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off-the-clock

(326 posts)
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 02:56 PM Sep 2025

Is the Nexstar merger stoppable?

Does anyone have handy whether Congress can stop FTC from approving the merger i.e. should I call/write letters? Thanks in advance

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Is the Nexstar merger stoppable? (Original Post) off-the-clock Sep 2025 OP
Why would Congress stop further consolidation of power Frasier Balzov Sep 2025 #1
Possible is not inevitable. Ditch the binary thinking. If you Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2025 #2
Spoken like a sensible Canadian Bernardo. Frasier Balzov Sep 2025 #3
Thanks. Even the US Congress is not binary, especially when the majority is so slim. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2025 #4
This is what I was looking for off-the-clock Sep 2025 #5

Frasier Balzov

(4,822 posts)
1. Why would Congress stop further consolidation of power
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 03:01 PM
Sep 2025

in the hands of the antisocial right wing in this country?

Just brace yourself for the inevitable shutting down of MSNBC.

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
2. Possible is not inevitable. Ditch the binary thinking. If you
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 03:18 PM
Sep 2025

If you repeat "inevitable shutting down of MSNBC" and other all-or-nothing scenarios, then you help make them happen.

Not inevitable.

Frasier Balzov

(4,822 posts)
3. Spoken like a sensible Canadian Bernardo.
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 03:22 PM
Sep 2025

And the product of a parliamentary system in which a binary nature isn't baked in.

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