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everything is real but it's also just as fake
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Matthew McConaughey Smoking Meme
June 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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when simon maloy read jeanine pirro's book
You only get about one page into Jeanine Pirro’s new book, Liars, Leakers, and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy, before she calls herself an idiot. It’s not entirely clear whether she meant to do it or if she just got lost in the rapture of the prose, but she definitely calls herself an idiot. “We know what the liberal media think of Trump voters: They’re deplorables, idiots, rednecks, and people who cling to God, guns, and religion,” Pirro writes. “To those charges, I plead guilty--guilty and proud!” It’s confusing, and you’re left wondering why Pirro seemingly went out of her way to make herself look stupid. But intentional or not, it serves as an apt table-setter for the rest of the book, in which the Fox News host inflicts upon the reader a frenetic conspiracy theory that absolutely obliterates all logic and does violence upon the very notion of observable truth, and effectively discredits herself by painstakingly demonstrating that she is committed solely to the mission of kissing the ass of her friend, President Donald Trump.
May 8, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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insane that this sentence is being written by, charitably, someone from a very very very friendly outlet to the admin
charles gasparino tweet from 4/23/25 at 7:23 pm, highlighted bit reads: what people inside the administration know but won’t say: An economic catastrophe if the original plan with China is implemented full text: Breaking: The talk on Wall Street based on their sources inside the White House is that Team Trump is looking for a face saving off ramp on trade even with China. It’s why you see the conflicting responses out of Bessent; they’re an attempt to negotiate through the media, acting tough but signaling the need for a deal (calling the China contretemps unsustainable because they are). I hear one possible way out of this is not to do done deals, but to announce some broad outline that avoids what people inside the administration know but won’t say: An economic catastrophe if the original plan with China is implemented given just how much US businesses deal with the Mainland and the rest of Asia. It won’t be easy primarily because China isn’t even talking to us yet and the deals they are poised to cut with say India dont matter that much in the scheme of things. Trump inherited a lousy trade system particularly w China that takes advantage at every step. But you would think they would know that and plan accordingly given the complexity of dealing with so many nations at once and the other variables
April 24, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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how it started / how it's going
Jesse Watters screenshot from Fox News on "Trump taking on China:" Chyron: "CHINA DOESN'T HAVE THE CARDS" "The Chinese media outlet Cailian called the US president's latest remarks "a sign Trump is already softening stance on his signature tariff policies." Trump "chickening out" was among the top trending topics on China's Weibo social media website on Wednesday.
April 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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There's a second chat where the fox-news-host-turned-defense-secretary inappropriately shared highly classified information?? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...
the second sub scene from hunt for red october iykyk
April 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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headline: Ben Shapiro says it's a “bureaucratic screw-up” but not a “human tragedy” that a Maryland father with protected legal status was sent to an El Salvador megaprison 4/1/25
April 10, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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normal things are happening
FOX NEWS CHYRON: Trump tariffs will make you a man?
April 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...
“We’re talking about doing something extraordinary here for the government to sentence people to what’s essentially slave labor, torture, prison in El Salvador based on nothing, based on having a flower tattoo,” he said. “Once we get in the neighborhood of getting rid of due process, that’s the thing that protects all of our citizenship rights.”
April 2, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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the thing about the manosphere is that these people have no idea what they're dealing with www.mediamatters.org/manosphere/y...
screenshot of transcript of a youtube interview with andrew tate: TATE: No, you can't. But this is actually interesting, so let's analyze this. Free speech. This is a interesting conversation because America believes it has free speech. It doesn't. But every single country in the world has things you cannot talk about. Every single country in the world has off topics -- off-limit topics. In Russia, it's Putin, in the Middle East, it's Islam, in Turkey, it's Erdogan. If you talk against them, you're going to get in a lot trouble. Do you know what the American one is? FORGEARD: What, speaking out against the Dems? TATE: Speaking out against the Jews. If you speak out — FORGEARD: Oh, the Jews.
March 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Headline: Fox Business suggests Trump creating a recession could be a good thing Subheadline: Charles Payne: “I agree with you 1,000% ... maybe there's a little temporary pain” Written by Media Matters Staff Published 02/26/25 4:32 PM EST Fox News screenshot from Iraq War timeframe: Chyron: "ALL-OUT CIVIL WAR IN IRAQ: COULD IT BE A GOOD THING?"
