Thom Hartmann asks Why Do Billionaires Fund Anti-Black and Anti-Trans political movements (the statistics Thom presents are staggering, with gun violence as the leading cause of death in this country)...also, I’d never heard a number before on all of the dough stolen from the middle class of this country stretching back to The Sainted Ronnie R, but $51 trillion probably makes sense – and it’s heartbreaking also to realize what happened once more to the For The People Act and who the culprits are for its likely demise; all of them should be summarily tossed (including Manchin and Sinema) and Dems elected instead (REAL ones in the latter two cases), but good luck expecting the Trumpers and independent voters to go along with that (and when it comes to the real-world impact of hating LGBTQ folks, I give you this...more here)...
Update 8/20/23: Ugh (and why is this not surprising?)
...and Cliff Schecter of Blue Amp Channel tells us about the billionaires who control Republican politicians (and more than a couple of SCOTUS justices), with commentary also from Lawrence Lessig...
...and Mike Figueredo of The Humanist Report brings us the story of Wisconsin Repug state senator Cory Tomczyk, who is trying to sue a newspaper out of existence for publishing an anti-gay slur that he apparently said in public, in front of witnesses; he has also admitted to using the slur in the past...”waging lawfare” indeed (more here – mildly NSFW/H)...
...and with the prior clip in mind, Brian Karem of Meidas Touch discusses media consolidation since the ruinous years of Our 40th President...I don’t think it’s a coincidence at all that so much of what afflicts this country goes back to that sorry era (I would argue even further than that, to Tricky Dick at least)...this is an update to the story of the cops shutting down the Marion County, KS newspaper; the warrant to allow this was approved by wingnut judge Laura Viar, who seems to have her own closet skeletons to hide, allegedly of course, as well as referencing the previously noted Wisconsin case...Karem correctly calls for bringing back the Fairness Doctrine (which would have to be updated anyway to take cable TV news into account, and it would have to survive the inevitable legal challenges), and I would also call for a return to the equal time requirement, and no, they’re not both the same thing – maybe a constitutional amendment for both? Yeah, I know, good luck with that too...
...and in keeping with the theme of “the fourth estate” (and hacks such as this guy - not Atrios of course), Sam and Emma of TMR speak with Jon Marshall on how the Repugs’ war on the “liberal media” puts us all at risk – I’d forgotten about Biden and the “disinformation governance board” or whatever that was...pretty sure Cancun Cruz and his fellow lunatics went nuts over it, despite, or probably because of, its well-intended goals (sad but not surprising that the COVID conspiracy BS got over four times the views of what I would call legitimate news, but not surprising...I wish I had a magic answer for this, but I really don’t; it’s going to be a hardass slog trying to reverse the damage to our discourse going back about 40 years, really)...
...and that chaise lounge chair, or whatever that is, looks pretty inviting I must say – I think this tune fits for the weather in these parts...hope it’s nice where you are also.
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