Senator Chris Murphy
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581 appearances
24 recordings
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 11 Mar
Senator Chris Murphy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We can do this the easy way or the hard way.
His closest allies just bought CBS and installed a new right-wing head of news.
They're on the verge of owning TikTok and CNN, too.
The billionaire owners of the big social media platforms are increasingly under his thumb as he promises rewards for them if they do his bidding.
Step three.
use the military to punish political opposition.
That's what the troop and ICE deployments to Los Angeles and Chicago and Portland are about.
It sends a signal to places where opposition to Trump is the strongest that if you're too loud in your political speech, troops and tear gas and midnight helicopter raids are on their way.
It has nothing to do with public safety.
It's just about political intimidation.
Step four.
You seize control of government spending and taxation.
Our founding fathers watched the British king use spending and taxes to reward friends, to punish critics, and so they intentionally gave the power to spend and tax to Congress, not to the president.
But Trump is seizing that power, and so far, the Supreme Court, packed with his loyalists, it's allowing it.
Trump is cutting off funding for states represented by Democrats.
He's exempting friendly corporate allies from the tariffs.
It's all a means to bully people into submission.
Step five, you cook the books and you rig the rules.
Destroying truth is really essential to totalitarianism.
So that's why Trump is banning reporters he doesn't like from the White House.
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