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Competition just got smaller...
« on: October 23, 2016, 05:44:46 AM »
Time Warner got bought by AT&T.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/22/498981016/reports-at-t-will-buy-time-warner-for-more-than-80-billion

Wait..
Trump says he'd want to block the deal?!

1) He can't, that's the FCC's/court's job.
2) WTF?  That seems both out of character for him and the Republican platform.
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Re: Competition just got smaller...
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2016, 08:41:38 AM »
I'm suprised you don't know what political posturing is.

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Re: Competition just got smaller...
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2016, 10:51:19 AM »
I'm suprised you don't know what political posturing is.
Tump only does that about shit his base cares about, like hating clinton and hating illegals.  The merger of two companies?  Fuck if they give a shit.
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Re: Competition just got smaller...
« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2016, 08:11:00 PM »
I'm suprised you don't know what political posturing is.
Tump only does that about shit his base cares about, like hating clinton and hating illegals.  The merger of two companies?  Fuck if they give a shit.

Shows how much you know. You obviously have no clue what a real Trump supporter wants or feels. Projecting ignorance out of your own ignorance will never bring you closer to understanding either. Majority of his supporters are a lot smarter than you think/have been told. They want big money out of politics and they want accountability from the government. Including but not limited to the FCC, FBI, FDA. They want to ban politicians from taking jobs as lobbyists as soon as their done their public "service."

These are a lot of the things people are voting for, not voting for their right to be toothless hillbilly's as the media has so skillfully convinced a bunch of morons to believe.  All this shit scares the fuck out of the Establishment and that's probably going to be the main reason Trump loses. There is too much at stake for the corrupt in Washington and the corporations to allow anyone except someone as equally corrupt as them into office.

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Re: Competition just got smaller...
« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2016, 08:15:12 PM »
I'm suprised you don't know what political posturing is.
Tump only does that about shit his base cares about, like hating clinton and hating illegals.  The merger of two companies?  Fuck if they give a shit.

Shows how much you know. You obviously have no clue what a real Trump supporter wants or feels. Projecting ignorance out of your own ignorance will never bring you closer to understanding either. Majority of his supporters are a lot smarter than you think/have been told. They want big money out of politics and they want accountability from the government. Including but not limited to the FCC, FBI, FDA. They want to ban politicians from taking jobs as lobbyists as soon as their done their public "service."

These are a lot of the things people are voting for, not voting for their right to be toothless hillbilly's as the media has so skillfully convinced a bunch of morons to believe.  All this shit scares the fuck out of the Establishment and that's probably going to be the main reason Trump loses. There is too much at stake for the corrupt in Washington and the corporations to allow anyone except someone as equally corrupt as them into office.

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You need to learn to read.
Yes, Trump Supporters DO want the government to go away and stop corruption.  So why would they be happy to say "Yes, the FCC should tell businesses what to do".  You said it yourself, they want accountability to the FCC.  They do NOT like the FCC, the FBI, the FDA, etc...  They want government to stop interfering.  This includes the merger of two private companies.
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Re: Competition just got smaller...
« Reply #5 on: October 26, 2016, 02:20:30 AM »
It's the FTC, not the FCC.  Anyway, it's no mystery why Trump would break from his party on this issue.  He's mad that the media have been firmly opposed to his candidacy throughout the election, so if he wins, he'll use his office to punish them any way he can.  It's entirely personal. 

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Re: Competition just got smaller...
« Reply #6 on: October 26, 2016, 02:34:32 AM »
Now when AT&T buys out Comcast we'll be looking at the largest media and infrastructure conglomerate on the planet.