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[MettaWorldPanda]

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[Shewasfly]

They cancelled the Colbert Show. Wow.

https://www.threads.com/@senwarren/post/DMOoC6-gEC7

[Tony15]

They cancelled the Colbert Show. Wow.

https://www.threads.com/@senwarren/post/DMOoC6-gEC7

He outgrew CBS long ago. As unsurprising as this is to me, it should be even more unsurprising to Colbert. He'll be fine.

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[Vertical Limit]

They cancelled the Colbert Show. Wow.

https://www.threads.com/@senwarren/post/DMOoC6-gEC7

As a guy that watched Letterman for so long, his replacement to Colbert just never sat well for me. It felt like a different show and not in a good way. Letterman hardly ever rehearsed his show, which is what made him and Paul (the band leader) funny because they would try their best to be funny and not cross the line too far on the spot.

Colbert lets his politics take over his show a lot… Letterman has had every type of politician on his show, he let McCain, Bush, Clinton, Obama, Kerry, Rice, Gore, Romney all have a platform on his show and run their campaigns.. and yes, a show favorite Donald Trump appeared on that show about twice a year dating back to the 80s.

And its clear Letterman was left center.. but he was able to balance all of that onto the show.

Letterman’s feud with Sarah Palin was probably one of the most hilarious **** to happen in 2008.. i was in my teens still and even i was so drawn to it i would be laughing on the floor.. even on some of the jokes that were a bit far like the Alex Rodriguez impregnating sarah palins daughter joke.. it was an oh **** moment.. he had people protesting his show outside the ed sullivan theater after that.. mind you late night shows arent even live.. and cbs let that air..

Anyways in my opinion they should have tried to negotiate with TBS in 2015 and give the show to Conan.

[HeatFanLifer]

Trump is putting a lot of pressure on Powell to lower interest rates. As much as I want to see them lowered, the CPI report shows yoy inflation at 2.9%. The fed target is 2% inflation. Until signs are there that inflation has stabilized, I think we need to keep rates as is. I also think the fed knows this and we won’t see the interest rate lowered at the end of July. If they do lower it, it is because they don’t want to lose their job imo.

[Vertical Limit]

Trump is putting a lot of pressure on Powell to lower interest rates. As much as I want to see them lowered, the CPI report shows yoy inflation at 2.9%. The fed target is 2% inflation. Until signs are there that inflation has stabilized, I think we need to keep rates as is. I also think the fed knows this and we won’t see the interest rate lowered at the end of July. If they do lower it, it is because they don’t want to lose their job imo.

I think powell will get removed and trump will get the rates he wants this year

[HeatFanLifer]

Trump is putting a lot of pressure on Powell to lower interest rates. As much as I want to see them lowered, the CPI report shows yoy inflation at 2.9%. The fed target is 2% inflation. Until signs are there that inflation has stabilized, I think we need to keep rates as is. I also think the fed knows this and we won’t see the interest rate lowered at the end of July. If they do lower it, it is because they don’t want to lose their job imo.

I think powell will get removed and trump will get the rates he wants this year

Not good.

[Shewasfly]

They cancelled the Colbert Show. Wow.

https://www.threads.com/@senwarren/post/DMOoC6-gEC7

He outgrew CBS long ago. As unsurprising as this is to me, it should be even more unsurprising to Colbert. He'll be fine.

Sent from my SM-S936U using RealGM mobile app

Trump is putting a lot of pressure on Powell to lower interest rates. As much as I want to see them lowered, the CPI report shows yoy inflation at 2.9%. The fed target is 2% inflation. Until signs are there that inflation has stabilized, I think we need to keep rates as is. I also think the fed knows this and we won’t see the interest rate lowered at the end of July. If they do lower it, it is because they don’t want to lose their job imo.

I think powell will get removed and trump will get the rates he wants this year

It's not really about whether he outgrew the station or if you didn't like his style of show. Its about it being highly likely that he was terminated because of his criticism of the administration. Free speech is still a thing.

