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2022-01-22 at 8:08 PM UTC in I broke polecat and it wasn't very hard
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2022-01-22 at 7:55 PM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!As of November 1, 2021, there have been more adverse events reported for the COVID vaccines than for all 70+ vaccines combined since they started tracking adverse events 30 years ago. The COVID vaccines are the most dangerous vaccines in human history. They are 800 times more deadly than the smallpox vaccine which was the previous record holder. The vaccines have killed over 150,000 Americans and permanently disabled even more. They don’t make sense for anyone of any age. The younger you are, the worse it gets. For kids, it is estimated that we kill 117 kids for every COVID death we prevent.
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2022-01-22 at 7:54 PM UTC in I broke polecat and it wasn't very hard
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2022-01-22 at 7:47 PM UTC in I broke polecat and it wasn't very hardCan we please get back to breaking Polecat?
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2022-01-22 at 7:46 PM UTC in Create a superhero
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2022-01-22 at 7:45 PM UTC in Lol what did Wariat get banned for?
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2022-01-22 at 7:42 PM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!
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2022-01-22 at 6:28 PM UTC in Create a superhero
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2022-01-22 at 6:27 PM UTC in Lol what did Wariat get banned for?
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2022-01-22 at 6:25 PM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!No appreciable change in death rate for 2020/2021/2022. How do you all feel about being lied to for the past two years?
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2022-01-22 at 6:22 PM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!
Originally posted by Donald Trump They found this information about Omicron by analysing data from last year, before Omicron was even a thing?
The lies never stop, do they?
It's hilarious with the obvious lies they come up with. It's like they think everyone and their dog doesn't know Omicron wasn't even a thing three months ago. Imaginary data for their imaginary variant. -
2022-01-22 at 6:19 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty's"We got him THIS time."
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2022-01-22 at 3:26 PM UTC in What are you thinking about....EE, oo, oo, ah, ah, bing, bang, walla, walla, bing, bang.
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2022-01-22 at 3:24 PM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!
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2022-01-22 at 3:23 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty's
Originally posted by stl1 Make
All the Republican leaning fake "news" shows
Go
Away
LA Times
Why pay TV operators are dropping Trump-loving cable networks
Stephen Battaglio
Before One America News Network host Dan Ball finished an interview with guest Jim Jordan last week, he asked the Ohio Republican congressman for a favor.
“Please put some pressure on AT&T and DirecTV for us,” said Ball, whose nightly program "Real America" airs nightly on the right-wing cable channel. “OAN would love to continue broadcasting on that platform and we know for a fact it is all political behind the scenes on why they’re doing that to us.”
Earlier in the week, Ball solicited viewers to send him "dirt" on William Kannard, chairman of of the board for DirecTV parent AT&T, including any evidence of marital infidelity. OAN's 80-year-old founder, tech entrepreneur Robert Herring, also went on camera to plea with viewers to ask other cable and satellite providers in their areas to add the channel to their lineups.
The desperate calls for help — which would be considered unseemly on a traditional cable news outlet — follow DirecTV’s Jan. 15 announcement that it will drop the San Diego-based OAN from its service in April. DirecTV, which AT&T spun off last summer, accounts for nearly half of the 35 million homes that can receive OAN on cable or satellite TV. The channel is not broadly distributed enough to be measured by Nielsen.
The loss of DirecTV will deprive the channel of its major source of revenue and cast doubt on the future of the operation, where President Biden's administration is called a "regime" and concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic are described as hysteria. OAN correspondents have promoted efforts to audit the vote counts in the 2020 election.
OAN is not be the only conservative outlet losing distribution. Newsmax, the Boca Raton, Fla.-based channel that is the TV home of former President Trump’s first press secretary, Sean Spicer, was dropped from four cable systems in January after it failed to reach new carriage agreements with those companies.
The two channels gained notoriety in recent years by seeking out conservative viewers who believe right-leaning Fox News, the dominant ratings leader in cable news, did not show enough unwavering fealty to Trump. Both believe it's now open season on conservative outlets.
