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2024 Elections: One Last Chance for Democracy

So Bezos put the kibosh on The Washington Post’s endorsement of Harris. The editor did it anyway and then quit.
 
Jimjamesak said:
So Bezos put the kibosh on The Washington Post’s endorsement of Harris. The editor did it anyway and then quit.
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Newspapers are fearing repercussions and not endorsing because if Trump wins they finally, 10 years too late realized that Trump really wants to gut the media into fascist yes men. Fuck them.
 
bronconick said:
Newspapers are fearing repercussions and not endorsing because if Trump wins they finally, 10 years too late realized that Trump really wants to gut the media into fascist yes men. **** them.
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No, it’s strictly the billionaire owners who fear retribution from Dump. They could easily help to take the guy down but they don’t want to.
 
Hannity invited Stephen A. Smith on his show, which might have been a mistake.

"I know you're not talking about someone being lucid and cogent and enunciating their thoughts with clarity and you're bragging about Donald Trump. We can't be watching the same stuff if that's what you're doing!"
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Jimjamesak said:
No, it’s strictly the billionaire owners who fear retribution from Dump. They could easily help to take the guy down but they don’t want to.
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Same with Wall Street. They're all afraid of Trump going after them if he's re-elected.

Gutless simps, all of them. You'd think if you had fuk-you money you'd be above giving a crap, but apparently there's not enough money in the world to make brave men out of sniveling cowards.
 
It honestly doesn't matter if newspapers endorse someone anymore. Mostly because nobody reads newspapers when there are plenty of free sources of news. (not talking quality of news, ofc.)
 
rufus said:
Same with Wall Street. They're all afraid of Trump going after them if he's re-elected.

Gutless simps, all of them. You'd think if you had fuk-you money you'd be above giving a crap, but apparently there's not enough money in the world to make brave men out of sniveling cowards.
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Well, the Russian Oligarchs showed Trump that billionaires are mostly pussies as their country shits the bed.
 
MichVandal said:
They loved two things about dumpy- lowering their taxes AND not enforcing the laws on the books WRT taxes. This is corruption 101.
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Not to mention an FTC and DOJ that will actually give a **** about blocking mergers and breaking up monopolies.
 
Bronco said:
It honestly doesn't matter if newspapers endorse someone anymore. Mostly because nobody reads newspapers when there are plenty of free sources of news. (not talking quality of news, ofc.)
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Streisand effect. The Post and LA Times publishing endorsements would’ve done nothing. Their billionaire owners blocking the endorsements has suddenly created a story big enough to have an impact.
 
Jimjamesak said:
Streisand effect. The Post and LA Times publishing endorsements would’ve done nothing. Their billionaire owners blocking the endorsements has suddenly created a story big enough to have an impact.
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If that is the case then their decision will cause more backlash (and likely help us) more than if they had just made the endorsement everyone assumed they would make. None of us would have even had it move the needle and The Right would have brushed it off as just more liberal bias but now all of a sudden the people that were holding out hope the media would grow a spine and protect democracy are going to be good and rightly ticked!

They are making some really big gambles here...either they think Trump is going to win or they think The Left is just going to fall into line when Harris wins and pretend none of this happened. I think they will be in for a rude awakening.
 
Handyman said:
They are making some really big gambles here...either they think Trump is going to win or they think The Left is just going to fall into line when Harris wins and pretend none of this happened. I think they will be in for a rude awakening.
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How is it that they can come up with that? While I don't see going after random dumpy supporters, I do see enforcing the laws as they are written- and hopefully get a SCOTUS to affirm that Congress can give power to Executive branches to create and enforce laws- as they have done in the past.

Do people really think we will forget that there's a group of people who call themselves American who want to destroy this country as it is right now? For what, I can't understand. Besides other than them losing power because they are becoming the minority.
 
Don’t overthink it. They’re kinda dumb and have a bunch of money that they think can buy their way out of anything.

Also, don’t overlook at how much the thought of their workers unionizing scares them.
 
MichVandal said:
How is it that they can come up with that? While I don't see going after random dumpy supporters, I do see enforcing the laws as they are written- and hopefully get a SCOTUS to affirm that Congress can give power to Executive branches to create and enforce laws- as they have done in the past.

Do people really think we will forget that there's a group of people who call themselves American who want to destroy this country as it is right now? For what, I can't understand. Besides other than them losing power because they are becoming the minority.
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Im talking about Bezos and Murdoch and the clown who owns the LA Times. I dont think they think the majority of us can live without the information they feed us. That is why their papers are failing...
 
Jimjamesak said:
Don’t overthink it. They’re kinda dumb and have a bunch of money that they think can buy their way out of anything.

Also, don’t overlook at how much the thought of their workers unionizing scares them.
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Not one of them is knowledgeable on the news either which is why they should not be making decisions that impact the news.

Now I am out of the loop obviously so I might be sticking my foot in my mouth...but if AG Sulzberger is smart at all he has the New York Times full throated make an endorsement (which will be Harris) and use it as a critique of their "competitors" in an effort to try and win back the public trust. WaPo teed it up for them...what better way to show you are "the Paper of Record" then by doing a mea culpa on Harris/Biden and endorsing Democracy unlike some other papers they know.

Honestly, I think WaPo would have been smarter just endorsing Trump than taking the cowards way out. My SO said her social media feed was pictures of WaPo cancelations and I honestly think a lot of that is people mad that they wont even stand up and be counted. Apparently in journalism school you never study how the media treated authoritarians throughout history because...

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