Fox News did not air a second of the speeches from alienated GOP leaders and former Trump officials who endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris at this week’s Democratic National Convention.
Former GOP leaders and Trump officials? Cool and good.
Palestinian-Americans? Now let's not be crazy!
No but don't you understand kiddo? Genocides perpetrated by republicans are unconscionable, but genocides perpetrated by democrats are just savvy politicking.
"If we don't commit genocide the other party will commit worse genocide!"
It's OK! Republicans are KNOWN for doing their Own Research and will SURELY find these Clips on their Own!
Maybe i'm in the minority here, but inviting republicans from the bush years to speak at the DNC isn't actually that reassuring to me if I care about stopping genocide, or think that the US foreign policy as a whole is bad and wrong.
Hell I'd go so far as to say if you invite a ghoul like Mike Pence to speak at your convention, you obviously don't give a shit about LBG issues at all, and are only using them as a shied so that no one can criticize your absolute inaction over the past 50 years on all social issues.
The point being made with their appearance is that Trump is so toxic and repulsive that defectors are actively coming out of the woodwork to endorse Harris. It's meant to appeal to independents and Republicans who see modern Trump and are increasingly off-put by him.
Now, they are all aggressively repulsive pieces of shit, sure. But I think we all agree that Trump is an even more aggressive piece of shit in comparison.
Participating in oppressor Olympics means you don't actually hold any values.
Appealing to right wing voters by adopting their policies never works.
These ex-Republicans are not reaching other Republicans at the DNC. They are speaking to Democrats and selling them on their policies.
But I think we all agree that Trump is an even more aggressive piece of shit in comparison.
How the hell is trump worse than bush era republicans or Mike fucking pence?
Bush era republicans and mike pence still believe in voting.
Trump wants to be a dictator.
In a country where the government m is just 3 corporations in a trench coat, this is a meaningless distinction. None of these people give the slightest fuck about what the public thinks on any given issue and will work with the Democrats to undermine any public movement that tries to assert its will (see gaza protests which are just the latest example of this).
Imagine getting paid to write articles like "right wing TV network hosts content favorable to right wing party candidates and not content unfavorable to them".
And then discovering that masses of people are both surprised and engaged.
A reminder that between now and November 6, everyone saying "Don't Vote for Kamala", is actually saying "Vote for Trump". Especially when they're saying it in the comments for an article about fascists being fascist.
There are only two candidates that we can vote for with a chance of winning this year. There are no serious third party candidates to campaign for. While I wish this wasn't the case, not "voting for the lesser evil" either means voting for the greater evil, or not voting at all.
If you actually want to avoid full-blown Fascism in America, stop fucking carrying water for Trump every chance you get.
If you actually want to avoid full-blown Fascism in America
The world empire ruling over humanity with an iron fist, who's founding act was the liquidation of an entire continents worth of people is somehow not "full blown fascist" yet.
Yup, that makes perfect sense when you put it like that. This is precisely how Germany avoided fascism in 1930s, they just voted for the lesser evil and everything worked out great.
So what you're saying is that you know embarrassingly little about what happened in the March 1933 German federal election...
Spoiler: Hitler won because the fascists slaughtered their political enemies and seized power undemocratically.
If you think that you can avoid something like this by "not voting for the lesser evil", I don't know what to tell you. Until I have reason to believe that the election will be overthrown, I'll be cautiously looking for warning signs (there are some already), and I will vote for the party that isn't openly and proudly spewing Fascism.
Amazing counterpoint you've mustered there. Maybe read my follow up comment before making a clown of yourself?
A reminder that between now and November 6, everyone saying “Don’t Vote for Kamala”, is actually saying “Vote for Trump”.
Can you explain in detail why there are only two viable political parties?
As you can see, if conservatives were not chained to the Republican party by First Past the Post voting, they could at least have a chance to elect a more moderate conservative party.
like the democrats with a new name.
Give your fellow citizens the freedom to vote outside the two party system by supporting an electoral reform movement in your state.
Of course fox didn’t cover them, fox is too busy glazin that weird, geriatric fucking idiot.
I got kicked out from Radio, Television, and Film school for poor grades, poor attendance, and a number of other poor choices, so I really don't know what I'm talking about when I ask this question:
Doesn't that violate the Equal Time Rule?
Doesn’t that violate the Equal Time Rule?
not at all, nor should that rule even exist. It's always been a bunch of bullshit pushed by conservatives to normalize their positions.
But without fairness and balance, how are the masses supposed to think unpopular ideas have significant support???
Probably not, since they did cover a presidential candidate and other speakers are not the ones running.
No. The Equal Time Rule is about stations providing equal airtime access to candidates.
Would you agree that it doesn’t break the letter of the law but it skirts the spirit of the law? Like, if they aired the RNC in its entirity but selectively skipped parts of the DNC…
The spirit of the law doesn't mean anything. The law itself barely even means anything given how it's enforced. I'm not exactly seeing equal access for third party candidates. This is just the ruling class negotiating via the two parties.
Oof, I guess if I'm gonna split hairs, I gotta go all-in. A third party candidates even recognized as candidates by the FCC?
Good God, how fucked is this country?
On this particular topic the two parties basically just throw lawyers at the system they created for themselves in order to fight each other. For example, they made networks take down some reruns of Trump's shows during the last election. As if that would matter when the networks give him infinite free coverage, lol.
Third parties have little recourse both because they don't have the cash to throw around and because the two major parties just constantly put up barriers to entry, usually needing to exceed an arbitrary percentage of votes in the last election (an arbitrary percentage that the two parties increase whenever a third party gets close).
This country is basically just 100 capitalists in a trenchcoat making us all fight them and each other and people overseas over all the problems caused by the system that keeps them in power.
This country is basically just 100 capitalists in a trenchcoat making us all fight them and each other and people overseas over all the problems caused by the system that keeps them in power.
Sure, sure... But in return, we get to look down on unhoused people who are starving from manufactured hunger.
Also, that's a giant fucking trench coat!
We have the best and biggest trenchcoat, everybody says so.
Equal airtime for all candidates or just democrats and Republicans?
Mostly the latter, as the two capitalist parties jealously guard their duopoly.
