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.
Donald Trump is the weakest man in the world.
He turned our country into a fucking nightmare.
Oh but let’s not forget about the morons who voted for him
Twice.
Thrice
Yeah, go take a flying fuck at a rolling donut, loser.
In a normal world the FCC would be like “lol, no.” and that would be the last you’d ever hear of it.
In a normal world the guillotine would have fallen already
In a normal world this would be a huge scandal that would lead to impeachment hearings
In a normal word his orange ass would be in prison
The enablers are definitely a problem.
Trump is a pathetic little bitch
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.
A pathetic little man intimidated by yet another woman.
So why the fuck did two thirds of the country let him take power.
Because enough people believe his lies.
I don’t know what is wrong with people, it was plain as day that he was constantly lying, and everything that has come to pass was loudly broadcast during the campaign.
That and racism.
Because Musk and Putin cheated, and we all know it. Schmuck & Jeffries declared it “Fair & Square” the moment it was over, because they were more interested in being smug about demonstrating a peaceful transfer of power, than actually ruling. Besides, their Sociopathic Oligarch slavemasters told them so.
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
We all saw the wave of social media activity in 2024 all centered around “Don’t vote for Kamala because she isn’t vocal enough against israel” while ignoring “Donald Drumpf is literally promising to make the genocide worse.”
And now you want to say we’re assigning too much intent? Like we’re just supposed to pretend that didn’t happen and we didn’t see it?
We’re not maga republicans here, our memories are not that short. Don’t gaslight us.
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
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.
Two thirds of the country might be kind of shitty people.
Trump is ultimately a very weak person. Fragile.
The most fragile. Fragility like you’ve never seen before. Many people are saying it.
Can’t we just start with the impeachments already
This sounds long and drawn out. Find a quicker solution
No, but be sure to vote this year and we may be able to start some impeachments in January.
Why, what’s the point? He gets to parade around another impeachment that he beat?
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.
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.
I’d love to see people like Carr brought up on charges of treason.
Al Green lost his primary, so no.
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.
“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.
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.
Nate Silver has in depth models for the whole midterms. I would trust his judgment over this random site. They’re a polling aggregator and you’re dependent on their weighting of the underlying polls. Silver spends a lot of time explaining his modeling and decisions, I didn’t see that on a (cursory) glance of your link
I wouldn’t get too excited about Nate’s models…
Hillary Clinton has an 81% chance of winning the election to Donald Trump’s 19%, polling analyst Nate Silver said on Wednesday in his first model of the 2016 presidential election.
Yeah, as I recall his prediction tightened up as that campaign went on, but I think it made a lot of folks complacent, and ultimately did more harm than good back then.
100 percent.
polling, for the most part, is just another way establishment media shapes public opinion by preemptively announcing who is “electable”.
all they have to do is keep pushing headlines like “Latest Poll from Dogshit Analytics Shows Reasonable Americans Hate Socialism” and in-group / herd psychology does the rest.
His numbers are still good but his commentary sucks. I had to unsubscribe because I was sick of having his edgelord opinions shoved in my face.
I was getting his bulletins for awhile, it’s not just these sources. I watched him flirt with his own opinions being his sourcing.
https://www.salon.com/2024/09/06/nate-silver-faces-backlash-for-pro-model-skewing/
https://www.pastemagazine.com/politics/the-sudden-shocking-fall-of-nate-silver
Odd to link to a Salon article complaining that Silver’s model wasn’t favoring Harris in an election she lost and when Silver’s model exactly predicted the winning map
Again, I received his newsletters and had to dump him. I am the source.
What a whiny little snot.
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.
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We shut the fuckin world down during covid so much that they called average workers “heroes”
We’ve never wielded it
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?
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Voting would be a start.
Done, always, of course. What else do you have?
don’t let Octogenarians run your country no matter what party they are in.
Great idea - can you describe the
howfor that one? Or is it just hope that everyone votes?What is the problem with that? Especially as people start living longer?
Not much, talk to others about the importance of voting. In a system that has been rigged there isn’t a lot that can be done except vote and civil disobedience.
For the giant douche or the turd sandwich?
We already knew nominating these democrats was doomed to fail, yet you blame voters and not the ones that force these bad candidates on us.
The lesser of two evils arguments don’t work, not the least when the better party gets worse every fucking cycle. Look at biden, the old cunt.
Stop blaming voters. It’s ironic because you will follow us, presuming you live in the west, in all liklihood. This doesn’t end in America. You need to wake up.
Better candidates and parties would be great however the fact remains, if people don’t vote then they voted for the winner. Fairly simple but there appears to be a cultural issue about choosing only to vote for someone they like rather than not getting someone they hate. If voting is the only tool available for change and people don’t use it……
Be that as it may. We knew we had a losing strategy, and kept to it, because people that suck told us it was the safe choice.
And I’m the asshole for questioning this leadership.
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
