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alex51324 · 7 days

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So, the NDA signed by producers of The Apprentice just expired, and one of them has published a tell-all article. Most of the article is about how they used standard reality-TV tricks to portray Trump as being wealthy and intelligent, when in reality he was, and is, a deeply indebted buffoon.

The money shot, however, comes when Trump and the producers are preparing for climax of the final episode, when the winner will be decided.

Per the FCC's rules for game shows, producers could not be involved in deciding who would be fired each week, or who would ultimately win: it had to be Trump's decision alone, like contestants and viewers were told it was. The producers could, and did, give him a presentation about the strengths and weaknesses of the contestants each time he had to make a decision. These were recorded, in case questions ever arose about whether the producers had crossed the line.

So, for the final episode, there were two contestants remaining. Both were men, one white, the other Black. They'd both done well in the final challenge of the competition. As the producers were summarizing the points for an against each candidate, this happened:

“Yeah,” he says to no one in particular, “but, I mean, would America buy a n— winning?” Kepcher’s pale skin goes bright red. I turn my gaze toward Trump. He continues to wince. He is serious, and he is adamant about not hiring Jackson.

In the finished program, Trump chose the white contestant as the winner.

(Four years later, Trump would propagate the baseless conspiracy theory that Barack Obama was not a native-born US citizen and therefore had not legitimately won the presidency.)

The article also describes how women working on the production faced discrimination based on whether or not Trump wanted to look at them while they did their jobs:

While leering at a female camera assistant or assessing the physical attributes of a female contestant for whoever is listening, he orders a female camera operator off an elevator on which she is about to film him. “She’s too heavy,” I hear him say. Another female camera operator, who happens to have blond hair and blue eyes, draws from Trump comparisons to his own Ivanka Trump. “There’s a beautiful woman behind that camera,” he says toward a line of 10 different operators set up in the foyer of Trump Tower one day. “That’s all I want to look at.”

And there's a third anecdote where he pressures a woman producer to break the FCC rules, while being casually misogynistic toward a contestant:

Trump corners a female producer and asks her whom he should fire. She demurs, saying something about how one of the contestants blamed another for their team losing. Trump then raises his hands, cupping them to his chest: “You mean the one with the …?” He doesn’t know the contestant’s name. Trump eventually fires her.

This information is pretty unlikely to persuade anyone who wasn't already persuaded by any of the other things Trump has done and said, which would for anyone else be a career-defining scandal. But it is a useful reminder of who we're dealing with.

(Link is to Slate, an x-number-of-free-articles-a-month site, but the incognito window trick works.)

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ryanmattaofficial · 1 year

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Ron Desantis 20204 Brick Suit Trump Fans at CPAC

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americanmarketplace · 26 days

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Time for a reminder: We are a (CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC) NOT A DEMOCRACY LET IT SINK IN !!!!!!

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scarletcarmensmith · 1 month

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Q: What's your message to Joe Biden?

Union Worker: “F*ck you.”

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acnews · 26 days

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keepcalmitstemporary · 3 months

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kathypabl0 · 2 years

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makingdonalddrumpfagain · 6 days

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 10 months

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The editor in chief of Christianity Today is warning that evangelical Christianity is moving too far to the right, to the point that even Jesus’s teachings are considered “weak” now.

Russell Moore resigned from the Southern Baptist Convention in 2021, after years of being at odds with other evangelical leaders. Specifically, Moore openly criticized Donald Trump, whom many evangelical Christians embraced. Moore also criticized the Southern Baptist Convention’s response to a sexual abuse crisis and increasing tolerance for white nationalism in the community.

Now he thinks his religion is in crisis.

Moore told NPR in an interview released Tuesday that multiple pastors had told him they would quote the Sermon on the Mount, specifically the part that says to “turn the other cheek,” when preaching. Someone would come up after the service and ask, “Where did you get those liberal talking points?”

“What was alarming to me is that in most of these scenarios, when the pastor would say, ‘I’m literally quoting Jesus Christ,’ the response would not be, ‘I apologize.’ The response would be, ‘Yes, but that doesn’t work anymore. That’s weak,’” Moore said. “When we get to the point where the teachings of Jesus himself are seen as subversive to us, then we’re in a crisis.”

