While I appreciate his sentiment unfortunately media has also changed and is no longer about whats right necessary for democracy it's about clicks and profit. Buddy the journalists don't give two fucks about doing a service to our country.
That’s where I am. Both sidesing and normalizing people who literally want to kill you for not being one sidesing enough if the weirdest part.
Nicole Wallace had a guy on yesterday who was describing the many layers of election rigging attempted by the Trump WH (Raffensperger phone call, trying to use DOJ to overturn results, etc.). LIke Mark Jacob tweeted, there are so many illegalities going on at once that it becomes normalized. For a media that cares pretty much only about clicks and $$$, there's no way they would cover all of that corruption and risk being accused of unfairly attacking the Rs.
This is obviously magnified in journalism, but there was a tweet a while back about "all the alarmists were right." Same concept. Global warming -- nobody took it seriously, called all the predictions fear mongering, now look at the state of the fucking planet Trump shit - huge rise in right wing terrorism, we're literally dealing with nazis in 2021 -- was again called fear mongering Kavanaugh and Barrett - I had texts with my friends who called me crazy for saying they're going to try and overturn Roe v. Wade -- now they're asking what's the big deal? It's the same shit, and it's going to get worse. GOP is so blatantly rigging the game in broad fucking daylight. Like, GA has implemented a system where it can overrule its state's presidential vote. And it's just ho hum, business as usual.
Oh wow that's awful that you were left holding the bag, just terrible stuff and I really feel for you you thoroughly complicit piece of shit traitor. Die in prison.
Just overt white nationalist messaging on the most watched cable channel in America on a nightly basis. May as well play reruns of birth of a nation every night. It would be the same damn thing
Sucks why they have that rule but the total mockery of it by the kids is top notch. The sled is amazing.
I randomly remembered Trumps “look at this photograph” tweet and laughed real hard today. the most hilarious peril to all of humanity that could ever exist
And crying over it while mentioning awards given to their second best wide receiver last year. Just awful.
Here’s an editorial from my hometown paper. I had no idea this happened, but it’s super fucked up. Figured I’d share it here instead of the bad police thread since it mentions people need to elect those who will keep officials accountable, including the elected Alabama Supreme Court. Spoiler: Alabama Supreme Court effectively ends open records for law enforcement Editorial: Alabama Supreme Court sides with secrecy, effectively shuts down open records law By James Bennett, Executive Editor, [email protected] 2 hrs ago The Alabama Supreme Court effectively shut down the state’s weak Open Records Act with a ruling last week in a case involving law enforcement. The state has recognized the public’s right to know since 1923, nearly 100 years ago, and has been watering it down ever since. “Every citizen has a right to inspect and take a copy of any public writing of this state, except as otherwise expressly provided by statute,” the law read then. Politicians, fearful of light in dark corners, have added exemptions that have made it harder for the public to keep track of public officials, law enforcement and schools. But in the history of Alabama’s continuing fight over public records, few decisions have been worse than the one last week against a media outlet seeking files in a fatal shooting. Lagniappe in Mobile sued for records from the Baldwin County Sheriff’s office in the fatal 2017 shooting of motorist Jonathan Victor. The justices ruled the records, including dash and body camera footage from the shooting, were of an investigative nature, even though the investigation has been closed. The decision brought a bristling response from Chief Justice Tom Parker and newspapers across the state. “With one sweeping stroke, today’s decision spells the end of public access to law-enforcement records that are connected in any way to an investigation,” Parker wrote. “After today, as to law enforcement agencies at least, the statute might as well be titled the Closed Records Act.” Thanks to the ruling, the records will be clouded in secrecy, away from public view. And because of the decision, other photographs, videos, documents, 911 calls, autopsy records and correspondence related to any criminal investigation will be hidden by law enforcement. The co-publisher and editor at Lagniappe, a weekly newspaper, said the ruling allows law enforcement and government agencies to operate in complete and total darkness. “I do agree with the justices in their assessment that the statute is poorly written,” Ashley Trice told the Montgomery Advertiser. “It definitely is. “That doesn’t give every law enforcement agency cover to pick and choose what they want to hand over to journalists and the citizens of Alabama,” she added. “This is terrible for all of us, not just this newspaper.” The newspaper wanted the body cam footage and other items related to the investigation. Many media outlets shrug when police deny records while a case is being pursued. But for law enforcement to hide the records after the fact is almost unprecedented. “We all pay tax dollars, and how many millions of dollars have been spent on body cameras for our police to add transparency? We asked them to be transparent. They refused,” Trice said. The ruling was written by Supreme Court justices Michael Bolin, Greg Shaw, Kelli Wise, Tommy Bryan, Will Sellers, Brady Mendheim, Sarah Stewart and Jay Mitchell, all of whom were elected. Voters should remember their monumentally wrong decision at the ballot box. We encourage you to demand local state representatives to strengthen open records laws. An attempt to do so last year failed in the legislature. Now we have no reason to believe our public officials will remember who’s paying their salary and holding them accountable.
The lone dissenter: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-...court-candidate-tom-parker-has-extremist-ties
It's really a shame that state gets to reap the benefits of Nick Saban's genius. You don't deserve it
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