• FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
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    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

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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.

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    3 days ago

    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

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      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?

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      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.

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      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

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      Just trying to stir up trouble before the election, like usual. Remember when “The Caravan” was coming to America, THOUSANDS of blood-thirsty south-of-the-border thugs coming to rape, pillage, and murder?

      Then the election happened, and he never mentioned it again, and The Caravan just melted away.

      This time the boogeyman is the Chinese, because he can’t blame the real problem, Russia, because he KNOWS they were involved, and can implicate him.

      I think we should do deep investigations into the 2016, 2020, and 2024 elections, leave no stone unturned, spare no expense, and make it all public, and find out who REALLY has been manipulating our elections.

      Oh, and do a Federal investigation into Florida elections while we’re at it. They’ve been 100% rigged for years.

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        Yeah, and back them my hackles raised then trump would threaten elections

        Go on, try to hit the caravan speech now… I sleep

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      That’s just it.

      No substance, no air time. It eliminates having to fact check afterwards as well. Double win!

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    2 days ago

    Luckily the president is in charge of the executive branch of the federal government and not private broadcasting networks. Right! Right?

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    3 days ago

    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…