They can, just equal time has to be afforded to their opponents. Do you know if their opponents have petitioned for said equal time?
what did you learn?schmendeler said:Teslag said:schmendeler said:1981 Monte Carlo said:schmendeler said:1981 Monte Carlo said:Teslag said:1981 Monte Carlo said:Teslag said:
And I don't care what we do with these illegals. Round them up, beat the **** out of them, and toss them back across either border. Shoot anyone that gets in ICE's way. Don't care. GTFO.
You should really watch the throwback CNN piece from the Obama era where they did a ride-along with ICE to pimp how togh Obama was on Illegal Immigration. On camera, ICE literally apprehends and temporarily detains a legal citizen who they has confused with another man they were after. CNN goaltends for them like their life depends on it.
Absolutely no one could ever convince me that they would not paint the exact same situation under a massively different light if it happened under Trump. I mean, they obviously wouldn't do the "pro ICE" piece to begin with.
I saw it. These people don't care about illegals any further than they throw one. It's purely about orange man bad. I'll say it right now, Obama kicked ass on illegals. Major props to him for it. I'm objective. I'm consistent. Illegals are trash. Treat them like the garbage they are. Obama did it. Trump is doing it. Props to both.
That is true, have to remind ourselves that with the left, it is ALL about THEIR FEELS. And what they can project outwardly, to fellow members of the tribe. It's like they are trying to fill some type of hollow void by signaling how "noble" and "caring" they are.
That is why they are so much less charitable with their own money or time than conservatives. It's all fake and for show...and maybe to give them temprary warmn fuzzies. Also why they are statistically much less happy and satisfied with their lives and more likely to be afflicted with at least one mental illness.
This is hilarious. Everything about the Trump movement is about emotion.
A lot of anger, directed at political opponents.
Even more fear, directed at immigrants, trans people, minorites
Nostalgia, for a time that never really existed
Also weirdly, lust. All the women in the Trump sphere have big fake tits, ****ed up faces, dyed hair
Jealousy, mostly at the highly educated, who don't fall for the Trump BS
Adoration, for billionaires, whom they all want to be
The more yall paint him to be some hyper-villain hybrid of Satan and Adolf Hitler, the more fervently people back him. How do some of you not understand this? I hated Trump in 2016, I wrote in an Aggie-vetern buddy of mine. I thought Trump would be too liberal, but mostly that he didn;t really care about this country, or improving it. Then I saw how the left completely lost their sh** the moment their girl lost. Like the next freakin day. And I knew we must have done something right if they were crying and holding "scream at the sky" rallies.
And it got me thinking, how could he be THAT bad. I just didn;t like his personality, but he's no monster. Then I quickly realized that he was just simply who he always was, and that the left was out of their mind, drunk with hatred and fear. He wan't very conservative imo, but Iliked some of the things he did, especially his SCOTUS nominees.
I don't have to like someone personally to back them. I want what's best for my country and my family. There is almost zero % chance Trump and I would get along if you forced us to hang out. I honestly can't stand most billionaires, unless, like Elon Musk, they actually use their position for good and help the needy (just his deployment of Starlink in suffering or war torn countries is amazing alone). But Trump has actually sacrificed. His net worth has taken a ding...his entire empire was his brand, and that will never be the same. He has had multiple coup attempts, was spied on, took a shot to the ear that should have blown his head off had he not turned his head...and half of the world thinks hes demon spawn and wants him dead.
THAT is why I back him. Because the alternative is a psychotic freak show...the world's largets hate group.
I still can't wait for president JD Vance though. Getting sick of some of Trump's antics. He is so self-sabotaging. Such a New York meathead at times.
Stop trying to paint us as racists. It's laughable. It's like you don't know a single republican.
I know republicans. It's that they don't know themselves. I knew he was going to be a disaster as soon as he claimed that judge was biased against him because he was Mexican in ancestry. I knew he was going to tear us apart. He's proven it out over and over again.
"But Trump has actually sacrificed. His net worth has taken a ding...his entire empire was his brand, and that will never be the same."
Another example of how i know you're in an information silo.
Trump's net worth has jumped significantly since he became president. He's worth approximately $3 billion more than he was before he became president. He's made $1.4 billion just since taking office last year.
How are you completely unable to do any self reflection? At what point do you think you realize it's liberals and their policies we loathe? And also not realize you and your side as equally divisive?
I understand. You're wrong. Either willfully or just out of ignorance. I've been on this site for a long time. I was once conservative. I learned, and grew. The left isn't perfect, but their ideas are better for more people.
M.C. Swag said:
Hell ya man, turn that brain off! Vote blindly to party and never have to engage those brain cells again!
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I still can't wait for president JD Vance though.
1981 Monte Carlo said:schmendeler said:Teslag said:schmendeler said:1981 Monte Carlo said:schmendeler said:1981 Monte Carlo said:Teslag said:1981 Monte Carlo said:Teslag said:
And I don't care what we do with these illegals. Round them up, beat the **** out of them, and toss them back across either border. Shoot anyone that gets in ICE's way. Don't care. GTFO.
