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Asked for comment, the White House did not cite a specific law Mr. Trump believed was being violated, but a White House official pointed to settlements that media companies, including ABC, have agreed to pay after Mr. Trump’s legal team filed lawsuits against them, and suggested Mr. Trump was attempting to rein in “extreme left-wing bias in television.”
If you try to appease a fascist, you only embolden them...
I can't decide if they have no idea what leftism is, are lying about what it is, don't care what it is, or a combination of the three. The things labelled as extreme left wing in America is laughably fucking ridiculous. This is a country where for a time there were "libertarians* who literally booed a libertarian presidential candidate for suggesting drivers licenses should exist.
I will never understand this idea that any government control that exists should only exist to hurt people. The only explanation I can come up with is generations of anger piling up to the point that it's a miracle we haven't killed each other already.
I get being angry, I sure am. Way too much of the time. And I get that people can be brainwashed by billionaires/propaganda. But goddamn, common sense seems to have vanished.
People were sold the idea that rich people getting paid hundreds of times more than everyone else, and taxing them less was good for everyone. Are people actually stupid enough to believe this? I feel like a child old enough to understand money in the slightest would immediately assume it was a manipulative lie.
People were sold the idea that laws creating fairness in healthcare were evil.
People still are very racist. Literally blew my mind as a young child in elementary school when I learned that people were hated for being a different color. Just seems like something you have to be taught. Don't get me wrong, I get the type of light racism, where you sort of fear people you aren't familiar with and who seem strange from your perspective, is inevitable. That kind of racism can be curbed easily though. Spending so much energy thinking about how problems are all the fault of random strangers... How do people even get to that point? They must learn it from their parents and then never question it.
People buy the idea that any new gun law is literally evil And bizarrely, somehow against God himself. I come from a conservative religious family and even they admit that of course guns are dangerous and some new laws are needed.
People believe that trans people just popped into existence as a satanic evil farce meant to harm their children. Despite the fact that we've known for a very long time about people that fall outside the "norms" Of sexuality and gender.
People reject science despite the fact that for centuries life has gotten exponentially more livable as a direct result of science and medicine.
People believe oil companies that the earth isn't warming even though most of those people are old enough to have seen a noticeable shift in weather patterns. Less snow, more storms, etc.
People think Christianity, which self identifies as a religion of peace and love, requires them the hate or kill those different from them. And to will away any trace of empathy they might have for those people. Polar opposite of most of the new testament.
Sorry for the rambling rant, I guess my point is that we live in a world where not only does "the truth have a 'liberal' bias", the most basic common sense positions held by modern humans have been politicized and demonized by a bunch of obviously corrupt pieces of shit. And it's certainly the worst aspect of being human right now to see it getting worse. Fucking disgusting and so counterproductive. Leftism imo probably ought to just be about how to achieve most of the same goals that the right should have. Instead, we argue whether or not certain people have the right to exist or be shown any compassion on a personal or societal level. 🤮
My somewhat conservative brother told me the other day that if we tax billionaires, they will be forced to lay off employees.
I just don't have enough time and dry erase markers to break down how to effectively setup a BETTER economy where we can tax billionaires and still have a low unemployment rate, and not be beholden to fake job creators who were going to do layoffs anyways because line needs to always go up.
My somewhat conservative brother told me the other day that if we tax billionaires, they will be forced to lay off employees.
My dad is the same "If we do X that benefits us something bad will happen" and then... the bad thing happens anyways.. either it be increasing prices or laying employees off
I’ve tried to phrase it as “as much as we are taxed”. Some of them understand “tax billionaires” as “tax the hell out of them”. While people here may think that’s reasonable, how about we start with “as much as we are taxed”?
While I dont want to pay taxes any more than anyone else, I can’t really object to paying a higher rate than people with less income. But why aren’t wealthy people taxed at least as much?
Everyone (US) is at least somewhat familiar with different tax brackets even if they don’t understand them, so it should put it in better perspective that billionaires have at some point much lower effective tax rates than the rest of us, and it should be more clear how unfair that is. Not that it helps so far
Stop giving them the benefit of the doubt. They're listening to the talking heads of nazi propaganda, who always give their listeners two ways to fight people calling out nazi propaganda.
