This month, Sinclair Broadcast Group has flooded a vast network of local news websites with misleading articles suggesting that President Biden is mentally unfit for office. The articles are based on specious social media posts by the Republican National Committee (RNC), which are then repackaged to...
Back in the day wed split up monopolies with those laws.
DOJ went after Sinclair like 5 years ago, but it was about price fixing with other stations because they were colluding to raise ad prices for billion dollar corporations.
And they just had to pay a settlement.
It's sucks the government acts to defend corporations but not people.
Until 1997 there were fairly strict limits over who could own what broadcast stations in given markets. Then the neoliberal bug bit everyone's ass in Congress and they passed a bipartisan bill that would let people own as many radio stations as they wanted, and way more TV stations than they should.
Suddenly every radio station became the same, and now most local news is owned by one batshit corporation.
I especially love how these stations, along with Fox will make these assertions of how, “lights are on but no one’s home”, then follow it immediately with how he’s the mastermind behind political prosecutions, controlling the DoJ and executing a coordinated anti-republican regime.
Fascist societies rhetorically cast their enemies as "at the same time too strong and too weak". On the one hand, fascists play up the power of certain disfavored elites to encourage in their followers a sense of grievance and humiliation. On the other hand, fascist leaders point to the decadence of those elites as proof of their ultimate feebleness in the face of an overwhelming popular will.
Iirc, either the Colbert report or John Oliver did a story on Sinclair owned stations and how anchors were forced to read prepared stories that were obviously right leaning propaganda.
I noticed an uptick in anti Biden articles across my feeds today. I thought maybe there was an event, but just before I clicked a link, I saw it was Fox News and noped the fuck out. Now I've at least got confirmation it's been a targeted attack.
That said, is there really any doubt that Biden is not very sharp? Countless videos of him trailing off in the middle of a sentence or whatever. Trump too, both are messes mentally and should retire imo.
Both are bumbling masses but on e of them isn't talking about murdering his political opponents, one doesn't have a plan laid out to take the us to become a theological dictatorship
And it's a joke that has been played on Americans since forever. There's a way out of it, but it's not easy, and you better bet your ass that BOTH parties will fight to keep the status quo. If you want change, you need to do the following things.
Vote for Biden because if Trump wins, he has plans to take over.
Push immediately after the election for Ranked Choice Voting.
Unless and until 2 is achieved, get your guys and gals running as Democrats and vote for them in the Primaries, then vote for the Republican in the general. The GQP showed how well that works as Team Pepe is getting exactly what they want.
Oh for sure! Would be amazing if we had ranked choice, but sadly it will never happen. The deep state loves the 2 party system, they get to maintain control of both sides. Look at all these stupid fucks downvoting me too, pretending that Biden is actually a good candidate. They might even believe their own bullshit lol. Fucking losers, of course I’m voting for Biden I don’t want a shitbag wannabe dictator that trump is, but it’s insane if you think bidens a good choice. Dudes about to die, just like trump. Out of touch old fucking men with no skin in the game.