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…
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.
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.