It’s almost like conservatives control the vast majority of media conglomerates and subsequently control the types of content that their outlets put out.
bUt tHe lIbErAl mEdIa
I heartily chortle anytime someone tells me that.
This is what frustrates me about all the Ground News ad reads I see on youtube channels that I otherwise respect (Legal Eagle, and Some More News for example). Despite the claims about ‘left’ or ‘right’ media, they’re still all corporate owned media, and will only serve corporate interests.
Impossible! I saw a Democrat on CNN once, they’re taking over!
No, it’s almost like “the left” in the US (such as it is) is tacitly allowing it at best and complicit at worst.
The people in control of the media switch side back and forth as it suit them and they never lose because red and blue are the same shit.
Questions about Biden’s fitness were brushed aside until he had an unprecedented meltdown during a live debate. Also, Trump’s health was a major news story just last month, when he was diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency. This also came up again this week when people spotted badly applied makeup to his hand. Also, it was a minor news story when Trump fell asleep during Pope Francis’ funeral. And his meeting with the Saudis. And his press conference wirh Dr. Oz. And his trial last year.
Also, here are 10 articles, ranging from 2023 to two weeks ago, about Trump’s cognitive decline, including op eds from CNN and the Boston Globe questioning his fitness and an article from the Atlantic about why questioning his cognition isn’t as effective as it should be:
CNN-11/13/2023: Trump’s mental gaffes can’t be ignored
The Atlantic-2/16/2024:Why Attacks on Trump’s Mental Acuity Don’t Land
The LA Times-9/25/2024: Trump’s rhetorical walkabouts: A sign of ‘genius’ or cognitive decline?
NBC-10/15/2024: Trump’s bizarre music session reignites questions about his mental acuity
The Hill-5/7/2025: Is Trump losing his mind à la Biden?
Boston Globe-5/17/2025: Biden is no longer President. Let’s talk about Trump’s mental acuity.
Rolling Stone-5/25/2025: Jasmine Crockett: ‘It’s Time for Republicans to Question Trump’s Mental Acuity’
Penn Live-6/2/2025: Donald Trump accused of ‘crazy cognitive decline’ after fumbling ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ press conference
The Economic Times-6/24/2025: ‘Constant lapses and verbal aphasias’: Republican advisor drops a bomb on Donald Trump’s mental health
Salon-8/13/2025: Trump’s Soviet slip revives concerns about his mental acuity
The comment clearly states in a major newspaper, this year.
Granted you’ve linked some major newspapers, and some stories from this year, but not a single story in a major newspaper from this year.
That’s the point. It’s clearly dialed back, because he’s in power and crazy.
Boston Globe-5/17/2025: Biden is no longer President. Let’s talk about Trump’s mental acuity.
Pay walled
Archived link, because I guess that headline was too ambiguous. The Hill op ed was also written this year, and while they aren’t op eds, I shared three other articles from 2025 about Trump’s mental state, and this was just from a cursory web search. The point is, the press is talking about this, even if its not leading to the outcome we want.
How dare you give sources when they wanna circlejerk about their favorite out of touch boomer!
I’m just so sick of this bullshit narrative. The media ignored Biden’s decline until it was undeniable, and Democrats act like a few journalists doing postmortem well after the election is a huge betrayal. Meanwhile, Trump’s aging is getting far more coverage than Biden’s got, but liberals are pretending there’s a conspiracy to ignore it because the cabinet hasn’t invoked the 25th amendment. It’s infuriating.
I think it feels this way because - while articles are one thing - social media “atmosphere” was very different. I couldn’t go two posts without someone calling for Biden’s resignation, and it was all over the place, whereas with Trump it’s… Like, yeah, a couple of more prominent Democrats do that, but not really, and otherwise it seems like everyone just goes “such is life now”.
Criticizing their favorite politician means they’re un-American, and must be purged to ensure the security of party unity.
Democrats are just becoming more like Republicans every day. Next time a comedian calls out Newsom, they’ll say they need to be deported back to Russia.
if i had a nickel for every time conservatives propped up a dementia riddled alzheimers patient in order to cling to power despite not being popular i’d have two nickels which isn’t a lot but it’s fuckin depressing it happened twice
Reagan wasn’t nearly so damned obvious. Trump is a fucking train wreck. If any of us had a relative talking like him we would have been planning on a nursing home 3 or 4 years ago. At this point he can barely speak at all.
Just a couple of days ago, right here. He’s rambling and making shit up and has no clue he’s doing so.
I mean, there was shit like this going on with Reagan.
