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Freedom of the press, except when the press does something I dont like
The media was surprisingly responsible and didn't let him lie without fact checking this time. CBS showed part of it but spent a lot of time fact checking before and after. Too bad MAGA will spin it as censorship and say the networks were afraid to let Trump tell the truth
Nobel meme prize nominee right here, guys!
This is great! Where was this taken?
Mamdani went on a visit to a kindergarten class with Ms. Rachel a few months ago. The babies on the bus are going wah-wah-wah.
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Fox had to pay three quarters of a billion dollars for airing the same lies that Trump spewed in his speech. No network should be forced to take that risk.
Hands are still too big
To the surprise of absolutely no one.
The government dictating what is airing on television? Sounds like it's not a free country.
You usually don’t broadcast things that don’t qualify as newsworthy.
I can smell the Freedom burning all the way over here
In their defense, it was very boring. The white house hyped it up like he was going to drop a bomb, but it was just the same speech he always does
I tried to listen, I got through about 8 seconds, skipped ahead like 4 times and shut it off.
Who wants to listen to senile rambling about how "good" everything is?
It was the'episode 9'of presidential speeches.
Yep, the most fundamental grift for Trump is converting the credibility of the office of the presidency or the country in general into credibility for his money or power scheme of the moment. That's what this primetime address was.
In the future, primetime presidential addresses (under Trump but also after) will have less credibility, because that broadcast spent some portion of it.
And if course his goal is to spend all the credibility of the presidency and US on himself before he dies, because that's just good narcissist math.
I was honestly expecting an announcement along the lines of "midterm elections are canceled" or "very restrictive measures will be taken to ensure election integrity". I got really stoned in preparation
That's just it.
No substance, no air time. It eliminates having to fact check afterwards as well. Double win!
Government controlling private enterprise.
That’s socialism.
No its not, its fascism.
What about the Epstein files ? Already forgotten.
Ope, too bad nobody was listening when you said that!
His sycophants were alllll ears
From the same person who threatened to take away broadcast license from networks who broadcasted his pedo-ass getting manhandled in the debate against Harris.
...and when the couch-fucker got "fact checked" in his debate
They didn't carry Obama's address on healthcare, they didn't carry Biden's address on the threat to democracy. What's good for the goose...
I just caught a goose this morning. Please continue, what is good for it.
Another trumpertantrum. Of course the toddler says that.
That was their fact-checking filter. They already know that Trump lies whenever he opens his mouth or types something on "truth" social, so they proactively did not send it.
Yes, really, any station that broadcasts a Trump speech should get shut down for spreading misinformation.
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Having a Cluster B in charge is fun. Isn’t this fun? The toxic branch of the DSM, the least capable of remission of the 4 (and never, at 80), and spiraling down into Dimentia. Who thought this was a good idea?
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I hate him.
That's unfair. His primetime address was too big a load of bullshit for anyone to carry. No legs can lift that.
what a whiny bitch
Doesn't freedom include the right to NOT do something, and not to be forced to do something?
Not according to those fucktards. Keep in mind these same folks think that gays getting the right to exist and get married is an afront to their freedoms. And being told they shouldn't be homophobes is worse than how Nazis treated the Jews during WW2.
Try not listening to him, like these broadcasters did. Nothing of value was lost.
Whine like a bitch about it, why don't you snowflake...?
Waaaaa crybaby.
Bullying and lying should also come with penalties.
What a feckless president, such an embarrassment.
Isn’t it always claiming that these networks are completely failing? Why would it care if such failing networks covered its speech?
Spicer: ‘A lot of negative comments’ from MAGA faithful after Trump address
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5973895-sean-spicer-trump-election-security/
well, good.
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