• Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    The press reported that Donald Trump said he was a serial rapist who liked to just walk up and ‘grab them by the removed.’

    The press reported that Donald Trump had gone on Howard Stern’s show and talked about how he was allowed to walk into the dressing rooms of the Miss Teen USA pageant.

    The press reported that Donald Trump called American prisoners of war cowards; while comparing his tom cat days as his personal Vietnam.

    Don’t blame the press, blame the voters who heard about Trump and decided they were okay with him because he hated the people they hate.

    • pjwestin@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      There’s a difference between reporting on the candidate and giving him free air time by broadcasting his rallies and speeches live. Most of the 24 hour networks (CNN especially) ran out of significant things to report on Trump relatively quickly, but they knew Trump stories (negative or positive) were huge for ratings, so they would cover everything he said. It’s estimated he got $2 Billion worth of free airtime this way. For every important story you mentioned, there’s days worth of mindless coverage the media companies churned out for ratings, and it absolutely helped Trump get elected.

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    mmm yes I suppose it also had nothing to do with the alternative candidate gg ez cheating their primary and defending said cheating after getting exposed

    or I guess if you want to apply it to right now, I suppose it had nothing to do with the incumbent funding a genocide and running his campaign on “well at least I’m not the guy who’s even more evil”

      • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        No, he’s very openly said he wants to exterminate Gaza.

        You just never hear about it here because THE WHOLE GENOCIDE JOE THING IS LITERALLY PROPAGANDA. YOU ARE BEING MANIPULATED WAKE THE FUCK UP.

        • Sootius@lemmy.world
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          8 months ago

          How can it be propaganda? He is currently overseeing and speaking positively of his massive support for a genocide, happening right now. That’s as truthful as it gets.

          • Asafum@feddit.nl
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            8 months ago

            Except he isn’t? He’s literally telling that fuck in Israel to stop and has ordered humanitarian aid to be dropped in. He even demanded a ceasefire so they could help the Palestinians and that fuck in Israel said “nah, we want the land they’re all terrorists.” He can’t just stop giving aid because isrealis have a ton of political pressure here on our government and they were attacked so we’d be made to look like the assholes for cutting off the aid.

            It’s people online that are going way overboard with the “Genocide Joe” nonsense when it should be that fuck in Israel. Fuck his name, he’s “that fuck in Israel” to me.

            • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
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              8 months ago

              So…he can’t cut off the aid, because the optics are bad? That seems like a very, very poor excuse for supporting genocide. Also, the optics for supporting genocide are not good, either.

            • Sootius@lemmy.world
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              8 months ago

              He can’t just stop giving aid because isrealis

              So he’s continuing to oversee massive support for a genocide? As in, precisely what I said? We’re not just talking about generic ‘aid’, we’re talking bombs and guns in the billions of dollars. Biden and the dems are fully able to stop funding Israeli genocide, but choose not to.