COMMUNITY United States Politics Thread: Trump's Second Term

[BlackRain]

This certainly was happening before.

 

[TheNightKing]

This certainly was happening before.

Yeah I wonder what the democrat equivalent for this is?

 

[StringerBell]

SMDH…

 

[StringerBell]

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

U coons listen to this

Yall literally running hand in hand w Nazis

 

[BlackRain]

 

[JAG]

Yeah I wonder what the democrat equivalent for this is?

it’s been crickets from the certain crowd.

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

Yall vacationing at Trump Gaza ?

 

[ChicagoFigure]

Yeah I wonder what the democrat equivalent for this is?

Obama normalized weaponizing the espionage act against journalists. He arguably set the precedent. I named an example of this a while back where he had dozens of journalists hacked and surveilled without notice.

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

Obama normalized weaponizing the espionage act against journalists. He arguably set the precedent. I named an example of this a while back where he had dozens of journalists hacked and surveilled without notice.

That’s not the same thing

 

[ChicagoFigure]

That’s not the same thing

Didn't say it was the same thing I said Obama arguably set the precedent.

The spirit of what the Pentagon is doing is cloaked in "national security interest" to restrict journalists from soliciting classified (or as the policy states "unauthorized") materials.

 

[Gray Matter]

Trump appears to have just effectively confirmed corruption allegations against him.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2024/08/02/trump-campaign-egypt-investigation/

 

[ChicagoFigure]

Obama arguably set the precedent.

Per the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) 2013

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[ChicagoFigure]

The spirit of what the Pentagon is doing is cloaked in "national security interest" to restrict journalists from soliciting classified (or as the policy states "unauthorized") materials.

Redirect Notice

 

[TheNightKing]

Didn't say it was the same thing I said Obama arguably set the precedent.

The spirit of what the Pentagon is doing is cloaked in "national security interest" to restrict journalists from soliciting classified (or as the policy states "unauthorized") materials.

Not defending what happened, but the two are different. Obama did this to prevent leaks of classified information, like what happened with Manning and Snowden where classified info was stolen and leaked. Specific actions led to that reaction.

Hegeseth doesn’t want any negative press coming out. Unauthorized isn’t the same as classified in this case.

And he asked journalists to sign a pledge that essentially gives him editorial approval of every story they seek to publish.

There’s a reason every news outlet, including Fox and Newsmax, declined to accept that agreement.

 

[The Lonious Monk]

Per the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) 2013

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You'll stop at nothing to try and both sides shit.

All of that happened in response to multiple leaks of Classified information. Putting aside the right and wrong of it, it wasn't just about silencing the Press. They got much stricter on handling Classified information in general.

Hegseth, on the other hand, blatantly just wants to screen what comes out of the Pentagon because he doesn't like the reporting. Classified isn't even the issue with him. He's mad about the leaks that address him personally (e.g., him having a makeup room at the Pentagon and him falling apart in meetings). The only people that have actually leaked Classified info are him and the others on that Signal chat.

Maybe Obama's administration did some wrong things, but trying to claim that they set the precedent for what Hegseth is doing now is dumb. At no point did Obama require the Press to only put out what he deemed appropriate. Are you crazy?

 

[RandomOne]

Didn't say it was the same thing I said Obama arguably set the precedent.

The spirit of what the Pentagon is doing is cloaked in "national security interest" to restrict journalists from soliciting classified (or as the policy states "unauthorized") materials.

I thought I read that it wasn't just classified info and it was really just anything negative about the administration

 

[Nope]

Lmfao
This guy Trump is having a press conference now and just said
“These beautiful black women in MAGA hats, they say,”please Mr President come save us.””




Edit: he said there were 400,000 murders in Chicago

 

[RandomOne]

The rules, contained in a memo published by The New York Times following its circulation among media outlets on Friday, stipulate that information must be approved for release by “an appropriate authorising official before it is released, even if it is unclassified”.

Trump’s Pentagon demands media agree not to reveal ‘unauthorised’ material

Media outlets and press freedom organisations decry Trump administration's latest move to curtail critical coverage.

www.aljazeera.com

 

[StringerBell]

This negro always comes off as the biggest fool when he tries to talk about politics.. This is what happens when your best friend is a racist MAGA YT like Sean Hannity(aka Sean Klannity)…