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Jim Wills's avatar

I used to ski a lot, and the best instruction I ever got was from a gen-u-wine Austrian about 50 years old: "Never let the ski make any decisions; push it, turn it, bend it, but always be making it do SOMETHING; never give it its head."

That's how I see Trump and the Lamestream press. He understands that the way you have power is by Exercising Power. Push the press; turn it; bend it; never let it forget for a minute that you are the daddy and you have a switch in your hand. Leave thin red stripes across their adolescent arses every chance you get. Remind them that their access - and their jobs - depend upon reporting accurately and fairly.

Bravo! Couldn't happen to nicer or more deserving people.

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Irunthis1's avatar

Best. Comment. Ever. Or close to anyway with regards to “the press”. 😂

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Doug's avatar

DJT had four years to think about that, and when the time came.....BOOM!!!

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geraldsd's avatar

So true!

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Steve (recovering lawyer)'s avatar

"Journalists." No matter how much you hate them, it's not enough.

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Dutchmn007's avatar

“Journolists” is the more apt form; remember the back door association swinging for the Obama team?

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Stephen Wolf's avatar

Left wing Journalist to be exact but not all.

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Rfhirsch's avatar

Yes, a journalist with one wing.

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Phil Hawkins's avatar

I wrote about this on my own Substack yesterday. https://autisticredneckphilhawkins.substack.com/p/another-change

And my response to all those reporters demanding to know who elected Elon Musk is, Who elected the White House Correspondents Association? The traditional media has mostly been in decline for years. They are out of touch with the American people, and they are out of touch with the Real World that the rest of us live in. At least Karoline Leavitt was appointed by someone we elected. The AP wasn't.

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geraldsd's avatar

They aren’t out of touch. They are the elite’s hired hands. Hired to wrangle the herd…

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Jeremy R's avatar

Paid to be pawns, think of them like the bouncers in "Roadhouse" directed into the fight by Dalton against Jimmy Reno, except they are on the bad team.

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joated's avatar

No one elected ANY of the cabinet members. We elected the President and Vice President to make decisions and that's it. They decide who gets to sit in that room.

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CosmicPatriot's avatar

The Gulf of Mexico already sounds weird to me and I’m inclined to automatically correct anyone who calls it that strange name. It’s the Gulf of America you dumbass!

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Steve Boggs's avatar

You can’t sing Johnny Horton’s Battle of New Orleans without it:

We fired our guns and the British kept acom'in

There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago

We fired once more and they began to runnin'

On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

Of course it doesn’t have ontological status (while else endure getting a Philosophy degree if you can’t show-off) any more than a statue of Robert E(frikkin) Lee.

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Shrugged's avatar

We can change the last line to 'On down the Mississippi to the land of Mexico.

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Shoveltusker's avatar

But the Mississippi River doesn't lead to the land of Mexico, not without quite a bit of paddling.

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Shrugged's avatar

Yes. The inference is that they just keep going.

Or how about this: 'On down the Mississippi through the Gulf to Mexico'.

Fixed it.

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Jeremy R's avatar

Down the Mississippi to the gulf of 'merica.

Or gulf a merica.

We've updated many songs, nearly every church has modernized their hymns and Psalms. We'll get this.

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CosmicPatriot's avatar

Oh no, I can't remember the last time I sang that. Wait...I can't remember the first time either.

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Jim Wills's avatar

Take a few minutes to look up the song's author, Jimmy Driftwood. Quite a character.

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Steve Boggs's avatar

Will do. Thx

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Steve Boggs's avatar

You could sing it ‘Gulf of ‘Murica’, but it wouldn’t rhyme either ‘ago’.

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Darren's avatar

"Trump would lock the door behind them faster than Lindsay Graham calling for a war."

What's impressing me so much about Trump 2 is how he deprives his opponents of any leverage.

Media boycott? Good.

Europe standing up to Trump by...increasing its defense spending? Good.

Democrats protest DOGE by shutting down the government? Good.

No wonder they're tearing their hair out; they've literally got nothing.

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William Coulter's avatar

Why does AP or any “news organization “ get a penny of taxpayer money?

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Jeremy R's avatar

They should be called to account for this. When grants are given there are specific parameters for the money to be spent. Diversion of those funds can result in jail time, and the recipient can be ordered to repay the money.

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Rfhirsch's avatar

News organizations get taxpayer money for advertisements of government meetings and actions that must be advertised by law.

