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In reply to the discussion: Trump's hand is missing a chunk of flesh..new speculations about his health [View all]Johnny2X2X
(24,429 posts)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.