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SickOfTheOnePct

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1. The federal government...

Reply to OLDMDDEM (Original post)

Thu Sep 18, 2025, 10:20 AM

Sep 2025

...has no leverage over cable like they do over broadcast, so hard to see how they could really do anything.

The cable channels are driven purely by money - so long as Rachel and Lawrence are bringing in dollars for MSNBC/MS NOW, they'll be safe.

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Will Dumpy try to fire Rachel and Lawrence on MSNBC? My guess is yes and the network will tell [View all] OLDMDDEM Sep 2025 OP

The federal government... SickOfTheOnePct Sep 2025 #1

Ask Joy Reid about this. NCDem47 Sep 2025 #3

unless they are wanting to merge samnsara Sep 2025 #4

Your kidding, right? Bobstandard Sep 2025 #2

But if Trump tells them to fire a non-white person-- viva la Sep 2025 #5

Rachel is openly gay, so Dumpy may want to get rid of her. OLDMDDEM Sep 2025 #7

Ask Keith Olbermann Emile Sep 2025 #6

Both Rachel and Lawrence present FACTS and have the experts to back them up. ProudMNDemocrat Sep 2025 #8

That's my point. Are things starting to get bad or worse? OLDMDDEM Sep 2025 #9

Lawrence and Rachel have not been targeted by TACO Don in a defamation lawsuit. ProudMNDemocrat Sep 2025 #10