Another brilliant gem Leah! And it resonates as deeply as you can imagine regarding my personal situation. Appreciate the link library and have another to add--the American Debunk--
Thank you, friend. I actually thought of you numerous times while writing this.❤️🩹
Thank you especially for that link. BOOM. It's the gem of gems. I've pinned your comment so everyone who reads here can easily discover it. Thanks again!
Great essay Leah Rose. I learned long ago that many on the left will do or say whatever it takes to achieve or support their political ends. Truth matters little because they're on the right side of history and they hold the moral high ground. Just ask them and they will tell you.
Thanks C.S! While letting the ends justify the means is a universal human failure, I agree with you—it's become the M.O. of the political Left. It is also the M.O. of totalitarians, and yet the Good Dems who follow their leaders and point fearfully at Trump don't even recognize they are being led down the very road they're scared he'll take. It's kinda deranging to anyone trying to make rational sense of.
Another great essay, Leah, that fleshes out a concept I’ve tried to express in a more rudimentary way to friends who like Trump’s policies and competencies but dislike his bedside manner. This came to a head after Trump’s June debate with Biden and the unveiling of the media’s crass, three-year propaganda effort to hide Biden’s decrepitude. My friends’ reaction then was, “Wow, we’ve been epically lied to about Biden and now I know he can’t be president, but I still won’t vote for Trump because he is a bad person.” My reaction: “Do you realize that the same media has also been epically lying to you about Trump for the past 9 years and that is why you dislike him?” Not sure I’ve changed hearts and minds yet - people who have been propagandized take a long time to get over it. Your essay is great and hopefully it will help some folks see reality.
Thanks Bart! It sure seems the fog of ideological war is thick and blinding to a lot of people. Luckily I think there is potential for people waking up (per my Burn of Blue Gaslight essay) when someone feels the actual pain of their cognitive dissonance. It's a very individual and personal journey, but we likely all know someone who has awakened to the con. Patience is the challenge for all the truth-tellers.
This sums it all up! HOWEVER...I haven recklessly taken it upon myself to EVER SO GENTLY inform various "friends" on my FB roster of devoted unhinged deluded Democrats that there's more to the story, and got unfriended in response.
It's as if they don't want to know the truth. This is the trait that I find most compelling. Why do they need to believe and promulgate what the Good Samaritan is trying to convey isn't quite so drastic as it seems? Do they NEED to catastrophize?
Case in point: Second cousin has a major case of TDS. She posts that Trump is promising a "bloodbath" will ensue if he doesn't win the election. I gently try to tell her the context and what were his exact words. She then goes into a shrill cry about immigrant "rapists." I gently respond that the D Party appears to have cut a deal with Venezuela to import its career criminals over here; my partner is Venezuelan, and I have firsthand knowledge that Caracas is so dangerous due to "defunded" police that his parents drive an armored car.
She unfriended me for that comment.
Another "friend" just put up a background photo of two people holding up a trans flag that reads "Respect my trans homies or I'm going to identify an f'n problem." She has chided me over the past year for posting information on the botched surgeries, the social contagion, etc. I should just "be kind." What do I have against trans people? Blah blah. One would expect this professor emeritus to be a bit more probing and curious, but she apparently reads none of my detailed, informative posts (the articles, essays, primary source testimonials.)
Anyway, in response to this photo, I posted the other side: a PITT piece called something like "Trans, the Family Destroyer." Mothers grieving for their lost sons and daughters. The estrangements. The abject pain and sorrow of watching your kid get sucked into a very bad idea.
She unfriended me. A "single mom" to a Guatemalan son. I remember thinking, when I posted this comment/ article: this is a test. I suspect she's a moral narcissist. Her issues are not so much about the people she's championing, but about HERSELF. Cloaking an evil dark side. So I thought, If she can't respond to what this is doing to families? That underscores my analysis of her true character. Sure enough. Unfriended and blocked.
