I have my tin foil hat on, but I'm wondering if the Sinclair owners are willing to take a loss on their media front in order to have the social influence of the local TV stations. The influence may be more valuable to them than the revenue.
Yeah, what's the point? You get stuck listening to him ramble about something not related to your business there. The photo-ops are always humiliating, as he tries to wrap you into whatever stupid-ass controversy he's dealing with at the moment. Not worth the time.
That's the rub. It is not convenient at all here to get ID. The joke universally understood here is that the DMV (the place where the vast majority get their ID) is the worst run, least efficient government body, taking hours to days to navigate.
Add to this that getting to and from the DMV is mostly car dependent. If you're extremely lucky, you live in NYC that has good* public transportation. If you're regular lucky, you live in a large city with a very unreliable bus system that might come by your stop once an hour. Going to the DMV becomes a day long chore. If you're not lucky, you live in a rural area where the DMV is miles away from where you live, underfunded, and understaffed. If you don't have car (elderly? disabled?) or you're too busy to make it during business hours (can't take off work? tough shit) you'll be out of luck.
And none of this is to say that it is easy to acquire the ID once (if) you arrive. You need various forms of paperwork that may or may not be readily available to you. Sometimes you have to get paperwork from other government bodies, which are also cumbersome. Also the backlogs. In my state, the backlog for driver license renewal is months long.
To summarize: nothing is really made for convenience here as it concerns voting. Decades of Republican sabotage has put as many obstacles in place to make voting (and registering to vote) difficult as possible. Even getting ID is cumbersome and relies on being healthy enough and well-off enough to be able to afford the trouble of getting it.
"Hey listen, the wild bear is the one mauling everyone in the school. Blame the bear! Yes, we placed honey in the open door and smeared the children's faces with fresh salmon, but it's the bear that is eating the children. Please donate to help me scold the bear."
That's like saying a pencil is a copyright violation. Tools can be used to violate copyright law, but that's the use of the tool, not the creation of it.
I hate Cloudflare so much. It's getting to the point that some apps I use in browser will just stop working, and when I reload the tab to reset it, turns out Cloudflare was blocking the traffic until I do their stupidass human test.
It would be worth your time to listen to this legal breakdown on what the appeal is about and why she's likely to succeed. TL;DR - Blame the prosecutors that gave Jeffrey Epstein that sweetheart deal. It was even more sweetheart than it appeared on the surface.
And there's no guarantee of justice once they leave our jurisdiction. Even assuming they got the right guy... what? He murders someone and gets to go home with no punishment? That's a travesty.
