I’ll sue you. Chickenshit caucus.

Classic tactic of the fascist right.

Thinks he is already president, Thinks he is already a Tyrant.......

Truly a Frankenstein's Monster, Created by the Republican Politicians, and now un-controlable and answering to no one.....

...this is the result of a corrupted Supreme Court and billionaire boys club.

Self censored? They shitcanned their fucking journalists, hired windup, talking heads who think in depth is splashing in the kiddy pool?

Did you understand what I meant?

And I would say a lot of Americans don't either. But hey ... make arguments no one can understand.

Despite the ludicrous ABC settlement, the media is on pins and needles over what might happen when he gets sworn in. Trump is trying to prevent any kind of Woodward-Bernstein stories while he's in office. I only hope they tell him to go f*** himself.

and independent podcasts.

You'll have defections to BBC, The Guardian, The Independent, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, and various Youtube podcasts.

To paraphrase Theodore Roosevelt, "I can either control the media or I can run the country. I can't possibly do both."

Frivolous lawsuits anywhere across the globe. Deny access to outlets that have ever voiced any criticisms.

If putin/musk are in charge, bodily damage to reporters and organizations.

So much dissent, his fucking head will spin.

*to borrow one of his favorite words!

Gotta have their guns, but can't let the country have its press.

Commercial media are slaves to big money and advertisers. It’s always been that way, nothing new.

What’s new is commercial media companies siding with big money to stifle first amendment rights that will eventually kill themselves.

Trump U. Graduates, no doubt.

Yeah, the media has economic issues. And Trump is trying to take advantage of that. But there's enough of a resistance out there that it can't and won't be entirely successful. There will be Freedom Fighters who will battle him. And we the people need to be behind them. Unless people want to see their rights completely taken away.

He should have to reimburse the lawyers the media companies had to hire. I actually thought that's how it works.

"Vexatious litigation is legal action which is brought solely to harass or subdue an adversary. It may take the form of a primary frivolous lawsuit or may be the repetitive, burdensome, and unwarranted filing of meritless motions in a matter which is otherwise a meritorious cause of action. Filing vexatious litigation is considered an abuse of the judicial process and may result in sanctions against the offender.

A single action, even a frivolous one, is usually not enough to raise a litigant to the level of being declared vexatious. Rather, a pattern of frivolous legal actions is typically required to rise to the level of vexatious.. " Wikipedia

Repeated and severe instances by a single lawyer or firm can result in eventual disbarment.

When that happens our country is done. Full on Russian style dictatorship.

I hope media knows their role in democracy and i hope we have billionaires looking to help democracy.

The Pro-Republican Corporations and Republican Oligarchs ALREADY OWN/OPERATE the majority of the U.S. Media........

The papers that social media disparages .... like the NY Times and WashPost ... are our keys to freedom. Saying the media is completely non-functional is saying freedom is dead. And it's not ... not yet unless we let it die.

Legacy media sowed the seeds of its own destruction.

No one employs hate more that the US. We hate anything that is not like us and that is not based in greedy capitalism. Hell, there are successful industries that are solely based on hate. They thrive here.

Being magnanimous is seen as a fault here (unless it gains one something). Being compassionate and understanding is also something seen as 'weak'. Hate seems to be the one thing we can all agree on (either as a useful tool or a destructive force, we still agree that it is something to keep in our society).

Freaking sad, isn't it?

Also, civil suits brought by the people. Individual states attorney generals should get involved if need be.

They are willing to let elementary school children fill up cemeteries all over the US to defend their interpretation of the 2nd Amendment and we are not willing to go to the mat to defend the first amendment? It is FIRST for a reason!

Ministry of Truth
Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past
By Steve Benen


and

The Unraveling
Reflections on Politics without Ethics and Democracy in Crisis
Bob Bauer - Foreword by Jon Meacham

With a silly AI program that doesn't allow likes.

And the NYT often doesn't allow comments on the most political stories, so it's creeping in, U.S. media is only too happy to fold.

They could seriously gang up on him LIKE THEY DO THE DEMOCRATS, and stop this nonsense. The problem is, the media IS trump...the owners/management are his supporters. They're trying to push another one off on the public as if they're the VICTIMS. They aren't. The media are the perps.

No Democracy.

I fully support the complete and total annihilation of the corporate media machine in this country, regardless of who may ultimately be responsible for the miracle.

Then again, I abhor the litigious nature of our "sue everyone for everything" culture.