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"Why are you yelling?” the reporter asked as Trump's senior adviser refused to clarify the source of information he was spreading about Venezuela’s crime rate.

Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller had an on-camera meltdown after being asked by a journalist to back up questionable claims he was making about Venezuela’s crime rate, video of the episode posted to social media shows.

The four-minute video shows an emotional Miller yelling at NTN24 reporter José María del Pino on Tuesday after del Pino questioned Miller over his claims that Venezuela has become safer than the United States because its convicts are now all in the U.S.

Miller also repeated a since-debunked story that a Venezuelan gang has taken over Colorado apartment complexes.

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[–] [email protected] 255 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Genuinely, that’s one of the most impressive examples of a serious journalist being an absolute fucking pitbull on a question, and as a result making the populist idiot spewing racist bile look like a complete imbecile, and laying bare the fact that he’s very obviously trying to push an agenda. Miller even fuckin pivots to MS-13 - an El Salvadoran gang (but all look same amirite /s) - because he realized he’s floundering, and reflexively reaches for more pathos of the “scary Latin people” conservative trope. Truly, this is an incredible interaction to watch. And the expressions of the people in the background are like “wow holy fuck lil’ fascist Stevie is getting OWNED”.

[–] spankmonkey 58 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The worst part is the racist cult Miller is performing for will see the interview and ask why the reporter wasn't as angry as Miller.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Eh. The actual answer to that question is “he’s genuinely good at and cares about his job as a journalist”. Simple as that.

[–] ripcord 11 points 5 days ago

You're trying to apply logic and values as a reply to a comment saying that those values and logic don't exist.

[–] spankmonkey 10 points 5 days ago

That is an answer for reasonable people, and they already know.

[–] Eatspancakes84 12 points 5 days ago

He is also making such a bs argument. Does anybody believe that Maduro lets out criminals in the hope that they will cross the Dorian gap to go to the US? That makes no sense. It’s much more likely that those criminals, once let out of prisons, remain in Venezuela.

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[–] [email protected] 181 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Whataboutism on display and a beautiful parry back to the question he asked everytime. That reporter should be commended for his tenacity.

[–] WhatAmLemmy 41 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Wait? You mean Trump and his gaggle of kleptocrats could have been easily defeated all along if the mainstream media were populated by actual journalists instead of agreeable sycophants who just nod their heads and continue manufacturing consent?

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie 31 points 5 days ago

Everyday we're not talking about Jan 6th because it's not great for ratings is another day the media failed us.

[–] IchNichtenLichten 139 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Oh fuck, was that a journalist actually doing his job?

I almost forgot what that looks like.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And you'll probably never see that journalist have that kind of access (amongst conservatives) ever again.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

If on,y they all did it. Then the conservatives would either get no coverage or have to face actual questions.

[–] ytorf 23 points 5 days ago

Amazing to see what happens when someone sticks to a line of questioning and doesn’t just move on

[–] EmpathicVagrant 15 points 5 days ago

I…what? I’ve never seen this happen, and a lot of recent events have me questioning my ability to tell waking from dreaming..

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[–] spankmonkey 161 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Hats off to how professionally calm José María kept his voice on the follow up questions, making it clear that Miller was pretending to be outraged. A calm question after an angry rant meant Miller would start quiet again and have to dial his pretend rage back up. You could see Miller catch himself not being angry enough!

Fantastic!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Good catch... Then he started getting actually angry, except not about whatever he was whinging about.

[–] meco03211 97 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It also beautifully displayed how fragile they are. Just push them a tiny bit and they go apoplectic that you don't just swallow their bullshit like their eager sycophants.

[–] athairmor 35 points 5 days ago

Yeah, it’s very easy to set them off and make them lose it by just being consistent and not backing down or following their rambling.

This reporter showed exactly how every question put to them should be handled.

[–] raspberriesareyummy 53 points 5 days ago

haha - what a dumb insecure little pathetic fuck of a nazi dipshit....

I love the reporter not letting it go so the little manchild is losing it.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Venezuelan gang has taken over Colorado apartment complexes

This doesn't work like that.

