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I overheard a FOX broadcast last night while waiting for a pizza pickup in their lobby.
Holy crap that is awful. I remember it back in the GWB days and I don't recall it being nearly as bad as it was last night.
"Democrats don't want to understand you. They just want power." followed by cherrypicked video footage of out of context comments from some random person. "If the Democrats get in charge, they will outlaw jesus!" followed by more bad faith video footage where someone said Christianity doesn't belong in a courtroom setting.
It's like they have distilled down the essence of making your grandma scared and forcing her to vote or else her grand babies will literally get eaten alive because they weren't aborted.
This is exactly our problem.
Yes yes Trump is absolutely an issue, but it's propaganda outlets that are ruining the country. I have no solution to that problem. It's important to have a free press, but they are 100% taking advantage of that.
They stupidly set the stage for people like Trump, but they think they're just doing R vs D shit so they can get their asshole of choice into power. Well the people tend to get more crazy than anyone would prefer so you open the door for them and you have no control over who enters.
We've implemented the principle of free speech in a way that denies that fact that vast swathes of people are idiots who will believe anything, and that failure has been weaponized against us.
Nobody should have to right to rile up credulous morons with ridiculous lies.
Not just Fox "News" but all the alt-right AM radio pundits too. While visiting my parents, I overheard his AM radio speaker downplay events by saying that E. Jean Carroll only "claims" Trump did things, while totally ignoring the fact that Trump was already convicted of sexual assault and the judge later confirmed it was indeed classified as rape, and he had to pay her $5 million for defamation, which now there's ANOTHER court case going on that's bad for Trump, but all of those pesky facts weren't mentioned, only that E. Jean Carroll was a vindictive slut. Truly maddening to me when you know the objective facts, I call it Conservative brain rot.
It was essentially the same back then too. Those were the days of Glenn Beck mapping out insane conspiracy theories every day.
The Newsmax model
In the early to mid 00s, Fox News was just the "Arab people are scary!" network and wasn't that batshit insane yet.
White people in suits. Arabs with guns. Repeat.
Your memory is faulty. Fox News has been like this from day one (which was October 7th, 1996).
This is what they are telling each other... technologically advanced mermaids are out to get you: https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1657868909716951041
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-doral-reawaken-america-pastors-mermaids-1234735924/
Link with more information about the occasion of the mermaid remarks.
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For free, the horror!
what the hell... these people are taking someones larp campaign and treating it as reality
I did not believe you. What the fuck is going on. At this point I feel like I'm losing my fucking mind trying to point out to people that they need to vote because the otherside has been eating this shit up and ready to get violent about it if they are not already.
I hate the fact that I have to think about whether I am going to flee the country if they gain a majority rule.
Please get out and vote, everyone, no matter how hard they make it to do so.
Amazing isn't it? There are people saying these insane things... and the audience is lapping it up. Agreeing. Begging for more.
I'm not American. I'm looking in with horror, confusion, and sadness.