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It’s been quite exhausting seeing this shit show unfold.
Trump and his team has made the movie Idiocrazy (2006) completely obsolete 😅
But the characters in Idiocracy meant well, they were just idiots. These fuckers are straight up evil idiots.
What's his favorite color?
"the best color"
Colors you’ve never see — you’ve never heard of these colors, he says, and many people are saying, I saw a mantis shrimp the other — can you believe — and mantis shrimp were treated very badly, what’s going on, and he said he’s never seen such a color, but they don’t report on that, the crooked lying media, I tell ya, if a mantis shrimp just one time — if, right in the mouth, if one of these journalists had to say it right to their face, one of these mantis shrimp, they wouldn’t last one second against — I’ve seen how fast these guys punch, believe me.
Man, I've seen many attempts that don't go off the rails enough, but this one is just... Chef's kiss.
Green
Gold or Orange
Some press coverage. Tim Pool was taking millions of dollars from the Russian government and White House press pool included a reporter from the Falun Gong-owned Epoch Times.
This is a great article and another reason I'm so mad at the media. The headline is Tim Pool Podcast Reportedly Joins the White House Press Pool. If you don't know who he is, you think it's a boring article on the dude they hired, not the true POS he is. Your headline would be great.
Last year, an indictment from the U.S. Justice Department alleged that Pool and others had been paid by a Russian influence operation that sought to capitalize on anti-Ukrainian sentiment and seed it into the U.S. population through rightwing media. After the indictment dropped, Pool tweeted that he’d had no idea about the Russian affiliation. “That being said, we still do not know what is true as these are only allegations,” Pool said in a post on X. “Putin is a scumbag, Russia sucks donkey balls.” He later deleted the tweet.
“Let me lie and brainwash you directly”
Why is this website so utterly broken? The cookie policy pop-up can't be dismissed and I can't click anything on the page.
Welcome to the future of journalism.
I run an adblocker, so I don't see any of that. I know it's harder on your phone sometimes, but firefox lets you there too.
They still can't top Jeff Gannon but they're getting very close.
Wtf? I was speaking to a bunch of people I know last weekend about this. Did all of the Trump stuff happen under Bush, and we were shielded from most of it because he didn't say it out loud? Twitter wasn't a thing yet either, so people didn't have an easy way to whistle blow or keep track.
I know that trump and the republicans did a lot of this same stuff last term. Most of it really, it was just that Republicans are in charge of every single branch now and cheating more and more. They're also setting it up to cheat even more in the future, so the new parts are really scary, but this went on last term too.
America has been compromised for a long time.
The White House faced fresh accusations of a clandestine propaganda campaign yesterday after it emerged it granted regular access to a rightwing blogger with a habit of asking President Bush easy questions.
The fake White House correspondent quit his job at the Talon News site on Wednesday after liberal bloggers found he had been operating under a pseudonym, and that he was linked to several gay pornographic web domain addresses under his real idenity, James Guckert.
The extent of Gannon's links to an earlier White House scandal - the leaking of the name of the CIA agent Valerie Plame - also remained unclear yesterday. Gannon has been targeted for questioning in that case.
"It's just common sense that the White House knew who Jeff Gannon was, and they were waving him in for a reason," said David Brock, director of Media Matters for America, the liberal monitoring group which named the reporter last week.
Gannon's unmasking comes only weeks after the Bush administration admitted paying handsome sums to three conservative commentators to promote its social programmes in print, radio and TV, and has led to calls from Democrats for an explanation.
Did all of the Trump stuff happen under Bush, and we were shielded from most of it because he didn’t say it out loud?
It was all widely reported and remarked upon for the better part of the Bush Presidency. But liberals just choose to forget. We don't talk about the gross abuses of power and manipulation of public opinion under Bush or Reagan or Nixon anymore. And if you bring it up, you're discounted as a crank or an apologist.
America has been compromised for a long time.
Practically since Day One. You can find parallels to this historical moment running straight back to the Adams administration. American liberal democracy is deeply flawed and fundamentally broken, thanks to the privatization and monopolization of so much of the social infrastructure surrounding it.
But we generate enormous amounts of wealth for an enfranchised minority. So please don't rock the boat. Just vote a bit harder next time. Everything will be fixed in the next election cycle, we promise.
You're right, you're right. The only thing I keep thinking is, the people are wonderful. You know, not the batshit 36-42% range that are die hard MAGAs, but the rest are amazing.
🔹We've fought for and won* many challenges that were then accepted in other parts of the world because of our movies and tv shows.
- Civil Rights
- LGBTQ+
- Women's
- Wars were ended
(they've had their ups and downs)
🔹When there is a catastrophe anywhere in the world, we send people, resources and money there. We do this as volunteers, Seattle empties a bit whenever there is a huge disaster anywhere. Donations are incredible to watch.
🔹We have non-for-profits that really do some great good in the world.
Whenever I think about our corrupt politicians, I remember the people are actually better than than the batshit 35% or so our politicians represent right now.