I am good and goddamn sick and tired...

[PCIntern]

First, of the media referring to Trump as President Trump. After President Obama left office, he was constantly referred to as “former President Obama”, or howzabout “former president Clinton”, or “former President Carter”. Note that when a Republican either finishes his term or is “retired” from his office (Nixon) it remains “President”. As Gerald Ford found out after his talks of a co-presidency with Reagan, there’s only one president at a time, like it or not. I understand the use of the term as a term of respect in addressing or referring to that person, but the duplicity of the media coupled with the incessant use of and by Trump calling himself the 45th President of the United States, implying that there is no 46th president yet, is and has devalued the nature of the term of respect.

Second, the media has been talking about the coming “red wave“ since the day President Biden was inaugurated. They have staked their reputations on it and their predictive powers. If you notice, so-called policy Wonks like Jonathan Lemire and Steve Kornacki incessantly preface every discussion about any election with the “fact“ that the party in power in the White House does poorly in general in the midterm election. Every. Goddamn. Time. As though those people watching this Network have not heard it 15,000 times in the last 18 months. Oh, and did I mention that the party in power in the White House tends to have problems in the midterm elections? I’m surprised that every fourth sentence is not “do remember to flush the toilet after you use it.“ And of course, last nights elections did not go the way in some respects that these people predicted, so they have an almost cartoonish surprised look. How could this be? Dumbasses.

Third, and what does it take for these jerkoffs to realize that with Trump and his minions there is no limit to their perfidy, and no bottom to their amorality? Those of us old enough to remember the Gulf War certainly recalled the coverage we are in the reporters would make the statement preceding their report “Saddam Hussein today said XYZ…“. And then they would report what he said as though it was factual and would wait for it to be overturned by Obvious video footage, or the state department or the defense department explaining exactly why what he said was not true. When I was a kid and news reporters reported news only, the networks, particularly NBC with Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, would report a story which occurred say in the Soviet Union and then at the end of their report would state what Pravda or Tass had reported which was generally A minimization or denial of the story’s existence. Now, we have not only Fox News doing that, but it seems our own media is complicit in attempting to minimize the absolute criminality of the previous administration. The way this is taught in high school classes is that you substitute a positive person in the narrative and say what would happen to him or her if he or she did that? For example, suppose President Obama took 400 sheets/folios of highly classified paper home? One can only imagine the repercussions both by the Republicans and by our media. This guy Trump lied 100,000 times at least, stole highly sensitive material, performed giveaways of secrets from the day he was inaugurated, worked out a deal with the Saudis so his son-in-law could collect $2 billion which I’m certain will be funneled somehow to Senior, and untold crimes of which we as yet know nothing. It is revolting and some days I almost can’t stop throwing up.

These are a few of my “favorite” things…

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. Wall-o-text paragraphs are difficult to read for many of us, just so you know ;)

Otherwise, agreed!

[LisaM]

31. Eh, it was fine.

Better than when I want to read something and someone only posts a video!

[Butterflylady]

46. Thanks for stating that, because I thought I was alone on feeling that way.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. Well said, good doc. Thank you.

[BSdetect]

3. I share your disgust for the msm

Seems like unless we take the money out of politics we are doomed to put up with crap.

[Demsrule86]

23. Had Gore been elected, we would would not have had United...everywhere I look, I see missed

opportunities...Let's get out the vote and blow those MF GOP types out of the water this midterm.

[Evolve Dammit]

4. I am also sick and tired for the same things. I miss fact-based reporting with no opining.

Ultimately the corporate owners decide, like CNN shifting in the last few days to require more RW coverage.

[SuperCoder]

54. Not just requiring...

They've gone full-on Nazi/Republikkkan.

[lpbk2713]

5. Media bias can be subtle but it's always there.

I agree with your post.

[DENVERPOPS]

40. No small wonder media bias is always towards the Republicans

With 80+% of ALL media owned and operated by Republicans........

[Chipper Chat]

6. I do not keep loose objects laying around my TV

Because I want to throw it at the screen when watching Elsie Stephanic say president trump president trump president trump president trump this president trump did that I support president trump et cetera

[3825-87867]

15. This MIGHT help!

[link:https://thetvbrick.com/|

[dingosatemyusername]

48. I'm not too sure modern tvs can stand up to that

CRT were still standard when the brick first came out

[hunter]

16. I quit television news and opinion shortly after September 11, 2001

Quit broadcast and cable television entirely about ten years later.

Both were bad for my mental health.

Our television plays movies and amusing television shows, commercial free. That's all it does.

[ananda]

28. I've been off and on, but now I'm off cable for good.

And actually, I don't miss it.

[KarenS]

7. We have some local "news" folks say

"Biden" instead of "President Biden" to me that speaks volumes.

