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Again and again, they prove their projection is all about intent, and the hypocrisy doesn't matter. They SAID someone did something they intended to do, and even though it's bullshit, they go and do it.

In this case, bitching about 60 Minutes "helping" the Harris campaign by editing for time, when they intended to force journalists to capitulate to them editing for actual content.

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[–] Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 182 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Didn't he just sue 60 minutes for editing the interview with Harris?

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 87 points 2 days ago

Yes. My point.

[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 74 points 2 days ago

Don't forget Fox News edited his interview on the release of the Epstein files.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah that’s why u thought it was super weird he would go on the show.

But I guess CBS and ABC are now Trump propaganda outlets.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As soon as Larry Ellison's check cleared.

This isn't an interview in the traditional sense. It's a demonstration of fealty.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah it was just like abusive people who force partners to hug/kiss them in public while beating them at home.

[–] blattrules@lemmy.world 123 points 2 days ago (3 children)

“I don’t know who he is” - this answer should be immediately disqualifying for a president who just gave out a pardon. They should have asked about 50 follow-up questions just based on his incompetence at pardoning people just because Biden’s justice dept found them guilty.

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 69 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah the immediate reply is “if you don’t know him, why pardon him?”

He’ll say “Biden witch hunt”

Then the report should say “how do you know which arrests are real and which are a Biden witch hunt”

And he’ll just be like “you dumb piece of shit why would you ask me that question? You know I take orders from Stephen Miller”

I hate it here. We are so fucked.

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Sounds awfully similar to the whole “Biden pardoned people he didnt even know who they were! Illegitimate president! Autopen!! Fairy Godparents!1!!!1!” situation

[–] blattrules@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

It’s only bad when the democrat does it.

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

Always projection.

And the only reason Trump didn't use an autopen was because he was too stupid to know how to operate it.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

“I don’t know who he is” - this answer should be immediately disqualifying for a president who just gave out a pardon.

Disqualifying from what? You think there's some guy running around the White House who is going to hand the President a yellow-card?

Congress has been rubber stamping the Unitary Executive Theory since at least Reagan and Iran-Contra. The courts have been fully Executive-Pilled since Bush. Presidents get to do whatever they fucking want. Nixon was a piece of shit, but he was 100% correct in his assessment of the power of the office.

[–] blattrules@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Disqualifying from public opinion as someone who deserves the role of president. Just like all the other things that he’s done at least five times a day for the past ten years, the fact that he can’t identify someone he just pardoned should clue his followers in to the fact that he’s not capable of doing the job.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

someone who deserves the role of president

The presidency isn't awarded via merit. Who would you even trust to make that judgement? They'd effectively be a kingmaker, making their selection "President-by-Proxy".

he can’t identify someone he just pardoned should clue his followers in to the fact that he’s not capable of doing the job

Changpeng Zhao is a bitcoin shilling billionaire whose firm was instrumental in laundering Trump-branded cryptocurrency through his World Liberty Financial organization. You can read this denial from two angles.

  1. This is Trump effectively distancing himself from a person he took a massive bribe from. In that case, he's definitely "doing his job" from the perspective of his ultra-orthodox libertarian and paleoconservative supporters. Because the job of the President (really, of everyone, as Objectivism teaches) is to protect the property class and collect a vig as reward.

  2. This is Trump milling through so much minutae on a daily basis that he can't recall particulars of a single action taken a week ago on the spot. At which point, why would any of his supporters be angry at him for looking busy? Nothing about the pardon is unappealing on its face. If he doesn't remember the details, I'm sure any one of his supporters - many of whom are cryptobros or business scammers in their own right - can fill in the gaps.

Either way, the problem you've got with Trump is his policy, not his cognitive ability. He could be a literal Chinese Room or Philosophical Zombie, laundering inputs into outputs without any actual mental inputs, and it wouldn't matter. He pardoned a wealthy financial ally in exchange for a kickback. That's what Presidents (particularly Republicans) have a long history of doing. You're not going to find many people in his base who are angry at him for it.

FFS, he could pardon Ghislaine Maxwell at this point and his base would probably still love him based on how many are pro-pedophilia.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 120 points 2 days ago (3 children)

He sued them for editing the interview with Harris but he would also sue them for showing the parts of his interview that make him look bad

This is fine

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[–] alucard@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

And Sherri Redstone is laughing all the way to the bank :(

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 50 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He should sue them for editing his interview

[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 days ago

Well someone should

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago

Shocked, yes shocked I am to find that journalism is taking a knee to fascism in this corporate establishment.

[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Totally not alarming. A good solid blue vote in the midterms in just 12 short months away will fix that (once Johnson figures out how to also swear in the non GOP congress people)

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago

The fucking media are such pussies.

I wish news outlets were run by journalists who burn with a passion to be the one who breaks the story that turns the whole world upside down, and not money grubbing billionaire parasites.

[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Every single institution that was supposed to protect the US, without exception, failed miserably in the name of profit seeking.

Trump was always a weakling when faced with the slightest scrutiny. It is impossible to overstate the importance of The Apprentice in giving him that image of being a decent businessman... while on the show he would act against the script/guidance (I don't know what they are called in reality shows) and always throw the writers in a tizzy as they would rework everything to make him and his decisions seem like a good thing against all facts. Fox News basically is trying to do that with his real decisions, but they can't shield people from the actual reality of his actions.

[–] JargonWagon@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is the unedited version leaked and archived anywhere?

[–] ZigZagZebra@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I think I've seen the transcript referenced in people covering the story.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago

Leak that shit.

[–] bampop@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

"I don't know who he is," Trump cut in, but, “I know he got a four-month sentence or something like that, and I heard it was a Biden witch hunt.”

lol, can't even pick one line of bullshit and stick with it

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 11 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The big networks have all fallen. They are no longer the 4th branch. They are just spineless clowns.

[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

CBS keeping that part would have boosted their ratings like nothing else in the history of United Shtates.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Wouldn't do to have their viewership disillusioned by any realities

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago

This guy loses his cool eating a bowl of cereal. He can't go five minutes without fuming over rainbows or something. That ape is not well by any metric.