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🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
This is crazy town Biblical shit. This makes me want to break out my broad sword. How dare they take the Bible and break it down for their political purposes. Jesus will have a special place in Hell for you.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social)
Whut? Wow.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social)
I don't like to be mocked, nor bullied. What do you think?
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't like to be mocked and bullied, do you?
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social)
I loved the Daily Show tonight because DJT isn't smart enough to figure out they made fun of him. 😂
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social)
Now THIS is front page news. It's important.
Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted
The other interesting thing about this clip is how outraged Kirk is that anyone would blame Republicans generally for the act of a single deranged individual just because they routinely said terrible things about Pelosi. What a concept.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
Does anyone remember when Reagan had the Navy blow up every cigarette boat off of Miami or Key West? Yeah, I don't either.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, I'm not getting my checks on time. Who do I see about that? 😂
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
Her first guest would be RFK, JR so he could tell that hilarious dumped a dead bear in Central Park story.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
Remember when Gerald Ford stumbled boarding Air Force One and it became a thing to the point Chevy Chase spent the entire SNL season parodying Ford as clumsy? President get mad or even. He just joined in the fun laughing at himself because he had a sense of humor. Something Trump does not have.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social)
We're actually *this close* to people falling out of windows Russian style now.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social)
😂 Well done.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
As an old broadcaster he's distorting the public interest rule, just like stations did when we gave Rush Limbaugh air time that was reserved for real local talk radio.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social)
Prove us wrong.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
He's killing the small farmers. Corporate farmers get bailouts. That's the way it worked last time.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
His analogy is also false. Remember due process? That applies to malpractice suits, as well.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
Not every farmer voted for him. I know we didn't. I don't realize there is a big divide between the big corporate farmers and the small farmer in this country. The small farmer didn't get any bailout from Trump in the first term.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, I figured once Trump specifically called him out that was going to be his best option.
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🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
This is what concerns me. Larry Ellison was a good friend of Steve Jobs. He wooed him into designing a yacht for fun. His widow sold the yacht, and funds D projects. Larry and his son are not good people. Luring Steve into the orbit was their first volley. Larry has been at this for decades.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social)
Totally agree on this one. As an old reporter, this whole thing is a violation of the First Amendment and let Bob Iger that.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
Under the First Amendment what did he say that was over the line? Even old fairy tales spoke of the Emperor that had no clothes. That was a cautionary tale we Americans took to heart, I thought? Now the wannabe King is taking lessons from Charles? OMG, this is beyond parody.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social)
This is the absolutely the most un-American statement an American has ever spoken, and you wonder why he loves Putin.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
Journalism became entertainment. THAT's your problem.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
Will they deport Guillermo? That's not a joke in this environment.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
We were so earnest, right?
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
That's very heavy handed, and when I was a young reporter I had to get an FCC license to be the air. There was no test, but you still had to have one. I once went on strike when my GM wanted me to cover an advertisers store opening. The owner told my GM to get me back with a raise. This is nuts.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
I have a degree in journalism. I won many AP awards in the course of my career. The guiding post of my profession was you were the 4th estate. The Guard Dog over the other three. That was the bedrock of the First Amendment. The only time it wasn't perfect was when $$ was involved. We're there now.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
Still protected by the First Amendment. I can call it out and disagree with it all I want. That is the point. To silence, cancel or jail people that disagree is wildly unconstitutional.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
It's pretty funny in this environment now. When I took the public service requirement of a broadcast license seriously, and literally took calls about local issues for 30 minutes each week then Rush Limbaugh weaponized it into an empire. Remember Earl Pitts? "Wake up America!" We aired it as humor.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, the difference is when all three networks broadcast the McCarthy hearings all of America went WTF? This is just wrong. That is why they killing journalism and a broadcast of what they are doing. They should air all of Trump's statements live without sane washing edits.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
First Amendment Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
I always loved that on Chicago Fire where they let Tony, who was actually a CFD guy get a line or two to increase his pay and benefits.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
Don't you think the more they fire FBI folks that's the Watergate moment?
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, that's it! The FCC Chair threatened to pull all the ABC affiliates licenses, and/or fine them. This is an egregious misuse of power at the FCC. But of course, I am old to enough to remember you had to get an FCC license to be a reporter on the air. People think I'm crazy, but I still have it.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
Igert better do the right thing here. I never saw him as a Trumpy guy over the years because he has successfully fought DeSantis.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
My check from George Soros is late. 😂
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
Apparently, you can't speak the truth anymore, even in jest. The First Amendment clearly protects that speech. It protected Kirk's hate speech, as well.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
I wish I could be there!
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social)
Good point, my friends.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
So what did the WH Press Corps Association do? Oh, nothing because the WH took control of that months ago.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social)
Oh, the irony....
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh, the irony!
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social)
Not good when you add in the FED's comments today.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
That was about $2B worth, as well.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, your farm is on the market, too. As usual, with a GOP president. The worst possible time.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
Smart guy. He sees the handwriting on the wall. It's quiet, but there is a rejection happening. People are scared. That's not a good look for Stephen Miller.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
You know why no one remembers that? The national media scrubbed it? They didn't air it. They didn't question it.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social)
I just posted on FB about soybean farmer reality right now. We didn't plant this year and took insurance money. Let's see how that goes. This will be an interesting poll of actual small farmers.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social)
Every network should interrupt all their programming to air every single word Trump says in real time every single day. His poll numbers are in the tank, but just think if the average voter heard the whole ridiculousness? Yeah, the GOP would be dead without sane washing this BS.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social)
I literally believe every Trump presser needs to be aired in real time on every network. The clips you see are so ridiculous and taken in their entirety would be jarring to the avg. American who gets the sane washed version.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social)
As Elon says, "Concerning."
