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   Laffy (gottalaff@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 07:03:35 JST Laffy

   I can barely read Aaron Rupar's posts (he transcribes Q & A from the press to Trump, accompanied by vid clips) without screaming.

   The damn press corp asks the STUPIDEST, soft ball, obvious questions. Hell, I could answer them as if I were Trump. They set him up to say EXACTLY what we know he'll say instead of challenging him AT ALL.

   Journalistic malpractice. Complicit. #Fail

   GAAA!

   Rant over.

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     Laffy (gottalaff@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 07:03:37 JST Laffy

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     2/ FFS!! Point made.

     Here's a question they just asked him:

     REPORTER: How soon do you want the Department of Education to be closed?

     Why not just ask, "How soon do you want to destroy the rest of what's left of the US, democracy, government, law and order?"

     Or, "How soon do you think we'll accept your lies without challenging you?"

     How about F'ING GOING AFTER HIS ASS.

     I can't anymore.

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     M.S. Bellows, Jr. (msbellows@c.im)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 09:39:59 JST M.S. Bellows, Jr.

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     @GottaLaff In a past life, I was part of a press pool questioning Chuck Schumer. The journalist before me asked a really good question that Schumer dodged. So I "wasted" my turn saying, "your answer to the last question seemed evasive, so I'll ask it again" and repeated it.

     There were audible gasps. Schumer gave me a dirty look that still hurts my eyeballs to recall (sort of like the photo). It was one of my proudest moments, but I could not understand why the actual career professionals there weren't doing the same thing all the fucking time.