What must always be regarded is that media will only show and tell you what they want you to see and hear. That is fundamental.
Like the man said about China, both parties are "asshole!", but from where I sit, the DNC Jackassery have a lot more hits against them than the GOP. Every move they make is a move to deceive the people. The deceived us regarding the 2016 election, COVID, inflation, welfare fraud, voting, and the border. The border is an excellent example. The Biden admin went on for four years telling us that they were doing everything they could to protect the border, all the while trying to pass legislation that would have made it easier for up to 5,000 migrants per day to enter the U.S. under some form of special protection (and that they would do little to stop another 5,000/day entering outside of legal construct). It only took Trump about a week to completely disprove their contention that nothing could be done about illegal trespass across the border. The Jackassery could have done the same at any time, but they lied over and over again, saying there was just no way and we would have to live with the rampant lawbreaking by foreign nationals.
What does the Left Media strategy really have to do with "Trump"? It is just a name. The Dems / Left media will apply the same strategy of smearing the conservative leadership no matter who succeeds Trump in less than 3 years. It has worked so well the past 12 years (and really for 20 years before that), why bother to change the strategy? It is unlikely any who follow Trump will be as strong and able to ignore the smearing and bashing as does Trump. It will become increasingly less popular to be a conservative until there are nothing but far left liberals. Any remaining conservatives will be locked away in concentration camps. And that is their goal
It’s particularly effective with Trump because he punches back, often unwisely, and they know that he will. He always takes the bait and the rest of the GOP pays the price. But I do agree with your overall premise. Anyone the GOP runs will be worse than Hitler. They’re already saying it about Vance.
And yet . . . Hitler was a vegetarian, a failed art student, and a person who blamed rich people and Jews for all society's problems . . . sounds like an American DEMOCRAT to me!! AOC, is that you???
He always fights back. And he should. You saw what they did to their now beloved Bush Jr. He sank into a sinkhole that took down the party with the Obama presidency. All of that was manufactured and NEVER countered by Bush.
One must consider that now there are more Independents than in the Repub’s or Dem’s party. The Dems are losing a lot of the base they have been screwing for decades.
And the best thing, ask Dems how they plan to cater to Independents or those minority identity members they use to have but forced out of their party. And they will look at you with a blank stare and empty mind. It is getting better, but the MSM ignoring non partisans is the best thing this country has going for it.
Prediction: whoever the GOP nominee is in 2028 he’ll be tagged/maligned as “Hitler!” by Dems/media. EVERY GOP candidate/POTUS has been called “Hitler!” since Thomas E. Dewey in 1948.
Maybe you've noticed that voters are sorting and that red states are gaining representation and blue states are losing. Several blue states are likely in financial trouble just as their juice in Washington is about to be diluted by the 2030 census. The worm will turn, thanks to the wisdom of the Founders.
I continue to say, I was never drawn to Trump, progressives pushed me to him.
As for divisiveness, how about referring to the majority of the country as "Flyover country"-Obama.
Or, "Fundamentalists cling to their guns and their religion,"- also Obama.
Or, "We are going to fundamentally change America,"-Michelle Obama
Or, referring to half of the country as "a basket of deplorables."-Hilary
Or, how about a major news outlet, AP, instructing journalists to not to use the word "illegal' in stories about illegal immigrants. Go ahead, search AP and try to find a story on illegal immigrants with the word 'illegal' in it.
Chuck Schumer is his own parody of a vapid, two-faced politician.
Progressives have painted themselves into a corner, and they're still painting.
Spot on except for calling them progressives. Progressive should be used for positive matters for which the demoncrats or lefitist have nothing positive to promote!
I have lived through the entire span of the Leftist control of the media, then academia, then entertainment industry, and now the lock on nearly half of the country. I live through idolatry of JFK, the coverups of LBJ's mendacity, the madness that drove Nixon from office (and secured the Communist victory in Vietnam) - then the going after Ford. I lived through the cover-up of the stupidity of the Carter years, then the craziness of nonstop attacks on Reagan, then the continuous diatribes against George Bush, followed by the gushing support for everything Clinton - despite his and his wife's obvious corruption -then attacks against GW Bush, then back to adulation with Obama.
President Trump is enduring a more refined version of the Leftist playbook and it's up to us to see past it - and support him in spite of the chaos and noise from the Left. Our future depends on it.