Moore said he thinks a large part of the issue is how divisive U.S. politics are, which is now spilling over into the church. He pointed to how a lot of issues are “packaged in terms of existential threat,” leading to the belief among everyone, not just evangelical Christians, that “desperate times call for desperate measures.”

It makes sense, then, that evangelical Christians would embrace Trump, who portrayed himself as the answer to many of those supposed existential threats. Trump both campaigned and governed on a largely evangelical Christian platform. He moved the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem; he cracked down on immigration from majority-Muslim countries; and he appointed multiple conservative judges, including to the Supreme Court, which has swung sharply right.

He made good on his anti-abortion promises when the high court removed the nationwide right to the procedure in June. Many LGBTQ protections were rolled back under his watch, and during the June 2020 protests over George Floyd’s murder by police, he tear-gassed demonstrators so he could take a heavily posed picture with a Bible in front of St. John’s Church near the White House.

And as Trump swings ever further right, it makes sense that people who believe he will solve their problems will follow blindly.

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steorransaluki · 24 days

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wow I'm already over this election

#talking #my grandma is a hardcore trump lover who's been absolutely taken in by conspiracy theories and fox news #while my brother is “not a republican” but is one of those “im smarter than you because I'm not a liberal” twenty something men #I'm home for the morning bc I go in at 12 today and I was just sitting relaxing and out of nowhere they both gang up on me #about all sorts of issues #and I'm over it. I'm so fucking over it.

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qqueenofhades · 1 year

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"Weaponization of the Federal Government." I just....I just can't.

#hilary for ts #politics for ts #breaking news: fascists who relentlessly used the most extreme version of the government in the worst ways #now have a Big Sad that oh no they got investigated a little bit #their fee fees are hurt!!!#oh no @triggered!!!!#as usual every republican accusation is a confession #they whine and wail about Snowflakes because they are the most insecure whiny vicious little snowflake brats on the planet #yeah good job guys really working for the American People here #we are in for two years of this #i gotta pace myself #but also jesus ROLLERSKATING CHRIST #the ceo of the trump org got... five months in jail today #STEVE BANNON IS SOMEHOW NOT IN PRISON #and trump is still free to foment insurrections to his heart's content #you wanna talk about Justice well uh that has not happened #and yet you hypocritical pissclowns are just crying and crying #lololololollol

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internettoday · 7 days

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Trump GUILTY on ALL Felony charges!!

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jaazziefizzle · 7 days

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head-post · 10 days

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Chase Oliver wins Libertarian Party presidential nomination

The Libertarian Party has nominated Chase Oliver as its 2024 presidential candidate after a drawn-out nomination vote on Sunday, NBC News reports.

Third parties have rarely been competitive in US presidential elections, with the Libertarian Party candidate four years ago winning 1 per cent of the vote. But there is more attention on the party’s decision this year because of the rematch between Trump and US President Joe Biden, which could again hinge on a small margin of victory in several contested states.

Mr. Oliver posted on Sunday on X:

“We did it! I am officially the presidential nominee. It’s time to unify and move forward for liberty.”

On Saturday night, Trump gave a speech at a convention in Washington. He did not receive the expected support, although his Republican allies praised him for his decision to speak in front of an unfriendly crowd.

Meanwhile, Robert Kennedy Jr. received a friendlier reception when he spoke on Friday and attacked Mr Trump and Mr Biden for their handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. He spoke of his support for libertarians and the endorsement could help him speed up the process of getting on the ballot in all 50 states, perhaps the biggest hurdle he faces in getting to CNN’s first presidential debate in June.

Libertarians prioritise small government and individual liberties, taking a variety of policy positions that can be seen as liberal, conservative or neither.

Mr. Oliver is an Atlanta-based activist who previously ran for the US Senate and House of Representatives from Georgia. His campaign website includes calls for severe cuts to the federal budget to balance it, abolition of the death penalty. He also favours closing all foreign military bases and ending military support for Israel and Ukraine.