It’s the first thing that dictators, fascists and totalitarian regimes do, stop the presses. In Russia the government kills them, in Mexico the cartels kill them, in America we just hate them and beat them up when we can. But we are on the path.
Contrary to what our President – who I can say with great surety is the biggest pathological liar of any politician in history – keeps saying, both the losing Washington Post and New York times are growing faster than any time in a very long time. And after 17 years of ascendancy Fox News which often enjoyed more share than both CNN and MSNBC combined, is now at the bottom, with both CNN and MSNBC beating them in primetime under 75. .
Rodrigo Duterte update. The fascist leader of The Philippines declared martial law this week joking that his police forces get a free rape of three women each on him. For many months we have known that Duterte has had about 10,000 drug suspects murdered in the streets by his police and his vigilante groups. He has taken credit for murdering several himself in the past, and throwing at least one out of a helicopter.
On April 29th 2017 President Trump called Rodrigo Duterte for no other reason other than to say…
“I just wanted to congratulate you because I am hearing of the unbelievable job on the drug problem. Many countries have the problem, we have a problem, but what a great job you are doing and I just wanted to call and tell you that.”
That right there should be enough to drag the Orange Buffoon out of the White House and sent to Gitmo for a ten year wait before whatever charges are may or may not be leveled.