Actually, I think disaster has already been given a formal invitation.
I think it's interesting that achilles28 wants Trump to hobble the press whereas he equated Obama with Hitler and authoritarianism.
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I think it's interesting that achilles28 wants Trump to hobble the press whereas he equated Obama with Hitler and authoritarianism.
That's a good point. Trump did more than his fair share of slander during his rise to power.
This has traditionally been the republican approach. How has that worked out for us? Half the country thinks its appropriate to overturn the election and the media is chuckling over violent riots. This is war and the fact our side doesn't want to wage it doesn't mean we can force the other side to stand down.
Obama's entire economic/healthcare policy was a direct attack on his political opponents.
Sometimes you have to use the stick and the carrot.
The problem is we don't have a free press. A free press is independent and unbiased. The Wikileaks docs removed all doubt that ours is nothing but an arm of the democrat party and its various activist fringe groups. A casual reading of the WashPost or NYT, supposedly the paradigms of a free press, will prove that they are nothing but propaganda organs dedicated to pushing extreme agendas.
As for libel laws, the Supreme Court long ago eviscerated them where public officials are concerned. Ironically, it was a case in which the NYT had libeled a local police official in Alabama during the civil rights battle.
Stick and carrot, fine. But don't abuse power or you become exactly what you've been campaigning against the last 8 years.
Then marginalize them. Frankly, we're on that path. More and more the MSM is becoming irrelevant as they get caught in their bias, or their fake news reporting. More and more Trump circumvents them by going to social media, or inviting bloggers. That's a good strategy and totally within his right.
But what you're suggesting is active targeting by Trump using the government to destroy them financially, and that's plain wrong, AAA. Sorry, bro. Love your view points most of the time, but that's too radical.
...when viewed through the lens of Breitbart and Alex Jones.
I realize we seem to be having something of a detente going, but is it possible that perhaps you're seeing some of your bros for the first time?
Just saying.
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No, I agree with them on a good deal of points. But I'm a Libertarian at heart (a present day one, not some Piezoe weird claim). My "bros" are republicans, and we're likely to clash on some things.