on the take anything is possible.

I'll give you 100-1 odds. If Trump declares a national emergency and tries to shut down SNL, I'll donate $100 to DU. If he doesn't, you donate $1.

I can't think of any actual way he could do that.

they kept censoring and Tommy got more and more creative to get around them...then BAM..cancelled.

There's a studio they usually use, but that can be anywhere, especially for a show like SNL. There's no TV transmitter involved. It gets streamed over the net (or over satellite link) to affiliates in local markets who do the broadcasting.

And if he thinks he gets bad press now, lol...

and get away with it?

LBJ got Smothers Brothers cancelled as they were critical of his VN War...oh I cried that day...

RWNJs!

lindsey graham will try to have Senate hearing. Call Lorne Michaels, and Alex Baldwin before his committee.

If it happens, I'll donate $100 to DU. It it doesn't you donate $1 to DU.

Deal?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142128590

New Poll: 43% of Republicans Want to Give Trump the Power to Shut Down Media

“Freedom of the press may be guaranteed in the Constitution. But a plurality of Republicans want to give President Trump the authority to close down certain news outlets, according to a new public opinion survey conducted by Ipsos and provided exclusively to The Daily Beast.”

So that 43% would approve a democrat shutting down Fox news?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-poll-43-of-republicans-want-to-give-trump-the-power-to-shut-down-media?via=twitter_page

It's OK If You Are Republican.

I think their hypocrisy has worn me down the most over the years, how members & supporters of the GOP & the media don't see how fucking hypocritical they are in how they report on dems vs. repubs.

It's infuriating.

Answer: NONE.

Section 706 of the Communications Act of 1934

.... and have one of his Nazi Fascist nincompoops bomb the SNL - NBC studios in New York.

Then proclaim he does not in sight or condone violence in any way, shape, or form.

Way too cowardly to do a hit, and he isn't an earner.
He's a pretend mobster, because the outfit would never have him.

... most of them don't even watch SNL (my guess) and the ones who do, wouldn't want the show cancelled.
We give way too much leverage to the "base" anyway. It's time we stop doing that.

Just sayin'

Shoot first... then ask questions later.

The National Emergencies Act allows the president to declare a national emergency and on that basis, can take certain actions under the terms of around 100 statutory provisions that expressly refer back to the NEA.

Get back to me when you locate the statutory provision that addresses shutting down a specific television program.

Thank goodness the folks filing legal challenges to the president's action know how the law works and aren't making arguments based on the kind of nonsensical hyperbole in the OP.

(c) Upon proclamation by the President that there exists war or a threat of
war, or a state of public peril or disaster or other national emergency, or in order
to preserve the neutrality of the United States, the President, if he deems it
necessary in the interest of national security or defense, may suspend or amend, for
such time as he may see fit, the rules and regulations applicable to any or all
stations or devices capable of emitting electromagnetic radiations within the
jurisdiction of the United States as prescribed by the Commission, and may cause
the closing of any station for radio communication, or any device capable of
emitting electromagnetic radiations between 10 kilocycles and 100,000
megacycles, which is suitable for use as a navigational aid beyond five miles, and
the removal therefrom of its apparatus and equipment, or he may authorize the use
or control of any such station or device and/or its apparatus and equipment, by any
department of the Government under such regulations as he may prescribe upon just compensation to the owners. The authority granted to the President, under this
subsection, to cause the closing of any station or device and the removal therefrom
of its apparatus and equipment, or to authorize the use or control of any station or
device and/or its apparatus and equipment, may be exercised in the Canal Zone

First of all, nothing in Section 706(c) allows the president, in the event of a national emergency, to shut down a single program on a single broadcast network.

Second,706(g), contains the following limitation on the president's authority under 706(c) as follows:

(g) Nothing in subsection (c) or (d) shall be construed to authorize the President to make any amendment to the rules and regulations of the Commission which the Commission would not be authorized by law to make; and nothing in subsection (d) shall be construed to authorize the President to take any action the force and effect of which shall continue beyond the date after which taking of such action would not have been authorized.