Any time I have tried, with a carefully crafted, focus on the issue, to clarify a point, I have been piled on, called names, and summarily dispatched.
The synthesis is that they simply do not want to know the truth. They enjoy hating people. And they can't be wrong. SUNK COST FALLACY.
It’s the Plato’s Cave analogy. The MSM has been churning out human-shaped shadows for their walls at an overwhelming rate. They have absorbed all the information from the shadows and created a scary world. But if they ever escaped from the cave, they would discover that their “reality” was only a distortion.
Because, like you, I’m stuck in a world where (nearly) everyone I know is living deep inside the cave, and there simply isn’t any way to bring them out into the light. It’s so ironic: back in 2015 or 2016, Trump said “fake news”, and the media just couldn’t WAIT to prove him right!
Wasn't thinking of the Plato's Cave when I wrote The Burn of Blue Gaslight, but the way you've sketched it here brings that essay to mind. Great point about the media owning the "fake news" label, lol.
Your writing has kept me sane through this election cycle! I had an email exchange with a family member that was (pretty much) exactly what you’re describing. I started the email with an excerpt from Tangle where I basically said, “the post mortem analysis is fascinating”. One family member agreed and another disagreed, but relatively civilly at first. I took the bait (consciously) and defended my positions - and the family member quickly descended into irrational TDS. I did a “what I hear you saying is ...” and stated that I was going to leave it at that. I was seeking some intellectual curiosity and discussion from a very smart person and all I got was moralizing and vitriol. Maybe I should have expected it, but nevertheless, I was surprised at his inability to even acknowledge there could be another perspective worth considering. The kicker is that this person isn’t a US citizen and doesn’t live in the US … so can’t even vote here!
I appreciate your article and the sources put forth. I fear they won’t do much good, even though I wish they would, and here is why.
You said “You have to seek out independent media—the individuals, platforms, and companies that exist expressly to question and challenge the accepted values, facts, and narratives circumscribing the institutional bubble.”
Obviously you and I and like minded others know this to be true, but a huge part of the problem is that these people have been so thoroughly brainwashed/trained that they dismiss out of hand the majority of individuals, platforms, and companies outside the institutional bubble. They’ll claim independent news outlets are “right wing news”; now that X is owned by Elon Musk (a former democrat who they used to love and praise, and now have suddenly turned on…sound familiar?) they will just claim news posted on X is fake or propaganda or conspiracy.
Form my own personal experience:
A few months before the election, I merely mentioned - completely outside of any political context - that I had joined X…to which one of these moral high ground dems responded something to the effect of “Ew that place is SUCH a *cesspool*”
And I can still hear the moral superiority and disgust dripping from their voice.
I don’t know if there’s any way to get through to someone like that…someone who holds absolute contempt for anything outside the institutional bubble, simply because the institutional bubble told them everything outside is contemptible….
Yep, you make the same point as one of my daughters, who has a very similar story to tell—even about joining X, lol. It's certainly true that people cannot see with their eyes closed. But it's also true that individuals can and do awaken as they bump into hard and painful things that cause them to crack open their eyelids and let in some light. Quite often that leads to them opening them wide and taking in the actual landscape. I just keep praying the next few years will do even more than the last four to help that process. We shall see (literally😆)... 🙏🏻
Thank you so very much. This essay has shown me in words all the things I’ve been thinking all along. I’ve been trying all along to understand the mindset of the Trump haters, seeing people who are seemingly intelligent with such hatred. You laid it out so clearly. Thank you so much. And thank you also for the links, very helpful.
This is SO timely. I woke up today distressed about how to talk to my 20 year old daughter about her {unoriginal} Instagram post regarding Trump voters. The post we have all seen declaring that Orange man Devil voters all support rape, racism, end of democracy, etc. etc.
A light conversation w/ my daughter suggesting she consider that this is not the case is brutally hard to have. I don’t even know how to utter the first 5 words without her shutting her mind off. THIS article nails it…. My daughter and others are describing a completely different person than I am. We are NOT in the same game, same space, same playing field. We are in different realities- hers created by the media and lying government officials.
