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General Category => Editorial/Opinion/Blogs => Topic started by: rangerrebew on December 16, 2018, 04:44:13 pm
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President Trump Unleashes, Threatens to Sue NBC, Saturday Night Live
By Carmine Sabia
December 16, 2018 at 6:06am
President Donald Trump loves to trigger the liberal media.
And he did it again on Sunday, the night after Saturday Night Live aired a parody of “It’s A Wonderful Life†to take another shot at him.
“A REAL scandal is the one sided coverage, hour by hour, of networks like NBC & Democrat spin machines like Saturday Night Live. It is all nothing less than unfair news coverage and Dem commercials. Should be tested in courts, can’t be legal? Only defame & belittle! Collusion?†he wrote.
https://thefederalistpapers.org/opinion/president-trump-unleashes-threaten-sue-nbc-saturday-night
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What a f**king idiot.
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What a f**king idiot.
He must be getting money under the table from Lorne Michaels. Trump's definitely helping their ratings.
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What a f**king idiot.
A man child with zip understanding of the basic elements of our constitution.
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Looks to me like this was sent from trump's twitter account, not POTUS.
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Looks to me like this was sent from trump's twitter account, not POTUS.
Are you saying that Trump's twitter account is for his "off time" when he's not POTUS???
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Are you saying that Trump's twitter account is for his "off time" when he's not POTUS???
I'm saying that he has the right to speak his mind as an individual using his personal account.
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I'm saying that he has the right to speak his mind as an individual using his personal account.
No one said he didn't have that right. But his current exercising of that right makes him look like an idiot. He's threatening to sue NBC because SNL isn't "fair" to him, seriously??? And people demand that he's some sort of conservative... My ass. Conservatives hold the principle that the 1st amendment guarantees the right to believe/say things they fundamentally disagree with. To say why we disagree without forcing people into silence. That there is no right not to be offended. Forcing people into silence and claiming a right against being offended by running to the courts is a leftest position.
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No one said he didn't have that right. But his current exercising of that right makes him look like an idiot. He's threatening to sue NBC because SNL isn't "fair" to him, seriously??? And people demand that he's some sort of conservative... My ass. Conservatives hold the principle that the 1st amendment guarantees the right to believe/say things they fundamentally disagree with. To say why we disagree without forcing people into silence. That there is no right not to be offended. Forcing people into silence and claiming a right against being offended by running to the courts is a leftest position.
It is well know Trump talks a lot of shit and moves on. Why don't you do the same.
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It is well know Trump talks a lot of shit and moves on. Why don't you do the same.
Well I agree with the first part of your statement.
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It is well know Trump talks a lot of shit and moves on. Why don't you do the same.
@The Ghost
When a non-office-holding citizens talks that kind of shit, that's one thing.
When an office-holder talks that kind of shit, it's alarming enough, especially depending upon the office held at the time of the talk; and, whether the office holder in question holds the sort of office from which he or she can turn that sort of mere shit talk into official action. A dog catcher or a water supervisor talking that kind of shit isn't likely to wreak havoc upon the First Amendment; a local sheriff or police officer, a police commissioner, a county supervisor, a mayor, a state legislator, a governor, a representative in the House, a Senator, is far more in official position to wreak that kind of havoc. (The long-since torpedoed McCain-Feingold, anyone?)
When the president of the United States talks that kind of shit, it goes far beyond alarming, no matter who the president who says it happens to be and against whom specifically he says it, and regardless of his party. Especially considering that we are several generations in on the premise---nowhere to be found in the Constitution, and thanks in part to Congresses ceding enough of its supremacy to the executive branch---that what the president says, wishes, demands, is close enough to law, or ought to be heeded without question. And if it's bad enough that too many presidents we can think of including the incumbent have behaved like such monarchs (for the witless, I use "monarch" metaphorically, not literally or legally), it's just as bad if not worse that there are too many citizens of what remains of this republic who want it that way.
Relax, for only a moment, anyway. President Tweety isn't the first president to talk that kind of shit. Not by a long shot, even if there's an argument that he might be the most blunt about it, or at least one of the couple most blunt. Unfortunately, it's not likely that he'll be the last, either. And talking that kind of shit only piles onto the reputation he already had, going in, as a man whose knowledge of (if not respect for) the Constitution equaled that of a pygmy.
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Are you saying that Trump's twitter account is for his "off time" when he's not POTUS???
I thought POTUS was a 24/7/365 job... :thud:
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It is well know Trump talks a lot of shit and moves on. Why don't you do the same.
Why don't YOU move on? :rolling: