It’s so fucking crazy that in the closing weeks of the election that Trump’s former chief of staff called him a fascist AND tapes of Jeffrey Epstein saying he was Trump’s closest friend were released—but neither story was considered a major scandal.
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The first one wasn't a scandal because it was the basis for his election, so that at least tracks. That the second one became a scandal honestly caught me off guard.
jul 17, 2025, 2:00 am • 0 0 • view
We are on our own Max
jul 17, 2025, 4:34 am • 0 0 • view
Look, Jake was closing out the galleys on his book.
jul 17, 2025, 2:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Meanwhile Mamdani doesn’t condemn some random phrase that he doesn’t use and suddenly it’s a national story that needs 7000 op-eds
jul 17, 2025, 11:32 am • 2 0 • view
He publicly bragged about how his friend Jeff Epstein “liked beautiful women almost as much as I do” with “many of them on the younger side” IIRC. Like, how was that not a massive perpetual story?
jul 17, 2025, 2:40 am • 0 0 • view
NYT buried their own Kelly story too. That’s why it’s a cnn headline instead of their front page.
jul 17, 2025, 2:33 am • 1 0 • view
Oh wow thats ve... HANG ON, JOE BIDEN JUST GOT OLDER!!!
jul 17, 2025, 1:56 am • 18 1 • view
Also, this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/23/donald-trump-accuser-stacey-williams-jeffrey-epstein
jul 17, 2025, 3:00 am • 4 3 • view
The one thing Trump is right about-the press is the enemy of the people….just not the way he thinks.
jul 17, 2025, 8:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Because journalists love Trump and want him to rule us like a king (the Biden admin was too boring and didn’t give them enough hot gossip)
jul 17, 2025, 2:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Press doesn’t want to cover the substance of Epstein just the drama of Trump.
jul 17, 2025, 9:35 am • 0 0 • view
This is what happens when social media algorithms are gamed. The fix was in, and it still is. Although you can post whatever you want, you'll be throttled and limited to your own niche silo, and not get amplification necessary to move the needle. Epstein news took off after Musk jumped ship.
jul 17, 2025, 11:17 am • 0 0 • view
Guys, Biden was old tho
jul 17, 2025, 2:01 am • 3 0 • view
I forgot about this! www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
jul 17, 2025, 2:55 am • 0 0 • view
Seems pretty par for the course with US media.
jul 17, 2025, 5:52 am • 2 0 • view
The Press completely failed us
jul 17, 2025, 1:58 am • 24 1 • view
The media have failed horribly and a big part of why he is back in power
jul 17, 2025, 1:26 pm • 0 0 • view
The media is just as complicit. They don’t post these things as scandal.
jul 17, 2025, 8:59 am • 0 0 • view
Our national media are all conservative, even the “liberal MSM”. It’s such a great con on the American public.
jul 17, 2025, 11:10 am • 2 0 • view
The donor class, the autocratic oligarchs, don't care.
jul 17, 2025, 1:55 am • 0 0 • view
Because both wouldn’t have mattered because MAGA would have voted for him anyway .
jul 17, 2025, 5:45 am • 0 0 • view
Also remember John Kelly coming forward to confirm the "suckers and losers" comment Trump made about war dead after his apparently being an anonymous source of it didn't land with the public at large. That didn't work either... www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
jul 17, 2025, 2:03 am • 4 0 • view
The two pillars of Real America
jul 17, 2025, 1:57 am • 0 0 • view
Almost like, and I hate to cast aspersions here, but almost like those media owners...wanted Trump to win?
jul 17, 2025, 1:57 am • 29 1 • view
Oligarchic mass media loves Trump, wanted him in, supports everything his dementia addled narcissistic orange ass does. Will go to the gallows declaring their undying love for him. Trumps strongest base.
jul 17, 2025, 3:12 am • 1 0 • view
The media had a duty to inform the public about these stories but didn't because they wanted Trump to win.
jul 17, 2025, 2:00 am • 1 0 • view
Imagine how the NYT or WP would have covered similar stories about Harris or Biden?
jul 17, 2025, 6:35 am • 0 0 • view
Dems were more focused Liz Chaney's endorsement
jul 17, 2025, 1:56 am • 0 0 • view
...Dems brought John Kelly's statements up MULTIPLE TIMES. INCLUDING in the debate between Trump and Kamala Harris!
jul 17, 2025, 2:13 am • 3 0 • view
You seem to have your timeline mixed up. The GOP swing to bring Liz Chaney on stage and toning down Walz came late.
jul 17, 2025, 2:32 am • 0 0 • view
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jul 17, 2025, 2:34 am • 3 0 • view
Hear hear!
jul 17, 2025, 3:05 am • 1 0 • view
Harris lost because she failed to turn out her base. Trump stole way more Biden 2020 voters than Harris stole 20 Trump voters
jul 17, 2025, 2:40 am • 0 0 • view
What are you claiming her base was that Trump was able to steal from it?
