Thank you Professor Reich for continuing to call out the MSM on their bullshit. Trump’s mental decline is old news? Does that mean if he loses in November and incites another insurrection it won’t be aired because it’s also old news? It’s bad enough when low information voters show amnesia but when the press - supposedly one of the hallmarks of our democracy - does the same it’s a travesty.
Thank you Professor Reich for continuing to call out the MSM on their bullshit. Trump’s mental decline is old news? Does that mean if he loses in November and incites another insurrection it won’t be aired because it’s also old news? It’s bad enough when low information voters show amnesia but when the press - supposedly one of the hallmarks of our democracy - does the same it’s a travesty.
Trump has various ingenious ways to fool his audiences into not noticing how horrendous he is. 1 thing is to do or say or reveal so many outrageous lies one after another that it's very hard to keep up with them, take account of them, refute any lies, & remember what they were, the Gish Gallop he displayed in the debate being an extreme version of it.
Another is to so gradually intensify the outrages he commits that it's practically imperceptible, & people don't notice it. He's gotten away with so many things that would've ruined anyone else & put them in jail.
A couple examples: Trump was already caught passing on classified US intelligence to Russian officials. Later he confiscated many boxes of top secret government documents & placed them in places easily accessible by the public, some of them in a room with a photocopier. Anyone who could put 2 & 2 together would quickly come to the conclusion that he has passed information from those confiscated boxes to Putin, MBS & other dictators he adores. They might also realize that the classified intelligence Trump passed onto Russian officials was used by Putin in helping Hamas plan its attack on Israel on Putin's birthday.
2nd example: Over 2 dozen women & girls have accused Trump of sexual assault. One involved a woman accusing Trump of raping her when she was 13, who twice tried to bring Trump to trial over it, with a 12-year old witness, but was intimidated from going through with it both times. Now revelations from Jeffrey Epstein's files confirms accounts of wild sex parties at their houses with underage girls from their respective modeling agencies. Apparently that's not enough of an upgrade in the level of depravity Trump has engaged in for news media to take note.
Trump has various ingenious ways to fool his audiences into not noticing how horrendous he is" ; Yes , he threatens journalists, and anyone else who dares to speak up about him.
The fact is the media has given tRump enormous, even unprecedented, latitude to lie and misinform. The media is culpable for its dereliction of duty to uphold the truth and facts in an uncompromising way. The media has irresponsibly and selectively failed to hold to account candidates, politicians and many others. Their job is not to influence outcomes, but to assiduously report all the facts and occurrences and let their subscribers make decisions accordingly.
Some of the owners of the media are ideologically driven in the sense that they want the power to influence outcomes for financial gain. Most of the owners are driven by the need to stay financially solvent and still remain relevant in a highly competitive market. They calculated that to do so they needed to keep tRump, and the entire Christo-fascist cult in play. To stay relevant the media has destroyed what was once known as the Fourth Estate, i.e. the guardrails to truth and reality.
A 3rd example (6 months later): Trump is notorious for cheating in school, on his wives, in golf, etc., & he was found to have cheated with Russian help in the 2016 & 2020 elections, so in an election (2024) in which he has extra incentive to win the election (stay out of jail); when he has tech savvy billionaires like Musk & Thiel supporting him, & his old pal Putin helping him again (bomb scares at voting sites in Democratic areas), & who has recently perfected his method of rigging elections in neighboring European countries; when Trump stooges like Lindell have confiscated information, including codes, from voting machines; when Trump & his allies were making numerous comments implying they already have the election in the bag ("we don't need your votes", "elections are easy to hack"); in view of Musk's solicitation for potential voters to register (& acquire their data) to win $1 million; in view of voting machines being in contact with Musk's Starlink; in view of Rogan claiming Musk knew election results 4 hours before their publication, considering various strange, anomalous patterns in the voting results suggesting algorithms were used & ballots & votes were manipulated; & considering Putin demanding Trump pay him back for helping him win; to think that this election was not rigged in favor of Trump is the height of naivete & gullibility.
