Fresh off his thorough victory over CBS News, President Trump is taking aim at ABC and NBC.

“Why is it that ABC and NBC FAKE NEWS, two of the absolute worst and most biased networks anywhere in the World, aren’t paying Millions of Dollars a year in LICENSE FEES,” Trump wrote on Truth Social last night. “They should lose their Licenses for their unfair coverage of Republicans and/or Conservatives, but at a minimum, they should pay up BIG for having the privilege of using the most valuable airwaves anywhere at anytime!!! Crooked ‘journalism’ should not be rewarded, it should be terminated!!!”

While Trump’s many threats to revoke broadcaster licenses have never led to any actual license revocations, the CBS developments show how he can use the government to influence operations at news organizations. CBS owner Paramount recently inked a $16 million settlement with Trump and then agreed to install a “bias monitor” in order to gain Federal Communications Commission approval of an $8 billion merger with Skydance. Now Trump is turning his attention to ABC and NBC…

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    Who gives a fuck, they’re all owned by people who travel in the same circles, all presenting the kayfabe reality that is US politics. That one side will fix the problems of the other, when really, they’re hanging out in the locker rooms and you’re the ones buying tickets and paying their salaries.

    Republicans love Democrats; nobody else would let them get away with the shit they do.

    Democrats love Republicans; they only have to act 1% better than absolute dogshit and they’ll get all the votes they need.

    Neither one wants to change anything that’s occurring right now, because they’re all getting fantastically rich and enjoying power and protection you and I could only dream of. Who wants to change the system and fuck all that up?

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      You’re totally right. Democrats and Republics are exactly the same, there’s no reason to vote for a Democrat. Life in America is exactly the same now as it was in 2023, stay home on election day and definitely don’t vote for any Democrats.

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        No, they’re not exactly the same. You don’t get to today without the inaction of Democrats.

        What’s the biggest win we’ve seen from democrats in the last, say, 40 years? Gay marriage? They didn’t deliver on: healthcare, abortion, reducing military spending, police reform, government transparency, privacy, prosecuting Trump for his blatant corruption. Meanwhile, the Republicans can ram through dozens of their shittiest ideas in months. Why is that?

        Picking a Democrat and thinking it’s going to change anything is misguided in my opinion. They’re the reason we have Trump today. They enable the Republicans through inaction, and prevent actual change by suppressing progressive candidates.

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          Trump and fake progressives who aggressively suppress voter turnout are the reason we have Trump today.

          If you want Democrats to support progressive causes head down to your local DNC headquarters and get to work. Otherwise you’re just helping Trump consolidate power by tearing down the opposition with false equivalence, a gross misunderstanding of how politics works in America, and a heaping pile of misinformation.

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      I see many democrats talking about how they would like to change things, they appear far more progressive than Republicans to me

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        All talk, no action. Inaction isn’t as bad as a bad action, but it sure as shit isn’t good. When faced with someone doing an evil action, inaction is complicity.

        Ask yourself: why is it the Democrats can have the legislative and executive branches and only deliver a half assed insurance program, yet Republicans can pack the Supreme Court in one term and ram through dozens of their ideas in months?

        Instead of supporting progressive candidates like Sanders and Mamdani, they suppress them. Meanwhile, the Overton window shifts further right, and the country gets shittier and shittier.

        Stop paying attention to what they say and start paying attention to what they do. We have the secret police in the streets now, with martial law for cities on the horizon, and the democrats are on vacation.