“Why didn’t the media didn’t tell us that Donald Trump was a bad man?”
"We didn’t know that. The media are so fucking evil"
I can’t take it anymore.
THEY DID WARN YOU. YOU JUST WOULDN’T LISTEN
You weren’t worried when Donald Trump was found guilty of sexual abuse ?
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/09/politics/e-jean-carroll-trump-lawsuit-battery-defamation-verdict
You weren’t worried when he refused to pay his contractors ?
You weren’t worried when the US army said his team pushed people at Arlington’s national cemetery ?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arlington-national-cemetery-donald-trump-campaign-dispute/
You weren’t worried when he said “Haitians in Ohio are eating dogs, cats” despite NO EVIDENCE that they did any of that ?
You weren’t worried when he said Jews would be to blame if he lost ?
You weren’t worried when he told a campaign rally that Arnold Palmer had a HUUUGE penis ?
80% of the media organizations did their job seriously.
I blame the voters.
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Nobody reads newspapers anymore. Video reporting was far more flattering for Trump.
First of all, yes, absolutely: it was blatantly obvious to anyone paying attention and who had even a modicum of critical thinking skills and sense of history, just from the direct quotes and clips of Trump himself.
However, a lot of people don’t have those things, and the media did a fuck-ton of horse-race reporting, sanewashing, and hypernormalization in between those quotes and clips, so it is absolutely culpable for what happened as well.
This
People are emotional creatures. Many feel a thing and then make up anything to justify their feelings. Anything to protect their ego.
“They never warned us” is easier on the ego than “I didn’t listen”.
I don’t know how to fix that behavior
How well did his first term go? That’s clue number one.
That’s the thing that got to me. Trump came in on an economy that was largely recovered from 08 and was approaching the time to raise interest rates so they could be cut again next recession and to prevent inflation. Then Trump came in, picked a bunch of trade wars without thinking about downstream consequences, didn’t raise interest, and more or less fucked the economy like he thought it was a child. But the economy is a big ship that steers slow so it took until 2019 for large numbers of people to really feel it. Then pandemic in 2020. People weren’t happy and voted the idiot out. Before that happened inflation had already started in 2019 and he passed the stimulus checks which increased economic activity at the risk of inflation.
Then comes Biden, a man very few people asked for, who won on a “not trump” promise. In 21 the economy was well and truly fucked. Biden comes in and has to manage balancing that fact against an active pandemic (fun reminder that Trump cut the pandemic response team fairly early in his first presidency and just cut huge swathes of the cdc in a move that’s absolutely baffling considering he’s been president during a pandemic). But regardless Biden ran a very consultant and expert driven white house. Very centrist. And so as he’s trying to recessitate the economy he keeps the checks flowing and the rates low, thats what governments are supposed to do. Things recover alongside high inflation. And so he slowly starts raising the interest rates. Inflation continues but the economy is all but certainly headed to recession this year, that’s the state for 2-3 years but inflation does slow. He also appoints the trustbuster Lena Kahn to head of the FTC in response to reports that inflation is being driven by corporate greed. It’s not enough people are still struggling and Trump is reelected
Anyways here we are again, interest rates are being slashed, corporations are given free rein if they kiss the ring, and stupid trade wars abound
JD literally bragged about completely making up the dog & cat thing, there’s no plausible deniability left.
The only media those simpletons watch is Fox News, who certainly didn’t say Trump was going to be bad.
But it did report on the things he said, which were and are all objectively repugnant, regardless of context or spin.
Unless the context is that you are a bigoted Republican. Then it sounds like paradise.
You forgot to mention the Epstein bit