You should really watch the throwback CNN piece from the Obama era where they did a ride-along with ICE to pimp how togh Obama was on Illegal Immigration. On camera, ICE literally apprehends and temporarily detains a legal citizen who they has confused with another man they were after. CNN goaltends for them like their life depends on it.
Absolutely no one could ever convince me that they would not paint the exact same situation under a massively different light if it happened under Trump. I mean, they obviously wouldn't do the "pro ICE" piece to begin with.
I saw it. These people don't care about illegals any further than they throw one. It's purely about orange man bad. I'll say it right now, Obama kicked ass on illegals. Major props to him for it. I'm objective. I'm consistent. Illegals are trash. Treat them like the garbage they are. Obama did it. Trump is doing it. Props to both.
That is true, have to remind ourselves that with the left, it is ALL about THEIR FEELS. And what they can project outwardly, to fellow members of the tribe. It's like they are trying to fill some type of hollow void by signaling how "noble" and "caring" they are.
That is why they are so much less charitable with their own money or time than conservatives. It's all fake and for show...and maybe to give them temprary warmn fuzzies. Also why they are statistically much less happy and satisfied with their lives and more likely to be afflicted with at least one mental illness.
This is hilarious. Everything about the Trump movement is about emotion.
A lot of anger, directed at political opponents.
Even more fear, directed at immigrants, trans people, minorites
Nostalgia, for a time that never really existed
Also weirdly, lust. All the women in the Trump sphere have big fake tits, ****ed up faces, dyed hair
Jealousy, mostly at the highly educated, who don't fall for the Trump BS
Adoration, for billionaires, whom they all want to be
The more yall paint him to be some hyper-villain hybrid of Satan and Adolf Hitler, the more fervently people back him. How do some of you not understand this? I hated Trump in 2016, I wrote in an Aggie-vetern buddy of mine. I thought Trump would be too liberal, but mostly that he didn;t really care about this country, or improving it. Then I saw how the left completely lost their sh** the moment their girl lost. Like the next freakin day. And I knew we must have done something right if they were crying and holding "scream at the sky" rallies.
And it got me thinking, how could he be THAT bad. I just didn;t like his personality, but he's no monster. Then I quickly realized that he was just simply who he always was, and that the left was out of their mind, drunk with hatred and fear. He wan't very conservative imo, but Iliked some of the things he did, especially his SCOTUS nominees.
I don't have to like someone personally to back them. I want what's best for my country and my family. There is almost zero % chance Trump and I would get along if you forced us to hang out. I honestly can't stand most billionaires, unless, like Elon Musk, they actually use their position for good and help the needy (just his deployment of Starlink in suffering or war torn countries is amazing alone). But Trump has actually sacrificed. His net worth has taken a ding...his entire empire was his brand, and that will never be the same. He has had multiple coup attempts, was spied on, took a shot to the ear that should have blown his head off had he not turned his head...and half of the world thinks hes demon spawn and wants him dead.
THAT is why I back him. Because the alternative is a psychotic freak show...the world's largets hate group.
I still can't wait for president JD Vance though. Getting sick of some of Trump's antics. He is so self-sabotaging. Such a New York meathead at times.
Stop trying to paint us as racists. It's laughable. It's like you don't know a single republican.
I know republicans. It's that they don't know themselves. I knew he was going to be a disaster as soon as he claimed that judge was biased against him because he was Mexican in ancestry. I knew he was going to tear us apart. He's proven it out over and over again.
"But Trump has actually sacrificed. His net worth has taken a ding...his entire empire was his brand, and that will never be the same."
Another example of how i know you're in an information silo.
Trump's net worth has jumped significantly since he became president. He's worth approximately $3 billion more than he was before he became president. He's made $1.4 billion just since taking office last year.
How are you completely unable to do any self reflection? At what point do you think you realize it's liberals and their policies we loathe? And also not realize you and your side as equally divisive?
I understand. You're wrong. Either willfully or just out of ignorance. I've been on this site for a long time. I was once conservative. I learned, and grew. The left isn't perfect, but their ideas are better for more people.
Hahaha I'm calling BS...you've been lefty for decades on here. You did not support Bush and would always go to bat for Obama during his first and second term. Only now you do seem more staunchly left, that is for sure. Almost every leftist, aside from the Tulsi's/Fetterman's/Maher's of the world, do. Yall don't even realize how far you've drifted because you're all drunk with hatred and fear.
One of the most accurate memes in existence:
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Another fav:
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So to summarize: Colbert helped a Democratic candidate he liked by faking a censorship scandal and then raising money through it
— Sunny (@sunnyright) February 19, 2026
Sapper Redux said:1981 Monte Carlo said:schmendeler said:Teslag said:schmendeler said:1981 Monte Carlo said:schmendeler said:1981 Monte Carlo said:Teslag said:1981 Monte Carlo said:Teslag said:
And I don't care what we do with these illegals. Round them up, beat the **** out of them, and toss them back across either border. Shoot anyone that gets in ICE's way. Don't care. GTFO.
