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European leader wonders why 'no one is asking about' Trump’s 'bizarre' ramblings: Senate Dem
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Canadian here wondering the same thing.
Biden may be old, but Trump is literally unintelligible half the time. I've had more focused conversations with 2 year old children.
Brando. It's what plants crave!
Camacho was a good president. Cared about people. Even tried to help them.
Most importantly, respected the opinion of someone smarter than himself.
He tried to kill that smart person when the changes made didn't result in immediate benefits.
Wait you wanna use water, like from the toilet?
Even for the non-right-wing-owned media companies, Trump represents something they desperately want: ratings, clicks, money.
Trump, narcissistic power-mad entertainer that he is, kept people glued to the news nonstop from 2016 to today. Oh sure he wants to jail journalist and execute reporters, but those are news workers. The owners of the news companies won't suffer, and Trump will make them tons of money. They can just hire interns to do the reporting.
When Biden isn't in the news its because the modern media doesn't run feel good stories about the president doing good things.
They want Trump, they want endless controversy and fear and anger driving millions to their phones to click on news stories and look at ads. And they do not care about the consequences and side effects.
Corporate media shouldn't have the same protections as a "free press." They aren't doing the job that such protections were meant for.
If their only goal is profit at all costs, then they aren't important enough to protect anymore.
And in my opinion, opinion shows shouldn't be allowed on the same networks as actual news with actual journalists. Fucking scum like fox news and MSNBC abuse the shit out of that and put opinion shows up that ~~lie~~ speak as fact, hiding behind the opinion designation which allows them to be as dishonest as they please.
That's absolutely it. In my mind, regardless of stance, all of the main stream media wants trump to win. It's best for shareholders, and that's all corporations care about. (In fact it's illegal for them not to)
Why would corporate media criticize their preferred candidate?
no one
I swear to god half the country has been talking about it non-stop for almost a decade now. What do you mean no one is talking about?! We're talking about it! Just because we've started talking about a new thing doesn't mean we stopped talking about the old thing!
"NO ONE."
I SWEAR THIS IS GOING TO TURN ME INTO THE JOKER. It makes my brain itch for the whataboutism when we've been talking about it the whole time.
Since the revelation about Trump on the Epstein docs my news feed has been nothing but Biden's performance in the debate 2 WEEKS AGO! Not just 1 story, but story after story and it's everywhere. From Fox News to the new Republic. It should be the other way around. News media is firmly with the right even when they don't mean to be.
In an interview on Wednesday night with CNN host Kaitlan Collins, Sen. Chris Coons (D-Delaware), who is now in his third term, said he had a revealing conversation with an unnamed "European head of state." That leader appeared worried about the double standard the media was applying to Biden, while largely ignoring former President Donald Trump despite his increasingly unhinged tone during press conferences and public appearances.
The article isn't talking about regular people, but the media.
You're right. The real question is why no-one cares?
Yeah it’s really strange how the old age criticisms is thrown at Joe Biden’s way
Because it's the norm. That's what everyone expects of the Mango Mussolini.
Until recently, people thought that the right wing echo chamber was lying about the mental state of Biden (because lying about Biden is of course their bread and butter), but then it was on display for 90 minutes on one of the most anticipated live broadcasts of the year. OF COURSE people are going to talk about it!
This article is just one big whataboutism from a Biden apologist pretending that everything's fine.
~~European leaders~~ Europeans
Actually we're wondering why Americans dont have better politicians to choose between, than the two old grumpy men
I've heard that they have guns so they can protect their democracy.
???
Because the only parties in power are the ones that can maintain the good favor of the people with massive amounts of money to donate, and therefore the only candidates presented are the ones that serve wealthy Capitalists. Voting third party is intentionally designed to be extremely difficult to avoid changing this.
We do.
The people who legally make the choices for us never seem to want to present them.
For reasons.
Totally valid reasons.
The pursuit of mediocre candidates competing in 49-51 splits where the donor dollar tips the scale has degraded our political system beyond recognition.
It is politically incorrect to imply that Israel wants Trump and Zionists run the media, but I think that pretty much wraps it up neatly. The CNN hosted debate was an abomination and when AIPAC campaign donations get spent on ad buys, the media are the ones who end up with that money. Incidentally they gave Trump mountains of free media, remember the empty podiums? Dark money is not just a national security issue it's an international security issue. France knows this.
Zionists run the media
The tail is wagging the dog here. Israel is a manifestation of the US military-industrial complex. The US gives Israel money for the purpose of buying American weapons, the profit of which is used by Raytheon and co to support more money for Israel.
They wouldn't be investing that money in buying positive media and supporting Israel if it wasn't profitable.
I mean they do. Ever seen Saturday night live?
It's more the news media they are referring to, I think.