Things that made you laugh today (Political Version)

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I don't see it as a demand. Can't speak for him or anyone else, but I don't think it's a demand for more bias media attention that's favorable to him. He'd like it, but it's ultimately not up to him to decide.

He literally threatened to try to force them to do it by abusing his authority as head of the Executive.

I'm sorry, but for years we've heard conservatives wailing and gnashing their teeth over "government interference" when we tried to give people health care or try to protect people from discrimination.

And now you're going to make excuses for the President threatening to force companies to show more favorable coverage of him and also threatening to take away media licenses from outlets who weren't giving him that favorable coverage?

Why do you keep making excuses for him? You KNOW this is wrong. You know it leads to a bad place. You have to earn freedom, and you don't earn it by quietly looking the other way when people in power start acting like dictators.

That's HOW you get dictators. In case you hadn't noticed- they're usually democratically elected.

And the only way any of this works is if the other people in power are willing to hold a President accountable. And those other people in power- Republicans in Congress- AREN'T doing that because they know voters like you are going to be angrier with them for standing up for democratic values than they'd be if Congressional Republicans just look the other way.

These people work for you, and you're letting them get away with too much.