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
It's unsettling when Brits are more Democratic than we are.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social)
Oh, Hell no. Dammit I do hate when I agree with Tom Massie on something.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social)
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🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
Bless you for that history. ❤️
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
Why did King Charles invite him? His mother would not have.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
It is more than embarrassing. This is violation of the First Amendment and the Free Press it guarantees. I don't believe understand how dangerous this is, especially when there is a vast majority of Americans not getting any news that isn't propaganda. There is no counter balance except for Medias.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social)
Complete magical bullshit the national media eats for breakfast every day. If the press corps doesn't forcefully denounce how he has treated at least 3 journalists in the past week then they are worthless to the rest of us.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social)
Just more of his lies the once trusted national media are ignoring, which validates them by ignoring them.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
Which president planted that tree? Did anyone in the WH press corps dare to ask?
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
Well, oddly we agree. I'm requesting a refund on this purchase.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm guessing he hasn't spent the required hours at the rifle range.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social)
Isn't he the top guy at the DOJ? Or is it Steven Miller?
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social)
We are a long way from that now.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
It's awesome! Lyon Co. is still the best!
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social)
The guy who desires the Nobel Peace Prize.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social)
THIS should be the thing that causes sleeplessness.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social)
The national media should pay attention to this. When GA R's start leaving the party then you have a problem MAGA.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
He's letting the cartels use their yachts.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
What if we have elections, which I'm worried we won't, but they won't be counted? That's how Russia does it.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, I've suspected for awhile but when our VP is hosting Kirk's show with Miller then this is a new level.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
IDK, who she is, but here in the large, amount of land where real people live and farm this will not be a winning message when no one can pay off the loan on that tractor or combine. The D's always ignore this. Those small farmers don't get bailouts.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social)
If you aren't frightened into action then I don't know what will do it.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
Meanwhile, your American Pope was very outspoken. He even called Elon Musk specifically.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
Whut? So even people who quoted his actual speech are getting fired? This man was neither elected, nor appointed to anything, yet he gets national honors. I suggest you look up Horst Wessel.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
You do realize if the vast space that is fly over country actually heard this then they would be incensed. They aren't hearing it. Local news is already compromised. Voters literally do not know. Now the big 3 are comprised. These people go to work, take their kids to play in sports, do homework.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
They're cowards retiring with full benefits.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't believe anyone cares anymore. What can I do about it? The D leadership keeps telling me wait until mid-terms? This will all be over before next November. The 3 branches of govt. checks and balances have failed spectacularly. What gives me any confidence we will survive another year?
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
So how does this work? I mean if I go bankrupt due to my false allegations, like he and Rudy Guliani, then how do they keep coming up smelling like a rose with the same lifestyle? Whatever that means does not apply to you and me. I really want to know how that works.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
OK, so you have to question where anyone told him that happened, or if he truly doesn't care. It's an important distinction for an addled guy. Who's in charge of his intel? We already know he doesn't get a Daily Briefing because he doesn't like to read. WTF are we doing here with this guy?
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
Stephen Miller is a dangerous man in charge of a president who doesn't know where he was 5 minutes ago. That's the real and present danger.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
It's time to pause and reflect how the British have become more Democratic than the U.S.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social)
Rolling Stone: "Miller has been allowed to run and remake the country in a manner virtually unheard of for a US govt official of his rank. Think of any egregious policy from the Trump admin: Chances are, it was driven by Stephen Miller.”
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social)
It is all happening in plain sight.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
But Sara reminds anyone that disagrees with her during an interview that both R and D presidents have the right to appoint. I mean what could go wrong?
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
The real problem is this isn't being reported accurately in print and broadcast news rooms in the vast are of the country that doesn't subscribe to the NYTimes.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social)
This rings very true to me right now.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social)
Frame it and put on your wall.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social)
Trump is a monster.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
Same. Same. He doesn't even try to be likable, which is crazy to me. Even Goebbels wife released a strudel recipe. Trump is completely unaware of what's going on. Stephen Miller is your president.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social)
A 4th grader could you this was a lie.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
This was the most intelligent thing he has said in a decade.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
Just like last time the corporate farms will get a bailout and the real family farms will not. I live it and see it.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't know who needs to hear this, but this is a rural Democratic message that resonates in red states, too. Schumer and others are so out of touch, right now. They play an old game, and THIS ain't THAT.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social)
Now THAT's come Christianity I haven't heard in awhile, and I'm not even Catholic.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
Sports reporters aren't really reporters. They are akin to People Magazine. When is the last time you had a breaking Sports story about anything? Please.
🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent
These folks have always been with us, but they were viewed as kooks back in the 60's. My mother was an elementary teacher and even back then there were "parties" to get all the kids sick to get it over with, they said. My mother kept me far away from those people. "Dumbest thing ever," she said.