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So: extortion.
That's what we are talking about here, right?
Not that it would happen, but I would so love for everyone to be remembering all these people for later prosecution under different leadership when Taco's gone.
These assholes should go to fucking prison for this.
Yup, extortion from a private citizen and 1st amendment violations from the FCC.
Not to mention both Sinclair and Nexstar are publicly traded companies. Surely getting involved in politics to the point where you are denying your viewership popular programing would eventually negatively affect shareholder value?
I think if I had shares in either of these companies I'd be questioning the leadership of the organization.
These are MAGA companies that have been slowly pushing more and more propaganda on to the public airwaves. They firmly believe that their viewer base won't be losing that many viewers and are counting on MAGA's, rightly so probably, to cover for the loss.
Nexstar already has an almost 40% reach across the US. They've been sucking up to Trump this year because they want to merge with TEGNA, which would give them access to 80% of the country. To do this though, regulations need to be dropped to allow them to exceed limits that have been in place for decades to prevent this level of media control. This is the quid-pro-quo for them, as Colbert was for the Paramount merger.
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Also could just be a general concept of investments... IE we lose 10 million here for canceling this show, we make 100 million in the merger we want to do next year.
It's a $6.2 billion merger between Nexstar and TEGNA that is at stake.
The thing that's great about this fascism run is that we have the fucking internet.
Whenever this shit falls apart, many of those folks will literally have no choice but to self-deport or go to jail.
I sure hope someone is keeping stock. Taco himself does so many egregious acts that I can barely keep up with what he did this week, nevermind what he's done so far in this disastrous second term.
There are often times when someone will bring up something from his first disastrous term and I'll have this feeling of - oh yeah, how could I have forgotten about that?
And that's just him. Then there are all the things being done on his behalf by all his Little Eichmanns both when he was in office and not...there is a lot to track. And some of these assholes are so old - like, say, Roger Stone or Bannon - that they will likely die of old age before they get properly sent to (or back to) prison.
I have a feeling a lot of them are going to definitely attempt to do the modern equivalent of burn their Nazi uniforms afterwards, too, and the "liberal media" will do all the heavy lifting to sane wash these dickheads as much as possible. So I'm sure many, probably most, will escape justice.
Keeping track of liberal accusations is likely a crime.
I can certainly say that Trump never intimidated a witness such that his name would never end up on a list of pedophile buddies by famed pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump also never invited a riot on Jan 6 that aimed to overthrow the constitutional process
He also certainly never solicited bribes from corporations for his inauguration.
And he would never, NEVER break the Posse Comitatus Act in his occupations of LA, DC, and Chicago.
That’s why I will never keep track of these far left woke accusations.
I don't know if the rot can be cleansed without a complete collapse of the country, which won't have the infrastructure to go after the fascists.
Germany figured it out just fine.
Germany was forced to by losing a war. That's not happening this time.
This is a HORRIBLE Idea! If Democrats PROSECUTE these Republican Criminals then the Republican Criminals MIGHT turn Around and make Democrats STRAIGHT UP ILLEGAL BY LABELING THEM TERRORISTS! Which will ONLY happen if Democrats make the First Move!
First move? We've been poking their corpse for nine months and all we've heard is gas escaping. These assholes wouldn't twitch if you hooked them up to a car battery.
Cute of you to think a subsequent government won't be a) Trump 2.0 or b) quick to try and forget everything that just happened under the guise of "return to normalcy".