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DanieRains

(4,619 posts)
Sat May 8, 2021, 01:15 PM May 2021

Endless Lies From Fox News And Republicans Are Destroying This Nation

It's like we are all living in a Stockholm Syndrome nightmare.

One third of our nation listens to, believes, and repeats obvious lies. It is like a liars club.

Deep down they know they believe lies, but it is their justification to hurt people (what they really want to do) and their excuse to make it harder for "others" to vote.

Their lies are simply ripping our country apart. All for power.

All so Republicans and their billionaire allies can have another 3rd Reich, and total power.

Something Needs To Be Done To Make Liars Pay For Their Lies Before It Is Too Late.

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Endless Lies From Fox News And Republicans Are Destroying This Nation (Original Post) DanieRains May 2021 OP
IMHO, No they are not. Everybody (or most of us) know of the constant lying, the constant... SWBTATTReg May 2021 #1
Russian propaganda is what fox news is rockfordfile May 2021 #2
Personally, I think that faux is doing all by themselves, just to spruce up ratings, and nothing... SWBTATTReg May 2021 #3
Rupert Murdoch isn't Russian FakeNoose May 2021 #14
We need to bring back the Fairness Doctrine Ohioboy May 2021 #9
This Alice Kramden May 2021 #18
I think you're right. Especially w/ the onslaught of the lies, fake news, etc. that have seemed to SWBTATTReg May 2021 #22
Short of banning them, which would quickly be dismissed by any court in the land MarineCombatEngineer May 2021 #4
I wonder if 1A was the seed of the United States' undoing, Politicub May 2021 #15
This message was self-deleted by its author Skittles May 2021 #20
I'm 81.....I see a BIG difference young_at_heart May 2021 #5
I wonder if by spying and engaging people like Ron Johnson, SleeplessinSoCal May 2021 #11
Let me broaden it to Cable 24 hour news. pwb May 2021 #6
I don't believe their intent is to hurt people. Their intent is to overthrow our democracy. Jim__ May 2021 #7
Somehow lying has gotten equated with free speech Ohioboy May 2021 #8
We live in a land of Republican/Nazis. The last thing they want is 'America democracy'. johnthewoodworker May 2021 #10
They're trying to preserve a white majority elias7 May 2021 #12
Weren't the United States founded to be a nation HUAJIAO May 2021 #17
Deist Alice Kramden May 2021 #19
Thank you. I knew I was close, but not quite on the mark... HUAJIAO May 2021 #21
All because of the spoiled, rich kid who is a crybaby loser. world wide wally May 2021 #13
No offense, world wide wally, but this isn't Upthevibe May 2021 #16

SWBTATTReg

(21,856 posts)
1. IMHO, No they are not. Everybody (or most of us) know of the constant lying, the constant...
Sat May 8, 2021, 01:24 PM
May 2021

fibbing, the untruths sprouted nonstop by republicans. It makes them look pretty pathetic, especially when they are faced w/ the 'in your face' truth as opposed to what they are claiming.

I admit what you're saying in the endless lies etc., but 'destroying this nation'? A little extreme don't you think?

And what should be done to stop these liars? How does one make them 'pay'? This has been going on since before djt's stupid PINO stunt. And it's still going on (the lies etc.)...

rockfordfile

(8,682 posts)
2. Russian propaganda is what fox news is
Sat May 8, 2021, 01:27 PM
May 2021

Their goal is to destroy our democracy. To help any country that hates the USA.

SWBTATTReg

(21,856 posts)
3. Personally, I think that faux is doing all by themselves, just to spruce up ratings, and nothing...
Sat May 8, 2021, 01:29 PM
May 2021

else. The Russians are getting a free ride or are helping very little, since they don't need to, faux news is being the traitor all by themselves with no help.

FakeNoose

(32,328 posts)
14. Rupert Murdoch isn't Russian
Sat May 8, 2021, 03:51 PM
May 2021

He's a multi-billionaire who manipulates people in order to get what he wants. He's been given free-rein for way too long in this country, and it's time we show him the door. This has nothing to do with "freedom of speech" or "freedom of the press."

All it is is lying and creating chaos - for one person's profit and to hell with everybody else. That was never the American Way, and he's not an American. Send Murdoch, his lies, and chaos somewhere else. If his sons are American (I believe they have become naturalized US citizens) they can stay here but they should be banned from working in the news media.



