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Weakness Is a Provocation - (ABC News and the corporate surrender to Trump)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/weakness-is-a-provocationJonathan V. Last
Dec 16, 2024
Excerpt:
(3) The media has already capitulated.
Over at the Los Angeles Times the billionaire owner is openly putting his thumb on the scale to make the paper more hospitable to Trump. Writers and editors at the Washington Post are running for the exits as Bezos’s new Trump-friendly publisher mucks about. Time magazine named Trump “Man of the Year” and the magazine’s owner said that Trump’s election “marks a time of great promise” for America and that “we look forward to working together.”1
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski presented themselves at Trump’s court to reset their relationship and then discovered a delicate sensibility concerning on-air criticism of Trump cabinet nominees.
And now Disney has cut off ABC News at the knees and put everyone in its news division on notice that they will not be supported by corporate if they make enemies with Trump world.
. . . more - https://www.thebulwark.com/p/weakness-is-a-provocation
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/gop-senate-candidate-j-d-vance-says-trump-views-suck-n1273303?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
“My intuition with Trump, it's interesting, I think that he gets a certain kick out of people kissing his a--,” Vance told NBC News in a telephone interview Wednesday. “But I also think he thinks that people who kiss his a-- all the time are pretty weak.”
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Trump::::: JD is kissing my ass
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I Kissed Trump's ass after he called my wife ugly.
“My intuition with Trump, it's interesting, I think that he gets a certain kick out of people kissing his a--,” Vance told NBC News in a telephone interview Wednesday. “But I also think he thinks that people who kiss his a-- all the time are pretty weak.”
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Trump::::: JD is kissing my ass
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I Kissed Trump's ass after he called my wife ugly.