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| credit: K, Koterba, Omaha World Herald; BC Idonwanna sez: Really? |
The mass media is run for profit, which means they have to generate advertising revenue because that is their main source of revenue. Advertisers want what they pay for, audience. To get audience the media engages relentless sensationalism, fear mongering, and moral outrage. Ergo the Killer Trumpillini--Rudy Ghouly clown coup splashed across the public airwaves. Yes, what they are doing is reprehensible, unprecedented and damaging to the Republic's political integrity, but they are only governed by neurosis and profit, not constitutional traditions. Media attention feeds their damaged egos and lines their deep pockets (>$200 million since Election Day). They have an audience of some seventy million rabid partisans in seventeen states*--a vicious feedback loop, indeed. US Person recommends ignoring their insane antics and the media outlets that advertise them until at least December 14th when the College officially awards Biden 306 votes. As Dorothy in Oz put it, "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtains." There is one long-term lesson from this imbroglio: the nation needs direct presidential election because a celebrity dictator has amply demonstrated the current system's vulnerability to unprincipled manipulation. You can cut and paste that piece of advice!
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| This loon was Mayor of New York? |
*That is how many states attorney general have joined in Texas' suit invoking the Supremos' rare original jurisdiction over disputes between states of the Union. Only one problem with this--where is the evidence of fraud backing up the petition's allegations and extraordinary request to throw out millions of legally cast votes in four states? Even his sychopant Barr has publicly stated that there is no evidence of fraud of a magnitude sufficient to overturn the election. At some point these baseless, even frivolous allegations, made by unscrupulous attorneys seeking to undermine representative government should be sanctioned by bar discipline. Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro called the suit a “cacophony of bogus claims” to support a “seditious abuse of the judicial process.” Any questions remain about why US Person names them "Repugnants"?