Treating the Federal Communications Commission like his own personal enforcer, Donald Trump said on social media Sunday that NBC’s Kristen Welker would be “reported to the FCC for rebuke or punishment” over a TV segment he didn’t like.
In a separate post, Trump complained in all caps about “fake polls” and said “something must be done about it,” adding, “FCC to the rescue!”
The posts were Trump’s most explicit efforts yet to direct the FCC to carry out his wishes. FCC Chair Brendan Carr, a Trump appointee and close ally, did not respond to CNN’s request for comment on the matter.
Trump is ultimately a very weak person. Fragile.
Can’t we just start with the impeachments already
Why, what’s the point? He gets to parade around another impeachment that he beat?
He didn’t beat anything, the system just can’t get it hard anymore. Basically impeachments are our governments version of getting a chub. The only time our government gets hard anymore is when it’s figuring out how to fuck their constituents harder for their rich backers. Rock hard with bulbous veins
Well now I’m angry and horny. Thanks.
I like your snappy patter, kid. Change ‘bulbous’ to ‘throbbing’ and we’re talking Pulitzer here! /s
I know that, you know that, but he still gets to claim that he is the most persecuted president because he is fighting so hard for his voters. They buy that shit up.
Unfortunately true. 2/3s of the Senate won’t ever agree to remove him. If they did it would be like admitting fault. Which would enable someone to prosecute the people who enabled it, which are the people who put them there.
I’d love to see people like Carr brought up on charges of treason.
No, but be sure to vote this year and we may be able to start some impeachments in January.
Al Green lost his primary, so no.
A pathetic little man intimidated by yet another woman.
So why the fuck did two thirds of the country let him take power.
So why the fuck did two thirds of the country let him take power.
Two answers. Either racism, or because there was a genocide being done somewhere else by someone else, and it was easier to let him be elected than it was to vote for a candidate who didn’t expressly say she would do enough about it, also, he said he would make the genocide much worse and would get us more involved in it.
You are assigning way too much intent here
1/3 of the country just didn’t give a shit
A bunch of the other 1/3 had tons of reasons but most of them were really really stupid. “He said he is going to give me more money” was definitely a real chunk. A bunch of the other chunk was “democrat bad” brainwashing or “stuck it to the libs”.
Racism is mixed in there a good bit but studies have shown most of the reasons were even more brainless
Yeah, it’s a lemmy comment. I decided to type up a quick snarky comment rather than write a poli-sci doctoral dissertation on the Social, Economic and Racial influence during the 2024 US General Election cycle and their effect on the outcome on the Office of the President.
There’s a pretty wide gap between “shitty take” and “doctoral thesis”
My point though was more just that I hate seeing it boiled down to these two things because it’s really not the answer. It’s too easy to just dismiss 2/3 of the country as racists/Israel supporters and won’t help anything. But I see it a lot.
Well, you left out the billionaires who knew trump was going to slash taxes for the weahthy and open up the government to be pay-to-play. Oh, and there are the odd-jobs in the black community who vote Republicans because they feel like Dems pander toward minorities without every actually helping them, and at least Republicans are honest about being racist assholes. There were also people who wanted the war in Ukraine to end, and Trump said he would end that on day one. I also remember people talking about getting to the truth of the 2020 election. And there were people who wanted to secure the Dobbs SC ruling and go even further to ban abortion and birth control at a federal level. Oh, and crypto bros who wanted their shit to be unregulated…
These are just scratching the surface, I’m looking forward to your full comment where you pick apart the nuances within each of those groups and add in a few thousand more. Really hate to see politics “boiled down” to just a few things.
Dude, you said there were two reasons, either racism or genocide endorsement. My problem wasn’t that this wasn’t nuanced enough, but that it excluded the main reasons.
But jeeze, settle down
Two thirds of the country might be kind of shitty people.
It was only about one third of the country. Another one third didn’t bother voting.
But a significant part of that one third of the country who voted for him (and the 1/3 who opted out entirely) just couldn’t seriously consider voting for a woman for President. It’s that simple. They’re all intimidated by the thought of a woman taking that last step towards real power.
Donald Trump is the weakest man in the world.
It used to be Bigboote, but now it’s this guy.
Hmm, I wonder why he’s losing his shit?
btw: If you have any info on this site that’s good or bad, I’d love to hear feedback. I’m looking for a decent poll aggregator.
Don’t know much about this site, but hopefully they don’t do the turn that RealClearPolitics did, and holy shit, was that a turn. If people thought Musk buying Xitter made things worse, RCP enters the chat…
Yeah, someone pointed that out to me. I had no idea they went conservative.
“In partnership with Kalshi”
No thanks. Even if accurate, gives me a bad feeling.
You’re right, I didn’t catch that. There has to be something.
Trump is a pathetic little bitch
Carr is yet another dweeb that needs to be put on a list for immediate legal action as soon as we have any power again. That shithead is such a smug little man and conservatives will learn nothing from any of this if people like Carr are not given maximum punishments possible.
America is a fascist state, run by a rapist whose citizenry refuse to do anything about it.
What would you have us do, o brave leader?
Find a fucking spine, a backbone and fight for your freedom.
I’m fucking tired of the strongest people on the planet asking everyone what they should do.
Drown him in your newly named Lake America for all I fucking care.
Canadians and the rest of the world are pretty much done giving a shit about you all and your apologies for your government.
Fuck off. Grow up. Fight.
Downvote me all you want. It won’t change a thing about what’s coming your way.
find a spine, fight for your freedom
I need one additional step - what does this mean to you? Happy to hear all ideas, sincerely
Fight
Great idea. What would you have us do, o brave leader? Like give me steps #s 1-3
Just some ideas:
- try deprogramming one of your MAGA relatives
- boycott the big evil corporations
- eat less meat, drive your car less
- VOTE in every election
- involve yourself in your community
- help in local election campains
- maybe even involve yourself with a new local chapter of DSA? (I don’t know how it works in the US on a local level)
- complain
- If you’re up to it, throw your sabot
FreshParsnip calls for Trump to face rebuke AND punishment. We can pick one crime a day and rebuke and punish him indefinitely
Hopefully they don’t release a poll saying that trump is a shoo-in the night before the November elections voting, because too many people believe those useless, propaganda polls.
Q: explain what type of system tries to silence reporters, revoke broadcast license, make false claims and never correct, and these are about issues of human rights and democracy, supposed freedoms.
A: This is deployed by antidemocratic leaders: economic pressure, politicized legal action, regulatory abuse, and co-optation of media outlets. The goal is to eliminate reporting on human rights and democratic issues, the very “supposed freedoms” that the regime nominally upholds in its constitution but systematically undermines in practice.
