I was listening to an episode recently where they talked about the Lincoln Project for a very long time. But they seemed to focus on the guy actually producing the ads and only once, while reading an excerpt from a bio, did they mention that the tea-party was koch funded. And then they go right back to talking about these ads as if they were a divine and inspired vision of some guy that just so happened to be a former tea-party dickhead.

The people who funded the tea party and rightwing protectionists. Globalism as a boogie man isnt just about thinly-veiled antisemitism, it's also about Koch, Malone and Kroenke not wanting to have to compete with foreign private equity in their scheme to take over every industry. These guys funded and promoted the tea party with their fossil fuel money and media empires. And now the Lincoln Project is the same exact rhetoric and being produced by the same exact people and it seems like people want the story to be the content of the ads instead of the rightwing dipshits behind it.

The way they talk about USPS is the same. They keep talking about whats happening to the USPS as though that has anything to do with how or why it's happening or how we can stop it. Fedex and UPS have been $10+ million a year for decades in an effort to privatize the industry and trump is just the only guy dirty enough to take the heat for it.

Fedex Owner - Frederick W. Smith

Lobbying Totals: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary?id=d000000089&fbclid=IwAR1i048MvcLwAzOsSw3q4hZlEqEIpd_RlbnleTG9xYSJ091Tae8Ss75zMXI

UPS Owner - David P. Abney

Lobbying Totals: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/lobbying?id=D000000081&fbclid=IwAR0JKZf1fWDHewDxfZNTA5rbcoBhUWtPMAeFfSb9aFiQSijZ1LJJeNY6Ln4

if the media (which the chaps are a part of) was framing this as "Look at these two actual people using their money to take away a public good" it could actually change things. I think we need to go on the offense and make every single political issue about the financials beneficiaries.

What the donors want is politics. What politicians say they believe is just pop culture.

  • PhallicsJones [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    The guys on chapo but it applies to every single leftist podcast I listen to. Trashfuture is the only one that really tries to keep connecting every story back to the actual financiers the policies they push.

    I just listened to the last two episodes of Citations Needed about HG TV and i dont think they even once mentioned the guy who owns it, John Malone. He owns 2.2 million acres in the middle of the country and much our countries cable infrastracture as well as Formula One, Discovery Channel (HG TV parent company), SiriusXM, LiveNation and just recently got the DOJ to bend over and let him transfer control of iHeartMedia from his holding consultancy (Baine) to his personal assets.

    Malone wins from every side of gentrification. It keeps the real estate market focused on metropolitan areas and their suburbs while he buys up massive tracts of land in the middle of the country. The anger from the displaced people loosing their community to gentrification makes his liberal enemies look bad and basically creates an endless political cycle of "liberals vs black folks" that helps him push rightwing candidates that'll then deregulate on his behalf.

    What politicians want is pop culture. What donors want is politics.