<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Sep 19, 2026 at 4:09 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Trump's most recent attempt to restrict the freedom of the press, prompted this in a news report about it today (<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6e30580jqjpo" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6e30580jqjpo</a>):<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>If they no longer have access to the White House then I think what CNN and MSNBC should do is simply stop broadcasting any live speech made by Donald from the White House; after all they are news organizations and Donald's speeches almost never contain anything that is both new and true. They can record his speeches and, for the rare occasions when he actually says something newsworthy, play that portion back later. Donald loves to talk for a very long time so they need to be edited down, we really don't need to hear yet again about his discovery that "<i>most people don't know it but the word "dumb" has a "b" in it</i>", </b></font><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>or how he could tell the<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>difference between a giraffe and a camel on a cognitive test for dementia.</b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">And for those that insist on listening to every last sound that comes out of Donald's pie hole there is always Fox News and Newsmax and C-Span. </span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span></b></font></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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