You should really watch the throwback CNN piece from the Obama era where they did a ride-along with ICE to pimp how togh Obama was on Illegal Immigration. On camera, ICE literally apprehends and temporarily detains a legal citizen who they has confused with another man they were after. CNN goaltends for them like their life depends on it.
Absolutely no one could ever convince me that they would not paint the exact same situation under a massively different light if it happened under Trump. I mean, they obviously wouldn't do the "pro ICE" piece to begin with.
I saw it. These people don't care about illegals any further than they throw one. It's purely about orange man bad. I'll say it right now, Obama kicked ass on illegals. Major props to him for it. I'm objective. I'm consistent. Illegals are trash. Treat them like the garbage they are. Obama did it. Trump is doing it. Props to both.
That is true, have to remind ourselves that with the left, it is ALL about THEIR FEELS. And what they can project outwardly, to fellow members of the tribe. It's like they are trying to fill some type of hollow void by signaling how "noble" and "caring" they are.
That is why they are so much less charitable with their own money or time than conservatives. It's all fake and for show...and maybe to give them temprary warmn fuzzies. Also why they are statistically much less happy and satisfied with their lives and more likely to be afflicted with at least one mental illness.
This is hilarious. Everything about the Trump movement is about emotion.
A lot of anger, directed at political opponents.
Even more fear, directed at immigrants, trans people, minorites
Nostalgia, for a time that never really existed
Also weirdly, lust. All the women in the Trump sphere have big fake tits, ****ed up faces, dyed hair
Jealousy, mostly at the highly educated, who don't fall for the Trump BS
Adoration, for billionaires, whom they all want to be
The more yall paint him to be some hyper-villain hybrid of Satan and Adolf Hitler, the more fervently people back him. How do some of you not understand this? I hated Trump in 2016, I wrote in an Aggie-vetern buddy of mine. I thought Trump would be too liberal, but mostly that he didn;t really care about this country, or improving it. Then I saw how the left completely lost their sh** the moment their girl lost. Like the next freakin day. And I knew we must have done something right if they were crying and holding "scream at the sky" rallies.
And it got me thinking, how could he be THAT bad. I just didn;t like his personality, but he's no monster. Then I quickly realized that he was just simply who he always was, and that the left was out of their mind, drunk with hatred and fear. He wan't very conservative imo, but Iliked some of the things he did, especially his SCOTUS nominees.
I don't have to like someone personally to back them. I want what's best for my country and my family. There is almost zero % chance Trump and I would get along if you forced us to hang out. I honestly can't stand most billionaires, unless, like Elon Musk, they actually use their position for good and help the needy (just his deployment of Starlink in suffering or war torn countries is amazing alone). But Trump has actually sacrificed. His net worth has taken a ding...his entire empire was his brand, and that will never be the same. He has had multiple coup attempts, was spied on, took a shot to the ear that should have blown his head off had he not turned his head...and half of the world thinks hes demon spawn and wants him dead.
THAT is why I back him. Because the alternative is a psychotic freak show...the world's largets hate group.
I still can't wait for president JD Vance though. Getting sick of some of Trump's antics. He is so self-sabotaging. Such a New York meathead at times.
Stop trying to paint us as racists. It's laughable. It's like you don't know a single republican.
I know republicans. It's that they don't know themselves. I knew he was going to be a disaster as soon as he claimed that judge was biased against him because he was Mexican in ancestry. I knew he was going to tear us apart. He's proven it out over and over again.
"But Trump has actually sacrificed. His net worth has taken a ding...his entire empire was his brand, and that will never be the same."
Another example of how i know you're in an information silo.
Trump's net worth has jumped significantly since he became president. He's worth approximately $3 billion more than he was before he became president. He's made $1.4 billion just since taking office last year.
How are you completely unable to do any self reflection? At what point do you think you realize it's liberals and their policies we loathe? And also not realize you and your side as equally divisive?
I understand. You're wrong. Either willfully or just out of ignorance. I've been on this site for a long time. I was once conservative. I learned, and grew. The left isn't perfect, but their ideas are better for more people.
Hahaha I'm calling BS...you've been lefty for decades on here. You did not support Bush and would always go to bat for Obama during his first and second term. Only now you do seem more staunchly left, that is for sure. Almost every leftist, aside from the Tulsi's/Fetterman's/Maher's of the world, do. Yall don't even realize how far you've drifted because you're all drunk with hatred and fear.
One of the most accurate memes in existence:
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Another fav:
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Lol. What moral standards have Republicans abided by, particularly since Trump?
Sapper Redux said:
"Gave up" assumes there were ever any to begin with. Currently we're all losing as the guardrails for a representative government are torn down to placate the ego of a narcissist. But clearly you don't care as long as you think people like me are losing more.
