The president snapped after watching a TV show he didn’t like and said CBS should lose its license.

Donald Trump on Sunday called for “maximum fines and punishment” against CBS and its corporate parent, Paramount, over Sunday night’s “60 Minutes” broadcast.

In two separate posts on his Truth Social website, Trump complained about the show’s interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris last year ― which he is suing the company over ― and railed against Sunday night’s reports on Greenland and the war in Ukraine.

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    He urged FCC Chair Brendan Carr, who was named to the position by Trump, to deliver “substantial” penalties to the network for what he called “unlawful and illegal behavior.”

    “CBS is out of control, at levels never seen before, and they should pay a big price for this,” he wrote.

    In Trump’s mind, saying something he doesn’t want you to say is “unlawful and illegal”. And since both Congress and the Supreme Court have decided that he is never wrong, and law enforcement now operates by kidnapping people and trafficking them into life imprisonment and slavery without trial, that is the de facto reality.

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      law enforcement now operates by kidnapping people and trafficking them into life imprisonment and slavery without trial

      This is fucked up and it’s terrifying that’s the new reality

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      We really need him to produce a chart of these levels he’s talking about, for the sake of comedy.

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      “…at levels never seen before”

      its over 9000!

      or...

      8000 if you’re og. so tired of the maga dumbz.

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      and law enforcement now operates by kidnapping people and trafficking them into life imprisonment and slavery without trial

      Oh, honey. You don’t think those people are still alive, do you?

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        Realistically, we don’t know, because the point is for them to disappear. Historically this has tended to mean people get killed.

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          How would you know if they’re dead or alive if they disappeared? They’re Schroedinger’s Political Prisoners, perfect for plausible deniablity.

          “We don’t know if they’re dead. They could be living wonderful lives in a tropical paradise, and they just dont want to share, you don’t know.”

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            They could be living wonderful lives in a tropical paradise, and they just dont want to share, you don’t know."

            Like Whitman, Price, and Hadad. You remember them‽