And Let's not forget about the other Deplorables

[KaraBulut]

... The New York Times Magazine did a cover story on her a few months back for which they interviewed as many people as they could who knew her in Georgia before she went into politics, and she apparently had some kind of psychotic break a couple of years before she started campaigning and became notorious..

When she was teaching CrossFit, she fucked a bunch of the guys in her classes. She carried on a long term affair with her business partner in the CrossFit business. It's the reason that her husband tried to divorce her the first time.

Instead of the media platforming her daily crazy, they should be focusing on the slow meltdown that is her personal life and looking into where all that money she's raising is going.

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

Instead of the media platforming her daily crazy, they should be focusing on the slow meltdown that is her personal life and looking into where all that money she's raising is going.

The media focusing on her messy personal life might possibly backfire, but they should definitely look into where the money she raises ends up.

 

[KaraBulut]

The media focusing on her messy personal life might possibly backfire, but they should definitely look into where the money she raises ends up.

She's a "millionaire" but what that really means is that she's from a wealthy family but the company that her family owns has been managed by her now ex-husband, Perry Greene. Mr Greene greatly expanded the business and is responsible for the success of the company. Marge dropped out of the business years ago and spent the past decade running a gym and banging CrossFit guys. This is not an exaggeration: the first time her husband asked for a divorce, he cited her multiple affairs and her sexual relationship with guys from her gyms, including her business partner.

The divorce was finalized in December. Around that time, MTG was "proxy-voting" because she was not in DC (this after she filed bills trying to get rid of proxy voting in the last Congress).

The big mystery is the financial arrangements of the divorce. Technically, it's her family's company but her ex-husband has been the COO/CEO for over 25 years. What kind of settlement did MTG get? How much did she have to give to her husband?

Supposedly, MTG is one of the top Republican fundraisers. She is associated with Save America Stop Socialism PAC which raised over $12 million in the last election cycle. Someone should be filing FOIA requests with the FCC and looking at where that money went.

 

[rareboy]

Our daily manna from Andrew Tate. Why is he still permitted to Tweet?

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

^ Why is Andrew Tate still permitted to tweet? ^

We know the answer to that very well: it's because Elon Musk owns Twitter. (Speaking of deplorables ...)

 

[rareboy]

Musk was more than happy to give Tate his account back.

Hey, 8 bucks is 8 bucks.

 

[KaraBulut]

Speaking of billionaires who are deplorable human beings...

An employee at Twitter had his access to the company's systems terminated a week ago but no one from HR called him to say whether his employment had been terminated.

Elon Musk mocked the employee saying that the employee was a slacker because the employee claimed to have a disability that "prevented him from typing".

Turns out the employee has muscular dystrophy and was the founder of a company that Twitter had acquired 2 years ago.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/07/tech/elon-musk-twitter-employee-disability/index.html

Any more questions about why Twitter platforms trolls and deplorables?

 

[rareboy]

The email where Murdoch told FOX hosts to stop lying about the election.

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

The email where Murdoch told FOX hosts to stop lying about the election.

"that has all happened" ??

Sure.

You'd think Rupert might consider dismissing them for insubordination, but no.

 

[TX-Beau]

"that has all happened" ??

Sure.

You'd think Rupert might consider dismissing them for insubordination, but no.

That email is a legal backstop. Insurance. He won't fire or even speak harshly to any reliable cash cow - or the asswipe who manages them. What that attempts to do is put a wall between Rupert and liability. It might work. He can go into court and honestly claim he told them to stop. It also shows consciousness of guilt. It's pretty vague, but it is clear that Rupert knew what was going on was problematic. One wonders just how much he knew about what was actually about to happen, that might have motivated that polite little note.

 

[TX-Beau]

Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch told an associate he believed Donald Trump was going "increasingly mad" after the then president refused to concede defeat in the 2020 election...

MSN

www.msn.com

This stuff is so damning. So, Rupert, if you knew the toad was dangerous, and you knew your anchors were lying and enabling, how is it you feel you bear no responsibility?

Fox is guilty of abetting an insurrection. There won't be charges, but there fucking well should be.

 

[TX-Beau]

BTW Rupert and the boys are going to throw Bartiromo out of the lifeboat first, and all the while Fucker is digging the hole deeper.

 

[rareboy]

That is how I see the memo as well.

He can say he told them to stop, with inside knowledge that there would be an attempted coup the next day, his minion tells him it has all been taken care of and as noted, he has insulated himself from the whole event, knowing that if it succeeds, he will be in the money and an important part of a whole new autocratic regime and if it did not end up as a successful coup, he feels he has washed his hands.

 

[rareboy]

BTW Rupert and the boys are going to throw Bartiromo out of the lifeboat first, and all the while Fucker is digging the hole deeper.

What makes you think that Bartiromo will get turfed? I would think they will band tightly together knowing that if they don't, they will all hang separately.