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PM's avatar

🤢 You turn my thoughts into an eloquently worded article. No wonder I worship you. Tell all the world these things. But if you reflect. you feel badly because they have ruined the reputation of good newspaper men. The five 'W's (no, not him) have been abandoned. Afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted. They've been abandoned. Clark Kent has been abandoned. Rush Limbaugh is dead. But you, Sir, you carry on that fine tradition. I have a phrase that's lost all its meaning. We report, you decide. Not we decide. Then we report. Stay frosty😊

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geraldsd's avatar

It hurts so badly that Rush is not here watching. RIP Rush Limbaugh…

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N.Wallace's avatar

The question that keeps floating around: "What do you think Rush would say about all of this?"

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geraldsd's avatar

I think he would say that the house of cards would come tumbling down someday. Moses was not allowed to go into Canaan. Rush wasn’t allowed to see.

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Marlan Hoerer's avatar

You know Rush is smiling from on high.

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Jeremy R's avatar

Rush is too busy worshiping the creator to even think about us who will soon join him in the presence of Jehovah, Yahweh.

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geraldsd's avatar

❤️

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geraldsd's avatar

Amen Brother!

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PM's avatar

🎵 Well, let me tell you that it hurts so bad. It makes me feel so bad (hurts so bad) that He passed away..🙏🏽

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N.Wallace's avatar

Excellent. Not bad yourself, PM.

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PM's avatar

😒❤️

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PM's avatar

ICYMI, this is Hugh.: BREAKING: Supreme Court STOPS Biden Judge’s Midnight Deadline, Halts Order Forcing Admin to Pay $2 Billion in Foreign Contracts. A billion saved here. A billion saved there. Pretty soon it adds up to real money.

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Shrugged's avatar

The AP is a non-profit living off taxpayer money operating like an NGO. We don't know what they do with our money, but we can judge from the results that they are enemies of our Constitutional Republic. They enabled Oct 7th.

Personally, I wish Trump used the vast resources under his fingertips to show that the AP has been in bed sleeping with Hamas (I'm sure Bibi has talked with him about this) to our country's detriment. Rejecting them over the naming of 'The Gulf of America' seems trite even to intelligent conservatives. I revel in AP's indignation, but it is superficial.

Just as America needs to rage over the obscene spending with NGOs, I wish Trump burned the legacy media brands (mostly AP) with similar irrefutable evidence (ie) building their news sites to harbor Hamas.

We still need to reach the remnant that still watches/reads legacy media. We must win the mid-terms and keep up the momentum or our zeal over Trump's first month will fade like fireworks in the night sky.

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EODMom's avatar

I expect he will get around to it.

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Neera Goitein's avatar

Patience!

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Greg Martin's avatar

“I revel in AP’s indignation . . . “ 👏 🖐️

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TeaPartyGal's avatar

Amen--"the 'Gulf of America' fracas seems trite even to intelligent conservatives".

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David Cashion's avatar

You describe a "kinder genterler" MAGA, that thinking produced Bill Clinton and Obama.

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Shrugged's avatar

David, MAGA didn't exist under Clinton, or at any time prior, but I will concede it was slowly and roughly formed BECAUSE of Obama. MAGA formed after Obama and Clinton left office so it didn't produce either of them.

MAGA didn't begin to coagulate until after Trump came down the escalator, and it was not well formed at that time. Millions didn't trust Trump in 2015 because his reputation was as a questionable businessman and reality show host who hung out with New York Democrats, including the Clintons.

Nobody really knew him or knew what his values were. Many were shocked when he said he was running as a Republican because most assumed he was a Democrat. MAGA elected him in 2016 and his first term was assertive but much less effective because the deep state blocked and distracted most of it. After the stolen 2020 election, everyone's eyes were opened, especially those of minorities. Biden's corruption sealed the deal for the marginal voters. MAGA finally came into its own after the 2020 election fraud.

Don't see any 'kindler gentler' to continue what we've been doing to convince the blind and stubborn of the fraudulent lives they are leading. I only see a suggestion that Trump stop bragging.

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David Cashion's avatar

I'm comparing your softer approach, to win in 2026, to the Neocon expression of kinder gentler conservative when the Bush's let the libs run over the conservative party in hope of gaining voters.

Pleasing no one.

Thx for the history lesson.

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David Cashion's avatar

I may have you confused with someone who has made multiple comments suggesting Trump and MAGA would do better in the midterms if we, he would soften the message.

If so.

My apologies.

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Shrugged's avatar

No apologies necessary. I don't always read comments as they were intended.

My earlier comments suggested Trump be more careful with his in-your-face criticism and zeal over firing thousands of people. Deserved or not, celebrating their demise has no value to anyone. 99% of those fired weren't corrupt or criminal. They were doing the job they were hired to do. That they weren't going to the office was also an approved policy by their bosses so they were poorly managed. Don't blame the individual employee. Higher level employees probably have more culpability.

