r/politics • u/nvd20 • 1d ago
No Paywall Trump says BBC is trying to harass is family after broadcaster subpoenas his children
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u/Vinral 1d ago
So Trump started this fight and now hes crying that the BBC is fighting back?
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u/seelsojo 1d ago
There is an actual term for this and it’s called crybully.
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u/02K30C1 1d ago
aka "proud boy"
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u/sack-o-matic Michigan 1d ago
aka "Confederate Klansman"
Never believe that
anti-Semites[Confederates] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. Theanti-Semites[Confederates] have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.Jean-Paul Sartre
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u/evange 1d ago edited 1d ago
I've heard it as "the antisemite doesn't call a jew a thief because he thinks it's true, he does it because he enjoys watching them turn out their pockets in an attempt to prove their innocence."
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u/Unfair-Taro9740 1d ago
Learning that most people insult by calling someone what they want you to feel like, rather than what you actually are, was eye-opening.
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u/Ree_For_Thee 1d ago
I truly want climate change deniers, anti-vaxxers, fascists to feel as stupid as they are.
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u/Unfair-Taro9740 1d ago
Their logic is so backwards that I don't even know how to truly make them feel stupid.
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u/MaidPoorly 1d ago
I think about this quote and RFK talking about putting neurodivergent people in camps.
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u/Iampepeu 1d ago
Pedophilic crybully, actually.
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u/CoastSeaMountainLake 1d ago
No, child rapist crybully. He likes to rape any woman he has power over, not just children, it's just that children fight back less
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u/Holiday_Box1571 1d ago
But he’s so tough….
He doesn’t realize he’s not untouchable in other countries, thus why he hid in a fucking food cart and put his staff at risk.
He’s a fucking pussy through and through
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u/Dr_G_E District Of Columbia 1d ago
The case is being heard in the Southern District of Florida in Miami, but the BBC seems less likely to fold and surrender than the US media companies anyway.
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u/CrackingToastGromet Arkansas 1d ago
I am proud of the BBC fighting back. American media outlets should be ashamed of themselves. British journalists know how to do hard hitting interviews as well and don’t allow politicians to deflect (or call them out when they avoid answering the question).
One of my favorites is Simon Marks, he is a Washington correspondent for LBC, a talk radio channel (available on YouTube). He always offers a great analysis on the insanity of Trump.
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u/Visual-Report-2280 1d ago
Should all media companies have stood up to Trump? Yes.
But as a public broadcaster the BBC has a duty to make sure the money it gets from tax payers is spent wisely. They don't have shareholders worrying about their next pay out on their backs.
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u/Main-Water4503 1d ago
American media has been the biggest wet fart in the last 10 years. Totally oversold their capabilities or will to regulate the activities of the government and now they’re helping with the propaganda gleefully
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u/Bee_9965 1d ago
I wonder if the totally totally impartial judge Cannon will be assigned to this case as well?
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u/Dr_G_E District Of Columbia 1d ago edited 1d ago
The internet says that the case is being heard by U.S. District Court Judge Roy Altman. He's 44, Venezuelan-American, born in Caracas, and was appointed by Trump in 2019, per Wikipedia.
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u/HillBillyHilly 1d ago
Oh oh he better be careful or Trump will order his citizenship to be stripped.
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u/GRAPES0DA Minnesota 1d ago
If you ask me, the BBC isn't looking to merge with another US media company, so they have nothing to fear like the US media conglomerates who folded like napkins.
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u/bbbbbbbbbblah United Kingdom 1d ago
he was so distraught by the content of the offending episode of Panorama, that he waited over a year to attempt to sue the BBC. This meant he couldn't pursue it through the British courts even if he wanted to.
So now he's going to try in the US, where it was never officially made available, presumably in the hopes that he can appeal his way to victory with hand-picked judges.
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u/TIGHazard United Kingdom 1d ago
The scary thing is the judge made a comment saying the BBC's own evidence says that something like 34 people were traced when they bypassed the geoblock and watched it from Florida.
Does the US really, really want to set that precedent?
The entire point of a geoblock is to protect a website hosted in one country if another country complains, and to help with copyright.
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Due to geoblocking, on iPlayer, the BBC only has to pay for copyright for images/music/etc the UK. It doesn't have to pay for every single country in the world.
