Posts made by hubrys

@blablarg18 said in Jimmy Kimmel thing:

swing & miss, something I don't know of & don't care

Clearly you've never seen or read V for Vendetta. That's a shame; you might have learned something.

Who would have ever thought we'd miss the days when Conservative hacks liked to pretend they were the side represented by V. Now, they're creaming themselves to emulate this guy:

If only you would apply the same sentiments expressed in this thread to the FCC Chairman pressuring Disney to cancel Jimmy Kimmel. But, alas, you remain a partisan hack who only wants to acknowledge Free Speech when convenient to you.

@blablarg18 said in Jimmy Kimmel thing:

broadcast licensees like ABC are required legally to be strictly even-handed & factual, different from cable networks.

The Fairness Doctrine was abolished in the United States in 1987 under Reagan. The FCC exercises certain speech restraints on over-the-air broadcasters, but those are confined to specific topics, which usually have been identified by Congress through legislation or adopted by the FCC through full notice-and-comment pursuant to the Administrative Procedures Act (e.g., indecency, obscenity, commercial content in children's programming, conduct of on-air contests/game shows, or the Emergency Alert System).

The FCC doesn't have carte blanche power to enforce fairness or even-handedness. The FCC does not have the power to force broadcasters not to criticize the presidential administration.

The FCC Chairman said on the podcast:

“We can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to take action on Kimmel or there is going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”

And make no mistake, he was threatening to use his power to punish broadcasters with whom he disagrees. He made sure to clarify his threat on the Sean Hannity Show, where he further explained:

"Over the years, the FCC walked away from enforcing [the] public interest obligation. I don’t think we’re better off as a country for it.... They [meaning late night hosts] went from going for applause, from laugh lines to applause lines. They went from being court jesters that would make fun of everybody in power to being court clerics and enforcing a very narrow political ideology...."

FCC Chairman Carr called the late night hosts a "narrow, partisan circus," and said that the FCC was currently working to reinvigorate enforcement of the "public interest obligation" of broadcasters.

You're delusional and living in fantasyland if you think the decision was based on ratings. I mean, Sinclair Broadcasting Group, owner of ABC affiliates, literally told Kimmel in Sinclair's official press release to make a "direct apology" for the comments and demanded he make a donation to both Kirk's family and to Kirk's Turning Point USA. You cannot pretend that the actions were because of rating. They were a reaction to the comments and the backlash from the FCC and Trump.

@blablarg18 said in Jimmy Kimmel thing:

No one who melts down over Jimmy Kimmel today, lifted finger to defend Roseanne.

Roseanne's cancelling wasn't perpetrated by the Administration (which was Trump's first administration) using threats from the Chairman of the FCC to the licenses of both ABC and the affiliate stations broadcasting ABC. The FCC Chairman, Brendan Carr, made the public threats to Disney, ABC, and affiliates on the Scott Jennings radio show.

Trump's current FCC chair is using threats to cajole the networks into censoring opponents of the current administration. Disney (owner of ABC) has its ESPN poised to purchase the NFL Network, which will require approval by the FCC. And the largest network affiliate carrying ABC, which is Nexstar, is currently bidding to purchase its rival Tegna. That merger will also require FCC approval.

So, it's not surprising that neither of those corporations want to piss off the FCC chairman. Unlike Roseanne's cancelling, which was just a business decision based on public outrage at Roseanne's racist tweets, here we have a government agent as the cause of the cancellation. That's government censorship, which the First Amendment is supposed to protect against.

And Trump's not ignorant of the power his lapdog at the FCC has, since he just today said that the FCC should pull the licenses of any licensee who broadcasts media critical of Trump. He's already tweeting that he'd like Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers gone as well. FCC Chair Carr has already said he's going to look into how he can take down The View, potentially claiming that it isn't a news show and/or has violated some form of the Equal Time doctrine.

I don't think Trump and his followers are lovers of Fascism. I don't think they'd wear that on the lapel. But they sure to love using the trappings and methods of fascist governments.

@raphjd said in Epstein Cover-up by Trump Administration:

The difference is that Trump files lawsuits on his own; he does not use taxpayer money to do it, like Democrats do.

Literally up until last month when he and his DOJ lost in front of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, Trump was arguing that he could use the Department of Justice (funded by the taxpayers) as his personal horde of lawyers for his appeal of the E. Jean Carroll defamation suit.

Prior to wanting taxpayers to pay for his defense, Trump had been using political donations from his supporters to pay all of his legal bills (well, at least the legal bills that he chose to pay, since he is notorious for not paying his debts to lawyers).

Trump's only using "his" money because the Judiciary literally refused to allow him to rob the taxpayers for his own interests. You don't know what you're talking about.

For those saying if Trump was on the Epstein list, Biden would have released them:

MAGA Members Have Mega Tizzy After DOJ And FBI Claim Epstein Files Don’t Exist

In February, asked on Fox News about the so-called client list, Pam Bondi replied, “It’s sitting on my desk right now to review.”

