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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.
SWBTATTReg
(21,856 posts)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)Their goal is to destroy our democracy. To help any country that hates the USA.
SWBTATTReg
(21,856 posts)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)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.
Ohioboy
(3,222 posts)which would allow for equal time for the truth.
The Fairness Doctrine was key to American politics- without it we are awash in LIES
SWBTATTReg
(21,856 posts)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)due to 1A issues, then what do you suggest?
Politicub
(12,163 posts)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.
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young_at_heart
(3,758 posts)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)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)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)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)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.
johnthewoodworker
(694 posts)elias7
(3,976 posts)They see America not as the idea that it is but as a white Christian nation that they are slowly losing control over.
Its ironic that they are acting in a fundamentally unamerican way and no longer deserve this countrys founding ideals.
HUAJIAO
(2,362 posts)run by White Christian men?
Alice Kramden
(2,157 posts)The "Founding Fathers" were decidedly NOT Christian - they were Deists
HUAJIAO
(2,362 posts)I am more of an arm chair historian.'
world wide wally
(21,718 posts)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)"all because of the spoiled, rich kid....." at all. He's a product of many, many years of malfeasance.