A source familiar with the trip told The Independent that the vice president spoke to both Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, as well as a group of executives from the right-wing network

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[+] 60 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago*

    Your tinfoil seems fairly likely. The whole point of Trump right now is to be a fall guy that the new regime can blame for the worst of what they're about to do. So they'll want some things signed before the switch out.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

    Rupert Murdoch is the most powerful Billionaire in the United States.

    He owns Fox News, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post

    He was spotted at the Republican Convention in Milwaukee:

    https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/rupert-murdoch-talks-with-his-wife-elena-zhukova-on-the-news-photo/2162470512

    Yet most americans have never heard of him... 😔

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    How big of a rock do you have to live under to NOT know who Rupert Murdock is? He has been in the news pretty much every week for months, if not longer.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I work with blue collar people. Vast majority of them definitely have no idea who Murdoch is. Those same people don't know the bias of the wsj or probably what the New York post is.

    Some of them vote. They never ever check sources or try to understand forces behind it.

    It's fun though seeing how talking points get filtered down through sources they see.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    if they dont know who rupert is, they wont know who lachlan who is currently the one controlling fox(and not NEWS CORP). Its funny i only ever see them qoute the fox and right wing talking head out of context.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    I just played Deathloop, a game where you have to kill 8 people in a single day that repeats until you get it right. So I read this and thought, "Shit, they all get together for a meeting? Well that's easy."

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    On behalf of the regime or in conspiracy against the regime?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    This is really horrifying but also not surprising.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Murdoch hates Trump, but maybe he’s ok with project 2025 and the actual administration of Miller and Vance?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Lachlan is more extreme than murdoch by the way. hence why rupert is trying to give his inheritence to him instead of the other children, who do not like his far-right wing views.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    So basically, a heads up on where propaganda will need to go.

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    i can't tell if his face is edited here too or if he actually looks like that.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    the d quit talking to faux in previous episodes. script glitch.

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