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Do I want to watch that bullshit? Cause OAN is a hard nope.

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Let it be known to the business world: Hire any of Trump’s fellow fabulists above, and Forbes will assume that everything your company or firm talks about is a lie. We’re going to scrutinize, double-check, investigate with the same skepticism we’d approach a Trump tweet. Want to ensure the world’s biggest business media brand approaches you as a potential funnel of disinformation? Then hire away.

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Our good Kaylee should never be hired by anyone other than OAN ever again. What a complete dirtball. And so, so ambitious.

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Forbes should stop suggesting that consequences is cancel culture by pointing iout what they’re doing isn’t cancel culture but saying what others have done is.

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Forbes gonna Forbes at the end of the day. But them tarring and feathering Trump people professionally is a good thing.

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They’re one of the limited articles then paywall sources, and they’re not getting shit from me. As far as I am concerned, they have not been some sort of… beacon of truth and the fight against Trump.

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Semi-related.

Benito Mussolini secured Italy’s premiership by marching on Rome with 30,000 blackshirts in 1922. By 1925 he had declared himself leader for life. While this hardly reflected American values, Mussolini was a darling of the American press, appearing in at least 150 articles from 1925-1932, most neutral, bemused or positive in tone.

The Saturday Evening Post even serialized Il Duce’s autobiography in 1928. Acknowledging that the new “Fascisti movement” was a bit “rough in its methods,” papers ranging from the New York Tribune to the Cleveland Plain Dealer to the Chicago Tribune credited it with saving Italy from the far left and revitalizing its economy. From their perspective, the post-WWI surge of anti-capitalism in Europe was a vastly worse threat than Fascism.

Ironically, while the media acknowledged that Fascism was a new “experiment,” papers like The New York Times commonly credited it with returning turbulent Italy to what it called “normalcy.”

Yet some journalists like Hemingway and journals like the New Yorker rejected the normalization of anti-democratic Mussolini. John Gunther of Harper’s, meanwhile, wrote a razor-sharp account of Mussolini’s masterful manipulation of a U.S. press that couldn’t resist him.

And of course Hitler:

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Ya, I posted that newspaper clip about Hitler way back in 2016 at some point.

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Oh hey, guess which venerable newspaper just did a shallow, superficial job in their portrait of a rabid MAGA that omitted what seems to be extremely relevant (and from the position of a newspaper, juicy) information? Yes, you are correct.

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Dose of levity.

“California Rep. Ted Lieu was forced to evacuate his office in the Cannon Office Building as insurrectionists converged on the Capitol. Grabbing a ProBar energy bar in his office…”

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I’m curious what exactly is the felony there? Are commercial premises required to disarm minors who are carrying?

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There are a lot of very strict rules specifically about minor employment in a number of states. Since everyone doesn’t going around packing, I am not sure but the gun laws and the employment laws usually aren’t as loose with minors.

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Yeah, this is fair. Boebert is a garbage person, but it’s not a bar’s job to prevent people from breaking the law. Some of the people visiting her establishment probably also had expired license plates or warrants out for their arrest.

Let’s focus on the real stuff she says and does.

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The context - at least how I understood it - is that the (potentially) armed minors were employees which would fall under the bar’s control.

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Bars are allowed to employ minors?

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Per the tweet it’s a restaurant not a bar.

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The story is here. The minor was an employee, a food server.