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Initech

(100,105 posts)
Wed Feb 23, 2022, 01:54 PM Feb 2022

Jon Stewart Gets It




Fox News is actively conspiring to commit treason against a US president they don't agree with right before our very eyes. Tucker, Baritromo, Ingraham, Pirro, and Hannity are on the air every day and night convincing the populace that Russia is the good guy in this equation and that Biden is the bad guy. Newsmax and OAN are also playing into this equation. This is getting scary. They all need to be dragged before Congress.
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Jon Stewart Gets It (Original Post) Initech Feb 2022 OP
Can they be sued? They are putting all of us in danger because of their support of Russia and Maraya1969 Feb 2022 #1
They are doing Put-In's bidding. ... aggiesal Feb 2022 #7
Terrorism, treason, political violence, racism and control of women but SOME THE FUCK HOW dems uponit7771 Feb 2022 #2
I think it's more Fox News and social media. Initech Feb 2022 #10
+1, the M$M gets the stories that "rate" from FAUX news too much though uponit7771 Feb 2022 #33
No, MSNBC is in this True Blue American Feb 2022 #44
THIS MOMFUDSKI Feb 2022 #35
My first reaction to these latest spots by the FOX crew is that it is an indication Frustratedlady Feb 2022 #3
A vast international plutocrat mafia L. Coyote Feb 2022 #13
Well said LC DENVERPOPS Feb 2022 #25
International mob taking over the world. wnylib Feb 2022 #37
new social feudalism age. keithbvadu2 Feb 2022 #42
Among the evangelicals, yes. wnylib Feb 2022 #43
Agree 100%! True Blue American Feb 2022 #45
A sane person DENVERPOPS Feb 2022 #23
You do not need a license for Cable. Caliman73 Feb 2022 #55
Cute DENVERPOPS Feb 2022 #57
In addition DENVERPOPS Feb 2022 #24
Why do you think Trump stole all those top secret files? True Blue American Feb 2022 #46
Ocram's Razor DENVERPOPS Feb 2022 #58
Yep, and now Trump is hurting. True Blue American Feb 2022 #61
I guess DENVERPOPS Feb 2022 #63
For sure I am! True Blue American Feb 2022 #64
So am I DENVERPOPS Feb 2022 #65
Par for the course for the GOP, from what I have read many of them were Nazi sympathizers in WW2 LT Barclay Feb 2022 #4
After Pooty Traildogbob Feb 2022 #5
Where they are. Justice matters. Feb 2022 #29
Wish we could drag them straight to jail KS Toronado Feb 2022 #6
When the orange Capone will be thrown in a golden jail... Justice matters. Feb 2022 #30
Never forget: they admire Putin's willingness to murder his opponents William Seger Feb 2022 #8
Basically, the GOP position is: "Democracy is for chumps." Beartracks Feb 2022 #17
But Putin is not that popular in Russia. 100 arrested i True Blue American Feb 2022 #62
Always! Blue Owl Feb 2022 #9
In Germany , any public display of nazism is guaranteed prison time !! need it here !! monkeyman1 Feb 2022 #11
Agreed! Fuck Nazis! Initech Feb 2022 #16
You are correct The Jungle 1 Feb 2022 #18
Corporate Republicans and Putin share a common goal: stamp out liberal democracy. sop Feb 2022 #12
What on earth does the Hague have to do with anything? Hekate Feb 2022 #14
I am assuming this bunch will be involved in future war crimes. Initech Feb 2022 #15
Who said anything about The Hague? Wednesdays Feb 2022 #20
The OP said they should be dragged before Congress and the Hague. I notice it's been modified... Hekate Feb 2022 #22
It would be nice if someone investigated the money trail Warpy Feb 2022 #19
Yep. Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh. wnylib Feb 2022 #38
And the Bushes had their companies True Blue American Feb 2022 #47
Yes! True Blue American Feb 2022 #48
They really need to be yanked off the air. calimary Feb 2022 #21
Republicans are now holding up FEC appointments in the Senate! True Blue American Feb 2022 #49
So how do we get around that? calimary Feb 2022 #53
Democrats can break the holds, just True Blue American Feb 2022 #60
Fox, OAN, and Newsmax should be shut down UNTIL Thunderbeast Feb 2022 #26
Yep. And we should start characterizing them that way. calimary Feb 2022 #56
Normal people are against Nazis The Wizard Feb 2022 #27
Jon needs to humiliate Fucker Carlson the way he did back on Crossfire BigBearJohn Feb 2022 #28
That was so good. True Blue American Feb 2022 #50
And that's why they should be shut the fuck down. 2naSalit Feb 2022 #31
Kick and Wrecker YoshidaYui Feb 2022 #32
👍 Joinfortmill Feb 2022 #34
How is this legal? HUAJIAO Feb 2022 #36
Someone needs to closely scrutinize the finances... Alwaysna Feb 2022 #39
True, but a bit late. It was true when he was still on The Daily Show... JHB Feb 2022 #40
"It turns out that United Russia won the elections in America," Viktor Nazarov, the governor of Omsk keithbvadu2 Feb 2022 #41
Kompromat Aaeia Feb 2022 #51
Welcome to DU. area51 Feb 2022 #52
Wecome to DU! Wednesdays Feb 2022 #59
While I never usually disagree wih Jon Stewart... BobTheSubgenius Feb 2022 #54

