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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.

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[–] Alexfire@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Q: explain what type of system tries to silence reporters, revoke broadcast license, make false claims and never correct, and these are about issues of human rights and democracy, supposed freedoms.

A: This is deployed by antidemocratic leaders: economic pressure, politicized legal action, regulatory abuse, and co-optation of media outlets. The goal is to eliminate reporting on human rights and democratic issues, the very "supposed freedoms" that the regime nominally upholds in its constitution but systematically undermines in practice.

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Donald Trump is the weakest man in the world.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

It used to be Bigboote, but now it's this guy.

[–] Snowies@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

He turned our country into a fucking nightmare.

[–] bunnybunny@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

No the voters did. Any moron can be a candidate, millions of people still need to vote for the moron. And so they did, multiple times

[–] Alexfire@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Yes, tiktok helped spread the propaganda and will again, maybe won't work this time, but in '28 they'll say Dems didn't fix it all in 2 years so blame them and vote maga again. They go by feels and the propaganda, don't understand it and too stressed to learn more to do better.

[–] LazyOldPervert@lemmus.org 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh but let's not forget about the morons who voted for him

[–] Leviathan@fedinsfw.app 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

In a normal world the FCC would be like "lol, no." and that would be the last you'd ever hear of it.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] OakTree@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

In a normal world the guillotine would have fallen already

[–] benjirenji@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 day ago

The enablers are definitely a problem.

[–] spacegoat@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Trump is a pathetic little bitch

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 9 points 1 day ago

Yeah, go take a flying fuck at a rolling donut, loser.

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 70 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Trump is ultimately a very weak person. Fragile.

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 42 points 1 day ago

The most fragile. Fragility like you've never seen before. Many people are saying it.

[–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 62 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Can’t we just start with the impeachments already

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Why, what's the point? He gets to parade around another impeachment that he beat?

[–] DaveyRocket@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

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

[–] kaklerbitmap@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Well now I'm angry and horny. Thanks.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

I like your snappy patter, kid. Change 'bulbous' to 'throbbing' and we're talking Pulitzer here! /s

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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.

[–] OakTree@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

This sounds long and drawn out. Find a quicker solution

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

No, but be sure to vote this year and we may be able to start some impeachments in January.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

I'd love to see people like Carr brought up on charges of treason.

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[–] Wataba@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 day ago (5 children)

A pathetic little man intimidated by yet another woman.

So why the fuck did two thirds of the country let him take power.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Hmm, I wonder why he's losing his shit?

https://votehub.com/

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.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"In partnership with Kalshi"

No thanks. Even if accurate, gives me a bad feeling.

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealClearPolitics#2017_onward

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[–] TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com 14 points 1 day ago

What a whiny little snot.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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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[–] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

America is a fascist state, run by a rapist whose citizenry refuse to do anything about it.

[–] lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (13 children)

What would you have us do, o brave leader?

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