The election of Donald Trump (the FIRST time, ugh) exposed all the media failures we needed to know about and shit has only got worse
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2026
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This would never have happened if Biden didn't rig the election. He made it so Trump won and all this pain and exposure is the result. Damn dirty dems.
I dont know why you got down voted. You're right.
The establishment democrats tried to rig the election. It wasn't sloppy voter fraud. They tried to pick their candidate with Harris (after already forcing us to vote for Biden the first time). It was clear in 2020 that the most popular candidate was Bernie. They just made sure to have 20 other primary candidates with different enough edge issues that it kept the vote split.
As soon as I heard Biden's name back then I knew we were fucked. I remember outload saying "please no" on the bus. It's a core memory for me. Biden was going to ride Obama's coat tails into office over the socialist that we needed.
That's when I knew the democrats were just good cop. Biden proved it when he sided with the railroad companies during the workers strike.
And he proved it again when he dropped out after the 2024 primaries and endorsed Kamila.
It was bullshit then and its still bullshit now and we all remember it.
The railroad workers' strike really gave the game away as to whom the Democrats actually represent: Biden made some reasonable points about how a transportation shutdown would affect the economy and national security, which would've provided ample justification to nationalize the rails and use access to them as leverage. (With the side benefit of fixing most of Amtrak's problems.) But there was no talk of the railroad companies feeling any of the pain. Protecting the economy was a burden that the workers had to shoulder alone.
And at that time, TikTok was still mostly free and open, and general public sentiment was firmly with the workers. Even with the traditional media not really giving a clear picture of the events, Gen Z, Gen Alpha, and Millennials were all firmly with the workers. Biden had a softball, but he chose the rich.
I think they're trying to sarcastically imply that it's not bidens fault at all
you're right though.
From what little i know, this all started already in the 70s, where the president basically sold the population.
The simple reason why the facts aren’t known is that the American public doesn’t care enough to tune in, or at least those who run the media corporations don’t think the American public cares. Put another way: There’s no money in it.
I'm not convinced the motives of the media companies are profit driven these days. But it's hard to argue against the perspective of a journalist.
"When somebody says it's not about the money, it's about the money."
-H.L. Mencken
Money gets you media companies. Media companies get you power. Which gets you money...
I guess my point was that I don't really think these decisions are motivated by increasing profit to the media companies. That they're happy to take a loss in this one investment to further their other goals.
Agreed. If I can make billions fracking and it costs me millions to shift the narrative for enough people to get my bill passed I'm still making tons of money.
Most of us want the same things, just some of us have completely ingested lies and half truths the news spews. They legitimately believe all leftists want Marxist communism across the world.
Major media is complicit. They are doing the Epstein class's bidding by Gaslighting Obstructing and Projecting.
Media is owned by the Epstein class.
This wasn’t always true. But after the consolidations and mergers the last 40 years, there are now very few media companies.
And most of the ownership is by those who need investigating the most themselves
I have to wonder, when it's Donald's time to ghost America, will the GOP ghost him like they've done to Mitch, or will they continue to fawn over his bloated corpse? Do they drag this failing administration out past the breaking point, or do they immediately try to snatch the scepter?
I think the whole thing will devolve into infighting.
Yeah, this. All the charisma-free minions will probably try to do a power grab the moment Donnie snuffs it.
If nothing else it will be fun to watch.
The "thing" being the USA.
Once he's dead, he'll cease to be useful, and he will be left behind. The MAGA CHUDS will still worship him, because they're stupid.
They've already got the AI Donald ready to go
That would make for a fascinating and terrifying 2030s.
I think, yes.
I was there in the olden times when "the news" came on at 6p and 11p and could be trusted.
I was there when if someone told you blatant disinformation (we called them urban legends) there was no way to check it.
I was there when people paid money out of their own pockets for newspapers and magazines.
"News" today is no different than YouTubers and TikTokers trying to get views so they can get ad revenue. The more sensational but believable, the better.
We did this to ourselves. I haven't paid for any news since whatever the last time was that I bought a magazine or a newspaper, but it was not this decade, that's for sure.
There's literally nothing left on this here "Information Superhighway" other than disinformation and ads. That's the only revenue stream there is for "the news" anymore. We've incentivized disinformation. We did this.
Failures? All I see is it working exactly as they want it to
and call Iranian leaders “scum,” while
calling them "japanese".
The call out to TMZ was depressing. I have no idea how we are supposed to dig out of this whole. Electing capable people is like step 1 of 100.
mystery exposes media failures
says the self same media. stupid cunts
These media failures have existed for the majority of the past 40-50 years. It wasn't so brazen but they've been lying for decades.