(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Our democracy does not matter. YOU do not matter. There is only ONE thing that matters. [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-02-17 What is the one thing, the most important thing, that would drive a horde of orcs to rampage our nation’s Capitol, set up areas for execution of elected officials, to come armed and laden with tools to take hostages, shouting death to Nancy and the Vice President of the United States? What would lead these people to such destructive and demonic behavior? To lose their lives, their freedom, their families over? Were they subjects of a despotic military dictatorship that they’ve finally had enough of? Is it because they were forced into slavery? Internment camps? Were they in the midst of a brutal famine and their babies were starving in the streets being eaten alive by roving packs of wolves? No. Sadly, it turns out,……………...it was stock prices: On Nov. 12, in a text chain with Ms. Ingraham and Mr. Hannity, Mr. Carlson pointed to a tweet in which a Fox reporter, Jacqui Heinrich, fact-checked a tweet from Mr. Trump referring to Fox broadcasts and said there was no evidence of voter fraud from Dominion. “Please get her fired,” Mr. Carlson said. He added: “It needs to stop immediately, like tonight. It’s measurably hurting the company. The stock price is down. Not a joke.” Ms. Heinrich had deleted her tweet by the next morning. You see, Fox News had a problem. They told the truth. That truth didn’t jibe with the lies being told by their cult leader and that truth cost shareholders pennies on the dollar. That was, my friends, the deadly sin of capitalism. You never EVER commit that sin. Yes, Jesus said something about greed (which I think is still supposed to be a sin but who knows anymore) but please, Jesus and christianity are just another revenue stream. So, Fox News turned a 180. Instead of casting doubt on TFG’s outlandish election fraud claims they fell in line like good bots and did their corporate bidding. Bill Sammon, Fox’s managing editor in Washington, is quoted [internally, not publicly] as saying, “It’s remarkable how weak ratings make good journalists do bad things.” Weak ratings……….. lower stock price. Time for so-called “good journalists” to put their pride between their legs, bend down and lick some corporate boots to get the job done. To hell with our democracy. So how low are they willing to go with this incessant drive to squeeze out another penny on their stock price? Where does this insane pursuit of corporate profit over EVERYTHING ELSE lead? Well Fox Nuts’ own President, behind the scenes of course, said just what they’re capable of and where they’re willing to takes us if need be: The president of the network, Jay Wallace, is quoted [again, internally, not publicly] at one point criticizing the former Fox Business host Lou Dobbs — one of the biggest megaphones for Mr. Trump’s lies. “The North Koreans do a more nuanced show” than Mr. Dobbs, the brief says. THE. NORTH KOREANS. DO. A. MORE. NUANCED. SHOW. They knew it. And they didn’t care. This country does not matter to them. Our democracy does not matter to them. You can bet your un-buttered ass NOTHING matters to them…….except for their corporate quarterly earnings report. That’s it. Nothing else. Know what you’re up against. And while you’re contemplating that, imagine sitting in prison right now because you came dressed in a red hat on January 6th prepared to burn the entire thing down all for……………..the price of a corporate stock. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/story/2023/2/17/2153503/-Our-democracy-does-not-matter-YOU-do-not-matter-There-is-only-ONE-thing-that-matters Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/