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"You'd do best to change the subject."

Or what, Joe? A free press is already in peril. It certainly doesn't need direct threats from someone who purports to be a man of the people. What an embarrassment.

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Your investigative reporting is important information that is completely ignored by MSM because, IMO (and backed by facts) all our so-called “national news” is still owned by conservatives and is not the “liberal press” they want all of us to believe it is.

Until we pass laws against disseminating misleading, shady, and outright false information, this accurate information will be assigned to the “back room” of reporting.

How about a new and updated version of the Fairness Doctrine that covers all media including the relentless propaganda available on the web?

We have to do something BEFORE we lose whatever control we have against this planned gaslighting of, not just the people in this country, but people all around the planet.

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Thank you for your work, Judd.

Do you have any ideas on how what an effective strategy would be for holding these grifters accountable?

So far they haven't been.

It seems we need stronger, broader, more focused messaging, some how.

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Again, jaw dropping reporting from you, Judd. Thank you.

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It's mind-boggling, Judd! How did 'We' come to accept such?? I know this isn't new - humans have been deceiving each other and manipulating narratives since the beginning of time. But isn't the minimization of that tendency at the root of why democracy came to be? Aren't We 'here' because We determined that, despite great individual differences, the collective can pull together to wrest power from those whose only intent is more power? As JB below points out: "we’d have to convince enough people to protest these lies with fervent insistence, which is a main issue we have to get past to combat the corruption". We cannot simply gloat and glow that we have found a community in which to air our dissatisfactions. I can only hope that each individual who reads your work gets fired up enough to take at least one concrete action, but I suspect that alone isn't enough. If you have any ideas, Judd, toward harnessing the energy you let loose, I would bet you'd have quite a legion of backers. Count me in!

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I don't know why we consider a blind trust satisfactory under these conditions. Just because Manchin, or others like him, don't know the exact details of their investments doesn't mean they don't know where their profits come from. He knows he's invested in a coal company, so he knows that tanking climate legislation will be good for his pockets.

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Playing both sides of the field allows them to win. You can bet they are on the side though, that rolls in the cash to the 1% corporation. The blow a little smoke across the field to make it look like they care.

They don't. It's all about profit and control.

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Oh hypocrites all of them. And the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. And they believe that nobody sees this contrary habitual misleading of the public. They all know that the general populace wants Climate action. This would hurt their bottom line, so they say all the right words and do as they wish.

Thanks for bringing this to light. It must be dark work to do this investigating and bringing truth to light. Keep up the courage to go forward, Judd. We need voices like yours!

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Fascinating that pols/lobbyists are using FB as advertising platform for anti-climate, corporate irresponsibility messaging. Why is that?

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