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Cyrano

(15,041 posts)
Tue Jul 5, 2016, 01:54 PM Jul 2016

Trump is a gold mine for pundits

We've been watching it for a year now. Pundits that we haven't seen for many years are showing up on cable "news" shows. And many new ones, who no one ever heard of before, are being invited to cable TV "news" shows to spew whatever shit it is they spew.

But understand this. If none of them were talking about Trump, Trump would not be the (presumptive) Republican nominee. He'd just be the same asshole he's always been, making believe he owned a lot of crap that he only has his name on, making believe he's a billionaire, pulling scams and then suing everyone in sight, and ripping off everything he can from every human being he can with his huge scams.

Yet, the pundits we see on TV are talking about him endlessly. "He's a genius." "He's charismatic." "He's broken the rules and he's winning." "He's used Twitter to replace attack ads." "He's teflon."

Let me say this to (most) of the pundits. Fuck off. You're all using this as an opportunity to get paid while filling up air time. And boy, is there a lot of airtime given how many cable channels are on 24/7.

Enjoy yourselves while you can, pundits. Come the election, Trump will be gone and you'll all have to find a new "shiny thing" to focus on.

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