there is a perfect storm happening to get GOP senators to turn on trump before the election.
here's how easily it can happen if dems and the 'left' get it started
1) artificial intelligence-enhanced transcription, digitization, and analysis/monitoring of putin talk radio makes stoprush x 100 inevitable. Americans just need to let the ad industry know it's coming. they want the millions of ears those stations reach and will want to protect their clients from being associated with the hate and lies. it wouldn't take much activism or a progressive org or a well known politician or activist to get their attention
2) GOP moral and intellectual leader Limbaugh may be gone from lung cancer by election time, or be croaking and taking more time off, which is why Trump may have wondered aloud if he ought to get his own radio show going. He's being subbed for by similar idiots who can't tell their audiences when he's coming back, one excuse after the other. The talk radio monopoly was built around Limbaugh’s ability to sell lies for 15 hours a day. They know they can't replace him anchoring 600 radio stations. Hannity is nothing more than a regurgitating bozo and they know it. The ad industry has to already be thinking about adjustments.
3) all advertisers and university and pro sports teams that broadcast on RW/trump/putin radio are responsible for helping putin/trump yell HOAX in a COVID theater the last 3 months and enabling the criminality and corruption that has cost thousands of live and millions of jobs. they are directly responsible, and it won't take much to convince the ad industry it is going to have to apply actual 'market demand' for the hate and lies, stop bundling advertisers onto those stations and start asking them if they really want to support trump
4) limbaugh was demoted from the loudest station in CO in september and it may have been in response to the long term pressure the uni of CO was getting to drop KOA. KOA may have chosen between keeping CU (and sympathetic athletes on broncos and rockies) and limbaugh. if the 87 + universities that support 260 limbaugh stations start following suit the pressure on the ad industry will ramp up considerably and it will have to start democratizing talk radio. without that unchallenged monopoly messaging dominance, their only unique advantage, trump and the modern GOP will go back to being a semi-permanent minority
5) there is more than a little evidence of the kremlin using talk radio going back to 2008 at least — real investigation by media could completely discredit what’s left of RW media
6) it wouldn't take many GOP senators to see their chances falling apart with limbaugh and the talk radio monopoly that got and keeps most of them elected
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