Here are 5 sources I found almost immediately linking the latest exchange to the impeachment:
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/03/01/zelenskyy-trump-oval-office-column-00205584
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5170062-trump-zelensky-meeting-derail/
It’s not the “lead” in the reporting though, media is as complicit in the attention-span blackout we’re all experiencing. There are not-bad people in this very post who think this is entirely misinformation because media isn’t leading their charge with this context.
Every headline and every major political story is focusing on what Trump is saying and doing, not the historical context of what our national relationships have been like and what Trump’s history is.
I know we hate this, but our population is eroded. We have like, fucking microplastics in everyone’s brains that are making people not think with words anymore. Everyone is just scrolling and working and slowly boiling to death as the pan heats up. If mainstream news sources actually did their job and showed us what was happening with intentionality and a focus on trying to FORCE people to pay attention, we wouldn’t have gotten anywhere close to this mess.
But the media is complicit. They profit from chaos and they LOOOOOVE donny, he is their cash-cow and they will mourn when he finally passes away, or bursts into a cloud of bats or however people like him die.
The wholly fucked up thing is that yes I did forget that is why he was impeached the first time. He’s committed so many crimes how the fuck could I keep track though?
Hey now, the SCROTUS said the president shouldn’t be held responsible for crimes he commits during his presidency! You should totally forget and ignore those non-crimes he committed 2016-2020!
Great point! MaGa!!!1
I remember he did this. Couldn’t tell you for certain if this was why he was impeached in part because there’s so much shit as you say, but mostly because apparently impeachement means absolutely nothing.
That’s a good point. If there were consequences for these crimes, they would likely be easier to keep track of…
This is precisely why posting about every little thing Trump does is a problem
He is the president of the United States, we cannot afford to ignore anything he says or does.
If you don’t filter some of the trash, you’ll be so inundated with bullshit that you won’t be able to see the forest for the trees.
He’s a walking news story. Some of it needs to get thrown away or the important bits will blend into the noise that is his personality.
legitimately a use for AI with the volume of bullshit that needs to be classified
We just need a monthly summary…Wednesday 03/05/25: indirectly murdered 254 babies .
That’s why i love What The Fuck Just Happened Today
That’s a pretty cool site. Comparing today to a year ago reminds me of a time with hope.
The comparisons to the years before are a blast.
But if we don’t then that fucking Nazi will continue to fist fuck the Constitution with Republican/Nazi cucks begging for daddy’s approval.
They’re doing that anyway.
laws are just excuses for the men with guns. there’s plenty of social cohesion and harmony you can have without men with guns, but if you want laws to be actual things, you need to keep up on the men with guns thing. the democratic party will never deploy them against other elites. liberalism, a law based form of social cohesion, will not save you when someone it will not target decides to not obey the laws that were designed to benefit it.
Liberalism will not save you. try something else.
The Media is Complicit in Trumps escapades.
Especially with his second term, with how astronomically hard they worked to sanewash everything he said and did. because they’d rather sell out the country and their integrity, than dare risk losing access.
The Lügenpresse are no longer the enemy of the state… They are the tool of the state.
The 4th Branch of the Government, corporate controlled media.
Man I’m half tempted to make 70 accounts just to upvote you over and over again.
Not really, but damn this needs to be something everyone is thinking about.
Brazil has been dealing with this 4th power since the 1960s. The BBC doc “Beyond Citizen Kane” explains it well
That phrase was hammered into my head via Immortal Technique lol
Media during the election:
Kamala said “from” instead of “to” – does she have what it takes to lead the country?
Next up, how ripping apart trade agreements while pretending to be a truck driver is the what America needs.
Honestly feel horrible for Zelensky. Imagine having to sit there and be shouted down to by two men so obviously and utterly corrupt that they consider helping your country fight off tyranny to be a favour, as though that isn’t what the Western world should be doing by default.
They are not men. They act like boys.
as though that isn’t what the Western world should be doing by default.
Vaguely gestures at what the West has been doing since WWII. The only thing Trump is doing differently here is that the people he’s bullying are white.
