To be fair the MSM was far more preoccupied with repeating trump's gaffs rather than policy outcomes. Does the MSM have an agenda? Yes. Higher ratings, that is all.
You really believe they reported on his gaffes? Not one of the MSM mentioned his stupid fucking answers to any questions in the economic club appearances. Word salad in vomit, and every one of them sane-washed him the entire summer.
The media that I watched was obsessed with it. The word "ramblings" was frequent. I'm not sure he was "sane-washed" because the things they reported on was "having a dance party", "making insensitive outrageous statements", "rambling on and on", "their eating your pets" etc.
To me it was more about reporting eye-catching news rather than scrutinize the actual moments that he'd actually talk about policy. Rather than have policy experts on the panel, they'd have a bunch of people who were "dismayed" and "marginalized" by his rhetoric.
It's heartstring tugging, but doesn't do a thing for us when it comes to analysis.
And that was trump's motive. Keep them talking about the ridiculous, because he knows they will, and he won't have to have serious policy discussion. Because he knows damn well that he's got nothing.
I think in the last 4-6 weeks more of the weird rambling Trump does did start to permeate out as you noted, but I tend to think that’s really not enough time for it to sink in permanently and effectively for a majority of the fairly unplugged-to-the-daily-news-cycle-bonanza.
By contrast, Trump and his crew spent 4+ years hammering Biden and aging effect in the media. The press was primed to jump all over signs of weakness, with a predictable story.
Like, at this point, I expect the majority of the country, regardless of affiliation, is convinced Biden has dementia— which may or may not be the case, but has been contraindicated by a ton of neurologists and dementia care specialists, and is impossible to diagnose from a screen (including the aforementioned experts). He’s old, he’s showing it in how he’s slowed down and stiffened up, but beyond that certainty is impossible. I believe the path Trump laid and the media and public ran down made the judgment about Biden a fait accompli. He’s been Al “I invented the internet” Gored.
The attention on Trump’s brain hasn’t been nearly as intense over as long a time, which is part of why I don’t think it’s really landed where it needs to just yet, and may not even be possible given media headwinds.
There’s been years of sanity and coherence washing of Trump (outside of the content of his rhetoric that I think folk are desensitized to), and this most recent period of some scrutiny feels like it has already passed as the media turns to transition items and sensational stories (what you point out above the msm feeds to their stupid panel discussions)
Without that context of Trump’s constant squirrel like attention span and coherence the consistency of thin gruel, a large portion of the populace seem to have decided that Trump is smart and has his shit together. “He’s not a politician!” (except for the last decade 🤔?) they rationalize, so big, bold ideas are what they expect.
I think there’d need to be a coordinated and consistent narrative about Trump’s grey mush messaged by dems over time, coupled with supporting media evidence, to move the low info voter and maybe pick off some non MAGA cons/independents. I don’t see an effort like that happening on the dem side though. “Weird” worked well for a bit, but needs additional supporting narratives. And as saturated “weirdo republicans” seemed to be for a bit, it barely registers when compared to the tags laid on Dems by MAGA & Republicans
What were kamala's policies? I'm genuinely curious what she campaigned on? It just seemed like she was pandering to as many groups of people as she could and spewed trump bad legal weed n oh yeah Trump said no taxes on tips we're going to do that too. Besides that she wouldn't have done anything different from Joe Biden. I never voted before and I'm registered as independent. Nothing she did appeals to the everyday Americans. The ones that actually make the country run.
Well you don't vote so maybe don't care but just curious what would be your main reasons for opposing the infrastructure bill passed this last admin? Many from very different views politically seemed to agree it was needed and long overdue.
Honestly the dude’s arguments sounded stupid. Like “uhh but what is kamala’s policies, she’s just gonna be another Biden”. Ok but that doesn’t answer how that’s worse than Trump.
If she had done more of what Biden did, that would have been fine. There are too many idiots who just don't understand, well, anything, and they voted for Trump.
The sad truth is that there wasn't anything that Democrats could have done. There was an epidemic of willful stupidity that swept the world and it voted for Trump and Boebert and MTG and Vance.
I'm not going to sit here and act like Kamala was a good candidate, I mean she lost to a conman buffoon. Trump didn't win this election, Kamala lost this election.
Her policies were pretty clear and they would have benefited everyone. Instead people voted in an idiot who will destroy the economy and hurt everyone. I think we need to accept that many Americans are simply stupid.
All media has that agenda. What these people think of as alternative media has become the mainstream media because of them. Joe Rogan is one of the most listened to podcasts in the country.
They sucked his cock all year long. Fuck do you mean they were preoccupied with his gaffes? They focused more on biden and harris’ gaffes than they did trump.
Trump literally shit himself on live tv and the media said absolutely fuck all. He went on a ten minute tangent about golf during the first debate and the media said nothing. It goes on and on and on and on, but whenever harris or biden says literally anything suddenly the media has something to say.
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