Bring back the Fairness Doctrine! At least the right of reply, the right to answer back with equal time for any accusations of serious corruption or crime made.
Think of how different the past 12 years would have been if every time Fox or right-wing radio accused Obama or Hillary of deliberately killing ambassadors, or using email for nefarious purposes, or eating babies, they had equal time on the same network and timeslot to reply.
And vice versa, imagine every time Maddow made an accusation against Trump, she could also then say "We of course offered him time to reply with any evidence to refute ours, but he declined." Or if his lawyer showed up it would clearly be ridiculous nonsense as a rebuttal.
When you have the truth on your side, you have nothing to fear from a truly fair media policy.

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10 Nov
But seriously though, if you think it's "smart and sophisticated" to think public sentiment has no impact on what senators do, so therefore it's idiotic to use a strategy of first moving sentiment, so constituents move their senators, you do not belong in politics in a democracy.
If you agree with a woman who said defending this republic just "wasn't worth it," and you think of the public in red states as mechanical objects that always press the R button, who wouldn't care about orphans crying, women raped, their own family's Covid dead, why are you here?
Go make money selling candy bars or something. Governance is about turning public sentiment into action.
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9 Nov
The *reason* Trump's authoritarian coup attempt won't succeed is because the people turned out in spontaneous joy when they heard he was defeated. Before seeing that, he thought he could dominate "anarchist jurisdictions" with his thugs. But now he knows he can't.
I still don't think he will ever concede. It is not in his nature to accept defeat, he would not see any reason to do that, and the people asking him to are just getting themselves put on his enemies list. Yes, even Ivanka. It's important to remember that he has no problem lying.
Because pro-democracy activists organized ahead of time to create rapid response teams, which are still standing ready to protect the results with peaceful demonstrations, and then masses showed up in joy on the day it was called for Joe, that changed the course of history.
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8 Nov
I can't find the tweet where someone asked me what Newsmax is, but Newsmax is a network angling to be the new Fox. Like not as obviously-Russian-disinfo as OANN, but not struggling-to-be-taken-semi-seriously like Fox. A place for your Spicers and the like to sound off.
And those guys would be more than happy to hire someone fired from Fox for trying to do conspiracy stories. They have plenty of hours left to fill with extra conspiracy mongering. Those Trumpy Bears aren't going to sell themselves you know! (Those ads still run on Newsmax.)
Future people are going to study this era a long time. Like just the phenomenon of trying to sell teddy bears with secret pockets to hold flag blankets, and the market here is...bikers and golf players. This SOUNDS like an Eric idea, but as far as we know, strangely, it is not!
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8 Nov
Remember how we used to ask "How will we get people on the streets if the tyrant steals the election? How will we get enough people brave enough to risk facing Chad Wolf's goons?" Those joyful dancing crowds all over the nation show guys like Chad that we outnumber them.
This doesn't mean that the Trump Cult will give up. It's a cult, they don't go by rationality or they would have never done any of this. But it does mean that WE know we outnumber them, that we could come back out to demand the election result be respected. People are empowered.
The most powerful weapon the Trump Cult had was the spell they cast over American minds (with the help of sophisticated foreign psychological operations). That numbing feeling that no one could do anything to him, he could rub his crime in our faces. A glamour spell, literally.
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29 Sep
ICYMI: To "impeach" someone is an old-fashioned way of saying to accuse them. When someone is impeached for high crimes, the accusations could be sent to the senate for a trial to either remove them from power or bar them from ever serving again if they've already left.
The House impeaches, and the Senate can hold trials on the consequences of the accusations.

But, if the Senate is corrupt, and can't be trusted to try cases, the House can still make the accusations, bring in the witnesses, and even come to fact-finding conclusions about guilt.
It is not okay that the House decided to completely abandon that part of their job, and only do the bill-writing part, pretending that there were no serious crimes harming the public, no matter how high the death toll climbs.
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28 Sep
Lawyers for a bipartisan committee knew that one of the candidates seeking to run the entire executive branch, including the IRS, was in a dispute in which he might end up owing that IRS $100 million, an amount he does not have on hand & has a motive to seek by any means.
Just let that sink in, a while. Nobody who knew that information felt compelled to tell it to the public for our information before voting.
I mean. I, for one, have questions and I would like to see these lawyers explain themselves in a hearing.
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