Maraya1969

(22,505 posts)
1. Can they be sued? They are putting all of us in danger because of their support of Russia and
Wed Feb 23, 2022, 02:05 PM
Feb 2022

how they are spreading such dangerous beliefs among the general public.

Weren't they sued about Covid? Of course the Dominion suit still hasn't gone to court as far as I know.

aggiesal

(8,929 posts)
7. They are doing Put-In's bidding. ...
Wed Feb 23, 2022, 02:30 PM
Feb 2022

This is exactly what he wants.

And of course all those mentioned are bending over in front of Put-In.

uponit7771

(90,364 posts)
2. Terrorism, treason, political violence, racism and control of women but SOME THE FUCK HOW dems
Wed Feb 23, 2022, 02:07 PM
Feb 2022

... are down in 538 generic?

You've GOT to be fuckin kidding me

This is M$M doing, there's no other way to flood a message medium with placating these bastards to the point they should be able to run anything

Initech

(100,105 posts)
10. I think it's more Fox News and social media.
Wed Feb 23, 2022, 02:44 PM
Feb 2022

Actual news sources like the New York Times are doing their job. It's the underground and alternative news sources that are pulling this shit. Seriously, one of the biggest news sources on Facebook is a far right site that's run by 3 people. That's a huge problem.

True Blue American

(17,989 posts)
44. No, MSNBC is in this
Thu Feb 24, 2022, 07:12 AM
Feb 2022

Up to their neck. CNN is only marginally better. They love war. It increases their ratings.

This is a small war in Europe. Those screeching we should get involved more than Biden is doing need to head to the closest recruiting station, immediately.

Not our fight.
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-defense/3411218-ukrainian-army-repels-attack-on-shchastia-town-killing-50-occupiers.html

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
3. My first reaction to these latest spots by the FOX crew is that it is an indication
Wed Feb 23, 2022, 02:19 PM
Feb 2022

that they have been working with Russia/Putin throughout the past 5-6 years to influence our people. So many of the lies and conspiracies seem to be coming from Russia and this Unkranian situation hasn't slowed their efforts down. They are dedicated to take Biden down and are working 24/7 to do it.

They have to stay on the right side of Putin or be exposed.

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
13. A vast international plutocrat mafia
Wed Feb 23, 2022, 02:58 PM
Feb 2022

of over-privileged assholes and criminals trying to maintain the extreme imbalance of social equality providing them with mansions, yachts, jets, and lifestyles without regard for the serfs they depend upon or the future of the planet they live on.


keithbvadu2

(36,937 posts)
42. new social feudalism age.
Thu Feb 24, 2022, 12:53 AM
Feb 2022

Those millions of republicans want an authoritarian gov't but they mistakenly think they will be the few thousand elites actually in charge.