[calimary]

27. Write them a letter.

And cc it to their management.

So they know others have seen it and it’s not as easy to dismiss or shrug off “like it never even happened”.

Maybe write a letter to the editor of your local paper about it.

Yes, that’ll take a little extra work (looking up the addressee’s boss or bosses), but the impact will be far greater and harder to ignore.

The more eyes are on this, the greater, broader, and more powerful the impact.

[wendyb-NC]

8. Thank you, you are absolutely right

Tfg is has been, is and continues to be one of the greatest threats of all time, to this nation. He needs to be in prison, not glossed over by much of the media and politicians on the right. There is no place for a public enemy, or an enemy operative, like him and his minions. I fear for my children and grand children.

[DENVERPOPS]

41. Not only to THIS nation

but to the entire world, and our planet for that matter.

The same can be said of all Republican Politicians, esp at the Federal Level.........

[wendyb-NC]

42. Thank you, yes, excellent point

He's toxic and a danger to all nations, and their citizens and all living creatures, on the planet.

[Pepsidog]

9. Agree totally, although for the first time Im starting to feel like there maybe hope he is held

accountable. What does justice look like for an ape like TFG. I can see a plea to criminal charges related to the stealing of Top Secret docs with a prison term. That said, citing security concerns or some other BS, it will be some type of home confinement if that exists in the Federal system. He cannot walk on these offenses but I also cannot envision putting an extra-president in jail. That’s where he belongs but just don’t see it actually happening. Imagine processing TFG for prison. He will he told to strip naked, bend over and cough. A revolting thought, I know.

[notinkansas]

34. I absolutely cannot fathom why anyone would expect any degree of respect

to be shown to someone who had zero respect for the office or the country.

At this point he is just another guy who committed serious crimes and deserves the same treatment any other criminal would get.

[Pepsidog]

37. Let's hope they treat him like any other traitor. We are over him and his tactics.

[PortTack]

10. Yup! This is why I for one refuse to watch

[Joinfortmill]

11. Spot on.

[GusBob]

13. Sure is much c/o the media these days

some days both sides

I remember the Gulf War coverage, all that yapping about WMD's

Thats when I stopped watching TV. News and "reality" TV was bullcrapsickles. Mark Burnett ,Survivor was popular at the time, and then later foisted Donald Trump upon our nation. And we had a president who sat around watching TV something like 12 hours a day

Did they ever find them WMD's?

[halfulglas]

14. Media never mentions the biggest exception to "the party in power" axiom.

It's In Time Of War. And at the present time the Republicans, especially MAGAts, are waging war on Democracy, war on Truth, war on Democrats, war on education, war on the civility. I don't know how many recognize this but I'm pretty sure some feel this in their being without using the words. I have relatives living in deep red country that are trying to move out but because of financial considerations are for the present feeling trapped in enemy territory.

As an example of the war on Truth look at how this past "anniversary of Biden's horrible withdrawal from Afghanistan failure" has been treated in the media in just the past weeks. The failure was Trump's. Biden did a remarkable job in getting out what he did get out. He prioritized what he could. The media almost gleefully showed the chaos at the airport and deemed it a failure. The fact that we are out set Biden up for better dealing with Ukraine. If we were still mired in Afghanistan, we would never be able to have the robust support for Ukraine and Europe we do. To much of the rest of the world we are again a stable partner who can be counted on.

[catbyte]

17. ...

[Ilsa]

18. I'm waiting for them to say, "Imprisoned Donald Trump" or

"Convicted President Trump".

Psalm 109: 6-15

They say about me, “Have an evil person work against him,
and let an accuser stand against him.
7 When he is judged, let him be found guilty,
and let even his prayers show his guilt.
8 Let his life be cut short,
and let another man replace him as leader.
9 Let his children become orphans
and his wife a widow.
10 Make his children wander around, begging for food.
Let them be forced out of the ruins in which they live.
11 Let the people to whom he owes money take everything he owns,
and let strangers steal everything he has worked for.
12 Let no one show him love
or have mercy on his orphaned children.
13 Let all his descendants die
and be forgotten by those who live after him.
14 Lord, remember how wicked his ancestors were,
and don’t let the sins of his mother be wiped out.
15 Lord, always remember their sins.
Then make people forget about them completely.

[llashram]

21. +++

[onecaliberal]

19. This is why I don't watch. Spot on.

[llashram]

20. exactly

astute and true...thank you

[BadgerMom]

22. K & R

Agree 100%!!