In one of my home-towns, a small one, apartment complexes are 'managed' (owned and operated) by known-criminal organizations, and have been for a while. The oft-repeated rumours are this:

  • one building is owned by an organization of Italian origin -- maybe 20 unit.
  • two buildings across the street are run by triads -- 4 storeys, perhaps 80 units total
  • no mob wants cops snooping around, so one keeps the cops at bay with a very firm, paternal hand on the residents and the building -- noise complaints, lights out, the occasional ruckus, and either this old man with an accent or his underling takes two very large 'witnesses' for quick investigation. The offender need not fear anything but abrupt eviction with no recourse at most as, again, the building doesn't want to be the target of investigations or similar unwanted attention.

Mob apartments are very well-run units, and ridiculously safe, in my limited experience.

[–] Machinist 12 points 4 days ago

Had a drug dealer as neighbor, for about a decade. He wasn't a low level dealer, dude was moving weight. Must have been distributor level.

While I wouldn't want him as a friend, he was a good neighbor.

He kept his business to himself. Kept an eye on anything suspicious.

Visitors only would have their stereo up once. After that, you'd hear them turn it down when they got to the corner about a block away.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Buster really went off the deep end after arrested development ended

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[–] aesthelete 40 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

It is amazing to me that these assholes will say "thoughts and prayers" or completely deny that things happened when it comes to schoolchildren being murdered in their classrooms, but expect people to be filled with righteous anger when it comes to brown people entering the country. If school shootings are a "fact of life" in America, assuredly immigration is a "fact of life" here...and it is one that has the advantage of being beneficial to the country.

Another thing that irritates me is that these babbling gobs (and particularly this caricaturistic, flanderized bobble head) prevent actual debate around how immigration should function in this country...ensuring that we will continue to be told by the media that there are only two positions on immigration: become a country that nobody new can enter even as we dwindle in population and inventiveness, or have "open borders" that allow absolutely anyone into the country.

I know the reality is that the Democratic party has nuanced positions on asylum and immigration, but the straw man position the Republicans keep insisting Democrats have completely chokes the public discourse to death leaving us continually discussing the two "options", and thanks I fucking hate it.

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[–] NatakuNox 39 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Miller is literally a Nazie. Dude will say anything to kill, enslave, deport, or incarcerate anyone who does not fit his perfect all white Christian America. Anything he says by default is to be scrutinized and shouted down.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Anyone have a video link that doesn't go to that shithole twitter?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

It doesn't go to Twitter, it goes to an even worse shit hole called X.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago

potato pOtAtO

[–] ThePantser 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

A pile of shit is still a pile of shit no matter how many smiling faces you put on it. 💩

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[–] Tylerdurdon 49 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Steven Miller is a mega-racist pile of hot garbage. I would expect no less.

Reporters just need to do exactly what this guy does... Press them on their "facts." I love it how badly Miller loses it.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

What a little pissbaby

By the way, the "dictators will empty their prisons and send them to our borders" is projection. He's telling us exactly what he wants to (and very well might) do.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They don't want to deport criminals. They want more prisoners because prisoners are profitable little slaves.

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[–] Rapidcreek 45 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Pee Wee German won't have a home after November

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago

holy shit Pee Wee German is an incredible nickname for that fascist scumbag.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 days ago

If you can't pound the facts, pound the table...

[–] drunkpostdisaster 4 points 3 days ago

Hopefully the embarrassment will encourage him to follow his hero

[–] ramenshaman 16 points 5 days ago

Lol fuck that guy

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago (3 children)

All that yelling, and his eyes remained dead the entire time.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago

Oh if only he had the power he craves, this journalist would be in a camp for making him feel uncomfortable. Nasty little angry fascist.

[–] Myxomatosis 19 points 5 days ago

Awwww poor Baby Himmler had a bad day.

[–] cabron_offsets 4 points 4 days ago

Would rather watch him have a stroke.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Miller got completely and thoroughly Harrised by that reporter

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[–] FrostyTheDoo 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Now this is fucking journalism. Answer the damn question Steven, you walking Adderall pill

[–] Nuke_the_whales 13 points 5 days ago

Even el Salvador has lowered it's crime rates by 60% but they did it by throwing every suspect in prison for life no trial or anything. So you just know there are innocent people sitting in that inhumane prison they built. So yeah you can lower a crime rate that much, but you're not gonna do it without stomping on human rights and the blood of innocents

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

Couldn't happen to a nicer goblin.

[–] LesserAbe 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"THE CHILDREN WILL BE SAVED!"

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