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Mdhorn

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  1. A good read about controlling the media These conversations have usually proceeded along lines where people ask incredulously how a majority of voters could have believed this or that. Weren’t they bothered that Trump is a convicted felon? An adjudicated rapist? Didn’t his invocation of violence against Liz Cheney, or 50 other examples of his disgusting imprecations, obviously disqualify him? And couldn’t they see that Harris, whatever her shortcomings, was a fundamentally smart, honest, well-meaning person who would show basic respect for the Constitution and wouldn’t do anything weird as president? The answer is obviously no—not enough people were able to see any of those things. At which point people throw up their hands and say, "I give up." But this line of analysis requires that we ask one more question. And it’s the crucial one: Why didn’t a majority of voters see these things? And understanding the answer to that question is how we start to dig out of this tragic mess. The answer is the right-wing media. Today, the right-wing media—Fox News (and the entire News Corp), Newsmax, One America News Network, the Sinclair network of radio and TV stations and newspapers, iHeartMedia (formerly Clear Channel), the Bott Radio Network (Christian radio), Elon Musk’s X, the huge podcasts like Joe Rogan’s, and much more—sets the news agenda in this country. And they fed their audiences a diet of slanted and distorted information that made it possible for Trump to win. an excerpt of course, there’s more…
  2. The government is suppressing ivermectin and raw milk? So much stupid crammed into one tweet.
  3. My uncle just went through all the documentation. He was getting dementia and had a legit case from where/when he served. My aunt, a retired education administrator in California, tried to help him navigate through all of the different doctor clearances and red tape. He was finally approved a month after he died. While she was angry, really she was just more sad. I think she did receive a folded flag though, so he was given a military burial. The system does need reform, but Trump isn't going to care since the wounded and POWs were losers in his book.
  4. This thread is the thread I needed. Thanks all, it doesn't disappoint.
  5. Republicans showed up though--they always do. Maybe they had 2 million less that didn't believe in their cause. But it's usually the Democrats that are sporadic. It's a bitch to get them to care about mid terms. Sure, they showed up for Biden, during a pandemic. Regardless of race or nationality, we all failed. We didn't show up for a female--twice. Maybe Newsom had a better chance, but for those believing that it was strategic that he sat out. It's not a given that there'll be another time, when each term Republicans strip and break the system more. And it's going to be tough for minority groups to get behind a white male that pretty much leaves them at seemingly static quo. Democrats have a pretty large tent and everybody has their own demands--which makes it extremely hard to unify. We have to agree on a plan that includes everybody, while meeting all of our individual needs and wants. But nothing does that quite like a direct threat today, to employment, homes and health. Trump during a time of prosperity is a theoretical threat to dipshits. And when it's all said and done, we mostly have jobs and cable apparently, since we get our views from social media and the internet. We'll see if that changes. Against sense, I'll hope that we continue prosperity, despite those that run the show. If nothing else though, it would've been fun to watch Newsom really hurt Trump's pride since he's younger, slimmer and more attractive. Oh well, nobody will go unscathed, not even Gavin.
  6. Spot on—people didn’t gravitate to the republicans, they had 2 million less votes. 16 million didn’t vote and it’s because they didn’t care.
  7. One of my fav quotes—“‘You socialize the losses and privatize the gains,’ which isn’t capitalism.” I’d add that we also socialize our pain. I voted for someone that would keep my family safe—instead of selling secrets to foreign governments. Massive irresponsibility comes with freedom too. That lesson is going to be painful. I hope jack smith publicly releases all the case docs since they don’t seem to matter.
  8. Free money for the too big to fail types.
  9. Once everything crashes jenga style, as it always does, a lot of non voters and idiots are going to be without a job and a house with high food and gas prices. Not going to say I told you so, but you're welcome. Reality will bite especially hard those that don't subscribe to it. Good luck, and I mean it, because we already know what comes next. More than anything, I really hope we don't have another global epidemic. Wait, I already mostly work from home. Carry on then.
  10. Oh yeah, ‘cause Republicans won’t fuck with voting at all.
  11. Nah man, it's not disinformation if it jibes with your beliefs.
  12. Or it's mostly a racist country. That really is a difficult pill to swallow but makes a lot more sense and easily encapsulates a lot of issues.
  13. It's laughable because his response to shooting somebody, a lot of racist rhetoric, denying a woman's choice to choose even in life threatening circumstances and incest/rape, doing away with the department of education is you ran a black woman. I could go on but then, so does their stupid, so it doesn't matter. Maybe America doesn't need infrastructure, healthcare, a department of education and interior, and social security or affordable pharmaceuticals/education. Maybe people get exactly what they want and then fuck me, why is everything on fire? Hello economic recession.
  14. Would be funny as fuck if Kamala called it early and beat Trump to the punch.
  15. Wonder how the burner phone market is doing? Because if I was going to march on DC, and cell phones pinging were what helped nab participants prior, I might would think about purchasing something that wouldn't be traced back. Or it could be that dumb people don't think about these things.
  16. They want an unregulated stock market, where they can make a bunch of money quick and then leave it to the public to bail out their mess…and then repeat.
  17. Which also has me wondering how he's going to fix the election, since he's not trying much these days. He's vomiting racist, sexist diatribe.
  18. Amen. Drones will work too.
  19. cannon fodder.
  20. Hope he chokes on a hamburder, while the fry cooks are looking for their prophylactic. I mean they had just used it in the aisle between the griddle and condiment station, where could it have possibly rolled off to?
  21. No way "ethnostate" and "accelerationist" are words in any of these jackasses vocabulary. Do us a favor and don't beautify domestic terrorists.
  22. Underrated and Dwyer really enjoys playing. Saw them in Brooklyn a few years ago.
  23. Plus, which billionaires investments/products are Republicans repudiating, which should be the true litmus of anything they spout. They're a Billionaires first party.
  24. Those aren't all young people. The return to the 50s group are geriatrics and the gravy seals aren't doing squat for any duration of time. Aside from intimidating, most of them want to commiserate at the Cracker Barrel at the beginning and end of the day. I know that they create their own realities, but playing army takes work and they're where they're at because they mostly put themselves there. The real people that lose out in the argument of the unjust are the minorities and women, and they're the ones with the most to lose.
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