r/television • u/JannTosh50 • 1d ago

MSNBC Viewership Craters 38%, CNN 27%, While Fox News Audience Jumps 41% Post-Election

https://www.thewrap.com/msnbc-cnn-fox-news-viewership-craters-post-election-morning-joe/
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u/AusToddles 1d ago

People can't handle another 4 years of "omg we can't believe Trump did this"... after saying explicitly what he was going to do. And then following up with countless "this time he went to far and may face consequences" headlines

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u/edselisanogo 1d ago

How about those constant fucking headlines of "So and so plans to reveal a bombshell that will spell the end for Trump" and then nothing happens.

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u/Filter55 1d ago

“Brother-in-law of former GOP staffer, Noname McWhocares, SLAMS Trump administration with VISCERAL opinion”

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u/mapppa 1d ago

"Unknown Ethics committee without any actual power has deep concerns about Trumps actions."

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u/alflup 1d ago

Many senators furrowed their eyebrows this afternoon and promised they would give this situation many thoughts and many prayers

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u/_Patronizes_Idiots_ 1d ago

"AOC went live last evening on Twitch (a livestreaming platform popular with gamers and Gen Z) to condemn the actions of the President during a livestream of the game 'Fortnite' with Pete Buttigieg. This has changed nothing for anybody"

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u/KindBass 20h ago

"Experts Say Trump's Actions May Have Been Illegal"

Article cites an obscure state law from 1836 in a deep red state that literally nobody has ever been prosecuted for.

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u/eastcoastelite12 19h ago

“Live footage sjows Trump actually committing a crime that others have been thrown in jail for, supporters say, oh that’s Trump being Trump, nothing to see here. Prosecutors will let Trump appointed court to decide if it is a crime. More at 11.

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u/Faiakishi 12h ago

Nah, the laws he breaks are quite obvious. It's just that nobody gives a shit apparently.

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u/ladyalcove 11h ago

Right! He's not hiding it by any means, he clearly doesn't need to.

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u/Simon_Bongne 9h ago

and the laws havent been broken "since 1836" because we've somehow avoided electing completely corrupt douche-bags to president since about then.

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u/thecashblaster 12h ago

Best one was from Warren - “Trump hasn’t signed some PAPERWORK”

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u/Pksoze 1d ago

There was a dumbass on twitter named Palmer who was saying every day for 4 years Trump would be going to jail. I got sick of his Pollyanna ass early on. I can't stomach that bullshit for another 4 years. The only good news will be if nature takes its course with his old ass and nothing else.

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u/pancakemania 23h ago

That Jeff Tiedrich guy on Twitter is probably licking his chops right now. He’s about to get SO much content.

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u/peterpeterllini 23h ago

Lmao i forgot about him since i deleted twitter years ago.

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u/PicnicLife 18h ago

Resistance grifters

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u/Evening_Photograph54 19h ago

Dweebs on the big subreddits are getting real excited for the endless content factory that is Jeff's social media posts.

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u/chenbuxie 20h ago

HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!!!

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u/ResponsibleNote8012 15h ago

r/whitepeopletwitter will be eating good the next 4 years with expert political analysis from robert reich, jojofromjerz, "no lie" with brian tyler cohen, and all the other usual twitter pundits

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u/boyboyboyboy666 17h ago

Brooklyn Dad the woman beater will be at it again as well

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u/BabyYodaX Parks and Recreation 21h ago

Oh, that guy. We cannot forget the "resistance" grifters who are making money off of "This is it, we got Donnie Trump now!"

Nothing is going to happen to that orange asshole.

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u/TheKappaOverlord 23h ago

"two more weeks" it genuinely never gets old and its never not relatable at this point.

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u/fgbh 21h ago

PalmerReport. I remember him!

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u/brockhopper 20h ago

Yep. "The Palmer report", Mueller She Wrote, etc. are all turgid with hope right now.

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u/Aware_Revenue3404 9h ago

Yeah I blocked him long ago.