[housecat]

24. Great rant and I agree.

(Please try half the width -- 10 not 20 words per line. Some posts are often skipped because they are too hard to read. Thanks)

[iluvtennis]

25. Right on point!!! n/t

[CaptainTruth]

26. Well said!

[gademocrat7]

29. Absolutely agree with you.

[Warpy]

30. First one, you've got a point, he should me Mister TFG

at this point, especially, when his wretched behavior is being exposed every day. He no longer has the power to eject reporters by lifting their WH press passes, they don't have to walk on eggshells around that fucking narcissist traitor.

Second, the press are lazy fuckers. The pattern in this country has been to have Congress dominated by the opposition party since god was a lad, it ensures no party will be able to act like the Republicans have acted for decades. That might not be the case now. However, let them keep their fantasy going, it will help to GOTV.

Third, he's still great for ratings, so they'll breathlessly report on his reaction to the judicial system, if not on the crimes that provoked it. See: lazy fuckers.

I'll be glad when this is over, he either drops dead of sheer spite or is imprisoned for at least one crime. Only then will the press have to move on to more boring but no less important news.

I've been reading more and more offshore press to get the news. TFG doesn't dominate their media, although the bastard is there, too. You can tell by the unladylike language in this post that I'm sick and tired of this shit, too.

[Cozmo]

32. Can't tell you how many times I'm screaming back at the media, "HE'S NOT THE PRESIDENT"

[Solomon]

33. You keep turning me into a PCIntern dittohead!

[PCIntern]

36. LOL!!!

😁👍

[JustAnotherGen]

38. Well written, on point

The thing that gets me about the pundits and their 'polling' and so-called expertise?

This midterm is different than all of the others.

1876 (Hayes v. Tildren) created a Constitutional Crisis as to 'who really won'. Talk of another Civil War . . .
1877 - would see the end of Reconstruction - in order to get Hayes the required electoral votes.
1878 - Change election with a third party (Greenback) taking seats from both the Democratic Party and the Republicans.


2020 - MF45 creates a Constitution Crisis in advance of the election (rigging, and all kinds of lies and nonsense)
2021 - Major coup attempt - Pentagon Involvement, Ongoing
2022 - Change election. Democratic Party Voters and Independents show up in order to stop the coup and the stripping of rights of the invidual.


This midterm looks like 1878 to me.


ETA - I could also argue we are in mini Gilded Age.

[GoneOffShore]

39. Thank you, sir. Well written, as always. And on point.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

43. Oligarchs, who own most of the media we 'consume', favor a fascist oligarchy.

The theocracy being promoted elsewhere and within the radicalized Republican party is to rile up and ultimately control the peasants in order to keep electing the party that gives tax breaks to the rich, suppresses voters, and deregulates industry. An alternative reality must be presented in public education and media in order to gain and maintain control, because the majority of voters don't favor the agenda of the radicalized Republican party. The indoctrination and suppression will continue until submission occurs.

Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!

[Brainfodder]

44. The trouble is we are aware of the media and its owners using it as tools of manipulation.

They not so much?

[pressbox69]

45. Former President

and Game Show Host.

[Butterflylady]

47. Always look forward

To reading your posts. Agree 100%.

[GreenWave]

49. Hooray for PCIntern.

I like your original thoughts. Please keep 'em coming.

[BumRushDaShow]

50. "suppose President Obama took 400 sheets/folios of highly classified paper home?

One can only imagine the repercussions".

We saw what happened with one particular person...



I know this had been posted before and someone just posted again recently (and I found the graphic and link to the research) -



Partisanship, Propaganda, and Disinformation: Online Media and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election

(and as a note, the "online" bit was amplified by broadcast and print media because "online" that became their sources)

[Cha]

51. FO to the m$m .. I did in 2002. Cancel

CNN & any other outlet that promotes fucking Fascism!

Mahalo for your OP!

[homegirl]

52. TWO BILLION $ funneled to Senior

in exchange for what? My opinion is the documents in those 20+ BOXES stolen from the White House.

[stillspkg]

53. Change Your Language

I won’t apologize that the language in your title is totally offensive. I have appreciated your insight in the past, however, I couldn’t get past yoir title today.

This is one of the problems with our people. Free speech, right? Nothing sacred. Normalize. Hypocrisy.

[Mike Niendorff]

55. Been watching this unfold for decades.

"President Bill Clinton" --> "Clinton"

"President George W Bush" --> "Former President George W Bush"

"President Barack Obama" --> "Obama"

"President Donald Trump" --> "Former President Donald Trump"

... and, more than frequently ...

"President Donald Trump" --> "President Donald Trump"


There's a pattern here, and I'm amazed it's taken this long for people to start catching on.


MDN

[ariadne0614]

56. FWIW, I totally agree, and sent your OP and thread to MSNBC.

It would be nice if everyone who feels this way would take a moment to let them know. We need to get at least as loud as the MAGATs.