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remember last week when biden interupted all public air waves for the purpose of personally letting you know that israel totally did not just blow up a hospital in gaza

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago

I’m sure the Biden family’s history of business interests in Ukraine has nothing to do with anything anywhere ever so shut up shut up shut up illiberatory-theology

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

we can't have foreign countries interfering with us elections...

and yes, i am referring to that time netanyahu* came to the US to publically shame obama and make a fancy speech to the house about why the US should nuke Iran

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Actually they impeached him for not being an agent for the Ukraine but same difference

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

i thought they impeached him cuz he was a frikin cheeto-man

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Really they impeached him for trying to dig up dirt on Biden. And he was kinda right.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

theyre gonna impeach biden for accidentally digging up dirt on the other biden

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago

it was a perfect phone call!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

no, that might as well have been the pleistocene

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is that something that happened over there? He interrupted the airwaves?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

yeah the fed has emergency powers to broadcast directly to the public during times of turbo mega crisis, biden decided to use this authority (which he never used during covid obv bc lol) to spread misinformation on behalf of the Israeli state department and cover just another banal war crime and act of terrorism by the IDF

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Wait this was actually some federal override broadcast? I thought it was just all the main channels that do both news and regular shows (ABC, NBC, CBS, etc) cutting their programming willingly because a speech by the president is "important".

Channels that never show news were interrupted? Like was Cartoon Network interrupted?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

huh maybe, im trying to find all the places it was broadcast and its pretty hard to track down

ABC called it a "primetime address" or something and that it's only happened like 7 times in american history, but maybe not a literal federal override thing

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

ABC called it a "primetime address" or something and that it's only happened like 7 times in history

That doesn't sound right, Biden alone has given 30 addresses to the nation like that. Unless they mean very particular circumstances.

Even of the more major addresses I can think of there are more than 7

(in no particular order)

  • Bush on 9/11
  • Obama on the killing of Osama bin Laden
  • Trump on the killing of al-Baghdadi
  • Reagan firing all ATC workers
  • Bush on invading Afghanistan
  • Bush on Hurricane Katrina
  • Carter on the hostages in Iran
  • Nixon's resignation
  • Ford's pardoning of Nixon
  • LBJ on Kennedy's assassination
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Nah cable channels came after this law so they're exempt because they were considered a luxury good

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

hold up, for real? i didn't even know people still watched network television.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)