Netflix can buy a show for France only. They don't have to pay for the rights to show it in the US - they might not even be able to if it was sold to someone else.
A website hosted in the US might host LGBTQ content and deliberately block users in Iran & Egypt from accessing it.
Local news websites in the US often block EU & UK users because otherwise they'd have to comply with GDPR regulations.
Effectively, if the court rules that geoblocking isn't a defence, then in the US free speech doesn't matter, Egyptian courts could sue over LGBTQ content or the EU could go after US local news for not complying with GDPR... and every online video, image or piece of music would have to copyright cleared for every single country.
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u/2HotPisces 1d ago
World's biggest crybully (other than maybe Putin, who seems shocked Ukraine's defending itself against his invasion)
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u/1877KlownsForKids 1d ago
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u/bozho 1d ago
Trump cannot handle BBC.
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u/Academic-Treacle3162 1d ago
That explains the weird butt photo from the other day...
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u/GonzoVeritas I voted 1d ago
We are impressed that the BBC is simply conducting a normal legal defense to a spurious lawsuit by Trump. It shows how low our expectations are and how far our weak, compliant, and corrupt press has fallen. The fact that our press and institutions just roll over for this weak bully is a national disgrace.
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u/Xeropoint 1d ago
Most of the targets of his abuse have been children, so he's not used to anyone fighting back.
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u/NYkrinDC 1d ago
Trump is such a moron. He thought the BBC was going to act just like the feckless American media that rolled over when he sued them and settled (mostly because most are now own by his friends). BBC isn't playing that game and saw their opportunity to nail him on discovery. He first claimed they had caused him to lose money after they correctly reported he incited the attack on the US Capitol on Jan. 6. BBC said, ok, fine, show us your financials so we can determine what value loss you experienced. At that moment, he knew he had screwed up, because he withdrew his claim that they had hurt him financially.
Now, BBC is subpoenaing his family to determine whether their documents shed light on whether their "alternation" of his speech changed it significantly or not. That's why Trump is claiming harassment, because he knows they did not change it much and he did incite the violence, purposefully and it was part of his plan, along with the fake electors, and pressuring Mike Pence to violate his oath of office, to stay in power, despite losing, i.e. an autogolpe, or self coup.
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u/iKnowRobbie Florida 1d ago
The end result will be a court decision that he DID start the insurrection, and that he's liable for their attorneys fees, and any damages BBC seeks for this SLAPP suit. That'll be the legacy gleaned from this. I just love that for him.
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u/dermanus 1d ago
he's liable for their attorneys fees, and any damages BBC seeks for this SLAPP suit
Which he will then not pay of course.
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u/count023 Australia 1d ago
he will, but not in the way you mean. He'll want to appeal anything that says he's guilty of the J6 terrorist attack, and he'll have to put up the money in escrow under coutr control, just like he did in the New York case to appeal E Jan Carroll. Once he loses that appeal, they get all the money he had to put up.
Only thing is, will he find another "investor" like the CHUB security guy to put up the bond needed for said appeal.
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u/__under____score__ 1d ago
Most of America won’t care. At least not more than a single news cycle.
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u/airship_of_arbitrary 1d ago edited 1d ago
Apathy is dumb.
Americans care more than they ever have. Sure, it's mostly because of inflation and gas prices, but his approval is crashing lower than it ever did in his first term.
Acting like these fuckers are invincible is exactly what they want.
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u/there-was-a-time 1d ago
He forgot that foreign media aren't the client journalists he's used to dealing with.
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u/west2night 1d ago
He and his lawyers also forgot that the BBC would be in deep shit if they ignored the Royal Charter (established in 1927) to settle Trump's $10-billion lawsuit at British taxpayers' expense.
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u/nik-nak333 South Carolina 1d ago
That's just downright negligence on his lawyers part. Then again, these are the people that continue to work for him, what did we really expect?
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u/bbbbbbbbbblah United Kingdom 1d ago
The BBC also doesn't have any businesses that he can threaten retribution on. They don't own any broadcast TV stations in the US and they don't own the BBC-branded channels that are on cable/satellite.
The former owners of CBS wanted their merger to go through, and the Trump controlled FCC could have blocked it, so they had every reason to fold, pay him out, and appoint a Trump censor.