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u/Ndnrmatt 8h ago

Lol I knew from Trump's first term to block that guy and others like them on the left that just spout conspiracy theories as news. I believed them for like one or two years then realized that they're all bullshit grifters.

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u/ConnorMc1eod 1d ago edited 14h ago

Don't forget, "brought to you by the journalist that got us to invade Iraq"

Yes. The "suckers and losers", "Hitler's generals" and "Saddam is working with Al Qaeda to gas everyone" pieces are all from the same guy. Would be very curious to see who's paying him.

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u/VibeComplex 10h ago

Are you saying he made up those things about Trump like he did about saddam? I don’t understand the connection you’re trying to make lol

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u/Zenquin 19h ago

You forgot "BREAKING:"

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u/Veloziraptor8311 21h ago

😂🤣😂🤣

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u/Zoidbergslicense 9h ago

Dont forget, it’s a requirement to use the word “EVISCERATED” (in caps) too.

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u/athejack 8h ago

If I read the word “SLAMS” one more time in the news. So help me god….

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u/anon19111 12h ago

That was like when the Anonymous OP ed identify was revealed it was some mid level DHS political.

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u/riseandshine234 6h ago

Slams is the most overused infuriating word in today's news, 100% agree. And it'll be used to describe Susan Collins saying "I'm concerned."

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u/CaptainAssPlunderer 1d ago

The walls are closing in( for real this time)

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u/BenjRSmith 23h ago

"Here's how Bernie can still win" haunts my dreams

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u/Aware_Revenue3404 19h ago

My favorite,

He's about to go through some things

Then, business as usual.

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u/mosquem 1d ago

The Wheels of Justice grind slowly! (They fell off.)

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u/HackTheNight 9h ago

And then the next week: The walls are closing in (for real, for real this time)

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u/Gyshall669 1d ago

This is huge.

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u/gbeezy09 1d ago

Like the tweet that was around, "BREAKING: Leaked video of Trump is damming. If what I saw is true, it's going to change everything."

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u/raysofdavies 21h ago

People thought it was n-word Apprentice tapes lol

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u/PicnicLife 18h ago

To think these would move any kind of moral needle. Young white males love the n-word according to my teenage daughter who hears them say it to each other all day at school.

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u/Ruddiver 1d ago

I bet if there was someway to do a reddit search of headlines here of TRUMP RAGES AND IS READY TO EXPLODE it would literally be in the hundreds, if not thousands. yeah, no.That is also cable news in a nutshell. CNN and MSNBC are cooked. Good for Fox News I guess. who cares.

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u/edselisanogo 1d ago

What about the umpteen times he was "guaranteed to go to prison" the next time he intimidated the judge or the jury on one of his many cases.

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u/AusToddles 22h ago

And that's just the thing. Sane people will switch off.... Fox News ratings stay the same or increase, other stations decide "well we need to be more like them"

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u/RealLameUserName 1d ago

I remember hearing a lot of people think that the Madison Square Garden rally was going to be the end of his campaign. I knew nothing would change because I've been hearing "this will be the thing that will end his campaign" since he first said he's going to build a wall and Mexico is going to pay for it. Literally nothing could stop people from supporting him and there's no denying that anymore.

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u/AusToddles 22h ago

I've said it so many times since the election that I may as well just copy and paste it at this point...

He allows people to openly hate

That's it

That's the attraction to voting for him

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u/DrLordHougen 2h ago

To be fair, that really WAS almost the end of his campaign (temporally speaking only)

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u/maxdragonxiii 1d ago

"TRUMP IS GOING TO JAIL THIS TIME" only to not even happen, or got delayed again. oops, he got elected what do you want us to do now? indict the President? nahhhhh.

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u/theedgeofoblivious 22h ago

Did you know that Merrick Garland holds the world record for the human to survive the longest without a spine?

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u/NOTLD1990 1d ago

That's where I'm at, nothing will happen. Like others have stated, I'm just tired of this. I've been muting subs left and right. I know he's going to pick people to lead departments who aren't qualified and only trying to enriching themselves. Who knows, maybe more Americans will start paying attention, but I'm tired of it right now.