1981 Monte Carlo said:schmendeler said:1981 Monte Carlo said:schmendeler said:1981 Monte Carlo said:Teslag said:1981 Monte Carlo said:Teslag said:
And I don't care what we do with these illegals. Round them up, beat the **** out of them, and toss them back across either border. Shoot anyone that gets in ICE's way. Don't care. GTFO.
You should really watch the throwback CNN piece from the Obama era where they did a ride-along with ICE to pimp how togh Obama was on Illegal Immigration. On camera, ICE literally apprehends and temporarily detains a legal citizen who they has confused with another man they were after. CNN goaltends for them like their life depends on it.
Absolutely no one could ever convince me that they would not paint the exact same situation under a massively different light if it happened under Trump. I mean, they obviously wouldn't do the "pro ICE" piece to begin with.
I saw it. These people don't care about illegals any further than they throw one. It's purely about orange man bad. I'll say it right now, Obama kicked ass on illegals. Major props to him for it. I'm objective. I'm consistent. Illegals are trash. Treat them like the garbage they are. Obama did it. Trump is doing it. Props to both.
That is true, have to remind ourselves that with the left, it is ALL about THEIR FEELS. And what they can project outwardly, to fellow members of the tribe. It's like they are trying to fill some type of hollow void by signaling how "noble" and "caring" they are.
That is why they are so much less charitable with their own money or time than conservatives. It's all fake and for show...and maybe to give them temprary warmn fuzzies. Also why they are statistically much less happy and satisfied with their lives and more likely to be afflicted with at least one mental illness.
This is hilarious. Everything about the Trump movement is about emotion.
A lot of anger, directed at political opponents.
Even more fear, directed at immigrants, trans people, minorites
Nostalgia, for a time that never really existed
Also weirdly, lust. All the women in the Trump sphere have big fake tits, ****ed up faces, dyed hair
Jealousy, mostly at the highly educated, who don't fall for the Trump BS
Adoration, for billionaires, whom they all want to be
The more yall paint him to be some hyper-villain hybrid of Satan and Adolf Hitler, the more fervently people back him. How do some of you not understand this? I hated Trump in 2016, I wrote in an Aggie-vetern buddy of mine. I thought Trump would be too liberal, but mostly that he didn;t really care about this country, or improving it. Then I saw how the left completely lost their sh** the moment their girl lost. Like the next freakin day. And I knew we must have done something right if they were crying and holding "scream at the sky" rallies.
And it got me thinking, how could he be THAT bad. I just didn;t like his personality, but he's no monster. Then I quickly realized that he was just simply who he always was, and that the left was out of their mind, drunk with hatred and fear. He wan't very conservative imo, but Iliked some of the things he did, especially his SCOTUS nominees.
I don't have to like someone personally to back them. I want what's best for my country and my family. There is almost zero % chance Trump and I would get along if you forced us to hang out. I honestly can't stand most billionaires, unless, like Elon Musk, they actually use their position for good and help the needy (just his deployment of Starlink in suffering or war torn countries is amazing alone). But Trump has actually sacrificed. His net worth has taken a ding...his entire empire was his brand, and that will never be the same. He has had multiple coup attempts, was spied on, took a shot to the ear that should have blown his head off had he not turned his head...and half of the world thinks hes demon spawn and wants him dead.
THAT is why I back him. Because the alternative is a psychotic freak show...the world's largets hate group.
I still can't wait for president JD Vance though. Getting sick of some of Trump's antics. He is so self-sabotaging. Such a New York meathead at times.
Stop trying to paint us as racists. It's laughable. It's like you don't know a single republican.
I know republicans. It's that they don't know themselves. I knew he was going to be a disaster as soon as he claimed that judge was biased against him because he was Mexican in ancestry. I knew he was going to tear us apart. He's proven it out over and over again.
"But Trump has actually sacrificed. His net worth has taken a ding...his entire empire was his brand, and that will never be the same."
Another example of how i know you're in an information silo.
Trump's net worth has jumped significantly since he became president. He's worth approximately $3 billion more than he was before he became president. He's made $1.4 billion just since taking office last year.
I honestly wasn't aware of that, because I am almost certain the data in his first term and into Biden administration showed that he had taken a legitimate hit on his traditional business lines (how could you not when half the country hates you?). Looks like I wasn't in the loop on how much Truth Social parent co and other ventures have earned him (at least on paper) in recent yrs. Good for him.
I would be shocked if his traditional businesses have grown though. But the other points remain, he has become a villain, when America always viewed him as an icon in a largely positive light (your ladies on The View LOVED him, til he beat their gal). Now half of the country...the world...wants him dead or rotting in jail.
He also literally took a bullet that should have taken his head off. And still kept going. Sacrifice.
johnnyblaze36 said:1981 Monte Carlo said:schmendeler said:1981 Monte Carlo said:schmendeler said:1981 Monte Carlo said:Teslag said:1981 Monte Carlo said:Teslag said:
And I don't care what we do with these illegals. Round them up, beat the **** out of them, and toss them back across either border. Shoot anyone that gets in ICE's way. Don't care. GTFO.
