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.___

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    2 days ago

    Well, where are they, exactly?

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        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

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          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.

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                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”.

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                    Right? Safety, radiant warmth, no wind or rain, no effort to build, it’s ridiculous to say that people wouldn’t use caves.

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                That’s the common interpretation though. Not in science of course.

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      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.