Long Winded Bore

“But I digress...” A Progressive’s thoughts on Politics and Society. Seeking common grounds on which to build bridges. Make America Not Bigoted for the First Time. Side blog for Henry Gamage who is Caucasian (“White” is a political faction)

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We can never trust these people who voted for him.

Some are laughing gleefully because others are suffering.

Some hate is for reasons they can’t explain

Some experienced his lies but voted anyway.

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Wars have been very very very good to the economic oligarchs who dictate policy to the politicians.

The military-industrial oligarchs were smart and distributed munition manufacturing throughout white rural USAmerica insuring no votes for peace.

The president d politicians insure that military bases add to their State’s economies

[porterdavis]

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The moral corruption among the top tiers in Business, Politics, Church, and Media brings on the economic and political collapse.

[johnnyslittleanimalblog]

good morning world   :)    ♥

[mommahoney]

Nothing. Weird.

[no-longer-another-bondi-blonde]

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Hard Times

[porterdavis]

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[justinspoliticalcorner]

FCC Moves to End Cap on National Broadcast Ownership

FCC Moves to End Cap on National Broadcast Ownership

Brian Steinberg at Variety:

The Federal Communications Commission signaled it will vote on Aug. 6 to repeal the longstanding cap on ownership of TV stations, replacing a limit that keeps owners from controlling stations in more than 39% of markets with a case-by-case review of transactions that might come before regulators. “Today, national programmers can distribute their programming to 100 percent of the country — either through their own streaming services or through deals they cut with nationwide ‘virtual cable companies,’ like YouTube TV. The cap no longer constrains their control over distribution in this respect,” FCC Chairman Brendan Carr wrote in an op-ed published by Brietbart. “Nor does the cap limit other players in today’s media market. Cable channels like MS NOW can reach 100 percent of the country. Social media sites from Bluesky to X can reach 100 percent of the country. Netflix can reach 100 percent too. Same with podcasts and all other forms of digital content.” A decision by the FCC to eliminate the cap might have immediate consequences. Nexstar, one of the largest owners of TV stations in the U.S., has been barred by a federal court from completing its recent acquisition of Tegna, a smaller TV station owner, on the grounds that the transaction would give Nexstar too much control over local TV properties across the country. Nexstar also owns national outlets like the CW broadcast network and the NewsNation cable-news outlet.

More insanity from FCC Chair Brendan Carr.

The move to lift the 39% cap nationwide is a bad thing, as it would allow the monopoly of a few big station groups to dominate.

[comeonamericawakeup]

They are all liars and incompetent.

[comeonamericawakeup]

FASCISM

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Harry Enten Spots 'Unbelievable' Trend In New Trump Poll: 'It's A Whole Different World' — HuffPost

“President Trump says one thing; the American people feel something very, very different.”

Reality kicking people in the teeth.

[my-midlife-crisis]

[itsmythang]

They are ONE and the SAME!!!! Always from the start till today.

not every officer. but history matters.

American policing did not emerge in a vacuum. Some of the earliest organized policing structures in the South were slave patrols designed to control, capture, and terrorize enslaved black people.

That history doesn’t define every individual officer today. It does define most and it does define the system as racist.

But pretending it has no connection to ongoing conversations about race, power, and policing is intellectually dishonest.

[middleagedandoutoftouch]

Same reason the RCMP in Canada exists: to control the Indegenous population, and later the Immigrant population.

[josephbrassey]

“Haha remember when murder-hornets were gonna be a thing? What a nothingburger.”

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.

And I refuse to let the cynics own a chunk of my heart.