WH Tells Federal Agencies To Cancel Their NYT, WaPo Subscriptions

[steviedee111]

Yesterday’s news, today!!

[caltg]

@discobot

The White House confirmed to TPM on Thursday that it will order federal agencies to terminate their subscriptions to the New York Times and the Washington Post, after President Trump said he was doing away with the papers at 1700 Pennsylvania Ave.

Democracy Dies in Darkness

Will this be America’s fate under Donald Trump and the Rethuglican Party?

[sickneffintired]

@zillacop

What a vindictive little boy. Poor, poor criminal gets his feelings hurt by what newspapers say about him. He really is about as low an anyone can go.

@carolson

It’s astounding. The display of malice and depth of immaturity for the whole world to witness is mortifying.

The tough NY Guy turns into the worlds biggest snowflake

Take this Chump

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@demosthenes59

No problem. No one reads the paper version anymore.

I believe his order includes online subscriptions.

[rascal_crone]

“Not renewing subscriptions across all federal agencies will be a significant cost saving for taxpayers – hundreds of thousands of dollars,” she said in a statement."

Fine. Now have him skip one golf junket and we can fully fund the entire Chicago school system.

[erik_t]

@pluckyinky

It’s as simple as that. And once again, he’s hurting his own administration by doing so. He’s hindering his comms department from having the ability to respond quickly because now they’ll have to pretend they don’t have WaPo and NYT apps on their phones. They’ll have to find new and clever ways to alert him to bad news coming their way.

In my wildest dreams, I couldn’t have come up with anything as massively petulant and completely self-destructive as “nobody who works for me can read the bad news when they’re at work”. Crazed bunker mentality.

Any authoritarian worth his salt permits just enough opposition media to get the opposition thinkers (there will always be some) in a room together, then pores over their work product religiously to produce effective countermeasures.

[rascal_crone]

He’s upgrading to ‘boiled blood of Latvian infants’ for his spray tan ingredient instead of carotin - that kind of thing costs.

[maximus]

I’m just waiting for “Mein Trumpf” to be mandatory reading in the indoctrination camps.

[bwillator]

@chelsea530

Trump won’t like this headline in WaPo. heehee!

Under New Jersey law , anyone who has one liquor license revoked must also give up all their other liquor licenses for two years. Trump has two other New Jersey golf clubs, including the one in Bedminster, N.J., that he uses as a summer White House.

If it’s in the Post, he’ll never even see it! (Yeah, right.)

[rollinnolan]

@docd

Increasingly pathetic man who had to cheat his way into office is afraid that people will realize what a loser he is.

Too late.

[rascal_crone]

@emiliano4

There is no American who is comfortable with censorship of this kind.

Except the entire Republican Senate.

[rascal_crone]

@crewman6

Next Trump will order all old copies of NYT and WP to be burned on the White House lawn.

Well, not the ones criticizing the Clintons.

[tomanjeri]

NYT and WaPo should just make subscriptions from a .gov email free.

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@steviedee111

It’s called parental controls.

Except with the inmates running the asylum.

[thepsyker]

Is that because the Washington Post doesn’t charge for access from .gov and .mil emails or computers or is that because someone has set up a subscription that covers all .gov and .mil emails and computers?

[rollinnolan]

@justruss

Damn. This is getting good.

My thoughts exactly. This is some pay off for all the gut churning years we have had to endure. Good times are coming, my friends.

[pluckyinky]

@erik_t

In my wildest dreams, I couldn’t have come up with anything as massively petulant and completely self-destructive as “nobody who works for me can read the bad news when they’re at work”. Crazed bunker mentality.

That’s because it’s just so hard for a reasonably normal person to even conceive of such pettiness and pitiful behavior in an adult. It reminds me of something my parents used to do for me when I was very little. I’d fall, run into a chair, trip over something, all the different ways little kids catch minor injuries. My parents would slap the floor, the chair, whatever I tripped over and fuss at the chair or whatever it was, “You don’t hurt her like that!” It gave two year old me a sense of satisfaction that the mean old table had been punished for assaulting me and my parents got me to shut up and stop crying. That’s basically what he’s doing here. He’s attempting to punish these papers because of his own stupidity, in search of the same smug satisfaction used to calm a clumsy toddler.

[cervantes]

@thepsyker

Is that because the Washington Post doesn’t charge for access from .gov and .mil emails or computers or is that because someone has set up a subscription that covers all .gov and .mil emails and computers?

@mrf

My Washington Post on line subscription pre Bezos when I signed up in 2004 was free for government employees who had a .gov. account. Once he purchased it from the Grahams it went to $9.95 a month.

@tomanjeri

NYT and WaPo should just make subscriptions from a .gov email free.

@paul_lukasiak

it this because the government pays the Post for a “government wide” subscription, or is it thanks to the generosity of the Post?

 

See here:

https://subscribe.washingtonpost.com/specialoffer/#/gov-mil

[bwillator]

Act II: In which Kellyanne Conway reveals the game plan for dealing with the press going forward:

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/kellyanne-george-conway-washington-examiner#EmbedCommentsWrapper

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@paul_lukasiak

which would make the term “white-listing” really on-the-nose…

LOL and FTW!!!