“My committee investigators have seen substantial evidence in the possession of the Trump administration pertaining to prominent Wall Street figures financing Epstein’s operations,” Mr. Wyden said in a statement. “The best-case explanation for the Trump administration on their mishandling of the Epstein case is rank incompetence, but the much likelier explanation is that Trump and wealthy people around him have things to hide.”

Hours of recovered video evidence recording thousands of trafficked victims, and we're to believe that they can't identify even one of the men shoving his dick in a girl's mouth? Were they all wearing Squid Games masks?

Usually with conspiracy theories, I assume there's just a bunch of smoke, but no fire. Here, Trump's FBI and DOJ are even denying that any smoke existed. It's like they're trying to convince everyone Epstein was a Mandela Effect.

@blablarg18 said in Minnesota lawmaker murdered; Dem who had repealed illegal aliens:

It shows how Dem violence, or at least Dem advocacy & desire for terrorist political violence, is indeed widespread.

Yes, the lesson we should take away from an Republican/Conservative assassin killing two Democrats is that Democrats are the ones advocating political violence. </sarcasm>

@raphjd said in Minnesota lawmaker murdered; Dem who had repealed illegal aliens:

There are pics of the killer and his wife wearing liberal shirts.

Friends say Minnesota shooting suspect was deeply religious and conservative

Friends and former colleagues interviewed by AP described Boelter as a devout Christian who attended an evangelical church and went to campaign rallies for President Donald Trump. Records show Boelter registered to vote as a Republican while living in Oklahoma in 2004 before moving to Minnesota where voters don’t list party affiliation.
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Friends told the AP that they knew Boelter was religious and conservative, but that he didn’t talk about politics often and didn’t seem extreme.
“He was right-leaning politically but never fanatical, from what I saw, just strong beliefs,” said Paul Schroeder, who has known Boelter for years.
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“He never talked to me about abortion,” Schroeder said. “It seemed to be just that he was a conservative Republican who naturally followed Trump.”

What We Know About the Minnesota Shooting Suspect

Voters do not declare political affiliation when they register in Minnesota, and a state report connected to the work force board listed Mr. Boelter’s affiliation as “none or other” in 2016. A similar report in 2020 listed him as having “no party preference.”

But David Carlson, a roommate and close friend of Mr. Boelter’s, said Mr. Boelter voted for Donald J. Trump last year and was particularly passionate about opposing abortion.

@blablarg18 said:

Santos' key legal infraction was, I believe, a paperwork thing worth like $500.
Biden Crime Family sins worth more like $50 million & up.
Santos expulsion should be read as, GOP-Regime types / RINOs play for upper hand over GOP-Maga.
GOP-Regime / RINO types gladly, gladly, knife imprison etc. GOP-Maga.

@hubrys said in RFKJ backs measles vaccine. What does media do? Lie, of course.:

And if he keeps telling folks that Vitamin A is a treatment for measles, then it's only a matter of time before someone kills or seriously hurts their child by giving them high doses of Vitamin A. Unlike most other vitamins (e.g., Vitamin C), Vitamin A doesn't flush out of your body as expensive pee. Vitamin A builds up in your body and destroys your liver. Just a matter of time before a kid goes from blotchy red patches on their skin to blotchy red patches on their now yellow jaundiced skin because their dumbass parent destroyed their liver with cod liver oil.

And I was correct.

West Texas children treated for vitamin A toxicity

@raphjd said in Trans-Rights Drag Queen indicted for molesting child...:

any child molester should be prosecuted to the fullest.

I agree; however, it is likely that Gawd and Jebus, as well as being rich, white, and politically connected, will keep this shithead out of prison. I mean, if he says Gawd has already forgiven him, then who are we to try to punish him?

Just kidding! It was a MAGA Trump-endorsed, mega-church pastor who molested a 12-year old girl.

Megachurch founder Robert Morris indicted on charges of "lewd acts" with a child

@blablarg18 said in RFKJ backs measles vaccine. What does media do? Lie, of course.:

OK but then, who brought in the bug that went around? We can't know, except, masses of aliens who bring in disease or who bring "eradicated" diseases back to USA, is known thing.

The countries of the Americas (other than Brazil and Venezuela) share the same measles-free status as the United States. Note that just because a country has cases of measles doesn't mean it isn't measles-free. To lose measles-free status, the country has to have the same strain of measles transmitted endemically amongst the native population for at least 12 consecutive months. Like in America, measles was eradicated with mass vaccination programs supported by the governments and the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO).

In the last decade, most of the measles outbreaks in America have been traced back to Americans traveling back and forth to the Philippines, Ukraine, Israel, Thailand, Vietnam, England, France, Germany, and India.

@blablarg18 said in RFKJ backs measles vaccine. What does media do? Lie, of course.:

Second - child in Texas. Um, unvaccinated because migrant? Reports don't say.

His Daughter Was America’s First Measles Death in a Decade

It was, indeed, a young Mennonite that died. It was not an unvaccinated migrant.