It's nice that Trump's delaying tactics mean that all his trials are now going on at the same time.

She hasn’t caught up to the fact that any protestations around money for Ukraine was just political theatre.

Any moment now, she’ll get a call from the Whips office, to remind her that once all the hootin and hollerin is done and it’s time to vote, the golden rule applies ;

you never vote against giving public money to party donors especially when they are from the US arms industry - which is where most of the money will end up.

Yeah, the geopolitical calculus of "Americans are dumb and have the memory of a goldfish, if we look hard on Russia now they'll remember it for the election." I don't think there's anything beyond that.

It is that this shit ain't working.

Media and people try very hard but take a look, anyone supporting the Trump bs moscow adjacent shit doesn't do well in polls Americans don't like it. Best get on the right side quick. I wonder if Gaetz will pivot or die

IRT your edit, I don't see this being a way that they thought about it. This is more them feeling silly now that the stupid is so out of the bag. They wanted all this hate energy, but with the ability to control it themselves. They've lost control, so the elite are now working to put control back into place.

You guys did, your entire right-wing mediasphere and political manipulation machine.

MTG was never a FOX favorite. They tend to prefer the more domesticated breed of business conservatives.

FOX is in deep with the Pentagon and has been since its inception. So I'm not shocked to see them find issue with MTG for failing to be hawkish enough (on Russia). But I think TNR underestimates how much Murdoch This and Murdoch That is, itself, falling out of favor with mainstream conservatives.

We played this game back in 2008, when the Murdoch Press went hard in the paint for Rudy Giuliani and he couldn't break double digits in his "strong" state of Florida. Same thing happened to Marco Rubio and Ron DeSantis and Nicki Hailey.

Wingers love FOX when its slinging the red meat - criminal drug using migrant caravans and hordes of anti-semitic Columbia students and black teenager shoplifting rampage - but they fall out fast when Greg Gutfeld and Dana Perino aren't screaming about how Woke Swifties Are Ruining Football.

How about how all of your goddamn brain rotting anti-reality “news” is coming from ONE GODDAMN ASSHOLE.

The QAnon Crowd has largely walked away from FOX and moved on to harder stuff - OAN, Alex Jones, 4chan/Truth Social, etc. Go check out "QAnon Anonymous", a great source for monitoring and cataloguing the sheer depth of the crazy going on in the danker corners of the internet.

FOX has an average audience measured in the 1-2 million views. Compare that to Joe Rogan's podcast, which regularly hits above the 10M listener mark.

but if they absorb his identity into themselves, maybe they'll finally get some money

Even if everything Murdoch-owned dried up and blew away, they have other parts of their complete media system that would fill in - think of it - these people can live their entire lives, going from website to radio show to podcast to TV stations and never hear/see anything but that which will reinforce their worldview.

I don't care who it is or what their motives are. She's finally getting called out for her bullshit from folks she's supposedly on the "same side" with?

I can't wait until she runs for re-election.

I got a warning for saying I wished tory voters get to experience the policies they voted for. Same reason

That's because the politics sub was long ago taken over by people who wish to abuse the system for their personal gain. Amongst them are some right-wing trolls who have no problem with abusing their power.

They all do, they all do...