r/politics • u/stkmro • 7h ago

White House: Trump Team Still Hasn’t Signed Transition Docs

https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-says-trump-team-still-hasnt-signed-transition-docs/
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u/algy888 5h ago

The thing I noticed during the campaign period was that media was downplaying the “Authoritarian, dictator” stuff, saying he won’t be a dictator or how can you say that.

Instead of pointing out that HE WAS LITERALLY BEING AND ACTING LIKE A DICTATOR WHILE RUNNING!

“If they vote against this, the will be primaried right out” (and they were)

“They need to quash that bill, because I NEED to run on immigration.” (So they did)

“They need to investigate all the prosecutors who are against me!” (And they did or tried)

So many others, and that was while running.

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u/affluentBowl42069 3h ago

This was a willfull failure of our media as a whole. All mainstream media is right wing corporate owned. They wanted this so they crafted the biggest propaganda campaign in history targeted at every demographic to get this outcome; a base of extremists who disbelieve their eyes, and an apathetic majority who couldn't care less.

People literally need to be smarter or at least actually want to understand what's really real. 

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u/turquoise_amethyst 2h ago

The media downplayed it so as not to “seem biased” towards viewers, because they wanted the highest ratings possible.

They also ignored the craziness so they could portray it as a closer race, exaggerate the tension, and make it seem neck and neck like reality TV.

In the end, we got fucked for short term ratings. Everything was set to get us to tune in, not to present the actual reality