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Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈<p>Hold <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Officials" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Officials</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Accountable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Accountable</span></a> for <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Illegal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Illegal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/VoterIntimidation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoterIntimidation</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/VoterSupression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoterSupression</span></a> </p><p>The <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/loudest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>loudest</span></a> and most <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/bizarre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bizarre</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/conspiracytheories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conspiracytheories</span></a> come from <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ConvictedFelon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConvictedFelon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a>, who invokes <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/nonexistent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nonexistent</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fraud</span></a> to explain why he lost the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/2020election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>2020election</span></a>. His <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/billionaire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>billionaire</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/backer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>backer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Techbro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Techbro</span></a> and wannabe <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> has added <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/fuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fuel</span></a> to the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/fire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fire</span></a> by <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/amplifying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amplifying</span></a> his <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Disinformation</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/09/26/hold-gop-officials-accountable-for-illegal-voter-intimidation/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">counterpunch.org/2024/09/26/ho</span><span class="invisible">ld-gop-officials-accountable-for-illegal-voter-intimidation/</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>🔥Networks are still letting a deranged criminal traitor tell outrageous falsehoods on live television with no pushback. </p><p>Right-wing disinformation has flummoxed mainstream journalists <br>– and those journalists have<br>💥 failed to learn from their mistakes, <br>💥adjust their tactics, <br>💥or play to their own strengths.</p><p>Donald Trump shouldn’t have taken the media by surprise in the 2016 campaign. </p><p>Just eight years earlier Trump went all in on the birther hoax against Barack Obama. </p><p>And before that, the Swiftboating of John Kerry. </p><p>🆘 In both cases, the media had been <a href="https://c.im/tags/dupes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dupes</span></a> for right-wing hoaxes.</p><p>🆘 And they were dupes again in 2016. </p><p>Major media had their audiences and their ratings formulas <br>and ❌ they weren’t inclined to 🔶risk their profit margins🔶 to confront the right’s increasingly brazen assaults on the truth. </p><p>It was the triumph of the earning curve over the learning curve.</p><p>But with Trump’s successful campaign of lies eight years ago <br>🌟should have come an aggressive reassessment by the media. 🌟</p><p>Only in limited cases has that happened. </p><p>They’re <a href="https://c.im/tags/amplifying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amplifying</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a> and pretending that amounts to “<a href="https://c.im/tags/fairness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fairness</span></a>.”&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.stopthepresses.news/p/mainstream-media-on-a-path-to-irrelevance" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">stopthepresses.news/p/mainstre</span><span class="invisible">am-media-on-a-path-to-irrelevance</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>He blamed <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/amplifying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amplifying</span></a> the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/divisions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>divisions</span></a> &amp; reducing a thorny <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/international" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>international</span></a> dispute to what he viewed as <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/sloganeering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sloganeering</span></a>.</p><p>Yet he urged his fmr aides to “take in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WholeTruth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WholeTruth</span></a>,” seemingly attempting to strike a balance between the killings on both sides.</p><p>“What <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Hamas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hamas</span></a> did was horrific, &amp; there’s no justification for it,” <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Obama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Obama</span></a> said. “&amp; what is also true is that the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/occupation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>occupation</span></a> &amp; what’s happening to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Palestinians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestinians</span></a> is unbearable.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MoreThanOneThingCanBeTrue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MoreThanOneThingCanBeTrue</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RacistOpportunists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RacistOpportunists</span></a></p>