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Just reported by NBC:
When Twilight Zone reality is actual reality...
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)radical noodle
(8,000 posts)For legal purposes that may be true, but for the people who believe trump 24/7, it was absolutely necessary whether they believe it now or not. At least they've taken this stand. For once.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)call Congress an fake news and the enemy of the people and the opposition still?
The walls are closing in...although not mentioning Shitler by name is probably what it took for the cowardly Republicans to sign on.
Journalists are not at war with anything, p.s. Fox has no journalists, they are just doing their jobs!
erronis
(15,286 posts)For those that don't understand the irony in this you probably don't belong in an intellectual conversation.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)YessirAtsaFact
(2,064 posts)Regarding journalists at Faux.
I think he qualifies as a journalist.
Fox is mostly right wing opinion, but not 100%
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)brain dead audience would tolerate.
Agreed?
sandensea
(21,636 posts)Their zombies, as you know, have been howling for his head for years - usually peppered with every kind of homophobic epithet you can imagine.
He's a brave guy. And when the next generation looks back at this dark period, I think history will treat him kindly.
rpannier
(24,329 posts)He only looks like one because of what he is surrounded
He is upset that il douche is going after his profession
He happily ran and pushed the anti-Acorn pieces that faux spews went with. He was also an Ailes apologist
eleny
(46,166 posts)The need for affirmation which pushes back against the assertions of a U.S. President is definitely surreal.
The Conductor
(180 posts)Yes... But El Trumpo doesn't know the Constitution and doesn't give a crap what it says. He does care when someone spanks him in public, as the Senate did today.
liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)Especially considering we are in the midst of a soft Trump/GOP coup. I'm glad they had this vote.
Midnight Writer
(21,768 posts)our Legislature won't support it.
joet67
(624 posts)More like Privileges for those People who can afford to buy them (those 'People' would be Mitt Romneys Corporate People by the way--the rest of us are just dirty consumer-pesants).
Ms. Toad
(34,074 posts)I'm surprised they managed to pass it with unanimous consent.
ScratchCat
(1,990 posts)I mean, this is the first time the US Senate has condemned a comment from Trump. I think some GOPers see the writing on the wall.
berni_mccoy
(23,018 posts)First time was 98-0 against letting Putin interrogate any American:
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=115&session=2&vote=00162
calimary
(81,297 posts)Frankly, this is mere mealy-mouth stuff. If they REALLY wanted to assert any kind of defiance, they'd put the Kavanaugh stuff on hold til the Mueller probe is completed. It's kinda hard accepting - or even considering - a Supreme Court nominee from a completely ILLEGITIMATE "pResident."
He CHEATED TO WIN.
And what's worse, he cheated with the help of a HOSTILE FOREIGN POWER.
What's worst of all - he cheated with the help of a hostile foreign power WHOSE HELP HE AND/OR HIS CAMPAIGN ACTIVELY AND WILLLINGLY SOLICITED, AND ACCEPTED.
Sophia4
(3,515 posts)(CNN)The Senate took a bipartisan swipe at President Donald Trump on Tuesday when it overwhelmingly approved a motion of support for NATO.
The 97-2 vote reflects the broad concerns on Capitol Hill over Trump's seeming ambivalence about the alliance and his commitment to it.
The vote came the same day Trump arrived in Brussels, Belgium, for a summit of NATO nations and shortly before he heads to Helsinki, Finland, for a one-on-one session with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Before he landed in Brussels, Trump tweeted some of his concerns about NATO:
"Many countries in NATO, which we are expected to defend, are not only short of their current commitment of 2% (which is low), but are also delinquent for many years in payments that have not been made. Will they reimburse the U.S.?"
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/10/politics/senate-nato-vote-trump/index.html
Sneederbunk
(14,291 posts)watoos
(7,142 posts)spanone
(135,841 posts)Turbineguy
(37,337 posts)Breaking: Trump reads part of the U.S. Constitution!
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)Freedom of the press
The very constitution he swore on oath to uphold.
So when his supporters, those veterans and those soldiers boo the media.....they are booing the constitution
Buns_of_Fire
(17,180 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Martin Eden
(12,869 posts)But the Rethugs in congress continue to aid and abet the POtuS who continues to attack the institution of the free press.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,492 posts)by which they swear they will obey their oath of office or else resign........
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)calimary
(81,297 posts)Nobody had to stand up and say so in the open. Cowards. I guess it's kinda hard to show backbone when you don't have one in the first place.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)It's the middle of the August recess. If there were even five Senators in the room, I'd be surprised.
calimary
(81,297 posts)Nitram
(22,803 posts)just called the press "an enemy of the people."
kimbutgar
(21,155 posts)Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)But they still do nothing to reign in the traitor. Talk is cheap.
rurallib
(62,416 posts)they are on record being in favor of the press. They have done their part. Please do not expect any more.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)SunSeeker
(51,559 posts)Flo Mingo
(492 posts)More puffery. But I have to ask, are we all out of thoughts and prayers?
Javaman
(62,530 posts)the orange asshole agrees then promptly bans the press from all press conferences with the exception of fox news.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)against a policy in place...forever.
Fox and some corporate RW media are the friends, all else are the enemy...that is now the obvious plan. Can state media have enough influence on enough folk to reach a fascist tipping point?
The fourth estate, not state media, stands in the way.
Warren_Pointe
(328 posts)Tax payer time and money spent to disavow the nut in the white house? That's what's important?! That's what needs to be addressed?!
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)malthaussen
(17,200 posts)However, given that this Senate won't even pass a resolution against domestic abuse, significant in a way.
-- Mal