Every one of those people have many friends and family who may be Trump supporters and seeing him be verbally abusive in getting rid of them - casting all of them as bad people - has no positive gain and much potential for negative reactions. If it must be said, let someone else be the messenger.

As an added note to this opinion, I have family working in DC who have lost their job after many years of international service. I feel great empathy for their loss (as I have had it happen to me years ago in my career and it happened to my wife a year+ ago), but I also said it is time for them to move on. I support the terminations so far. Good people - and their families - are still in a difficult situation. They DON'T need President Trump rubbing it in.

My fear is it could cause us many thousands of moderate and libertarian voters in the mid-terms. Trump is amazing and a God given leader when we need him most, but he isn't perfect and can use some outside advice. The above is mine.

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TeaPartyGal's avatar

Excellent points, Shrugged. Elon needs to be careful, too, to not unnecessarily alienate decent folks who have been caught up in these cutbacks.

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David Cashion's avatar

Much of what you say has merit.

I would point out the high percentage of government employees that vote democrat and Trumps cuts are at a 65% approval.

I'm not sure if Trump can gain voters, but he can lose them.

I belive that was part of your point from last comment.

Real results need to be seen.

I wouldn't be surprised if Trump figures out some way to throw bone to those he fired.

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Page Turner's avatar

All together now -

"It's dumb to be in the

WHCA...."

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geraldsd's avatar

Haha!

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Danimal28's avatar

"Trump isn’t merely trolling AP; he is challenging AP’s power to control the language and therefore the argument. AP no longer bothers to hide its agenda."

Exactly.

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OldeArtiste's avatar

AP: "The nerve! He can't control the language - WE CAN!"

President Trump: "Wait until we stop your USAID money."

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Jim Murray's avatar

I can't decide. Is the AP histrionics story farce or tragicomedy? Lets review. Terrorist supporting AP has led the Left's war on the English language for decades. Like every liberal politician and institution, it believes Consequences will never have a role in their play. What is this, you say? The Piper has come-a-calling to collect his due? One of AP's victims has the temerity to defend himself? AP says the world is supposed to stop because Consequences has been injected into the scene. Now that's funny. *** I get it. Flummoxed AP is saying if it cannot get in to a meeting, then no one should get in and even if others are invited in, they should refuse to attend. It's pure middle school behavior. The irony is that AP doesn't need to be anywhere to practice what it does best, making stuff up.

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Dennis Howell's avatar

Perhaps the most brilliant campaign slogan I've ever seen was "Democrats care about they/them. Donald Trump cares about you."

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Dennis's avatar

AP should continue battling the president over the newly renamed Gulf of America. As the fight continues, more and more Americans get a clarified look at the left and the insanity President Trump is moving America away from. Not that most of us really need another look. The last four years has been more than sufficient.

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Playswithneedles's avatar

This from the same AP which had no problem with Hillary actually tying up reporters with rope to keep them away from her at a parade during her campaign in 2016. I also seem to remember 0bama throwing conservative media off of AF1.

“TV crews from ABC and Newsmax, along with correspondents from Axios, the Blaze, Bloomberg News and NPR were permitted to cover the event.”

That list includes 4 leftist organizations and 2 conservative ones. In the eyes of AP, that should appear to be “fair and balanced”, so what’s the problem?

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Sheila Barkofske's avatar

Or the non-press conferences that Biden gave that were more akin to Aussie dogs herding sheep. Where was the journalistic outrage then?

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geraldsd's avatar

I’m sure he knows what it’s like to be cucked by a drag queen, too. Weak men are the reason we’re having this entire bullshit. It took one strong man to knock down the house of cards. Lies of evil people never last too long…AP is the bow of the SS Soros…

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BeyondNobody's avatar

Seems to me "toxic femininity" is the why, and how we got here. Alpha Men have been condemned, shamed and shushed FAR TOO LONG! The Obama led, muscle drought has been wretched to watch as our Republic descended into the bowels of evil.

But agree, beta CUCK's have more than happily assisted the mean nasty 'girls' in totally destroying the tradition and beauty of the SACRED feminine.

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Jim Nelson's avatar

We don't really talk about "toxic femininity" enough. The harridans on The View, Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid (RIP), Margaret Brennan, Hillary Clinton, Maxine Waters, Jasmine Crockett, AOC, et al. have been browbeating us for a long time. Of course, when PDJT, Elon Musk, J.D. Vance, and Tom Homan come along they all get hysterical and head for the box of Kleenex. 'Bout' time.

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Suzie's avatar

👍

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