Would a more carefully structured version of the "fairness doctrine" help? Truth should be paramount, and I would not be averse to hearing both sides in a discussion (as long as they are not bat crap crazy - like saying vitamin A can prevent measles).
Other options? How can we enforce consequences when any purported news outlet blatantly lies. Require corrections at same time of day lies were stated? Banners indicating actual news vs opinion? There must be a better way. Fox News would make Goebbels proud.
These aren't based on tariffs: they're based on US Balance of Goods deficits and possibly Rhomboid Face's spotty kid Big Balls asking Grok to punt %s for Antarctic islands. No country run by non-dipshits can rush to negotiate with this Krasnovgargle, even if they prioritise it.
Plenty Fox or Planet Arse as it's better known. The lies are about to collide head on with the truth and they will be wiped out like the shit stain they are
So, to be on Fox News & Business do you have to prove that you're capable of telling enormous, life changing LIES, or do you just turn off your brain, common sense, empathy, compassion and just wing it?
It must be exhausting as it takes more cognitive energy to lie. But they seem to make a game out of it with who can tell the biggest, most vile & ridiculous lies without breaking character. Would bet that Pete Hegseth & Judge Jeannine aren't the only faux news anchors with substance abuse issues.
Such a damn liar! Why would any nation make any deals with an America they can’t trust to keep that deal?! We had a trade deal he negotiated with Canada. He cancelled it. So why would any nation trust this administration. Better to move on to new trading relationships.
And the truly disgusting part: other nations are, yes, responding to Trump's tariffs, but with directed and effective tariffs (and other sanctions) of their own.
And, based on the truly bizarre chart Trump released on Wednesday, each nation is spending much more time and effort in their response.
For anyone that hasn't seen the story: apparently the supposed foreign tariffs (before Wednesday) were calculated from a formula that every generative AI suggested, but is unknown and is considered worse than useless by every economist.
Based on experience, I'm going to spell it out: No one did any actual research for this proposal. Someone wrote a script based on the AI formula in a database with every sovereign nation, their trade deficit with the US, and the number of imported US goods they received.
Judging the MO (using mathematical formula on a database with no real research to make huge and significant changes to government with no effort made to validate the calculations) I'd say Musk's and his DOGE posse's fingerprints are all over this one too.
What they did was base their figures on trade deficit, ergo, what percentage increase export to USA over import from USA. It has nothing to do with tariffs and everything to do with the market. The USA was comparitively wealthy and happy to buy cheap from poor countries.
Who is trump making deals with over tariffs? He's busy golfing. So who's making the deals? I'd bet that trump has no idea what the deals are or even cares. He only cares that he implemented tariffs.
This is a positive development. If their cult of imbeciles believe this nonsense, then their emperor can declare victory and rescind this stunningly stupid tariff program.
How much longer do you think that will take? He just wiped 6 trillion dollars in wealth out in 2 days. I think it has hit our “everyday lives”. The 1000 plus people at the protest this morning seemed like everyday lives. We lost $43k out of our investments in just 2 days. This $ pays our bills.
Yes, my personal wealth dropped even more and I’m retiring this year, but I thinking about the people who aren’t fortunate enough to have any investments, which I believe is most of the US.
When their car, rent, food, and drug costs skyrocket, they will fully understand the issues.
They have guns.
Johnny is a parody account that posts things to rage-bait and mock the MAGAts but it is telling that it is hard to pick up on that, simply because there are so many magas who actually believe that.
Johnny? You a fuckin’ LIE. Anyone with a 401K that has paid any attention to it-which is everyone with a 401k? Knows that’s not how it works. But you know what is sad? You fronting you have retirement funds when clearly you don’t.
Absolutely do nothing but a bunch of sheep. Everybody knows that they can’t think for themselves. Remember, when Trump was going to court grown ass men we’re dressing up like trump trump is a felon, and the Republicans are feckless. Don’t ever let them forget this ever.
You are too mothafukking dumb to have a 401k you stupid dipshit brain dead Cletus wanna be. Geezus on a toadass sucking cracker. If you have lost 93% you can only lose another 7%…not 9%. I just can’t even. The stupidity is galactic.
I feel bad for you. I got four of them out as soon as he got elected. I knew that project 2025 was common. I was trying to tell people for three years. I hope things work out for you. I’m glad I did what I did.
It is. He baits the MAGAts and then mocks them when they agree with him.
But, I do understand people not getting it, simply bc so many of the MAGAs actually do think that way.
1) My default for something like this is:
I assume they are all Russian psy. op. agents. Probably a teenager in Russia sitting in some government building.
2) 93% of a 401K - no way. The market is down but at least try to make it believable.
Actually Reagan helped raise up Rupert along with the CIA to distort the media to lean hard right wing. Important history here to see how we got to where we are today with this massive propaganda machine, I call it Faux News.
It keeps his tiny little fingers out of places they don't belong.
Send him to golf on the moon!
"Mr. tRump! We can't let Alan Shepard out do you!"
Just borrow a rocket from Elon.