The media & America are bought & paid for by both parties. I loathe Diablo Donald. But I also detest unfair play. The DEMS have also been involved in MSM influencing, censoring, smearing and blocking ballot access to 3rd parties. Cornel West, Rfk jr & Jill Stein have had to sue election boards because the DEMS, the morally superior party, have blocked them. This is not how a Democracy is supposed to work.
Sadly, the DEMS have not been playing fair either. Campaign money has been spent on media character assassination & blocking ballot access. 3rd party candidates have had to sue election boards, specifically because the DEMS have blocked their access. This is deplorable behavior! This is not how a free & open Democracy should be behaving! https://open.substack.com/pub/arabellasmith/p/democracy-and-truth?r=100zv1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
All true, which is why the Democratic Presidential presumptive nominee (Biden) should be able to clearly and focefully refute each Trump lie and show the contrast between lies and truth. Biden was able to do that in 2020, but his age has effected his ability to do so now.
your thoughtful words are well received..but word do not work on the T cult..how to get rid of the hate?
all media coverage of both candidates on the same topic .. with commentator giving examples of reality consequence of .. repeat for a week , then new topic.. repeat
Art, if you doubt what Jamie has said, you can go on line and find the evidence that backs up his statements, Why do you want to support a convicted felon, a man who lost his suit against E. Jean Carroll for sexual assault, a man who has insulted veterans, woman, muslims, people of color, people who are disabled, He makes Archie .bunker look like a saint, Why would you want to defend a man of such low character?
Trump is a master of plausible deniability. He condemns them in part of his speech while praising them in another part. They "get" it! He loves them! Trump has to satisfy all the fools like you who believe he is a good man.
How the media & we the people allow a convicted rape felon to speak on any matter is beyond me. But the media & America are bought & paid for by both parties. The DEMS have been actively involved in MSM influencing, censoring, smearing and blocking ballot access to 3rd parties. Cornel West, Rfk jr & Jill Stein have had to sue election boards because the DEMS, the morally superior party, have blocked them. This is not how a Democracy is supposed to work.
The problem is a distrust of government which has been an unfortunate aspect of US culture for centuries - fanned by media that know that highlighting Trump will increase ratings.
I don’t think Americans distrusted their government in significant numbers until Ronald Reagan began telling Americans that they cannot trust government. I for one, would much rather put my trust in a democratically, elected government over corporate interests and oligarchs. I have the constitutional right to vote the former out of office, but there is very little. I have any power to do about the latter.
There was this little thing called The Vietnam War. The Pentagon Papers demonstrated how the US Goverment had lied for decades about the conflict and our role. Reagan just drove a bus through it.
The problem, as I see it, is that we've normalized the abnormal, and we expect Felonious T to behave as he does. The irony about expectations is that if you expect to be disappointed, you can never be.
We also like to be entertained, and Felonious T is a reality TV star. He's the Abominable Showman.
I don't know if Trump has dementia, but he is definitely an idiot! Electric boats have been around for decades. The batteries are waterproofed to the same standard as for a submarine! Almost all electrocutions to swimmers from boats are due to faulty electrical shore line connections to docked GAS powered boats. NEVER swim near a dock, especially in a fresh water lake!
The simplest answer as to why Trump's blabber isn't reported heavily is because he's the proverbial drunk walking the on the curbstone. Everyone can't take their eyes off of him even though they know he's going down. That kind of drama is selling news media clicks. The clicks are lining the pockets of news corporations. Plus those corporations would love to have their taxes decreased and their regulatory guard rails taken away. No one in hearing distance could possibly think he's playing with a full-deck.
I have to admit to being flummoxed by that whole Las Vegas rally, whatever it was. In an ongoing rant in response to local Republicans, a neighbor included, I copied and pasted some highlights of this rally and basically asked the question of whether or not this was rational talk from a presidential contender and if they're questioning if Biden is mentally fit for office they ought to at least consider Trump's behavior. I was told it was 'coherent humor.' Thinking that coherent humor was a term that I had somehow missed, I asked if someone could give me a link to a definition of coherent humor... Big mistake... the big kahuna that I just can't resist poking responded to me like I was a five year old and said it was humor that you could understand. OMG! I point out all the lies Trump told in the debate and get shot down. I asked the question, just generally, do you believe Joe Biden is the duly elected president? Well, of course, don't ask silly questions or try to get off topic. Okay then... Biden is the legitimate president so that must mean that Trump, in spite of lies upon lies, fake elector attempts, calling a secretary of state groveling for him to just find 11,780 votes... c'mon guys, just 11,780 votes, over 60 lawsuits, all of which Trump lost, could they just concede that when Trump argued that the election was stolen from him, he was LYING! They never directly answered. It's so frustrating. Some of these people are not stupid. I just can't understand it. As the saying goes, you can't fix stupid!
