Yeah look I liked Kamala
I prob would have voted for her to keep Trump out.
But her speeches were just airy fairy esoteric and not factual
Trump is definitive
Kamala wasnt
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I prob would have voted for her to keep Trump out.
But her speeches were just airy fairy esoteric and not factual
Trump is definitive
Kamala wasnt
You mean the majority of US states voted for Trump? The electoral map is pretty telling.
What is more telling is that 1,023,226 more voted for other than Trump than voted for him
Thats not that unusual in modern democracies. Australian Labor just won with 33% of the vote to Libs 34%.
Nah, I mean what I posted. Yes I do realize you're a supporter of the rapist peadophile, and it really doesn't surprise me.
Trump Versus The Press
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Today, The New York Times reported that CBS News president Wendy McMahon was forced out of her job, a lingering side effect of the ā60 Minutesā debacle. The Times attributes the situation to the āongoing showdown involving President Trump, CBS and its parent company, Paramount,ā which is trying to settle Trumpās $20 billion lawsuit accusing ā60 Minutesā of ādeceptively editingā and interview with Kamala Harris during the 2024 campaign.
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The lawsuit is fanciful, the stuff of motions to dismiss, not settlements, but there is reporting that Paramountās controlling shareholder wants to resolve it to facilitate government approval for a high-stakes corporate transaction she is in the middle of. In a memo to her staff, McMahon wrote, āitās become clear the company and I do not agree on the path forward.āIn April, Bill Owens, the executive producer of ā60 Minutes,ā resigned. He expressed concerns about journalistic independence. McMahon backed Owens at the time, saying publicly that āstanding behindā him had been an āeasy decisionā for herāapparently leading to her ultimate separation from CBS.
On January 16, 1787, Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to Edward Carrington, a Virginia delegate to the Continental Congress from Virginia, advocating for the importance of a free press: āThe basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. but I should mean that every man should receive those papers & be capable of reading them.ā
Those words take on enhanced meaning in an era of rampant misinformation and disinformation, some of it deliberately being pushed out for political purposes. āThe basis for our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right.ā It has never been more important to keep and support a free press than now.
Trump went on the attack against the press even before his January 2025 inauguration. In December 2024, ABC paid him $15 million to settle allegations that George Stephanopolous defamed Trump by saying on air that he had been held liable for raping E. Jean Carroll, when in fact, the jury had found, under New York law, that there had been a sexual assault. Under New York law, digital penetration is deemed sexual assault, not rape, although it is often publicly equated with, and treated by other statesā legal systems as the latter. The Law Journal editorial board concluded that a voluntary payment of such a high amount was questionable:
āWhile at first glance the settlement resembles more the capitulation of a huge entertainment company facing the specter of the incoming administrationās threats to undermine the media than it does an effort to provide compensation for true reputational damage, a closer look reveals that, while it may have avoided significant risk for Disney, it also provides compensation far beyond any actual reputational damages for Trump: it creates a bad precedent in uncertain times for a tattered and beaten news media under attack from many quarters.ā
Itās unlikely the settlement would have taken place on these terms if Trump had lost the election.
Also in December, Trump sued Iowa pollster Ann Selzer for consumer fraud, alleging she rigged an Iowa poll to influence the 2024 election. Trump attacked Selzer, saying, āIn my opinion, it was fraud, and it was election interference. You know, she's got me right always. She's a very good pollster. She knows what she was doing.ā Selzer, a highly reputed pollster, thought Harris was up on the eve of the election. Trump attacked the press over 100 times during the campaign. Newspapers like The Washington Post and L.A. Times embarrassed themselves by bending the knee. After assuming office, he shut out the AP from Oval Office and Air Force One coverage because they had the temerity to refuse to follow Trumpās dictate that the Gulf of Mexico should henceforth be known as the Gulf of America.
The press should not go hat in hand to a president to settle lawsuits or beg for access. A president shouldnāt expect that. But Trump does, and it puts an ever more serious onus on the press to live up, despite the peril to their access they need to cover the news, to journalistic standards. It is their job to report on what happens, not what the president or anyone else wants them to. And although they have taken a lot of hits in the time of Trump, some of them well deserved, they are still essential to the national well-being.