You should really watch the throwback CNN piece from the Obama era where they did a ride-along with ICE to pimp how togh Obama was on Illegal Immigration. On camera, ICE literally apprehends and temporarily detains a legal citizen who they has confused with another man they were after. CNN goaltends for them like their life depends on it.
Absolutely no one could ever convince me that they would not paint the exact same situation under a massively different light if it happened under Trump. I mean, they obviously wouldn't do the "pro ICE" piece to begin with.
I saw it. These people don't care about illegals any further than they throw one. It's purely about orange man bad. I'll say it right now, Obama kicked ass on illegals. Major props to him for it. I'm objective. I'm consistent. Illegals are trash. Treat them like the garbage they are. Obama did it. Trump is doing it. Props to both.
That is true, have to remind ourselves that with the left, it is ALL about THEIR FEELS. And what they can project outwardly, to fellow members of the tribe. It's like they are trying to fill some type of hollow void by signaling how "noble" and "caring" they are.
That is why they are so much less charitable with their own money or time than conservatives. It's all fake and for show...and maybe to give them temprary warmn fuzzies. Also why they are statistically much less happy and satisfied with their lives and more likely to be afflicted with at least one mental illness.
This is hilarious. Everything about the Trump movement is about emotion.
A lot of anger, directed at political opponents.
Even more fear, directed at immigrants, trans people, minorites
Nostalgia, for a time that never really existed
Also weirdly, lust. All the women in the Trump sphere have big fake tits, ****ed up faces, dyed hair
Jealousy, mostly at the highly educated, who don't fall for the Trump BS
Adoration, for billionaires, whom they all want to be
The more yall paint him to be some hyper-villain hybrid of Satan and Adolf Hitler, the more fervently people back him. How do some of you not understand this? I hated Trump in 2016, I wrote in an Aggie-vetern buddy of mine. I thought Trump would be too liberal, but mostly that he didn;t really care about this country, or improving it. Then I saw how the left completely lost their sh** the moment their girl lost. Like the next freakin day. And I knew we must have done something right if they were crying and holding "scream at the sky" rallies.
And it got me thinking, how could he be THAT bad. I just didn;t like his personality, but he's no monster. Then I quickly realized that he was just simply who he always was, and that the left was out of their mind, drunk with hatred and fear. He wan't very conservative imo, but Iliked some of the things he did, especially his SCOTUS nominees.
I don't have to like someone personally to back them. I want what's best for my country and my family. There is almost zero % chance Trump and I would get along if you forced us to hang out. I honestly can't stand most billionaires, unless, like Elon Musk, they actually use their position for good and help the needy (just his deployment of Starlink in suffering or war torn countries is amazing alone). But Trump has actually sacrificed. His net worth has taken a ding...his entire empire was his brand, and that will never be the same. He has had multiple coup attempts, was spied on, took a shot to the ear that should have blown his head off had he not turned his head...and half of the world thinks hes demon spawn and wants him dead.
THAT is why I back him. Because the alternative is a psychotic freak show...the world's largets hate group.
I still can't wait for president JD Vance though. Getting sick of some of Trump's antics. He is so self-sabotaging. Such a New York meathead at times.
Stop trying to paint us as racists. It's laughable. It's like you don't know a single republican.
I know republicans. It's that they don't know themselves. I knew he was going to be a disaster as soon as he claimed that judge was biased against him because he was Mexican in ancestry. I knew he was going to tear us apart. He's proven it out over and over again.
"But Trump has actually sacrificed. His net worth has taken a ding...his entire empire was his brand, and that will never be the same."
Another example of how i know you're in an information silo.
Trump's net worth has jumped significantly since he became president. He's worth approximately $3 billion more than he was before he became president. He's made $1.4 billion just since taking office last year.
I honestly wasn't aware of that, because I am almost certain the data in his first term and into Biden administration showed that he had taken a legitimate hit on his traditional business lines (how could you not when half the country hates you?). Looks like I wasn't in the loop on how much Truth Social parent co and other ventures have earned him (at least on paper) in recent yrs. Good for him.
I would be shocked if his traditional businesses have grown though. But the other points remain, he has become a villain, when America always viewed him as an icon in a largely positive light (your ladies on The View LOVED him, til he beat their gal). Now half of the country...the world...wants him dead or rotting in jail.
He also literally took a bullet that should have taken his head off. And still kept going. Sacrifice.
Trump's net worth declined by 600 million dollars after his first Presidency. Lunatic pink ***** wearing hat losers had Ivanka's clothing line removed from mass retailers and they did the same with Trump's line.
The amnesia these long covid folks took to the brain after eight boosters is quite remarkable.
hph6203 said:
Summary: Stephen Colbert could have aired the interview, but would have had to have platformed the rival candidates in equal time in adherence with regulation.
Stephen Colbert lied about that fact to generate controversy to draw attention to his interview.
