r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 16h ago

Soft Paywall Obama Breaks Silence on Trump’s ‘Unimaginable’ Presidency - “Imagine if I had done any of this,” the former two-term president said.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obama-breaks-silence-on-trumps-unimaginable-presidency/
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u/Be-skeptical 15h ago

When this national nightmare is over we have to come for FoxNews

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u/Smaynard6000 Florida 15h ago

There needs to be accountability for spreading lies and disinformation in mass media. This bullshit is destroying America.

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u/Bluffwatcher 14h ago

FOX in the hen house.

Clues in the name.

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u/Be-skeptical 14h ago

And it all is intentional! As far as I’m concerned it is an attack  

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u/Proper_Lead_1623 10h ago

We used to have the Fairness Doctrine but it was revoked in a unanimous vote by 4 sitting FCC commissioners (3 appointed by Reagan and 1 by Nixon) in 1987. I was too young to remember it but my dad cites that decision as the start of the shit show that our media currently is.

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u/rjcarr 5h ago

If fox news dies five new worse outlets will spring up that they’ll flock to.

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u/DrawohYbstrahs 14h ago

Please come for the Murdoch’s. For fucks sake somebody’s surely gotta.

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u/tarogon 14h ago

You have that the wrong way around. You all (Americans) need to go after Fox News, Zuck, Bezos, etc., etc., etc. (the list is very long) in order to end your nightmare.

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u/Be-skeptical 14h ago

We have to start somewhere

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u/MBCnerdcore 13h ago

We have to start sometime

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u/Be-skeptical 10h ago

Looks like that time might be now

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u/MBCnerdcore 10h ago

What better time than now?

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u/weliveintrashytimes 10h ago

Problem is it’s extended over to YouTube and all social media, Fox News created the environment, but all these algorithms and tech companies/tech bros are thriving with these. I’d say gamergate was the real start of seeing the effects of this radicalization working.

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u/SaltyLonghorn 14h ago

Their viewers still have signs in their yards all over letting you know who they are.

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u/Spiderpiggie 14h ago

There are too many people in the US eating up what this idiot is serving, its never going to be over. When Trump is gone the next guy will step into his oversized lifted boots.

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u/urban_mystic_hippie Minnesota 13h ago

Why wait? Faux News has been a cancer on the United States far too long.

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u/MBCnerdcore 13h ago

You have it completely wrong. Until you come for Fox News, it won't be able to be over.

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u/Morganross 10h ago

Those aren't separate things

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u/Lookimindaair 10h ago

Why not before?

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u/No_Fail_1325 7h ago

I heard that FOX News was going to go down..

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u/CombFuture6680 13h ago

Who says it will be as waiting 4 years. He has mentioned running for another term or having his son succeed him. There is only one way to stop this imo but no one will do it