The Conservative Principle

[Buy1Sell2]

Are you clinically insane? Trump said the media is the biggest threat to the US. That's what wannabe dictators say just before they become full-fledged dictators. Unless they're taken down first. Seriously, WTF is the matter with you people?

Please indicate where Mr Trump has suggested shutting down the free press.

 

[Frederick Foresight]

Please indicate where Mr Trump has suggested shutting down the free press.

First he has to get an idiot base to agree with him that the media is the biggest threat. That step is already underway. The rest then follows.

 

[Buy1Sell2]

First he has to get an idiot base to agree with him that the media is the biggest threat. That step is already underway. The rest then follows.

So we are in agreement then. He has not suggested closing down the free press.

 

[Frederick Foresight]

So we are in agreement then. He has not suggested closing down the free press.

I agree that you're like a frog slowly getting cooked without realizing it.

 

[piezoe]

You do understand that The Constitution was amended with the 13th amendment to abolish slavery correct?

The 13th amendment runs counter to, i.e., disrespects, "... what the founders envisioned for the country."

Our vision for the country two hundred plus years later is vastly different from what the founders envisioned, and thank goodness. Sorry to say you and your thinking are anachronisms in today's world.

 

[piezoe]

If Smith was anti-American and anti-Israel, yes. By the way, it's not a perception, it"s a reality.

Let's be clear here. It's your reality, not everyone else's.

 

[piezoe]

The Founders left two possibilities open for altering The Constitution. One would be through amendments and the second is through Article 5 "Convention of States" . ----What they did not authorize was SCOTUS or other activist judges to be able to change the Constitution on their own. ---It should be noted that most of the Founders were evolving or had evolved into anti-slavery positions and this includes many of the ones who had held slaves. It took some time and The Civil War for The Constitution to finally be amended to abolish slavery.

Nevertheless when you speak of what the Founders envisioned, it was most certainly not a country in which there was anything like universal suffrage. This is what makes any one who is today championing what the Founders envisioned for the country seem so out of touch. Certainly you could single out certain qualities that the Founders exhibited and wanted to see in their new country that would still be considered admirable today. However to make a statement implying that you would want to return the country, its government and its laws to very much at all like it was in seventeen-ninety-two, when nothing moved faster than a horse, and only male land owners had any say in government is bizarre and absurd to me.

 

[Tsing Tao]

Nevertheless when you speak of what the Founders envisioned, it was most certainly not a country in which there was anything like universal suffrage.

Maybe not, but you prove his point - they left a manner in which anything could be changed if enough found it a worthy goal. They did not believe that one person from the judicial branch could do it.

 

[AAAintheBeltway]

First he has to get an idiot base to agree with him that the media is the biggest threat. That step is already underway. The rest then follows.

Why are the media immune from criticism? There is a vast gulf between objecting to obviously biased reporting and shutting down the media.

If much of the country despises the media, they have only themselves to blame.

I realize TDS makes you impervious to logic, but this is just another example of ridiculous over the top hysteria.

 

[Frederick Foresight]

Why are the media immune from criticism?

You mean like being the "greatest threat to America" according to the sitting president? You mean like that?