Great interview
It was very frustrating after 2008 trying to get anyone at all to comment on, you know, what exactly QE was, you know, or give an explanation that would make sense to an ordinary person.”
Taibbi then railed on Paul Krugman: “So I first noticed this, I guess I was reading Paul Krugman last fall. He did like a whole series. He's done probably a dozen of these articles, maybe a half dozen, where the substance of it is people are saying they don't feel positively about the economy, but they're wrong. Here's why they're wrong. And even when the question was phrased as how do you feel about the economy, here's Paul Krugman who's, like, living somewhere in the Caribbean."
Matt Taibbi thinks Republicans are powerless, and democrats are great. He is a suporter of MAGA.
https://m.stacker.news/29620
He doesn’t think Democrats are great.
He is not a supporter of MAGA.
He is a very good journalist.
I've read this before so just formed a bit of idea about him.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/matt-taibbi-why-republican-trump-left-wing.html
NY magazine hates Trump and they hate Taibbi for criticizing corrupt left wing lawfare against Trump.
Taibbi is a good journalist because he tries to be fair regardless of party and supports free speech and opposes censorship.
NY magazine hates Taibbi because he is an independent journalist and independent thinker.
Taibbi substack has more subscribers than NY magazine.
If you want to form an opinion of Taibbi read his articles not articles about him written by left wing partisan hacks
Yupp! Got it now. Thanks for correcting me. I didn't know Taibbi much before and have just read about him on my magazine.
I’m pretty sure Taibbi supported Bernie Sanders in 2016
Well said
Thanks!
Means a lot especially after our minor disagreement about college campus protests 🪧
How is your niece doing?
I'm not sure your characterization is accurate. He is difficult to place in a box ideologically.
He is a journalist first.
He doesn’t have an ideological box.
This is how journalists should be. We should not be able to place them in a box 🗃️. Same goes for teachers and professors and religious leaders such as a rabbi, priest, pastor, Sunday school teacher, etc
Surprises every day that such a good journalist is still free, so many others have fallen for telling the truth. The reasons why he is difficult to characterise is because the values of the left are gone, once opposing big corporations and the military-industrial complex in defence of the people now the left is in charge and uses them to go after people. Which is pretty much evidence that left and right was a scam all along, once in power they all work for lobbyists (i.e., ironically called interest groups) and the war machine
You nailed it in all respects.
Indeed a very good journalist.
He’s also on Nostr although hasn’t posted for awhile. 😕
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Taibbi is a good journalist.