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I think this is hilarious! Europeans, who know about coups. What do they think they last four years were about?

Do people actually read Yahoo! news articles? The first thing I do is scroll down to see if there's comments, and if they are no comments I wipe it from my mind.

Another thing, Yahoo! is filled with the most number of just ludicrous junk under the articles "Do This Instead of Cleaning Gutters (It's Genius)", "If you have tinnitus - do this immediately!", "How To Lower Blood Sugar With 1 Easy Step", etc.

I'm actually surprised that Yahoo! is in business.

Europe is corrupt and want to get free protection on taxpayer dime.
Trump wants them to pay and it is logical for them to oppose America first agenda.

Elites are selling common American civilians and soldiers to highest bidder for their personal benefit.

More legacy media propaganda. If they knew anything about coups, they'd be looking at Biden/Harris.

By all means we should give a rat's ass what Europe thinks.

Propaganda regurgitation from the article

For Marius Dragomir, Director of the Center for Media, Data and Society in Budapest, who grew up in Romania where his family once huddled around the radio listening to Radio Free Europe with the volume low and the drapes closed, Trump’s recent attacks on the electoral process along with his actions over the past four years are heartbreaking. “America was the model and the dream for Eastern Europe, especially after 1990. But it’s not anymore,” he says, “especially after Trump.”

Seeing Trump place family and friends in positions of power while continuing to make money from official visits to his hotels and resorts was reminiscent to Dragomir of the kleptocracies that emerged after the breakup of the Soviet Union. His colleagues kept asking, “‘Is it really possible for the American president to do whatever he wants and to mix his business interests with the position he has, to do bad things with impunity?’ We are used to that in Eastern Europe — but to see it in America was strange,” he says. “People lost the appreciation they once had for America” — all the more over the past month when Trump went after anyone who failed to bend to his insistence that he’d won. The difference, says Dragomir, is that somewhere like Romania or Bulgaria, Trump probably would have prevailed.

Who the fuck cares what Marius from Budapest thinks.

Trump was very rich going into office. That dip from Romania should be very concerned about all this who became very rich only after being in office.

HeadSet says

That dip from Romania should be very concerned about all this who became very rich only after being in office.

Like the Clintons.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/07/clintons-got-rich-selling-influence-while-decrying-greed/

Onvacation says

Marius Dragomir, Director of the Center for Media, Data and Society in Budapest

He has worked for Open Society Foundation, which is funded by a well-known ex-Hungarian gentleman. No surprise there

https://people.ceu.edu/marius_dragomir

Karloff says

More legacy media propaganda.

Just yesterday I learned that most of the legacy media is owned by hedge funds:

https://patrick.net/post/1337098/2020-12-13-hedge-funds-own-the-us-media-promote-war-and-outsourcing-us-jobs-for-profit

But in the last few years, especially since the crash, there’s been the emergence of these big asset managers like BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard. Now it’s mostly finance that owns the media. The New York Times, I believe is 93 percent owned by financial institutions. For every major media company, with the exceptions of Bloomberg and The Washington Post which are privately owned, institutional investors own controlling interests in those companies. Now, it doesn’t mean they run them day-to-day, but they do get to choose who runs them day-to-day. And if they don’t like the way it’s being run, they can change the management.

Finance has control over the media in a way it didn’t have before. And what’s important is not only the imperative of short-term returns on capital invested, but also the same financial institutions own Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and the rest of the military-industrial complex. They own a controlling interest of shares of fossil fuel companies. So, these media companies now are not just monopolies, they’re integrated and part of financial monopolies that kind of own everything. ... So, no wonder they don’t want to see the left wing of the Democratic Party showing up on television. ...

When Bezos bought The Washington Post — I forget the price he paid for it — but he probably paid one tenth of what he would have had to pay for it a decade earlier. I mean, it has no value. [Laughs.] And he bought it not to make money; it’s a vanity buy so he could influence politics and push his agenda. It’s not because he said, “This is a great investment!” It’s a crappy investment. It’s the worst investment in his portfolio, no doubt. But it’s the best method to get political influence that will protect his portfolio.

So I'd say the media doesn't really get to choose what to write.

They look up to their hedge fund masters for what to write. Or to Bloomberg or Bezos, same thing.

Dbr6 says

Onvacation says

Marius Dragomir, Director of the Center for Media, Data and Society in Budapest

He has worked for Open Society Foundation, which is funded by a well-known ex-Hungarian gentleman. No surprise there

https://people.ceu.edu/marius_dragomir

Great connection @Dbr6 ! You're a better reporter than any in the MSM.

Patrick says

You're a better reporter than any in the MSM

that really does not say much. An amoeba would be a better reporter - at least it would not lie