Communications Act of 1934
By Roosevelt Institute | 09.01.10

http://rooseveltinstitute.org/communications-act-1934/

(c) Upon proclamation by the President that there exists war or a threat of
war, or a state of public peril or disaster or other national emergency, or in order
to preserve the neutrality of the United States, the President, if he deems it
necessary in the interest of national security or defense, may suspend or amend, for
such time as he may see fit, the rules and regulations applicable to any or all
stations or devices capable of emitting electromagnetic radiations within the
jurisdiction of the United States as prescribed by the Commission, and may cause
the closing of any station for radio communication, or any device capable of
emitting electromagnetic radiations between 10 kilocycles and 100,000
megacycles, which is suitable for use as a navigational aid beyond five miles, and
the removal therefrom of its apparatus and equipment, or he may authorize the use
or control of any such station or device and/or its apparatus and equipment, by any
department of the Government under such regulations as he may prescribe upon just compensation to the owners. The authority granted to the President, under this
subsection, to cause the closing of any station or device and the removal therefrom
of its apparatus and equipment, or to authorize the use or control of any station or
device and/or its apparatus and equipment, may be exercised in the Canal Zone

With this congress who's to stop him? He could do it and let the court fight about it.

Go pull out the wires by himself?

Explain the physical steps he would take.

Would definitely start a war. Highly counterproductive and counterintuitive for a wannabe dictator, imo. What's next? Book burning? The kiddies are going to love that. Definitely war making material. No Tee Vee*, no books and throw in no fast food and I think you'll have a winner.


* I'm including blocking the www, which of course would disrupt banking, gaming, commerce and love letters to Vlad, just to mention a few of the affected components under the "Tee Vee" umbrella, by the way.

I'd like to see him go for it. Talk about a mutiny. I doubt there's enough popcorn in the universe. But won't cable guys be in high demand. Sure glad I still have my short wave radio.

ETA: Just think how crazed he'll be if he actually has nothing to do but listen to the voices in his head? I'd buy tickets for that.

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“We are the Bread & Puppet Theater because we offer good old sourdough rye bread together with a great variety of puppetshows, some good, some not so good, but all for the good and against the bad. The art of puppetry helps women, men and children alike to overcome the established order and the obsessive submission to its politics and consequent brutalities.”
–Peter Schumann


The Bread and Puppet Theater was founded in 1963 by Peter Schumann on New York City’s Lower East Side. Besides rod-puppet and hand puppet shows for children, the concerns of the first productions were rents, rats, police, and other problems of the neighborhood. More complex theater pieces followed, in which sculpture, music, dance and language were equal partners. The puppets grew bigger and bigger. Annual presentations for Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving and Memorial Day often included children and adults from the community as participants. Many performances were done in the street. During the Vietnam War, Bread and puppet staged block-long processions and pageants involving hundreds of people.

In 1974 Bread and Puppet moved to a farm in Glover in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. The 140-year old hay barn was transformed into a museum for veteran puppets. Our Domestic Resurrection Circus, a two day outdoor festival of puppetry shows, was presented annually through 1998.

The company makes its income from touring new and old productions both on the American continent and abroad, and from sales of Bread and Puppet Press’ posters and publications. The traveling puppet shows range from tightly composed theater pieces presented by members of the company to extensive outdoor pageants which require the participation of many volunteers.

Today, Bread and Puppet continues to be one of the oldest, nonprofit, self-supporting theatrical companies in the country.

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Glover, Vt 05839
802-525-3031

For questions about the following:
Booking, puppetsecretary@gmail.com
Bread & Puppet Museum, call Elka Schumann at (802) 525-6972
Apprenticeship, estelibesteli@gmail.com

I highly recommend them.

There's always Bread and Puppet!!! even today


NYC...

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I mean, it's one thing to lie, cheat, steal and use the U.S. Constitution as toilet paper to wipe shit out of his huge butt in the midst of his morning tweets---but fuck around with SNL? Hey, that's serious.



(satire, but not really)

Unfortunately for them, there’s no electoral college for TV ratings

because RWers aren't funny. What passes for humor in their world consists of insults and slurs. They punch down. Being mean isn't funny, even if they think it is.

Every joke would be "He lied about something and the liberals are sad."
Laughter would not abound when it's the same bit over & over!

Remember that lame "Half hour news hour" or whatever it was they produced a couple of a few years back?

That was like watching a wreck on the freeway.

they are not funny... no competition

It's comedy you stupid fucktard! Are you so thin skinned that you can't even take a joke? Every other president and prominent politician has been mocked on SNL and none of them ever threw a tantrum over it. He is such a weak, hypersensitive little candy ass!

Congress will put its foot down and there will be marching in the streets like never before seen.

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Suppressing speech is what dictators do.

because you disagree with their political messaging? Or were you being sarcastic in the first place and I missed it?