If you cannot see how this is different than what has happened before, I don’t know what to tell you.
The only thing I can think of that compares (but on a smaller level) is what Trump did to the Kurds fighting ISIS in Syria.
Geopolitically it’s a pretty big deal, I know, but morally it’s very much in line with what the US does on a daily basis around the world. Just now it’s white people feeling the effects rather than brown people.
If you cannot see how often the US has been the invader, overthrowing a small country’s government for their resources, I don’t know what to tell you.
Trump is mask off USA
I feel like all the countries aided by USAID would like a word…
I’m very concerned about how many people mistake Trump’s attempts at appeasement as “peace”. People are actually buying that Zelensky “doesn’t want peace”. What can be done to change this narrative to the people who don’t get it?
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
I don’t think appeasement is the right word, as that would imply Trump is actually trying to help Ukraine rather than trying to slowly create a narrative to justify abandoning Ukraine to Russia.
The worst part is I would bet Zelensky is keenly aware of what Trump is up to, but knows any attempt to distance from Trump would only make it easier for Trump to justify abandoning his people to the wolves.
I don’t think it’s just abandonment of Ukraine. It is also Trump wanting to carve out his piece of Ukraine while Russia gets the rest. I think he thought he might be able to humilate Zelensky into signing away mineral rights.
I guess I used the word “appeasement” because it can resemble peace to the less knowledgeable people. I just don’t know how to get people to see the danger of this type of policy. I’m amazed at how many people don’t think that this will eventually affect them too.
One thousand plus likes on lemmy. First time I ever see that high of a number. Before upvoting I thought it was part of the image
People are starting to pour in from Reddit bans.
Personally I left because they increased efforts to ban 3rd party apps…
They can pry Boost from my cold, dead hands.
Mine stopped working yesterday, but there are fixes using the ReVanced Manager stuff
Now? Again? You’re not talking about last year are you?
There had been workarounds for a while, but all seemed like a pain in the ass.
It has been working fine since then, as long as you are moderator (just make your own sub). But now they’re banning specific user agents from accessing the API.
~ oops, meant to reply above you
So if I get moderator status on Reddit I can still use a third party app? Interesting. I don’t think I can be bothered though. I like it here and very rarely go back to reddit to lurk niche things I can’t find otherwise
Yeah, until yesterday Boost was working as usual.
Now you need to patch it. It’s pretty simple, though, takes maybe 5-10 minutes with this guide.
Remember when the Republicans refused to take the Jan 6 impeachment seriously because he was not going to be in office by the time they completed the investigation, and they said that it would be a matter for the courts, and then the SCOTUS said that Presidents are immune to prosecution and the only recourse is impeachment?
Trump can be impeached again for everything and anything he did between then and now, including while he was out of office. He can be impeached for inciting the Jan 6 terrorist attacks, he can be impeached for his election interference in several states, he can be impeached for sharing state secrets and documents at Mar a Lago with foreign agents, and he can be impeached for just about any of the executive actions he’s taken since being reelected.
He should be, but there is a zero percent chance of the republicans holding him accountable for anything at this point.
Yeah, because that would set a precedent for holding people accountable. Even those who internally oppose Trump don’t want to relinquish their free pass on illegal and unethical activities.
Several Democrats who visibly “oppose” him too, from the look of it.
Was just re-reading how Manafort installed Putin’s stooge before Zelensky. Trump seemed to have thought that’s who he could just call up and get to do his bidding. I’m saying he probably thought he was calling Yanukovych even though Manafort was his own stooge. I mean, that’s moronic and all but, it tracks, considering what we know now.
It wouldn’t surprise me in the least.
Typical bot propaganda
Also, remember back in November when all the people that said both sizes are the same? Well, you might not believe it, but even after all the stuff done so far, many of them still actually believe it!
I know, right?
Connecting the dots is too difficult.
I feel like it would be like mentioning Monica Lewinski when talking about Bill Clinton - everyone knows, everyone is sick of hearing about it - no matter how relevant it is.
Except Ukraine actually fucking matters
And yet people - some people - still don’t know.
