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Now imagine if the same words were used by the trump admin personnel! Left media would scream words like bullying. This gives complete justification and vindication of how the trump admin behaved! Untouchable.

This country is officially over.



> Now imagine if the same words were used by the trump admin personnel!

You don't need to imagine. This happened.

> Left media would scream words like bullying.

That you don't know this happened says everything.

> This gives complete justification and vindication of how the trump admin behaved! Untouchable.

No.

> This country is officially over.

Incorrect, again.


Why no?

This country’s reputation is built upon the idea of collaboration and compromise. Both administrations behaving with such obtuseness means this is a new chapter.


Trump admin personnel behaved the same way. The platforms were free to ignore it in the same way.

The Trump administration is being prosecuted over entirely different acts.


My comment was not about how they are being prosecuted. But just about the ethics of doing something like that. Especially when the prior admin are heavily perceived as bullies. And they were supposed to be different.

The fact that the Biden admin behaved the same way vindicates them from accusations that Trump admin behaved unjustly or they should be disciplined for such inappropriateness.


I don't think anybody called for the Trump admin to be disciplined for denigrating Facebook and Twitter, certainly not to the extent that we're seeing here.




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