This isn't my wheel house and clearly I'm all for protecting First Amendment rights. But, first, reinstating the Fairness Doctrine will help at least reshape them. If they must present all sides or at least two sides to arguments, they can't spew the bullshit they currently do unchecked.
Second, they broadcast primarily using public airwaves / infrastructure, no? If so, regulating if an outlet uses 'news' in their programming it must be factually based. Otherwise it's editorial, which is fine but must be labelled as such. They can't get around labelling themselves 'entertainment'
The Fairness Doctrine never required both sides. It required diverse viewpoints. Most stations - including cable channels - have programs with multiple hosts who all have their own viewpoints.
5 views on why vouchers are good meets the requirement.
No republican president since EISENHOWER has ever left office with a solid economy. Republicans are not fiscally conservative, they're all about giving OUR MONEY to fucking BILLIONAIRES
When will the voters learn that the "gop" isn't a party at all. Just a criminal enterprise, knee deep in dismantling Our country?
Stealing from the poorest to GIVE TO THE RICHEST...
As soon as rural people start talking about liberal elites and then vote for billionaires. The people in this country that vote GOP are generally very dumb, very evil, or both. They are not reasonable people. If they were reasonable, they wouldn't be so easy to lie to.
Elephants never forget and voters can't ever remember. That's why Republicans always remind voters of what they "do" and take credit from others or credit for funds they refuse to appropriate.
Republicans are self-promoters, Democrats promote others. Democrats need to learn to do both.
George, voters have never shown that they get it, then do the right thing.
They just don't want to be bothered with voting even when their own freedoms are on the line. Let someone else vote they don't need mine they will have enough.
One day their luck will run out & there will go their freedom.
The GOP counts on the poorly educated
who believe their lies,
and many USA fools won’t bother 2 Vote.
When will the Democratic Party wake up and know that protecting brain-dead Biden cost us our fucking Country?
As an Independent;
am eating dosed popcorn and laughing
At My Own Home.
Sad Joke.
And I thought Ronald Reagan was a spend thrift but DJT takes the cake. Ronnie took expensive gifts from China against the law & got caught but Trump was much worse. Money from Musk to win the election & the plane from Saudi takes the biggest bribe.
George, I love you but you gotta stop asking dithering questions like this. This rhetoric has been brewing for DECADES. Find another path because this one ain’t it!
My view of the GOP: Tax cuts the country can't afford. Unbending demand for their own style of Religious bigotry. Uncaring cruelty toward others of mankind.
It has nothing to do with fiscal responsibility. Voters have been trained by the GOP to be so irrationally afraid of anything that can be vaguely compared to communism, anyone or anything foreign or non-Christian, and anything non Heteronormative they’d rather have a recession than embrace diversity
Maybe when our education system quits pumping out morons with no critical thinking skills to recognize media like Fox News is just a propaganda outlet. Nothing changes until that happens.
republicans don't care about "fiscal responsibility", they are the party of GREED and SELFISHNESS. They will bankrupt this country before they'll agree to pay $1 more in taxes.
They're all hideous, the Republicans & a lot of whites! So many unwell, violent pedos in their clan.
For MORE than a century, we've seen nothing but putrid men being filthy, lazy, hateful while hollering "it's the libs!" It's past time to leave them behind.
Oh please. To do that would mean they would be creating a healthy social environment that would see through and revolt against their blatant corruption.
People will learn that the Democrats are more fiscally responsible when the Democrats start to tell them. They need to speak up about the good things they do.
Frustration is understandable.
But I remember Democrats screaming every day, everywhere about what Trump was going to do to the country. The media was sane-washing the felon and a third of Americans either didn't hear it, didn't believe it, or didn't care.
Yes, there was plenty of evidence for anyone willing to listen that re-electing Trump would be a big mistake (and turned out to be bigger than I was capable of imagining). Anyone who didn't realize it had to be willfully ignorant.
They needed to put this on a banner in back of every Dem giving a speech in Oct/Nov (this was Oct '24). But even then, business ppl themselves even with this in front of them, being fully aware, still chose the other option as well.
