Yep. Fox news is suucchhh a small desk. With more viewers than all the alphabet soup combined, including the state funded and officially tagged Canadian propaganda news.
With more viewers than all the alphabet soup combined...
Yeah... pretty sad commentary on the state of affairs down there, isn't it? All those viewers being fed nothing but lies, as orchestrated by Rupert Murdoch. Hopefully these people will now realize how badly they've been deceived.
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Originally posted by WonderBoy:
Scared, so scared.
How old are you? About 15?
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Originally posted by Patrick: I didn't realize desk envy was a thing.
Obviously you envy something.
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Originally posted by Patrick: Yeah... pretty sad commentary on the state of affairs down there, isn't it? All those viewers being fed nothing but lies, as orchestrated by Rupert Murdoch. Hopefully these people will now realize how badly they've been deceived.
More truth than the alphabet soup you lap up. CBC State Sponsored Media
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Originally posted by Patrick: How old are you? About 15?
Can you do math at least from the Join Date? On a car/Fiero Forum? Could I drive when I was 5?
Angry old men without wisdom such as yourself, SUCK
So what's the message above then... that lying to the masses is nothing to be concerned about, as long as the financial penalty can easily be absorbed?
Shareholders, speaking through derivative class action lawsuits to be filed on behalf of the 60% of Fox Corp. shares not held by the Murdoch family, could set the terms for the future of Fox News and how it's managed.
So what's the message above then... that lying to the masses is nothing to be concerned about, as long as the financial penalty can easily be absorbed?
Are you talking about Pfizer's 2.3 Billion settlement? Or are you talking about GlaxoSmithKline's 3 Billion settlement? Perhaps Johnson & Johnson's 2 Billion settlement?
All massive settlements that were miniscule when compared to the amount of profit made from doing the thing that caused the settlement.
According to these reporters, the Fox Corporation, the parent company of Fox News, may be able to regain about $213 million of the $787 million payout to settle the Dominion Voting Machines lawsuit by claiming the defamation lawsuit payout as a cost of doing business... a Tax Writeoff.
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However, Fox could save hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes on the settlement payment. The firm reported paying an effective income tax rate of 27 percent in 2022—a combination of federal and New York corporate taxes. If Fox can write off the full settlement payment to Dominion, it could amount to an estimated $213 million in tax savings for the company.
If any of Fox’s settlement payment is covered by insurance, Fox could not write off that portion of the payment. However, the company would then be able to deduct any subsequent higher premiums triggered by an insurance payout.
Are you talking about Pfizer's 2.3 Billion settlement? Or are you talking about GlaxoSmithKline's 3 Billion settlement? Perhaps Johnson & Johnson's 2 Billion settlement?
No. Check the heading of this thread... Media lies and the sheep who eat it up
The MyPillow CEO is one of the most prolific purveyors of conspiracy theories about President Biden's win
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FOX News isn't alone in having to pay millions of dollars for lying about the 2020 election. MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell was ordered on Wednesday to pay $5 million to Robert Zeidman, a 63-year-old Trump voter who debunked Lindell’s claim that China interfered in the election based on data Lindell provided.
It’s a strange story. It started in August 2021 when Lindell claimed during a “cyber symposium” in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, that he had data proving China interfered in the election. He announced he would pay $5 million to anyone who prove him wrong, dubbing the contest, naturally, the “Prove Mike Wrong Challenge.”
Zeidman signed up for the challenge, which required only that contestants prove that the data Lindell provided didn’t have anything to do with the 2020 election. Zeidman, a computer forensics specialist, did just that, finding the data was total nonsense. Lindell refused to pay up, so Zeidman took him to arbitration. The arbitration panel ruled that Zeidman did indeed prove that the data in question “unequivocally did not reflect November 2020 election data,” ordering Lindell to pay within 30 days.
“The truth is finally out there,” Zeidman told The Washington Post in a statement, adding that he is “really happy” with the decision.
Lindell doesn’t seem very keen to abide by the decision. “It will end up in court,” Lindell said in a statement to Rolling Stone. “Just another attack to try and stop us from getting rid of the electronic voting machines.”
Lindell is no stranger to court. The conspiracy theorizing pillow magnate — who has repeatedly claimed he can prove the 2020 election was stolen without ever actually doing so — was sued for defamation by Dominion Voting Systems over false claims that the company helped rig the election in President Biden’s favor. Lindell made the claims through several outlets, including Fox News, which on Monday settled their own defamation suit brought by Dominion to the tune of $787.5 million.
Leftist just ignore observable truths, which is just backwards, trailer trash, anti-science thinking. Males can get pregnant, healthy at any size, fitness is racist, ok to mutilate kids, pedophilia is ok..... So many examples.
