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n expansion. Is it because he solved everything else? Now you might say, Scott, he hasn't solved Ukraine. And I would argue he kind of has because the only thing I was asking him to solve for Ukraine is to solve the United States's involvement. And he kind of solved it because we get now paid for selling Europe these weapons. So the US GDP benefits from their war. We have no boots on the ground.…
← Previous segment →ower of the flag, which is you can't destroy it. It's a concept so strong that fire doesn't touch it. That's what makes it great. And it's a symbol of free speech when somebody burns it right in front of the White House. Free speech. And it's not really hurting any people except maybe your feelings. So let me go on record as saying no, that I would consider that authoritarian unambiguously. That this would be a clear mistake in my opinion, but I also acknowledge that a lot of you disagree. And you would be in that 49% apparently.
Trump has also said recently he's in favor of revoking the broadcast licensing for ABC, NBC news. Now the broadcasting license is for the network in general but they also have a news part. So I don't know how that would work because if you took away the broadcast license for the entire entity would that look appropriate? I don't know. Now his argument is that their news is 93% or whatever the number is negative to Trump and therefore it's not really news. It's just propaganda and it's not even operating as news. Now that's a pretty good argument. However I would argue that that's kind of true for all the news sources. So if he just picked out these two for being the extra bad ones for some reason, I would say that's going too far. That's too far. Now if it's just
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part of his threat, so he's trying to browbeat them into giving better coverage, I wouldn't have a giant problem with that because their coverage is propaganda and it would be just another way to call them out for being a propaganda entity as opposed to a real news entity, which is fair game because that's free speech too. But if he's serious about it and he actually revokes their licenses, too fa…
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