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Trump Wants Dissent To Be A Crime...
 Another day - another bizarre -- and frankly constitution-defying-- tweet from Donald Trump. At 6:55 yesterday morning -- a time when most Americans were either still sleeping or just getting out of bed -- the man who will in less than two months take over the leadership of the so-called free world sent out this message from his Twitter account:
"Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag - if they do, there must be consequences - perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!" That's right. Not only does Trump think flag-burning should be illegal - he also thinks people who do burn the flag should lose EVERY RIGHT THEY HAVE AS AN AMERICAN. This might sound like more Trumpian bluster - but it's not. This is serious stuff. The only crime currently punishable in America by loss of citizenship is treason - and the President elect of the United States just said we should apply that same punishment to political dissent. In simpler terms - Donald Trump thinks dissent is treason. This is literally THE recipe - and virtually the dictionary definition - for authoritarianism. So where does it all end? Are our political institutions healthy enough to prevent Donald Trump from becoming an American autocrat? Will all those checks and balances that we learned about in elementary school do their job? Or has the modern presidency and the intelligence apparatus it controls become so powerful, so expansive, that it's time to start seriously worrying about a dictator Trump? -Thom (What do you think? Tell us here.) |
Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10:30pm... We're Seeing the Limits of a Nationalist's Trade Rhetoric (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Big Picture Interview: We're Seeing the Limits of a Nationalist's Trade Rhetoric
- Larry Cohen, Our Revolution/Democracy Initiative 
Big Picture Lone Liberal Rumble: The Guy Who Foreclosed On "America" Now In Charge of the Treasury?
- Charles Sauer, The Market Institute
- Scott Greer, The Daily Caller
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Wednesday's Daily Stack 
Quote: "There is a crack in everything...that's how the light gets in." -- Leonard Cohen.
Hour One: Does Everyone in the Media Have to Bow to Emperor Trump?
Hour Two: Elaine Chao, Mitch McConnell & the Family's Shadowy Shipping Company - Lee Fang, The Intercept/(formerly w/ The Nation) Article: " 13th Amendment", December 6, 1865. " Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Quote: " I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag." - Molly Ivins. Movie: " Lincoln" by Steven Spielberg.
Hour Three: Trump's Agenda for Privatizing the Commons, What Would Libertarians Do? - Charles Sauer, The Market Institute |
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