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maxrandb

(16,870 posts)
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 09:17 PM Jul 31

The American Media fucking sucks!

Seriously! I just watched the NBC National News. They interviewed the family of Virginia Guiffrie about the prospect of a pardon for Giselle Maxwell.

In a moment of cognitive dissonance, I had an epiphany.

How in the fuck did we get to a point in America where pardoning a fucking pedophilic rapist monster, is presented as SOMETHING THAT EVEN HAS A GOD DAMNED PROSPECT of becoming reality?

What the ever-loving FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!

The media presents it as just something fucking normal, where we need to examine "both-sides".

In what fucking world, does a family of a pedophile rape victim, have to fucking plead and ask that the fucking president doesn't pardon her fucking rapist?

My fucking God! It's like pedophile rape has become like a God Damned Clairol commercial. "Does she, or doesn't she get a pardon"?

That's what we are asking? Like it's a normal course of events, to "ponder", if the asshatted president is going to pardon a sexual abuser of children?????!!!!!!

Gee, I guess we'll just have to see...

"back to you Andrea"....

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Initech

(106,427 posts)
1. Well, it all goes back to that piece of shit radio host who took over the GOP.
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 09:25 PM
Jul 31

Nearly all of our current problems were caused by Rush Limbaugh and they were further broken by Rupert Murdoch.

BaronChocula

(3,409 posts)
7. Exactly
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 11:39 PM
Jul 31

He turned an already repugnant party into a band of soccer hooligans. Hating liberals and taking over became the objective over policy.

JT45242

(3,642 posts)
10. It goes further back. At least to Truman protecting the America First Nazi collaborators
Fri Aug 1, 2025, 12:20 AM
Aug 1

Truman fired and silenced the special counsel who found that most of America First leaders from WW2 were Nazi collaborators. Instead of arresting, trying, and convicting them of treason with the penalties that go with that up to and including the death penalty, Truman said "they were good people."

I could argue that not doing the same for the leaders of the Confederacy is the ultimate root cause.

Kid Berwyn

(22,026 posts)
12. OSS, then CIA, lied to Truman
Fri Aug 1, 2025, 09:31 AM
Aug 1

Those interested may want to read David Talbot:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24723229-the-devil-s-chessboard

Not weird now this important work was ignored by Corporate McPravda, whose job once was to uphold and defend democracy but mutated into protecting the criminally rich and their operations.

TheFarseer

(9,669 posts)
2. It's not even as if
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 09:29 PM
Jul 31

Maxwell did this when she was very young and she’s an old lady that’s not a danger to anyone and she’s a different person. This was only a couple years ago and she’s still a sociopath that would probably do it again!

Deuxcents

(24,208 posts)
3. I'll tell ya, maxrandb..I asked the same question when the SC said they'd discuss this issue in September.
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 09:42 PM
Jul 31

What is there to discuss?

Rhiannon12866

(243,843 posts)
4. Here's the NBC News video for those who missed it:
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 11:04 PM
Jul 31
Family of Virginia Giuffre urges Trump not to pardon Ghislaine Maxwell - NBC News
https://democraticunderground.com/132153598


moniss

(8,125 posts)
5. Amen brother and it's classic how the
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 11:07 PM
Jul 31

big media has been acting about this matter. They might report this or that "discovery" but they report the denials as though they have equal weight when they know very well that Crumb the 1st lies about absolutely everything. But they won't use the word "lie" or "liar" they just report the denial and roll on.

maxrandb

(16,870 posts)
11. Sure, and meanwhile
Fri Aug 1, 2025, 09:21 AM
Aug 1

Dipshits like Rogan, Kirk, Musk and the thousands of other cookie-cutter fascist fucksticks, tell their thousands of incel mouthbreathers how, "maybe Maxwell was targeted by partisans".

EVERY God Damned Drunk Uncle sitting at a neighborhood VFW, smoking cigarettes through a hole in their throat, have been given the same credibility as Walter Fucking Cronkite!

I don't know how we fix it.

Gaugamela

(3,015 posts)
6. And everybody knows the president will do it to cover his own ass
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 11:21 PM
Jul 31

because his repulsive DNA is all over the files and he was obviously complicit in the pedophile racket. It’s surreal.

BurnDoubt

(1,067 posts)
9. So... will there be some outward manifestation...
Fri Aug 1, 2025, 12:19 AM
Aug 1

When we have achieved The Greatification, or will there be anyone left to tell us?

Paladin

(31,684 posts)
13. The national media will be ZERO HELP to us, in reclaiming the country.
Fri Aug 1, 2025, 09:49 AM
Aug 1

We're going to have to fight for it---in the streets, at public talk sessions where Republican politicos are still willing to face the public. I just hope it isn't already too late...

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