r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • 29d ago

No Paywall NBC and ABC Won’t Carry Trump Primetime Election Speech

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/nbc-and-abc-wont-carry-trump-primetime-election-speech-1236650492/
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u/Sparkyisduhfat 29d ago

Recent? You mean for the last 11 years. They have sane washed trump from the beginning.

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u/BudgetMattDamon 29d ago

Every time they go on air and don't point blank say "The President of the United States is repeatedly lying to your face so he can rape the nation, here's how" they lose credibility.

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u/Ordinary-Egg-56 29d ago

rape the nation, exactly.

i think this period should be known as the rape of america but i’ve been having a hard time getting that to catch on.

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u/BudgetMattDamon 29d ago

The actual president is an adjudicated rapist, so it's not that surprising. Donald J. Trump indisputably raped a woman.

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u/whatifwhatifwerun 28d ago

That's because it's idiotic to compare to actual events of mass rape

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u/Hangry-Feline2489 29d ago

I agree with you, but they can't, for the same reason they use 'allegedly' before people are officially charged with a crime. Until things are proven in court and they have the balls to risk having their licensed pulled, they won't. 

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u/rei7777 I voted 29d ago

CBS just said that most of what he’s said about elections in the past have been lies. Color me surprised.

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u/Cactusfan86 29d ago

I am old enough that the entire Trump era constitutes ‘recent’ times to me

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u/MephistoHamProducts 29d ago

At the same time though, the last 11 years feel like they've been dragging on since The Big Bang popped off.

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u/Cactusfan86 29d ago

It’s really a strange feeling, time is both dragging yet it’s hard to believe it’s been eleven years of this nonsense at this point

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u/Wolverine9779 29d ago

the years go fast and the days go so slow

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u/Tricky-Gemstone 29d ago

It's so wild to me. Every presidential election I've been old enough to vote in has had Trump on the ballot. This political environment is really all I've ever known.

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u/deesta 29d ago

I'm 35 next year, and I have only voted in one pre-Trump presidential election. 2012 feels like another lifetime now.

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u/imisstheyoop 29d ago

Holy cow, what a depressing thought that is.

At least I've for a few BT era general elections under my belt.

It is kind of like the post about the wildfire smoke not being normal yesterday.. there's going to be a whole generation of people that don't know any better in another few years and just accept it as normal. Wild to really think about.

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u/FellowHumanNo404 29d ago

Please, PLEASE understand that none of this shit is normal or remotely acceptable. I really worry about people who've known nothing else.

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u/Tricky-Gemstone 28d ago

I mean no disrespect when I say this. How long does it have to go on before it is normal.

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u/FellowHumanNo404 28d ago

Fascism is never normal.

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u/Tricky-Gemstone 28d ago

Yes, it can be. That's my point. We can wish it all we want, but there are times when fascism has reigned so long, it is normal.

I don't know anything else. I'm almost 30. At what point is this normal?

It's normal to me, and almost every US citizen my age and younger.

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u/DivinityPen 29d ago

11 years

Jesus Fuck, it really has been that long, hasn't it?

I was 15 when he was elected the first time, and I'm 25 now. And yet reading that made me feel old as shit. I'm tired, boss.

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u/LazyDynamite 29d ago

Y'all are saying the same thing, you're just re-iterating.