Those millions are useful tools for those who will actually be in charge.
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Same/same for those who want our country to be Christian run.

When a theocracy takes over America, which church (Christian of course) will be in charge?
Will the others accept their rule?
Many Catholics/Protestants consider the other to be false Christians.
Would they accept Mormons as the rulers?
Westboro Baptist Church?
The new rulers will be political Christians rather than Christians of faith.

We have plenty of people who want to be the Christian Ayatollah of America.

DENVERPOPS

(8,847 posts)
23. A sane person
Wed Feb 23, 2022, 04:36 PM
Feb 2022

would think that the FCC has some power over them.....Without a license from the FCC they are done for..........

Caliman73

(11,744 posts)
55. You do not need a license for Cable.
Thu Feb 24, 2022, 01:05 PM
Feb 2022

The FCC has marginal power to regulate some of the content on cable for profanity and obscenity, but it has no power to issue or take away licenses for cable networks.

Licenses are for terrestrial broadcasting because it is use of the Public Airwaves. Cable uses satellite for delivery. They broadcast to a paying audience that has opted in to their services through contract. It is not within the power of the FCC to interfere in those contracts.

DENVERPOPS

(8,847 posts)
24. In addition
Wed Feb 23, 2022, 04:44 PM
Feb 2022

one can only imagine the amount of U.S. intelligence and Top Secret military stuff Trump has given to Putin over his four years in the WH.....

Normally, the new president continues to share the highest intel with the former president for at least six months. The smartest thing Biden did was to stop that routine the day Trump left office......Now, we know that Trump merely took a bunch of that info down to Mar-a-lago, so he could continue selling the info to supplement his grifting.......

one can only imagine what we don't know...........

DENVERPOPS

(8,847 posts)
58. Ocram's Razor
Thu Feb 24, 2022, 03:22 PM
Feb 2022

or whatever it's called..........

We saw some of this selling of info during his Admin. Just look at Jared's sudden trip to the Saudi's and on a return flight he had a 150 million dollar "loan" he needed badly to bail out his crashed real estate investment......

True Blue American

(17,989 posts)
61. Yep, and now Trump is hurting.
Thu Feb 24, 2022, 03:36 PM
Feb 2022

Ivanka is co- operating with the commission. Both Jared and Trump are not winning now.

DENVERPOPS

(8,847 posts)
65. So am I
Thu Feb 24, 2022, 07:18 PM
Feb 2022

but then do we have any other alternative but to just sit back and watch.

Years ago, a W aide said it best when he was talking to a Dem:

We do what we want to, and you dems can only sit back and watch. It was pretty much true back then, and seems to be still true today....

Traildogbob

(8,827 posts)
5. After Pooty
Wed Feb 23, 2022, 02:21 PM
Feb 2022

Kills 100’s of thousands of women and children with his invasion, the pro life party will be on rooftops applauding like the Muslims did in full view of trump after 9/11. These freaks cling to God and Jesus, happily murdering people. Where is the outrage, from good Christian’s with a Bible? As elusive as a good guy with a gun.

Justice matters.

(6,943 posts)
29. Where they are.
Wed Feb 23, 2022, 05:03 PM
Feb 2022

They find justifications written in English in their Bible (a language that didn't exist yet - it came to be Centuries later - when those lines were written on papyrus).

KS Toronado

(17,345 posts)
6. Wish we could drag them straight to jail
Wed Feb 23, 2022, 02:23 PM
Feb 2022

so they could be stopped from spewing their Russian propaganda.
Come on Lawyers, find something to charge them with.

Justice matters.

(6,943 posts)
30. When the orange Capone will be thrown in a golden jail...
Wed Feb 23, 2022, 05:09 PM
Feb 2022

based on "Copious evidence of possible fraud" (including TAX fraud), m$m will go ask him what he thinks every day...