"Marjorie Taylor Greene and other extremists fight over groomer allegations"
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A right-wing conspiracy theorist with deep ties in the conservative movement has been accused of grooming children, and conservatives are looking to distance themselves.
"A right-wing conspiracy theorist with deep ties in the conservative movement..." And who would that be?
Ali Alexander. The same Ali Alexander who helped plan and promote the pro-Trump "Stop the Steal" rallies in Washington that were the prelude and finally, the immediate precursor to the January 6 invasion of the Capitol Building by Trump supporters and sympathizers.
So sneaky, these "leftists" pedophiles and groomers. Pretending to be Trump allies and supporters.
They're not deceiving "Wichita", though. He knows all about these leftist pedophiles and groomers.
Really.
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Republicans are so flabbergasted over their inability to connect with young voters it’s almost comical. You wanna know why they hate you and upwards of 90% of them will never vote for you @GOP? I’ll break it down for you (Thread)
1.) Your Reagan-era “trickle-down economics” strategy of tax breaks for billionaires that you continue to employ to this day has widened the gap between rich and poor so much that most of them will never be able to own a home, much less earn a living wage.
2.) You refuse to increase the federal minimum wage, which is still $7.25 an hour (since 2009). Even if it had just kept up with inflation, it would be $27 now. You’re forcing people of all ages but especially young people to work multiple jobs just to afford basic necessities.
3.) You fundamentally oppose and want to kill democracy; have done everything in your power to restrict access to the ballot box, particularly in areas with demographics that tend to vote Democratic (like young people and POC). You staged a ****ing coup the last time you lost.
4.) You have abused your disproportionate senate control over the last three decades to pack the courts with religious extremists and idealogues, including SCOTUS—which has rolled back rights for women in ways that do nothing but kill more women and children and expand poverty.
5.) You refuse to enact common sense gun control laws to curb mass shootings like universal background checks and banning assault weapons; subjecting their entire generation to school shootings and drills that are traumatizing in and of themselves. You are owned by the @NRA.
6.) You are unequivocally against combatting climate change to the extent that it’s as if you’ve made it your personal mission to ensure they inherit a planet that is beyond the point of no return in terms of remaining habitable for the human race beyond the next few generations.
7.) You oppose all programs that provide assistance to those who need it most. Your governors refused to expand Medicaid even during A PANDEMIC. You are against free school lunches, despite it being the only meal that millions of children can count on to actually receive each day
8.) You are banning books, defunding libraries, barring subject matter, and whitewashing history even more in a fascistic attempt to keep them ignorant of the systemic racism that this nation was literally founded upon and continues to this day in every action your party takes.
9.) You oppose universal healthcare and are still trying to repeal the ACA and rip healthcare from tens of millions of Americans and replace it with nothing. You are against lowering the cost of insulin and prescription drugs that millions need simply to LIVE/FUNCTION in society.
10.) You embrace white nationalists, Neo-Nazis, and other groups that are defined by their intractable racism, xenophobia, bigotry, and intolerance. You conspired with these groups on January 6th to try to overthrow the U.S. government via domestic terrorism that KILLED PEOPLE.
11.) You oppose every bill aimed at making life better for our nation’s youth; from education to extracurricular and financial/nutritional assistance programs. You say you want to “protect the children” while you elect/nominate pedophiles and attack trans youth and drag queens.
12.) You pretend to be offended by “anti-semitism” while literally supporting, electing, and speaking at events organized by Nazis. You pretend to hate “cancel culture” despite the fact that you invented it and it’s basically all you do.
13.) Every word you utter is a lie. You are the party of treason, hypocrisy, crime, and authoritarianism. You want to entrench rule by your aging minority because you know that you have nothing to offer young voters and they will never support you for all these reasons and more.
14.) You’re so hostile to even the notion of helping us overcome the mountain of debt that millions of us are forced to take on just to pay for our post K-12 education that you are suing to try to prevent a small fraction of us from getting even $10,000 in loan forgiveness.
15.) You opened the floodgates of money into politics via Citizens United; allowing our entire system of government to become a cesspool of corruption, crime, and greed. You are supposed to represent the American people whose taxes pay your salary but instead cater to rich donors
16.) You respond to elected representatives standing in solidarity with their constituents to protest the ONGOING SLAUGHTER of children in schools via shootings by EXPELLING THEM FROM OFFICE & respond to your lack of popularity among young people by trying to raise the voting age
17.) You impeach Democratic presidents over lying about a BJ but refuse to impeach (then vote twice to acquit) a guy whose entire “administration” was an international crime syndicate being run out of the WH who incited an insurrection to have you killed
18.) You steal Supreme Court seats from democrats to prevent the only black POTUS we’ve ever had from appointing one and invent fake precedents that you later ignore all to take fundamental rights from Americans; and even your “legitimate” appointments consist of people like THIS (sub-thread refuting CJ Roberts criticisms of people attacking SCOTUS' legitimacy)
19.) You support mass incarceration even for innocuous offenses or execution by cop for POC while doing nothing but protect rich white criminals who engage in such things as tax fraud, money laundering, sex trafficking, rape/sexual assault, falsifying business records, etc.