When his rantings are verifiably nuts, the media has actually a professional responsibility to report this. Which is the current case... But like Theresa said... OK, how do you journalists like being mocked??? That is all we can do in support of truth...and anger about the disinformation universe we now live in, partially because the press doesn't do it's job. What did happen to the Fourth Estate???
You can block Fart Lover, which I've done (and a few other imbeciles). But it does amuse me to think of him sitting in his decrepit shack in somewhere like Kentucky or a Florida swamp, one-finger-plonking away on his trusty Amstrad 512, the old genset roaring away in the background.....
Of course, he must put great effort into these posts as he has to keep looking up words, and now he's finally learned to spell 'fucking' he feels so proud and wants to use it all the time!
He must be in Heaven now that Trump has come along. At last, someone who thinks and speaks exactly like him! At last, a leader he can almost understand.
Yes, Fart Lover is an example to us all of the diversity of the American experience, with free speech for all, however hard it is for them to use it. If only he realised that for the rest of us to have any inkling of what he's on about, we'd all need Advanced Diversity Training, the very thing he wants Trump to ban! 😂
PERHAPS THOSE SOULS WITH AN EDUCATED BENT WILL HEED THE EVALUATION OF THE MENDACIOUS ONE'S TEACHERS THAT HE WAS " dumbest in his class!". PERSONALLY, I HAVE A VERY HIGH OPINION OF TEACHERS, DON'T YOU?
Can this guy not be banned from Comments? If you posted this sort of language in the Times or FT in the UK, the algorithm would refer it to the moderator and it would not pass.
You can block Fart Lover, which I've done (and a few other imbeciles). But it does amuse me to think of him sitting in his decrepit shack in somewhere like Kentucky or a Florida swamp, plonking away on his trusty Amstrad 512, the old genset roaring away in the background.....
Of course, he must put great effort into these posts as he has to keep looking up words, and now he's finally learned to spell 'fucking' he feels so proud and wants to use it all the time!
He must be in Heaven now that Trump has come along. At last, someone who thinks and speaks exactly like him! At last, a leader he can almost understand.
Yes, Fart Lover is an example to us all of the diversity of the American experience, with free speech for all, however hard it is for them to use it. If only he realised that for the rest of us to have any inkling of what he's on about, we'd all need Advanced Diversity Training, the very thing he wants Trump to ban! 😂
Thank you Professor Reich for continuing to call out the MSM on their bullshit. Trump’s mental decline is old news? Does that mean if he loses in November and incites another insurrection it won’t be aired because it’s also old news? It’s bad enough when low information voters show amnesia but when the press - supposedly one of the hallmarks of our democracy - does the same it’s a travesty.
Trump has various ingenious ways to fool his audiences into not noticing how horrendous he is. 1 thing is to do or say or reveal so many outrageous lies one after another that it's very hard to keep up with them, take account of them, refute any lies, & remember what they were, the Gish Gallop he displayed in the debate being an extreme version of it.
Another is to so gradually intensify the outrages he commits that it's practically imperceptible, & people don't notice it. He's gotten away with so many things that would've ruined anyone else & put them in jail.
A couple examples: Trump was already caught passing on classified US intelligence to Russian officials. Later he confiscated many boxes of top secret government documents & placed them in places easily accessible by the public, some of them in a room with a photocopier. Anyone who could put 2 & 2 together would quickly come to the conclusion that he has passed information from those confiscated boxes to Putin, MBS & other dictators he adores. They might also realize that the classified intelligence Trump passed onto Russian officials was used by Putin in helping Hamas plan its attack on Israel on Putin's birthday.