I remember where I was standing when I realized almost all of the network news anchors were using the same phrases to discuss the current events of the day. And I said outloud, “how do they all know the same thing to say every single day? Is there, like, a memo that goes out at 3am?” Duh, yes. That was about four years ago. And now I will never be able to un-see what I have seen. Thank you.
Oh and the LINKS are so helpful to have in one place.
Serendipity!❤ Hope you can figure out how to have a constructive convo with your girl. These are tough times for open communication. And yeah, I'd love to see that memo; the conspiracy is real!😆
Deepstate and bankers set the message daily then give it to CNN, MSNBC, NYT, WaPo, etc for the Soviet style propaganda message of the day. It is neither unofficial, unorganized or unintentional.
Enjoyed a well written and dead on accurate substack essay.
The info-graphic on media ownership is interesting but a tad confusing. Reduced to basics: 5 conglomerates own 90% of legacy media outlets.
The basic media propaganda attack (against Trump and now his Cabinet appointees) is always the same because the thought processes for most people has a strong emotionally grounded base (not many Star Trek like Spocks around). Given that fact, the left always starts with an emotional distorted ad hominin attack that sets the baseline for discussion. Now you have to counter the lie before you can move on to the relevant issues that need to be addressed. With that first emotional attack the left can now start to employ Nudge Theory.
A Nudge is a subtle change in the way a choice is presented. It is designed to influence the recipient’s choice by constant repetition over a protracted time frame rather than through direct confrontation. The phrase that “Trump was a threat to Democracy” is the classic example. (more detail in my own substack).
You are absolutely correct that the difference in this last election was the ability of the dissident media (on substack and elsewhere) to counter the false narrative of the legacy media. That and the fact that more and more people have now come to realize the outright dishonesty of the legacy media, which is why their viewer has plummeted. That realization can find its origin in the Pandemic fiasco,
I remember reading an exposé on Nudge. . . maybe by Neil Oliver? . . . partway through the pandemic and feeling so horrified and angry. That they would formalize public manipulation into a whole area of scientific study and strategic programing just felt dystopian. Ugh. I'm so glad the MSM is collapsing under the weight of its own arrogance and lies. Karma bites.
Excellent piece, Leah. I read a book last year (The Indoctrinated Brain, Michael Nehls) that really got into the weeds about how minds can be manipulated, how memories are stored and the role that emotion (or we ‘feel’ about memories) impacts us. Though I’ve always scoffed at bad or misrepresented headlines, I recognize the power they have since, as you suggest, people don’t often actually READ the story, but rather accept the headline as truth or confirmation of a bias. Fears are fed via headlines, anger is stoked and, ultimately, trust is broken. The end goal is to confuse us. The science of manipulation is well documented. I hope our nation begins to see through these manipulations and ‘we the people’ reassert our role in this grand experiment. This is our moment to remove blinders (or masks or ear plugs) and see past the constant diet of obfuscation.
Virtue signalers are anything but virtuous. I don't have to agree with someone to respect them. My disdain for Virtue signalers is boundless. At the same time i have great respect for what i call Virtue sacrificers, those who put their money or lifestyles where their mouths are and actually sacrifice something of value to express their purported beliefs .
That is so true. D-identified friends and family who disdain their R counterparts demonstrate this hypocrisy daily. "I'm so moral that I shall not even tolerate you," they intone. What did we use to say? When you point a finger at someone there are three fingers pointing back at you. Who among them will be brave and humble enough to own it? Time will tell.
I’m so proud of you for letting your voice be heard; I love what I’m hearing. It challenges and enriches me. I suffer from crippling self-doubt, in certain areas, so I understand how hard it is to overcome the poisonous inner critic. Love your essays!! ❤️
Thanks so much, MM. I love knowing you're in the audience cheering me on.🙏🏻💗 (And I'm happy to report that my inner critic seems to have given up and gone home!☺️)
The TDS infected folks like Sweeper698 and the Cheney mischief causing RINOS lost. Tough shit. To the victor go the spoils.