20.) You are the reason we can’t pass: —Universal background checks —An assault weapons ban —The ‘For the People/Freedom to vote’ Act or John Lewis Voting Rights Act —The ERA & Equality Act —The Climate Action Now Act —The (Stopping) Violence Against Women Act —SCOTUS expansion
21.) You do not seek office to govern, represent, or serve the American people. You seek power solely for its own sake so you can impose your narrow-minded puritanical will on others at the expense of their most fundamental rights and freedoms like voting and bodily autonomy.
22.) Ok, last one. You are trying to eliminate social security and Medicare that tens of millions of our parents rely on and paid into their entire lives. And you did everything to maximize preventable deaths from COVID leaving millions of us in mourning.
Republicans are so flabbergasted over their inability to connect with young voters it’s almost comical. You wanna know why they hate you and upwards of 90% of them will never vote for you @GOP? I’ll break it down for you (Thread)
1.) Your Reagan-era “trickle-down economics” strategy of tax breaks for billionaires that you continue to employ to this day has widened the gap between rich and poor so much that most of them will never be able to own a home, much less earn a living wage.
2.) You refuse to increase the federal minimum wage, which is still $7.25 an hour (since 2009). Even if it had just kept up with inflation, it would be $27 now. You’re forcing people of all ages but especially young people to work multiple jobs just to afford basic necessities.
3.) You fundamentally oppose and want to kill democracy; have done everything in your power to restrict access to the ballot box, particularly in areas with demographics that tend to vote Democratic (like young people and POC). You staged a ****ing coup the last time you lost.
4.) You have abused your disproportionate senate control over the last three decades to pack the courts with religious extremists and idealogues, including SCOTUS—which has rolled back rights for women in ways that do nothing but kill more women and children and expand poverty.
5.) You refuse to enact common sense gun control laws to curb mass shootings like universal background checks and banning assault weapons; subjecting their entire generation to school shootings and drills that are traumatizing in and of themselves. You are owned by the @NRA.
6.) You are unequivocally against combatting climate change to the extent that it’s as if you’ve made it your personal mission to ensure they inherit a planet that is beyond the point of no return in terms of remaining habitable for the human race beyond the next few generations.
7.) You oppose all programs that provide assistance to those who need it most. Your governors refused to expand Medicaid even during A PANDEMIC. You are against free school lunches, despite it being the only meal that millions of children can count on to actually receive each day
8.) You are banning books, defunding libraries, barring subject matter, and whitewashing history even more in a fascistic attempt to keep them ignorant of the systemic racism that this nation was literally founded upon and continues to this day in every action your party takes.
9.) You oppose universal healthcare and are still trying to repeal the ACA and rip healthcare from tens of millions of Americans and replace it with nothing. You are against lowering the cost of insulin and prescription drugs that millions need simply to LIVE/FUNCTION in society.
10.) You embrace white nationalists, Neo-Nazis, and other groups that are defined by their intractable racism, xenophobia, bigotry, and intolerance. You conspired with these groups on January 6th to try to overthrow the U.S. government via domestic terrorism that KILLED PEOPLE.
11.) You oppose every bill aimed at making life better for our nation’s youth; from education to extracurricular and financial/nutritional assistance programs. You say you want to “protect the children” while you elect/nominate pedophiles and attack trans youth and drag queens.
12.) You pretend to be offended by “anti-semitism” while literally supporting, electing, and speaking at events organized by Nazis. You pretend to hate “cancel culture” despite the fact that you invented it and it’s basically all you do.
13.) Every word you utter is a lie. You are the party of treason, hypocrisy, crime, and authoritarianism. You want to entrench rule by your aging minority because you know that you have nothing to offer young voters and they will never support you for all these reasons and more.
14.) You’re so hostile to even the notion of helping us overcome the mountain of debt that millions of us are forced to take on just to pay for our post K-12 education that you are suing to try to prevent a small fraction of us from getting even $10,000 in loan forgiveness.