He posted the interview on YouTube, which he was always going to do and always had the option to do (aka not silenced). Interview gets way more attention and viewership than it ever would have gotten on an OTA broadcast.
People freak out, talk about censorship, say it's an attack on American ideals.
Commentary: People freaked out for no reason, and most people didn't ask the very basic and obvious question of "Why does the FCC have the power to regulate this?" Answer: They were given the broadcast spectrum for free while your cellular provider had to buy theirs.
Follow up question: Is Stephen Colberts show or television broadcasts in general really the best use for this spectrum?
Obvious answer: Absolutely not.
Universal response from people should've been a call to prevent Stephen Colbert from broadcasting any of his interviews OTA, but we don't live in a fully attentive society. Sell or repurpose the spectrum.
hannity is a doofus so yes.Sapper Redux said:hph6203 said:
Summary: Stephen Colbert could have aired the interview, but would have had to have platformed the rival candidates in equal time in adherence with regulation.
Stephen Colbert lied about that fact to generate controversy to draw attention to his interview.
He posted the interview on YouTube, which he was always going to do and always had the option to do (aka not silenced). Interview gets way more attention and viewership than it ever would have gotten on an OTA broadcast.
People freak out, talk about censorship, say it's an attack on American ideals.
Commentary: People freaked out for no reason, and most people didn't ask the very basic and obvious question of "Why does the FCC have the power to regulate this?" Answer: They were given the broadcast spectrum for free while your cellular provider had to buy theirs.
Follow up question: Is Stephen Colberts show or television broadcasts in general really the best use for this spectrum?
Obvious answer: Absolutely not.
Universal response from people should've been a call to prevent Stephen Colbert from broadcasting any of his interviews OTA, but we don't live in a fully attentive society. Sell or repurpose the spectrum.
Should the FCC provide equal regulation of Sean Hannity?
Sapper Redux said:hph6203 said:
Summary: Stephen Colbert could have aired the interview, but would have had to have platformed the rival candidates in equal time in adherence with regulation.
Stephen Colbert lied about that fact to generate controversy to draw attention to his interview.
He posted the interview on YouTube, which he was always going to do and always had the option to do (aka not silenced). Interview gets way more attention and viewership than it ever would have gotten on an OTA broadcast.
People freak out, talk about censorship, say it's an attack on American ideals.
Commentary: People freaked out for no reason, and most people didn't ask the very basic and obvious question of "Why does the FCC have the power to regulate this?" Answer: They were given the broadcast spectrum for free while your cellular provider had to buy theirs.
Follow up question: Is Stephen Colberts show or television broadcasts in general really the best use for this spectrum?
Obvious answer: Absolutely not.
Universal response from people should've been a call to prevent Stephen Colbert from broadcasting any of his interviews OTA, but we don't live in a fully attentive society. Sell or repurpose the spectrum.
Should the FCC provide equal regulation of Sean Hannity?
Sapper Redux said:
I can't tell if you're being deliberately obtuse or not. I'm referring to his talk radio show.
Sapper Redux said:1981 Monte Carlo said:schmendeler said:Teslag said:schmendeler said:1981 Monte Carlo said:schmendeler said:1981 Monte Carlo said:Teslag said:1981 Monte Carlo said:Teslag said:
And I don't care what we do with these illegals. Round them up, beat the **** out of them, and toss them back across either border. Shoot anyone that gets in ICE's way. Don't care. GTFO.
You should really watch the throwback CNN piece from the Obama era where they did a ride-along with ICE to pimp how togh Obama was on Illegal Immigration. On camera, ICE literally apprehends and temporarily detains a legal citizen who they has confused with another man they were after. CNN goaltends for them like their life depends on it.
Absolutely no one could ever convince me that they would not paint the exact same situation under a massively different light if it happened under Trump. I mean, they obviously wouldn't do the "pro ICE" piece to begin with.
I saw it. These people don't care about illegals any further than they throw one. It's purely about orange man bad. I'll say it right now, Obama kicked ass on illegals. Major props to him for it. I'm objective. I'm consistent. Illegals are trash. Treat them like the garbage they are. Obama did it. Trump is doing it. Props to both.
That is true, have to remind ourselves that with the left, it is ALL about THEIR FEELS. And what they can project outwardly, to fellow members of the tribe. It's like they are trying to fill some type of hollow void by signaling how "noble" and "caring" they are.
That is why they are so much less charitable with their own money or time than conservatives. It's all fake and for show...and maybe to give them temprary warmn fuzzies. Also why they are statistically much less happy and satisfied with their lives and more likely to be afflicted with at least one mental illness.
This is hilarious. Everything about the Trump movement is about emotion.
A lot of anger, directed at political opponents.