Pay them no mind, Leah . "Their democracy" was soundly defeated at the ballot box. Let them bitch and moan. Good therapy for them. It's like burping your infant .
And the corporate media and the advertising control of content especially BigPharma? How that going Comcast? MSNBC for sale. CNN plummeting . 🤔
So, here we are. Thank God for Elon Musk.
The man is a change agent. The TDS infected loved his electric cars. Not so much now since he refashioned Twitter into X.
Corporate media is dying. Online media has taken its place. Think Joe Rogan.
The TDS crowd will always accuse us of what they are doing themselves. They know it's bad so they accimuse others and excuse their own bad behavior. Cade in point the Sonny broad on The View. Quick station break after accusatory statement about Gaetz . Back on air. Deep legal backtrack. Lie uncovered. She was pissed.
The beat goes on. It will not change . Well, maybe it will. Some brave soul may make the purchase from Comcast, load it with truthful analysis and set an example as Elon did with Twitter and reformatting as X.
Another brilliant gem Leah! And it resonates as deeply as you can imagine regarding my personal situation. Appreciate the link library and have another to add--the American Debunk--
https://americandebunk.com/
Let's save the pearls! They're getting clutched to death.
Thank you, friend. I actually thought of you numerous times while writing this.❤️🩹
Thank you especially for that link. BOOM. It's the gem of gems. I've pinned your comment so everyone who reads here can easily discover it. Thanks again!
I'm about to do the same!
And by pinning I mean restacking. 🙃
Awesome link, thank you.
Great essay Leah Rose. I learned long ago that many on the left will do or say whatever it takes to achieve or support their political ends. Truth matters little because they're on the right side of history and they hold the moral high ground. Just ask them and they will tell you.
Thanks C.S! While letting the ends justify the means is a universal human failure, I agree with you—it's become the M.O. of the political Left. It is also the M.O. of totalitarians, and yet the Good Dems who follow their leaders and point fearfully at Trump don't even recognize they are being led down the very road they're scared he'll take. It's kinda deranging to anyone trying to make rational sense of.
Yes. A connotation of progressive is authoritarian.
Another great essay, Leah, that fleshes out a concept I’ve tried to express in a more rudimentary way to friends who like Trump’s policies and competencies but dislike his bedside manner. This came to a head after Trump’s June debate with Biden and the unveiling of the media’s crass, three-year propaganda effort to hide Biden’s decrepitude. My friends’ reaction then was, “Wow, we’ve been epically lied to about Biden and now I know he can’t be president, but I still won’t vote for Trump because he is a bad person.” My reaction: “Do you realize that the same media has also been epically lying to you about Trump for the past 9 years and that is why you dislike him?” Not sure I’ve changed hearts and minds yet - people who have been propagandized take a long time to get over it. Your essay is great and hopefully it will help some folks see reality.
Thanks Bart! It sure seems the fog of ideological war is thick and blinding to a lot of people. Luckily I think there is potential for people waking up (per my Burn of Blue Gaslight essay) when someone feels the actual pain of their cognitive dissonance. It's a very individual and personal journey, but we likely all know someone who has awakened to the con. Patience is the challenge for all the truth-tellers.
100%.
This sums it all up! HOWEVER...I haven recklessly taken it upon myself to EVER SO GENTLY inform various "friends" on my FB roster of devoted unhinged deluded Democrats that there's more to the story, and got unfriended in response.
It's as if they don't want to know the truth. This is the trait that I find most compelling. Why do they need to believe and promulgate what the Good Samaritan is trying to convey isn't quite so drastic as it seems? Do they NEED to catastrophize?