Oh God. Do they have Larry Kudlow on? He's such a happy idiot. He spent 4 years saying everything was going to turn around any minute back in 2007. I guess that's what crack will do for you.
We should probably all do with a lot less social media, I've even seen some of that toxicity spreading here to bluesky, it's like humans just don't know how to use this internet thing responsibly
to FB? doesnt work. i blocked and reported and FB just doubled down and I got more! Deactivate. Don’t let Zuckerberg profit from your feed.. that he populated!
absolutely insanity on Fox Business. this would be a bit much even in Pyongyang.
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The question is:
Will Pyongyang sue for unfair competition in propaganda ?
I have no idea how they do this. But even if it ouly took 10 seconds to find a layer and press a button, that's 10 seconds too many over the course of a life to spend on this dreck.
I just can't wait until James Murdoch gets Fox News. He's already said what he wants to do to it. It won't be the same. Rupert Murdoch is an evil man who's created these lies through here s media.
MAGA has created an alternate reality for themselves. They’ve created a mini-Pyongyang within the U.S. Only the words of dear leader, Trump is true. We can now stop looking down on North Koreans and their leaders.
If it's going to be spread, it should be with simple leads like "Fox News Lies to Viewers About Tariffs" and not another word. The only reason to spread this crap is to try and sway MAGA. Simple & obnoxious is the only thing that stands even a tiny chance of working.
Beyond Cambodia and Vietnam. Wow that’s such an impressive list of developing economies, especially Cambodia. What would we ever do without cambodia’s deal with Trump?
This is a part of the plan for Project 2025. Dismantle the government, destabilize the economy, and give the president unchecked power. Destroy democracy from within.
Republicans have gone from ‘Hunters laptop!’ to justifying and condoning complete and utter grifting, pay for play, and economic self sabotage when it’s their guy.
Welcome to the new Banana Republic of failed states.
If we ever get out of this and restore our Democracy, one of the first things Congress should do is pass a law making it illegal to tell lies in the news. It can be called the Nothing But The Facts law.
You've been doing that for a few months now. How's that going?
Liars, bullies, narcissists, felons, racists, rapists, tyrants, oppressors WILL NOT LISTEN to the "voice of reason". It means nothing to them. The more you talk to them, the more they'll laugh heartily as they fuck you over some more.
They do not speak the language you speak. Elon Musk has publicly stated that empathy is the greatest weakness of humanity. That is the way they think. Humanity and compassion and care and reason and sense are WEAKNESS to them, and weak people (in their eyes) deserve being cheated and exploited.
if trump's ludicrous tariff announcement reminded us of anything, it's to fact check -- for veracity and context- TF out of anything that spews from his mouth. or from Fox "news"
Who do I call for my share of this tariff windfall that must obviously be netting trillions of dollars already according to his state run media? I demand an investigation into why he isn’t giving every household a check and instead keeping all the tariff money for himself. Messaging people.
Even if this is true (press x for doubt), no country is going to plan long term trade with such an unpredictable partner. They’ll make a band-aid it deal while establishing other trade partners and eventually ditch the crazy.
Bullying poor nations with tariff rates massively higher than the ones they charge the US is not going to reduce the US trade deficit, or improve the US economy which is headed for stagflation.
The scary part is there are millions of Americans that only watch this stuff and believe in their hearts that the rest of us are not seeing the truth. How do you fix that when the government lies like a dog about everything!
When they aren’t receiving their social security checks or once they’ve checked their investment portfolios and see $40,000 missing from their account in the last 4 days. This 💩 just got very real.
It says alot about the left wing media that is constantly silencing right wing views how they constantly allow only right wing views, can you imagine being so shit that you have the media, ALL social media, and ALL the money in the world and yet you still cheat & lie and after all that you got 50 50
The Manchurian candidate has paid his handler’s well for their propaganda that brought him back to power. And crashing the economy, destroying our security, health, and education will allow the Uber Rich to pick off assets cheap.
wonder if there will be any companies around to take advantage of all the trade...morons destroyed the financial markets...how you gonna get that back to invest in all that new business...oh wait I forgot...the russians are ready to help out
Orwellian doublespeak 👀 works because people habitually respond to the emotional narrative of the party rather than to impact of their five senses (that we all share-literally common sense.)
NOTE: Common beliefs, and common sense are DIFFERENT things. Common sense = the shared world of 5 senses.
Agreed. I would also posit that the emotional path is probably one of least resistance based on repeated use. That rut is deep. If I am right, like any habit (eg., smoking,) only a conscious effort to do something other than follow that path (facing its discomfort) will allow another possibility.
The Manchurian candidate has paid his handler’s well for their propaganda that brought him back to power. And crashing the economy, destroying our security, health, and education will allow the Uber Rich to pick off assets cheap.
Tariffs break alliances, grift companies.
Ha ha ha ha ha. Global supply chains have been built over decades. Today’s factories and jobs can’t just move. Bipartisan CHIPs, infrastructure, and inflation reduction acts positioned the US to build for the economy of the future, not what’s gone and not coming back. Trump loves the uneducated.
