This is the absolute level of MSM usage of propaganda-ish terms and rhetorical constructions. High since the invasion, and remains elevated (which is unusual).
But it’s not dominated by pro-Ukraine content.
In fact, ‘leftist’ MSM like the NYT gives a LOT more coverage to Putin’s rationales for the Ukraine invasion than Fox and Breitbart and the like.
BTW, the NBER paper that Stancil and his Renfields love to cite clearly shows that real wages are lower today than they were pre-pandemic. For women it's the same and for men it's lower.
To 'rescue' the vibecession narrative and avoid the unthinkable (that real wages increased under Trump and fell under Biden), a new graphic was created from the NBER dataset that appears nowhere in the original. We are told that we have 'returned to trend' in real wage growth.
This is an example of a perfectly fine (I guess) NBER paper trying to show wage compression post-pandemic that has been pressed into Yay, Bidenomics! service by the Stancil/Wolfers crowd for far more sweeping claims than it ever intended or can reasonably support.
You think I’m not angry? I am beyond angry … AT THE VIRUS.
The *virus* killed two of my best friends along with ONE MILLION other Americans.
The *virus* inflicted 2+ years of brutal, life-diminishing decisions on every American family - yours and mine alike.
AND our institutions - all of them! - utterly failed to protect American citizens.
Trump was a disaster. Biden is bad. The FDA and CDC were incompetent and politically captured. MSM and Congress were a joke. The worst of all was Fauci.
AND a well-fitted N95 or equivalent mask is *very* effective personal protection against Covid, thanks to the electrostatic properties of its textiles.
AND the cloth mask theater promulgated by govt officials was bullshit.
I can’t remember the last time I found something quirky and cool on Twitter, something that made me laugh or gave me a sense of wonder.
Instead I find that I’ve been molded into a rage engagement machine, triggered by norepinephrine into a reflexively combative stance against a literally constant and literally promoted stream of media Renfields.
My wife’s a dancer, and we were talking tonight about the concepts of ‘grounding’ and ‘full-breathing’ that are the source of a dancer’s most authentic and powerful artistic expressions.