President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Thanks for this, but I don't have a WSJ account and got cut off just as it was about to make its argument that despite how it might appear, opposing the AT&T/Time Warner merger and trashing Net Neutrality aren't wildly inconsistent positions. I must admit I'm quite intrigued by (albeit skeptical of) what the writer has cooked up.

I can see a lot of sides on the merger. I do find it credible that plenty of career folks in the antitrust division now regret allowing the Comcast/NBCUniversal merger, and don't want to make the same mistake with AT&T/Time Warner. (Thanks for your links on that.) If I'm AT&T, though, I would feel that was unfair, since they already allowed a major competitor to do it. And if I'm Comcast, as @daemon argued, I fight it with all I've got in order to, in effect, pull up the ladder behind them.

But I continue to be extremely skeptical of the motivations of this administration, in choosing this one area to throw a bone to the career employees that they typically treat with disdain in most agencies as "Obama holdovers," given that it overlaps with Trump's clear animus to CNN. And that is reinforced by the links elsewhere on this thread in which New York's AG has evidence that much of the "support" to get rid of net neutrality during the FCC's period to solicit public feedback in fact came from bots, many of which impersonated real people. Yet the FCC has reportedly refused to cooperate in his investigation and potential prosecution. Because hey, what's a little identity fraud and cybercrime as long as it supports what the administration wants to do? That dovetails IMO with so much of what this administration and the GOP in general have done – downplay Russia's election interference, downplay the Moore allegations, just root root root for the home team.

 

No idea what this even means to us.

 

It's pretty simple; you're going to pay to access your favorite websites just like you have to pay to access your favorite TV channels on cable. Yay, shareholders! Yay, distribution of wealth!

 

Seek help, YF. I really thought this was all just you playing a game, but this one makes even me think you've lost it.

 

Great ending.



@YankeeFan probably doesn't care what happened.

 

Giving away information for free can have unintended consequences, no?

 

That's odd. When we didn't have "net neutrality" before, none of that happened.

 

Wait a second. In an article full of leaks determined to make Trump look bad, they decided not to lay the blame for the guy’s death at Trump’s feet?

Do we need anything else to convince us he’s alive and well?

 

Meh. Who needs facts? YF has a guess that he likes!

 

They know when to keep their mouths shut unlike your comerade at 1600.

 

Good luck with scrubbing this out of your resume.

Roy Moore’s Communications Director Resigns | Washingtonian

 

Happy Thanksgiving guys