jul 17, 2025, 2:47 am • 1 0 • view
Trump got 4% of Biden voters. Harris got 2% former Trump voters. Bringing someone from the other side failed horribly and the way things have been done for ages clearly hasn’t worked given the state of everything.
jul 17, 2025, 2:53 am • 1 0 • view
"the other side" She had been tossed out of the party.
jul 17, 2025, 3:08 am • 1 0 • view
I can remember so many candidates ruined by a simple picture and some rumors. They got them on tape and grab them by the pussy and he still got elected.🤢‼️
jul 17, 2025, 2:51 am • 2 0 • view
The base doesn't get that news. Control of media controls public opinion.
jul 18, 2025, 8:53 pm • 1 0 • view
In fairness, that was ultimately lost in the racist comments about Puerto Rico at the Nazi rally at MSG.
jul 17, 2025, 1:57 am • 0 0 • view
What Woodward and Bernstein did made journalism look so cool and heroic, so I keep wondering why don’t journalists at the big media places want to be seen as cool and heroic right now?
jul 17, 2025, 2:13 am • 1 0 • view
Maybe if one of CNN's own reporters got eaten in the Everglades, they might react with alarm?
jul 17, 2025, 1:56 am • 1 0 • view
Well, he was busy being normalized by Joe Rogan and Theo Vaughn, neither of which would ever bring that shit up, so...
jul 17, 2025, 2:27 am • 2 0 • view
Because the major scandal is happening now. It’s called a FASCIST TAKEOVER.
jul 17, 2025, 3:03 pm • 0 0 • view
I mean that was hardly the only sus shit in the election itself, given noted anti-democracy Thiel and Musk's involvement.
jul 17, 2025, 2:04 am • 0 0 • view
On par for as crazy as the Harris campaign doing the same thing for months even as internal polls said they were losing.
jul 17, 2025, 1:56 am • 7 0 • view
yes...you are right..it is the Black woman's fault.
jul 17, 2025, 2:34 am • 3 0 • view
If someone loses an election to the dumbest man alive it is definitely their fault. It’s cool though she had some speaking gigs lined up, she’ll never go hungry.
jul 17, 2025, 2:51 am • 2 0 • view
Please tell me who else would have done much better in worst circumstances ever. Trump campaigned as MAGA martyr for 4 years to her 100 days. He was known & she was unknown. He is a white man. She is a black woman. She also had DNC giving her 💩 advice. There is a reason campaigns last 2 + years.
jul 17, 2025, 4:29 am • 2 0 • view
AOC would have won.
jul 17, 2025, 6:35 pm • 1 0 • view
I sure as heck hope so. Thing is - Kamala is far more qualified than AOC as far as a leader. She ran the Justice Department of California - which is a bigger and more complex institution than many countries. Even though AOC is a natural leader - it would be helpful for her to work in the Senate.
jul 18, 2025, 12:16 am • 0 0 • view
AOC would have won.
jul 18, 2025, 12:57 am • 1 0 • view
I really don't want any more people who are F-ng clueless about how to run a Functional govt. AOC being a woman & Latina will need to work 10x as hard in order for America as a whole to vote for her - sadly. And we need young Rebels to shake things up in the Senate. They are dinosaurs!
jul 18, 2025, 12:20 am • 0 0 • view
Reducing an entire campaigns machinery and the role the DNC played in the loss to “but she was a black woman,” is doing a huge disservice to all the other black women in politics without shitty political positions.
jul 17, 2025, 6:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Responding to a Top 10 egregious example of how the media wanted Trump to win by complaining about strategic decisions made by a woman who lost by a tiny margin relative to incumbents all over the world, despite that media opposition plus racism & sexism, is a galaxy brained take.
jul 17, 2025, 3:11 am • 6 0 • view
On what planet? These got coverage, including Trump raging about it. The reality is that Trump’s core MAGA base liked what they saw.
jul 17, 2025, 8:43 am • 0 0 • view
Look Max, if an authenticated video of DJT r*ping a child while wearing a Hitler suit and shouting 'Death to the J*ws' came out, no MAGA voters would not vote for him, half would deny the video was real and the others would already start imitating their Nazi pedocon leader.
jul 17, 2025, 5:26 am • 2 0 • view
But Biden was old and eggs were expensive. Give the media a break.
jul 17, 2025, 2:31 am • 5 0 • view
And the Black lady laughed.
jul 17, 2025, 3:24 am • 3 0 • view
His voters never saw either story. Fox news and that entire closed media ecosystem for the RW is working as intended and successive Dem admins sat on their hands and let it go on. Yes it started with Reagan but Dem inaction is a crisis.
jul 17, 2025, 7:08 am • 0 0 • view