And by liberal media, I’m assuming you are talking about the corporate media that the conservatives all call “liberal media”.

I’m so glad I live in a part of the United States where I just don’t have to give a fuck about picking the “right” church and doing the “right” things there. I have to pay as much attention to that shit as I do to how much someone loves Harry Potter series vs. Star Wars.

Though apparently that is a huuuuge thing in certain parts of the U.S., notably, the South.

My view is that religion and all its little rules and rituals are for those that have adapted that lifestyle. Since I live in a secular nation, I don’t have to give two farts in a high wind about any of it.

Hell, even before Faux came along, the mainstream media was and is embarrassingly skewed to the right.

But that was not enough for the Bircher types. They resented that something like Watergate was allowed to bring down their Nixon. They needed outlets that were ridiculously, cartoonishly even, right wing. And they had the balls to call them “fair and balanced”.

The funniest thing is when you see some Bircher bitching about how Faux is “woke” or something unhinged like that.

I mean, Network skewered the corporate capture of news quite well, and that was 50 years ago.

I think even if this was on billboards and schools started to teach this basic fact, it would take decades for it to finally sink in.

I cannot tell you how many “non political” people tend to believe it, too. I could see dumbass cult members parroting nonsense talking points about how magical Republicans are on the economy, but the fact that people that barely pay attention believe it is just exhausting.

Far too many idiots think: “the government should be run like a business, and Republicans bend over the hardest for business, therefore we should put a Republican in as a President-as-CEO, preferably someone also from the world of business”.

It’s all so very fucking stupid, starting with the very premise…

Well, he has brain damage.

Conservatism = brain damage.

So glad that PEDOnald was just able to start tearing down shit with zero permission and zero consequences, though.

Fuck this timeline.

Babbling like the pagans, I guess.

Don’t these people have closets?

But when you pray, go into your inner room, shut your door, and pray to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. 7And when you pray, do not babble on like pagans, for they think that by their many words they will be heard. 8Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.…

Imagine being so balls-deep in this stupid cult that you yourself are poor as fuck, but you thought PEDOnald really gave a shit about the “common man”. Even though there is zero evidence from his first failed term that this was the case.

Flash forward to: now you are supporting PEDOnald building golden monuments to himself.

They need to do this from their closet.

At least according to their own text.

https://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/mt/6.html?v=6

And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

There used to be an article I’d link to that had a very long dissertation on the notion of Southern “liberty” vs. the Northern kind. Basically, the Southern kind of “liberty” considers things like property rights (and treating other people like property) of utmost concern, so much like what you are getting at here: the idea that others might have agency even if you don’t like what they are doing is not something they value, at all.

BTW, it’s very interesting to see how you’ll see this manifest. The right went on and on and on about “cities burned to the ground” and the damage to businesses as a supposed counter to what BLM was protesting, which was the murder of people. I don’t think they even realized what they were revealing about themselves.

I recently read The Unhumans, and IIRC, they made a big deal about how “liberals are coming to take your stuff”, too. Very instructive.

Yeah. They are about a year and a half behind all of the crimes that PEDOnald has been up to, and that’s his second term.

Forget about all the allegations of sexual assault as well as the conviction of rape and stealing classified documents and stoking an insurrection of terrorists, and plotting a coup and fucking with election results, and and and…

That’s Trollito for ya. That guy is one angry motherfucker and is quite determined to roll back virtually all progress.

That was such total horseshit and they always knew it. And we knew it, too.

No way those little weasels would tolerate women leaving to go to a free country or a free state to get health care they don’t approve of, either. That’s assuming they could even afford to.

Otherwise, why even go through this bullshit of banning it in just certain states?

All conservatives truly HATE and despise and loathe actual freedom.

That last comment came from the reactionary centrists and the gaslighting overtly right wing as well.

By the way, the very same fucking people that serve as the exasperating Tone Police on this are the same ones doing the same thing when it comes to properly calling the J6 people terrorists (and not “rioters” or “peaceful protesters”, FFS) and calling the Republican project what it is: fascism.

That is the best phrase to describe both failed terms of this failure of a human.

One of the funniest things I’ve seen is people that supported him in 2024 being all surprised at his idiocy: “he was not like this in his first term; it was actually rather good, what happened?”

And I just don’t even know where to start…just what the fuck was “good” about that first term of his?

It is incredible to watch people this far down the road still say you gotta stand behind the Democrat Party.

Emphasis mine.

OH…KAY…and so this guy that apparently left the DemocratIC Party is butthurt because he had a conversation about wildfires with one Democrat that he didn’t like. And apparently has adopted the terminology of the conservatives and the reactionary centrists.

And, oh, wow, you guys! He’s apparently woken up to the fact that we have two parties - one that is extremely right wing - to the point of being Nazi-adjacent now and another that is moderately right wing. Something most of us noticed by the time we left high school, or at least by the time we left university.

Cool cool. And what is he proposing to do as an alternative if we don’t vote for the “Democrat [sic] Party”? Staying home or voting for something like the Green Party are just not options for serious people.

Came here to say this. I love it when Republicans pretend to GAF about “fraud”.

They are LYING LIARS.

America First == America Alone

He has no morals and empathy. That’s really the secret.

Also, he’s a Republican.

The decades-old rule of “IOKIYAR” holds. I have to laugh that the right thinks there is or ever really was, a “liberal media”.

If the corporate media was actually “liberal”, the media would constantly be covering this one-family crime wave. Every single mention of PEDOnald would list all his crimes, the suspicion he is under as a pedo, list that he’s been convicted of rape, as well as all the cryptocrimes he and his sons are doing…