Enough with the Tr-mp pictures!

One-hundred-thousand-percent!!!

Yes, I no longer click on diaries with his picture and if I do accidentally, I don’t rec them. I was thinking of setting up monthly donations, but will not as long as this continues. I have seen lots  of comments about this, as well as my own. They are not listening. Sometimes I wonder if they are even reading comments.

The “authors” on the front page have zero interactions in the comments.  None.

This was comment earlier today about the photo bullshit:

PsychoSavannah

walden

Jan 07, 2025 at 03:19:09 PM

I came straight to the comments since I don’t read diaries with 1) that orange asshole’s photo in them, and 2) embedded twits.

What can we stop him from doing?

Pardon me for thread jumping but Uncharted Blue doesn’t do that. They have better FP staff and, even if the story is about Trusk/Mump, No Pictures.
Front Pagers are excellent, but you still have to come here for the comunity though.

Uncharted Blue has some excellent writers, they call #45 "criminal", and a better site overall

As for DK…

Keyword search just now revealed 104 hits for Trump’s name.

And we wonder why our agenda never gets any oxygen.

Do NOT need to add his hideous face. Everyone on the planet knows what he looks like. I think I will do likewise and not read or rec articles with his pic. It’s gonna be a long 4 years , it’s already total chaos and he’s not in office yet. 

Trying to sign up they won’t accept my email address 😵‍💫

I’ll try later. Like everything nowadays $ talks . 

Really? That’s interesting. I donate but it has never been necessary. It doesn’t have a paywall.

Thanks for the mention.  I subscribed after visiting to see writing by Mark Sumner, Meteor Blades, Charles Jay, Laura Clawson, etc.  My new favorite place.

Fast becoming mine as well, and indeed these all seemingly ‘ex’ DKos alumni — a majority of the site’s best any time. Wish its threads had the rich text and graphics options we do here, but all must start somewhere.

While I find some blasts against greater DKos over it unduly harsh, must agree the DT image barrage has become sick porn of a sort and sick of it as anyone.

Dear current DKos authors, mods and admins, from a loyal member who will stick around but just as upset: please stop. Our cause absolutely hurt by this and no amount of clicks let alone Reco’s worth the downright MSM look.

The Criminal’s name unavoidable, but memes for cover images just as attention getting without traumatizing everyone further as we approach the Nazi Event Horizon and need that energy for the WWII-scale, unified resistance it will require.

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Yes the previous writers of Kos were fantastic.  I spend time on uncharted as well.  I don't know what is wrong with the writers here, but there are not as good.  Admittedly, I read the articles that have trumps face.  I simply ignore it and go on to the story just so I can get to the comments which is what I enjoy most.  But I think I am going to follow Matt’s suggestions. 

This is not a big ask to the writers here, not sure why they won’t comply.

Speculation: perhaps they are getting paid per article, not for engagement with readers. 

Could be and if so how disappointing.

If a person’s byline includes Daily Kos Staff, they are paid a salary, not per article. A Contributor is paid a free-lance rate.

Thank you, good to know.

And contributes write for Uncharted Blue and DK 😒

But they still make signing in a pain in the ass. I would like to not have to go to my email every time I sign in and I would like to have the page stay open with me signed in like they do here. 

I’m aware that people access sites through their computers, phones, and pads. I suspect I’ll have a different viewpoint after I’m restricted to the last two when I go on holiday the end of the month. I use Firefox on my desktop and have no worries. iOS might be a different matter.

I read the news on my kindle. When the prompt to check my email in order to sign in to Uncharted Blue, I pick up my phone and check my email. It opens up Uncharted Blue on my phone. Too small to navigate on. So, I have to close my browser on my Kindle, open the email app and click the link. Which then opens uncharted Blue in Chrome instead of the Silk browser I use on my kindle. 

I leave my Kos page and a few other up at all times and I don't have to sign in every time. For me with a TBI, I must simplify things or I just get unnecessarily frustrated. 

I agree, but it will get better as Hunter continues to build out his site.  I can wait though I do get annoyed with having to sign in each time.  I used to have to do that here, then somehow it stopped.

This front page is the worst it's ever been, and I've been *reading* a very long time.

Worthless crap pieces that have zero analysis, sound like copy paste jobs off the AP. Idiotic rage click bait trump garbage 24 7. Relentless pictures of him l for no reason. It's more like Daily Mail than Daily Kos. God damn it sucks and there's no hope. I want to support this site and said a few months ago I'd wait to see if it got better before I do that.

It's even worse so I went with the Guardian instead. 

Blame "monetization". The honchos will do whatever it takes to generate clicks and income.

There’s a pic quite literally up now — top of the fold in old newspaper speak. A smug mug. 

I just can’t do it anymore.

I especially appreciate the photos where we can see every pore in his nose in close-up detail.

Or what I call the piehole pics. The ones where he looks like a gigantic piehole. Yes, he looks incredibly stupid but they make me sick to my very core to look at. 

He’s ugly in a thousand ways. 