Even more fear, directed at immigrants, trans people, minorites
Nostalgia, for a time that never really existed
Also weirdly, lust. All the women in the Trump sphere have big fake tits, ****ed up faces, dyed hair
Jealousy, mostly at the highly educated, who don't fall for the Trump BS
Adoration, for billionaires, whom they all want to be
The more yall paint him to be some hyper-villain hybrid of Satan and Adolf Hitler, the more fervently people back him. How do some of you not understand this? I hated Trump in 2016, I wrote in an Aggie-vetern buddy of mine. I thought Trump would be too liberal, but mostly that he didn;t really care about this country, or improving it. Then I saw how the left completely lost their sh** the moment their girl lost. Like the next freakin day. And I knew we must have done something right if they were crying and holding "scream at the sky" rallies.
And it got me thinking, how could he be THAT bad. I just didn;t like his personality, but he's no monster. Then I quickly realized that he was just simply who he always was, and that the left was out of their mind, drunk with hatred and fear. He wan't very conservative imo, but Iliked some of the things he did, especially his SCOTUS nominees.
I don't have to like someone personally to back them. I want what's best for my country and my family. There is almost zero % chance Trump and I would get along if you forced us to hang out. I honestly can't stand most billionaires, unless, like Elon Musk, they actually use their position for good and help the needy (just his deployment of Starlink in suffering or war torn countries is amazing alone). But Trump has actually sacrificed. His net worth has taken a ding...his entire empire was his brand, and that will never be the same. He has had multiple coup attempts, was spied on, took a shot to the ear that should have blown his head off had he not turned his head...and half of the world thinks hes demon spawn and wants him dead.
THAT is why I back him. Because the alternative is a psychotic freak show...the world's largets hate group.
I still can't wait for president JD Vance though. Getting sick of some of Trump's antics. He is so self-sabotaging. Such a New York meathead at times.
Stop trying to paint us as racists. It's laughable. It's like you don't know a single republican.
I know republicans. It's that they don't know themselves. I knew he was going to be a disaster as soon as he claimed that judge was biased against him because he was Mexican in ancestry. I knew he was going to tear us apart. He's proven it out over and over again.
"But Trump has actually sacrificed. His net worth has taken a ding...his entire empire was his brand, and that will never be the same."
Another example of how i know you're in an information silo.
Trump's net worth has jumped significantly since he became president. He's worth approximately $3 billion more than he was before he became president. He's made $1.4 billion just since taking office last year.
How are you completely unable to do any self reflection? At what point do you think you realize it's liberals and their policies we loathe? And also not realize you and your side as equally divisive?
I understand. You're wrong. Either willfully or just out of ignorance. I've been on this site for a long time. I was once conservative. I learned, and grew. The left isn't perfect, but their ideas are better for more people.
Hahaha I'm calling BS...you've been lefty for decades on here. You did not support Bush and would always go to bat for Obama during his first and second term. Only now you do seem more staunchly left, that is for sure. Almost every leftist, aside from the Tulsi's/Fetterman's/Maher's of the world, do. Yall don't even realize how far you've drifted because you're all drunk with hatred and fear.
One of the most accurate memes in existence:
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Another fav:
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Lol. What moral standards have Republicans abided by, particularly since Trump?
1981 Monte Carlo said:schmendeler said:1981 Monte Carlo said:schmendeler said:1981 Monte Carlo said:Teslag said:1981 Monte Carlo said:Teslag said:
And I don't care what we do with these illegals. Round them up, beat the **** out of them, and toss them back across either border. Shoot anyone that gets in ICE's way. Don't care. GTFO.
You should really watch the throwback CNN piece from the Obama era where they did a ride-along with ICE to pimp how togh Obama was on Illegal Immigration. On camera, ICE literally apprehends and temporarily detains a legal citizen who they has confused with another man they were after. CNN goaltends for them like their life depends on it.
Absolutely no one could ever convince me that they would not paint the exact same situation under a massively different light if it happened under Trump. I mean, they obviously wouldn't do the "pro ICE" piece to begin with.
I saw it. These people don't care about illegals any further than they throw one. It's purely about orange man bad. I'll say it right now, Obama kicked ass on illegals. Major props to him for it. I'm objective. I'm consistent. Illegals are trash. Treat them like the garbage they are. Obama did it. Trump is doing it. Props to both.
That is true, have to remind ourselves that with the left, it is ALL about THEIR FEELS. And what they can project outwardly, to fellow members of the tribe. It's like they are trying to fill some type of hollow void by signaling how "noble" and "caring" they are.
That is why they are so much less charitable with their own money or time than conservatives. It's all fake and for show...and maybe to give them temprary warmn fuzzies. Also why they are statistically much less happy and satisfied with their lives and more likely to be afflicted with at least one mental illness.
This is hilarious. Everything about the Trump movement is about emotion.
A lot of anger, directed at political opponents.
Even more fear, directed at immigrants, trans people, minorites
Nostalgia, for a time that never really existed
Also weirdly, lust. All the women in the Trump sphere have big fake tits, ****ed up faces, dyed hair
Jealousy, mostly at the highly educated, who don't fall for the Trump BS
Adoration, for billionaires, whom they all want to be
The more yall paint him to be some hyper-villain hybrid of Satan and Adolf Hitler, the more fervently people back him. How do some of you not understand this? I hated Trump in 2016, I wrote in an Aggie-vetern buddy of mine. I thought Trump would be too liberal, but mostly that he didn;t really care about this country, or improving it. Then I saw how the left completely lost their sh** the moment their girl lost. Like the next freakin day. And I knew we must have done something right if they were crying and holding "scream at the sky" rallies.