Case in point: Second cousin has a major case of TDS. She posts that Trump is promising a "bloodbath" will ensue if he doesn't win the election. I gently try to tell her the context and what were his exact words. She then goes into a shrill cry about immigrant "rapists." I gently respond that the D Party appears to have cut a deal with Venezuela to import its career criminals over here; my partner is Venezuelan, and I have firsthand knowledge that Caracas is so dangerous due to "defunded" police that his parents drive an armored car.
She unfriended me for that comment.
Another "friend" just put up a background photo of two people holding up a trans flag that reads "Respect my trans homies or I'm going to identify an f'n problem." She has chided me over the past year for posting information on the botched surgeries, the social contagion, etc. I should just "be kind." What do I have against trans people? Blah blah. One would expect this professor emeritus to be a bit more probing and curious, but she apparently reads none of my detailed, informative posts (the articles, essays, primary source testimonials.)
Anyway, in response to this photo, I posted the other side: a PITT piece called something like "Trans, the Family Destroyer." Mothers grieving for their lost sons and daughters. The estrangements. The abject pain and sorrow of watching your kid get sucked into a very bad idea.
She unfriended me. A "single mom" to a Guatemalan son. I remember thinking, when I posted this comment/ article: this is a test. I suspect she's a moral narcissist. Her issues are not so much about the people she's championing, but about HERSELF. Cloaking an evil dark side. So I thought, If she can't respond to what this is doing to families? That underscores my analysis of her true character. Sure enough. Unfriended and blocked.
Any time I have tried, with a carefully crafted, focus on the issue, to clarify a point, I have been piled on, called names, and summarily dispatched.
The synthesis is that they simply do not want to know the truth. They enjoy hating people. And they can't be wrong. SUNK COST FALLACY.
It’s the Plato’s Cave analogy. The MSM has been churning out human-shaped shadows for their walls at an overwhelming rate. They have absorbed all the information from the shadows and created a scary world. But if they ever escaped from the cave, they would discover that their “reality” was only a distortion.
Because, like you, I’m stuck in a world where (nearly) everyone I know is living deep inside the cave, and there simply isn’t any way to bring them out into the light. It’s so ironic: back in 2015 or 2016, Trump said “fake news”, and the media just couldn’t WAIT to prove him right!
Wasn't thinking of the Plato's Cave when I wrote The Burn of Blue Gaslight, but the way you've sketched it here brings that essay to mind. Great point about the media owning the "fake news" label, lol.
Steve Job’s reality distortion field.
Your writing has kept me sane through this election cycle! I had an email exchange with a family member that was (pretty much) exactly what you’re describing. I started the email with an excerpt from Tangle where I basically said, “the post mortem analysis is fascinating”. One family member agreed and another disagreed, but relatively civilly at first. I took the bait (consciously) and defended my positions - and the family member quickly descended into irrational TDS. I did a “what I hear you saying is ...” and stated that I was going to leave it at that. I was seeking some intellectual curiosity and discussion from a very smart person and all I got was moralizing and vitriol. Maybe I should have expected it, but nevertheless, I was surprised at his inability to even acknowledge there could be another perspective worth considering. The kicker is that this person isn’t a US citizen and doesn’t live in the US … so can’t even vote here!
What a crazy world. I'm so glad to know my writing has helped you. Thanks for reading!
I appreciate your article and the sources put forth. I fear they won’t do much good, even though I wish they would, and here is why.
You said “You have to seek out independent media—the individuals, platforms, and companies that exist expressly to question and challenge the accepted values, facts, and narratives circumscribing the institutional bubble.”
Obviously you and I and like minded others know this to be true, but a huge part of the problem is that these people have been so thoroughly brainwashed/trained that they dismiss out of hand the majority of individuals, platforms, and companies outside the institutional bubble. They’ll claim independent news outlets are “right wing news”; now that X is owned by Elon Musk (a former democrat who they used to love and praise, and now have suddenly turned on…sound familiar?) they will just claim news posted on X is fake or propaganda or conspiracy.
