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I wonder if Cinemark took advantage of the financial assistance offered to businesses adversely affected by the COVID pandemic. So in effect we, the taxpayers, are potentially financing the spread of this awful misinformation and outright lies.

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You know that they did Nancy. They're like sharks, constantly swimming, except these loathsome creatures are constantly grifting!

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If you type in a zipcode after q=

You can see who or what organizations recieved ppp money and if it has been forgiven.

Looking in my area was enlightening. Companies and individuals made out like bandits

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Thank you for the link! Interesting!

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"Highly-respected Dinesh D'Souza."

This post isn't a laughing matter, but I had a chuckle at that description.

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Not surprising that a big corporation run by Republican billionaires is legitimizing misinformation. Nice to have the background on this! Thanks Judd 👍

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These people on the right like Dinesh and Prager are smart enough to know that their target audience are braindead empty vessels who are incapable of using logic and reasoning. They rile these racists and misogynists up and drum up fake controversy. Then repeat. Their playbook is so transparent and yet it works all the time. Only good thing I can take from this article is that Cinemark is hopefully losing tons of money since the pandemic hit.

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I had no idea about Cinemark, which owns one of my favorite theaters in West Philly. Just posted a review sharing some of this info. I hope at least a few folks vote w their $$!

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Oh my - a lie spoken endlessly with religious fervor embraces the minds of the gullible, shreds the integrity of truth, and ultimate destroys democracy.

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Ah fuck. I'm going to have to start going 20 miles to the crappy AMC theater aren't I. Or just stop going to theaters at all. Pity, I really like the local Cinemarks.

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Pretty scary to realize a private corporation is leisurely screening baseless propaganda films. The fascists from the 1930s would be impressed.

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The third largest theater chain in the country. They just had an earnings call per the website. I didn’t get a chance to mention this last week when you asked, but Verizon still offers OANN.

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D'Souza is a joke. Cinemark is another one of many spreading election lies. Not one of these theatres is in my area. But the Maga will eat it up and just getting angrier wherever it is shown.

There is no solution to this except vote in 2022 like the existance of the United States of America depends on beating the GOP. Because it does.

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Agreed!

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Judd, you should have a section in your blog where we can track these companies political donations at a glance

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Thank you for this information. Cinemark is the big theater in our community. I now will no longer attend at their theater. Keep up the great reporting.

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I have contacted everyone I know to urge them to boycott Cinemark. Thanks for the information.

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How can a major theater film chain put this garbage in front of a mostly naive audience like this, and in those numbers? I do not understand why someone with power and resources has not sued D'Souza for personal injury and fraud. This is unbelievable. I wish your readers were influential and powerful enough to do something - maybe some of them are! Thanks for all you do! Freedom of Speech? I guess. It's time for a DECENT, brilliant film-maker to do some Trump coverage and release it as a flashy new film.

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Your newsletter is invaluable - between you and The Lincoln Project you are giving the Dems a sorely needed voice to overcome the lies and disinformation of the cult.

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The Disinformation and Deceit Industry has become such a burgeoning capitalist enterprise that I find it hard to believe that some sort of DDI derivatives have not yet been seen in active trading on Wall Street...deceit default swaps or something similar?? Or, maybe they have, and Judd and his small staff just haven't had time to ferret them out yet!

Props. And keep digging.

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