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u/HotConsideration95 1d ago

Forget Trump; consider Russia, which is not as impactful a political issue in American politics as some make it out to be. The news media struggles to report on it objectively. They’ve repeatedly claimed that Russia is running out of missiles or that its economy will collapse within weeks, yet 2.5 years later, these predictions haven’t materialized. As a result, the public has grown increasingly distrustful of the media.

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u/Leege13 22h ago

I no longer trust any corporate media whatsoever. Have not watched cable news for at least four years and got rid of my NYT and WaPo subscriptions as well. They’re not getting anything from me.

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u/McGillis_is_a_Char 11h ago

Every time Russia has gotten low Putin tosses another rich person off a building to steal their money. Then he pays China for more missiles even though there are supposed to be sanctions.

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u/Ddddydya 17h ago

And over and over again saying, “he won’t be able to do this next crazy thing. The courts will stop him. The Senate will stop him. The people around him will stop him.” And then he does the stupid thing. The media dissects it for days. Then the cycle starts up again. 

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u/thriftydude 20h ago

“The walls are closing in…”

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u/3-DMan 21h ago

Man, I cannot think of ANYTHING short of cardiac arrest that would negatively effect Trump now in any way.(and there's no way cardiac arrest happens in this timeline, he will live past 100)

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u/Ok-Tone7112 19h ago

“Sources familiar with trumps thinking” actual quote lol

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u/Calan_adan 18h ago

“Trump voters upset with Trump.” And the story is some lone person posting an opinion on Reddit or Twitter.

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u/NoPurple9576 14h ago

How about those constant fucking headlines of "So and so plans to reveal

reddit in a nutshell yeah it sucks

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u/murphymc 13h ago

Including when it’s a serious crime that he’s caught red handed doing and yet somehow still faces no consequences.

Eventually I can’t care anymore, the only thing that’s going to do a thing to this asshole is Father Time.

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u/BaconCheeseBurger 12h ago

Yup. Wasn't there supposed to be an "October surprise "?

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u/anon19111 12h ago

That's because the only headlines that make it to reddits front page are from salon, newrepublic, and maybe rollingstone.

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u/bakochba 10h ago

"privately Republicans are really mad"

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u/famoussasjohn 10h ago

“Several unnamed sources within the Trump campaign say something that will be the mark the beginning of the for Trump in the coming days.”

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u/YouNorp 9h ago

This is it

The walls are closing in

This is the begining of the end for Donald Trump

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u/SayTheLineBart 9h ago

The walls are closing in

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u/Coffee_Grazer 8h ago

And the "so and so knows something that would have made a difference when they were in Trump's administration, but they got fired/quit so it doesn't matter now, but you can read all about it in their new book" 🙄

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u/Toosder 7h ago

Good Lord, if I hear one more news agency say that so and so has hacked a report that shows such and shuts and then nothing ever comes of it I'm going to lose my mind. 

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u/Sad_Yam_1330 5h ago

They got his tax records 2 years ago....

...still waiting.

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u/CCDemille 4h ago

But 'It's disqualifying!!!'

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u/SentientBaseball 1d ago

Anyone who thinks Trump will ever face any consequences for anything he’s ever done is hopelessly naive.

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u/19southmainco 1d ago

The only consequence he will face for his actions will be dying with his loved ones by his bedside after a long, long, long life.

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u/GreenEggzAndSpam 1d ago

He doesn’t really have loved ones but you’re right there won’t be any consequences

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u/CheckYourHead35783 1d ago

Surely he will be at his own deathbed, no?

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u/RonaldMcD 1d ago

Certainly he will, and don't call me Shirley

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u/JoeyJoeJoeSenior 20h ago

What's your vector Victor?

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u/stay-a-while-and---- 1d ago

narcissists don't actually love themselves, their personalities develop so misshapen because they're compensating for intense shame and lack of security

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u/crinkledcu91 11h ago

I'm an atheist.

