All purpose news and politics thread part VI: This Is Not The Time For Posing

[Tami]

Trump’s Donors Funnel $10.5 Million Into His Businesses During His Presidency

What a waste.

[The Cool Thatguy]

Trump’s Donors Funnel $10.5 Million Into His Businesses During His Presidency

What a waste.

I doubt its enough to keep his properties afloat long, and they waste their money. Win win

[Kirby101]

Trump’s Donors Funnel $10.5 Million Into His Businesses During His Presidency

What a waste.

It was so much more than that. Hell his golfing alone was over $100 million to his properties. And we learned half a billion went from the campaign to him and his family through a shell company Jared set up. He will raise another half a billion for this fake election BS and keep most of it.
I think he has raised enough to pay off his upcoming debts.

[worstblogever]

It was so much more than that. Hell his golfing alone was over $100 million to his properties. And we learned half a billion went from the campaign to him and his family through a shell company Jared set up. He will raise another half a billion for this fake election BS and keep most of it.
I think he has raised enough to pay off his upcoming debts.

This goes with the assumption that the dumbs*** hasn't amassed MORE debts. His hotels were losing money before his brand became "toxic dictatorship", and during Covid-19? They were pulling in even less. Just more than other hotels because anyone that would stay there is probably an anti-mask Covidiot anyway.

[Tami]

As the White House changes hands, so will Fox News’ support of the presidency

When Joe Biden is sworn in as president on 20 January, cable news viewers may witness one of the most dramatic 180-degree turns in history.

After four years of slavishly promoting the president, Fox News is expected to pump on the brakes within seconds of the inauguration ceremony.

All of a sudden, the person in the White House is not a Republican. More than that, the network can no longer rely on the willingness of the president or his aides to call into Fox News any time of the day or night.

The rightwing TV channel, and its big name hosts Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, will spend the next four years as the party of the opposition. The network has done this before, of course – the eight years of Barack Obama’s presidency weren’t that long ago – but Biden presents a different challenge.

“Of course we can expect it to be relentlessly negative, but it’s a challenge on some levels, because he’s a 78-year-old white man, fairly moderate history,” said Heather Hendershot, a professor of film and media at MIT who studies conservative and rightwing media.

“In the past they attacked Hillary Clinton very hard not only because she was liberal, but obviously there was some underlying sexism and misogyny there – and obviously the fact that Barack Obama was African American was central to rightwing attacks on him, either implicitly or explicitly, including on Fox News.”

That’s not to say Biden’s government will escape attack, even if he dodges the worst.

[PaulBullion]

So the FBI suspects the Nashville Christmas Day bombing was committed by a 63 year old white male Nashville resident who believed in conspiracy theories. He may have been in the RV when he blew it up.

https://www.newsweek.com/who-anthony...-blast-1557408

[Tami]

In Russia, tough new laws and stepped-up defiance abroad mark Putin’s shift toward unfettered control

MOSCOW — As the Kremlin awaits what it fears will be a hostile Biden presidency, President Vladimir Putin is shifting course on two fronts — accelerating a drive to full-blown authoritarian control at home and escalating his defiant rhetoric against the West.

Domestically, a grudging tolerance for opposition and protest has been all but abandoned, while internationally, the Kremlin is taking particularly sharp aim at the United States ahead of the change of administration next month.

Russian-U.S. relations are going “from bad to worse,” Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Wednesday, adding that Russia doesn’t expect “anything good” from President-elect Joe Biden and suggesting it adopt a policy of “total deterrence” toward Washington, with minimal dialogue.

[WAKANDA FOREVER!]

So the FBI suspects the Nashville Christmas Day bombing was committed by a 63 year old white male Nashville resident who believed in conspiracy theories. He may have been in the RV when he blew it up.

https://www.newsweek.com/who-anthony...-blast-1557408

Wow. Shocking.

[Tendrin]

Wow. Shocking.

The shockingest.

[worstblogever]

So the FBI suspects the Nashville Christmas Day bombing was committed by a 63 year old white male Nashville resident who believed in conspiracy theories. He may have been in the RV when he blew it up.

https://www.newsweek.com/who-anthony...-blast-1557408

Waiting to hear if he specifically was paranoid about 5G towers. That would complete the Occam's Razor estimation of who perpetuated the attack.

[Tami]

Waiting to hear if he specifically was paranoid about 5G towers. That would complete the Occam's Razor estimation of who perpetuated the attack.

Why wasn't the RV parked closer to the AT&T building?

[Malvolio]

A truth that would completely rule out the possibility that he was actually a communist.

Has there ever been a nation that called itself "Communist" that didn't get taken over by a dictator or oligarchy at some point?

[Gray Lensman]

Has there ever been a nation that called itself "Communist" that didn't get taken over by a dictator or oligarchy at some point?

I don't think so, very few even get past "immediately" before ending up with a dictator in charge.

[worstblogever]

Why wasn't the RV parked closer to the AT&T building?

Well, there's also the "the perpetrator was a conspiracy theorist moron" to explain any flaws in the plan.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

So the FBI suspects the Nashville Christmas Day bombing was committed by a 63 year old white male Nashville resident who believed in conspiracy theories. He may have been in the RV when he blew it up.

https://www.newsweek.com/who-anthony...-blast-1557408

It’ll be interesting to learn if the FBI uncovers some sort of manifesto explaining his motives.