that is a distinction without a difference.

i.e. just about any hypotheseis could potentially be correct. you might as well claim that carbonated water is wet as evidentiary support for selling your soft drink.

personally, i think a publicly financed media conglomerate is not a bad concept at all. for that matter, neither is an organization to support more honest campaign finance. your fault isn't concept, it's ego. get over yourself, and take people's critical comments as opportunities to learn something. at the moment you don't have the knowledge or experience to succeed, and are pushing away the advice of others who do. do you really believe that everyone is simply dodging valid arguments, rather than pointing out gaping holes in those arguments that need to be addressed in order for you to actually be successful?

in either case, best of luck. also, enjoy some pie.
JL

anything "could" happen. that's such a broad statement as to be meaningless. not everything can happen, and until something does start to happen, it's hypothetical.

Let's add, making it more difficult (and possibly more dangerous) for poor women in red states to get an abortion. To keep the Christofacists in line.

The podcast is estimated at approximately 15k listeners. Still no 15 million.

Something that COULD happen is hypothetical by definition.

if you're going to propose an idea with hypothetical numbers, you need some real-life numbers to back them up. ralph nader has 107.8k followers on twitter. when that's how many he can manage to convince to click a button ONLINE, how do you make the jump from there to 15 million people giving a hundred dollars of real money?

JL

And there are already news outlets that are non-profits... ProPublica being one of the best known. What makes your idea better than those already in existence?

Already, one month in, I am finding quiet joy in sitting down to write an article and having to think about it.

I can just imagine the feeling! Say, what about a Biden Poll Watch?

Already, one month in, I am finding quiet joy in sitting down to write an article and having to think about it.

I can just imagine the feeling! Say, what about a Biden Poll Watch?

Republicans are the party of saying 'no' to every good idea that comes along, and they have absolutely no good ideas of their own. It's not even that their ideas are bad -- it's that they just don't even bother pretending to have them anymore.

But it’s more than just that Republicans are the party of saying ‘no’ to every good idea that comes along, it is the reason WHY they oppose these ideas! If Republicans claimed the reasons they opposed the ideas was because it conflicted with deeply held philosophical or political beliefs; it could be excused. But that is not the case ... Republicans literally oppose Democrats ideas for the sake of opposing it! Why would they do this?

First, they do not want Democrats to get any credit for doing anything that will be viewed as benefiting the nation. They want our nation to suffer when Democrats are in power because that is about the only way to convince voters to vote fo Republicans! It is not that people vote for Republican because they like their platform or ideas (and establishment Republicans know this). They have trained their supporters that ANY and ALL ideas Democrats have are ALWAYS PURE EVIL and should be opposed at every turn! And their base took to this training amazingly fast! So much so that their base now views any concessions to find common ground to be a sign that you are a traitor to their cause! They cannot negotiate because that is a sign of weakness!

And I'm glad to hear you're feeling less stressed by this work you do! I love not having to avoid Trump news wherever possible, and not having to click on Ted Cruz news, and not having read explanations of that horrid Representative from Qanon, and not having to deal with any of it unless I want a secret and morbid thrill from time to time.

Instead I can watch Uncle Joe play with his dogs, or read about Dr. Fauci telling us the straight dope about the plague, or follow the speculation on just which ridiculously normal and important legislation is going to go down without abolishing the filibuster, so that sometime this spring or summer it is abolished, and some real stuff gets passed in the fall in time to be in action and popular by the following year's election season. Ahh.

And, this is just the sort of thing that will guarantee him a second term.

Doesn't the new president look like he's getting younger? ::-)