‘Maybe we should go after you’ Trump threatens ABC reporter asking about free speech
‘Maybe we should go after you’ Trump threatens ABC reporter asking about free speech
Beyond this being another obvious step towards a bastard combo of 1944 and 1984, I'm once again faced with the same question I've had for the last decade: how the fuck can anyone hear this guy talk and think "yeah, that's a leader"? He has the temperament and vocabulary of a pissy 5 year old, the memory and general cognitive performance of a dementia patient, and the ideological consistency of a magic 8 ball.
MAGA are genuinely the stupidest group of individuals that have ever collectively organized.
It is mind boggling how anyone supports that drooling moron.
They like him specifically because he has the temperament and vocabulary of a 5 year old. Cause they do too, which makes him sound "real" instead of someone talking down to them. They don't care about any of his actual policies. They don't care about what he does. They barely care about what he actually says. All they care about is he makes them feel okay about being ignorant and bigoted.
It has been absolute whiplash to realize this over the last decade. I used to laugh at the old carlin joke of "imagine how dumb the average person is. Half of them are dumber than that." I knew that there were a lot of idiots out there, but I believed that they were at least kind hearted idiots that could learn a lesson one way or another. Apparently I set the bar too high. I genuinely cannot adequately express how disappointed I am with my fellow countrymen every single day.
I would prefer a 5 year old as POTUS. Give them some ice cream, fries and something to do (not to difficult) and they're happy. No unlimited greed or hatred for others.
Oh they do care about some of his policies, the ones that hurt people that don't look like them.
You'd think these people would be just the dumb ones doing crappy jobs but I've seen Maga types in high positions in engineering as well, boogles my mind that someone educated would make such bad choices and harbor so much illogical haterated
how the fuck can anyone hear this guy talk and think “yeah, that’s a leader”?
Rich geriatric white business goon is the archetypical American Bossman. Guys like him are everywhere, especially in the scloratic journalism industry.
MAGA are genuinely the stupidest group of individuals that have ever collectively organized.
They hate their current system and they don't seem to care who gets hurt tearing it up.
You can call that stupid. You can call it angry. But it's horrifyingly effective.
Meanwhile, smug posting liberal hecklers and don't-rock-the-boat centrists are at least as stupid. And "The Left" - such that it exists - is either too terrified or too feeble to fight back.
It's the propaganda they have been exposed to. They believe what they are told but have a very difficult time walking through any logic that got them there (hint: there isn't any) especially in the face of facts. They will usually deny any facts that do not lead to their conclusion.
Ask a Trump supporter what core American values he upholds and you can almost hear their mind grinding gears.
Part of it is that they genuinely don't watch or care. They just learned they like trump and will continue to say so. Never forget just how many people didn't even know Biden wasn't fucking running last year. There has been a massive culture (on Both Sides) of "don't watch the news for your mental health" that just puts people in isolation chambers where they occasionally hear something.
And the other aspect? He is them. Boomers are increasingly senile every single year and he is a boomer ass boomer. But also? Just look around on social media or in stream chats and so forth. A LOT of people sound like they speak English as a Second Language... until you realize they are making references to nickelodean shows and may even have comments or posts outright saying they are a native. They just are fucking illiterate (and this applies from boomers on down but is just a major crisis for genz/alpha because they might have a chance).
Also odds on someone thinking they are "witty" for saying this is "TLDR"? Because... think about the implications of "you talk too much" as an insult.
And that isn't just their illiteracy. We mostly tend to skew middle/upper-middle/upper class around here. Spend some time actually communicating with "support staff" (e.g. custodial) or even talking to someone at a supermarket or fast food joint. The "Gen Z Stare" is definitely a thing but it isn't just Gen Z and it is very much people who do not know how to communicate or articulate a thought literally locking up. THAT is trump.
I remember back when the problem was that people glazed Jed Bartlet and it had to be explained to them that real human beings don't have script writers to make every single word they say deeply beautiful and intellectual. Now? People would hunt Martin Sheen down for daring to make them feel inadequate.
I agree with you on most of that. As someone that's spent the majority of their life broke, I will stick up for the lower class and say that many of the folks I've worked with in menial roles were aware of the world and able to express themselves and interact socially at a level that MAGAts just aren't able to. I don't think social status has anything to do with it. MAGA prides itself in rejection of anything bordering on intellectual, across the board.
He is not even thar good of a talker.
You would know!
JK I love you, probably.
Social media made this possible. Fuck Zuck.
I'm going to keep sharing this until people understand what's going on: Narcissist Collapse
If you give him even the slightest pushback, he freaks out. The thing is, we need to keep pushing and pushing without letting him yell "Fake News!" or call a reporter "nasty." Keep pushing and he'll melt down.
As a German, I had to laugh at "NPD" as this is the name of the predecessor of the current Nazi party AfD, and this is just such a perfect fit.
Technically the NPD is the predecessor of the new outspoken nazi-party "Die Heimat" and not the AfD but the sentiment holds true
I love that they had to publish an explainer article for everyone in Australia under the headline:
Trump is so rarely challenged, simple questions can seem hostile
This leads to a breakdown which manifests as angry outbursts, irritable or defensive behavior, and verbal or physical aggression. ... It can result in harm to the person with NPD and those around them.
Uh oh
Maybe by like, I dunno, blowing up random Venezuelan boats?
Yeah... Uhh... Considering that, I think he might already be having a breakdown.
Americans don’t know how to fight back. They’ll roll over and take it. Just watch.
This chieftain created secret police out of whole cloth without constitutional justification. That does sort of give opponents pause when trying to figure out how to effectively fight back.