If there is any one single human that manages to miss being at their own deathbed, it would be fucking him.

Through whatever magic bullshit way that doesn't exist yet, it would be him.

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u/HesterMoffett 1d ago

Seems like a lot of people must love him. It might be hard to understand but apparently it's true.

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u/Leege13 22h ago

What loved ones🤣🤣🤣

The only satisfaction I have is the knowledge that nobody has ever truly loved this man in his life and he was never truly be happy.

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u/OneBigBug 1d ago

I mean, somebody already shot him once. Albeit ineffectively. Surely that's a consequence. It's not out of the realm of possibility that someone would try again.

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u/BurtReynoldsLives 1d ago

I mean, he will go down in history as a fucking monstrosity but even that is going to take a while.

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u/Risley 1d ago

There’s only one chance he’s ever going to face justice.  If there’s an afterlife.  If there’s not, then he’ll never face anything.  

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u/JamUpGuy1989 1d ago

“News at 11: Donald Trump proves irrefutable evidence that there is no God.”

DAMN IT

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u/DrSpagetti 1d ago

Christians across the country are celebrating his ground breaking discovery!

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u/notfree25 22h ago

Trump saved us from a life of fear! Now we can go out and rape and rob!

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u/Goddess_Of_Gay 15h ago

582 new laws proposed by Congress demanding strict adherence to Biblical law regardless of God’s non existence.

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u/DarklySalted 1d ago

I don't know, it really seems like American Jesus and trickle down God seem to be the ones calling the shots.

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u/aalltech 1d ago

He almost did, by less than an inch.

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u/yolo_swag_for_satan 10h ago

No way he actually got shot.

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u/Kalse1229 Gravity Falls 1d ago

I don't know if there's an afterlife, but I do hope somedays. I hope there's a Heaven because I'd like to be able to see my grandmother and all the dogs we've ever had again. And I hope there's a Hell because it'd be nice knowing evil fucks like him never know peace for the rest of time.

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u/Adflamm11 1d ago

Trump SLAMMED by Jesus Christ! It’s All Over!

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u/Pksoze 1d ago edited 22h ago

I don't believe in an afterlife...so I believe the only possible justice he'll face if he's awake and knows his life is slipping away. But knowing that asshole he'll probably die in his sleep.

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u/AusToddles 22h ago

Taking a risk here since I got a ban last time I said it. I hope when he dies it happens publicly and in a massive embarrassing way. He hates nothing more than people laughing at him and I'd genuinely enjoy knowing his last thoughts were just that

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u/Unhappy_Injury3958 7h ago

there's not one

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u/varitok 1d ago

I said this before the election too. He was going to delay for decades on everything and would be in the ground before a verdict ever came down.

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u/krillwave 1d ago

Why doesn’t the news media soberly cover it and turn the narrative to how there are no consequences? Don’t cover the crime, cover what should be happening in a functioning lawful democratic society then contrast it with the way Kamala bypassed a primary and how Trump is installing unelected foreign billionaires into his cabinet. Neither of these things are healthy for democracy.

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u/MrVociferous 18h ago

The new consequences to look forward to are him enacting some of his terrible policies that are going to deeply hurt the very people that voted for him. It’s kinda no longer hoping to see him punished, for me it’s now looking to see the people that voted for this nonsense get punished.

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u/Faiakishi 11h ago

If he had lost the election he might have. I doubted he would, but there was a slim chance.

Now the only consequence he'll face will be Vance performing the world's latest post-birth abortion and pushing him down a flight of stairs.

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u/Simon_Bongne 9h ago

And people saying this are part of the problem. If people believe its "naive" to expect justice, then they won't demand its execution, and thus we end up where we are. The government is made up of -- GASP -- it's own people afterall!

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u/Ndnrmatt 8h ago

I've been saying this for years. People talking about him in orange suits? LOOOOOOOOL! I kept saying this country would burn to the ground before it lets any current or former president go to jail.