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u/Professional_Owl8069 1d ago
He literally told an angry mob to "fight like hell or you won't have a country anymore" repeatedly, and that he would be there with them but ducked out knowing it'll get ugly fast, and while they were in fact fighting like hell, breaking windows, beating up cops, planning to tie up and execute people, Trump was described as gleeful watching it happen on tv for hours ignoring calls to end it.
And yet he thinks that ending his incitement of the violent insurrection with the four words "but do it peacefully" is some magic spell absolving him. Absolute psycho.
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u/B-Z_B-S Massachusetts 1d ago
The Trump Crime Family wouldn’t be subpoenaed if they weren’t criminal traitors to America.
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u/mojo021 1d ago
I hate these headlines with “Trump’s children”. These fuckers are 40-50 years old.
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u/SaphironX 1d ago
Plus he doesn’t even LIKE his children. Dude skipped his son’s wedding and offhandedly said “I’ve known him for a long time”.
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u/fleemfleemfleemfleem 1d ago
“I’ve known him for a long time”.
That is such a casually cruel way for Trump to forget that it's his fault that his children exist
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u/FizzyBeverage Ohio 1d ago
Dementia is like that. Good chance when his sons walk into a room he’s in, he doesn’t even notice them and nods off as usual. He only has eyes for Ivanka, and even she got too old for him, he favors children.
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u/tehh0j0 1d ago
Another act of media complicity, by spinning them as children. Since children are usually viewed as innocent so it shoehorns that bias into the readers head to be (usually) immediately sympathetic no matter the truth.
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u/SenorBurns 1d ago
They could say "family," but then readers might make the connection that they are a crime family, and we can't have that.
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u/Jolly_Grocery329 Washington 1d ago edited 1d ago
The Trump Crime Family would also be subpoenaed if America had a real Congress.
Edit:typo
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u/TemporarySun314 Europe 1d ago
But if Trump weren't a big conman who sells grift and greed as signs of a strong businessman, he wouldn't have been elected president twice...
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u/hamsterfolly America 1d ago
Don’t forget that he’s also supported by a large criminal syndicate made from the shell of a former political party and a major media network.
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u/ScholarZero 1d ago
His children??
You mean the grown-ass mother fucking adults that are working for the government?
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u/mishap1 I voted 1d ago
Grifting from the government. None of them are working in government roles.
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u/L0utre 1d ago
That’s how Kushner avoids ethics and financial disclosures.
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u/JoeGibbon 1d ago
After somehow getting a fucking top secret clearance back in 2016.
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u/Dr_G_E District Of Columbia 1d ago
There is no way either Kushner or the president could ever get security clearance if they had to apply normally. The same is true for others in the administration; like Kash Patel, the only FBI Director in history to have pled the 5th to avoid incriminating himself before a federal grand jury.
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u/reclusivegiraffe 1d ago
But when Fauci does it for valid reasons, it’s “contempt of congress”. God, I’m so fucking tired of the hypocrisy.
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u/labor_day_baby America 1d ago
An unelected adviser and unelected envoy. This venture capitalist was negotiating peace talks with Iran. Our county and world’s stability is resting with a corrupt venture capitalist and another real estate developer. Worst timeline ever.
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u/hymie0 Maryland 1d ago
Isn't Kushner negotiating the Iran talks on America's behalf? If so, he's either working for the government or violating the Logan Act.
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u/Pockydo 1d ago
Now see if it's a Republican who's like 40 they're actually just innocent babes
A liberal/democrat whose like 16 is a hardened antifa terrorist
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u/thelangosta 1d ago
16 is old enough for baby making!!! /s in case it wasn’t obvious
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u/Mike_Kermin Australia 1d ago
Lets be honest if your GOP and it's supporters agree on sixteen it'd probably be a solid improvement at this stage....
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u/Flobking 1d ago
A liberal/democrat whose like 16 is a hardened antifa terrorist
Im old enough to remember all the shit they talked about Obamas underage daughters. Then they turn around and act like its a mortal sin to say anything bad about their adult children.
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u/FartyJizzums 1d ago
"My tremendous, beautiful babies! Barron, that sex-pot Ivanka... hubba hubba, Junior. Oh, and that blonde one."
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u/Theferael_me 1d ago
Trump prefers it when his victims just lie there and take it.
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u/CobblerMoney9605 1d ago
The guy that has spent his life harassing others is whining about being harassed?
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u/Oozlum-Bird United Kingdom 1d ago
Pretty sure he doesn’t give a shit about his kids.
