The Weed wrote:

Another great question, although the reporter would probably be hustled to incarceration and flogged:

"Mr. President, you stated recently that the USMCA was the worst deal in history, very unfair to the United States and whoever signed the USMCA was an idiot. In fact, when the deal was signed - by yourself - you stated that you negotiated it and claimed it was the greatest deal in history. Does this now mean you're an idiot?"

Excellent question that Fat Nixon would absolutely melt down over. Where are the great reporters of yesteryear who had the courage to ask 'pointed' questions?

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Dial Twister wrote:

Where are the great reporters of yesteryear who had the courage to ask 'pointed' questions?

Right-wing politicians punish reporters who ask those kinds of questions. Anyone remember Global News' Colin Dimello being gently threatened by Doug Ford after Colin kept asking him tough questions that made him look incompetent? Ford basically warned him "hey I know where you live, Colin" (which he later apologized to Colin for, but only because of a backlash online against him).

We already saw Trump ban prestigious news organizations like The Associated Press from briefings in favour of granting access to right-wing podcasters and other Trump-supporting news outlets, a clear signal that if you say anything that humiliates Trump, you lose your access.

He also has no problem saying left-wing media (i.e. any media that makes him look stupid) is illegal, as he did today during his presser:

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NOTE: to be fair, outside of politics this can happen too. Disney is very left-wing and they will ban movie critics who are too harsh on their films, denying them early access to upcoming films if they get on their shit list.

 

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For anyone thinking (hoping) that this nightmare will all be over in 4 years...



Prediction: the more Trump talks about staying forever in power, the greater the likelihood there will be more assassination attempts, including by his once former MAGA followers who got burned by his policies e.g. DOGE induced layoffs.  Lefties will protest, Right-wing gun owners will shoot.

Edit: also just for fun... let's add this:



 

Last edited by TomTV (March 30, 2025 4:39 pm)

Legally, he is unable to run for a third term...
The 22nd Amendment added to the Constitution in 1951, after President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected four times in a row, says “no person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.

”NBC’s Kristen Welker asked Trump if one potential avenue to a third term was having Vice President JD Vance run for the top job and “then pass the baton to you.”

“Well, that’s one,” Trump responded. “But there are others too. There are others.”

“Can you tell me another?” Welker asked in the early morning interview, before Trump left his Mar-a-Lago resort to spend the day at his nearby golf course.

“No,” Trump replied.

Derek Muller, a professor of election law at Notre Dame, noted that the 12th Amendment, which was ratified in 1804, says “no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.”

Muller said that indicates that if Trump is not eligible to run for president again because of the 22nd Amendment, he is not eligible to run for vice president, either.

Mind you, legalities are irrelevant to Fat Nixon. He'll use any and all means, legal or otherwise, to feed his massive narcissism. He is a stain on civilization.

I still believe that far too many people simply do not comprehend that this man is an existential threat to everything we know and love.

He's not going away.

It will get much, much worse. And YES, it will negatively impact radio and TV in Western New York and Southern Ontario, and anything else you can imagine.

Equal time for communists is against the VOA Charter.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2874102/voice-of-america-went-from-exposing-the-failures-of-communism-to-glorifying-its-dictators/

Looks like Lawrence O'Donnell had to take a break from covering Trump. 

https://www.sohu.com/a/877394575_122342248

 

cash wrote:

Looks like Lawrence O'Donnell had to take a break from covering Trump. 

https://www.sohu.com/a/877394575_122342248

 

Fat Nixon is exhausting the entire world. If only we had some of the giants of broadcasting of yore to properly cover this insanity.

Trump is suing CBS for $20 billion because he didn't like the way he was portrayed on 60 Minutes and the way they edited the interview.  Meantime CBS is worth $8.4 billion in the big merger deal with CBS owner Paramount Global and Skydance Media.  The merger will need to be approved by Trump's appointed chairman of the FCC.  Which really means that Trump will have the final say on any merger. 

TomTV wrote:

https://x.com/donwinslow/status/1916666407015915824

Tonight's episode of 60 Minutes ends with a calm statement regarding the resignation of the show's chief, citing the need for the Trump administration to approve the merger as key to Paramount putting pressure on the show's content and how it was to be presented.

 

Here's another full screen version of the 2 minute piece. 

I know much has been said about the fact that CBS as a network does not have a license, so talk about the FCC shutting down CBS wouldn't happen.  However CBS does own and operate stations in 18 markets in the US and all of these stations do have licenses.  This is where the FCC could make life miserable for the network should Trump win the $20 billion dollar lawsuit.  Also the commission could prevent the merger with Paramount Global (the owner of CBS) and Skydance Media. 

TomTV wrote:

This ...is not something that happens in a normal democracy:
 

Agreed, Tom. And at the risk of ire from our good moderator, I need to get something off my chest. Things are so far from "normal" that every opportunity to air (pardon the pun) the madness must be seized upon, so here goes.....

First you tell people, repeatedly, that everything is broken. (Sound familiar, Poilievre?)

Then you tell them that only you, a  true genius, have the knowledge, experience and courage to fix it all. You are so unbelievably smart that no challenge is too great, in the face of your giant brain.