Amen to this! I keep scrolling by it as rapidly as possible, and pray it won't be there tomorrow.

As I will continue to do whenever t's smug, or scowling, or complacent, or screeching face appears at the top of a diary.

I put my hand up in front of his face as I scroll past.

Me too!

I have a pad of sticky notes next to keyboard but wish I had the larger size.

We get it already — there’s no need to blast his face everywhere, esp on a progressive site. Mother Jones doesn’t do it or The Nation. It can be done. 

I think it’s just intellectually and journalistically lazy at this point. Like they can’t think of anything new, creative, or different to say or post. 

I’ve installed a browser plugin that replaces photos of Trump with photos of kittens.

The problem is that it only works if the word “trump” appears in either the name of the image file or the ALT tags.

For some reason, many of the photos of Trump on this site don’t include either of those attributes.   The only other option is to disable images in your Web browser.

I’ve got the same plugin.  Unfortunately, too many tRump pix still slip in and, each time one does, I get so furious I feel nauseous.

It’s a diabolical plot against your browser plug in ha ha. (Kidding).

There ought to be an automatic pop up when you open the site that includes a trigger warning at this point. I’m not minimizing the trauma of others — I seriously think that segments of this country have been traumatized by this man and repeated exposure is unhealthy, unproductive, and honestly lazy from an intellectual and journalistic perspective. Seriously, don’t they have anything new to say??

And people wonder why Dems lost and he won. I think part of it is the repeated, in your face overexposure. Like Ricky Bobby’s if you’re not first you’re last but in politics. 

Like 2/3 of the rest of America, I am avoiding political stories right now. It is hard to do with every other story being political in nature. I just don’t want to hear about it right now, and to see his face is like sticking needles into my brain. So, I agree and I will not click on or rec any diary with his face attached.

There are so many comments for ages now and yet the second you open the site, the first thing you see is, I don’t even want to say b/c we all know how that sentence ends. Put a trigger warning on that thing already.

I especially hate the ones where he looks like a giant piehole (although it sometimes makes me laugh to think of him as a gigantic piehole). 

(Maybe) a funny idea. I’d crack up if every diarist included a poll at the end of their dairy about ending the pics with just two options — yes and pie :)))

Kos cares about the $$ not our thoughts or feelings! Fuck!

Outrage gets eyeballs.

I will neither read nor reccommend them. It almost seems sadistic.

Question for folks who understand this better than I: I understand the “don’t recommend” option.  Would this mean we also don’t “tip” the writer?

Yes

I would agree with that. Many of us probably feel a bit traumatized by the last 8-9 years and that being forced to see these pics and the constant stories about the idiocy he’s said or done is sadistic. 

I’m just done with it. As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, it’s lazy, uncreative, uninspired journalism to keep doing/posting the same stories and photos ad nauseam. 

YOU HIT THE NAIL IN THE HEAD!

It is going to be four years of trump photos. 

It doesn’t have to be this many, though. 

Oh, I agree. I can't stand them either.

He is showing symptoms of dementia now so I doubt he will make it for four years. 

Who knows.

Yeah. Maybe the voters who foisted this abomination on us love his face. I sure don’t!

I gather that the Seattle Times does not feature his face any more than they can help it.

The problem is that attention is what narcissists crave. This is one reason I never spell out his name. I’ve lived with a narcissist. They always have to be the center of attention and that is what these stories are giving him. You can’t ignore him because of the stupidest voters in the world, but you don’t have to wallow in his visage and certainly not give him praise for wanting to own the world.  

The last four years were also nothing but goddamn Trump pictures!

Exactly.

I have an idea. The FP editor can use his head as a front page logo from now on.

The last EIGHT years! It’s been relentless! 

That’s horrifying. Truly.

It is. I am not happy about it.

The only thing I want to see his disgusting visage on is toilet paper, so I can cover it with what I don’t give about him.

Not me. My anus deserves better. 

My thoughts exactly.

OH, I’d love to see him in handcuffs and an orange jumpsuit.

I can tolerate this one. 

We just lived through 4 years of the convicted felon’s photos, even though he wasn’t president during that time.

Yes, we did.

I agree. The media should stop giving T. free publicity. Use photos rarely. Print brief summary of T. news every two r three days. Appoint only two reporters to attend his

pressers or speeches and have them share anything of significance with all participating

reporters. Why feed him the attention he craves?

Will fall on deaf ears sadly. 

Then it’s falling on closed wallets too.

Has Markos been back since he announced the higher price for a subscription? 

Don’t know. Some kind souls gifted me subscriptions here, and the last of them expires this month. Thank you, anonymous kind souls. I did and do appreciate this, and it was a lovely thing for you to do.

While I appreciated this very much, it did not prevent us from losing many fine writers and other wonderful staffers [remember the flurry of gift subscriptions given to try to help the site? Kind of like the billion dollar Dem campaign war chest that didn’t win the election?]. Makes it hard for me to believe that the price increase is going to be any better at preserving things worth preserving.

