• foggy@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    This senile fuck has no idea he’s turned up the water too fast and everyone is noticing the boil. Firing Kimmel didn’t go well, what makes him think this will be any different? Same day as the Qatari air base? Bold move.

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        What did people do last time and the time before that and the time before that? This isn’t new we know the outcome of these sorts of things.

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      They’ll start with MSNBC. People will complain but if they stay the course it will become the new normal. Other news networks will adjust their programming to avoid the same fate. Part of why the Kimmel thing failed was because it was indirect action - the threat was to not grant approval for the Nexstar merger, but the media and publishing backlash made them reinstate Kimmel.

      If they start directly revoking licenses then the “kill chain” is basically 1 or 2 links long and the order coming right from Trump’s office.

      Personally I think he could get away with it. Americans are still mostly too comfortable for the kind of action it would take to actually stop him.