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    One thing that has been an eye-opener about all of this is how much cowardice there is in the U.S… It’s easy to talk a big game about free speech and freedom of the press, but when push comes to shove, most buckle.

    “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”

    • Benjamin Franklin
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    And this is why you never give these people what they want.

    Imagine the shitshow if the FCC pulled ABC’s broadcasting license for hurting the administrations feelings. They should have played hard ball.

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    Actually, that makes a lot of sense…

    Given that Trump is the best president ever (I’m sure I have heard people say so), then anyone who opposes him is, ipso facto, an enemy of the state and should be treated as such.

    The more I think about it, the more obvious it is. I mean, why even have another election?

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          In order:

          1. Raping child sex slaves
          2. Removing due process
          3. Removing public health programs and trust in science
          4. Siccing government agents on non-violent illegal immigrants
          5. Siccing government agents on legal citizens
          6. Raping unconsenting adults
          7. Amplifying anti-LGBT+ calls to action
          8. Stripping women of their bodily rights
          9. Whitewashing history
          10. Incorporating religious beliefs into policy direction
          11. His world shifting decision making while battling clinical narcissistic behavior and dementia
          12. Everything else

          Last. He shits his pants.

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    Fucking do it. When the only news feed people have access to is state sponsored Fox News and AI generated MAGA memes on Facebook maybe we’ll get enough people waking up to make a difference.

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      My brother in christ. They are pulling people from the streets. They are re-writing what schools have to teach. They are removing references to an inconvenient history (slavery). They are calling for civil uprising. They are denominating opposing political groups as terrorists.

      If people haven’t snapped out of it now, they definitely won’t when only state sponsored news is on the air.

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      Live in a right wing state…

      They’ll still call it the “Liberal media” any time it says ANYTHING against their world view. Fox is “liberal media” around here.

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      I am not 100% sure about that. I could see some growing quite bored with their options and maybe waking up. I can see some falling into The Algorithm and getting way, way radicalized into more Nazi stuff.

      But yeah, if Taco even takes away the soma, it might be that some people get well and truly pissed. At him. And the Republicans and the conservatives that are destroying this country.

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    I bet you if more of our corporate leaders demure to his craven demands that he’ll just go away and be reasonable.

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      Exactly, spineless fuckers can’t stand their ground at all in the situation where it is known that if you ignore him - he can’t do anything about it.

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      These media outfits have forgotten the old saying “Don’t fuck with people who buy their ink by the barrel.” If these networks got together and started a strategic media campaign against Trump and MAGA, people would be demanding their heads in 8 weeks, even many MAGA followers. They are extremely stupid, ignorant, gullible, and malleable If the media pulled out all the stops, they could convert them easily.

      The problem is, those media companies are becoming owned by conservative companies, and now CBS is owned by Larry Ellison, 2nd richest man, and a vicious Psychopathic MAGA. ABC is owned by Disney, who seems to have no problems appeasing the administration. And NBC is owned by Comcast, a company who consistently places at or near the top of the worst customer service. They clearly don’t care how their customers feel.

      These broadcast companies are perfectly comfortable playing along with, and being media shills for, the MAGA Nazis.

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        I’m not sure why people expected them to do anything else.

        These companies exist to make money not resist fascism. If they can do both that’s great but they will always choose money.

        They have no morals and they don’t care what happens in the world so long as stock ticker goes up. The incentives don’t allow for anything else.

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          A company also has to do whatever they can to protect their markets, and keep them healthy. Participating in a ever growing circle of bribery, intimidation, threats, and escalating demands isn’t going to be good for the market, or the company itself.

          When DeSatan’s hand-picked board took over the governance of Disney world’s property, one of his choices was a church lady, who immediately declared that Disney would be forced to submit all of their movies to the board, who would demand changes before allowing the release. She said it out loud, directly to a reporter, knowing it would be published. She was already making extreme demands.

          Eventually, the government will be approving all programming, which will become extremely boring, and the market will turn away. Perhaps then then these corporate boot-lickers will realize that they would have been better off resisting.

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      Just watch how 51% of voters will vote for him again, because the opposing party’s candidate isn’t a saint actually and might have some flaws.
      Hahaha, who am I kidding, there will be no next free election, nobody will need to vote anymore.

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        yeah, after reading your comment, I realize I meant something slightly different than I wrote. So to clarify… a lot of people are on-board with the “policies” he’s pursuing since the policy is always some variation of “crime with impunity” for people on his side. There are hordes of people who want to get in on that. Nevertheless, they don’t like him, don’t trust him, don’t believe anything he says; and they wouldn’t hesitate to stick a knife in his back if a better option emerged.

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      Not everybody, apparently a lot of americans are ok with all this.
      I mean, if they weren’t ok with it there’d be a visibly decent amount of push back about it all. Yet all they’ve done is post memes, and went out and had a walkabout with some signs a few months ago.

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          The people saying that shit want us to just shoot everyone while they don’t have to face any of the potential consequences and are safe.

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            “First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me.”

            Martin Niemöller, a German Lutheran pastor and anti-Nazi dissident. 1945 after being imprisoned for opposing Hitler.

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        That’s because a lot of this hasn’t really started to affect them yet. Sure he has his merry band of loyal supporters but there’s also a lot of people who are just not really very politically aware and aren’t paying attention.

        Think about your grandparents or if you’re old enough just your parents. They sit around watching fox news and seeing posts on Facebook and they assume that those are viable sources of trustworthy information. Which obviously they are not.

        At some point in the next few years they will start to wonder why the shelves are always empty now, and why are the products they do have so expensive? Also why are so many businesses closing, I was told the economy was doing well.

        Getting the media to lie for you only works for so long.

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          they will start to wonder why the shelves are always empty now, and why are the products they do have so expensive?

          And fox/oan/whatever will convince them it’s because of the illegal trans immigrants and they’ll vote for whichever fascist shows up after Trump dies.

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          Getting the media to lie for you only works for so long.

          For Hitler, it worked until the Russians were literally on top of him and he was putting a bullet in his own head. And this was after years of his cities being bombed into rubble.