A friend of mine coined this derogatory use of the word years ago, in reference to the easiest difficulty of Civilization games being Chieftain.
Listening to this traitor speak is just exhausting. WTF is the hottest country in the world? This isn't Zoolander you twat. We are all miserable and the cost of living has skyrocketed since you got into office.
I hate that people actually believe the shit he says.
He means hot, as in, he's set fire to the economy, trying to burn it to the ground.
It's "we're living in hell" hot.
America is so hot, nobody wants to touch it.
“She’d probably go after people like you because you treat me so unfairly. It’s hate. You have a lot of hate in your heart.”
The narcissism here is incredible - taking a question that is essentially about the United States Attorney General suppressing our supposedly most cherished protected right, and making it about his own “oppression.”
Hate is the civil war buzzword theyre pushing because Robinson used it so frequently. Theyre genuinely going to try and brand an entire section of the political spectrum as terrorism
Please die already
Maybe we should go after him.
Maybe we should go after him.
Many people are saying it.
Trump is such a fucking fragile snow flake.
(and a PEDO)
Mustard Mussolini strikes fear into the heart of another enemy of the people.
Fucking red hat twats.
Fuck off you old man.
"it's hate"
Said the paedo who is so full of hate it balloons its skin and turns it orange.
Can you imagine what this buffoon would be like if he was faced with questions from a proper journalist?
Most sadly ironic response possible...and spoken without any hint of self-awareness.
At what point will a reporter dare him to do it?
At no point, because they will lose their job and no one will care it happened.
We can dream tho.
Reminds me of the American dream, and like Carlin said: they call it the American dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.
In the US? Won’t happen.
He says the quiet part out loud at least twice a week these days
"I'm going to literally, with this gun in my hand, go and kill everyone on this list I have right here! I will shoot them exactly like this" (shoots a reporter)
Fox news:
"Liberals always exaggerate everything the president says and does, it was obviously a joke! The reporter wanted to die anyway, he was in on the joke but liberals just don't understand humor because they hate everything and everyone."
Didn't Jordan Klepper do a segment on that? People liking trump cause he "says what he means", then showing that person a clip that they defend with "he didn't really mean that"
FUNNY GUY!
Real patriotic stuff.
Maybe the grim reaper should come after you Donny.
He's trying
God willing one of these days a camera man will have had enough and just beat the tar out of him with one of those heavy ass cameras.
Would be a fucking hero
That's too good of a way to go for that child molesting, rapist.
Trump is in the Epstein files.
He's a convicted felon who needs to be put away until he expires.
he will target anyone discussing the epstein files, even thier own, aka KIRK.
The reason I wouldn't call myself a free speech absolutist is that I don't think people should have the right to intentionally lie and mislead people from a position of authority.
The reason this is relevant is that I cannot think of an example of hate speech that is truthful. And the reporter's question was about whether Trump viewed hate speech as free speech.
All politicians making public statements should be considered under oath and subject to perjury charges.
The only part of hate speech that’s true is there are quite a few minority groups that have been thoroughly oppressed and traumatized that result in inevitably higher crime statistics.
So you get those assholes who talk about how minorities commit more crimes, but ignore that law enforcement is harder on them, and they come from lower socioeconomic backgrounds.
Nobody has ever provided real evidence that one race or ethnicity is superior to others. We have superficial differences like face shape or skin colour and that’s it. The rest is culture and society.
The answer, of course, is that to Trump (and all his cult) "hate speech" = "anything that is said I don't like" and "free speech" = "anything that is said I like." So they can never be the same thing.
I think fraud laws should be extended outwards from economic law and cover mass manipulation. Make politicians legally honest. Provide robust investigative support to prove or disprove intent. Unintentional mass manipulation gets injunctions. Intentional gets fraud convictions.
Lying for political gain should be just as much a criminal fraud as lying for financial gain.
I sure wish they'd hurry up with his obituary.
The Orange Nazi at it again. What a piece of human shit.
Each time I see new Trump video he looks more like Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz
I'm really starting to think that rumor of him having some type of medical episode or something is true because he is lashing out to anything and everything compared to his first term.
He knows he doesn't even need to try to be subtle anymore. Theoretically he can't be reelected, so he doesn't need public support for that, if he just seizes power he doesn't need public support for that, and if he drops dead he definitely doesn't need public support for that.
He is now entirely unfettered by the need for approval, and he was only slightly restrained by that before. Probably the best hope is that he pushes too far and one or more of his backers feel threatened enough to curtail him, which isn't a great position to be in.
Let me guess the response blind , asked where their from. They're terrible journalists, always have been ABC is a terrible media outlet. Some nonsensical distraction
in this case, there is no 'maybe'
Trump is the best thing to happen to USA. As a non-American whose country is tarriffed to hell
Weird, I thought appeasing fascists made them stop attacking you.
Nice job, ABC. Guess that merger was worth losing all your credibility, huh?
ABC has been owned by Disney for decades. Are you confusing them with CBS who just went through a merger?
You're absolutely right, thanks!
ABC agrees to give $15 million to Donald Trump's presidential library to settle defamation lawsuit
Of course my point about appeasing fascists still stands, but it's important to have the facts straight. Much appreciated.
For the people who got paid, yes of course it was worth it.
We'll see. They still have to live in this world, and they were already rich.
I'll guess it won't have been worth it in the end, even for them.
You can't but a mega-yacht with "credibility".
"So I named it after the Lionel Richie song because of how I bought it. The Credibility Queen."
"Do you mean Caribbean Queen?"
"....fuck!"
Wrong ABC. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has not undergone any mergers.