2nd example: Over 2 dozen women & girls have accused Trump of sexual assault. One involved a woman accusing Trump of raping her when she was 13, who twice tried to bring Trump to trial over it, with a 12-year old witness, but was intimidated from going through with it both times. Now revelations from Jeffrey Epstein's files confirms accounts of wild sex parties at their houses with underage girls from their respective modeling agencies. Apparently that's not enough of an upgrade in the level of depravity Trump has engaged in for news media to take note.
Jaime ; "
Trump has various ingenious ways to fool his audiences into not noticing how horrendous he is" ; Yes , he threatens journalists, and anyone else who dares to speak up about him.
Incessantly lying is hardly ingenious.
The fact is the media has given tRump enormous, even unprecedented, latitude to lie and misinform. The media is culpable for its dereliction of duty to uphold the truth and facts in an uncompromising way. The media has irresponsibly and selectively failed to hold to account candidates, politicians and many others. Their job is not to influence outcomes, but to assiduously report all the facts and occurrences and let their subscribers make decisions accordingly.
Some of the owners of the media are ideologically driven in the sense that they want the power to influence outcomes for financial gain. Most of the owners are driven by the need to stay financially solvent and still remain relevant in a highly competitive market. They calculated that to do so they needed to keep tRump, and the entire Christo-fascist cult in play. To stay relevant the media has destroyed what was once known as the Fourth Estate, i.e. the guardrails to truth and reality.
A nation of sell-outs.
You are 100% right...
and he had threatened members of Congress
A 3rd example (6 months later): Trump is notorious for cheating in school, on his wives, in golf, etc., & he was found to have cheated with Russian help in the 2016 & 2020 elections, so in an election (2024) in which he has extra incentive to win the election (stay out of jail); when he has tech savvy billionaires like Musk & Thiel supporting him, & his old pal Putin helping him again (bomb scares at voting sites in Democratic areas), & who has recently perfected his method of rigging elections in neighboring European countries; when Trump stooges like Lindell have confiscated information, including codes, from voting machines; when Trump & his allies were making numerous comments implying they already have the election in the bag ("we don't need your votes", "elections are easy to hack"); in view of Musk's solicitation for potential voters to register (& acquire their data) to win $1 million; in view of voting machines being in contact with Musk's Starlink; in view of Rogan claiming Musk knew election results 4 hours before their publication, considering various strange, anomalous patterns in the voting results suggesting algorithms were used & ballots & votes were manipulated; & considering Putin demanding Trump pay him back for helping him win; to think that this election was not rigged in favor of Trump is the height of naivete & gullibility.
The media's Anti-Biden noise isn't an accident:
⁃ CNN: CEO Trump donor
⁃ ABC: CEO Trump donor
⁃ CBS: CEO Trump donor
⁃ NBC: CEO Trump donor
⁃ MSNBC: CEO Trump donor
⁃ Washington Post: owner Jeff Bezo
⁃ Wall Street Journal: Owner: Rupert Murdoch
⁃ New York Times: CEO Trump donor
#itsthemediastupid
#Nevertrump
#ActuallyHonestNews
The media & America are bought & paid for by both parties. I loathe Diablo Donald. But I also detest unfair play. The DEMS have also been involved in MSM influencing, censoring, smearing and blocking ballot access to 3rd parties. Cornel West, Rfk jr & Jill Stein have had to sue election boards because the DEMS, the morally superior party, have blocked them. This is not how a Democracy is supposed to work.
You write the truth so elegantly.
Outrageous Lies are trumpets 🎺 bread and Butter “Just ask Anybody “
Trumpet 🎺 will Claim he can walk on Water if we let go on and on…
There he goes again !!! - Ronald deadhead Regan
it’s one non stop Gish gallop.
