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erronis

(24,478 posts)
Thu May 14, 2026, 09:39 AM Yesterday

Fox News isn't engaging in protected political speech. It's engaging in consumer fraud.

https://sabrinahaake.substack.com/p/fox-news-isnt-engaging-in-protected
Sabrina Haake

Whenever a new poll comes out showing Trump's abysmal ratings, public reactions follow a pattern. Public comments don't question Trump's disapproval rating. Rather, millions of people question the flip side: how does 38% of the nation still support such an obvious charlatan? Are supporters delusional? Suicidal?

Specifically, does MAGA not know that 15 million Americans, mostly their own, have now lost health insurance because of him? Can they not read the Walmart price tags they hold in their own hands? Do they not know he's weakening the NATO alliance their granddads fought for, or that he single-handedly empowered one of the most dangerous regimes in the world?

The answer is 'No, no, and no.' Nearly 40% of the country--38%, to be exact-- can't connect the dots on who's making their lives harder. We don't need another study to figure out why, because it couldn't be more obvious: As of May 12, 2026, 38% of the nation still supports Trump because 38% of the nation watches Fox News, purveyors of pure Trump propaganda. And compared to other consumers, Fox News viewers do not diversify their sources.

After the 2020 election, the Pew Research Center did a deep dive to learn what Americans heard, perceived and knew about it. Researchers found, for example, that 63% of Fox News viewers had given Trump an "excellent" rating on Covid. Trump suggested injecting bleach into unspecified orifices while over 1 million Americans died, yet Fox viewers thought he did an excellent job??

More accurately it was a con job, perpetrated by Fox News.

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Fox News isn't engaging in protected political speech. It's engaging in consumer fraud. (Original Post) erronis Yesterday OP
Even as a Petite Lady, I'd love to drag their sorry, liar asses out in the street chouchou Yesterday #1

chouchou

(3,289 posts)
1. Even as a Petite Lady, I'd love to drag their sorry, liar asses out in the street
Thu May 14, 2026, 09:46 AM
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Fox News has partially destroyed this country.
I would put them up on the gallows...

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