Billionaires can afford to pay people!
nazi: No, they can't, it'll increase unemployment!
nazi: Jobs other than billionaire jobs suck!
You're right, you don't have enough time and dry markers to counter all their bullshit. Even if you did, they'd deflect to something else.
Nobody's "a little conservative" anymore, that's another nazi lie.
I have started calling this administration and any diehard supporter of them Nazis, but I really don't find it helpful to call literally all of them Nazis -- particularly those with idiotic economic attitudes. They're already saying "Nazi" just means you disagree, stupid leftist!
No, Nazi means you support a racist authoritarian inhuman government. Not that you're stupid when it comes to economic policy.
I only say somewhat because he doesn't actually support (or voted for) this admin. He only voted for him in 16, and quickly realized how stupid he is. He has voted Democrat the last few elections, but differs in how we actually fix things.
So basically your average centrist right now.
What's strange is that he was a huge Bernie supporter back in 16, and that was the reason he flipped to R that election. So it's odd he's deepthroating billionaire propaganda now. He also doesn't watch any news outlets, and mostly gets his info from TikTok, which his feed is probably all Joe Rogan clips at this point.
That's not "strange" that's just contrarian anti-establishmentarianism. No positive stances, only negarive ones.
I just don't have enough time and dry erase markers to break down how...
Yeah, unfortunately that is sort of the core of what actual conservatism is. "Don't change ANYTHING, that's SCARY!"
And then what "conservatism" has become today, also leads to the same result: "Let us all protect the vulnerable billionaires! At ANY cost!"
"Don't change anything" has never been "actual conservatism;" that's another lie they've sold you. In reality, what conservatism has "become today" is the truest expression of it America has seen in decades.
Interesting video. Thanks for that. I wasn't saying that conservatives actually ever lived up to what they used to say they were striving for, though. I was speaking in a hypothetical sense, granting them the benefit of doubt, admittedly undeservedly.
Completely agree and thank you for saying exactly what needs to be said. I oftwn ask how did we get here? This timeline is so far off from the one I came to expect even like 10 years ago. How do we get back to a more stable, less angry society?
Somehow stop media from profiting from emotions. You get mad at a Facebook post and post a reply about it. Facebooks algorithms see that you respond to this type of posts so it gives you more and sells advertising that makes you mad too. Radio has for fifty years put people on air that say things to stir negative emotions because it's easy to make people mad. And people tune in again to get mad at them over and over.
Yeah, I ask myself that too. Maybe this has all been boiling under the surface for a long time, but the acceleration feels quicker and quicker since Trump became an every day household name.
I know a lot of the political polarization we have now is due to Newt Gingrich normalizing obstruction-no-matter-what as a political strategy. But it still kind of doesn't make sense to me no matter how I think of it. People really ought to be less manipulable than this. The internet must be a large chunk of the problem, but we obviously cannot put that cat back into the bag at this point.
Their capitulations embiggened the smallest man
I'd never heard the word embiggened until I moved to Springfield.
I don’t know why. It’s a perfectly cromulent word.
Applies to any sort of bully or abuser.
You can't cite precedent for your own lawsuits that were settled. Settlement doesn't create precedent.
Absolutely cool and very normal in a democracy
He ought to read the Constitution, the fuckwit!
If he could read, his voters would've voted for someone else.
He's already used it to wipe his orange ass
Do you really think he wipes?
I am sure there is some magat that would lick it clean and ask for more.
I hereby declare any criticism of me to be illegal also. In this way it is now illegal for anyone to reproach my criticism of the piece of garbage currently in the white house. Plus, no backsies, so this can't be undone. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!!!
I wish to argue, but you’ve completely tied my hands!
Your post was written with an auto-pen so I'm ignoring it.
Six months in GITMO just for the assertion!!!!!
Well I double declare that you’re a smelly butt sniffer.
You suck!
As settlement for earlier criticism, I apologize. It now has precedent.
I hereby decree you shall be deported to Djibouti with immediate effect!!!!!
Typical for the right wing: always cherry picking.
Speaking of picking cherries...
Epstein Files you pedo fascist.