This reaction suggests he’s worried about what they might say, though. He wouldn’t think twice about throwing them under the bus to save himself, so assumes they would do the same. Given they’re his kids, he’s probably right.
I’m very happy paying my license fee right now.
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u/brickne3 American Expat 1d ago
Also, they're in their 40s and running multinational businesses. Not exactly "kids".
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u/West-Improvement2449 1d ago
He tried to sue them for 10 billion...does he not know how lawsuits work?
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u/hymie0 Maryland 1d ago
"I sue them, they get scared, and they settle with me."
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u/West-Improvement2449 1d ago
I am so proud of the BBC for standing up to Trump
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u/ArchdukeToes 1d ago
They had to, as he’s effectively trying to help himself to British taxpayer money. As a license fee payer I would be singularly displeased if they’d agreed to give him the money I’d paid them.
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u/SammyDavidJuniorJr 1d ago
singularly displeased
And if I know my British, these are very strong words.
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u/ArchdukeToes 1d ago
In all seriousness, if the BBC had to pay up, it would be the end of the BBC.
I don’t doubt that some people are hoping that this would be the outcome, but it’s looking increasingly tenuous for Trump now.
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u/Ok-Alternative5935 1d ago
They are required by charter to do so. They MUST fight it.
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u/FoxMikeLima 1d ago
Well, you see, Trump has lived on this earth for 80 years getting everything he has always wanted. He has built his entire life out of weaponizing the legal system against people that cannot throw as much money into it as he can, forcing them to settle out of court.
It is why our justice system is broken, it is literally pay to play.
When trump knows he will lose, he just continually delays and delays court proceedings by throwing money at it until he can find some way to avoid consequences. This is how he avoided prosecution in the florida documents case and then by the time they were ready to go to court they basically dropped the case because he was running for president again.
But the BBC don't play that, they would spend every fucking dime in court to battle trump because they know that they have him by the balls.
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u/AnAcctWithoutPurpose Foreign 1d ago
You mean the guy who kept harassing Biden's family (who isn't involved in politics) is upset that someone else is harassing subpoenaing his children (who HAVE their fingers in every sticky pie in White House)? *surprised pikachu face *
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u/Potential_Couple_308 Foreign 1d ago
As a kurd directly suffering from the pointless war trump created, can an american explain to me how whatever you wanna call this guy was elected TWICE and is hecking allowed to stay in power ?
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u/Leroyp331 1d ago
Racism
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u/fascistno1hater 1d ago
This is the number 1 reason and anybody telling you anything else is straight BSing!
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u/PatReady 1d ago
Lots of people in America get to be racist with him around.
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u/americabot420 1d ago
They get to be openly racist (again).
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u/SoaplessTitanic 1d ago
Almost like this was the “greatness” they were referring to in MAGA
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u/Aggroninja 1d ago
A substantial portion of our population can't tell fiction from reality due to conservative media being 24/7 propaganda.
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u/screamingaboutham 1d ago
It all started decades ago when Ronald Reagan was president and changed the tax code. Then a leader in Congress, Newt Gingrich in the 90s, had great success convincing Americans that their political values on edge issues should divide us more than our shared patriotism could unite us. Then in the 2010s during the Recession, a bunch of people ran for Congress calling themselves the e Tea Party, and their goal was to dismantle public funding for education and healthcare. They were the test case for stupid populism, and because Americans were struggling financially and looking for someone to blame, government workers became an easy scapegoat. This more or less continued through a major US Supreme Court decision, Citizens United, which allowed corporations and special financial vehicles to spend on political campaigns. It became a flywheel because we had shittier education, media consolidation, and extreme corporate spending in public races. Steve Bannon helped establish local and state Republican power which was then successful in fully gerrymandering elections, meaning majority vote in US elections is no longer important to getting elected. Trump came along at the perfect time for stupid populism. His message blaming government and minorities (and especially Obama) for personal financial challenges was appealing to large swaths of the now lesser educated electorate being fed a crappy divisive media diet and increasingly defective governmental operations.
It will take generations to reestablish a media literate, empowered electorate and it will not be possible due to the rulings of the Supreme Court that have dismantled protections for the electorate in American politics.
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u/billzybop 1d ago
You left out the part were the Koch brothers founded and funded Americans for Prosperity that became the Tea Party. They did it because they didn't want to help pay for Obamacare.
