It always amuses me when we hear "that's not who we are as a nation"

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30. i agree. ignoring talk radio continues to be the biggest political mistake in history. much of

the regression and lack of progress and growth of radical republicanism is a direct result of that ignorance by progressive and dem orgs and leaders. we even let 87+ universities support 260 + xlimbaugh stations while they sell global warming and covid denial, voter suppression, excuse racism, defund public ed, attack dem politicians, etc

if trump/putin/gop paid $1000/hr for radio 1200 stations x 15 hrs/day are worth $90/week or $5Bil/year - for 30 years. every time dems are on track to do something good the cons in the think tanks yawn, design a new PR campaign to distort, lie, distract, run it out of limbaugh's ass (600 of the loudest stations) and within hours it's blasting from 1500 radio stations for as long as it takes.

how many protestors is one blowhard with a giant megaphone worth? that's why we're here, more than any other single factor. yet media and political leaders ignore it and the ignorant blame zukerberg or human nature and 'reps without backbone' while letting a few hundred coordinated ignorant racist asshole liars hide behind call screeners and take free potshots at whoever and whatever they want.

look at manchin and the conservadems - serving global warming denial and sudden 'budget conscious' constituencies that basically flew out of limbaugh's ass. and one day we will find out putin was using limbaugh/talk radio and the dittohead effect since at least 2008, including but not limited to palin for VP, 'cllimategate', 2011 debt default, trump, and COVID denial.