This is one of the things that happens because the SCOTUS nixed the preclearance provisions in the Voting Rights Act.
What stupid thing did the GOP say or do this time? Episode 3!
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Official GOP network Fox News has a very bad, very very bad, day.
www.nbcnews.com
Fox News and Dominion reach $787.5 million settlement in defamation lawsuit
A trial was moments away from the opening statements.
www.nbcnews.com
Kinda wish it had gone to trial so a lot of the shenanigans at Fox would be out in public. I'm 100% positive Fox knew they were likely to lose and feared all the new dirty laundry that would be exposed in a jury trial so they decided to just settle.
Considering what a drop in the bucket that amount is to Fox, and that they're not going to have to change what they do, I'd say it was just a so-so day.Official GOP network Fox News has a very bad, very very bad, day.
Fox News and Dominion reach $787.5 million settlement in defamation lawsuit
A trial was moments away from the opening statements.
So now Fox just has to deal with Smartmatic, who's saying they won't settle, but Dominion said that too.
Guess I shouldn't be surprised Dominion chose money over justice. Just goes to show greed truly knows no moral boundaries.
I mean, it's kind of a win regardless. Beau of the fifth put it that even without the trial: the cult gets to question as to WHY fox told the truth, but still had to pay out a massive settlement. If they were right why did they settle?
Edit: I wanted the trial, and I wanted the judge to order fox to televise it. I can understand why dominion settled, even now, right now: the entire world save the cult can confirm that fox was lying about the election, and consequently probably lots of other things too. Did someone need to push this as far it would have gone? Absolutely and dominion was in the position to just... just ******* butcher fox's credibility and bank account. But I'm sure some analyst out there was absolutely going insane over the cults serious penchant for violence and the republican habit of doxxing people.
Edit: I wanted the trial, and I wanted the judge to order fox to televise it. I can understand why dominion settled, even now, right now: the entire world save the cult can confirm that fox was lying about the election, and consequently probably lots of other things too. Did someone need to push this as far it would have gone? Absolutely and dominion was in the position to just... just ******* butcher fox's credibility and bank account. But I'm sure some analyst out there was absolutely going insane over the cults serious penchant for violence and the republican habit of doxxing people.
Not really? They chose less money over justice plus more money. Which makes completely zero sense to me, but if there weren't a valid reason to do it, no one would ever settle a case they know they can win—and yet people do all the time.
It's probably the fact that fox's viewership is heavily armed, psychopathic and just clever enough to find where people live.
did not expect "child labor" to be a new platform point. but i probably should have.
who13.com
Iowa Senate passes child labor bill in pre-dawn session
DES MOINES, Iowa — The Iowa Legislature went into session very early Tuesday morning, taking up debate on the bill on youth employment. The session opened at 3:36 a.m. and the vote on SF 542 …
who13.com
When the people crying "nobody wants to work" in the face of record low unemployment can't be bothered with the obvious solution (raise wages or otherwise make your job opportunity more attractive to prospective applicants), they go the Dickensian route.
It's literally just the extension of extant corporate policy: Fire the people whom have seniority and replace them with the youngest possible people for the lowest possible wage. Doesn't matter if the output is crap, as long as there's output. Eventually you reach a point where seniority is three years on a 18 year old. The only place left is child labour.
And, IIRC, Dominion still has suits against Trump lawyers Sidney Powell and old Rudy himself.
If they haven't started tracking down and murdering Dominion employees (never the wealthy shareholders or CEO, obviously) already, what makes you think an official ruling in their favor would have changed that?
Or is it more that you think they did this to protect innocent people from having to serve on a jury?
C.) all of the above. They're STILL sending death threats to judges over trump, so they aren't above going after a few jurors, or the judge and everyone's families. Do I think they did it strictly or explicitly to protect people? Naw; I think fox finally pitched a number that made dominion reconsider just how badly they wanted to expose fox in a civil trial.
But everyone who doesn't matter can now confirm that fox was, indeed, lying and strictly for profit. They still got, roughly, the outcome of the trial without having to go to trial, to expose extra folks to rabid cult. Now we can use the stuff that was exposed and publicized to keep pushing for either the US government to reinstate the fairness doctrine, or to wave the exposure of the lies in the faces of every fox news consumer and hope we can deprogram enough of them to start crashing the right wing hate monger market.
Sure, fox news is the largest demographic... but it's still only 8 million at the top end, that means there's 228 million americans who can scream until fox dies.
But everyone who doesn't matter can now confirm that fox was, indeed, lying and strictly for profit. They still got, roughly, the outcome of the trial without having to go to trial, to expose extra folks to rabid cult. Now we can use the stuff that was exposed and publicized to keep pushing for either the US government to reinstate the fairness doctrine, or to wave the exposure of the lies in the faces of every fox news consumer and hope we can deprogram enough of them to start crashing the right wing hate monger market.
Sure, fox news is the largest demographic... but it's still only 8 million at the top end, that means there's 228 million americans who can scream until fox dies.
And remember, despite the scale: punished by fine means "legal with fee".
Meanwhile, we have a rare case of "what surprisingly non-stupid thing did a Republican say".
Ann Coulter's abortion compromise: Ban "For registered Republicans only"
The conservative author said abortion bans should only apply to Republicans as she ramps up attacks on procedure restrictions.
www.newsweek.com
I'll bet she's suggesting that because she thinks it'll make more Republicans and heavily tip the balance of power. Like no liberal has conservative parents.
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