15.) You opened the floodgates of money into politics via Citizens United; allowing our entire system of government to become a cesspool of corruption, crime, and greed. You are supposed to represent the American people whose taxes pay your salary but instead cater to rich donors
16.) You respond to elected representatives standing in solidarity with their constituents to protest the ONGOING SLAUGHTER of children in schools via shootings by EXPELLING THEM FROM OFFICE & respond to your lack of popularity among young people by trying to raise the voting age
17.) You impeach Democratic presidents over lying about a BJ but refuse to impeach (then vote twice to acquit) a guy whose entire “administration” was an international crime syndicate being run out of the WH who incited an insurrection to have you killed
18.) You steal Supreme Court seats from democrats to prevent the only black POTUS we’ve ever had from appointing one and invent fake precedents that you later ignore all to take fundamental rights from Americans; and even your “legitimate” appointments consist of people like THIS (sub-thread refuting CJ Roberts criticisms of people attacking SCOTUS' legitimacy)
19.) You support mass incarceration even for innocuous offenses or execution by cop for POC while doing nothing but protect rich white criminals who engage in such things as tax fraud, money laundering, sex trafficking, rape/sexual assault, falsifying business records, etc.
20.) You are the reason we can’t pass: —Universal background checks —An assault weapons ban —The ‘For the People/Freedom to vote’ Act or John Lewis Voting Rights Act —The ERA & Equality Act —The Climate Action Now Act —The (Stopping) Violence Against Women Act —SCOTUS expansion
21.) You do not seek office to govern, represent, or serve the American people. You seek power solely for its own sake so you can impose your narrow-minded puritanical will on others at the expense of their most fundamental rights and freedoms like voting and bodily autonomy.
22.) Ok, last one. You are trying to eliminate social security and Medicare that tens of millions of our parents rely on and paid into their entire lives. And you did everything to maximize preventable deaths from COVID leaving millions of us in mourning.
I think he nails it
I would respond that you are bat **** crazy, but that might be against some Forum rule, so I won't say it.
Something very strange is going on with the Log Cabin Republicans. The group of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Republicans has long advocated tolerance and inclusion within the GOP. But it’s now teaming up with a self-described "homophobic" troll.
On Wednesday, LCR unveiled its latest group of ambassadors for “Outspoken,” a spin-off influencer brand. Among the new LGBT Republican influencers are some interesting and respectable folks, such as lesbian YouTuber Arielle Scarcella and transgender commentator Buck Angel. But the group also hired social media troll Isabella Riley Moody as one of its new influencers.
This is bizarre for several reasons, chief among them the fact that Moody is not lesbian, bisexual, or transgender. But, more importantly, she’s actively anti-gay and openly works against gay acceptance on the Right.
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For a pro-gay nonprofit organization to align with, promote, and (presumably) pay an openly homophobic influencer is to betray its mission and, frankly, its donors. As a result, it’s not going to be taken seriously again any time soon. And that’s a serious shame.
Many of us within the gay and transgender communities are not Democrats or liberals. Like any demographic, we are composed of people with a wide range of personal beliefs and values. Yet the current orthodoxy in the establishment “LGBTQ community” regards diversity of thought with sharp hostility. That’s something anyone who believes in individualism ought to push back on — and we need groups such as LCR to push back from within. But their self-immolation means that vital pushback won’t happen, or at least, won’t be viewed with any credibility.
I like to post these reports from the real world for aesthetic reasons... to weave in some contrast to the two-dimensional cartoon world that has become so manifest on this forum.
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According to a facts page from the Human Rights Campaign, the history of transgender and non-binary communities can be traced backwards through all of recorded history to as far back as at least 3000 years before the Christian era... "5000 to 3000 B.C."
According to a facts page from the Human Rights Campaign, the history of transgender and non-binary communities can be traced backwards through all of recorded history to as far back as at least 3000 years before the Christian era... "5000 to 3000 B.C."
There's probably also a: 1) "Seven Things About P3d0phil3 People That You Didn't Know" 2) "Seven Things About B3sti4lity People That You Didn't Know"
If not now, YOU and YOUR sick ideology opened the gates. D-evil
Books written about these communities can be traced backwards through all of recorded history to as far back as at least 3000 years before the Christian era... "5000 to 3000 B.C."
D-evil pop-up decadent Weimar Republics. Brought to by D-evil and the marxipads of the Frankfurter Schule of critical theory
Originally posted by 2.5: Years later, truths come out. Purposely hidden footage, hidden evidence. But who hears? Who has the guts to say they were wrong? Who learns from it?
The first words of this forum thread... jus' sayin'.
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Cartoons like this are a great way to s**tpost (a commonly recognized term relating to social media) by (1) seizing upon a particular event or a story that has complexity to it, and (2) scrubbing away all the complexity and "dumbing it down" for the purposes of deception.
You could call it the "old one-two".
This 5-minute "read" is (IMO) one of the better reports on one of the stories that this cartoon seems to be connected to.
