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No. The point is you just argued that winning gives you the right to use state power against dissenters.
Not the right, just the ability. Who's idea was it to put the goverrnment in charge of television?
Look at it this way,
The FCC is a federal regulator. It is not supposed to function as the president’s personal enforcement arm against journalists whose coverage irritates him.
That's the same thing. You can't have one without the other. If you create a federal agency that has some level of authority over things, then you have given the ruling party a political weapon. It's not suddenly being weaponized now. This is what the FCC was designed to do. It's inherent in the nature of federal regulators to serve the state. And in a democracy, if I win, that means my guy.
Exactly. Chief Enabler Roberts helped constitutionalize that “ability” you speak of: official presidential acts can be immune from criminal prosecution. And in the ballroom case Roberts himself wrote, “That construction is likely unlawful,” yet it continues. Now Trump wants the FCC to punish unfavorable journalism; if the FCC does that, it runs straight into 47 U.S.C. §326, which bars FCC censorship and interference with broadcast free speech. “My guy won” is: my guy is above the law.
This isn't censorship of unfavorable opinions. The FCC would be acting well within established law by cracking down on deliberate news distortion on limited, state-regulated airwaves.
The ballroom has to be understood in the context of foreign-backed enemies of the nation mindlessly obstructing upgrades to security for the sole purpose of making it easier to kill the president and allied visitors.
Deliberate news distortion
my ass. She said “mixed results.” Ten Trump-endorsed candidates had already lost primaries—including one to a guy who’d dropped out. Trump’s approval: 33%.
Yeah, those ten losses make up about 3% of the endorsements. A 97% success rate is not "mixed results."
Don’t get it twisted. 97% overall, mostly MAGA incumbents and safe picks. Five of his 24 gubernatorial endorsements lost. “Some mixed results” is literally accurate, not “news distortion.” That’s English.
I don't think 79% of one type of candidacy is mixed either. Mixed sounds like 75% at most.
And this is only one case of a pattern of consistenty downplaying Trump's success and outright making stuff up to sabotage him.
What's the point? Sucks to lose?