Mad_Machine76
Mad_Machine76's Journal"Big Tech"
has become one of the new right-wing boogeymen. All of them are constantly complaining about it. As though Republicans don't get corporate contributions from "Big everything else"
*sigh*
Ya know this is why we struggle so much: when people on OUR side don't have our backs and attempt to discourage things like this. As long as it was a peaceful protest and people didn't physically confront anybody or damage property, it's protected speech/activity. End of line. Stigmatizing free speech like this is not something a proper Democrat should be doing. Hopefully, they retract their criticism.
I'm not sure exactly what he's talking about here
He's rarely challenged, let alone "cornered" on his Fox News show. Does he do another version elsewhere? Also, his stint on Crossfire has long since ended.
I've been listening to a podcast which is basically all about debunking various statements on his show (Tuckered Out Podcast- highly recommended) and he usually only brings on guests that are there because he wants somebody to add some patina of "credibility" to his talking points, although, sometimes, embarrassingly, they don't quite always stick to the line that he's expecting them to or they add context that undermines what he is trying to prove, although he usually just breezes past any such contradictions and moves on. His main schtick really seems to be wildly exaggerating things that aren't extraordinary and/or leaving out crucial context that drastically changes the perception of whatever it is he's talking about.
What could possibly
keep a child from wearing a mask, medically? I would imagine that the number of children for whom would be legitimately exempt would have to be infinitesimally small.
It seems crazy
that Republicans have the most power but do the least real work for the country. They seem to have endless financial resources, time, and energy to stir the pot for their base 24-7-365 on Fox News and countless AM Radio outlets all over the country, meanwhile working class people are too busy slaving away for the corporate best desperate to survive and are only partially aware of what's going on at any given amount of time and don't always get to the polls like the Republican base. I wish we could figure out a way to address this.
Sure, Jan
Whatever.
We were robbed during the Trump years. They were able to stall out Garland for the last year of Obama's Presidency using a made up "rule" that we shouldn't fill a seat during an Election year, then Trump won and got to fill Scalia's vacancy with Gorsuch right off the bat, somebody somehow engineered a Kennedy resignation in the middle of Trump's term, and we got Kavanaugh on the Court (which has a whole host of issues in and of itself), and the final insult was RGB dying right before Election 2020 and Republicans rushing to fill her seat with Barrett in complete reversal of their earlier "rule" about filling a seat during an Election year-right before Trump lost the election no less.
And I'm mad all over again.
I don't get this
A contagious virus and all he can think about his his "rights" to not to help prevent the spread thereof by either getting tested regularly or getting a vaccine that has been given to millions of people now without any ill effects and has been successful in preventing transmission and/or minimizing severe illness?
We should never
just assume that we're doomed because we don't do one thing JMHO. The problems with our election system are numerous and some of the laws passed since 2020 are undoubtedly going to make things worse, but right-wing gerrymandering and voter suppression isn't just starting in 2022 and 2024 and probably won't end then either. As for them overturning elections, I would just like to see them try it (and I don't think anything that is currently being proposed would even address that issue?). I dare an election official to simply overturn an election result and see how quickly they have to backtrack and resign if not face criminal investigation (no matter what their "laws" say)
It's mind-boggling
that people are upset about having a head of the ATF- which is responsible for controlling guns- who supports.......gun control. But obsession with sucking up to guns and the people whom jerk off to guns and ammo mags I guess is more important to some folks I guess.
Just watch
We don't do anything, things (probably) get worse, and then a few years down the line, after Manchin is out of office and writing his memoirs (if he's still alive and there are other people still alive to care about what he has to say), he will be writing his mea culpas and going on talk shows talking about how he's tearfully regretful about not only NOT doing something but that he STOOD IN THE WAY OF other people doing something when he had the chance to be helpful. And the news media, of course, will fawn over his courage to admit that he was wrong- when the damage has already been done.
I wish this all wasn't making me so damned cynical.
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