SWBTATTReg

(21,856 posts)
22. I think you're right. Especially w/ the onslaught of the lies, fake news, etc. that have seemed to
Sat May 8, 2021, 04:30 PM
May 2021

seize some in the news broadcasting world (faux is just one example)...these fake news, etc. have serious consequences, people are thinking (some idiots, not all) that the vaccine(s) are unsafe, that microchips are embedded in the vaccine(s) (these people that believe this sort of nonsense need to stay in their parent's basements), and thus, are not getting the shot(s) as they should, and worse...almost as bad as rump claiming that drinking bleach will cure people.

There's a saying that an idiot is born every minute, and I think personally, that when rump showed up on the national scene, a million idiots were born and went on to begat millions more, when the rump virus started spreading. Only logic and common sense stopped the spread, and common decency won the day, when President Biden won.

MarineCombatEngineer

(12,092 posts)
4. Short of banning them, which would quickly be dismissed by any court in the land
Sat May 8, 2021, 01:31 PM
May 2021

due to 1A issues, then what do you suggest?

Politicub

(12,163 posts)
15. I wonder if 1A was the seed of the United States' undoing,
Sat May 8, 2021, 03:56 PM
May 2021

or if it is what will save us.

The first amendment will be meaningless under an autocracy, so I suppose it's more of an academic argument at this point.

There are a lot of poison pills in our laws that I didn't realize were existential factors until Trump came along -- vote certification among them.

Response to MarineCombatEngineer (Reply #4)

young_at_heart

(3,758 posts)
5. I'm 81.....I see a BIG difference
Sat May 8, 2021, 01:38 PM
May 2021

I can't help but wonder low long the Russians have been working to "destroy" this country. When and how did the GOP get involved with them? Secret meetings with Trump that we the people are not allowed to know is evidently just fine with Republicans??

It didn't used to be this way. Before Fox "News" one felt comfortable turning to the main TV stations which gave us the latest 'facts' and all the stations had more or less the same content. When I watch Tucker Carlson these days (very seldom) just to see what they are saying, I feel (literally) sick to my stomach! The few GOP leaders who have not aligned themselves with totalitarian ideology are being cast out.....what is wrong with this picture?

SleeplessinSoCal

(8,992 posts)
11. I wonder if by spying and engaging people like Ron Johnson,
Sat May 8, 2021, 03:29 PM
May 2021

Putin propagandists got dirt on them and others. They just need people to broadcast their propaganda from inside the govt.

I swear that Putin controls the GOP.

pwb

(11,204 posts)
6. Let me broaden it to Cable 24 hour news.
Sat May 8, 2021, 01:47 PM
May 2021

News is not all day. We all can change the channel some don't.

"That is it for my show". Stay tuned for the next person to say the exact same thing for an hour? Repeat, repeat .

Jim__

(14,045 posts)
7. I don't believe their intent is to hurt people. Their intent is to overthrow our democracy.
Sat May 8, 2021, 02:42 PM
May 2021

If Trump runs and wins in 2024, they will never peacefully cede that power. They've learned enough from Trump's first term so that if they get back in power, they can successfully control the electoral process to insure future electoral victories. It will be extremely difficult to get people to accept that these victories are staged. A Trump electoral victory in 2024 will be the end of US democracy.

I'm not sure what we can do about that. Our best chance to prevent this is to warn people about the danger and then to get the MAGAts to overplay their hand while they are out of power. That may wake people up to the danger while it can still be stopped. A strong Democratic electoral victory in 2024 will stop them.

Ohioboy

(3,222 posts)
8. Somehow lying has gotten equated with free speech
Sat May 8, 2021, 03:04 PM
May 2021

It's to the point where if you call someone out for lying, they start crying that you are cancelling their "free speech". It's dangerous to democracy when people are so willing to throw away the truth.

elias7

(3,976 posts)
12. They're trying to preserve a white majority
Sat May 8, 2021, 03:30 PM
May 2021

They see America not as the idea that it is but as a white Christian nation that they are slowly losing control over.

It’s ironic that they are acting in a fundamentally unamerican way and no longer deserve this country’s founding ideals.

world wide wally

(21,718 posts)
13. All because of the spoiled, rich kid who is a crybaby loser.
Sat May 8, 2021, 03:35 PM
May 2021

I don't even believe he played Little League Baseball. If he had, he would have learned that you can't win 'em all

Upthevibe

(7,879 posts)
16. No offense, world wide wally, but this isn't
Sat May 8, 2021, 04:10 PM
May 2021

"all because of the spoiled, rich kid....." at all. He's a product of many, many years of malfeasance.

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