Not sure about you guys but I'd rather not have state sponsored media.

[Vertical Limit]

They cancelled the Colbert Show. Wow.

https://www.threads.com/@senwarren/post/DMOoC6-gEC7

He outgrew CBS long ago. As unsurprising as this is to me, it should be even more unsurprising to Colbert. He'll be fine.

Sent from my SM-S936U using RealGM mobile app

Trump is putting a lot of pressure on Powell to lower interest rates. As much as I want to see them lowered, the CPI report shows yoy inflation at 2.9%. The fed target is 2% inflation. Until signs are there that inflation has stabilized, I think we need to keep rates as is. I also think the fed knows this and we won’t see the interest rate lowered at the end of July. If they do lower it, it is because they don’t want to lose their job imo.

I think powell will get removed and trump will get the rates he wants this year

It's not really about whether he outgrew the station or if you didn't like his style of show. Its about it being highly likely that he was terminated because of his criticism of the administration. Free speech is still a thing.

Not sure about you guys but I'd rather not have state sponsored media.

Im not defending him here but republicans vs media didnt start with Trump…

Bush had lawsuits against clear channel to silence talk radio shows from criticizing his administration during his presidency. And if it wasnt lawsuits, he had the FCC at his fingertips issuing massive fines to his “enemies”. There were radio shows going bankrupt because of these fines and settling lawsuits..

And Bush has outright said at the same time that a free press is important for democracy. Yea but you sure as hell shut your enemies down when you can…

[HeatFanLifer]

He outgrew CBS long ago. As unsurprising as this is to me, it should be even more unsurprising to Colbert. He'll be fine.

Sent from my SM-S936U using RealGM mobile app

I think powell will get removed and trump will get the rates he wants this year

It's not really about whether he outgrew the station or if you didn't like his style of show. Its about it being highly likely that he was terminated because of his criticism of the administration. Free speech is still a thing.

Not sure about you guys but I'd rather not have state sponsored media.

Im not defending him here but republicans vs media didnt start with Trump…

Bush had lawsuits against clear channel to silence talk radio shows from criticizing his administration during his presidency. And if it wasnt lawsuits, he had the FCC at his fingertips issuing massive fines to his “enemies”. There were radio shows going bankrupt because of these fines and settling lawsuits..

And Bush has outright said at the same time that a free press is important for democracy. Yea but you sure as hell shut your enemies down when you can…

I am not in favor of any wide-ranging corporate ownership for any newspaper, tv station, political commentary channel, or other form of media. De-centralize everything. Ban all foreign funding for media as well. Media should not be beholden to a big corporate owner or foreign country telling it what to write.

[Vertical Limit]

Journalists dont have the balls they used to have back then. Nor the intelligence, which is why when they ask questions to Trump, Trump can step all over them, as incoherent as he is,..he knows these people are weak and not as smart as past generations of journalism.

he goes on these ramblings and goes so off subject every single time they ask him a question, and then creates distraction.

The question is about Israel vs Iran events a week ago and he will go and say something like this is Obamas fault, you know the democrats and the russian hoax and crooked hillary

And instead of challenging him to stay on subject, test his foreign knowledge and intelligence, they print all the ramblings he has said and talk about his ramblings.

Subject the last 2 weeks is about jeffrey epstein. He announces cane sugar in coke, he knows his base eats dumb things like that up for breakfast, which by the way, that is weird and too low of importance for a president to announce, thats something a no name spokesperson for RFK Jr to announce.

He then tells Dan Bongino hey i want you to announce that the fbi is working on a very important case, dont say what, but itll keep the public guessing and talking about something else.

This guy knows all the tricks to work his base.


And dont get me started if he calls you fake or stupid to your face, this generation is too sensitive. thats his ultimate special move to shut these weak journalists down, they are afraid to stand up to the attacks and they dont want to stammer their words in front of cameras because they feel that makes them look weak.. but their silence already defeated them.