"We count 11 liberal news and information channels in a typical cable package, with Fox News Channel and Newsmax as the only alternatives," Newsmax Chief Executive Chris Ruddy said in a statement to The Times. "All Americans are harmed when any voice, liberal or conservative, is closed down. We believe that society as a whole benefits from more discussion and political views being represented, not less."
Progressive groups, which have lobbied companies to drop OAN, lauded DirecTV's decision.
"The network is a known perpetrator of disinformation and extremism, fueling real-world violence and placing the health and safety of so many in jeopardy," said Yosef Getachew, director of Common Cause Media & Democracy Program.
A 2017 Washington Post story on OAN based on internal emails from the company, noted how Herring directed his channel to avoid any negative stories about Trump, who regularly promoted the outlet on his Twitter feed.
As late as March 2021, an OAN correspondent, Pearson Sharp, said in a report, “There’s still serious doubts about who’s actually president.” In another, he suggested COVID-19 vaccines are causing mass deaths.
OAN, Newsmax and Fox News, are all being sued for defamation by voting technology companies Smartmatic and Dominion. Both firms allege their reputations were damaged by false statements presented by anchors and guests who echoed Trump's claims that the 2020 election was rigged against him.
The lawsuits could create significant liabilities and a heap of bad publicity for the networks, complicating their relationship with distributors. The networks have said they were within their 1st Amendment rights to report on election fraud allegations made by well-known public figures, including Trump his advisors and members of Congress.
The pay TV providers who dropped OAN and Newsmax make the case that it’s not politics that drove their decisions, but the upended economics of their business.
Cable and satellite companies are coping with subscriber loss as the emergence of streaming services, such as Netflix, disrupts TV habits. The number of pay TV homes declined by nearly 9% through the first nine months of 2021, according to research firm MoffettNathanson. DirecTV has seen significant subscriber losses as well.
The cost of a cable package is a major factor in the consumers' decision to cut the cord, which means service providers are under pressure not to raise rates. Cable bills creep up when the cost to carry programming is passed along to consumers.
DirecTV did not comment on OAN beyond its initial statement saying the decision to drop it came "after a routine internal review." The company's chief executive Bill Morrow did offer an explanation in a memo to employees obtained by The Times.
Morrow said carriage decisions on channels are based on "industry trends such as secular decline, programming price increases, competitive offerings with lower price points, our competitors’ offers, and consumers’ desire to have more narrow bundles."
Breezeline, the Quincy, Mass.-based cable company formerly known as Atlantic Alliance, took a similar stance in its comment on its decision to part with Newsmax.
"While we worked in good faith to negotiate a fair agreement, Newsmax insisted on terms and conditions that we could not accept,” said Andrew Walton, a spokesperson for Breezeline. "The decision was not related in any way to the content on the network."
Walton added that Newsmax's demands for a higher fee "would have resulted in increased TV fees for all Breezeline customers — for a channel that is free online to other viewers."
Newsmax can be streamed online without a pay TV subscription, a selling point the company has touted to Fox News fans who are reluctant to drop cable. (Fox Nation, the streaming service operated by Fox News, shows the cable channel's programming only on a delayed basis and has no live news programming.)
While the loss of carriage on Breezeline and other small carriers will not significantly cut into the 54 million homes that carry Newsmax, other cable providers could cite the service's free stream as a reason to drop it from their channel lineups in the future.
"It could be canary in the coal mine," said one veteran cable distribution executive who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
Newsmax has noted it picked up carriage on 170 pay TV systems since Nov. 2020. While Newsmax has expressed support for OAN publicly, its executives privately distance themselves from their more extreme competitor.
Newsmax is still a major comfort zone for Trump supporters — its biggest ratings come from live coverage of the former president's rallies, which Fox News no longer airs. But Newsmax declared Biden the winner of the 2020 election — something OAN resisted — and has been a strong supporter of COVID-19 vaccines.
