-year-old police reporter some four decades ago, and went on to...
- If you can't stand up for a fellow journalist when she's being ridiculously bullied and demeaned for asking a basic question of a public leader, you sure as hell aren't going stand up for anything as abstract as a national principle or ethos. American journalism is dying. And with it, our republic.
- The hometown newspaper that I read as a teenager through Watergate and Vietnam and made me crave the life of a reporter is now being butchered by a billionaire who had $75 million to bribe and flatter a president and his wife but nothing to save journalism, an bulwark of the republic itself. Got it.
- Do you think the Trumpists have been polite up until now? Fuck all, the cruelty of family separation and kids in cages began Trump 1. Sorry, the Godwin rule not longer applies to this American run at fascism; they've been pressing buttons and pushing boundaries from jump. Next up a Kristallnacht.
- At least the Nazis went to the trouble of passing the Nuremberg Laws and making the brutality and totalitarianism street legal. The gutlessness of the American run at fascism is that they want to do it simply by pretending the Bill of Rights never existed or meant anything.
- There is no manner in which ICE agents now present themselves, no language they will direct at citizens or immigrants, no abuse or brutality they undertake, and no slaying they will commit that can at this point shock or surprise me. These thugs are not law enforcement. They are S.A. brownshirts.
- Ladies and gentlemen, professional American law enforcement. We are the shithole nation. We are the country that needs regime change. We are the beshitted totalitarian state.