"There's going to be so much winning. You're going to say, "Mr President! It's too much, it's too much winning! Please stop the winning! It's too much!" - Orange Fingerbang Rapist
Looks like Argentina might try to change their laws to appease Trump, though that could jeopardize their agreements with neighboring countries. Still remains to be seen…
Wow @foxnews.com.web.brid.gy Actually Fox Entertainment. I'm embarrassed that your actress would even say this but I guess the MAGA are believing anything. So why not try to continue to play on their gullibility. Sane people know #DonTheCon's economy is in a freefall and it's a shit show.
The only people watching Fox in the US are reposters who bring it to social media.
MAGAts watch OANN
Sane Americans left fox behind a decade or more ago.
If only this were true, but no, a far too large segment of America is still chugging Fox kool-aid.
Telling ourselves they don't is why we were so shocked that Trump was re-elected.
I agree sane Americans don't watch it, but unfortunately the voting Americans & sane Americans circles barely overlap.
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And regulating editorial decisions such as what plays when would violate the First Amendment.
As would assigning “value” to the required diverse viewpoints.
Additionally, it constitutionally could not apply to cable.
Regulation of the press violates the First Amendment and a government ministry of truth would be a really bad idea.
And, based on the truly bizarre chart Trump released on Wednesday, each nation is spending much more time and effort in their response.
But no one bothered to remove the unpopulated islands of Heard and McDonald.
Because no one cared about making an informed decision.
When their car, rent, food, and drug costs skyrocket, they will fully understand the issues.
They have guns.
But, I do understand people not getting it, simply bc so many of the MAGAs actually do think that way.
1) My default for something like this is:
I assume they are all Russian psy. op. agents. Probably a teenager in Russia sitting in some government building.
2) 93% of a 401K - no way. The market is down but at least try to make it believable.
He’s one of us. With a pretty good sense of snark.
No Doubt About it
AND CULT LUNATIC
https://consortiumnews.com/2014/12/31/murdoch-scaife-and-cia-propaganda/
Same way many Russians didn't realize Ukraine was invaded
Send him to golf on the moon!
"Mr. tRump! We can't let Alan Shepard out do you!"
Just borrow a rocket from Elon.
Anyone else reminded of the Joker here?
Fake Christians
Fraudulent conservatives
Phony patriots
and liars
I never get pro trump posts, but suddenly, I have 3.
Zuckerberg must be working overtime for trump.
I couldn't stand all this pro trump garbage. I was done.
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The question is:
Will Pyongyang sue for unfair competition in propaganda ?
Why tell the truth when you can just make shit up?
https://youtu.be/D48vWi3CvaM?si=_Oz8-tCywGRoy8OK
Qult45:
https://fortune.com/2025/02/17/rupert-murdoch-dies-james-murdoch-fox-news/
because they are being fed an alternate reality by focks.
These people need to get real. These are people's livelihoods that they're playing with.
yes this whole debacle was their idea..because they "hate our freedom"
That is all they do. Can we somehow find a way to pull the looking on this propaganda show?
I meant PLUG. 🙄
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Sweden doesn’t have tariffs on any goods and yet they had tariffs levied against them. This is all propaganda.
What a failed democracy.
Only good at making the rich richer without ever stopping them.
Welcome to the new Banana Republic of failed states.
Emollients clause … what’s that?
Trump is like Mister Magoo --
Oh Magoo, you've done it again, you've taken a great economy that was running like a well-oiled machine and ruined it in record time.
Americans will do anything but put up guillotines.
Liars, bullies, narcissists, felons, racists, rapists, tyrants, oppressors WILL NOT LISTEN to the "voice of reason". It means nothing to them. The more you talk to them, the more they'll laugh heartily as they fuck you over some more.
but fox is right in saying that *some* countries are wanting to negotiate (they are right about cambodia and vietnam, i checked)
i wish you had not cut off the part where they list more countries
btw source: https://www.nationthailand.com/blogs/news/asean/40048383
https://joewilson.house.gov/media/press-releases/wilson-introduces-legislation-print-president-trump-new-250-bill
Pure lies
The Manchurian candidate has paid his handler’s well for their propaganda that brought him back to power. And crashing the economy, destroying our security, health, and education will allow the Uber Rich to pick off assets cheap.
NOTE: Common beliefs, and common sense are DIFFERENT things. Common sense = the shared world of 5 senses.
The Manchurian candidate has paid his handler’s well for their propaganda that brought him back to power. And crashing the economy, destroying our security, health, and education will allow the Uber Rich to pick off assets cheap.
Tariffs break alliances, grift companies.
Name the countries
Fox pulled the "we're not actually news, we're just entertainment" shtick and the judge ruled they could say what they want.
Should be pork bellies falling on his head
https://youtu.be/uWw6dvyUtsk?si=_BO9nCo2F6SCuyzf
MAGAts watch OANN
Sane Americans left fox behind a decade or more ago.
Telling ourselves they don't is why we were so shocked that Trump was re-elected.
I agree sane Americans don't watch it, but unfortunately the voting Americans & sane Americans circles barely overlap.
https://progressive.org/op-eds/weve-always-known-fox-news-isnt-news-whitney-230309/