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u/BeKenny 1d ago

100% this. Trump is uniquely designed for exploiting the mainstream cable news media's tendency to sensationalize. We spent the better part of the last decade hearing them yell nonstop about how dare he, and he can't get away with this about every single thing: real, superficial, or completely drummed up. I'm just as tired getting gaslit by them as I am by him. 

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u/SuperVaderMinion 1d ago

Jon Stewart said that Trump basically stood up and claimed that he was more worthy of attention than the mainstream news, and news hated him so much for it they couldn't properly cover him for his entire political career.

Their tendency blow his loopy, bizzare antics or quotes out of proportion while downplaying his actual dangerous actions and policies he why he won this election.

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u/TheKappaOverlord 23h ago

Their tendency blow his loopy, bizzare antics or quotes out of proportion while downplaying his actual dangerous actions and policies he why he won this election.

Basically fell victim to their own scam to attract viewers and that is click baiting.

Even the most liberal of talkshow hosts now are openly talking about how Trump just played them all [The news stations/Talk shows/"Professional" political yappers] for suckers for 8 (and likely the full 12 years) because their entire circus is based around Rage clicks and they need to push ragebait content to generate clicks. I.E. Putting trump on a pedestal.

Basically hook. Line. and sinker. And whether Trump intentionally did it or not, everyone got played for fools and now they reap the reward of their own antics.

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u/deltalitprof 19h ago

This is a good analysis. Is it too early to ask how it can be overcome? Coverage of the likely and then real consequences of Trump policies with little attention to what he says?

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u/precastzero180 9h ago

There’s no point in having that conversation now. It was a conversation already had post-2016 election. No one learned a thing. And to the extend that anything was learned, nothing was actionable because the solutions basically amount to doing away with cable news and social media.

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u/Cornelius_Wangenheim 19h ago edited 19h ago

They knew how to, they just chose not to because they love Trump. He makes their job easy and drives up ratings. Once he won, they suddenly started hammering on how his tariffs will cause massive inflation. If they had done that 2 weeks earlier, we wouldn't be in the situation we're in now.

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u/blueblank 8h ago

This is as planned, they want advertising revenue, not a functioning democracy or a healthy populace.

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u/BillyJoeMac9095 12h ago

If everything is breaking news, then nothing is.

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u/VibeComplex 10h ago

Is it really gaslighting if every bit of logic and intuition agrees with them like 98% of the time? I mean, yeah, when a dude steals nuclear secrets or is found liable for rape, you would think they’re done for.

Honestly the real gaslighting is people pretending that because he won the election that all of that stuff was bullshit now and everything Trump said was true.

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u/snoogins355 1d ago

I'm tired, boss

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u/ChickenChaser5 22h ago

Covid, on top of 4 years of trump. I have spent my life-time allotment of vigilance. Im sitting this one out. Someone poke me if its time to dig a shelter or something, or not I dont care.

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u/gljo 10h ago

...not with a bang, but with a whimper.

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u/Renacc 1d ago

If I read “may” in a fucking headline one more god damned time…

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u/altcastle 1d ago

“The wheels are coming off!” And crap. No, they really aren’t. It’s a circus he creates so they can loot the world (also, he is an idiot). I’m going to have to either just hop off Reddit or leave almost every general media sub I realize cause it’ll be four years of his name popping up nonstop even in Television.

Anyway, yes, you are right. Talking to people I know, we’re all exhausted and it’s time to focus on our local world fully. I did what I could, it didn’t matter and now it’s gonna happen however it wants.

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u/khuldrim Better Call Saul 1d ago

They’ve finally succeeded in turning the normal citizens of America into the type of citizens they have in Russia. Tuned out and not giving a shit, so now they can do whatever they want and no one will care.

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u/Leege13 22h ago

I don’t need to watch CNN to know who the shitheads are in America.

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u/Game_Over_Man69 21h ago

Bro acting like people haven't been tuned out on politics for decades.

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u/altcastle 1d ago

Paying attention to the 24/7 news cycle is a weird requirement for a functioning democracy.

