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TomDaisy

(1,870 posts)
Sat Jan 9, 2021, 04:09 PM Jan 2021

guess all the trumpers whining about Free Speech today forgot about Jamal Khashoggi

that's how trump feels about free speech.


Trump Republicans also:

refuse to debate Democratic opponents (most recently, David Perdue)

blacklist media outlets

put reporters in pens

pull credential from media to influence their reporting

create fake videos of journalists

call media "Enemy of the People"

demand NDAs and silence

encourage death threats against media outlets

refuse to hold town halls with their own constituents (i.e., self-censorship)

justify and excuse the murder of Jamal Khashoggi

refuse to hold White House press briefings

give access only to compliant right-wing propaganda outlets

arrest constituents visiting their offices

invite dangerous right-wing cranks and trolls to our White House

sue and harass twitter users who challenge their lies

use official government twitter accounts to target individual Americans

push a false narrative of anti-conservative bias

block the CDC from studying gun violence

ban doctors from discussing guns and abortion with their own patients

pass laws that make protesting illegal

prevent all voting on any bill in the Senate

force government employees to swear allegiance to Israel

use PC "decorum" rules to suppress free speech on the House and Senate floor

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