William Seger

(10,779 posts)
8. Never forget: they admire Putin's willingness to murder his opponents
Wed Feb 23, 2022, 02:36 PM
Feb 2022

That's exactly what they mean when they say Putin is "stronger" than Biden. That's exactly what TFG meant when he was expressing his admiration of Kim Jong-un's "strong" leadership. And that's exactly why Rittenhouse is a right-wing hero.

 

The Jungle 1

(4,552 posts)
18. You are correct
Wed Feb 23, 2022, 03:32 PM
Feb 2022

I worked in and with Germans. They know what fascism produces.
We must stop the fascist that are gaining power in our nation.
White supremacist, fascism and domestic terrorism are out of control in the USA. Also consider that what just happened in Canada was not about COVID! We must smash fascism again.

sop

(10,265 posts)
12. Corporate Republicans and Putin share a common goal: stamp out liberal democracy.
Wed Feb 23, 2022, 02:50 PM
Feb 2022

Liberal democracies are their natural enemies. And, as the saying goes, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend."

Hekate

(90,837 posts)
22. The OP said they should be dragged before Congress and the Hague. I notice it's been modified...
Wed Feb 23, 2022, 04:32 PM
Feb 2022

I was going to copy-paste it for this reply, but it’s changed. It’s still there in Thread Info.





Warpy

(111,359 posts)
19. It would be nice if someone investigated the money trail
Wed Feb 23, 2022, 03:56 PM
Feb 2022

because that's where their undying fealty to Russia comes from. However, gagging them is not what we do. Follow the money and publicize the results.

And don't forget how much big money and stone bigots adored Hitler in the 1930s, big money even plotting a coup against FDR.

We've been here before. Exposing these propagandists as paid hacks is a good first step. Gagging them will have the opposite effect.

wnylib

(21,621 posts)
38. Yep. Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh.
Wed Feb 23, 2022, 10:14 PM
Feb 2022

And don't forget that Prescott Bush and the Harrimans handled the Thyssen family's business finances which supported Hitler and built up German weapons even after the US was in the war so that their German operations office in NYC had to be shut down by the Feds.

Eisenhower named Averill Harriman to his cabinet.

Treason among Republicans goes back several years.

True Blue American

(17,989 posts)
47. And the Bushes had their companies
Thu Feb 24, 2022, 07:22 AM
Feb 2022

Confiscated by the US Government because they refused to stop doing business with Hitler, even though we were fighting a war! Isn’t it funny how you can look back over the past, find how so many Republicans made their money dealing with the Mafia?

calimary

(81,512 posts)
21. They really need to be yanked off the air.
Wed Feb 23, 2022, 04:25 PM
Feb 2022

And since there don’t seem to be license challenges anymore, I’m not sure how to do that.

calimary

(81,512 posts)
53. So how do we get around that?
Thu Feb 24, 2022, 12:58 PM
Feb 2022

Need some devious thinking here. It drives me nuts.

Same way we always seem to underestimate power-hungry jerks like Putin. Hell, like trump.

“…oh that’s not gonna happen…”

“….oh he wouldn’t…”

Seriously???? Still giving the bad guys the benefit of the doubt? Still? Who’s really advising you? Who are you getting your ideas from? Who’s still blowing softly in your ear so you’re not prepared? How gullible ARE you? You haven’t seen enough by now? That’s what I’d like to ask all our leaders.

ESPECIALLY our Dems - who always seem to want to arm themselves with feather dusters when they “prepare” to go into battle.

True Blue American

(17,989 posts)
60. Democrats can break the holds, just
Thu Feb 24, 2022, 03:33 PM
Feb 2022

Last edited Fri Feb 25, 2022, 04:48 AM - Edit history (1)

Like Republicans did. Of course it will require Manchin and his friend, but am pretty sure a few decent Republicans will join in. I have been keeping an eye on the Senate votes lately. Only the die hards still vote no, no matter what. Kennedy and Grassley are on that list and the people of Iowa do not seem to like him much now.