Controlling the media in this manner is dictatorship communism 101. Everyone cries about free school lunches and free healthcare is communism. Please.. this country has no idea what communism really is.. you have no idea how to be in prison of your own home like venezuelans, north koreans, cubans, etc do. But he sure is giving you a taste of how they run things

[Tony15]

They cancelled the Colbert Show. Wow.

https://www.threads.com/@senwarren/post/DMOoC6-gEC7

He outgrew CBS long ago. As unsurprising as this is to me, it should be even more unsurprising to Colbert. He'll be fine.

Sent from my SM-S936U using RealGM mobile app

Trump is putting a lot of pressure on Powell to lower interest rates. As much as I want to see them lowered, the CPI report shows yoy inflation at 2.9%. The fed target is 2% inflation. Until signs are there that inflation has stabilized, I think we need to keep rates as is. I also think the fed knows this and we won’t see the interest rate lowered at the end of July. If they do lower it, it is because they don’t want to lose their job imo.

I think powell will get removed and trump will get the rates he wants this year

It's not really about whether he outgrew the station or if you didn't like his style of show. Its about it being highly likely that he was terminated because of his criticism of the administration. Free speech is still a thing.

Not sure about you guys but I'd rather not have state sponsored media.

We don't disagree there.

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[Shewasfly]

He outgrew CBS long ago. As unsurprising as this is to me, it should be even more unsurprising to Colbert. He'll be fine.

Sent from my SM-S936U using RealGM mobile app

I think powell will get removed and trump will get the rates he wants this year

It's not really about whether he outgrew the station or if you didn't like his style of show. Its about it being highly likely that he was terminated because of his criticism of the administration. Free speech is still a thing.

Not sure about you guys but I'd rather not have state sponsored media.

Im not defending him here but republicans vs media didnt start with Trump…

Bush had lawsuits against clear channel to silence talk radio shows from criticizing his administration during his presidency. And if it wasnt lawsuits, he had the FCC at his fingertips issuing massive fines to his “enemies”. There were radio shows going bankrupt because of these fines and settling lawsuits..

And Bush has outright said at the same time that a free press is important for democracy. Yea but you sure as hell shut your enemies down when you can…

I was not aware of that, wow. Actually learned something from you today! Now if we could only get you to stop advocating for LeBron coming here

It is actually quite scary though. I think money being allowed to be involved in certain public serving institutions really needs to be looked at and reformed. We're all for capitalism (I think), but things like Citizen United and huge for-profit conglomerates owning pretty much all our media is obviously a conflict of interest to the public.

[HeatFanLifer]

Pbs and NPR are state run media and have lost a significant, though not full amount of federal funding. If there was a danger of communist style media takeover, we would have instead seen mass firings at these stations along with political commentators like Bannon replacing the news. Not defunding of a state run media company.

As far as Colbert, I believe this firing more has to do with the merger of CBS with Skydance Media. Don’t ask me where that weird name came from, I didn’t name that ****. What I do know is Skydance is owned by David Ellison. Ellison is not a major influencer in politics, though he has donated money to various Democrat candidates such as almost $1 million to the Biden Victory fund. This leads me to believe getting rid of the late show is a business decision and not a political one.

[Shewasfly]

So anyways, here are multiple news organizations that aren't completely propagandist (yet anyway) reporting on the defunding of NPR and PBS.

https://www.axios.com/2025/07/18/npr-pbs-funding-senate
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/18/nx-s1-5469912/npr-congress-rescission-funding-trump
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/public-broadcasters-republican-funding-cuts-local-media-npr-pbs-rcna219276
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5408014-rural-stations-vulnerable-to-cpb-cuts/

Here is one talking about the president celebrating this removal of funding for public media as a victory. Take from that what you will: https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/17/media/pbs-npr-trump-rescission-devastating-public-media

Unsurprisingly, this will hit rural America the most. But Trump did say he loves his uneducated voters. They're his most loyal supporters/defenders through it all.

[HeatFanLifer]

Not seeing what the controversy is over defunding NPR. This is from their own article in response to former NPR editor Uri Berliner calling out the news organization for political bias:

Others have used the moment to call for the elimination of federal funding for NPR – less than one percent of its roughly $300 million annual budget

The article is from a year ago.

