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🗓️ 31 March 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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0:00.0 | This country, this country just keeps getting stupider and dumber and stupider and dumber. |
0:05.8 | The White House Correspondents Association announcing its canceling comedian Amber Ruffin |
0:11.1 | from appearing at the White House Correspondence Dinner scheduled for April 26. |
0:16.5 | Amber, a black female comedian, was deemed inappropriate for the event by Taylor Budowicz, |
0:22.2 | a White House deputy chief of staff who said Ruffin's jokes in the past about Trump were highly |
0:28.9 | critical of his administration. Yeah, that's the point. That's the point. That's what she does for a living. |
0:35.5 | And who cares what Trump thinks? he's not going to show up |
0:38.5 | but the white house correspondence association this annual circle jerk of self-important millionaires |
0:45.8 | who think access to power is the same as journalism well they caved into pressure from the |
0:52.2 | trump white house why well because amber Ruffin is a black female, |
0:58.8 | and this administration has declared war on people who look like Amber Ruffin. They sacrificed Amber Ruffin for the same |
1:09.1 | reason MSNBC, sacrificed Joy Reid, for the same reason these law firms are offering $100 million in pro bono work to the Trump administration. |
1:21.7 | They think you can placate a monster. |
1:25.6 | They've learned nothing from the playground. If you learned anything from the |
1:30.5 | playground, you would know the only way to respond to a bully is to punch back, or in my case, |
1:38.0 | run home to Mommy and have her punch back for you. Mainstream journalists canceling Amber Ruffin, caving in to the Trump administration. |
1:49.0 | Why would they do this? Because mainstream journalists think reporting the news is reporting what people in power say, reporting what they say, not what they do. |
2:00.3 | Instead of performing due diligence, reporting what they say, not what they do. Instead of performing due diligence, |
2:03.2 | reporting on how Republican policy is destroying the lives of immigrants, how Medicare and |
2:09.7 | Medicaid recipients are scared to death right now, renters relying on social security, scared. |
2:19.4 | Instead of doing that, the mainstream media would rather spend all its time talking |
2:24.1 | to the people at the top of the food chain, giving voice to the oppressor instead of |
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