The president snapped after watching a TV show he didn’t like and said CBS should lose its license.
Donald Trump on Sunday called for “maximum fines and punishment” against CBS and its corporate parent, Paramount, over Sunday night’s “60 Minutes” broadcast.
In two separate posts on his Truth Social website, Trump complained about the show’s interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris last year ― which he is suing the company over ― and railed against Sunday night’s reports on Greenland and the war in Ukraine.
“Truth, Justice and the American Way!” Changed to “Money, Easy Money and Stolen Money…but only for all my friends!”.
Blatant threats of government retaliation against private citizens.
Clear violation of the First Amendment.
And nothing will happen.
Fuck Trump.
Well, technically the first amendment only affects Congress. Should be a slam dunk case for Trump with this Supreme Court.
I feel like something you said is inaccurate. I feel like the Bill of Rights protects all people from all branches of the government.
Here is the text for your own interpretation:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Damn, the Framers were really confident we wouldn’t bork up this badly, weren’t they?
They were pretty optimistic, I’d say.
We need to protect these 60 minutes people. They’re very brave and patriotic. We owe them protection for their service to America right now
Hitler was notorious for his temper tantrums. He is confirmed to have watched Charlie Chaplin’s iconic 1940 film ‘Thr Great Dictator’ but never said or wrote what he thought of it. Charlie Chaplin said that he would have given anything to know what he thought of it.
Trump is born almost exactly 1 year later after hitlers death coincidence? Reincarnation baby, no quick saves.
Something must have happened in the process though, at least Hitler was halfway competent.
The allied forces explicitly decided not to try assassinating Hitler. They were worried someone more competent would take his place.
Not really, he wasn’t. The myth of Nazi/fascist competence comes from a combination of propaganda and “right time, right place” in terms of when they took the reins of the German economy. A kind of funny example that isn’t Nazis, but their contemporary fascists, Mussolini’s Italian regime damaged the on-time performance of trains in Italy, but the regime kept saying the trains were running on time to the point where it’s become a whole saying about excusing fascism because of its competence/results (“at least the trains run on time”).
Oh, so it’s like “at least eggs are cheaper”? Neat
Straight up, the dude has been the beneficiary of the most dick-riding post-humous propaganda ever, second maybe only to Robert E. Lee or Jeff Davis.
Well when you respond missing half your brain
The CIA must have operation paper clipped Hitler’s soul.
Maybe they just showed him the same cut as in Iron Sky (2012). It would be amazin if that joke was that deep.
“They are not a ‘News Show,’ but a dishonest Political Operative simply disguised as ‘News’”
Shocked pikachu used “projecting”
“This is why we can’t elect women to power! They are too emotionally unstable and we’ll be in WW3 within a month!”
-Sexist chuds
Yeah, about that…
That’s because, for some reason, people don’t treat anger like an emotion
Or rather they consider anger to be an emotion of strength, rather than one of fear
Yep, thank God A WOMAN doesn’t have the nuclear codes. Just imagine how scary that would be.
I hate this man so much.
“Man”? “Ogre”, or “Demon” or “Beast” or “AntiChrist” or many other epithets for evil beings are far more appropriate to refer to HitlerBeast.
Nice, Ive been calling him HitlerPig, ever since I read that was the favored name by younger staffers in the Biden White House. I found it simulateously vicious, hilarious, and accurate, so it’s become my go-to name in print.
Does anyone else remember when “senile old man yells at the TV” wasn’t relevant political news*? I do. Can we please go back to those times?
Oh, pre-2016, how I miss you.
(It’s relevant because he has toadies in place to enforce his insane whims).
I remember when hearing from the president was special and they would prepare a statement or speech. It made news because it was important and rare.
Now it’s a multiple times a day occurrence of verbal diarrhea.
“But his tan suit!!!1”
She wore a tan suit too
When people stop electing them into positions of massive power then yes, we can stop talking about them.
Except trump admitted the election was rigged.
Yeah, quit with the “fair & square” bullshit, it was rigged and we ALL know it.
Softest President of all time. Like wet paper.
I’d call him President Wetwipe, but those are actually useful.
and wet wipes don’t dissolve
They can both clog a toilet.
Or build up in the sewer with shit and grease. President Fatberg.
He’s as strong and resilient as a fart in the wind!
Fun Fact:
In British English, “Trump” means the same as “fart” (and has done for over 100 years):“(intransitive) British slang to expel intestinal gas through the anus” Collins English Dictionary
“to release gas from the bowels through the bottom”
Cambridge English Dictionary“slang or colloquial. The act of breaking wind audibly”
Oxford English DictionaryThat time Taskmaster was trying to figure out who’d done a little trump on camera upon seeing a taxidermy chicken
I’d not seen that outtake! Thank you, it was hilarious :)
President Shart.
Wait! Lemme take a pictu- awwww… It’s gone…
He’s so moist.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe this is the 60 minutes in question?
“They are not a ‘News Show,’ but a dishonest Political Operative simply disguised as ‘News,’ and must be responsible for what they have done, and are doing,” the president wrote.