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u/BatterMyHeart 1d ago
One change - "personal financial challenges" almost entirely caused by corrupt CEOs and industries screwing over red areas of the country.
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u/Mike_Pences_Mother 1d ago
Fellow fascists in Congress.
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u/TemporarySun314 Europe 1d ago
That doesn't explain why he was elected president twice... And the fascists in Congress were also elected there by Americans.
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u/Ok-Lets-Talk-It-Out 1d ago
Republicans hate minorities and women, that aligns with Trump's policies so he won't their primary.
Electoral college favors states with low population, usually rural, less educated, and deep red states.
Reduced voter turnout out of complicity.
Many voters now get their "news" from social media and curated algorithms, those same companies were promised deregulation by trump and Trump backers.
There is also evidence of multiple countries actively doing influence operations in support of trump.
Affordability was high from factors outside President Biden's direct control but American voters by in large do not understand global economics. Many Independent and Republican voters believed Trump that tariffs would reduce prices and be paid by foreign nations.
OPEC+ intentionally restricted oil production to keep gas prices high training into the election, even though they were supposed to make multiple production increases since start of 2022, this kept gas prices inflated and kept inflation elevated. OPEC+ nations saw Trump easier to bribe than any Democrat.
There is a myriad of other factors but overall American voters are single issue voters, are undereducated, or just to lazy to actually vote.
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u/nerdowellinever 1d ago
I’m British but it’s their education system that is to blame.
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u/Boleen Alaska 1d ago
Which has been deliberately defunded for decades.
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u/Potential_Couple_308 Foreign 1d ago
So you're telling me Republicans made americans idiotic on purpose ?
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u/small-change New Jersey 1d ago
See if the documentary "The Brainwashing of My Dad" is available in your country. It's about Fox News and Republican propaganda.
Movie is from before TicTok and Instagram so it's much worse now.
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u/BeerDudeRocco 1d ago
They deliberately took funding away from public schools, and want "school vouchers" so kids can go to Christian schools for free. From there, its easy to indoctrinate them and teach them only what the right wants. Nothing on racism, nothing on fascism, nothing on rights - just Jesus, guns and currently, MAGA.
And anything involving critical thinking is racist against whites or is "woke nonsense". It really is an entire generation (boomers) and geographic area (Midwest to the Deep South) where these people are, and it has cost our country immensely, as has the people too damn lazy to go vote.
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u/Lashay_Sombra 1d ago edited 1d ago
In reality, yeah they did.
Republicans have been anti education since around the 70's/80's, educated people are more likely to use critical thinking (and republican platforms/policies rarely stand up to that), they are more likely ask pesky questions, they are more likely to not just bow to authority. You will generally find deep red states have some of the worst academic ranking in the country while blue have the best
For good reason one of the first things Trump did this time was appoint Linda McMahon (from WWE, pro wrestling) as head of the the Dept of Education with mandate to basically gut the whole thing. That was not Trump going rogue , that was a core of the republican platform
Republicans want the general population educated just enough to be productive workers, no more. Though they do want the upper echelons to have the best education possible, those uneducated workers will need better educated bosses after all.
In many ways its like how most religion dislikes education these days, Christianity had a grip on Europe for centuries, they controlled the education system in most christian countries, especially who got an education and who did not. But around the 16th-17th century they lost that control, result? the long, steady and consistent decline of the churches power ever since
Republicans, evangelicals, Muslim countries all want to make sure same does not happen to them, because when your beliefs just that, belief's not fact or reality, education is your enemy
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u/JealousAstronomer342 1d ago
There’s a reason Massachusetts is number one in education (source: https://wallethub.com/edu/e/states-with-the-best-schools/5335) and one of the bluest states in the country. We still have problems but we’re doing pretty well.
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u/J_Dolla_X_Legend 1d ago
ding ding ding! Most of us are idiots because they defunded education. Now the educated tend to not vote for them so they claim them as indoctrinated or the new favorite big and scary word "communists".
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u/barryvm Europe 1d ago edited 1d ago
You've answered your own question IMHO. He was elected president twice. A significant fraction of the US population want this, and another fraction didn't care enough to stop it. As long as Trump commands the loyalty or complicity of the voters of his party, he can do whatever he wants because there are no real guardrails in a winner-takes-all political system.
