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Johnny2X2X

(24,429 posts)
39. So true
Thu May 14, 2026, 08:33 AM
Thursday

I think I fully realized it during the 2024 campaign when Trump was completely controlling the media coverage of both he and Biden and then Harris. When it came out in court before that that Trump basically had medi9a members from the NY Times and MSNBC on his campaign payroll and it was barely covered as a scandal I realized that he spent the last 4 years corrupting the media and if he had plants at the NYT and MSNBC, he had plants everywhere. I told a friend that if he has the media in his pocket like I think he might, it won't matter who runs against him, he will beat them. And that's exactly what played out where the media just magnified his campaign's themes and hammered Biden and then Harris. The his buddy took over Twitter and he started paling around with Zuckerberg and I knew he had social media too.

I don't know if we can win with the media being controlled like this. Substance doesn't matter when the GOP can just utter their opponent is woke, and then the media parrots it while social media fills voters' social media feeds with propaganda. I don't know if we can break through that without doing work behind the scenes to uncorrupt all of this.

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Is that a prosthetic? Girard442 Thursday #1
Oh, god. If he's going bionic COL Mustard Thursday #3
What a nightmare! wnylib Thursday #23
It looks pretty mutilizated. Harker Thursday #2
Where is the "missing chunk" located? Silver Gaia Thursday #4
I think the reference is to a perceived divot in the lower center of the backside of the right hand. John1956PA Thursday #7
If you enlarge the image, and look right above the cuff, there is a niyad Thursday #8
I am an old woman. When I hold my hand at the same angle, I have a deep divot to the right of the tendon and a shallower ratchiweenie Thursday #59
I don't know bucolic_frolic Thursday #5
that was one hell of a puncture eShirl Thursday #15
Rot away malaise Thursday #6
Bleed long and fester. nt Xipe Totec Thursday #32
March on, oh Spirochete! displacedvermoter Thursday #42
I see what you did there CanonRay Thursday #55
This message was self-deleted by its author Xipe Totec Friday #68
Don't hate me... zanana1 Thursday #9
I'm 83. My hands don't look nothing like those claws. 3Hotdogs Thursday #21
No...there is definitely flesh missing... Trueblue Texan Thursday #47
ahve plenty of folks in my life 70-98, none of their hands are like that obamanut2012 Thursday #56
His fuckhead KKKultists will call it stigmata Orrex Thursday #10
That is some disgraceful shit there Redleg Thursday #14
"Rubes" is far too polite a term for those ignorant racist fuckheads Orrex Thursday #18
To prove that he is Jesus, he would have to wnylib Thursday #30
It is far too polite for some of them- I am trying to moderate my language somewhat Redleg Thursday #50
That's scarrification from getting ongoing IV sticks indusurb Thursday #11
Looks the same to me. Old hand + IV Sympthsical Thursday #29
Yes ... plus he plays a lot of golf ... so a lot of time in the sun FakeNoose Thursday #35
Oh let's speculate! yardwork Thursday #46
He's main lining prime rib. dem4decades Thursday #48
Don't you mean Big Mac's? The Madcap Thursday #53
For chemo, they generally create a port. NH Ethylene Thursday #58
Yes. They put a port in the upper chest for chemo. Silver Gaia Thursday #67
Yeah MustLoveBeagles Thursday #62
OUCH zanana1 Thursday #37
He just needs more cholesterol. twodogsbarking Thursday #12
Yes, a favorite sign from the No Kings marches: "Cholesterol - Do your job!" TheRickles Thursday #13
Whatever it is, I hope it is nothing minor.. niyad Thursday #16
Okay :: That Took Me a Second (Look) Or Two ahnakneemoose Thursday #40
That's understandable. It is early yet. niyad Thursday #44
I have a missing muscle under my left thumb on the palm side. I'm back in the US to have sinkingfeeling Thursday #17
Absurd. He has old hands because he is old. I don't see chunks gone. Ridiculous. Srkdqltr Thursday #19
Blow the photo up... Trueblue Texan Thursday #49
Necrosis is a terrible thing. Kid Berwyn Thursday #20
Chemo Johnny2X2X Thursday #22
US media is part of the Trump Crime Syndicate. Irish_Dem Thursday #26
So true Johnny2X2X Thursday #39
He wins because of all of it, not just the media. Irish_Dem Thursday #43
His lawsuit vs the IRS Johnny2X2X Thursday #45
It's definately weird looking. Like a circular burn, the skin next to the circle looks more normal. Swede Thursday #24
I'm not seeing it. It just looks like an arthritic, wrinkly, gross, tiny hand. Vinca Thursday #25
He's been shaking too many hands... sop Thursday #27
Stigmata. C_U_L8R Thursday #28
That hand photo needed to come with a trigger warning. NCDem47 Thursday #31
Melania is slapping his hand away more vigorously nowadays. Norrrm Thursday #33
It looks more like a bulging vein to me GoCubsGo Thursday #34
Too many needle sticks pfitz59 Thursday #36
Chunk of flesh? Nah . . . but definitely shitty circulation, courtesy of age and needles . . . hatrack Thursday #38
Think RFK Jr. Leech or piranha therapy. usonian Thursday #41
I'm calling it... Happy Hoosier Thursday #51
So is his brain. His mane just covers it. spanone Thursday #52
Looks like fat atrophy to me. Ms. Toad Thursday #54
It may just be Ebola. gab13by13 Thursday #57
Nothing is missing on his hand. MineralMan Thursday #60
Proceed. Blue Owl Thursday #61
trump is not well LetMyPeopleVote Thursday #63
Yes, impatient republianmushroom Thursday #64
Nothing remarkable for an almost 80-year-old on aspirin or blood thinners. Too much wishful thinking. Doodley Thursday #65
My dad will be 82 in July and his hands look nothing like that Rob H. Thursday #66
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