And it got me thinking, how could he be THAT bad. I just didn;t like his personality, but he's no monster. Then I quickly realized that he was just simply who he always was, and that the left was out of their mind, drunk with hatred and fear. He wan't very conservative imo, but Iliked some of the things he did, especially his SCOTUS nominees.
I don't have to like someone personally to back them. I want what's best for my country and my family. There is almost zero % chance Trump and I would get along if you forced us to hang out. I honestly can't stand most billionaires, unless, like Elon Musk, they actually use their position for good and help the needy (just his deployment of Starlink in suffering or war torn countries is amazing alone). But Trump has actually sacrificed. His net worth has taken a ding...his entire empire was his brand, and that will never be the same. He has had multiple coup attempts, was spied on, took a shot to the ear that should have blown his head off had he not turned his head...and half of the world thinks hes demon spawn and wants him dead.
THAT is why I back him. Because the alternative is a psychotic freak show...the world's largets hate group.
I still can't wait for president JD Vance though. Getting sick of some of Trump's antics. He is so self-sabotaging. Such a New York meathead at times.
Stop trying to paint us as racists. It's laughable. It's like you don't know a single republican.
I know republicans. It's that they don't know themselves. I knew he was going to be a disaster as soon as he claimed that judge was biased against him because he was Mexican in ancestry. I knew he was going to tear us apart. He's proven it out over and over again.
"But Trump has actually sacrificed. His net worth has taken a ding...his entire empire was his brand, and that will never be the same."
Another example of how i know you're in an information silo.
Trump's net worth has jumped significantly since he became president. He's worth approximately $3 billion more than he was before he became president. He's made $1.4 billion just since taking office last year.
I honestly wasn't aware of that, because I am almost certain the data in his first term and into Biden administration showed that he had taken a legitimate hit on his traditional business lines (how could you not when half the country hates you?). Looks like I wasn't in the loop on how much Truth Social parent co and other ventures have earned him (at least on paper) in recent yrs. Good for him.
I would be shocked if his traditional businesses have grown though. But the other points remain, he has become a villain, when America always viewed him as an icon in a largely positive light (your ladies on The View LOVED him, til he beat their gal). Now half of the country...the world...wants him dead or rotting in jail.
He also literally took a bullet that should have taken his head off. And still kept going. Sacrifice.
cajunaggie08 said:
I'll agree he was shot at. I'm not convinced a bullet grazed him.
CharleyKerfeld said:cajunaggie08 said:
I'll agree he was shot at. I'm not convinced a bullet grazed him.
Do you think he was carrying about fake packets of blood like an old-school wrestler to make it looked like he got shot?
cajunaggie08 said:
I'll agree he was shot at. I'm not convinced a bullet grazed him.
cajunaggie08 said:
I'll agree he was shot at. I'm not convinced a bullet grazed him.
Lathspell said:cajunaggie08 said:
I'll agree he was shot at. I'm not convinced a bullet grazed him.
Lol... are you one of those who thinks there was a magical marksman who can graze an ear with a bullet, at over 100 yards?
Your kind is my favorite kind of crazy to laugh at.
CharleyKerfeld said:cajunaggie08 said:
I'll agree he was shot at. I'm not convinced a bullet grazed him.
Do you think he was carrying about fake packets of blood like an old-school wrestler to make it looked like he got shot?
cajunaggie08 said:Lathspell said:cajunaggie08 said:
I'll agree he was shot at. I'm not convinced a bullet grazed him.
Lol... are you one of those who thinks there was a magical marksman who can graze an ear with a bullet, at over 100 yards?
Your kind is my favorite kind of crazy to laugh at.
I said i don't think the bullet grazed him. I think his ear got banged up by a secret service member when tackling him.
Quote:
"What struck former President Trump in the ear was a bullet, whether whole or fragmented into smaller pieces, fired from the deceased subject's rifle," the FBI said in a statement.
Teslag said:cajunaggie08 said:Lathspell said:cajunaggie08 said:
I'll agree he was shot at. I'm not convinced a bullet grazed him.
Lol... are you one of those who thinks there was a magical marksman who can graze an ear with a bullet, at over 100 yards?
Your kind is my favorite kind of crazy to laugh at.
I said i don't think the bullet grazed him. I think his ear got banged up by a secret service member when tackling him.
Except that the Biden Administrations' FBI confirmed it was a bullet....
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/fbi-confirms-bullet-struck-trumps-ear-assassination-attempt-rcna163896Quote:
"What struck former President Trump in the ear was a bullet, whether whole or fragmented into smaller pieces, fired from the deceased subject's rifle," the FBI said in a statement.