That’s just if you’re talking about the presidency. Mitch McConnell still holds his office in the senate today, years after publicly freezing in confusion multiple times.
I literally read and article this morning about makeup on Trump’s had to hide bruises.
Also, the right does not care how old he is as long has he slashed “entitlement” programs and deports brown people. The left only cares if the news is that he is actively dying because they know the right does not care.
The post seems to be saying they aren’t calling for him to resign or be impeached for being in declining health. Otherwise yeah I agree with what you are saying
They only care about your physical health when you oppose them.
Because Biden wouldn’t threaten you with lawsuits if you said mean things about him.
I don’t think it’s lawsuits that the journalists are worried about.
But it is what their corporate bosses are worried about.
The corporate bosses are worried about falling out of favor with the fascist administration. The lawsuits are small potatoes compared to other tools available to a dictator.
The fascist administration they ACTIVELY HELPED GET INTO POWER. That’s what they’re afraid of
It’s cowardly, but it’s also rational. Nobody’s opinion is going to be changed by something like that. And doing it would just result in Trump retaliating against them. Lawsuits are only one tiny portion of what they’d face. CBS arguably axed Colbert because Trump was using the FTC’s approval of their merger as leverage. The AP didn’t rename the Gulf of America and as a result they were barred from his press events.
Is it better to use the term “Gulf of America” if it means that you can still have reporters at his news conferences to ask tough questions? Probably. Is it better to avoid asking questions that are too tough if if means you get to go to the next news conference? Um… Is it better to not have op-eds that piss off Trump if it means that you can report on factual stories without too much interference? Err…
We’re in a new situation now. It used to be that the press had some power because it was the only way for the President to get a message to the people. Even things like the Fireside Chats that were carried unedited still required that the NBC radio stations carry the broadcast. If the president tried to prevent the press from doing their job, they could cut him off from getting a message to the people. Now the press no longer has that power, the president can talk to his supporters directly using his own media platform.
A news conference used to be something where there was a balance of power. The president had some leverage because the news stations wanted to be there to report the news. They wanted to be able to ask tough questions that would make viewers tune in, or readers buy the newspaper. The news had some leverage because if the major networks didn’t show up to a news conference, the things said at that news conference wouldn’t reach the people.
Now it’s completely one-sided. The press reporting the president’s statements is nice to have, but he can reach people through his own media platform(s) if he chooses to. So he no longer needs them, but they still need him.
The revolution will not be televized.
Ah I see you also like the music that Rand Paul enjoys
All seriousness fuck Rand Paul and the Revolution will most certainly not be televised
He’s the one
Who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he knows not what it means
KNOWS NOT WHAT IT MEANS
Gil Scott-Heron?
bUt AlL nEwSpApErS aRe LeFtIeS pRoPaGaNdA
LEFtIes pRoPaGaNaA 2025: but Hitler made a lot of good points, both sides had issues
That’s because this is a war on information. Has been since day one.
Bought media is like that
Trump rambling about medians during press conference. Seth meyers points out Trumps dementia all the time. https://youtube.com/shorts/pY06vb1Cxl0
Probably because it isn’t news. All of these things have been established for years.
Biden showing worsening signs was news, Trump has always been incoherent and unhealthy.
But reporting on the news is a bad thing, somehow.
Dementia Joe didn’t tell masked goons to abduct people in broad daylight
He did keep Trump’s concentration camps from the first term open though. Past performance is the best predictor of future performance. And if another Democrat like Biden or Harris wins in 2028, odds are they will keep ICE unchanged. The pattern of immigration policy for the last 20 years has been that the far-right Republican position of today becomes the mainstream Democrat position five years from now. Democrats repeatedly run towards the right on immigration, hoping to pander to the racist vote. It never works of course, but they never learn.
What’s weird is this has a new timestamp but I’ve seen this text verbatim for months now…
It’s also completely wrong, fucking everyone talks about how trump’s brain is mush
Point being it’s not mainstream news, not in the way they hammered Biden. There’s an article now and again, with a low key criticism or question, but that’s it.
They’re out there…
Here’s one from 2 days ago
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-dementia-alert-touch-grass/
It’s not exactly a secret, when a neoliberal normalizes the shitty thing republicans do, it’s newsworthy. Then people aren’t as upset when Republicans keep doing it
That’s literally what “normalizing” means and leads, do people honestly still not understand all of this?
What is there that people are so shocked by, that they keep spamming the copy paste social media comment in OP picture?
Again: not mainstream news.
Again: not mainstream news.
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Why would they, Trump has been nothing but good to the capitalists, while Biden was merely kept the status quo.