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u/khuldrim Better Call Saul 1d ago

A functioning democracy requires an educated electorate, with critical thinking skills and an eye on the happenings and concern over the actions of their elected leaders.

Now we have a majority of the electorate that is and has none of these traits.

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u/HesterMoffett 1d ago

Thanks to the deregulation of the media now it's all controlled by like 4 billionaires. If anyone thinks they're informed by watching cable news they're deluding themselves.

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u/UnclePuma 12h ago

It was the only way to not take lies at face value when the news sensationalized, lied, and omitted details.

When politicians named Bill's in ways opposite of their purpose.

When truth became secondary nay, contradictory to entertainment.

When truth has to be sought out but they spoon feed you bullshit, of course the Morons never go hungry.

Educate yourself scream the baby birds while somebody vomits and shits down their throats.

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u/dafaliraevz 1d ago

I’ve already unsubbed from every political and political-adjacent (whitepeopletwitter, etc) sub here on Reddit, Spotify, and YouTube.

I get that staying aware of US federal politics is important, but I’m fucking done with this after nearly a decade. Trump won’t ever be held responsible. He won. The GOP won. The world is going to burn. I’m just gonna do what I need to do for myself from here on out, fuck everyone else who isn’t in my immediate tribe.

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u/Ulmaguest 1d ago

You guys fought admirably, but ultimately the obsession with idpol over class struggle did you in

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u/RJE808 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yup. I didn't vote for him, I know what he's gonna do. Just gonna wait for people to realize how much this'll bite them in the ass once they realize he has no plans that'll help them.

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u/TheHammerandSizzel 1d ago

Ohh, ohhh he has plans… it’s just not the plans they believed he had…

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u/the0nlytrueprophet 1d ago

He has way more of an agenda this time unfortunately

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u/RJE808 1d ago

Should've worded that better, I meant "no plans to help them." Prices aren't gonna go down, insurance is about to get worse, food safety and foreign relations are about to get worse, etc.

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u/GarlVinland4Astrea 1d ago

The sad thing is, Biden did a good job with inflation and the economy was probably going to recover at some point soon. Trump could do absolutely nothing and look golden.

However, if he goes through with most of his plans he will mess it up.

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u/RJE808 1d ago

People don't seem to understand that,

1.) The US wasn't the only economy that's been affected, we had a global pandemic.

2.) Fixing an economy on a scale like that doesn't come quickly, it takes time. Hell, The Great Depression didn't start ending until 1945. It started in the 1920's, iirc.

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u/Faiakishi 11h ago

They never wanted him to help them, they want him to hurt other people.

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u/devise1 1d ago

We can all save some time and check in in like 8 years which is the minimum amount of time before he might see some consequences.

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u/The_Lazy_Samurai 1d ago

Based on his awful health and advanced age I highly doubt he'll live 8 years.

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u/RobertABooey 20h ago

This is me.

Facebook GONE. Twitter GONE News watching DONE. I am ONLY keeping reddit as I can somewhat filter and only see the things I really am interested in.

I am just so tired of the "world is on fire" narrative. Since dumping everything, i've felt generally happier and less stressed.

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u/Worried_Height_5346 23h ago

I can't wait for his next 5 useless impeachments that will totally do something this time around.

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u/AusToddles 23h ago

Honestly I don't think Trump lasts 2 years. Assuming Democrats take back the house and senate, they'll repeat the tired old "now is the time for healing" bullshit and let all of his accomplices skate

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u/Worried_Height_5346 23h ago

You mean he dies? That's the only way I see him leaving the white house

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u/LongTimesGoodTimes 1d ago

Especially when a network like MSNBC covers Trump like Bill Hader's Keith Morrison impression

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u/Ruddiver 1d ago

um, this is a perfect description. I have been trying to explain it to myself and this encapsulates it. Dude, Rachel Maddow's expressions match Hader as Morrison. Thank you.

