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Daily Kos 1, Donald Trump 0

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Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart I am a fan of “the Daily Kos.” Most of its writers are contributors, not employees, and they always speak ‘truth to power.’ I have no doubt that Trump and his entire fascist party hate me for telling the truth, and hate the Daily Kos even more because of its much larger circulation. The Department of Justice was intended to be independent from the president. This included the Attorney General. However, in 2025 Trump chose Pam Bondi as our nation’s primary legal officer. The truth is that Trump bribed Bondi when she was the Florida Attorney General, and she accepted the bribe. Trump’s administration is composed of criminals, immoral, and hate-filled men and women. The DOJ has become Trump’s “army of revenge,” and no longer represents the rights of all Americans. A few weeks ago, Trump’s DOJ attempted to silence the Daily Kos. The company’s executives came to an agreement with Trump’s attempt to avenge its exposing of the truth, and part of that agreement was not ...

Once Again, the Media Displays its Support for the Right Wing

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Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Regardless of which major news network you watch or read, you are being lied to. The mainstream media fails to offer their viewers and readers the complete truth about anything political since 2016. It has been obvious over the last eight years that millionaires and billionaires stick together. It doesn’t matter to those reporting the news on television that all right-wing politicians have become the enemies of the majority. These professional politicians, (pardon the foul language), are millionaires and billionaires, and they are a small but powerful club which shares a common goal: more money. THE PLUTOCRACY GROWS In 2024 there are more than 22 million millionaires and 813 billionaires in America. These numbers increased over the pandemic. How? In America, money is king and the men and women who compose the working class are considered peasants. Unlike Walter Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow, David Brinkley, and others who were paid working man’s wages for their rep...