Optics. He was a handsome, charismatic, youthful candidate at a time when youth was worshipped.People who speak in idealized abstractions fare better with the public than those who bore them with sobering facts. Look how far Barry Obama got on "Hope and Change". That was a Roscharch Test of faux profundity that could mean anything a voter wanted it to mean.
Most people don't know that that the Kennedy family became wealthy via bootlegging. And the criminal element was passed down to the next 2 generations. Just look how Ted Kennedy, brother of John and Robert, was able to avoid prosecution for leaving the scene of an accident where a young woman drowned. THEN was able to be elected senator. Only a corrupt/criminal family could accomplish such a feat.
Yes, JFK was dangerous and scummy in his private life - even his election was questionable thanks to the machinations of Mayor Daley in Chicago and LBJ in Texas. We almost ended up in thermonuclear war twice: the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Berlin Standoff. Foreign leaders were assassinated (Dag Hammarskjold, Patrice Lumumba, Ngo Dien Diem - and almost Castro) under his watch and of course, he's the one that escalated our involvement in Vietnam. The media of that time protected him rigorously throughout his campaign and the three years he was President.
This is exactly what you hear from all lefties when challenged and they have no answer.
It’s a default setting for them in their reflexive opposition.
We could be outside with Matt Glassman on a sunny day with a blue sky, tell him the sky is blue, and if he knows we are a Trump supporter, he will say “I don’t buy it.”
FYI: “I don’t buy it is almost always followed by a word salad. I have found that lefties become befuddled when you hit them with a simple one sentence declarative statement, because they depend on obfuscation via multiple talking points.
The Democrat Party is a cancer that still could destroy this country. But the majority of my condemnation is on the people who support Democrats. Look at the aging boomers. Listen to them. They literally have no idea what they are talking about. They literally accept and believe everything the legacy media says. They produced a lot of similarly idiotic offspring. What is destroying us now, and what may very well succeed, is the fact that so many people are useful idiots who are very unstable. We are not out of this mess by a long shot. And we CANNOT rely only on the GOP as a counterforce. They can’t even do what it will take to pass the Save Act, a 85% + issue. The GOP Party is not meeting the times, and not meeting the challenge. And unless a majority wake up like Sasha we are very likely cooked. And the point of no return will start soon if the Democrats get the House, get the Senate, and/or win the White House in 2028. We are a long way from surviving the left insanity.
I do believe this is a moment where we can nudge some of the nearly sane back to reality and off the unhealthy NYT diet of raw, unfiltered America hate that gives them terminal TDS.
The kid interviewed by CNN at the Artemis lunar launch said it best: “We’re going back to the f*cking moon!”
Starting to wonder if there isn’t a correlation between how easy it is for democrats to cheat on elections, and how consistently the corporate media lies and misrepresents anything Trump (and other non-leftists) say and do.
I’m so sick and tired of all the propaganda - it’s as though the lies and the fake news acts as a rationale to help explain away stolen elections. Elections need to be fool-proof, otherwise officials and “representatives” have no reason to be responsive to voters.
Our elected "representatives" have been thumbing their noses at those who elected them for over a century. Our Founding Fathers never intended for people to make a career out of SERVING the people of the country. It was supposed to be understood that it was a temporary, and short term civic duty. Not a JOB where they get paid exorbitant sums of money with benefits none of the rest of us could achieve unless filthy rich. I had an uncle who liked to say, "The first priority of every politician is to get elected. Their 2nd priority is to get RE-elected." They have spat on the people by not being the SERVANT they were chosen to be. Instead they make it LOOK like they are doing something productive in order to keep getting paid to do nothing at all.
Libs will never see the light. They are convinced of their moral superiority and won’t change for anything. Even if the media should vere towards the middle they would remain dug in.
I’m with you. Just weary of the constant trashing of a duly elected president. Did not vote for him in 2016 (left my ballot blank) but saw the handwriting on the wall and voted Trump in 2024. Sadly he is terrible at PR and since the Nixon debacle, Republicans have not figured out how to give a cohesive policy and ideological front. Personally I hope Rubio is the next president. He handles the media so well. He has matured a great deal since I wanted him as the 2016 nominee.
If the media was not out to see him fail at every turn and was for America succeeding above all else, his polling would be higher and his PR more favorable.
Even Nixon, who deserved the thrashing from the media, did not have it this bad.
I disagree on Trumps PR ability. But every chance they get to trash him they take with relish. There is nothing anyone can possibly say that can counter the school yard taunts. They will turn on Rubio soon enough.
