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Patrick Lovell's avatar

This is how Democracy dies! Trump and his enablers know exactly what they are doing. They have been attacking the press for eight years now and have succeeded in destroying “truth”, and “facts”. With the help of their enablers in Red states and in the dysfunctional Congress they have disenfranchised millions. They have succeeded in creating distrust in free elections (except for when they win, then they love the system), they have corrupted the highest court in the land and have fooled enough wilful ignorant people into voting for them and to believe that they are for the common person when in fact they are almost to a white man filthy rich with fever dreams of becoming even richer. All of this was based on lies on an Olympian scale. The main press like the NYT and WaPo sold their souls long ago and pretended to be giving equal time to both candidates in the last election, but in fact they were hedging their bets. Now, after the election, they are running like scared rats to kiss the feet of Trump because they fear him and believe that he is capable of shutting them down like he has threatened to do to. They are cowards! They are also all too late. I for one have abandoned the NYT, WaPo, I refuse to watch NBC (with exception of Lawrence O’Donnell), ABC, or CNN. I refuse to use FT, or X. I rely on Brian, Heather Cox Richardson, Joyce Vance, Robert Reich, and - for the time being - the Atlantic and New Yorker - for accurate and fact-based reporting. I am no pessimist, but I think that we are going to be hit with so much chaos and damage, that the US will never recover! I hope I am wrong, but . . .

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Eleanor Dalglish's avatar

I almost unsubscribed there! I thought you'd flipped to the dark side, Brian, claiming that fat lad was now telling the truth!

No, we need independent reporters more than ever now. I see articles posted on SM and a glance at the publication house can immediately lose my interest. Not all articles will be ingratiating to the orange despot-in-chief, but I simply don't want them to have an audience. There are so many independent journalists out there trying to bring us the truth, so that's where my attention has been diverted.

There's no both-siding this. Imagine selling yourself to that nauseating crook! I think someone wrote a book on how this whole charade is simply "Shameless"...

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