What stupid thing did the GOP say or do this time? Episode 3!

NovaSaber

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If the state imposes oversight on a county, the county election office would be required to submit any voting or policy changes to the state for approval and allow staff from the secretary of state’s office to observe election proceedings. The state would also be empowered to appoint a conservator to take over election duties and recommend that a county suspend or terminate the current election administrator. “[T]he governor is trying to override voters to replace leaders he can’t control,”ACLU Texas tweeted about the legislation.

In recent years, Texas state officials have clashed with local election administrators who aim to expand voting access, especially in Democratic strongholds like Harris County, home to Houston. Other legislation moving this session would similarly wrestle control from local administrators. For example, Senate Bill 1750 would eliminate the position of election administrator in counties with a population of 3.5 million or more (Harris County is the only county with this many people) and Senate Bill 1993 would give the secretary of state the authority to order an election to be rerun in counties with a population of more than 2.7 million (again, only Harris County would qualify) under certain circumstances. S.B. 1750 and S.B. 1993 have both advanced out of committee and await a vote on the full Senate floor.
 

Ungnome

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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.
 

KidTDragon

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Official GOP network Fox News has a very bad, very very bad, day.

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.

So now Fox just has to deal with Smartmatic, who's saying they won't settle, but Dominion said that too.
 

Shadhausen

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Guess I shouldn't be surprised Dominion chose money over justice. Just goes to show greed truly knows no moral boundaries.
 

wonko the sane?

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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.
 

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Guess I shouldn't be surprised Dominion chose money over justice. Just goes to show greed truly knows no moral boundaries.
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.
 

wonko the sane?

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It's probably the fact that fox's viewership is heavily armed, psychopathic and just clever enough to find where people live.
 

DefaultOption

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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.
 

wonko the sane?

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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.
 

Ironbite4

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Just so you guys know, Faux Noise is facing another lawsuit about this same issue that's even bigger then the Dominion one.

Ironbite-so there is that.
 

Steevy Maximus

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Just so you guys know, Faux Noise is facing another lawsuit about this same issue that's even bigger then the Dominion one.

Ironbite-so there is that.
And, IIRC, Dominion still has suits against Trump lawyers Sidney Powell and old Rudy himself.
 

Pocket

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It's probably the fact that fox's viewership is heavily armed, psychopathic and just clever enough to find where people live.
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?
 

wonko the sane?

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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.
 


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