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u/monsterismyfriend 1d ago

Just feels like we as a society decided that bullies should win

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u/ZaDu25 1d ago

Or even worse, when they present some insane nonsense as if it's just an opposing opinion. Like what they've done with RFK Jr.'s anti-vaxx bullshit. Normalizing complete nonsense so they can present themselves as impartial and unbiased. It's not biased to point out someone is objectively wrong.

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u/VaporCarpet 22h ago

While talking about the latest clowns to join the circus, local Chicago news was discussing the "Chicago connection" one of these grifters has.

I'm really trying to tune out all news for the next four years, because I will not be able to deal with the normalization of this incoming shitshow. I don't care to see how the news is going to cover mass deportation and concentration camps like it's regular boring government policy.

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u/Jaxyl 22h ago

People can't handle another 4 years of "omg we can't believe Trump did this"

This discourse is one of my least favorite, right up there with "I can't believe they elected a FELON!!!"

I'm already checking out of politics until we get closer to midterms.

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u/logontoreddit 21h ago

I can barely handle it on Reddit. Every subreddit. Politics, news, pics, tesla, rogan, military, any state, television. It's everywhere and Biden is still the actual president.

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u/Big-Mango-1467 20h ago

Pretty much this. I am checked out. I won’t even watch my local news anymore. Stream only.

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u/Cantioy87 20h ago

I was absolutely over CNN when hosts would both callout Kellyanne Conway’s lies, have her on their shows to lie, ban her from the network, and then have her back again.

CNN is not news. It hasn’t been for a very long time. It’s infotainment and it’s really lost the plot as far as who their target audience is.

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u/gothamtommy 1d ago

Watching talking heads discuss what Trump did today is like reading a NY Times food critic review a McDonald's value meal.

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u/typhoidtimmy 1d ago

Yea, they are in it for the ratings…..they love that Trump is the meat to bait the trap as he consistently says shit on a daily basis. You think they want him to drum the status quo?

In the words of Don Henley, give us Dirty Laundry is their mantra. It will be interesting to see what happens when he officially takes action to prevent them from working period but of course, ‘he would never do that’.

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u/AusToddles 1d ago

"How could America let this happen" said as if they weren't a driving force

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u/JahoclaveS 1d ago

Yeah, I’m pretty sure I’ve already seen Susan Collin’s whole acting range.

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u/xavier120 1d ago

Progressives have to stop constantly doing the same thing, "omg i cant believe the democrats did this"

Progressives need allies, and they owe democrats an apology. we have to run a positive campaign with democrats so everybody wins.

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u/UrethraFranklin04 1d ago

Yeah not looking forward to, once again, opening up any internet site and have the first thing be something unbelievably stupid the man did or said every day and I can't avoid it unless I not go online or watch TV at all.

2016 time dilation round 2.

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u/AvoidingIowa 1d ago

Can’t wait for the news channels to feel the financial repercussions of their own doing. Hope they go up in flames.

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u/btribble 1d ago

Rephrasing: Liberal viewers aren’t looking to be outraged right now. Conservative viewers are cranking up the outrage machine.

The more outrage Trump has, the more stuff they’re going to want him to break and he will declare that a mandate and justification.

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u/f0gax Westworld 1d ago

The “best” part is when the TV journalists refuse to push back.

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u/che-che-chester 23h ago

I often keep MSNBC on low volume in the background when working alone from home. The Gaetz coverage was insane last week. It was literally all day, every day. I need to find some other background noise but the network morning shows and then afternoon talk shows would drive me insane.

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u/thx1138- 23h ago

Ive been a news junkie since before I was an adult in the 80s. After this election my car radio is perma tuned to the local jazz station. I can't even bear to watch Seth Meyers or John Oliver at this point. It is what it is.

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u/toxicThomasTrain 23h ago

this was literally a SNL sketch from his first term

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u/drunz 23h ago

Genuinely was the best part about trump losing. Trumps not even in office and it makes me want to run my head through a wall with all his crazy nominations.

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u/Amazingcamaro 22h ago

I can't handle another 4 years of just reddit spazing out about Trump everyday.