Thunderbeast

(3,419 posts)
26. Fox, OAN, and Newsmax should be shut down UNTIL
Wed Feb 23, 2022, 04:48 PM
Feb 2022

MSNBC, CNN, The New York Times, Washington Post,Thom Hartman, and Stephanie Miller are broadcast freely in Russia along with all of the Russion news outlets shut down by Stal...excuse me Putin.

LET NAVALNY SPEAK!

They ARE acting as foreign agents.

calimary

(81,512 posts)
56. Yep. And we should start characterizing them that way.
Thu Feb 24, 2022, 01:06 PM
Feb 2022

Remember what LBJ said “make ‘em deny it.” (Which, strategically, means they’re playing defense.).

Make ‘em deny it. And make sure you get ‘em doing that on video. Then play that video EVERYWHERE, and CONSTANTLY, on heavy rotation. So they can’t escape it, so there’s nowhere to run, so all excuses fall flat even to the most lunkheaded listeners and viewers.

Repetition. The message, and the relentless delivery.

True Blue American

(17,989 posts)
50. That was so good.
Thu Feb 24, 2022, 07:27 AM
Feb 2022

Shutdown Crossfire! Later Jon said, “ He did not know it would be so easy! Just telling Carlson he was hurting the country.”

Do it again, Jon!

Alwaysna

(574 posts)
39. Someone needs to closely scrutinize the finances...
Wed Feb 23, 2022, 11:15 PM
Feb 2022

of those who side with Russia. Trump wasn't the only one in D.C. that is beholden to Pooty. The ones who are siding with Putin will be the loudest.

JHB

(37,162 posts)
40. True, but a bit late. It was true when he was still on The Daily Show...
Wed Feb 23, 2022, 11:16 PM
Feb 2022

...hell, it was true before he became host of TDS.

It's why some of us were a bit short-tempered about his "can't we all get along?" stuff. We'd paid attention to the answer the Right had already given us, and it was "No."

keithbvadu2

(36,937 posts)
41. "It turns out that United Russia won the elections in America," Viktor Nazarov, the governor of Omsk
Thu Feb 24, 2022, 12:46 AM
Feb 2022

Trump supporters celebrated their victory. DEC 2016

"It turns out that United Russia won the elections in America," Viktor Nazarov, the governor of Omsk, Russia, declared in a radio interview.

http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/news/blog.html?b=news.nationalpost.com/news/world/make-russia-great-again-if-trump-lifts-sanctions-putin-could-finally-establish-his-country-as-an-equal-to-u-s&pubdate=2016-12-03
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Today's republicans: "Russia is our friend".
.
"... retired Marine Corps Gen. James N. Mattis said in May 2015 that among world threats “in the near term, I think the most dangerous might be Russia.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/6/donald-trump-james-mattis-differ-on-vladimir-putin/

Aaeia

(62 posts)
51. Kompromat
Thu Feb 24, 2022, 10:13 AM
Feb 2022

I have ghosted DU for years & got an account in the past year. DU gives me some hope as a Canadian watching American politics since Raygun. What I haven't seen much of is the observation that all these GOP who actually defends Russian aggression in the Ukraine may be operating under KOMPROMAT. It is incomprehensible that the GOP is this far gone without any other explanation. This has been as apparent as a wart on the nose when so many GOP capitulated to the 🍊menace. Follow the money. Thank you DU for giving this Canuck a bit of hope through the years.

Wednesdays

(17,412 posts)
59. Wecome to DU!
Thu Feb 24, 2022, 03:32 PM
Feb 2022


Yes, you're not alone in the speculation of kompromat, or at least of some hefty bribes.

BobTheSubgenius

(11,571 posts)
54. While I never usually disagree wih Jon Stewart...
Thu Feb 24, 2022, 01:00 PM
Feb 2022

...."getting scary??" We passed "getting" quite a while ago.

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