Ok? That's my point, did you not read who I was responding to?.

Are we all willing to say Congresspeople have the right to say all of those things and censure for any of these cases is ridiculous?

Files were sealed because investigation was ongoing during Biden's term, Maxwell was sentenced in 2022.

Biden was also like a right proper President and was appropriately hands off with the DOJ. Obviously today respecting 2 centuries of norms is a bit woke.

Beyond this, X has the resources to keep Operation Bluebird in court longer than Operation Bluebird can afford legal representation.

What country do you live in and ill point out the people who are "forced" to keep society functioning and we can argue if we are "entitled" to it.

And another thing. Fuckin Benny Johnson, a private media figure, gets a death threat and then he appears at a press conference with fucking Attorney General of the United States

The fucking Vice President of the United States hosted Charlie Kirk's podcast for like weeks.

Unreal.

True, if we could have had 2020 Biden's brain in 1990's Biden body and energy you'd have like a super-president.

I agree, that's the saddest thing to me, is like if you want to disagree politics with Biden sure but through and through he was a decent person and it's quite sad we can't say that about the leader of our nation anymore.

Unfortunately while I wish it was true I think we're gonna have to do some edge-lord type shit to gain power back, the populace is just too cooked on 10 years of Trump style media. At very least they can't be anywhere as risk-averse as Harris was who while I give credit for doing what she could in 100 days just was just too complacent when the other side is whipped into a death-frenzy all the time.

Like I personally am not really in favor of Newsom being a leading contender for 2028 but I can't deny that I don't appreciate his shit-posting strategy now. Gotta strike a balance in there and tell these ghouls to get fucked... in a still appropriate fashing.

I think there but the argument in that debate over what is "liberal" news because if you ask a Republican they'll say just about everything as, and to some degree vice versa.

Really to me the biggest difference maker in how conservative media has been able to dominate is total media discipline. Only now are are we seeing some cracks forming but particularly in this past decade is that when Republicans, especially Trump make a statement or a narrative the entire media apparatus picks it up and runs with it, on message. From Fox to the cables to the podcast to the Youtubers, when Trump says a stupid thing and there is a talking point to defend it every single media channel will using that talking point.

It's an advantage Republicans think democrats have but really they don't, not to that degree. Again, Biden was excoriated day in day out by CNN, NBC, CBS, all the "liberal" news outlets were covering every slip up and ran negative stories just as often as positive ones. Jake Tapper wrote a fucking book about Biden's supposed senility.

Republicans can cram it about not having media at least on par with whatever they think liberals have. Again, this argument over the media is pretend, it is the talking point and we keep letting them get away with it.

Agree there, he definitely should not have been trying to run for a 2nd term, I think it was the stress of trying to do both at once that really put a toll on him.

The only lesson AB learned is "the public is fickle and news cycles last only days or weeks" they haven't really lost anything long term.

And that's kindof the point, thinking a bunch of individual consumers can affect industries that are so large is kindof unrealistic, it's a massive collective action problem and the power asymmetry is wild. It's a fantasy that the world works this way.

No it doesn't it already fails on the first and most important point: it itself is not a democracy with a protected freedom of press. Fish in a barrel.

You sure about that?.

It's also not about one single item, it's the full spread of the media apparatus which I would bet when taken as a whole conservatives outreach Democrats by quite a bit and have for a long time. Be proud, stand on ground, this took decades, you guys did it, you are the mainstream now.

And the conservative ones tend to be more popular. One complaint I have about the Democrats is they don't have alternative media anywhere close to say Daily Wire or a ground game that was anywhere close as Turning Point. Again no need to be coy, Republicans have a big media system!

Again i'm not gonna use metrics that aren't relevant and only exist to make yourself the eternal victim. It isn't true! This entire narrative is baked into the media apparatus! It's a big part of the strategy, i've been hearing this my entire life.

Yeah they called him "Sleepy Joe" because the rest of us were able to sleep at night.

They can unwind deals after they are complete. It's pretty rare, because it's messy and expensive for all parties involved.

Also, given the rubber-stamping of the last dozen or so media mergers, it would be difficult for the government to explain why this particular merger would be harmful, while the last dozen mega-mergers and divestitures were just fine.

Also let's also remember that at least 3 cabinet members were hired directly out of Fox News (Pirro, Hegseth, Duffy) and Fox currently Employs at least 2 spouses of cabinet members (Miller and Duffy) and also employs about a dozen other Fox contributors of various sorts.

A level of media collusion that only existed in Republican's rage dreams about Democrats that they decided to make real.

Maybe all hose things are actually bad? There's very little good news about the tariffs beyond the press releases and statements the admin says about them. Same for DOGE which was an absolute abject failure. Oh and brutal immigration raids is salacious to make the news, you're kinda feeding the beast with that.

But hey if you want to bring back the Fairness Doctrine let's have at it!