Form my own personal experience:
A few months before the election, I merely mentioned - completely outside of any political context - that I had joined X…to which one of these moral high ground dems responded something to the effect of “Ew that place is SUCH a *cesspool*”
And I can still hear the moral superiority and disgust dripping from their voice.
I don’t know if there’s any way to get through to someone like that…someone who holds absolute contempt for anything outside the institutional bubble, simply because the institutional bubble told them everything outside is contemptible….
Yep, you make the same point as one of my daughters, who has a very similar story to tell—even about joining X, lol. It's certainly true that people cannot see with their eyes closed. But it's also true that individuals can and do awaken as they bump into hard and painful things that cause them to crack open their eyelids and let in some light. Quite often that leads to them opening them wide and taking in the actual landscape. I just keep praying the next few years will do even more than the last four to help that process. We shall see (literally😆)... 🙏🏻
Agreed, whether there is contempt or not, sources outside of their own are dismissed as invalid.
Thank you so very much. This essay has shown me in words all the things I’ve been thinking all along. I’ve been trying all along to understand the mindset of the Trump haters, seeing people who are seemingly intelligent with such hatred. You laid it out so clearly. Thank you so much. And thank you also for the links, very helpful.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks, Rose.
This is SO timely. I woke up today distressed about how to talk to my 20 year old daughter about her {unoriginal} Instagram post regarding Trump voters. The post we have all seen declaring that Orange man Devil voters all support rape, racism, end of democracy, etc. etc.
A light conversation w/ my daughter suggesting she consider that this is not the case is brutally hard to have. I don’t even know how to utter the first 5 words without her shutting her mind off. THIS article nails it…. My daughter and others are describing a completely different person than I am. We are NOT in the same game, same space, same playing field. We are in different realities- hers created by the media and lying government officials.
I remember where I was standing when I realized almost all of the network news anchors were using the same phrases to discuss the current events of the day. And I said outloud, “how do they all know the same thing to say every single day? Is there, like, a memo that goes out at 3am?” Duh, yes. That was about four years ago. And now I will never be able to un-see what I have seen. Thank you.
Oh and the LINKS are so helpful to have in one place.
Serendipity!❤ Hope you can figure out how to have a constructive convo with your girl. These are tough times for open communication. And yeah, I'd love to see that memo; the conspiracy is real!😆
Deepstate and bankers set the message daily then give it to CNN, MSNBC, NYT, WaPo, etc for the Soviet style propaganda message of the day. It is neither unofficial, unorganized or unintentional.
Enjoyed a well written and dead on accurate substack essay.
The info-graphic on media ownership is interesting but a tad confusing. Reduced to basics: 5 conglomerates own 90% of legacy media outlets.
The basic media propaganda attack (against Trump and now his Cabinet appointees) is always the same because the thought processes for most people has a strong emotionally grounded base (not many Star Trek like Spocks around). Given that fact, the left always starts with an emotional distorted ad hominin attack that sets the baseline for discussion. Now you have to counter the lie before you can move on to the relevant issues that need to be addressed. With that first emotional attack the left can now start to employ Nudge Theory.
A Nudge is a subtle change in the way a choice is presented. It is designed to influence the recipient’s choice by constant repetition over a protracted time frame rather than through direct confrontation. The phrase that “Trump was a threat to Democracy” is the classic example. (more detail in my own substack).
You are absolutely correct that the difference in this last election was the ability of the dissident media (on substack and elsewhere) to counter the false narrative of the legacy media. That and the fact that more and more people have now come to realize the outright dishonesty of the legacy media, which is why their viewer has plummeted. That realization can find its origin in the Pandemic fiasco,
Dick Minnis
removingthecataracts.substack.com
I remember reading an exposé on Nudge. . . maybe by Neil Oliver? . . . partway through the pandemic and feeling so horrified and angry. That they would formalize public manipulation into a whole area of scientific study and strategic programing just felt dystopian. Ugh. I'm so glad the MSM is collapsing under the weight of its own arrogance and lies. Karma bites.