Beyond that, I am seriously unenthusiastic about putting money in now, not merely because of the price hike, but because I’m sick and tired of all the antireligious hate that is spewed here without consequence;

not to mention the other forms of hate that are spewed here routinely [see Barry Deutsch’s latest cartoon for vivid examples AND a comments section that is actively nauseating in its defense of and advocacy for more hate, hotter and stronger].

I want to hang out with grownups, and be able to read diaries, comment intelligently on them, write a few of my own, have conversations, make puns, share music and helpful hints about this and that, and commiserate with people about our shared concerns. I do NOT want to constantly worry about fending off random hate barrages from a collection of sullen, meanspirited types with five bars of mojo — nor do I want to constantly see others here being picked on and hate-ambushed by the same sullen, meanspirited types.

And I sure as hell don’t want to pay for the privilege of being hate-ambushed here on a daily basis. [Nor would I want anonymous kind souls to foot the bill for me to have such experiences here now.] So there’s that.

I figure if I don’t subscribe I’ll cut back on time spent here, in fairness; I also figure that most of the people who can afford to subscribe now are elsewhere on the site posting about how excited they are to be leaving the country soon. So there’s that, too.

To be continued, I guess.

Aye. This. Yes.  Yup.  Oh, yeah.  100%.  

I want to hang out with grownups

ikr!? 

Does it seem like someone is adding new profiles, mostly to create fights, as in some sort of excitement generator? 

I think that the Trumpies are feeling their oats and want to come here to gloat. Poor things, if they would read the comments they might feel far more at home than they expect. Alas for us…

I sent a kos mail saying as a sustaining donor I am insulted by the number of mug shots there are and if it continues I am cancelling my monthly donation. DK sends me an email every day asking for money, it gets read then deleted.

AdblockPlus extension for Firefox can remove his image from any diary on here. It's free and it works.  Simply right click on the image, select block and like magic it's gone 

I do that. It’s a hassle and shouldn’t be necessary.

It’s not all about you.

Use this as your bookmark: www.dailykos.com/…

Guaranteed, no pictures, just diary titles.

Thanx a TON ~ 

Unfortunately, with that link the mugshots get to be a lovely “surprise” when you click through to the articles. 

Don’t click on the articles that the title indicates is about Donnie.  Duh.

Doesn’t help. The front page put his mug on a story about BIDEN yesterday. 

Quit looking at the front page, dingus.

If you continue to do so, then it’s self-inflicted and you're creating your own problem.

Yeah, i like the front page, and stories with a pic seem more effective.  But...no need for a Tfg pic.  Any old other pic will do.

Not really that much of a hassle to be rid of it but I agree that we shouldn't have to be doing it on this site.  Not reading and no recs may be a better way to reach the higher ups 

As far as I can tell form the front page, DailyKos is a tRump fan site, or a FOX news retweeting site.

We do need to post opposing ideas and images, not just feed the algorithms that think fascism 24/7 is ok with us.

This. This right here.

Enough!  Enough of the complaining! People like you (and I) do not get to dictate which pictures are posted on the front page of this site, nor should we.  If you don’t like it, don’t look or exit to another post more to your liking.

We may not get to “dictate” which photos are shown, but If people are going to start leaving the site because they’re fed up with seeing that fucking face every time we open the page then its worth speaking up. 

I’ve been here 18 years. For the first time, I feel like I’m ready to give up on the place. 

If I give up on the place, it sure as hell won't be because of someone’s choice to use a trump photo.  That would be a petty excuse.  What do you expect someone to do when it is obvious that the post is about trump and no other?  Should they post a picture that is misleading to the content of the diary?  I think not.  That said, I don’t like seeing his ugly mug either but I understand the need to use his photo.

Need? We already know what he looks like.

Just about anything could use a different picture.  For example, a story about his press conference could use a picture of the Panama Canal.  The question is if one is easily available, and what copyright concerns there would be.

Or a map of the Canal Zone. Or of a container ship. Anything else. 

Petty excuse? I’ll have one of those, please! My usage of this site is way down, and I don’t see that changing.

annielei uses a rotting orange.  MUCH more appropriate.

So what is the need to consistently use the most repulsive close-up photos of him?

It’s about honoring America’s Sacred Donald. Some papers do it by refusing to endorse Kamala Harris. Others do it by a taking pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago. Apparently we do it by reposting his cheeseberder-infused mug for all to bask in his divine glory.

His greasy cheeseberder-infused mug.

Any close up of him is repulsive.

How about a diary with no image? There’s a bold choice. Or how about the subject matter — like if he’s ranting about invading Greenland, show a picture of Greenland. Show the Panama Canal for those stories — that would be much more compelling and engaging. Show an inflation chart, or a tariff graph. It’s not that hard.

A USA flag. A shot of a relevant document.

There are other options.

For the next four years, they could just post a picture of the White House or the Presidential seal or Air Force One. It will be depressing in its own way to know what those stand for, now, but not nearly as triggering.