People in rural areas can access NPR via the internet. We don’t need to continually invest in archaic radio technology for people to access NPR. Now NPR can say whatever they want to say, which is what they were doing already. Though now with less tax payer money.

Struggling to see why this is a big deal

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/17/1245283076/npr-editor-uri-berliner-resigns-ceo-katherine-maher

[Vertical Limit]

Trump is putting a lot of pressure on Powell to lower interest rates. As much as I want to see them lowered, the CPI report shows yoy inflation at 2.9%. The fed target is 2% inflation. Until signs are there that inflation has stabilized, I think we need to keep rates as is. I also think the fed knows this and we won’t see the interest rate lowered at the end of July. If they do lower it, it is because they don’t want to lose their job imo.

I think powell will get removed and trump will get the rates he wants this year

Not good.

(R) senator John Kennedy said today if trump fires powell, the stock market will crash, the bond market will crash. Thats a lot of power for one man.

And now suddenly he is being criminally referred to the DOJ..

[HeatFanLifer]

I think powell will get removed and trump will get the rates he wants this year

Not good.

(R) senator John Kennedy said today if trump fires powell, the stock market will crash, the bond market will crash. Thats a lot of power for one man.

And now suddenly he is being criminally referred to the DOJ..

To be fair, Powell should not be fired, but he may be a criminal. That $2.5 billion boondoggle (I don’t even know what that word means but it seems to fit) was some sketch ****. If he was acting against the law, throw him in jail, but let him still run the fed. It will be like managing properties in Monopoly while in jail. May even get Powell in touch with white collar criminals noting how hard it is to scam people these days cuz of interest rates.

Alright that’s all from me tonight folks.

[BadMofoPimp]

There is nothing he said here that is associated with the red pill. If you don't know what that actually is, you shouldn't be labelling people with it, certainly not as an invective.

To me, anyone who takes things to extreme levels following one sides format have been red pilled. The Left and Right want people to be angry hating everything about the other side instead of looking at individual issues, they really just strengthened their fan base like creating good puppets. Sort of like a cult. I disagree with most of what both sides tell me to believe in. If we cannot have a 3rd party, we should be allowed to vote on all individual bills or proposals instead of allowing one of the 3 branches to make those decisions for us.

...alright, that's two people now saying it's something else, so I'll google it real quick:

When the hell did the definition change?! That's not what it was even 5 years ago.

"The term "red pill" has since been adopted and interpreted in various ways within online communities and social discourse, often with controversial connotations.

Men's Rights Activism and the Manosphere:

In some men's rights and anti-feminist communities, being "red-pilled" signifies believing that societal structures and gender roles are rigged against men, often blaming feminism for what they perceive as male subjugation and disadvantage. These communities may advocate for traditional gender roles and promote views that are critical of or hostile towards women.

Political and Conspiratorial Thinking:

The "red pill" concept has been co-opted by some far-right and white supremacist groups to symbolize an awakening to supposed hidden truths about society, gender, race, and politics that they believe are based on lies. This interpretation often involves believing in conspiracy theories and may overlap with antisemitic and other extremist views.

General Awakening to Truth: More broadly, "taking the red pill" can refer to a personal awakening to a perceived truth or a rejection of commonly accepted narratives in various contexts."

My god...to think that phrase was coined with the (eventual) goal of teaching men to understand intersexual/intergender dynamics especially with women so they don't end up hating women for what they could never be to them (from their own delusions about women in the first place). What in the hell is all that other ****...

LOL. I have heard extreme liberals use the Red Pill term many times. Maybe the RIght wing says it more as I have no clue being I am not a follower. But, you cannot deny when people go over the edge in their anger against the party they disagree with that some media source or politicians speeches are triggering them without them realizing they are being used to fight their battles for them. I agree with many policies by both parties but will never dive in and agree with all of what one side tells me to believe in.

[Vertical Limit]

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