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Terry Moran’s non-renewal has less to do with ABC’s pompously-stated policy than with parent company Disney’s sweaty campaign to appease the fascistic Trump regime. This is the same company, after all, who shoveled $15 million into his trough last year to settle a baseless defamation suit.
The ongoing capitulation of media corporations undermines the First Amendment, enables authoritarianism, and should alarm anyone who cares about democracy.
At the risk of violating the highest standards of objectivity, let me say this: I am more grateful than ever that I don’t work for corporate media. I work for you.
Terry Moran’s non-renewal has less to do with ABC’s pompously-stated policy than with parent company Disney’s sweaty campaign to appease the fascistic Trump regime. This is the same company, after all, who shoveled $15 million into his trough last year to settle a baseless defamation suit.
The ongoing capitulation of media corporations undermines the First Amendment, enables authoritarianism, and should alarm anyone who cares about democracy.
At the risk of violating the highest standards of objectivity, let me say this: I am more grateful than ever that I don’t work for corporate media. I work for you.
This is what it has come to with this administration and these MAGA folks. Thin-skinned and hypocritical. Everyone from corporations to journalists must bow down, even in the face of their extreme views and behavior and failures.
If Democrats were doing this the right would be freaking out, but authoritarian principals appeal to the right: Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mussolini, Erdogen, Hussein, Bin Salman, Putin, Franco, Iran's Ayatollahs, Pinochet, Apartheid.
These are people who want "State's rights" when the Dems hold the WH. And total federal control when the GOP holds the WH. Basically they want complete control with zero compromise. Call in the military!
At SVEN…. Do you really think there will be a 2026 election for any Federal office? The run of “ emergency “ declarations is obviously practice for the BIG ONE! Calling out the Marines for a garden variety protest with the usual hooliganism is just the start. What’s next? SEAL TEAM 6. ? He will create an emergency even if one does not exist. How bout a Reichstag Fire right here in the good old USA? Blame the radical left lunatics and declare a national emergency of indefinite length! Boom,,, no mid terms.
Chinese President Xi Jinping recently consolidated power. Trump told the gathering: “He’s now president for life. President for life. And he’s great.” Trump added, “I think it’s great. Maybe we’ll give that a shot someday.”
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If Democrats were doing this the right would be freaking out, but authoritarian principals appeal to the right: Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mussolini, Erdogen, Hussein, Bin Salman, Putin, Franco, Iran's Ayatollahs, Pinochet, Apartheid.
Here is a good read: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/not-just-putin-why-the-right-falls-in-love-with-dictators.html
He will create an emergency even if one does not exist. How bout a Reichstag Fire right here in the good old USA? Blame the radical left lunatics and declare a national emergency of indefinite length! Boom,,, no mid terms.
Someday is now.