Except 92% of Black women and 88% of Black men understood. Why is it less than half of both white women (despite already losing bodily autonomy because of Trump) and white men didnt understand it?
They're too easily distracted by bullshit & wedge issues. What's that fun fact? Trump has more convictions than there are trans athletes playing in the NCAA. We're gonna have to find something PRETTY shiny to distract them with!
That was a very different Republican Party. I doubt Lincoln would have approved of insurrectionists storming the Capitol carrying Stars-and-Bars Trump flags.
Each time the Republican President will convince voters that large tax cuts to the rich and to corporations are in their own best interest. Each time the American voter believes them.
I do not understand why?????
Ugh, that's true but irrelevant. Every balanced budget in the 20th C lead to sharp recessions. The economy needs spending, it needs to be the right spending. Read Stephanie Kelton.
Truth! They have mainstream media & meta platforms set up as brainwashing tools. Social media problem is hard to tackle but mainstream media can’t operate without the technicians, camera operators & behind the scenes personnel. The personalities can easily be replaced. I long to see this:
Never.
Team redhat means being fine w sticking other people w the bill and hard work. As long as they're able to enjoy the suffering of their fellow Americans-with-whom-they-disagree-theologically, it's all worth it. They don't care about real life, they care about feeling powerful. Pathetic.
The idea that GOP = fiscal responsibility predates MAGA by a lot. They still tout Reagan as a great man and economic genius (even my mom, who hates MAGA and has voted blue since 2008) -- and I don't hear a lot of mainstream Democrats disagreeing or otherwise countering this patently false narrative.
The worst part? There are 3 types of power, and two of them make you feel *great* if you're doing it right.
1. Power over. You will do this or else.
2. Power with. Unions, protests
3. Power to. "I can't answer that, please ask a person who lived it." I amplify all your protests from Canada...
This country would not be in debt if not for republicans.
Every penny of debt was added by republicans or democrats bailing out a crashed republican economy.
They'll never learn. The cult is either too brainwashed from decades of indoctrination, or are just too interested in watching democracy die. There are people who hate this govt and want to see it collapse...Living right here amongst us. They are the minority and we will not let that happen. 🗽
Never! Most relate to hating the Others more than loving themselves. Hate is their first choice evidence has proven. It appears many have a toxic plaque of European whiteness in the USA 🇺🇸 from the beginning!?
The ones who voted for him probably never will. We need to convince the third of the country that didn't vote to vote. Education is the way...
DYOR 🙂
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Numbers don't lie. Just stop voting for any Republicans who's only interest is protecting the rich and loading up their pockets with cash! Screw their "trickle down economics!"
We need to get rid of corporate and dark money in elections. We need ACTUAL limits to how long political ads can be shown. Our political 'season' shouldn't be 5-8 years long.
No money for sick or disabled. Cut Veterans services. Gut medical research. Threaten SSA daily.
But-unlimited funds for the horror show of grabbing people off the streets. Billions will be needed to upgrade/keep up the "gift" of a used airplane that no one else wanted. The parade. No taxes on rich
conservatives have always been the true deep state. It’s all a projection or from a campaign with strong analytics. They are the soft white underbelly of this country who have privately ruled for 100 years. Dark money, dark politics and the man behind the curtain is the one with the biggest check
Perhaps when they learn that the party who really wanted to control our lives and cares only about the rich is their maga/gop. So we have to continue to speak and spread truth.
After this administration is out of office it's going to take a very long time to get the trust back with our allies and recovery from the damages done.
They have more similarities than you might want to acknowledge to yourself.
Besides, I had stated that the message is wrong since the average American may notice but doesn't care as long as he/she manages to get along, even if eggs are now on Fabergé-level.
Becuz MAGA voters are not getting the "facts" from the Republicans, Fox News, social media & legacy media. Instead focus on immigration, price of eggs, abortion, propaganda BS.
They continue selling the same consistent lie repeatedly that it becomes the final truth. These are Christian hypocrites.
Voters will learn these facts when Democrats learn to communicate w/ their constituents...
...so, I guess, never.
There are countless issues that Dems could have relentlessly been attacking the GOP on over the last 40+ yrs, and they chose not to. Going on the offensive takes a spine and guts.