February 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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they're big mad
Laura Ingraham on Fox News featuring a shot of Judge Reyes at her confirmation hearing Chyron reads WOKE JUDGE GOES AFTER TRUMP
February 19, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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cnn headline Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say By Rene Marsh and Ella Nilsen, CNN 4 minute read Updated 7:31 PM EST, Fri February 14, 2025 tom conti as albert einstein in oppenheimer, giving oppenheimer a forlorn look
February 15, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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time is a flat circle [derogatory]
cbs news headline: Advocates ask court to give migrant detainees at Guantanamo access to lawyers By Camilo Montoya-Galvez Updated on: February 12, 2025 / 3:41 PM EST / CBS News
February 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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February 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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tell me more
video screenshot from Timcast IRL with Tim Pool on screen with the text "government influences media companies when they fund them" screenshot from a news article By ALAN SUDERMAN and ALI SWENSON Updated 2:12 PM EST, September 5, 2024 NEW YORK (AP) — They have millions of followers online. They have been major players in right-wing political discourse since Donald Trump was president. And they worked unknowingly for a company that was a front for a Russian influence operation, U.S. prosecutors say. An indictment filed Wednesday alleges a media company linked to six conservative influencers — including well-known personalities Tim Pool, Dave Rubin and Benny Johnson — was secretly funded by Russian state media employees to churn out English-language videos that were “often consistent” with the Kremlin’s “interest in amplifying U.S. domestic divisions in order to weaken U.S. opposition” to Russian interests, like its war in Ukraine.
February 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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so we have a fox news host running the department of defense and having the responsibility by law to make decisions that could result in launching nuclear weapons
albert einstein in oppenheimer
January 25, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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they're saying he's doing the Trail of Tears and that's a good thing
Headline: Daily Wire host likens Trump's mass deportation to the Trail of Tears, Japanese internment, and more: “Mass deportation is as American as apple pie” Knowles: “Have you ever heard of the Trail of Tears? I know a lot of people don't defend the Trail of Tears. But that was a mass deportation.” date: 1/24/25 I don't know if you guys are history buffs or not. Have you ever heard of the Trail of Tears? I know a lot of people don't defend the Trail of Tears. But that was a mass deportation. That was in, what, 1830? Have you ever heard of Operation Wetback when we actually deported a ton of Mexicans, like a 100,000 or more Mexicans? You might not defend Operation Wetback, in part because of the name because it's an offensive word. 1954. That was a mass deportation. How about the Palmer raids of all the communists? 1919, 1920, deported, because a lot of the communists were foreigners who were in America deported lots and lots of commoners — communists, rather. How about the Japanese? We always talk about Japanese internment during World War II. You know, we also deported a lot of Japanese. Again, you might say, well, that was all really terrible. OK. But it's American, though. We sure did. I'm noticing a trend here. How about the Haitians and the Cubans that we deported after the Mariel boatlift in 1980? That was a mass deportation. You say, well, that's wrong. It's anti-American — again, I know. Maybe you don't like it. Maybe you can make an argument that some of these things were unjust. But the one thing you can't say is that it's un-American or anti-American. Mass deportation is as American as apple pie. OK? We've been doing it for a very, very long time. And, frankly, if you wanna argue that these things were deeply un-American, I would encourage you to look into the details of them, to put yourself in the historical positions of the people making decisions at that time. And I wonder if you wouldn't make the same decision.
January 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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first week and we have a federal judge (appointed by reagan no less) saying “There are other times in world history where we look back and people of goodwill can say where were the judges, where were the lawyers?”

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
A federal judge in Seattle blocked, temporarily, President Donald Trump’s attempt to rescind birthright citizenship — the idea spelled out in the Constitution that every person born in the United States is an American citizen. Senior U.S. District Judge John Coughenour on Thursday was blistering in his criticism of Trump’s action as he granted a temporary restraining order that blocks Trump’s executive order from taking effect nationwide. “I’ve been on the bench for over four decades, I can’t remember another case where the question presented is as clear as this one is. This is a blatantly unconstitutional order,” Coughenour, an appointee of Ronald Reagan, said from the bench. “There are other times in world history where we look back and people of goodwill can say where were the judges, where were the lawyers?”
