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harumph

(2,488 posts)
Sat Oct 26, 2024, 10:14 AM Oct 2024

Putin threatens his oligarchs too. It's his MO.

Trump has promised for the record to use the power of the state to suppress and punish his enemies. Maybe newspapers and media outlets should be owned by people with less to lose.

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Walleye

(37,337 posts)
1. Thugs don't know any other way to do business, they trust no one. It's a real hindrance.
Sat Oct 26, 2024, 10:16 AM
Oct 2024

Like Trump, and he has convinced half the American people to believe that nobody is ever honest or fair and square. You just have to be better at cheating. And he convinced them to hate their fellow Americans. When he’s the one that deserves our hatred.

surfered

(4,627 posts)
2. There is a reason they have First Amendment protection.
Sat Oct 26, 2024, 10:17 AM
Oct 2024

But with this Supreme Court, maybe the President is immune from infringing upon that.

CincyDem

(6,972 posts)
3. Bezos Musk and the whole lot should take note of the # of oligarchs that have "leapt" from the 6-7-8th floors.
Sat Oct 26, 2024, 10:17 AM
Oct 2024

gab13by13

(26,159 posts)
6. As Mishael Cohen said
Sat Oct 26, 2024, 10:58 AM
Oct 2024

TSF wants to be the richest person in the world, and he will take Bezo's money in a heartbeat.

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