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      … which is why he’s making it a story, linking to the videos, explaining why it’s newsworthy, and then delving into the deeper topic of why a particular segment of right-wing-aligned media is steadily taking over in this country and where it might go if not unchecked, which is the much bigger and more important story beyond just the fact that Trump is a moron sometimes.

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        The media has been making it a story since the first election. Every single one of his weird ass word salad moments was nation wide news. We just sit around and pretend it was covered up because fox news didn’t talk about it.

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          My MIL watches Newsmax now, since Trump said Fox was liberal media.

          She hasn’t heard of a single gaffe Trump has made in his rallies. Hasn’t heard of how he said Biden would start WWII, hasn’t heard he said he ran against Obama in 2016, hasn’t heard about how he accused Nicki Haley of refusing his offer to send 10,000 officers to the Capitol on Jan 6. No reports on how his speeches decend into word salad when he looks away from the teleprompter.

          She HAS heard that Biden is doing nothing about the border, but not about Republicans refusing to pass Biden’s border bill. She believes Biden is a fascist leading the country into communism, that Trump is a godly man, etc etc etc.

          It’s so hard to talk with her now. She used to be a far left liberal, burned her bra in the 60s, pushed for women’s rights. Then she started watching Fox “News” and got brainwashed.

          Some media may be making his idiocy/dementia/whateverthehelliswrongwithhim news, but a large chunk of the country doesn’t ever see it.

          Media who do report this stuff is preaching to the choir.

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            I say this in a bunch of threads almost every single day

            WE HAVE A GIGANTIC PROPAGANDA PROBLEM.

            It’s absolutely flabbergasting that we as a society have just accepted that “everyone” lies to us all the time, that no media can be trusted (except for “my guy”) and that for some reason there’s nothing we should do about it.

            I rarely see conversations about what we can and should do about our media. I’d love to see some actual things we can do from those intelligent enough or with the correct expertise… I have no idea myself as all I know is we protect the rights for a free press and that pretty much handcuffs us, but it’s also important to have…

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      My sister in Satan, unfortunately we are not the media who get listened to.

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    You mean the dictatorship-friendly media? Will they make it a story that the baby dictator is dying?

    …no, no they won’t.

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    Considering the overload of articles about how Biden is too old, they ought to, if they want to be (iunironically) fair and balanced.

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    Did he accidentally pick the wrong name or did he purposefully use Haley’s, because he knows fans won’t care it’s fiction and will start believing it as truth?

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    A choice between a guy who’s going to make the world worse and a guy who’s going to make the country worse…

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      No, this is the choice between literal fascism and just another mediocre democrat leader. You are an absolute fool if you think it’s a difficult choice

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      I think you mean make the country and the world worse. Because Trump is really good at both of those.

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        Biden is good for the country, but his foreign policy is horrible.
        Trump is bad for the country, but he’s such a wild card that he’s got a stabilizing presence internally

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          Even if some of Biden’s foreign policy smells, I’d rather have him at it than whatever the fuck Trump thought he was doing going around and stroking his ego over the other heads of state.

          A wild card is a bullshit term for getting in bed with the Russians and pissing on it both literally and figuratively. Which, btw, is an oxymoron to pair it with “stability”. We see now how he got played and/or paid.