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It's fairly obvious there are political bias in american media and always has been. If your party is hostile to increasing federal government or regulatory capt

It's fairly obvious there are political bias in american media and always has been. If your party is hostile to increasing federal government or regulatory capture you will be under a microscope and even sacrifice some credibility to attack you, otherwise you can bumble around, redefine common terms, deflect and mislead and have the entirety of relevant and 'trusted' media sources run cover for you indefinitely.

weberer 4y ago
>and always has been Even just 15 years ago it was nowhere this overt or coordinated. The turning point seems to be shortly after JournoList and CabalList started when different independent media organizations began to collude to push a unified "narrative" rather than the truth.
Workaccount2 4y ago
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- hedora 4y ago
  In fairness, the "free from government" party has direct ties to foreign powers that are openly trying to drive us to a civil war. Taking away bodily autonomy is just a minor skirmish; and the means justify the ends, after all. Wait till next year when the sodomy and birth control laws start to pass, along with the plans to erect border checkpoints within the US to prevent people from entering and leaving certain states. Those are enabled by existing supreme court rulings. They've already taken up a case for next year that will allow state legislatures (that are already controlled via gerrymandering, and often elected by a minority) to just ignore vote tallies and appoint whoever they want. I'm curious to see who the military sides with during the inevitable 2024 coup. Last time, they made it clear they would remove Trump by force if needed. Presumably they're not becoming more loyal to him, given that he's out of office, but it will be dicey when they have to choose between ending democracy in the US or overriding the supreme court and also the house or senate.
- tastyfreeze 4y ago
  There are many people, including me, that are happy with Trump's Supreme Court nominees. As originalists and textualists they are more likely to do their job of keeping the other branches of government to the bounds of the their Constitutional power. Biden's nominee also claims to be an originalist and a textualist. So, I really don't see the point of your complaint. Unless your complaint is that 3 judges were nominated by the red team so they must be red team loyal. Loyalty to a party is not a desirable attribute of a Supreme Court justice. Reducing party loyalty is the reason for lifetime appointment. Once a judge is appointed they have no reason to rule along their nominating party lines.
  - Workaccount2 4y ago
    We'll see when a fourth amendment case comes across their docket how true they are to the constitution and limiting government. I'm not holding my breath.

weberer 4y ago

>and always has been Even just 15 years ago it was nowhere this overt or coordinated. The turning point seems to be shortly after JournoList and CabalList started when different independent media organizations began to collude to push a unified "narrative" rather than the truth.

Workaccount2 4y ago

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hedora 4y ago
In fairness, the "free from government" party has direct ties to foreign powers that are openly trying to drive us to a civil war. Taking away bodily autonomy is just a minor skirmish; and the means justify the ends, after all. Wait till next year when the sodomy and birth control laws start to pass, along with the plans to erect border checkpoints within the US to prevent people from entering and leaving certain states. Those are enabled by existing supreme court rulings. They've already taken up a case for next year that will allow state legislatures (that are already controlled via gerrymandering, and often elected by a minority) to just ignore vote tallies and appoint whoever they want. I'm curious to see who the military sides with during the inevitable 2024 coup. Last time, they made it clear they would remove Trump by force if needed. Presumably they're not becoming more loyal to him, given that he's out of office, but it will be dicey when they have to choose between ending democracy in the US or overriding the supreme court and also the house or senate.
tastyfreeze 4y ago
There are many people, including me, that are happy with Trump's Supreme Court nominees. As originalists and textualists they are more likely to do their job of keeping the other branches of government to the bounds of the their Constitutional power. Biden's nominee also claims to be an originalist and a textualist. So, I really don't see the point of your complaint. Unless your complaint is that 3 judges were nominated by the red team so they must be red team loyal. Loyalty to a party is not a desirable attribute of a Supreme Court justice. Reducing party loyalty is the reason for lifetime appointment. Once a judge is appointed they have no reason to rule along their nominating party lines.
- Workaccount2 4y ago
  We'll see when a fourth amendment case comes across their docket how true they are to the constitution and limiting government. I'm not holding my breath.