The president snapped after watching a TV show he didn’t like and said CBS should lose its license.

Donald Trump on Sunday called for “maximum fines and punishment” against CBS and its corporate parent, Paramount, over Sunday night’s “60 Minutes” broadcast.

In two separate posts on his Truth Social website, Trump complained about the show’s interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris last year ― which he is suing the company over ― and railed against Sunday night’s reports on Greenland and the war in Ukraine.

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    Blatant threats of government retaliation against private citizens.

    Clear violation of the First Amendment.

    And nothing will happen.

    Fuck Trump.

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      Well, technically the first amendment only affects Congress. Should be a slam dunk case for Trump with this Supreme Court.

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        I feel like something you said is inaccurate. I feel like the Bill of Rights protects all people from all branches of the government.

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          Here is the text for your own interpretation:

          Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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    Endless reports of Trump melting down. Nothing about real news or change.

    So sick of seeing that cheetoh-face dim-wit puppet. Dreaming of times when we never see it again.

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    Hitler was notorious for his temper tantrums. He is confirmed to have watched Charlie Chaplin’s iconic 1940 film ‘Thr Great Dictator’ but never said or wrote what he thought of it. Charlie Chaplin said that he would have given anything to know what he thought of it.

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      Trump is born almost exactly 1 year later after hitlers death coincidence? Reincarnation baby, no quick saves.

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          Not really, he wasn’t. The myth of Nazi/fascist competence comes from a combination of propaganda and “right time, right place” in terms of when they took the reins of the German economy. A kind of funny example that isn’t Nazis, but their contemporary fascists, Mussolini’s Italian regime damaged the on-time performance of trains in Italy, but the regime kept saying the trains were running on time to the point where it’s become a whole saying about excusing fascism because of its competence/results (“at least the trains run on time”).

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              It’s effective. If you listen to interviews where people give reasons they voted for mango Mussolini, it’s invariably something he declared regardless of reality or evidence.

              It shouldn’t take much listening to the guy to realize everything he says is BS but apparently some people only hear what they want to, and take that as fact

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            Straight up, the dude has been the beneficiary of the most dick-riding post-humous propaganda ever, second maybe only to Robert E. Lee or Jeff Davis.

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          The allied forces explicitly decided not to try assassinating Hitler. They were worried someone more competent would take his place.

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      Maybe they just showed him the same cut as in Iron Sky (2012). It would be amazin if that joke was that deep.

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      “Man”? “Ogre”, or “Demon” or “Beast” or “AntiChrist” or many other epithets for evil beings are far more appropriate to refer to HitlerBeast.

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        Nice, Ive been calling him HitlerPig, ever since I read that was the favored name by younger staffers in the Biden White House. I found it simulateously vicious, hilarious, and accurate, so it’s become my go-to name in print.

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    “They are not a ‘News Show,’ but a dishonest Political Operative simply disguised as ‘News,’ and must be responsible for what they have done, and are doing,” the president wrote.

    Isn’t this clown being sued by the same firm that sued Fox “News” and won?

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    We need to protect these 60 minutes people. They’re very brave and patriotic. We owe them protection for their service to America right now

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    “They are not a ‘News Show,’ but a dishonest Political Operative simply disguised as ‘News’”

    Shocked pikachu used “projecting”

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    His tweets read like Donald Trump putting his own words into an LLM that edits text to sound like Donald Trump. Like he typed his normal nonsense into ChatGPT and said “make it sound smart but still like Donald Trump.”

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    “Truth, Justice and the American Way!” Changed to “Money, Easy Money and Stolen Money…but only for all my friends!”.

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    “This is why we can’t elect women to power! They are too emotionally unstable and we’ll be in WW3 within a month!”

    -Sexist chuds

    Yeah, about that…

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    Does anyone else remember when “senile old man yells at the TV” wasn’t relevant political news*? I do. Can we please go back to those times?

    Oh, pre-2016, how I miss you.

    (It’s relevant because he has toadies in place to enforce his insane whims).

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      I remember when hearing from the president was special and they would prepare a statement or speech. It made news because it was important and rare.

      Now it’s a multiple times a day occurrence of verbal diarrhea.

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      When people stop electing them into positions of massive power then yes, we can stop talking about them.

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          And we’ve never really seen that go anywhere.

          • with lack of well known evidence, I assume that there is no evidence of widespread direct fraud
          • but we know there was voter suppression in many states. Why haven’t I seen anything about the impact of that?
          • and we know there was vote buying, in any sane world, someone would be in jail already
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    He urged FCC Chair Brendan Carr, who was named to the position by Trump, to deliver “substantial” penalties to the network for what he called “unlawful and illegal behavior.”

    “CBS is out of control, at levels never seen before, and they should pay a big price for this,” he wrote.

    In Trump’s mind, saying something he doesn’t want you to say is “unlawful and illegal”. And since both Congress and the Supreme Court have decided that he is never wrong, and law enforcement now operates by kidnapping people and trafficking them into life imprisonment and slavery without trial, that is the de facto reality.

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      law enforcement now operates by kidnapping people and trafficking them into life imprisonment and slavery without trial

      This is fucked up and it’s terrifying that’s the new reality

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      We really need him to produce a chart of these levels he’s talking about, for the sake of comedy.

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      and law enforcement now operates by kidnapping people and trafficking them into life imprisonment and slavery without trial

      Oh, honey. You don’t think those people are still alive, do you?

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        Realistically, we don’t know, because the point is for them to disappear. Historically this has tended to mean people get killed.

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          How would you know if they’re dead or alive if they disappeared? They’re Schroedinger’s Political Prisoners, perfect for plausible deniablity.

          “We don’t know if they’re dead. They could be living wonderful lives in a tropical paradise, and they just dont want to share, you don’t know.”

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            They could be living wonderful lives in a tropical paradise, and they just dont want to share, you don’t know."

            Like Whitman, Price, and Hadad. You remember them‽

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      “…at levels never seen before”

      its over 9000!

      or...

      8000 if you’re og. so tired of the maga dumbz.