Sadly, the DEMS have not been playing fair either. Campaign money has been spent on media character assassination & blocking ballot access. 3rd party candidates have had to sue election boards, specifically because the DEMS have blocked their access. This is deplorable behavior! This is not how a free & open Democracy should be behaving! https://open.substack.com/pub/arabellasmith/p/democracy-and-truth?r=100zv1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
All true, which is why the Democratic Presidential presumptive nominee (Biden) should be able to clearly and focefully refute each Trump lie and show the contrast between lies and truth. Biden was able to do that in 2020, but his age has effected his ability to do so now.
your thoughtful words are well received..but word do not work on the T cult..how to get rid of the hate?
all media coverage of both candidates on the same topic .. with commentator giving examples of reality consequence of .. repeat for a week , then new topic.. repeat
Hahaha Ur saying that the Donnie Orange Turd Reich Loser Trump didn't bankrupt TRUMP University.
Art, if you doubt what Jamie has said, you can go on line and find the evidence that backs up his statements, Why do you want to support a convicted felon, a man who lost his suit against E. Jean Carroll for sexual assault, a man who has insulted veterans, woman, muslims, people of color, people who are disabled, He makes Archie .bunker look like a saint, Why would you want to defend a man of such low character?
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Shut up door knob
You’ve logged into the wrong account, buddy. This isn’t Truth Social!
Art, Art, Art, Have I got a bridge to sell you, but you must act fast, this offer is only good for today,
Trump is a master of plausible deniability. He condemns them in part of his speech while praising them in another part. They "get" it! He loves them! Trump has to satisfy all the fools like you who believe he is a good man.
How the media & we the people allow a convicted rape felon to speak on any matter is beyond me. But the media & America are bought & paid for by both parties. The DEMS have been actively involved in MSM influencing, censoring, smearing and blocking ballot access to 3rd parties. Cornel West, Rfk jr & Jill Stein have had to sue election boards because the DEMS, the morally superior party, have blocked them. This is not how a Democracy is supposed to work.
We were all watching Trump on TV, and he REALLY did say “There are good people-on both sides”.
In other words, you're a cruel jerk. Get a life.
Bot
You’re a troll and probably a Russian bot….ignore art lover
The problem is a distrust of government which has been an unfortunate aspect of US culture for centuries - fanned by media that know that highlighting Trump will increase ratings.
I don’t think Americans distrusted their government in significant numbers until Ronald Reagan began telling Americans that they cannot trust government. I for one, would much rather put my trust in a democratically, elected government over corporate interests and oligarchs. I have the constitutional right to vote the former out of office, but there is very little. I have any power to do about the latter.
There was this little thing called The Vietnam War. The Pentagon Papers demonstrated how the US Goverment had lied for decades about the conflict and our role. Reagan just drove a bus through it.
The problem, as I see it, is that we've normalized the abnormal, and we expect Felonious T to behave as he does. The irony about expectations is that if you expect to be disappointed, you can never be.
We also like to be entertained, and Felonious T is a reality TV star. He's the Abominable Showman.
If a building is burning and threatening nearby buildings, but no one is putting it out
for days and weeks on end, is it then 'old news' and no longer reported having lost
its sales potential?
I don't know if Trump has dementia, but he is definitely an idiot! Electric boats have been around for decades. The batteries are waterproofed to the same standard as for a submarine! Almost all electrocutions to swimmers from boats are due to faulty electrical shore line connections to docked GAS powered boats. NEVER swim near a dock, especially in a fresh water lake!
And he keeps tossing chum to the MAGAlomaniacal sharks in the battery-infested waters.
The simplest answer as to why Trump's blabber isn't reported heavily is because he's the proverbial drunk walking the on the curbstone. Everyone can't take their eyes off of him even though they know he's going down. That kind of drama is selling news media clicks. The clicks are lining the pockets of news corporations. Plus those corporations would love to have their taxes decreased and their regulatory guard rails taken away. No one in hearing distance could possibly think he's playing with a full-deck.
