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FakeNoose

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7. If they really wanted to do their job ....

Reply to Xavier Breath (Reply #3)

Tue Aug 26, 2025, 08:52 PM

Aug 2025

... they would tell him he's full of shit. This would be a safe thing to say, because Chump ... always ... lies.

They know Chump is lying and they let Chump think he's getting away with it.

This would have all been stopped decades ago, if the press had just told him he's full of shit. But most of them never did that.

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"If someone tells you it's raining... [View all] Buttoneer Aug 2025 OP

Thank you! MIButterfly Aug 2025 #1

Too many in our M$M are failing us by treating the face eating alien neutrally cause it isn't... uponit7771 Aug 2025 #2

Or in Trump's case, when he tells us it's raining, it's then the press' job to tell us that he's pissing on our leg. Xavier Breath Aug 2025 #3

If they really wanted to do their job .... FakeNoose Aug 2025 #7

It's because we allow Farmer-Rick Aug 2025 #12

Another J-school maxim. greatauntoftriplets Aug 2025 #4

Thank you! yellow dahlia Aug 2025 #5

Dayum! So many quotables today! calimary Aug 2025 #6

Kicked and recommended Uncle Joe Aug 2025 #8

K&R orangecrush Aug 2025 #9

AH AH AH, Not so fast... Montauk6 Aug 2025 #10

I read it as an admonition against both-siderism. ShazzieB Aug 2025 #15

That should be front-row on a fucking sign Woodycall Aug 2025 #11

Seems so simple and obvious... liberalla Aug 2025 #13

This always bears repeating. n/t Beartracks Aug 2025 #14

Agree! Just open the back door to outside and look out the door, you'll find out more about the weather than SWBTATTReg Aug 2025 #16

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