Can’t really take you seriously. Fascists and Nazis are both bad, but you’re are idiotic or ignorant to say they are the same.

trump furiously deleting emails

… are you saying all fascists are nazis?

You’re going to have to explain your comment because it seems you’re making making a way out there comment

The upsides are that trump and his cabal are idiots. Yeah they do have a lot of resources, and power, but they don’t know how to wield it well, or they let their egos makes important decisions.

Will we come back from this? Idk, but their stupidity will be our only saving grace.

very true. Compare this, to what’s happening in the Fed; Trump is having issues removing multiple figures and being challenged in court.
If we come back from this, we need to codify so many more rules and create significantly more independent bodies so another Republican doesn’t do this shit again.

Yeah idk why you’re upvoted, unless I’m missing something. The articles you linked(could only read the first as the 2nd is behind a paywall) only talk about how much slower NPRs coverage may become due to the backstops. Nothing implies that they have become unreliable news.

I’m unconvinced that NPR is unreliable based on your info. I listen to their planet money, the 1A, and the indicator broadcasts. The 1A especially has recently been openly and bluntly criticizing the fascists movements of Trump/Republicans. The indicator and planet money are more economics focused (rather than politically focused than 1A ) but even they will criticize Republican actions if it doesn’t align with economic theories.

NPR? BBC? I’m confused by this meme now…

idk, slightly strange. But IDK if we have all the details yet. my understanding is that he shot into a van owned by ICE/Labelled ICE. I can imagine he may have thought there were ICE agents inside. I haven’t heard of any evidence that the the rounds were fabricated with false evidence.

Idk the retraction is pretty honest. Not to mention, that source may have said things originally, and not wanted to continue to say those same things afterwards for any number of reasons(they were lies or even, they don’t feel comfortable being publicized)

So it seems you’re trying to say that some of new week’s articles may not be of high quality so we shouldn’t dismiss them as a reliable news source. I feel like that’s a very low bar for a news source in a world with a lot of fake news, that ultimately makes Newsweek unreliable.

lol i think that makes it even more hilarious. Trump likes to also compliment himself in his statements, so its par for the course in mimicking him.

It’s so bad for me sometimes. Somebody actually commented to a other poster saying I’m probably drunk commenting and thats why I make no sense. Nope just sober and not as responsible as I should be in reviewing my comments lol.

Fixed, thank you. Typing on my phone degrades the quality of my writing significantly.

Is It just me, or is this a very badly written article? I read it twice and it makes no sense to me. I understand the article is trying to day fix say fox news it’s trying to be manipulative, but it’s not clear in what way based on what is written. No context is provided. They mention the time the call takes, in Newsom’s and Trump’s local times like that helps when we don’t know when the fox segment airs, nor when Trump’s claim of calling newsom.

Nah, I remember during his first presidency, it would sometimes be weeks lol. Checking out his Twitter posts was what finally convinced me Republicans are nowhere near the same as Democrats or that they are well intentioned politicians.

He’s a pathological liar is the best case. Worst case is he does want to do those things, and this is how he pitches the idea to see if they gain traction. Day 1 dictator didn’t exactly happen, bue he’s definitely trying to get there as soon as he can.

I disagree with your catch 22 statement, my understanding of how our elections work is that Democrats would have lawyers/representatives at locations to verify result as they come in to centralized hubs and also sent out. Especially in hotly contested areas. Voting is so decentralized, there would need to be large swaths of people involved on both the republican and democrat side to allow for vote manipulation. All this is to say, you don’t need to look for election fraud in this situation, it would become apparent when vote tallies are not adding up, and surprising voting numbers are coming from only certain areas. I have found no reliable new organization discussing evidence of election fraud in the form of vote manipulation and if you have a source, I’d be interested in reading about it. Unless I see any evidence, it just seems like left wing conspiracy thinking that does a good job at distracting people and normalizing vote manipulation when there’s already real issues in front of us ( Musk paying people to vote, areas not providing sufficient voting booths for populations making for longer vote times, voter ID laws, etc).

I feel it’s also pretty naive to believe generalizations such as “every accusations is a confession” are perfectly representative. Sure that saying applies a lot to Republicans, but it doesn’t mean its a rule.

I will admit, when I hear election fraud I understand the term to mean, directly subverting election rules. This would entail: changing votes, tallying votes incorrectly, accepting fraudulent votes willingly etc. I don’t believe Trump and company did any of these things, or if they did, not enough to make an impact on the election. I’m willing to accept evidence to the contrary.

Reading the definition of election fraud, it also can include the examples you mentioned (which i would say isn’t in my original and incorrect understanding of election fraud). I do agree that Trump and his team did do many things that subvert a free election including some that you said such as the Musk lotteries, the bomb threats in blue areas, allowing laws that make voting harder in blue areas, etc.

The reason I’m expanding on what kind of election fraud I believe Trump committed is because some of it has evidence, and others (Trump/Musk directly changing votes/not counting votes) just doesn’t have any evidence. I would imagine Democrats and reporters would be very eager to publish this kind of evidence if it existed, but I don’t know of any reliable news organization talking about this. I feel it ultimately servers as a distraction and actually normalizes the idea of election fraud in the form of changing votes.

I mean Trump says a lot of things that are outright lies. That’s not very convincing honestly.