By Michael Woyton
In 11 days, a for-real convicted felon will be sworn in as president of the United States.
Calling Friday’s sentencing a “despicable event,” Donald Trump, who is also an adjudicated rapist, will not at this time be seeing the inside of a prison cell and can, as the Associated Press said, “return to the business of planning for his new administration.”
During the sentencing in which he appeared virtually — insert joke about “virtue” here — the former and soon-to-be president insisted that he committed no crime.
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A reminder: Trump was convicted by a jury of committing 34 felonies in an attempt to alter business records during the 2016 campaign in order to conceal a $130,000 payoff to adult film actor Stormy Daniels over a sexual encounter that she said happened a decade earlier.
Read the Associated Press story here.
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Reporting on the new rules Meta has put in place for “permissible speech” on Facebook and Instagram is truly mind-blowing.
The Intercept published an article Thursday titled, “Leaked Meta Rules: Users Are Free to Post ‘Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!’ or ‘Trans People Are Immoral” that quotes training materials obtained by the news organization.
Owner Mark Zuckerberg’s goal is to “allow more speech by lifting restrictions.”
Well, that sure is convenient.
“We’re getting rid of a number of restrictions on topics like immigration, gender identity and gender that are the subject of frequent political discourse and debate,” said Facebook’s Vice President of Global Public Policy Joel Kaplan in a blog post quoted in the article. “It’s not right that things can be said on TV or the floor of Congress, but not on our platforms.”
That would be wonderful if I really wanted to hear more from Majorie Taylor Greene or Nancy Mace.
Read The Intercept article yourself here for some of the amazing examples of how people now can be denigrated on social media with Zuck’s okie dokey.
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Once again, Trump chooses to lie about a national tragedy. Because he thinks that makes him look good.
Daniel Dale of CNN factchecked the sentenced convicted felon about comments he made concerning the devastating fires in the Los Angeles area.
Dale called one statement Trump made “a staggering quantity of wrongness.”
I’d call Dale a national treasure, but he is Canadian. Wait … is that part of Trump’s well-thought-out plan to take over North America?
Read what Dale had to say and watch the video here.
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And who owns Tesla?
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Ways to help victims of the Southern California fires, from the Los Angeles Daily News.
Lead art: Screen grab of CNN via @atrupar.com.
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we as a country should be entirely ashamed of ourselves for allowing this travesty…unfortunately so many actually believe this abhorrent creature should be in charge.
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I am chilled to the bone after reading about Mark Zuckerberg’s remake of Meta for the Trump Era. I will be looking to you as a reliable fact checking source.
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