I cast my first vote for Ronald Reagan for President, and claiming he just 'figured it out' is a pretty rose-colored-glasses view of his Presidency, and also likely highly influenced by the Leftist 'current Hitler' phenomenon. He had some major policy failures (immigration amnesty, spending reductions) as well as some real low points in popularity in the lead up to 1984 and even after. The major difference between Reagan and Trump is well-put as a 'whole of society' #Resistance by not just Democrats but GOP dead-enders who have never let up in the opposition to Trump. There really is not that much difference between the coverage Reagan got back in the day and what Trump is getting now.
Grok tells me Trump in his 10 year political career garnered about 245,000,000 votes, more than Biden in his 50+ year career. He's doing something right. The press, not so much.
You have to keep in mind that the extreme leftists are pushing for socialism as if that is the answer to all of the woes of not just America but the entire world. They have this skewed view of socialism/communism as if it would have everyone sitting in a circle singing Kumbaya, holding hands and smoking pot. They dream of this unrealistic idealistic world where everything and everyone is equal. They are oblivious to, or choose to ignore, the truth about the failures of socialism throughout history.
Donald Trump is the epitome of individual wealth in a capitalist society. This is a large part of why they hate him so much. He also defeated who the leftists thought should have been the first female president, "Hellery" Clinton. Again, they chose to ignore or were ignorant of just how horrible she would have been in that position.
Then you add the constant barrage from the media fueling that fire and you have what we conservatives see, a group so full of hate for ANYONE who thinks differently from them. There was a time when I didn't care how those on the left lived their lives. But now that they are trying to FORCE me to live as they do and be a willing participant, I want NOTHING to do with them and wish to wall them off from the rest of the country to avoid infecting any more youth than they already have.
There is so much more to be said on the topic, but my rant has gone on long enough, HERE. I'm probably going to write my own article about these thoughts. I may have to write a series in order to cover all the issues.
For President Trump every day is the Ides of March.
What must always be regarded is that media will only show and tell you what they want you to see and hear. That is fundamental.
Like the man said about China, both parties are "asshole!", but from where I sit, the DNC Jackassery have a lot more hits against them than the GOP. Every move they make is a move to deceive the people. The deceived us regarding the 2016 election, COVID, inflation, welfare fraud, voting, and the border. The border is an excellent example. The Biden admin went on for four years telling us that they were doing everything they could to protect the border, all the while trying to pass legislation that would have made it easier for up to 5,000 migrants per day to enter the U.S. under some form of special protection (and that they would do little to stop another 5,000/day entering outside of legal construct). It only took Trump about a week to completely disprove their contention that nothing could be done about illegal trespass across the border. The Jackassery could have done the same at any time, but they lied over and over again, saying there was just no way and we would have to live with the rampant lawbreaking by foreign nationals.
What does the Left Media strategy really have to do with "Trump"? It is just a name. The Dems / Left media will apply the same strategy of smearing the conservative leadership no matter who succeeds Trump in less than 3 years. It has worked so well the past 12 years (and really for 20 years before that), why bother to change the strategy? It is unlikely any who follow Trump will be as strong and able to ignore the smearing and bashing as does Trump. It will become increasingly less popular to be a conservative until there are nothing but far left liberals. Any remaining conservatives will be locked away in concentration camps. And that is their goal
It’s particularly effective with Trump because he punches back, often unwisely, and they know that he will. He always takes the bait and the rest of the GOP pays the price. But I do agree with your overall premise. Anyone the GOP runs will be worse than Hitler. They’re already saying it about Vance.
And yet . . . Hitler was a vegetarian, a failed art student, and a person who blamed rich people and Jews for all society's problems . . . sounds like an American DEMOCRAT to me!! AOC, is that you???
Pretend "historians" like Heather Cox Richardson keep fanning that flame, with biased punditry wrapped in Ivy League degrees.
He always fights back. And he should. You saw what they did to their now beloved Bush Jr. He sank into a sinkhole that took down the party with the Obama presidency. All of that was manufactured and NEVER countered by Bush.
I agree with this most of the time. There are times, though, where reticence is the better play. Trump hasn't seemed to learn this.
Media are cats.
Trump is a laser pointer.
Nuf said
Bingo, and one of the reasons I love him is he constantly trolls them! They fall for it every time. And I just LMAO when he does it!
He was doing well for a while suckering them into supporting insane positions.
One must consider that now there are more Independents than in the Repub’s or Dem’s party. The Dems are losing a lot of the base they have been screwing for decades.