As for OAN, the loss of revenue through DirecTV — Herring told his viewers the company gets 10 cents a month per subscriber — will mean it has to substantially alter its business model to survive. (The company did not reply to a request for comment.)
OAN could be offered as a direct-to-consumer subscription service or a free advertiser-supported video-on-demand steaming channel. Herring also has a multichannel subscription streaming service called KlowdTV that includes OAN.
"We don't know exactly what we are going to do yet," Herring told viewers. "But don't worry, we have a lot of options."
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2022-01-22 at 3:22 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty's
Originally posted by stl1 The Guardian
Rudy Giuliani and Michael Flynn to see honorary university degrees revoked
Martin Pengelly in New York
The University of Rhode Island will revoke honorary degrees given to Rudy Giuliani and Michael Flynn, key allies of Donald Trump in his attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
The URI board of trustees on Friday voted unanimously to revoke the degrees, which were given to Giuliani in 2003 and Flynn in 2014.
Giuliani’s doctorate of laws was given for his leadership as mayor of New York City after the 9/11 attacks, the Providence Journal reported.
Flynn, a retired general and former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency who graduated from URI in 1981, was given a doctorate of humane letters.
The trustees voted on the recommendation of the URI president, Marc Parlange, who said the two men “no longer represent the highest level of our values and standards that were evident when we first bestowed the degree”.
Giuliani has acted as Trump’s attorney, work that led to the suspension of his law licenses in New York and Washington DC.
A leader of legal attempts to overturn election results in key states, Giuliani spoke at a rally near the White House on 6 January, urging “trial by combat”.
Parlange said Giuliani “encouraged domestic terrorist behavior aimed at preventing Congress from certifying the outcome of the 2020 presidential election”.
Seven people died around the storming of the US Capitol. Trump was impeached but acquitted. More than 700 people have been charged. Eleven members of a far-right militia have been charged with sedition.
This week, Giuliani was among Trump allies served subpoenas by the House select committee investigating the attack. Trump’s former adviser, Steve Bannon, has pleaded not guilty to a charge of contempt of Congress arising from a refusal to co-operate. Trump’s final chief of staff, Mark Meadows, could face the same charge. Leading Republicans in Congress have also refused to co-operate.
On Friday, the Washington Post reported that a judge has released to prosecutors more than 3,000 of Giuliani’s communications, in an investigation of work in Ukraine which contributed to Trump’s first impeachment, for seeking dirt on rivals including Joe Biden.
Flynn, who was fired from the Defense Intelligence Agency by Barack Obama, became Trump’s national security adviser before being fired for lying to the FBI about contacts with Russian officials.
He pleaded guilty but was pardoned by Trump. A leading figure on the far right, he has advocated a military coup and the establishment of Christianity as the state religion.
Flynn has been implicated in aspects of Trump’s attempt to stay in power including plans to seize election machines, the subject of a draft executive order revealed on Friday by Politico. He has resisted a subpoena from the 6 January committee.
Also on Friday, the Guardian reported that law enforcement agencies have learned of an alleged plan by “allies of Flynn” to “gather ‘intelligence’ on top Republicans”, in order to compel them to back election audits in key states.
Recommending the revocation of the honorary degrees, Parlange said: “As a civic institution, URI has the privilege and responsibility to sustain and preserve American democracy by insuring and modeling good citizenship. Revoking these honorary degrees reinforces our values and allows us to lead with truth and integrity.”
The chairwoman of the URI trustees, Margo Cook, said the board “supports the university and its mission to uphold its values, especially its commitment to intellectual and ethical leadership and fostering an environment of diversity and respect”.
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2022-01-22 at 3:20 PM UTC in Lol what did Wariat get banned for?
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2022-01-22 at 2:48 PM UTC in What are you doing at the momentJust don't lean to the right or left or sit down.
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2022-01-22 at 2:47 PM UTC in What are you doing at the momentOr hiding evidence for later and proper disposal.
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2022-01-22 at 2:45 PM UTC in What are you thinking about....
