@mastodonmigration I remember when Trump's administration first started delivering those sham press conferences and I thought to myself, "this is a great opportunity for American journalists to exercise a simple & dramatic ethical boundary in order to make the point that Trump was corrupt on all counts and in all areas" & then they just normalized it, entertainmentized it, and here we are
there are no moral standards anymore as we near full collapse. we can't expect the system to correct itself