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Always nice to see something as evil* as Fox News get their comeuppance.
* And I'm not intending that to be taken hyperbolically.
Trouble is, Dominion may come out with $787.5 million but the US people lose without Fox “News” giving Dominion a live on air public apology and an admission that they lied CONTINUOUSLY to their viewers.
https://twitter.com/jonsopel/status/1648424457680338945?s=20
Trouble is, Dominion may come out with $787.5 million but the US people lose without Fox “News” giving Dominion a live on air public apology and an admission that they lied CONTINUOUSLY to their viewers.
That's absolutely correct, but I imagine that even if Fox had made the apology and admission, they would have spun it to appear unimportant and almost accidental.
And it seems that most of Fart's supporters are so in denial that they wouldn't care very much anyway.
Still, as Mr Tesco tells us: 'Every Little Helps'.
So, now that Biden has announced his intention to run for the next election, it so far looks like we'll be getting another Biden v Trump showdown!
Incredible, for so many reasons, not least of which is they are both way too old !! Assuming a decent Dem turnout, it's likely Biden would win again following the continuing erosion of womens' rights following the Roe V Wade overturn.
Some good news is that top anchor Tucker Carlson has been sacked from Fox (although likely with a massive payout) - he really is a vile person. Sacked for his part in the Dominion lawsuit as his 2-faced text messages were part of the case against Fox.
And weird timing that Don Lemon was also suddenly sacked from CNN - I've not watched him for years, but remember him being good during the last election (and openly critical of Trump). Reasons unknown ... maybe some allegations against him?
Good grief, this is incredible even by Trump's standards.
For the first time, I actually think he might be going down for this ...
https://twitter.com/DigitalSGM/status/1655255233314816000?s=20
https://twitter.com/CalltoActivism/status/1655220466871595009?s=20
I stumbled across this again ... well worth a re-post, especially after Quora long-since deleted Nate White's original viral post ...
“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”
A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.
Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.
There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.
So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.
And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the box set.
https://twitter.com/CalltoActivism/status/1698783758072140040?s=20
Wow! Hopefully the msm has now turned a corner in condemning Trump and his toxic rhetoric - an excellent 4 mins on CNN >
https://twitter.com/MikeSington/status/1710683995888037902?s=20
The best public slapdown you have ever seen (on either side of the Atlantic) >
2024 Pres candidate and billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy
MSN News:
Threads:
Weird.
Not knowing anything about anyone involved in this clip I got a completely different take away.
Someone gets up and attacks the man for trying to do exactly what Donald Trump succeeded in doing a few years ago, and Ronal Reagan a while back (with no references to this historic facts).
He replies clearly and honestly without making any attempt to side-step the question, and makes valid points.
I actually thought the 'slapdown' referred to his response.
Then I read the threads, and saw that everyone else seemed to be taking the exchange in the exact opposite way.
Of course it's possible that:
1) The people in the threads were all rabid right wing zealots
or
2) The potential candidate is known to be some kind of corrupt grifter.
But it just shows that, without context, presentation is everything.
[FUME] I typed all this (below) in as an edit, only for it to decide that the time limit had expired, and then dump the typed text.
Having done a little research I can now see why it is being taken the way it is. The bloke seems to be a bit of a nut job, and, being republican, (1), above, cannot be the case.
However, I am still bemused that the woman failed to mention that what she was complaining of had already happened twice before (Reagan and Trump), once utterly disastrously.
