You put out headlines with trump in the title to get the clicks. This is what you’ve been signing up for and now you’re being replaced assholes.
This week, the White House sank to a new low on that front, holding a first-of-its-kind “New Media Press Briefing.” While inviting journalists from smaller, less established outlets to the White House is ostensibly a good idea, that’s not what the administration did. Indeed, instead of inviting actual journalists to the event, the White House populated it with a slew of friendly influencers who were all too happy to kiss the president’s ass and ask White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt the softest of softball questions. It was bullshit questions and bullshit answers all the way down.
Leavitt kicked the briefing off by bragging about the administration’s various “accomplishments” over the past 100 years, er sorry, I meant days. “As I promised at my first briefing as press secretary back in January, the Trump White House will speak to all media outlets and personalities—not just the legacy media who traditionally has covered this institution,” Leavitt said.___
The funny part is that the same people bank rolling the presidency are the same people bankrolling the legacy media AND the social media influencers.
There is one group to blame for all this and it’s not hard to find them … anyone that controls billions of dollars of wealth, controls the country.
With every month that passes, a conviction grows in me: “Billionaires shouldn’t exist.”
Without a doubt, I say there should be a cap on personal wealth, say 1 billion, because I can’t really see why one person would ever need more than that to live comfortably. Then every dollar made over that goes straight to the federal government.
Essentially a new income tax bracket for only the wealthiest of individuals that is permanently set at 100%
I don’t know about a hard cap. Shelves and caps tend to inspire creative accounting just shy of fraud, and we can achieve the same effect with an accelerated scale that curtails runaway capital accumulation.
What I would be most interested in seeing is the introduction of public equity. Corporations of course benefit hugely from public services/infrastructure but often are directly funded by the US government. Any venture capital group or bank funding these companies would demand equity in return, yet the government doesn’t ask for equity on behalf of the public. The average citizen is offered only a share of the increased public debt.
And it’s not pocket change we’re talking about. Even if one only counts the larger stimulus budgets of recent history, they can match them to historic share prices and just track the growth and dividends of those shares as the returns compound over time. They would find that it’s a sizable stake in these companies that the public is owed (and a controlling stake in the case of full bail-outs, meaning decision-making power).
Taxes are definitely important, but easier to side-step or postpone for large public corporations, who have many options for how they represent their finances. Equity on the other hand is far simpler. It’s cumulative, so as long as the correct percentage of shares are transferred, future taxes are guaranteed paid, and more importantly they can no longer finagle a $0 tax liability while at the same time distributing revenue to shareholders, because the public is a shareholder. And the growth of that equity increases public wealth in step with the market. That way the average citizen always has a baseline stake in the economy, a birthright entitlement, which might better reflect the actual value offered to a company by the public.
Well, where are they, exactly?
Hiding from guillotines.
I think it’s time to make an American version of the guillotine where we replace the sharp blade with a giant rock, and keep everything else the same.
It seems appropriate
The American version is calling up Israel for a bombing run.
Given the seeming plummet of intelligence in the US we should name it the Ungabunga. The fact that cavemen didn’t live in caves and weren’t dumb is the other half of the reason.
People never lived in caves? Excuse me, what?
Maybe they’re conflating the word cavemen with neanderthals.
That’s the common interpretation though. Not in science of course.
I mean, archaeologists would argue that both did, there’s simply less found evidence of neanderthals doing it, but it is there. Fires, butchered animal bones, clearly intentional burials, art, the only evidence they haven’t found is a sign on a nail saying “home sweet home”.
Contributing millions to dark pacs, which bankroll media outlets either directly or through ad money.
Although now I’m sure they’re also buying shitcoins in closed door meetings at maralago as well.
One of them being Russia is bankrolling most of it
It is pretty funny since the media wanted this little shit show badly for the money. Oopsies
I’ve said this before, but a NYT reporter said exactly that during trump’s first term. He said that he would rather have trump than anyone else because people want to read about him.
The media sure sowed a lot of wind with Trump. I guess now it’s time to reap.
The media is the true deep state.
I mean, its possible to oversimplify.
Yeah I remember that quote it was fucking sickening and really was a good reminder of how shit the media is in the US
How shit the media is
FTFY
If you look at Europe, Salvini and Meloni were basically brought in the spotlight by Italian media that gave them a platform to spew their xenophobic, sexist and classist bullshit
The media did it’s job. Any objective mind would have read about the pussy grabbing and the promise to have Mexico build the Wall and voted against Donnie.
It’s like blaming the people who make swimwear for people intentionally drowning themselves.
The news did some absolute basic level reporting on obvious things. They also promoted him and Republicans to the front page constantly for clicks and to sell ads and glossed over his nazi rallies and downplayed the insurrection and unironicslly have “what people are saying” trash where crazy people are given equal time with rational people regularly.
Media is a huge part of why the shitty parts of society aren’t embarassed enough to reconsider their shitty views. Why would they when the media keeps putting someone who matches their stupid opinions on the front page? Why would they question the purpose of doge when the news keeps saying cuts are for efficiency despite never being about efficiency?
Yeah. Failure to regulate broadcast media, and not clarifying social media platforms as broadcast media played a huge role in creating this shit show
The media has a shit ton of power. I post every weekday the politics and finding real news is next to impossible. They are not doing its actual job, that’s the problem.
Edit: I should say, mostly the headline creators aren’t doing their job. Usually the real articles are hidden under a vague, water-downed headline.
Trump and his team has made the movie Idiocrazy (2006) completely obsolete 😅
It’s been quite exhausting seeing this shit show unfold.
What’s his favorite color?
“the best color”
Colors you’ve never see — you’ve never heard of these colors, he says, and many people are saying, I saw a mantis shrimp the other — can you believe — and mantis shrimp were treated very badly, what’s going on, and he said he’s never seen such a color, but they don’t report on that, the crooked lying media, I tell ya, if a mantis shrimp just one time — if, right in the mouth, if one of these journalists had to say it right to their face, one of these mantis shrimp, they wouldn’t last one second against — I’ve seen how fast these guys punch, believe me.
Man, I’ve seen many attempts that don’t go off the rails enough, but this one is just… Chef’s kiss.
Gold or Orange
Why is this website so utterly broken? The cookie policy pop-up can’t be dismissed and I can’t click anything on the page.
