Soooooo, when do we start calling this undermining our system of government and working for foreign entities?
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I think it's long, long past time for Biden to replace Garland with someone that walks loudly and carries a very large stick. Shitclowns are going to scream that they're political witch hunts either way. Fuck the optics, put the traitors where they belong.
This should have been priority #1 for the Biden admin. For me, the optics of them lallygagging till the next election on prosecuting a traitor makes it appear that it’s just two sides of the same coin. You can not tolerate intolerance. You can not give fascists any lead way. And they did. Completely.
Giving the Admin the benefit of the doubt, they just weren't expecting the continuation of the insanity. I think Biden has more faith in people wanting to do the right thing than what the GOP and their enablers have proven otherwise. Naive, maybe, or just far too much experience with the "old school" methods of politicking that were thrown out by Trump's cult and are continuing to through the insane "media" and traitorous representatives in Congress.
But yes, Garland slow-walking the prosecutions should have been a flaming red flag, and maybe it was, and orders to 'get it done' or GTFO prompted the Special Prosecutor appointment that got it back on track, but that might be wishful thinking on my part.
Yeah, we haven't had enough time yet to really address this problem in a comprehensive and effective way, even if we had the political momentum to do so, which we haven't really.
So, all we have in place is a smattering of stopgap measures. We have to win these next couple elections the old fashioned way--overwhelming turnout of disenfranchised voters who actually want to see better days in the future.
Fortunately, we have a strong and experienced ground game, grassroots ground n pound is our thing. Let's just buckle down and get the job done, we know how to do this.
The Senate map next year will be challenging. It'll be at least a little easier with it being a presidential year though. I hope people turn out.
Ted Cruz is up for reelection, and I'm hoping the presidential election year means he's fucked. He's been able to eke by on off-year elections, which is not a good pattern for him going into 2024
I just looked it up and there are a lot of Democrats running. I'll have to wait and see who gets the nomination. I would be ecstatic if Cruz lost.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A once-robust alliance of federal agencies, tech companies, election officials and researchers that worked together to thwart foreign propaganda and disinformation has fragmented after years of sustained Republican attacks.
The FBI told the House Judiciary Committee that, since the court rulings, the bureau had discovered foreign influence campaigns on social media platforms but in some cases did not inform the companies about them because they were hamstrung by the new legal oversight, according to a congressional official.
A common theme among those interviewed: The chilling effect that Republican attacks had on the sharing of information about possible interference, which could make it easier for foreign adversaries to manipulate U.S. public opinion and harder for 2024 voters to sort out what’s real from what’s fake.
Last year, the attorneys general offices of Missouri and Louisiana filed a joint lawsuit against the Biden administration, alleging that federal government outreach to tech companies about content on their platform — including law enforcement tips about election integrity and Covid-19 — constituted intimidation and a violation of First Amendment protections to free speech.
It subpoenaed Easterly earlier this year, then issued a report that claimed “CISA metastasized into the nerve center of the federal government’s domestic surveillance and censorship operations on social media.”
In a podcast interview on “On with Kara Swisher” in June, Easterly explained that CISA will also no longer help flag state and local election officials’ concerns to social media companies.
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Sounds to me like Republicans caused the problem, passed the buck to Biden, and then tried to bog down everything in lawsuits to prevent any progress.
Not to mention, probably benefit the most- we all know russia has the party of reprobates in its pockets