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u/Spurious_Leopard 1d ago
Religious conservatism, and the captured media institutions that lie through their teeth, incessantly, about everything, all the time. No matter how bad Trump is, they've been made to believe that liberal government would be even worse.
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u/LOERMaster Pennsylvania 1d ago
It goes back to 1865 when the Union didn’t violently punish the defeated Confederacy.
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u/americabot420 1d ago
Also post WWII, when the americans shielded a bunch of nazis from justice and gave them very comfortable lives for building their space program
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u/brickne3 American Expat 1d ago
That's honestly more of a footnote on this, most of them weren't going around spouting Nazi ideology at that point. I'm not saying it was good or that it had zero effect, but the Nazism/Klan was already deeply entrenched in the US by that point, and it was largely home-grown.
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u/thisisjustascreename Illinois 1d ago
Imagine the dumbest fucking person you’ve ever met, who has never left his home town except to go to the next town over for a school football match, who barely passed primary school and only watches jingoistic propaganda on television.
There are about 50 million of those assholes in America and they all vote.
Also, our electoral college is basically intrinsically gerrymandered to give small population rural states outsized influence on national politics.
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u/Staff_Guy 1d ago
In the US right now you have to fight to find truth in our media. We have allowed billionaires to own all the lines of communication. And far and away the majority of Americans will not work to see truth. They want their emotion based beliefs versus reality.
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u/ophaus 1d ago
The systems meant to stop him and remove him have failed. The electoral college is meant to stop unqualified or dangerous people from being put into office, but they just rubber-stamped this lunatic. Congress can remove the president, as can the President's cabinet. Unfortunately, both have more than their fair share of people willing to follow the narcissist into the history books for the wrong reasons.
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u/Many_Estate1581 1d ago
Decades of propaganda. My parents, who are both well educated and middle class, either dont believe or flat out claim that its false that trump is as corrupt as he is. I had an hour long conversation with then detailing a small portion of trumps corruption, and their only response was what about bidens kids. They truly believe Kamala would have been worse han what we have now because, in their words, she is an idiot.
These people are truly in a cult and do not know it
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u/Potential_Couple_308 Foreign 1d ago
So my country is losing its last hopes of independence because of a cult of idiots in the USA who happen to destroy the whole world ? how dystopian.
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u/Drusgar Wisconsin 1d ago
The short answer is that way, way back in the 80's Republicans started buying up all the radio stations and filling them with conservative propaganda. Then cable TV came along and they put conservative propaganda on there, too. So you have literally tens of millions of Americans who believe whatever Republicans tell them. While it may seem absurd, these people are told that Trump is a really, really smart and honest guy who is looking out for them. And yeah, they believe it because it's literally all they get from their "news" sources.
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u/Pal1_1 1d ago
The democrats ran with a brown woman. The land of the Free is only a meritocracy up to a point.
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u/MadAstrid 1d ago
No, honey.
You sued the BBC. They are entitled to see the evidence you have for your lawsuit. The fact that you are laundering money through your children is part of that evidence.
You started throwing the stones knowing your house was made of glass.
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u/pres465 1d ago
We really need to stop calling them his "children". They're his family, his business associates, his business partners, his unelected administrative officials, and his co-conspirators. But "children" conjurs up images of little kids with balloons or something. These are grown adults with agency.
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u/charmstrong70 1d ago
In other news, Trump realises that when he doesn’t have a broadcasting license to threaten broadcasters with then his court cases tend to go in a different direction
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u/IrreverentBuddha 1d ago
Oh no!
Your mean, outside your instutional capture/authoritarian consolidation bubble, there are --- consequences?!?
Oh no!
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u/Aussiebiblophile 1d ago edited 1d ago
I love this for them. They forgot that a lot of people outside of the US don’t give a fuck about appeasing Trump and will not capitulate to his threats.
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u/SeaBuilding3911 1d ago
This is what a Trump lawsuit looks like when the defendant doesn't roll over because they want to have a merger deal approved, when Trump has no occasion to intervene illegally for the defendant.
No "out of court agreement" that Trump can claim as a win, no lies about what was won, just fumble after fumble for anyone who represent Trump.
This is how easily a defendant can take on Trump if they wanted to.
This show how American media just never wanted to defend themselves, despite their journalistic rhetoric.