Next, you pick an easily-corruptible group of people, absent of all morals, but full of shit, to pave the way to your power...the Republican Party. You threaten to primary them, you intermingle praise with forced-smiles, and you pummel a series of weak politicians to the ground seizing the party's nomination.

To the horror of sane people everywhere, and to your own surprise, you somehow win the 2016 election and take power as tRump 1.0. You are so inept that you take advice, good or bad, from those around you, and hire 'some' experienced politicians and military to run your Administration. You fumble, lie and mumble your way through four years, but lose re-election. One thing you do get done, in tRump 1.0, is to elevate three weak sycophants to the Supreme Court. That will prove very useful.

Because you're a student of the late Roy Cohn (you should look that piece of excrement up), you go nuclear, refusing to accept election loss, or any blame for lawlessness. You convince the pea-brains who voted for you that the 2020 election was the Big Steal, and send them to the Capitol to stop confirmation of your loss. Your supporters are so easily malleable that they beat the very cops (you claim to love), shit on the floors and piss on the walls, and put the fear of god into all in Congress. And even then, the GOP continues to support you. Senate Leader McConnell, hours after the insurrection, stands in the Senate and gives a speech full of blame for your role in the insurrection, and then, that sad weak man proceeds to vote 'not guilty' on your Impeachment. He could have led the Republican Senate to a guilty verdict which would have permanently denied you any political office in the future...but no, not enough courage.

Biden takes office and appoints a milquetoast Merrick Garland for Attorney General, who flat-out wastes two years getting around to investigating and prosecuting your many crimes. Meanwhile, those aces-in-the-hole on SCOTUS come through for you by granting a mad level of immunity for your crimes. Oh, sure, you get convicted of 34 felonies in 'state' court, but with SCOTUS' help, you slow walk another 57 indictments until you get re-nominated for the 2024 election which, in the land where all men are 'supposedly' equal under the law, you suddenly become immune from prosecution because of some job you're trying to land. 🙄

Then, beyond all logic, you win again and drag the World kicking and screaming into tRump 2.0. Now the real fun begins.

This time around, there will be no experienced, trying-to-do-what's-best appointees. This time, more than in tRump 1.0, he has weak-minded, willing sycophants whose greatest skills are screw-ups. You throw the entire World economy into chaos, kidnap people off the streets and spirit them out of the country sans-legal process, make enemies of former allies, and cozy up to the worst World leaders. You use your superpowers to rob the country blind, threaten to take over other countries, promise a theme-park resort on the southeastern shores of the Mediterranean, and hire a lunatic car-company owner to rampage through the federal government stealing an incredible amount of sensitive personal information, firing and re-hiring workers here, there and everywhere.

Recession is pounding on the door. Authoritarianism is yelling down the chimney. Laws are being publicly ignored, and you're spending 10s of millions of taxpayers' dollars to golf in Florida every weekend.

And still the Republicans are cowed, and the Democrats are leaderless.

Have I forgotten anything?

🤬

America has lost its luster. America has lost the moral right to tell any other country what is right or wrong. If, and it's a big if, it ever recovers, America is facing a very long road back to normalcy and respect.

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"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
.......Winston Churchill

67GreenRambler wrote:

'Have I forgotten anything?'

Yes. This is a SOWNY radio forum.

Agreed. I'm also guilty of feeding into it (see the 60 Minutes thread) but at least that's about broadcasting.

Still, the fact that this thread has attracted an astounding 10,000 page views alone shows that it's of interest to people. So I've pretty much left it alone. Hopefully, the local election stuff will die down and this will eventually follow. 

67GreenRambler wrote:

'Have I forgotten anything?'

Yes. This is a SOWNY radio forum.

"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."

When will some here realize where this is going? Already he's threatening Canada's sovereignty. Will we wait until U.S. agents are banging on our doors?

As wonderful as SOWNY is, AND IT IS, you can bet that all Southern Ontario and Western New York radio, TV and Internet will be drastically affected if this buffoon isn't brought to heel soon. Then where will you post?

Dial Twister wrote:

When will some here realize where this is going? Already he's threatening Canada's sovereignty. Will we wait until U.S. agents are banging on our doors?

As wonderful as SOWNY is, AND IT IS, you can bet that all Southern Ontario and Western New York radio, TV and Internet will be drastically affected if this buffoon isn't brought to heel soon. Then where will you post?

I FULLY agree with the sentiment of posting about this subject.  This is TOO serious of a situation developing, and I want to know what all people of all communities think and feel about it.

I am still a wee bit miffed that I was chastised by Forward Power (and a few others frankly, who agreed with his take) for recently criticizing a media person for being an outright Trump supporter.  I was criticized for making the persons' political stance have anything to do with their work.  However, it's not even about politics.  It's about having class.  When you support a convicted rapist and misogynist - EVEN as a means to an end, then that speaks volumes about you as a person.  I should never have to apologize for saying that.  Somebody who think Trump or far-right wing politics has any place in a healthy society needs a head check.

Whew!  Good to say that!