NYT is praising/promoting a lawyer who got fired due to Jan. 6 and then sued to disband Congress

[LetMyPeopleVote]

This Paul Davis who was fired from his job as general counsel of an insurance company and then sued to disband Congress. This asshole needs to be disbarred and not praised

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Here is some on this lawsuit

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[JustAnotherGen]

1. Marchers?

They were a violent coup attempting mob - not 'marchers'. Jesus Christ.

[bottomofthehill]

2. Another grifter finding the way to monetize his action

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Funded by poor fools giving more than they can afford and billionaires who throw millions around for fun. Base line here is grifters got to grift.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. This makes me smile

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[tenderfoot]

3. He looks just like the qanon guy that drove his kids to Baja and killed them with a spear gun.

eom

[obamanut2012]

5. I thought the same thing

I mean, he looks so much like him.

[rockfordfile]

4. A fascist un-American pos

[RobinA]

6. I Didn't Find

this article to be promoting or praising him. I thought it just reported on a person who is in the news. I want to know about guys like this, because without this article I wouldn't have a clue. Now I can file him in my Assholes To Be On The Lookout For file.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. Here's the guy himself, gloating about the article:

This asshole and the other assholes are taking this article as a vindication of their position and beliefs

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The NYT is encouraging these assholes

[Hekate]

8. I hope there are DUers who are still writing letters to the editor. NYT and WaPo need the feedback.

That is all.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. New York Times called out for once again elevating sedition

The NYT is encouraging these assholes/traitors

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The New York Times got a lot of attention this weekend, none of it good, for their latest zoological profile of pro-Trump, anti-democracy voters. The Times did not go the sleepy small-town diner route this time, but instead profiled Jan. 6 insurrectionists who marched to demand the toppling of our government but, like, did it less violently than some of the others. People who didn't enter the U.S. Capitol building, but only took a few flashbangs from the officers trying to defend the building. People who didn't bring guns, but who now regret not doing so. To overthrow the government. Because Donald Trump wanted them too.

There's a whole lot to be said about this, but the Times itself continues its tradition of elevating extremist, anti-democratic, pro-sedition voices while almost completely ignoring the origins of their beliefs, the dangers they pose, or whether or not attempting to end democracy on a madman's turgid whim might be bad. Whether democracy lives or dies in this country is emphatically not something the Times wants to take sides on inside of individual stories. The opinion side of the paper might pipe up with it (alongside, of course, conservative columns arguing the opposite) but identifying the larger frameworks in which fascism is not just growing, in America, but is able to pose a genuine threat to government—that's right out......

We open the piece with the tale of Paul Treasonguy—we don't need to give him the publicity of using his real name, the Times is already giving him all the advertising he could ask for—who is not at all sorry about his participation in a march to topple the government at Trump's behest. "It definitely activated me more," says Paul, and "it gave me street cred." Paul is now promoting himself as an anti-vaccine "lawyer for patriots," using his support for sedition as launching pad, a way to devote himself to far-right causes professionally rather than just as hobby.

Why is the Times helping him? Very good question, but our Texas-based insurrection marcher is quite pleased that they did.