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1·2 months agoThen so much of the article that the difference between that and the entire article is trivial. Same solution though.
You’re posting good articles from good sources. The mods aren’t looking for excuses to remove them. But the admins also shouldn’t have to take on legal exposure they aren’t comfortable with without consent.
Your post just can’t be copyright infringement. You were posting the entire article. Just post a couple of paragraphs. It ain’t that hard - just look at other posts in any of the news communities. If you make an effort at fair use, no one is going to delete your post. Just do 3 paragraphs or less if you’re really worried about it. Easy.
Sure, I should’ve stuck to a strict definition of the poorly defined thing that you “suppose” means something that wasn’t at all indicated in the comment. Makes sense.
The comment made two claims:
- We are outraged about this
- We are not outraged about the targeting of the left
I said:
- We can be outraged about more than one thing.
- What evidence do you have to support your second claim?
Using “we” or “no one” is immaterial in that sentence in this context. It’s not more than just not repeating the same words again and again for readability. No sensible person took that to be an ask for evidence that literally not one single person was outraged. The crux of the question, as written above, is “What evidence supports your claim?” Using your assumed definition, I’d have the same question about both claims instead of just one. My main point that we can be outraged about more than one thing would be unchanged.
Why are you acting like an apologist for normalizing the increasing psychopathy of the American society?
I’m not. You’re just failing to think clearly.
I have no idea what they’re individually doing or not doing.
But in the interest of national unity, I’ll join you in the most Canadian of pastimes: talking shit about Americans.
Fuck you, you American bastards! Fix your dumb country, you fucking hosers.
You sound tough, Captain Discomfort. What you bench bro?
Also, I’m Canadian. Not particularly interested in being a good American. Or any kind, really.
We can be outraged about more than one thing.
What is your basis for saying no one is outraged about this administration targeting leftists? I’ve seen nothing but outrage.
2·3 months agoStay in your lane, Mac Observer!
About Trump? I doubt we have any disagreement about that. Not about who he is, what he is, what he wants, or how he behaves.
The only question I’m really asking here is: why is the reporting from this single Australian news organization so wildly out of step with every other news organization on the planet?
Which makes it no different than his recent comments:
Donald Trump Fuels Third-Term Speculation After Saying He’d Like To Be ‘Next President’ (yesterday)
Donald Trump Mocked Over Word Flub After Joking About Running for Third Term as President (July 22)
Trump blends economic message with third-term tease in Pa. (June 23)
Also, that’s a gross metaphor.
I don’t disagree with you.
But that has no bearing on whether this story is true. The claim is that he has “announced a re-election bid.” He hasn’t. And you know this – your recent comments are about him cloaking his intent or desire in feigned humour. I don’t disagree that he’s doing that. But, he does not need to do that if he has actually announced a re-election bid.
Sure. I mean, in this context it’s probably more trolling than that. Why test the waters in a room full of people who despise you? But that’s completely immaterial to whether this story is true. If the headline was “Trump indicates for the nth time he really wants a third term”, that would at least be defensible. It says that he has announced a re-election bid. He has not.
I think the reason no one’s reporting it is that it just isn’t a story. Trump makes comments like this all the time. There’s a difference between him making them and him actually announcing a re-election bid, which is the claim in the headline and article. Why would he even announce at the White House Correspondents Dinner while he’s bombing on stage? It just makes no sense. This reporting is bad.
There was little laughter in the room as the president’s speech took on a harder edge. Not many people chuckled when he compared the “really beat-up faces” of UFC fighters with those of Bette Midler, Jane Fonda and Bruce Springsteen.
Mr. Trump seemed to realize he was losing the room. After a joke he told about the gerontocracy on Capitol Hill bombed, he said: “That was actually the only thing I thought was good in this whole fricking stupid speech. It was the only good one, and that went down with not exactly great laughter.”
He threw his arms up in exasperation and people started to laugh again.
As his speech reached its conclusion, he pulled out a hat and with a theatrical flourish plopped it on his head. It said, “Trump 2028.” Some clapped. Others laughed. Most of the reporters just stared straight ahead.
Okay, in context this headline and, really, the entire article seem pretty batshit. Trump did not announce a re-election bid. He told a string of awful scripted jokes that concluded with his dumb hat.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/24/white-house-correspondents-dinner-trump-washington
The speech included a handful of scripted jokes, one at the expense of Robert F Kennedy Jr, his health secretary who he quipped had personally run over the cow that became the evening’s “very delicious beef tenderloin”. Kennedy has championed the health benefits of beef tallow and animal protein.
Trump also mocked the weight of Chris Christie, the former New Jersey governor, and Jerry Nadler, the New York congressman, imagining the two wrestling over a piece of cheesecake. He ridiculed the appearance of his critics, including Bruce Springsteen who he said “looks like hell” and took aim at CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, who had been honored earlier for her White House coverage, saying she does not smile enough. Trump said he “hated” Adam Schiff, a Democratic California senator, and one of his most prominent congressional critics, while mocking the size of his head and neck.
At one point, after a joke about term limits fell flat, Trump broke the fourth wall, asking the audience whether anyone understood “this whole freakin stupid speech that they wrote”.
Trump ended his remarks with a joke that landed awkwardly, declaring that he planned to run and win a fourth election – a reference both to his false claim he won the 2020 election and to his repeated suggestion that he could seek a third term, despite the constitution’s two-term limit.
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