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Correct, they rigged it: past tense.
I don’t mean by literally stuffing ballots, but via mostly boring administrative and bureaucratic maneuvering. Although, some state Democratic parties did actually cancel their Presidential primaries entirely, which frankly should be illegal.
Nothing I’m saying is breaking news. This was covered at the time, and has seen a small resurgence in coverage since the debate.
I think The Lever actually just republished the reporting they ran at the time.
Losing one artist isn’t the implication…it’s losing all your independent venues because they won’t financially survive being blacklisted by every artist that hopes to tour anywhere else because LN is a monopoly…
So goodbye independent venues and hello to exponentially higher prices, because that’s what monopolies do…