January 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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seeing people in the nyc area lose their shit for years over the idea of tolls while driving
tommy lee jones interrupting reading some sort of leafy paper with printing on it to give someone a disappointed look
January 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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not sure it's a great idea to have him investigate whether 17 year olds registered to vote all across the country
a screenshot of a headline from 11/25/24 benny johnson: “Put Matt Gaetz in charge of rooting out election fraud as a special counsel all around the country”
November 25, 2024 at 5:33 PM
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the first cabinet nominee in history to take on Big Bird
sean duffy, trump's transportation secretary, looking aggrieved while talking on fox news. chyron: sesame street criticized for covid vaccine video
November 19, 2024 at 12:56 AM
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newsmax host uses chat gpt to suggest that the msg remarks were satirical commentary on mistreatment Puerto Rico has faced, especially after "serious weather events." he did not mention which "weather events" or who was responsible for the mistreatment. www.mediamatters.org/greg-kelly/n...
Now, if you ask ChatGPT, you know what they say to this joke that he made? The joke, while intended to be humorous, is a form of satire based on a mix-up between environmental issues and political commentary. It plays on the fact that there is a massive garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean, a well-known environmental concern — not by everybody — by suggesting that Puerto Rico, a US Territory, is a floating island of garbage, it can be seen as a satirical commentary on the neglect or mistreatment Puerto Rico has historically faced, especially following serious weather events.
October 29, 2024 at 3:01 PM
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politico vs reality
playbook today MIXED MEDIA — After spending several weeks trying to drum up their bases with mostly friendly interviews, Harris and Trump are venturing into more challenging territory this week. After sitting with Bloomberg’s John Micklethwait yesterday in Chicago, Trump taped a town hall in Georgia with all women — a demographic that has been largely repulsed by his temperament and abortion-rights views — that will run on Fox News today at 11 a.m. Independent headline today: Trump held a “town hall” to talk women’s issues across the US. Only his Republican friends were invited Eric Garcia reports from Georgia on how Fox News created a safe space for Donald Trump as he seeks to court female voters text from independent article: Donald Trump spoke at a Georgia town hall on Tuesday to address women’s issues - it turned out the “town” was populated by only GOP backers hand-selected by Fox News. The day after the former president jammed to his curated playlist as two of his supporters fell ill at a rally in Oaks, Pennsylvania, and just hours after he delivered a free association performance at the Economic Club of Chicago, he arrived at the Reid Barn in Cumming, Georgia. ... As soon as Trump arrived in the rustic barn with its wood panels, he received rapturous applause. Throughout the town hall hosted by Harris Faulkner, questioners seemed enraptured by him.
October 16, 2024 at 3:46 PM
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if this is the content you're producing, fair enough, but why would anyone need a magazine subscription for stuff like this?
charles cooke in National review: Joe Biden is an asshole Charles Cooke in National Review: Kamala Harris is an idiot
October 15, 2024 at 11:42 PM
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NY Times reporting: Heritage pushed "misinformation" about the election, and Kevin Roberts is responsible. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/07/u...
NY Times summit: Invites Kevin Roberts to speak www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...
NYTimes headline: Heritage Foundation Spreads Deceptive Videos About Noncitizen Voters The right-wing think tank has been pushing misinformation about voting into social media feeds. The Georgia secretary of state’s office called one video “a stunt.” TEXT FROM NYTIMES PIECE: But under scrutiny, those claims do not hold up. Three of the seven people Heritage filmed later said they had misspoken. State investigators found no evidence that any of the seven people on the tape had ever registered to vote. A spokesman for Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, called the video “a stunt.” It was one of several misleading videos that the Heritage Foundation has pumped into social media feeds this year. While the once-staid think tank has received attention recently for Project 2025, the right-wing blueprint for a future Trump administration that the group funded, it has also made its mark with an aggressive effort to shape public opinion, seeding falsehoods about the integrity of the 2024 election across social media and conservative news outlets. TEXT FROM NY TIMES PIECE: On social media, the Oversight Project said it had tried to locate the seven people on state voter rolls but was “unable to find them,” adding that “non-citizens have shoddy address history records and often use fake documents and names.” Founded in 1973, Heritage was long known as a policy shop, focused on promoting conservative, pro-business policies in Washington. In recent years, it has taken a sharp turn under the leadership of Kevin Roberts, an academic who said his goal for Heritage was “institutionalizing Trumpism.” Mr. Roberts started the Oversight Project just a few months after arriving at Heritage, asking it to provide “aggressive oversight” of the Biden administration and “institutional support” to the conservative movement. Graphic from NY TIMES "2024 Climate Forward" event showing Kevin Roberts is speaking https://www.mediamatters.org/project-2025/project-2025s-kevin-roberts-speak-ny-times-climate-week-nyc-event
September 9, 2024 at 1:59 PM