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Chasstev365

(7,743 posts)
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 10:50 AM Monday

Not ONE reporter has the guts to ask the following to an elected Republican:

"Senator or Congressman/women:

When have you ever voted against Trump in either of his terms?

Why has the Republican Party ceeded all it's power to Donald Trump?

Name ONE THING you have done to improve the lives of average people in your district.


What the Republican plan to bring down high prices?


The corporate media SUCKS!!!

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Not ONE reporter has the guts to ask the following to an elected Republican: (Original Post) Chasstev365 Monday OP
Here's my question: 3 actually- FalloutShelter Monday #1
Better than mine! Chasstev365 Monday #4
Dear Member of Congress, young_at_heart Monday #12
Obviously popsdenver Monday #19
Don't worry. NCDem47 Monday #2
Good call. BadgerKid Monday #3
In the heyday of newspaper reporting... GiqueCee Monday #13
Yellow tabloids and mudslinging were common. Now its propaganda and social media innuendo and lies. erronis Monday #21
The billionaire media owners have to protect their investment FakeNoose Monday #28
That's a given... GiqueCee Monday #30
Media is lazy: the Rump creates daily news for them. Onthefly Yesterday #34
Absolutely Chasstev365 Monday #5
You can count on that happening. Katinfl Monday #10
Do you care about the rape and abuse of women and children ala Epstein? Vthestate Monday #6
Access ._. Monday #7
Access to what? Unchallenged lies? Chasstev365 Monday #8
Not being allowed in a room with him would be a blessing for me. MIButterfly Monday #9
Seems like a lot of news outlets without access are doing a much better job at reporting. erronis Monday #22
Yup. And double yup. Joinfortmill Monday #11
Start with Sen Cornyn The worst "Rubber Stamp" ever. flying_wahini Monday #14
Did you know that Politicians evade questions they don't like? maxsolomon Monday #15
So we shouldn't bother to ask uncomfortable questions? Chasstev365 Monday #16
Asking leading, yes or no, or confrontational questions is going to get an evasion. maxsolomon Monday #20
If the whole press gaggle were to agree to ask follow-up questions after the first was avoided, erronis Monday #23
The few times I recall press follow-ups was during the 1st MFer Admin, and you're right, they worked. He folded. maxsolomon Monday #24
Jesus-Justfied-Hate czarjak Monday #17
Do you support the release of the multigraincracker Monday #18
The media needs to include and the GOP congress when they attribute anything to Dump. mdbl Monday #25
All of us wish we had done something different in our lives. Prairie_Seagull Monday #26
Where I live Diraven Monday #27
Here's the question I'd like them to ask: mcar Monday #29
If you are asking a question about data center... Josiesdad Monday #31
agreed Evolve Dammit Monday #32
It's up to us to completely reject them and use other sources. Every time we click on them Scrivener7 Yesterday #33
I see your point lonely bird Yesterday #35
The vacuum will fill. By being on those sites, we're also Scrivener7 Yesterday #36

FalloutShelter

(14,441 posts)
1. Here's my question: 3 actually-
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 10:54 AM
Monday

GOP Congresscritters:

How can you, in good conscience, continue to support this maniac? How can you allow this, obviously mentally disturbed individual to remain in office?
Why is there no call for resignation or removal?

By the way... all of these questions could be posed to the MSM


Asking for a friend.


young_at_heart

(4,037 posts)
12. Dear Member of Congress,
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 12:05 PM
Monday

Forget those questions about Trump. Instead, can you wrap your head around the future for your children, your grandchildren? Can you think ahead just a little for the life YOU and your friends are making for them? All the children and grandchildren, etc. are innocent VICTIMS in this morass of your making and I guess you don't give a damn?? Well, that tells us what type of human you are......no one worth having as a father, husband, friend, son, daughter, etc. How on earth do you sleep at night knowing your lack of action or attention is causing a future not worth living.....a future full of pain and discordance. Dare I say, MIISERY? Please make yourself have a little (or a lot) of cognitive thinking about what Trump is doing to this country......maybe your eyes will open just a bit!!!

popsdenver

(2,242 posts)
19. Obviously
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 12:44 PM
Monday

The ENTIRE Republican Party, and the Republican Owned/Operated main stream media could care less what anyone asks them.....they are on a roll, and taking glee in rolling over anyone and everyone in the lower 99%......

NCDem47

(3,460 posts)
2. Don't worry.
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 10:56 AM
Monday

The media will gain their nerve back when a Democrat returns to the WH. They’ll harass every Dem to perpetuate the narrative that our party is in disarray.

BadgerKid

(4,998 posts)
3. Good call.
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 11:00 AM
Monday

The Republicans' own drama is the news. Otherwise, the media has to create the drama.

GiqueCee

(4,182 posts)
13. In the heyday of newspaper reporting...
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 12:17 PM
Monday

... editors were every bit as amoral as they are now. The standard was, "If it bleeds, it leads". And "creating the drama" often took very dark turns.
William Randolph Hearst was a glaring an obscene example of a ruthless, sociopathic newspaper mogul. Now we have the likes of Jeff "Bozo" Bezos, who has the moral compass of a rabid hyena.
I use that phrase a lot these days, I know, but it describes these greedy monsters perfectly. I long for the day when I can retire it, but I hold little hope that I'll live that long, even though I'm in pretty good shape for someone who'll turn 80 next year.

erronis

(23,806 posts)
21. Yellow tabloids and mudslinging were common. Now its propaganda and social media innuendo and lies.
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 12:58 PM
Monday

FakeNoose

(41,519 posts)
28. The billionaire media owners have to protect their investment
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 02:18 PM
Monday

... they can't afford to lose access to Chump, and that's exactly what would happen if they squeaked a tiny word against him. They're scared shitless that they'll be banned from the White House, or the Pentagon press room. That's why they never challenge him.