 

[TX-Beau]

She's going first because she's the easiest, least profitable target. The same reason Crazy Uncle Lou got the axe. Rupert is going to serve them all up at some point, because legally speaking, they have already hung together, and now all that is left is only the assigning of blame.

Suzanne Scott will be the official scapegoat, but as this progresses, there is going to be a litany of "leaks" and legal filings that all scream "RUPERT WAS DUPED and therefore completely innocent..." If Dominion wins, the press shield is gone, and the individuals become vulnerable. Someone is going to start filing class action lawsuit(s) on behalf of the horde, and they are all deep pockets. But Rupert's pockets are the deepest.

He's going to try and isolate the fallout to just the Fox op/ed, which won't work because even at their supposedly "news" division they got caught red-handed. Then he'll retreat to serving up the management. Then there will be a grand review and "reform" very publicly promoted.

Rupert's best option is amputation of everyone that is in those filings because that implies, he was not complicit, and he's attempting to mitigate.

That might work, but the evidence we've seen is extremely disturbing, explicit, and nauseating so then again, it may not. It will depend a lot on where the judge stands, and trust me when I say that it pains me deeply to even have to consider judicial complicity.

 

[TX-Beau]

What I have no idea about, is the way the trogs are going to jump. My relations in the horde are still in denial. But that will not survive the court, and I have no clue what they are going to do. I suppose it's possible at long last that the scales fall from their eyes, but probably not.

The reason that Fox did what it did - as they themselves made painfully clear - was to profit by pandering to the baser instincts and bigotries of the horde, devil take all else, and that motivation and its rewards haven't changed at all.

Rupert will probably just install new liars and *POOF* business as usual.

 

[KaraBulut]

...Suzanne Scott will be the official scapegoat, but as this progresses, there is going to be a litany of "leaks" and legal filings that all scream "RUPERT WAS DUPED and therefore completely innocent..." If Dominion wins, the press shield is gone, and the individuals become vulnerable. Someone is going to start filing class action lawsuit(s) on behalf of the horde, and they are all deep pockets. But Rupert's pockets are the deepest...

There might be another gambit.

Everyone is wondering why the two parties are behaving the way that they are. Why doesn't Fox settle? Why does Dominion want to go to trial? Why were the pages yesterday stamped, "For Attorney's Eyes Only"?

Is Dominion's intent to put each of the Fox employees mentioned in the released documents under oath in a trial to get daily media coverage on how Fox does business? Is the goal to not only financially damage Murdoch but to expose the operation as the propaganda arm of the RNC that it is?

Are any of the interested parties trying to get the case before SCOTUS to give them an opportunity to weaken NYT v. Sullivan (which has been one of Trump's Quixotic causes)?

 

[rareboy]

OK More from the Andrew Tate diaries today. He really is mentally unstable.

 

[TX-Beau]

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There might be another gambit.

Everyone is wondering why the two parties are behaving the way that they are. Why doesn't Fox settle? Why does Dominion want to go to trial? Why were the pages yesterday stamped, "For Attorney's Eyes Only"?

Is Dominion's intent to put each of the Fox employees mentioned in the released documents under oath in a trial to get daily media coverage on how Fox does business? Is the goal to not only financially damage Murdoch but to expose the operation as the propaganda arm of the RNC that it is?

Are any of the interested parties trying to get the case before SCOTUS to give them an opportunity to weaken NYT v. Sullivan (which has been one of Trump's Quixotic causes)?

I have this niggling suspicion that Rupert's lawyers "unofficially" floated a Dominion settlement and got shot down. It doesn't serve Dominion if they are not able to publicly (and loudly) wave Fox's dirty laundry. No doubt that the terms for any settlement would include NDAs, and perhaps they are actual patriots who feel it's imperative that this threat be exposed.

In regard to the Sullivan decision ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._Sullivan ) there's a bind. Because it's extremely obvious that Dominion's case has met the "actual malice" threshold and soared far beyond, there shouldn't be any reason to revisit it, unless, as you say, the intent is to weaken the law and make it possible for the Fed (or the states) to use its (their) power as a cudgel to intimidate the press.

On the other hand, what Fox has done is so egregious that it's become painfully clear that the definitions of what constitutes "public debate" are either ineffective or just plain lacking.

The outcome of any appeal to the S.C. is impossible to predict.

Whether some party is playing politics and pushing an agenda, I don't know. I think however that I can confidently rely on the greedy with JDs, like a pack of hyenas bringing down a wildebeest.

 

[cabinfever]

OK More from the Andrew Tate diaries today. He really is mentally unstable.

I had never even heard of him until the last couple of weeks here on JUB.

I would normally think this was a parody of himself or a sense of humor but I don't think he has one.

Assuming he is serious this "tweet" above petty much shows anyone paying attention or has a working brain who he is. No explanation needed.