I have to admit to being flummoxed by that whole Las Vegas rally, whatever it was. In an ongoing rant in response to local Republicans, a neighbor included, I copied and pasted some highlights of this rally and basically asked the question of whether or not this was rational talk from a presidential contender and if they're questioning if Biden is mentally fit for office they ought to at least consider Trump's behavior. I was told it was 'coherent humor.' Thinking that coherent humor was a term that I had somehow missed, I asked if someone could give me a link to a definition of coherent humor... Big mistake... the big kahuna that I just can't resist poking responded to me like I was a five year old and said it was humor that you could understand. OMG! I point out all the lies Trump told in the debate and get shot down. I asked the question, just generally, do you believe Joe Biden is the duly elected president? Well, of course, don't ask silly questions or try to get off topic. Okay then... Biden is the legitimate president so that must mean that Trump, in spite of lies upon lies, fake elector attempts, calling a secretary of state groveling for him to just find 11,780 votes... c'mon guys, just 11,780 votes, over 60 lawsuits, all of which Trump lost, could they just concede that when Trump argued that the election was stolen from him, he was LYING! They never directly answered. It's so frustrating. Some of these people are not stupid. I just can't understand it. As the saying goes, you can't fix stupid!
When his rantings are verifiably nuts, the media has actually a professional responsibility to report this. Which is the current case... But like Theresa said... OK, how do you journalists like being mocked??? That is all we can do in support of truth...and anger about the disinformation universe we now live in, partially because the press doesn't do it's job. What did happen to the Fourth Estate???
Trumpet 🎺 is playing his end game card I’m old and don’t sent me to jail for the crimes I help inspire and helped commit…
Dynamite!
You're compiling a perfect record, troll: no actual cogent, lucid, relevant arguments - just inane gibberish in the service of right-wing stupidity.
Please proceed to embarrass yourself further.
You can block Fart Lover, which I've done (and a few other imbeciles). But it does amuse me to think of him sitting in his decrepit shack in somewhere like Kentucky or a Florida swamp, one-finger-plonking away on his trusty Amstrad 512, the old genset roaring away in the background.....
Of course, he must put great effort into these posts as he has to keep looking up words, and now he's finally learned to spell 'fucking' he feels so proud and wants to use it all the time!
He must be in Heaven now that Trump has come along. At last, someone who thinks and speaks exactly like him! At last, a leader he can almost understand.
Yes, Fart Lover is an example to us all of the diversity of the American experience, with free speech for all, however hard it is for them to use it. If only he realised that for the rest of us to have any inkling of what he's on about, we'd all need Advanced Diversity Training, the very thing he wants Trump to ban! 😂
WHAT A BEAUTIFUL SCATOLOGICAL TREATISE , MY DEAR...
BLEW THE BLIGHTER AWAY, YOU DID!. SPOT ON!😂
PERHAPS THOSE SOULS WITH AN EDUCATED BENT WILL HEED THE EVALUATION OF THE MENDACIOUS ONE'S TEACHERS THAT HE WAS " dumbest in his class!". PERSONALLY, I HAVE A VERY HIGH OPINION OF TEACHERS, DON'T YOU?
“Art Lover” gives art a bad name.
Will you please show how 2020 election was stolen? Nobody has shown any proof.
I don't search out right-wing sites to harass people. You seem pretty emotionally disturbed to me.
Can this guy not be banned from Comments? If you posted this sort of language in the Times or FT in the UK, the algorithm would refer it to the moderator and it would not pass.
You can block Fart Lover, which I've done (and a few other imbeciles). But it does amuse me to think of him sitting in his decrepit shack in somewhere like Kentucky or a Florida swamp, plonking away on his trusty Amstrad 512, the old genset roaring away in the background.....
Of course, he must put great effort into these posts as he has to keep looking up words, and now he's finally learned to spell 'fucking' he feels so proud and wants to use it all the time!
He must be in Heaven now that Trump has come along. At last, someone who thinks and speaks exactly like him! At last, a leader he can almost understand.
Yes, Fart Lover is an example to us all of the diversity of the American experience, with free speech for all, however hard it is for them to use it. If only he realised that for the rest of us to have any inkling of what he's on about, we'd all need Advanced Diversity Training, the very thing he wants Trump to ban! 😂
I reported him.
I did too.
Buddy, you are WAY over the line! If you were one of my clients I would have you evaluated by a psychiatrist.
Projection--Nazi maggot.
OK, this is enough. If the moderator doesn't ban your ass, I am never coming back to this site again.
Time for your medication “Art”.
How do you know it's a lie?