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DemoCat's avatar

John Tobacco (if that IS his real name) wasn’t able to clarify Newsmax out of paying millions for spreading lies about voting machine companies? That’s shocking.

Smartmatic and other entities hurt by conservative media need to recover damages and do what’s best for them, but a vital piece of these defamation suits is public accountability. These settlements absolutely need to be made public and these plaintiffs should not agree to confidentiality. That’s easier said than done, as recovering damages is obviously vital to their survival. But the bigger picture here is establishing a cost to conservative platforms who victimize people and organizations by carelessly or even maliciously lying to rile up their viewers. Conservative media is about profiting off the anger and resentment of certain people. When conservatives attack innocent election workers or officials or companies, they must pay a steep price for that harm. Make these settlements and admissions of fault public.

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OrdinaryJoe's avatar

Redumblikkklan

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Major Is My Spirit Animal's avatar

Apparently anyone who still willingly calls themselves "Republican" either just woke up from a coma or is in deep denial.

Or just dumb as a box of rocks.

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Marcie. Pay up, assholes.

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Mexfiles's avatar

"...In the real world, Newsmax knew full well that the claims were horseshit..." Yet, when the same machines and the same voting methods recently showed Nicolas Maduro won in the recent Venezuelan elections (by, it might be added, about the same % Biden defeated Trump in 2020), the US establishment was recycling that horseshit.

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bluePNWcats's avatar

They should be banned from conducting media business in the United States.

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Wookiee Monster's avatar

Can’t wait to see what claims they’ll make for why the 2024 election was rigged and stollen from Trump. So far, the leading scapegoat is Da Joos, naturally.

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dental floss tycoon's avatar

i’m waiting, for an october surprise that will make the current round of falsehoods & insinuendo look like weak tea … you know it’s a coming, they’re almost speaking in tongues now … a whopper …

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Major Is My Spirit Animal's avatar

Actually every day is an "October surprise" but as our sense of normal has been bludgeoned into a comatose state we hardly react to "EATING THE CATS AND DAWGS!!!1!1 / I'M A BLACK NAZI / TOWNS TAKEN OVER BY VENEZUELAN GANGS!!1!11"

I can't wait until the November surprise when these fucks wake up to the Comrade Kamala administration.

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Craig Stahl's avatar

Debbie Gibson is pregnant with my 2-headed love child.

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RSKPDX's avatar

THE PETS OF THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE THERE!

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Goonemeritus's avatar

Brave Sir Robin ran away

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Satanic Pancake's avatar

I hope both Dominion and SmartMatic get Big Tabacco settlements.

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Howard Appel's avatar

someone needs to leak the discovery and the settlement.

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Brie's avatar

Agreed. American should know the cost of lying to them is worth.

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Edith Prickly's avatar

Russell J. Ramsland has to be a made-up name.

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Satanic Pancake's avatar

And yet you accept John Tabacco? I’m surprised Larry Maryjane isn’t a NewsMax reporter.

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dental floss tycoon's avatar

i actually made the acquaintance of a woman named Maryjane Weed in an Arts & Ideas class at uni … came by it honestly, not changed …

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Nemo's avatar

My mother told me about attending a party in the 1930s where a pair of newly arrived guests, twin sisters, were announced as Wanda and Sally Forth. The whole party cracked up.

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Mr blob's avatar

Yes Chavez might have been dead, but were Smartec using a Gloriette 80 spirit materializer to channel Chavez’s ghost to change ballots?

https://youtu.be/Rk1ELdPIN4A?si=aqr3blpVdtRhcnen

(Yes that’s young Edgar Wright)

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James Baskin's avatar

John Tobacco? Is he from the Onion?

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SethTriggs's avatar

Aw I wish they went for the discovery though. Ugh.

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"M"'s avatar

I saw a graphic on this -- finding it *so interesting* that it is always somehow the elections of Democrats that are FIXED RIGGED STOLLEN

...while somehow all Rethuglican elections in the same years same places using same machines no matter what

are somehow 100% okay 100% of the time

#MakesYouGoHmm

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