The constitution has to be amended to remove the influence of big donors out of our political process. This country is being destroyed by the amount of money that controls our politics..
The next democratic leaders should be violent and loud, in the United States but also in the European Union. The world and communication have changed and are "populist" in the sense of pop, there will be no going back. We must learn to speak to the gut like right-wing leaders do, we must shout.
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Intellectuals (which fortunately only the left still has) must take a back seat doing the right job on the back. Otherwise we will continue to lose everywhere. My 2 cents.
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She offered the American people money to help them buy a home.. help family’s with children..giving tax credits.. So that wasn’t good enough.. and you get what you ask for..🤨😏
Yes! And just how much did DOGE save taxpayers?? Why suddenly do we see no public news stories re: DOGE or Musk? Trump tamped it all down is why. #StopTheMadness #2026
I wish that were true, but we often see CEOs failing upwards and then leaving the place worse than they found it -- and many millions of dollars richer themselves. At a certain level of money/power (usually inherited), these should-be failsons literally can't fail. This country will not let them!
The “economy and fiscal responsibility” has always been a smokescreen for ideological values. Fiscal responsibility was always about “we dismantle the welfare state because we don’t want non-white people to have access.”
At this point they don’t want anyone that actually pays taxes to have it. And the taxes they collect from the working poor? That goes directly to the military complex and corporate welfare.
Americans were slave owners while committing genocide on the natives they labeled savages...in 1882 congress passed the Chinese exclusion act! America has always been racist regardless of economics. I'm an immigrant from Europe so I know first hand about prejudices bc i am Mediterranean olive dark
When the media properly reports the facts.
For 40 years, the media has perpetuated the GOP myth & echoed GOP propaganda.
Investigative reporting, fact- & source-checking gave way to quotes from anybody who said something about something. Sound bites replaced cogent news.
4th Estate shirked its duty.
When will the Democratic Party ever learn to make this an effective message and repeat it as resonantly as the Republican message (also known as outright lies) on the economy?
They get suckered in by hysterionics of false sociocultural claims, "They're going to take your guns ... They are killing babies" & then there's the racism, misogynism, too. & out-n-out lies, "Going to end the war on day 1 ... Prices will go down on day 1 ... Only going to be a dictator on day 1."
The GOP has very intentionally conflated responsibility with severe austerity, and is one of the reasons why they have such dominance in messaging about the economy.
Sure…you knew what I meant and yet you still want to create the schism to prove you are intellectually superior…wonder why normal people hate liberals. Jesus we are fucking doomed.
When the democrats start forcing American voters to look at all of the data & charts published by the St. Louis Fed. The Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) has a pretty complete economic history of our country. You can compare administration records on jobs, inflation, GDP, etc. Check it out.
They haven't funded any reform to the immigration process, not even more judges to give due process in a timely manner. Its almost like they want the process to fail!
That is true the last republican president to balance the budget was General and the former deceased President Dwight D. Eisenhower and that's a fact very easily verified.
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Are not family men
Are not fiscally responsible
Have caused 10/11 recessions
Do not back the blue
Cons in conservatives is foretelling
5 views on why vouchers are good meets the requirement.
And all 5 views can be bullshit.
Shows Trump's lack of understanding of EVERYTHING!
Stealing from the poorest to GIVE TO THE RICHEST...
(Narrator: Republican politicians, their rich donors and compliant media all get rich on the public credit card. Only America loses.)
This is due to the fact a large percentage of the American populace is willfully stupid.
Republicans are self-promoters, Democrats promote others. Democrats need to learn to do both.
They just don't want to be bothered with voting even when their own freedoms are on the line. Let someone else vote they don't need mine they will have enough.
One day their luck will run out & there will go their freedom.
republicans absolutely suck at managing the economy!
Democrats excel at managing the economy
Funny how they are freaking the fuck out now.
who believe their lies,
and many USA fools won’t bother 2 Vote.
When will the Democratic Party wake up and know that protecting brain-dead Biden cost us our fucking Country?
As an Independent;
am eating dosed popcorn and laughing
At My Own Home.