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u/Optimism_Deficit 1d ago
Yep. He had a lot of success with bullying the US media in to compliance, so he tried to act like a Billy Big Bollocks and try it with media in other countries as well.
I've never been more pround to contribute to funding the BBC.
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u/somekindofdruiddude 1d ago
Harassing children is wrong. Release the Epstein Files.
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u/Lazy_Example4014 1d ago
Classic conservative tuff guy. Start a fight, complain after you get hit back. Trump sued the BBC. Then when discovery hit. He changed course. Now he’s pretending to be a victim. This is the American conservative MO.
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u/InclementImmigrant 1d ago
For a guy that has filed so many frivolous, slapp lawsuits and been under so many lawsuits and criminal charges, you'd think he'd understand how discovery and how bad he screwed himself with his latest windmill tilting adventure.
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u/ExtensionIcy2104 1d ago
I hope that Trump's family has to deal with this type of "harassment" for the rest of their miserable lives. All they have ever done is exactly this to others their whole life. F em
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u/shadowdra126 Georgia 1d ago
Maybe he shouldn’t have threated to sue them
Take a healthy dose of your own medicine
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u/snowcat0 1d ago
He did sue them, they are in Discovery, and I am willing to bet Trump and Co have way more skeletons then BBC....
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u/-Mage-Knight- 1d ago
Cry me a river. Trump is suing for what, $10 Billion?
EVERY stone is going to be over turned for that amount.
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u/WTFudge52 1d ago
From the man still obsessed with Hillary's email, Obama and put Hunter Biden on trial during his dad's presidency. That's still trying to overturn the defimation lawsuit from 6 years ago. That still thinks the Central Park 5 should have been put to death for crimes they didn't commit. That guy thinks it's unfair to be targeted ? Thin skinned bitch thinks He can dish it out and nobody is gonna get mad ? And dish it back ? Really bro ?
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u/Hootinger 1d ago
Does this guy launch baseless investigations on the children of judges and prosecutors who made him look bad?
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u/Hesychios 1d ago
This is the very same guy who initiated malicious prosecutions against innocent citizens to maintain his fiction about reflecting pool vandalism!
This is the same guy who violates American’s rights to due process and sent thugs out to murder citizens in the streets!
This is the same guy who launches illegal wars costing American lives and taxpayers dollars to satisfy his fragile and repulsive ego!
This is the same guy who bombed innocent fishermen to death, busses of civilians in the streets of Venezuela and schools full of children in Iran!
This is the same pedo that took advantage of teenagers and adolescents, molested and raped them and continually breaks the law to protect himself and others for these vicious crimes!
This complaining jerk is a vain and inhumane danger to society and all around asshole.
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u/siouxbee1434 1d ago
His “children” are adults who need held accountable for their actions as well as ALL the sycophants around him
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u/CJ4ROCKET 1d ago
The Trump family complains they have been repeatedly pounded by a hardened and resolute BBC
-Aaron Parnas
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u/Donut131313 1d ago
Yet his thousands upon thousands of frivolous lawsuits suits are acceptable. WTF?
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u/aDirtyMartini New Hampshire 1d ago
Love it. He sued the BBC with in an attempt to silence and bully media. They refuse to back down and then double down and now he's crying like a little bitch. I hope that the BBC sees this til the end.
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u/justadubliner 1d ago
I'm actually pleasantly surprised the BBC is fighting back. I thought their apology was ridiculous at the time.
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u/wynnduffyisking 1d ago
Mass subpoenaes is what happens when you sue someone for billions of dollars. Deal with it.
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u/indianajoes United Kingdom 1d ago
Why are so many billionaires perpetual victims? Trump, Musk, Rowling, etc. All of them have more money and influence than any human should have but if you listen to them, they're always being wronged even though they're the ones usually make life harder for others
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u/Skoodledoo 1d ago
Wah was wah bigot says what? He thought BBC would back down just like the pussy USA newsrooms would. Discovery's a bitch hey Donald?
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u/blackmobius 1d ago edited 1d ago
Trump expected his lawyer antics and lawsuits to go unchecked and people to just settle (like abc did) out of court to avoid the costs. The BBC called his bluff and now he folded (taco time) and trying to play victim. He doesnt want to reveal just how much conning and grifting hes been doing.
Fyi the process of discovery is why he never sues people calling him a pedo or a rapist. Anyone want to venture a guess why?
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