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Old 08-17-2018, 12:42 AM   #31
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I guess the global elite deep state that organized the editorial revolt of 340 media outlets, sneakily got to our senators.

Senate unanimously adopts resolution backing free press after Trump attacks
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/sen...trump-attacks/

...The U.S. Senate on Thursday unanimously adopted a resolution affirming support for a free press and declaring that “the press is not the enemy of the people.”

The non-binding resolution approved by voice vote was a rebuke to President Donald Trump who for more than 18 months has frequently called reporters “the enemy of the people.”

The resolution “reaffirms the vital and indispensable role that the free press serves to inform the electorate, uncover the truth, act as a check on the inherent power of the government, further national discourse and debate, and otherwise advance the most basic and cherished democratic norms and freedoms of the United States.”

The vote comes after more than 300 hundred U.S. newspapers on Thursday launched a coordinated defense of press freedom and a rebuke of President Donald Trump for denouncing some media organizations as enemies of the American people.

“A central pillar of President Trump’s politics is a sustained assault on the free press,” said the editorial by the Boston Globe, which coordinated publication among more than 350 newspapers.

Trump has frequently criticized journalists and described news reports that contradict his opinion or policy positions as fake news.

He lashed out again on Thursday, tweeting “THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA IS THE OPPOSITION PARTY. It is very bad for our Great Country….BUT WE ARE WINNING!”

At a Senate hearing, Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai again said he did not agree that the press was “the enemy of the people” but declined to offer a view of Trump’s anti-press rhetoric.

“We swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution, including the First Amendment,” said Senator Brian Schatz, a Democrat and an author of the resolution. “Today, every senator upheld that oath by sending a message that we support the First Amendment, and we support the freedom of the press in the face of these attacks.”
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Old 08-17-2018, 07:10 AM   #32
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Fascism and Communism aren't really ideologies you can use a "/" with...
Yeah, they really are.

Mussolini definition of fascism: All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.

What is there about that quote that doesn't apply to Communism equally well?

It also seems to sum up the Democratic-Socialist-Progressive-whatever wing of one of two major parties in America.
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Old 08-17-2018, 08:26 AM   #33
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Yeah, they really are.

Mussolini definition of fascism: All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.

What is there about that quote that doesn't apply to Communism equally well?

It also seems to sum up the Democratic-Socialist-Progressive-whatever wing of one of two major parties in America.
For starters communism doesn't believe a state is even necessary.
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Old 08-17-2018, 08:45 AM   #34
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You gotta love it. Cuomo says the country is not great. Send him to Russia! Trump calls the press an enemy. Get him away from Russia! Democrats and Republicans, a special kind of stupid.
Two of the most powerful people. You would think they have read the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. What a joke!
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Old 08-17-2018, 09:04 AM   #35
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The press is the enemy in most part, they fan the flames of racial unrest. Most of the times they don't outright lie, they just tell half the story.
One of the most disgusting headlines happened a couple years ago and I don't feel like digging it up it read something similar to this:


"Another unarmed black man killed by police."

Most of the articles I read implied the guy was trying to flee police in a vehicle from a traffic stop and they just opened fire on him. The whole truth was he was trying to escape in a stolen car, the officers were able to force him off the road and had him stopped and boxed in. When officers approached from all sides he rammed his way out and was trying to run over one of the officers, that is when they opened fire.


Of course most people do not go digging around for the real truth and some just flat out just read the headlines or watch short sound bites on the TV news.
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Old 08-17-2018, 11:13 AM   #36
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Yeah, they really are.

Mussolini definition of fascism: All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.

What is there about that quote that doesn't apply to Communism equally well?

It also seems to sum up the Democratic-Socialist-Progressive-whatever wing of one of two major parties in America.
Democratic presidents don't hold the record for lying
Chumpy recently is up to 16x a day.

This wing you are imagining as "commies" is nowhere as consumed by wall to wall conspiracy theories as your wing is, and there's something to be said for progressives not ripping kids away from their parents. Then there is......

Socialism.

Being a Faux Noos junkie junkie explains nothing but bull sh*t.

Fox Business host compares Denmark to Venezuela, gets slammed as ‘fake news’
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/de...ews-2018-08-16

...Denmark may be one of the happiest places on Earth, but Danes weren’t exactly smiling when Fox Business Network host and MarketWatch alum Trish Regan last weekend unleashed a diatribe comparing the Scandinavian country to Venezuela.

Regan’s segment was met with responses from multiple Danish government officials, like this tweet from the finance minister:


Kristian Jensen

@Kristian_Jensen

So Danes don’t wants to work? 11 places better than US in OECD statistics! We are working much more than Americans and at the same time ranking as the worlds best in Work-Life-Balance. You should come to Denmark if you dare be confronted with facts @trish_regan ������
Jensen would later add to his rebuttal.

“Denmark ranks 12 in economic freedom, Venezuela ranks 179. It’s simply egregious,” he told the New York Times in an interview. “It made me angry to see such an erroneous image of Denmark. Trish can think whatever she wants about Denmark, but on a factual basis.”

And on Wednesday, Social Democrat and Member of Parliament Dan Jørgensen offered up a point-by-point video rebuttal and, borrowing a clip from “your beloved president,” concluded with “you are fake news.”


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Old 08-17-2018, 01:24 PM   #37
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Mein Kampf really. Gutter point
Poster lives in the gutter.
Dan has no class at all.
He thinks the SNL news is legit!
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Poster lives in the gutter.
DFan has no class at all.
He thinks the SNL news is legit!
I would take SNL over you and breitbat any day.
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Since you live in the FUNNIES, I assume you would.
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