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Sheila Hogan's avatar

"Let me just say this to Big Tish James, the New York Attorney General … I dare you to continue your lawfare against President Trump in his second term, because listen here sweetheart, we’re not messing around this time. And we will put your fat a-- in prison for conspiracy against rights and I promise you that." -Mike Davis, a potential Trump AG candidate. But let’s not talk about that, let’s be Monday morning quarterbacks. I don’t think most people understand how bad things are going to get.

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Michael Siebielec's avatar

Since the 4th estate is now the employee of the billionaire set, nothing is going to happen but a continuation of blaming liberals for not having the foresight to create their own propaganda machine to reach the American people that they have so successfully dumbed down. The Democrats sealed their doom when they had the gall to suggest that the wealthy needed to pay a little more in taxes for the benefit of the country forgetting that the billionaires own the media and control the algorithms. Certainly, a death sentence in a country that worships predatory capitalism. The people have spoken and now we all must suffer. I only hope those who voted for Christofascism end up suffering most. Disgusting to see stocks in private prisons take a leap today as even Hitler didn't make an investment opportunity out of concentration camps.

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Evyn Alexander's avatar

The only bright spot is that the MSM will not have to wait to see that they made a gravenous mistake. Once Trump and the rep’s plan takes hold, they will no longer need their MSM billionaire ‘cronies’. And when that happens, Trump will take full control of the entire media and put it under his control as well as ownership. The current media powers that be will be either totally kicked out or left as pure figureheads who have to obey Trump or suffer dire consequences.

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McLain's avatar

Thank-you, Jim. Glad you are writing more on Substack.

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Patrick Goldstone's avatar

There may be an interesting phenomenon at play here. Wei are beginning to see a resistance already forming of Blue state governors. This is not something I had contemplated in any way before. The other thing to consider is that elections are controlled in the states and all the swing state governors are democrats with the exception of Georgia and even Kemp is no fan of Trump. The other possibility I see in this equation is for the localization of media in this environment. As Trump continues to become more and more untenable to the people and the national media is seen for what it is, there is an opportunity to relocalize media. If you remember Local media pretty much collapsed after the financial crisis in 2008. There is much novelty and unpredictability that can occur in this environment and bears watching. I believe there is a resistance brewing.

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McLain's avatar

I surely hope so.

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Patrick Goldstone's avatar

It’s already happening, Illinois and California have already made statements

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