Isn’t this clown being sued by the same firm that sued Fox “News” and won?
He urged FCC Chair Brendan Carr, who was named to the position by Trump, to deliver “substantial” penalties to the network for what he called “unlawful and illegal behavior.”
“CBS is out of control, at levels never seen before, and they should pay a big price for this,” he wrote.
In Trump’s mind, saying something he doesn’t want you to say is “unlawful and illegal”. And since both Congress and the Supreme Court have decided that he is never wrong, and law enforcement now operates by kidnapping people and trafficking them into life imprisonment and slavery without trial, that is the de facto reality.
law enforcement now operates by kidnapping people and trafficking them into life imprisonment and slavery without trial
This is fucked up and it’s terrifying that’s the new reality
We really need him to produce a chart of these levels he’s talking about, for the sake of comedy.
But the levels can never be seen.
Touché
I assume the levels fall within an energy frequency not detectable by the normal human retina, thus making any such visual representation meaningless to us mere mortals.
Many such levels.
“…at levels never seen before”
its over 9000!
or...
8000 if you’re og. so tired of the maga dumbz.
60 minutes: “…this one goes up to 11.”
and law enforcement now operates by kidnapping people and trafficking them into life imprisonment and slavery without trial
Oh, honey. You don’t think those people are still alive, do you?
Realistically, we don’t know, because the point is for them to disappear. Historically this has tended to mean people get killed.
How would you know if they’re dead or alive if they disappeared? They’re Schroedinger’s Political Prisoners, perfect for plausible deniablity.
“We don’t know if they’re dead. They could be living wonderful lives in a tropical paradise, and they just dont want to share, you don’t know.”
They could be living wonderful lives in a tropical paradise, and they just dont want to share, you don’t know."
Like Whitman, Price, and Hadad. You remember them‽
They’re saying that Maryland guy is still alive.
Ahem, “Pics or it didn’t happen.”
Don’t worry I’m sure we’ll get them soon, their top prompt writers are all over it.
Cluster B personality disorders, specifically Narcissistic types, aren’t keen on truth, they create their own “truth” and gaslight anyone who contradicts that personal “truth”. Allegedly.
Cluster B, both borderline and narcissistic types, fear exposure of who and what they really are at baseline. The difference is a borderline will turn that anger and madness inward, possibly to the point of self harm and suicide, while the narcissistic type will turn that anger and vitriol at the source of potential or real exposure of truth. Allegedly.
It gets even weirder: a narcissists sense of reality checking is impaired such that they are unable to accept facts that contradict their viewpoint. If their statements/opinions collide with reality, they dismiss it as they hold themselves above reality. They don’t / can’t learn as this would imply there are gaps in their knowledge and whoever is the messenger of such contradicting facts will incur wrath to allow them to heal, no matter how tactful this is brought to them. Narcissists don’t lie (in their mind) and this is akin to something like psychosis or delusion. This is different from psychopaths who are aware of their lies but the motivation differs in that a psychopath does it for external gain (to obtain a goal) whereas narcissists do this for internal gains (so called narcissists supply - feeding the ego). One could speculate that a narcissistic autocrat and his followers (Trump and MAGAs) suffer from shared psychosis.
The real pity is as damaging as narcissistic personality disorder is, few get treatment because they’re just sane enough most of the time to not be institutionalized, even temporarily.
Vs borderlines who get there by virtue of suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, and self harm.
The real damage of using OCD, ADHD, and narcissist outside of truly diagnosable situations has no doubt been realized in the complete absence of recognition in the present political climate. So now we have a social movement based on one narcissist’s self constructed reality. Allegedly.
Narcissists don’t seek treatment as this would imply they’re imperfect, however destructive their lives are. On the other hand we don’t force treatment on people unless they are an immediate physical threat to someone or themselves. Another aspect, you alluded to, is culture. In the west, especially the US there is a reverence toward these types of behaviour that are in line of the traits seen with overt narcissists. Kind of a positive feedback loop wherein these types filter towards the top of whatever organisation. I believe Musk is narcissistic aswell, and I doubt he is truly autistic. (I think he is self diagnosed, and normally I refrain from gatekeeping, however, I believe he is self aware enough to figure something is different about him and he mistakenly attributed these aberrations in his personality for autism instead of narcissism - I might be wrong though.) Having these two characters in power does not bode well for our civilisation. It makes me nauseous to think that they themselves are unable to recognise the destruction they are bringing onto the world.
This explains so much Trump. Thank you.
I’ve been in two abusive relationships as an adult. Two years with a woman who I’m pretty sure had BPD. Five years with a man who hits all the markers for NPD. This tracks, based on my anecdotal experience.
“maximum fines and punishment”
Sure. Those are both 0, jackass.
He should just go ahead and have that stroke he’s been foreshadowing for years.
Science will later tell us he was having a 60-year-long stroke. Ironically, the “greatest” stroke of all time.
Trump needs to be removed from office and we should be out in the streets calling for nothing less
We were on the fifth & will be again on the nineteenth.
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