GiqueCee

(4,182 posts)
30. That's a given...
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 02:37 PM
Monday

... in the dark age of Trumpism. I wonder how hard it would be to make it impossible for him – or anyone that follows after him – to ban reporters from the People's House, the Pentagon, or any government agency, save those areas where some degree of secrecy is necessary.

Onthefly

(1,281 posts)
34. Media is lazy: the Rump creates daily news for them.
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 07:17 AM
Yesterday

And the Rump continues to enrich the media overlords. The wellbeing of most citizens or the rule of law does not matter.

Vthestate

(48 posts)
6. Do you care about the rape and abuse of women and children ala Epstein?
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 11:15 AM
Monday

Why are we waiting for transparency and obedience from the administration...for the Epstein Files.
When will charges be filed against those obstructing the release of ALL of the files?
Does the GOP think this is the way the Pres should "take care" to enforce the constitution?

._.

(1,822 posts)
7. Access
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 11:17 AM
Monday

The Corporate Media wants access.
They know one "wrong" question and their people won't be allowed in the same room with Trump.

MIButterfly

(2,663 posts)
9. Not being allowed in a room with him would be a blessing for me.
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 11:31 AM
Monday

I can't even stand to see him on the TV; I can't imagine how horrid it would be to be in close proximity.

I shudder to think. That's the stuff nightmares are made of. That they actually want that, well, better them than me.

If they're so worried about keeping their jobs and access, they should DO their jobs, which is reporting, not merely taking dictation.

erronis

(23,806 posts)
22. Seems like a lot of news outlets without access are doing a much better job at reporting.
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 01:02 PM
Monday

I don't know who's in or out, but The Guardian, ProPublica, BBC, NPR/PBS, MSNOW are doing some excellent reporting.

And all the fantastic bloggers - some of whom used to work in the government or for the current M$M.

maxsolomon

(38,666 posts)
15. Did you know that Politicians evade questions they don't like?
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 12:19 PM
Monday

Even yes or no questions?

It's true!

maxsolomon

(38,666 posts)
20. Asking leading, yes or no, or confrontational questions is going to get an evasion.
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 12:55 PM
Monday

They're not going to result in any revelatory.

Professional, "corporate" reporters know this.

erronis

(23,806 posts)
23. If the whole press gaggle were to agree to ask follow-up questions after the first was avoided,
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 01:04 PM
Monday

I think the atmosphere in the room would change dramatically. I can see trump and his spokes-thing turning around and running out of the room. That would be a fun scene as the cameras keep rolling....

maxsolomon

(38,666 posts)
24. The few times I recall press follow-ups was during the 1st MFer Admin, and you're right, they worked. He folded.
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 01:27 PM
Monday

But this MFer Admin has learned a thing or 2 and so has MFer.

The MFer Admin and Repuke Congress is stacked top to bottom with seasoned, practiced, conscience-free liars. They THINK in lies.

The WH press gaggle is now saturated with RW Media and "Influencers" who will short-circuit follow-ups.

Worst comes to worst, MFer just insults the reporter (you're a horrible person, you're fake news) or moves on to a question he likes.

So sure, we all wish there was some way to get these fuckers to be honest about facts or intentions, but THEY WILL NOT.

We live in hell.

mdbl

(8,636 posts)
25. The media needs to include and the GOP congress when they attribute anything to Dump.
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 01:44 PM
Monday

They are all complicit and do not follow their oath to the Constitution.

Prairie_Seagull

(4,677 posts)
26. All of us wish we had done something different in our lives.
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 01:54 PM
Monday

Regrets right.

Ask stumpy if he has any regrets in his personal life. Of course he will answer no.

Of course.

Diraven

(1,891 posts)
27. Where I live
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 02:17 PM
Monday

All Republican candidates proudly "stand with president Trump" 100% of the time in their ads. I hate it here.

mcar

(45,991 posts)
29. Here's the question I'd like them to ask:
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 02:28 PM
Monday

Q: Republican Senator/Congressman, you claim to agree with President Trump that the 2020 election was stolen. You were re-elected in ?2020. Does that mean your election was fraudulent?

Josiesdad

(65 posts)
31. If you are asking a question about data center...
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 02:58 PM
Monday

I assume you have studied the business model of xyz data center and you know both their revenue centers and parts of their organizations that will voraciously consume community resources... with this in mind, do you see your role as one that aggressively seeks tax loopholes for xyz Corp or are you also looking to change the tax code to capitalize on their accumulation of wealth?

Scrivener7

(59,448 posts)
33. It's up to us to completely reject them and use other sources. Every time we click on them
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 06:48 AM
Yesterday

or tune in, they make money.

We can make them shrivel up and die, but only by all doing it together.

lonely bird

(2,932 posts)
35. I see your point
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 08:27 AM
Yesterday

The only problem is that we would have more RW “influencers” spewing nonsense as news.

The only thing possibly worse than the gutless corporate media is the complete fracturing of media where everyone is media.

Scrivener7

(59,448 posts)
36. The vacuum will fill. By being on those sites, we're also
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 09:29 AM
Yesterday

platforming those right wing loons.

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