Excellent piece, Leah. I read a book last year (The Indoctrinated Brain, Michael Nehls) that really got into the weeds about how minds can be manipulated, how memories are stored and the role that emotion (or we ‘feel’ about memories) impacts us. Though I’ve always scoffed at bad or misrepresented headlines, I recognize the power they have since, as you suggest, people don’t often actually READ the story, but rather accept the headline as truth or confirmation of a bias. Fears are fed via headlines, anger is stoked and, ultimately, trust is broken. The end goal is to confuse us. The science of manipulation is well documented. I hope our nation begins to see through these manipulations and ‘we the people’ reassert our role in this grand experiment. This is our moment to remove blinders (or masks or ear plugs) and see past the constant diet of obfuscation.
The moral high ground is a religion to the left. Which means its more about virtue signaling than actual morals.
Virtue signaling is a deeply soothing impulse, to be sure. Puts people to sleep. (Sigh.)
Virtue signalers are anything but virtuous. I don't have to agree with someone to respect them. My disdain for Virtue signalers is boundless. At the same time i have great respect for what i call Virtue sacrificers, those who put their money or lifestyles where their mouths are and actually sacrifice something of value to express their purported beliefs .
That is so true. D-identified friends and family who disdain their R counterparts demonstrate this hypocrisy daily. "I'm so moral that I shall not even tolerate you," they intone. What did we use to say? When you point a finger at someone there are three fingers pointing back at you. Who among them will be brave and humble enough to own it? Time will tell.
You made sense of the insensable. I know people are losing their minds, now I understand a little better.
Yay! I’m always gratified to hear that I’ve helped someone (and how)—so thank you!
Very compelling and rationale essay. Thanks for thinking through it and sharing your intellect.
I’m so proud of you for letting your voice be heard; I love what I’m hearing. It challenges and enriches me. I suffer from crippling self-doubt, in certain areas, so I understand how hard it is to overcome the poisonous inner critic. Love your essays!! ❤️
Thanks so much, MM. I love knowing you're in the audience cheering me on.🙏🏻💗 (And I'm happy to report that my inner critic seems to have given up and gone home!☺️)
The TDS infected folks like Sweeper698 and the Cheney mischief causing RINOS lost. Tough shit. To the victor go the spoils.
Pay them no mind, Leah . "Their democracy" was soundly defeated at the ballot box. Let them bitch and moan. Good therapy for them. It's like burping your infant .
And the corporate media and the advertising control of content especially BigPharma? How that going Comcast? MSNBC for sale. CNN plummeting . 🤔
So, here we are. Thank God for Elon Musk.
The man is a change agent. The TDS infected loved his electric cars. Not so much now since he refashioned Twitter into X.
Corporate media is dying. Online media has taken its place. Think Joe Rogan.
The TDS crowd will always accuse us of what they are doing themselves. They know it's bad so they accimuse others and excuse their own bad behavior. Cade in point the Sonny broad on The View. Quick station break after accusatory statement about Gaetz . Back on air. Deep legal backtrack. Lie uncovered. She was pissed.
The beat goes on. It will not change . Well, maybe it will. Some brave soul may make the purchase from Comcast, load it with truthful analysis and set an example as Elon did with Twitter and reformatting as X.
Hope springs eternal.
Speaking of hope, I so hope Elon buys MSNBC. And installs Alex Jones in Rachel Maddow's chair. Now THAT would be karma.
Excellent post, you’ve said what so many of us are feeling! Another great resource for debunked Trump claims is Sharyl Attkisson’s post. https://open.substack.com/pub/sharylattkisson/p/media-mistakes-in-reporting-on-donald. I’ve sent this to friends and family and inevitably none of them read it. 🤷🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
Thanks! And thanks for the link. I love Sharyl's work but hadn't seen this.