Treating the Federal Communications Commission like his own personal enforcer, Donald Trump said on social media Sunday that NBC’s Kristen Welker would be “reported to the FCC for rebuke or punishment” over a TV segment he didn’t like.
In a separate post, Trump complained in all caps about “fake polls” and said “something must be done about it,” adding, “FCC to the rescue!”
The posts were Trump’s most explicit efforts yet to direct the FCC to carry out his wishes. FCC Chair Brendan Carr, a Trump appointee and close ally, did not respond to CNN’s request for comment on the matter.
Two answers. Either racism, or because there was a genocide being done somewhere else by someone else, and it was easier to let him be elected than it was to vote for a candidate who didn’t expressly say she would do enough about it, also, he said he would make the genocide much worse and would get us more involved in it.
You are assigning way too much intent here
1/3 of the country just didn’t give a shit
A bunch of the other 1/3 had tons of reasons but most of them were really really stupid. “He said he is going to give me more money” was definitely a real chunk. A bunch of the other chunk was “democrat bad” brainwashing or “stuck it to the libs”.
Racism is mixed in there a good bit but studies have shown most of the reasons were even more brainless
We all saw the wave of social media activity in 2024 all centered around “Don’t vote for Kamala because she isn’t vocal enough against israel” while ignoring “Donald Drumpf is literally promising to make the genocide worse.”
And now you want to say we’re assigning too much intent? Like we’re just supposed to pretend that didn’t happen and we didn’t see it?
We’re not maga republicans here, our memories are not that short. Don’t gaslight us.
Yeah, it’s a lemmy comment. I decided to type up a quick snarky comment rather than write a poli-sci doctoral dissertation on the Social, Economic and Racial influence during the 2024 US General Election cycle and their effect on the outcome on the Office of the President.
There’s a pretty wide gap between “shitty take” and “doctoral thesis”
My point though was more just that I hate seeing it boiled down to these two things because it’s really not the answer. It’s too easy to just dismiss 2/3 of the country as racists/Israel supporters and won’t help anything. But I see it a lot.
Well, you left out the billionaires who knew trump was going to slash taxes for the weahthy and open up the government to be pay-to-play. Oh, and there are the odd-jobs in the black community who vote Republicans because they feel like Dems pander toward minorities without every actually helping them, and at least Republicans are honest about being racist assholes. There were also people who wanted the war in Ukraine to end, and Trump said he would end that on day one. I also remember people talking about getting to the truth of the 2020 election. And there were people who wanted to secure the Dobbs SC ruling and go even further to ban abortion and birth control at a federal level. Oh, and crypto bros who wanted their shit to be unregulated…
These are just scratching the surface, I’m looking forward to your full comment where you pick apart the nuances within each of those groups and add in a few thousand more. Really hate to see politics “boiled down” to just a few things.
Dude, you said there were two reasons, either racism or genocide endorsement. My problem wasn’t that this wasn’t nuanced enough, but that it excluded the main reasons.
But jeeze, settle down