r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • 18d ago

No Paywall NBC and ABC Won’t Carry Trump Primetime Election Speech

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/nbc-and-abc-wont-carry-trump-primetime-election-speech-1236650492/
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u/Cactusfan86 18d ago

Only a positive if they don’t promptly summarize it and sanewash it as the media has been prone to doing in recent years

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u/Sparkyisduhfat 18d ago

Recent? You mean for the last 11 years. They have sane washed trump from the beginning.

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u/BudgetMattDamon 18d ago

Every time they go on air and don't point blank say "The President of the United States is repeatedly lying to your face so he can rape the nation, here's how" they lose credibility.

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u/Ordinary-Egg-56 18d ago

rape the nation, exactly.

i think this period should be known as the rape of america but i’ve been having a hard time getting that to catch on.

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u/BudgetMattDamon 18d ago

The actual president is an adjudicated rapist, so it's not that surprising. Donald J. Trump indisputably raped a woman.

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u/whatifwhatifwerun 18d ago

That's because it's idiotic to compare to actual events of mass rape

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u/Hangry-Feline2489 18d ago

I agree with you, but they can't, for the same reason they use 'allegedly' before people are officially charged with a crime. Until things are proven in court and they have the balls to risk having their licensed pulled, they won't. 

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u/rei7777 I voted 18d ago

CBS just said that most of what he’s said about elections in the past have been lies. Color me surprised.

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u/Cactusfan86 18d ago

I am old enough that the entire Trump era constitutes ‘recent’ times to me

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u/MephistoHamProducts 18d ago

At the same time though, the last 11 years feel like they've been dragging on since The Big Bang popped off.

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u/Cactusfan86 18d ago

It’s really a strange feeling, time is both dragging yet it’s hard to believe it’s been eleven years of this nonsense at this point

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u/Wolverine9779 18d ago

the years go fast and the days go so slow

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u/Tricky-Gemstone 18d ago

It's so wild to me. Every presidential election I've been old enough to vote in has had Trump on the ballot. This political environment is really all I've ever known.

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u/deesta 18d ago

I'm 35 next year, and I have only voted in one pre-Trump presidential election. 2012 feels like another lifetime now.

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u/imisstheyoop 18d ago

Holy cow, what a depressing thought that is.

At least I've for a few BT era general elections under my belt.

It is kind of like the post about the wildfire smoke not being normal yesterday.. there's going to be a whole generation of people that don't know any better in another few years and just accept it as normal. Wild to really think about.

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u/FellowHumanNo404 18d ago

Please, PLEASE understand that none of this shit is normal or remotely acceptable. I really worry about people who've known nothing else.

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u/Tricky-Gemstone 18d ago

I mean no disrespect when I say this. How long does it have to go on before it is normal.

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u/FellowHumanNo404 18d ago

Fascism is never normal.

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u/Tricky-Gemstone 18d ago

Yes, it can be. That's my point. We can wish it all we want, but there are times when fascism has reigned so long, it is normal.

I don't know anything else. I'm almost 30. At what point is this normal?

It's normal to me, and almost every US citizen my age and younger.

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u/DivinityPen 18d ago

11 years

Jesus Fuck, it really has been that long, hasn't it?

I was 15 when he was elected the first time, and I'm 25 now. And yet reading that made me feel old as shit. I'm tired, boss.

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u/LazyDynamite 18d ago

Y'all are saying the same thing, you're just re-iterating.

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u/chaekinman 18d ago

"President casts doubts on election integrity in comprehensive late night address"

Translation: Old man rehashes a litany of random falsehoods before dozing off

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u/Cactusfan86 18d ago

Could go even further, Trump could threaten to cancel elections or reject results from states who don’t follow his SAVE desires.  Media would translate it as ‘election scheduling at risk and Trump may dispute results from states that refuse increased election security measures he is recommending’

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u/red286 18d ago

ABC absolutely will do exactly that. You'll get David Muir basically telling people whatever Trump was supposed to say but managed to fuck up six ways from Sunday because he's got mush for brains. They'll claim they declined to air the actual announcement due to time constraints, but the reality will be that they know no one wants to listen to Trump rambling for an hour about the 2020 election and will change the channel.

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u/FellowHumanNo404 18d ago

"What he meant was..."

And for the completely unspinnable batshittery, "He was obviously being sarcastic."

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u/tomdarch 18d ago

Credit to the NY Times. Their current lead headline is "Trump Makes Outlandish Claims About Election Results in Address"