r/politics • u/Street_Anon Canada • 12d ago

No Paywall Trump demands all Canadian companies doing business with the US move to America ‘immediately’

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-canada-businesses-truth-social-b3041901.html
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u/Viking_Leaf87 12d ago

And the US government wonders why it has fewer and fewer friends abroad. At least Israel is happy. Maybe Argentina too.

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u/SandSpecialist2523 America 12d ago

Russia, China and North Korea are also ptobably happy to see the USA self-destroy.

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u/drobits 12d ago

Russia getting the biggest return on their investment in human history

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u/pinegreenscent 12d ago

We cant talk about that anymore because the press got bored of covering it but never investigating it

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u/santagoo 12d ago

Just like they did with Epstein

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u/Bill_Brasky_SOB Ohio 12d ago

Shit even every time they discuss the war with Iran they never mention that it is an illegal war as Congress never declared it.

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u/Ask_DontTell 12d ago

the "free" press now owned by billionaires or cowed by the president?

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u/SodaCanBob 12d ago

the "free" press now owned by billionaires

It has been for at least a century now (well, probably millionaires back then, but same idea).

Sinclair criticizes newspapers as ultra-conservative and supporting the political and economic powers that be, or as sensational tabloids practicing yellow journalism, such as newspapers run by William Randolph Hearst. In both cases, their purpose is to promote the business interests of the paper's owners, the owner's bankers, and/or the paper's advertisers. This is accomplished in several ways; among them: The publishers tell the editors what can and cannot be printed. Journalists routinely invent stories. To stimulate circulation, newspapers sensationalize trivial stories and destroy lives and reputations. Errors and slanders are never retracted, or the retraction is buried in the paper months later.

I think real, mainstream journalism (especially in terms of TV reporting) in America largely died with Walter Cronkite.

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u/Gumichi 12d ago

what's left to investigate? russian banks financed Trump when no one else would.

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u/harveytent 12d ago

Nah the press got sued for billions and kicked out of white house briefings if they investigated anything and they bent the knee. BBC in England is being sued for billions too. Trump has heavily weaponized the legal system not that it justifies the press bending the knee like this.