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The things he says he wants to dismantle are bloated executive-branch bureaucracies. If he actually manages to do it (which he didn't during his first term), i
by mbg721 2y ago
The things he says he wants to dismantle are bloated executive-branch bureaucracies. If he actually manages to do it (which he didn't during his first term), it would be traumatic for a lot of federal employees, but not exactly the death of democracy.
- defrost 2y agoHe's also clearly stated he wants to remove the licences from media companies that have been critical of him. There's a check list of similar statements he's on record making.
- mbg721 2y agoIf he removed licenses from media companies that were critical of him, there would be approximately 0 media companies, and yet he's on track to win. One of the biggest takeaways from this election is that the populace largely doesn't trust the media.
- defrost 2y agoDo you support the dismantling of a free press?
- mbg721 2y agoOf course not. He was president for four years and yet the press remains what it is. Why do you think he would destroy the free press?
- lazyeye 2y agoNobody cares about the free press, their content is, for the most part, garbage. I think this election has signalled the death of the mainstream media, and the rise of independent media. I find this absolutely wonderful.
- johngladtj 2y agoIf you need a license to operate you're not free.
- kam 2y agoThe license is for the use of the broadcast spectrum (a scarce, shared resource), not practicing journalism.
- sixothree 2y agoThey definitely trust the media. Otherwise he would have been elected.
- xnx 2y ago> One of the biggest takeaways from this election is that the populace largely doesn't trust the media. "Among all U.S. adults, 43% say they trust Fox News for political and election news" https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/04/08/five-facts-about-fox-news/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/04/08/five-fact...
- briandear 2y agoFalse. Did you see what CBS did to the Harris interview? That behavior is explicitly what he was talking about. CBS edited an interview under the guise of their news department to switch answers to questions with other answers. It wasn’t that CBS was critical of Trump, it’s that they engaged in outright fraud using publicly licensed airwaves. That’s against FCC rules. What CBS did wasn’t disinformation — it was fraud.
- selfmodruntime 2y agoPerhaps a sanity check at those media companies would help. They've been broadcasting propaganda non-stop and you've witnessed a colony collapse just today.
- watwut 2y agoHe wants to destroy democracy itself. It is literal explicit goal.
- mbg721 2y agoWhat? I would love to hear how that's true (although voting is over), but I suspect it's not.
- watwut 2y agoHe literally said that. He said that if he wins, these are the last elections. He said that he wants to remove license to media that are critical of him. Trump said quite a lot. All it takes is to listen to what he is saying. And the other thing to listen to what his primary voters - conservative evangelical Christians were saying they want for years. It is literally ridiculous how these people are saying exactly what they want, then they literally do what they said they will do, again and again. But somehow, I am supposed to assume they don't mean it, this time for a change.
- mlnj 2y ago@mbg721, you seem to be willfully ignorant of anything this man has said and the dangers everyone is talking about. You seem to be completely missing any ideas on his policy and the changes he wants to being to the government and the democratic process. Please stop commenting "Where?", "What?", "How?" to everyone in the comments here. They do not add any value to the conversation.
- mbg721 2y agoI don't see any clear articulation of the dangers, other than that he's a convicted criminal, which I argue is for purely political reasons. Republican candidates have been labeled "HITLER 2" since Goldwater. I'm not cheerleading, but rather am trying to make policy arguments that add as much value as possible.
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- anabab 2y agoLike that pandemic responce unit dismantled in 2018?
- innocentoldguy 2y agoYou mean this one? https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/09/10/fact-check-white-house-didnt-fire-pandemic-response-2018/3437356001/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/09/10/fac...
- squeaky-clean 2y agoYour link entirely agrees with the statement that Trump disbanded the pandemic response team. What it calls false is that the members were fired from government completely instead of shuffled around into other non pandemic related departments. So yes, that one. Did you actually read your link? Or did you get duped by the headline? > Based on our research, the claim that President Trump fired the "entire" pandemic response team is PARTLY FALSE. The Directorate of Global Health Security and Biodefense was disbanded under Trump's then-national security adviser John Bolton. But Trump didn't fire its members. Some resigned, and others moved to different units on the National Security Council.
- innocentoldguy 2y agoDid you read it? It clearly says the team was far too big, and that even members of Obama's team felt it was too large, so Trump shrunk and reorganized it.