Monday, September 22, 2025

Media's MAGA Makeover

Trump-friendly billionaires are consolidating control over American media, steering legacy brands and social platforms in a new conservative direction.

Posted by Corky at 02:31 PM | 15 COMMENTS | permalink

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The Trump administration is consolidating American media in the hands of right-wing billionaires. @chrislhayes.bsky.social explains in under two minutes www.mediamatters.org/chris-hayes/ ...

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-- Media Matters for America (@mmfa.bsky.social) Sep 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM

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"Axios

1. Acquisitions: No modern media deal has more profoundly reshaped U.S. politics than Elon Musk's 2022 takeover of Twitter (now X), which turned the digital town square into a platform dominated by MAGA voices.

It soon may be eclipsed by another seismic deal: Oracle, chaired by Trump ally Larry Ellison, is seeking to take control of TikTok's U.S. operations as part of a consortium that includes Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz.

The proposal " if green-lit by China " could give one of Trump's billionaire allies unprecedented sway over a platform central to youth culture and political organizing."

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Much more at the link BUT I got a sign up wall the first time there, but not the second. So if you get one, but don't want to give up you email address, THIS VIDEO (with Transcript) goes through the article (and more):

Donald Trump vs. Free Speech

www.youtube.com

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-09-19 05:29 PM

Donald is copying Vlad's creation of his Propaganda Op with full State Controlled Media.

Make America Russia ASAP.

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-09-19 06:49 PM

They keep cracking down on comedy and eventually we will end up with comedy clubs in the basements of churches.

why?

freedom of speech and religion are both 1st amendment!

#3 | Posted by Tor at 2025-09-22 06:23 PM

Rich coming from the left after Obama's and Biden's shutting down of the right. Oh and trying to bankrupt, jail and keep their political opponent off the ballet? Oh yes, that was to save democracy btw.

#4 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-09-23 01:33 PM

Rich coming from the left after Obama's and Biden's shutting down of the right. Oh and trying to bankrupt, jail and keep their political opponent off the ballet? Oh yes, that was to save democracy btw.

#4 | Posted by fishpaw

How does it feel to so full of s*&^ nothing you say is real?

#5 | Posted by jpw at 2025-09-23 01:53 PM

Trumps on TV here in Europe with these brilliancies:
- I stopped 7 wars (again)
- Where's my Nobel Peace Prizes (yes, in plural)
- Why isn't the teleprompter working properly
- Green energy is for loooooozers
- Europe is going to hell (no we aren't)

#6 | Posted by crisisstills1 at 2025-09-23 03:21 PM

Trump has not "stopped 7 wars". It's all a pack of nasty lies.

And the world knows it. I wonder if Americans know it?

#7 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-23 03:26 PM

Some of Trump's recent speeches have been circulating on social media.

My goodness is that man ever a ------- moron.

When he's not completely lying, he's just babbling incoherent --------.

What a ------- disgrace this man is, what a ------- loser.

Perfect representation of MAGA America.

The moron leading the gullible.

#8 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-09-23 03:31 PM

Trump stopped seven wars, right here in America.

He stopped the war on poverty.

He stopped the war on hunger.

He stopped the war on disease.

He stopped the war on income inequality.

He stopped the war on ignorance.

He stopped the war on intolerance.

He stopped the war on racism.

#9 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-09-23 03:54 PM

#9: Well done.

And there's this too: i.ytimg.com

#10 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-23 04:12 PM

He beclowned our entire country at the UN speech.

Don Coyote tilting at windmills, crying about a Nobel, claiming that 99 percent of climate scientists are stupid, unlike himself.

Talk about your Bad Comedy.

#11 | Posted by Corky at 2025-09-23 04:15 PM

The lying leftwing media. Mad their lies ain't working anymore

#12 | Posted by THEBULL at 2025-09-23 07:28 PM

Cracking down on comedy. I also remember the Dave Chappelle protests because he dared to make fun of the extremely mentally ill.

#13 | Posted by THEBULL at 2025-09-23 07:30 PM

Cracking down on comedy. I also remember the Dave Chappelle protests because he dared to make fun of the extremely mentally ill.

#13 | Posted by THEBULL

I think you are extremely mentally ill.

People are saying you ordered a scratch n sniff lifesize Trump poster. Is that true?

Don't worry. I let them know a 4Chan moderator doesn't have enough money for such a thing.

Plus where would you put it? Mommy probably is already unhappy you hung the anime ------- poster in her basement.

Poor lil incel

#14 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-09-23 07:44 PM

Cracking down on comedy. I also remember the Dave Chappelle protests because he dared to make fun of the extremely mentally ill.

#13 | Posted by THEBULL at 2025-09-23 07:30 PM | Reply

Yeah? Did the FCC get pressured by the POTUS to cancel Dave Chappelle?

Or is this another ---- whataboutism?

#15 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-09-23 07:54 PM

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