Sad Joke.
This is one thing he is good at doing.
Liberal governments are terrible communicators. It's a fact.
"Better Together" 🫶
#CW #ConsumerWatch
They are the party of "white."
That's what they're voting for. Even if their children and elderly have to die.
When their districts aren't gerrymandered all to hell.
When every county in every state has schools that run on more than passion and desperation.
When adults stop choosing to believe comforting delusions over reality.
Republicans ALWAYS implement policies that benefit mostly the RICH and big business, and leave more debt, higher deficits and a crashed economy
THESE ARE FACTS !
For MORE than a century, we've seen nothing but putrid men being filthy, lazy, hateful while hollering "it's the libs!" It's past time to leave them behind.
But I remember Democrats screaming every day, everywhere about what Trump was going to do to the country. The media was sane-washing the felon and a third of Americans either didn't hear it, didn't believe it, or didn't care.
The cult is mostly ignorant, willfully ignorant or just wants mean daddy to punish the people they hate.
It's always hard to sell a negative - "we're not Trump" over a positive - "we'll grow the economy by ..."
But back then they may have been financially responsible. Since then, well, not so much.
I do not understand why?????
The default POV, still and always, is that Republican policies are best, must have austerity, etc when it's the policies that fail not the people
Team redhat means being fine w sticking other people w the bill and hard work. As long as they're able to enjoy the suffering of their fellow Americans-with-whom-they-disagree-theologically, it's all worth it. They don't care about real life, they care about feeling powerful. Pathetic.
1. Power over. You will do this or else.
2. Power with. Unions, protests
3. Power to. "I can't answer that, please ask a person who lived it." I amplify all your protests from Canada...
2 and 3 feel awesome.
1 is gross.
They could literally get a better power high from helping people and doing good work, as proven by neuroscience.
Every penny of debt was added by republicans or democrats bailing out a crashed republican economy.
DYOR 🙂
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But-unlimited funds for the horror show of grabbing people off the streets. Billions will be needed to upgrade/keep up the "gift" of a used airplane that no one else wanted. The parade. No taxes on rich
When will voters ever learn that the GOP is not a responsible party?
A direct Theft from the US Treasury
leaving debt behind that we all have to pay off
Just like how a bank robbery works.
and the GOP can't stop doing it.
The message should be that the Reps are manipulating elections to get voted, and not only since Trump.
Of course that would require to make the Dems taking action, and we all know that the Dems are not the responsive party at all anymore.
Besides, I had stated that the message is wrong since the average American may notice but doesn't care as long as he/she manages to get along, even if eggs are now on Fabergé-level.
Debts are one thing, crimes another.
They continue selling the same consistent lie repeatedly that it becomes the final truth. These are Christian hypocrites.
When my neices and nephews ask me where I was, my answer will be "in the middle of it. Where the hells else did you think I'd be?"
My home is under threat, and I'm not living like this. 💜🇨🇦
on top of her already bloated $41,000,000,000.00 budget
GOPheads are finding out you need more personnel and more high tech
if you are going to catch the bad guyz...........
As in never.
...so, I guess, never.
There are countless issues that Dems could have relentlessly been attacking the GOP on over the last 40+ yrs, and they chose not to. Going on the offensive takes a spine and guts.
The next Democratic presidential candidate needs to absolutely pummel the Republicans for their random acts of failure and suckage.
Facts don't matter to cult members.
Tyranny of that magnitude cannot go unpunished.
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That's why the next Democratic nominee has to be absolutely punishing. This horror show cannot be allowed to continue.
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Fox has done more damage to this country than a thousand bin Ladens and a million putins ever could.
Fox state tv is a cancer that will kill us eventually... if we let it.
For 40 years, the media has perpetuated the GOP myth & echoed GOP propaganda.
Investigative reporting, fact- & source-checking gave way to quotes from anybody who said something about something. Sound bites replaced cogent news.
4th Estate shirked its duty.
AUSTERITY at the wrong time, however, is bad.
The GOP has very intentionally conflated responsibility with severe austerity, and is one of the reasons why they have such dominance in messaging about the economy.
It speaks for itself