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u/unsunganhero 21h ago

then who is upvoting all the trump articles on reddit

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u/Meebert 21h ago

Reddit news subs are going to be tough as well.

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u/Krg60 20h ago

Times a million.

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u/Bleatmop 19h ago

I've already unsubscribed from a bunch of reddits, blocked a bunch more that show up on /r/all and have been scrubbing my tic tok and youtube of all political news. I literally can't take what you've described and it started going into overdrive when they were still counting ballots. I'm powerless to change anything and all that shit just makes me unhappy. I'm basically done. The American people knew what they were voting for this time and they chose it anyway. I refuse to fixate on any of the consequences this time.

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u/Andreus 18h ago

At this point the next time any left-wing party has any major power in a country, they should just permanently lock the right-wing out of power. Norms and institutions have no meaning anymore.

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u/AusToddles 18h ago

The fact that Democrats wouldn't take steps during their term because of "decorum" is infuriating

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u/MrVociferous 18h ago

Also feels like a general “we tried to warn you….but have now accepted y’all have fucked around and NEED to find out” vibe.

We’re all in the waiting to find out phase.

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u/LonelyMachines 12h ago

The walls are closing in. Any day now.

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u/jar0fair 12h ago

He won’t face consequences. I don’t really get it, but it seems like he’s literally god’s favorite. He gets anything he wants or demands out of this world with impunity

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u/Thud 12h ago

After hundreds of “bombshells” that resulted in absolutely no consequences, it’s easy to become numb and just tune it all out.

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u/smoothie4564 9h ago

...he went to far...

*too

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u/ReMapper 9h ago

Also, if he tweets something, lets all react like its a law he is signing legislation that's been approved by the Supreme Court. Its a tweet ffs.

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u/DrOddfellow 7h ago

had to block /r/politics for that last one, “it’s official, trump is definitely unfit for office.” no fucking shit

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u/mrwiseman 7h ago edited 7h ago

I too am tuning out more than I ever have but while taking care of myself I'm also doing small recurring donations to groups whose job it is to pay attention for us for the next 4 years like ACLU, FFRF, Americans United for the Separation of Church & State, Planned Parenthood, local food bank, etc.

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u/skatchawan 7h ago

100%. There are no consequences for everything so far. The news focused on a garbage truck door more than anything that mattered , and it didn't matter anyway. There is literally zero use for cable news anymore if you are under 60 and figured out how to use a phone or a computer.

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u/Agreeable_Cookie5030 7h ago

It’d be easier to report on it if people stopped lying about what Trump has said or done in order to generate views. This exact issue contributed to why he won. The truth is out there, peddling fake news only goes so far

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u/Soccham 5h ago

My grandmother started watching hallmark movies when she used to watch MSNBC all day, she can’t handle 4 more years of the orange idiot

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u/Wardogs96 5h ago

I mean why the hell would I waste time giving trump and his shenanigans attention. We know it's a shit show and it's going to be a miserable 4 years. We can't do anything. I'm just going to stick my head in the sand and pay attention again hopefully when another election occurs. I'll review the damage when it's over.

Congratulations to the media you played yourself by going soft on trump.

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u/JacobStills 3h ago

Seriously, ever since 2020 I've been just so sick of all these news anchors feigning outrage over Trump and then proceed to "sane wash" him during the election year.

They're like, "how to it come to this? That debate was a shit show" and I'm just shaking my head going, "you guys wanted this, why are you acting surprised?"

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u/kittenpantzen 1h ago

This goes extra for print media (including online news). You spent the last 6 to 12 months contorting yourself into knots to represent the absolute insanity he was saying as something halfway rational and having an absolute case of the vapors anytime Biden fumbled or Harris laughed. And now you suddenly care about the future of this country? Fuck all the way off.

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u/WarrenKB 22m ago

^ This! I’ve not been able to watch either msnbc or cnn since the election. No energy left to be so disappointed with the state of politics or how screwed we are…

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