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onecaliberal

(32,969 posts) Mon Mar 20, 2023, 10:07 PM Mar 2023

Trump, the GOP and anyone who supports them are not credible. Nothing they say is truthful.

Everyone in the real world understands this. Why doesn't the media?

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Trump, the GOP and anyone who supports them are not credible. Nothing they say is truthful. (Original Post) onecaliberal Mar 2023 OP

They're relying on donor-weighted algorithms to prompt them to be aware ExtremelyWokeMatt Mar 2023 #1

The length they go to in affording these people a platform to gaslight the country is incredible. onecaliberal Mar 2023 #2

Upton Sinclair wrote, in 1934: RockRaven Mar 2023 #3

ExtremelyWokeMatt

(161 posts)

1. They're relying on donor-weighted algorithms to prompt them to be aware

Reply to onecaliberal (Original post)

Mon Mar 20, 2023, 10:09 PM

Mar 2023

Come election time the bets have traditionally been placed causing the horse race simulation.

They can quit that if they want.

onecaliberal

(32,969 posts)

2. The length they go to in affording these people a platform to gaslight the country is incredible.

Reply to ExtremelyWokeMatt (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 20, 2023, 10:15 PM

Mar 2023

RockRaven

(15,062 posts)

3. Upton Sinclair wrote, in 1934:

Reply to onecaliberal (Original post)

Mon Mar 20, 2023, 10:15 PM

Mar 2023

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"

And he was specifically talking about newspaper coverage -- so, media -- of himself which he believed was inaccurate and unfair (during a failed run for CA governor, so political media).

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