This country relies on a free and independent press; itās built on it. The Founding Fathers knew that. Thatās why the first thing would-be dictators do is go after a free press, if it exists in their country. Thatās what Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor OrbĆ”n, who by early 2018 was being labeled a āsoftā autocrat, did. At CPAC in 2022 he told American conservatives āHave your own media,ā claiming Western media presented a āleftistā viewpoint. Tucker Carlson praised Orbanās Hungary in a video that was played at the summit as a roadmap for the U.S. The Guardian reported that āJournalists from international media outlets, including the New Yorker, Vox Media, Vice News, Rolling Stone, and the Associated Press, were denied access to the event despite months of requests.ā The AP captioned its 2024 report on the state of the press in Hungary like this, āHow Hungaryās OrbĆ”n uses control of the media to escape scrutiny and keep the public in the dark.ā OrbĆ”n is the last man who should be giving an American president advice, but Trump continues to praise him.
Julian E. Zelizer, a history professor at Princeton, has written about another time in our history where newspaper owners stood up to a president: āWe have seen this struggle play out before. During the early 1970s, another president, Richard Nixon, brought his institutional muscle down to bear on the press. In his case, the outcome became a vital moment that ensured, for decades, that news coverage of elected officials remained vigilant and free.ā The press did that by publishing The Pentagon Papers. As Nixon tried to prevent further publications, the case reached the Supreme Court. Justice Hugo Black wrote that only āa free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.ā Professor Zelizerās full piece is good reading on this topic.
The need for clear-eyed reporting has never been greater, and the threat of deception of Americans is far from over. Trumpās FBI Director, Kash Patel, said on a 2023 podcast with Steve Bannon that if he had the power to, he would ācome after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections.ā
In the Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton argued in No. 84 that freedom of the press is essential for holding power accountable. He believed the press would provide such a strong check against government abuse that a bill of rights containing the First Amendment was unnecessary. Fortunately, he was outvoted in that regard, and the First Amendment continues to guarantee important rights in the face of a president who would otherwise opt to restrict many of them.
When the press gets attacked, itās the people who lose. Making sure Americans have access to truthful information and thoughtful analysis so they can make up their own minds on the issues is essential in this moment. Weāre
Uhhhā¦ it was the left/ centre that didnāt get out and vote for their candidate after Biden didnāt give her enough time.
Race and gender were less a factor than a hospital pass with not enough time to sell herself and prepare.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceOEp5Hi3jE
This is a potential game show thatās been talked about in America called the American where immigrants perform challenges for citizenship
Trump ambushes South African president with footage of āwhite persecutionā
US president demands explanation from Cyril Ramaphosa for āvery sad situationā
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South African leaders turn for public humiliation now
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Frightening.Trump ambushes South African president with footage of āwhite persecutionā
US president demands explanation from Cyril Ramaphosa for āvery sad situationā
South African leaders turn for public humiliation now
Afrikaners who live in South Africa do not like this shit.
They for one know there is no genocide.
They know why that is, because of Mandela.
And they do not want outsiders messing with their safety by telling lies that could put ideas in peoples heads.
Read any youtube comments section on this shit and it is full of Afrikaners saying piss off Trump.
Elon Muskās home country
The South African Agricultural Minister is a white guy who up until last year was the leader of the OPPOSITION to the current PM and he has never suggested there's any genocide.
A huge amount of crime occurs in SA to all races. Elon Musk's own Grok states white people make up close to 8% of the population but make up less than 2% of murder victims.
A huge amount of crime occurs in SA to all races. Elon Musk's own Grok states white people make up close to 8% of the population but make up less than 2% of murder victims.
Absolutely hilarious.Trump ambushes South African president with footage of āwhite persecutionā
US president demands explanation from Cyril Ramaphosa for āvery sad situationā
South African leaders turn for public humiliation now
What wonāt be funny is watching South Africa collapse and millions die.
South Africa is a complete shithole now. Not sure why sugar coating it helps anybody.
The last decade crime and corruption has exploded.
Absolutely hilarious trump not knowing the difference between South Africa and the Congo in the stats heās trying to present. A couple of real thigh slappers
Who's sugar coating it?
It's just abhorrent that Trump thinks the only worthy refugees are the South African white folk
Do you want to import the uneducated, unskilled Africans who jump up and down at concerts yelling ākill the white farmerā?
No one is suggesting they import those people. Do you support the notion that your example covers the entire black population & they should all be tarred with the same brush?
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