Why might they be afraid of what an up-and-coming young Texas Democrat who pushes back on their co-opting of "Christian values" could potentially say? Gosh, what a mystery.
Mary Trump predicted that us democracy wouldn't survive his reelection. Look at where we got in just a year. If the midterms don't go well I worry that she's right.
Yes, that's the biggest hypocrisy that can't really be explained without partisan intent. Talk radio is almost entirely right-wing and always has been. AM signals - too low quality for profitable music stations, but far-reaching and the natural home of low-cost talk networks - have always been heavily weighted to right-wing content.
That wide reach is the chief reason why, despite the GOP always favoring the rich in their actual politics, they started heavily gaining support in all rural areas around the country from the 90s onward. In many rural areas, the AM station with Rush Limbaugh was the only - or one of only a few - they could tune into.
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ilinamorato@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 201d
Why might they be afraid of what an up-and-coming young Texas Democrat who pushes back on their co-opting of "Christian values" could potentially say? Gosh, what a mystery.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 39 pts · 201d
Watch this if you can. I had it at 1.35 speed and that was about right. This is what every red state democrat should be like and be doing.
Warning: He's very Christian, but the good kind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ7Pz_59A
chocrates@piefed.world · -5 pts · 201d
Eh I stopped watching when they brought up Jesus. It was kind of a boring normal late night interview, no?
NABDad@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 201d
You should have hung in there.
Reygle@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 201d
Un-fucking-real. Can't believe we're watching one of the largest democracies in the world implode at such ridiculous speed.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 201d
Mary Trump predicted that us democracy wouldn't survive his reelection. Look at where we got in just a year. If the midterms don't go well I worry that she's right.
Reygle@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 201d
Maybe we'll fix it, maybe it deserves to end. I don't know right now.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 201d
Interesting that the fcc decided to enforce this rule on this show but doesn’t for radio talk shows.
NekoKoneko@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 201d
Yes, that's the biggest hypocrisy that can't really be explained without partisan intent. Talk radio is almost entirely right-wing and always has been. AM signals - too low quality for profitable music stations, but far-reaching and the natural home of low-cost talk networks - have always been heavily weighted to right-wing content.
That wide reach is the chief reason why, despite the GOP always favoring the rich in their actual politics, they started heavily gaining support in all rural areas around the country from the 90s onward. In many rural areas, the AM station with Rush Limbaugh was the only - or one of only a few - they could tune into.
Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 201d
Selective enforcement. Watch, they’re coming for non-conservative podcasts next.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 201d
That would be extremely difficult.
Most of us don’t access podcasts through a publicly broadcast means, and similar regulations just don’t exist.
Won’t stop them, sure, but there’s no regulatory framework to even start on podcasts.
hopesdead@startrek.website · 7 pts · 201d
If the U.S. adopted the same rules that the UK have regarding the media and election, we’d shut up a lot of people.
EDIT: To my understanding the media (primarily television) is barred from discussing elections on the day of an election.
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 201d
I'd settle for a ban on polling while the polls are open.
Soulphite@reddthat.com · -11 pts · 201d
Democrats are to Pedolf Diddler what the Jews were to Adolf Hitler.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 201d
Paid-off Diddler?
MagicShel@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 201d
Peed-on Shitler
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 200d
Democrats : Trump :: Center Party : Hitler
Latinos : Trump :: Jews : Hitler