Trump, aching to regain the spotlight that he lost to John McCain, has launched a war on Google. His basic complaint, that searching for Trump News returns a bunch of unfavorable results, is rooted in his deep-seated narcissism. Any story about Trump that is negative must be fake and pushed by Fake News and Big Tech with their left-wing agenda. The number of logical fallacies present in his assumption and statements would take longer to catalog than I wish to spend.
By raising the specter of somehow censoring or censuring one of the largest companies in the world, Trump has - once again - highlighted the moral emptiness of "conservative principles." Let's skip ahead a bit and see where this story might be headed. As with much of Trump's verbal emesis, this story could disappear in a few days, as the McCain funeral recedes into the past. Or, just as likely, Trump forces this bit of unconstitutional nonsense onto the GOP Congress. Personally, I kind of hope he does. Since the GOP Congress is the most craven group of cowards I've ever seen, they will dutifully begin attacking a sector of the economy that is already left-leaning. Full of their own narcissistic libertarians, the Bay Area will starting bankrolling Democratic candidates for Congress, helping to offset the Billionaire Boys Club that props up odious GOP creatures like Scott Walker and Rick Scott.
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