And the best thing, ask Dems how they plan to cater to Independents or those minority identity members they use to have but forced out of their party. And they will look at you with a blank stare and empty mind. It is getting better, but the MSM ignoring non partisans is the best thing this country has going for it.
Prediction: whoever the GOP nominee is in 2028 he’ll be tagged/maligned as “Hitler!” by Dems/media. EVERY GOP candidate/POTUS has been called “Hitler!” since Thomas E. Dewey in 1948.
Yawn. How do people fall for this stupidity?
Liberals and every other component of the Dem party are lemmings and sheeple, begging to be led off a cliff
Because people tend to respond to visceral emotion wrapped in buzzwords. Our Universities have become Learing Centers.
I think the last word of your question is the answer to said question…”stupidity”!
Maybe you've noticed that voters are sorting and that red states are gaining representation and blue states are losing. Several blue states are likely in financial trouble just as their juice in Washington is about to be diluted by the 2030 census. The worm will turn, thanks to the wisdom of the Founders.
It has worked well for over 60 years.
I continue to say, I was never drawn to Trump, progressives pushed me to him.
As for divisiveness, how about referring to the majority of the country as "Flyover country"-Obama.
Or, "Fundamentalists cling to their guns and their religion,"- also Obama.
Or, "We are going to fundamentally change America,"-Michelle Obama
Or, referring to half of the country as "a basket of deplorables."-Hilary
Or, how about a major news outlet, AP, instructing journalists to not to use the word "illegal' in stories about illegal immigrants. Go ahead, search AP and try to find a story on illegal immigrants with the word 'illegal' in it.
Chuck Schumer is his own parody of a vapid, two-faced politician.
Progressives have painted themselves into a corner, and they're still painting.
Spot on except for calling them progressives. Progressive should be used for positive matters for which the demoncrats or lefitist have nothing positive to promote!
It's the name they chose. They're experts at mislabeling so that people don't catch on.
I have lived through the entire span of the Leftist control of the media, then academia, then entertainment industry, and now the lock on nearly half of the country. I live through idolatry of JFK, the coverups of LBJ's mendacity, the madness that drove Nixon from office (and secured the Communist victory in Vietnam) - then the going after Ford. I lived through the cover-up of the stupidity of the Carter years, then the craziness of nonstop attacks on Reagan, then the continuous diatribes against George Bush, followed by the gushing support for everything Clinton - despite his and his wife's obvious corruption -then attacks against GW Bush, then back to adulation with Obama.
President Trump is enduring a more refined version of the Leftist playbook and it's up to us to see past it - and support him in spite of the chaos and noise from the Left. Our future depends on it.
idolatry of JFK - I don't understand the fascination. I was only a few months old when he kicked, but from what I have read, JFK was quite the scumbag
Optics. He was a handsome, charismatic, youthful candidate at a time when youth was worshipped.People who speak in idealized abstractions fare better with the public than those who bore them with sobering facts. Look how far Barry Obama got on "Hope and Change". That was a Roscharch Test of faux profundity that could mean anything a voter wanted it to mean.
Most people don't know that that the Kennedy family became wealthy via bootlegging. And the criminal element was passed down to the next 2 generations. Just look how Ted Kennedy, brother of John and Robert, was able to avoid prosecution for leaving the scene of an accident where a young woman drowned. THEN was able to be elected senator. Only a corrupt/criminal family could accomplish such a feat.
And another relative, nephew maybe that got away with rape.
Yes, JFK was dangerous and scummy in his private life - even his election was questionable thanks to the machinations of Mayor Daley in Chicago and LBJ in Texas. We almost ended up in thermonuclear war twice: the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Berlin Standoff. Foreign leaders were assassinated (Dag Hammarskjold, Patrice Lumumba, Ngo Dien Diem - and almost Castro) under his watch and of course, he's the one that escalated our involvement in Vietnam. The media of that time protected him rigorously throughout his campaign and the three years he was President.
Same here. Certainly gives one a perspective that helps sort the wheat from the chaff.
Matt Glassman: “I don’t buy it.”
This is exactly what you hear from all lefties when challenged and they have no answer.
It’s a default setting for them in their reflexive opposition.
We could be outside with Matt Glassman on a sunny day with a blue sky, tell him the sky is blue, and if he knows we are a Trump supporter, he will say “I don’t buy it.”
FYI: “I don’t buy it is almost always followed by a word salad. I have found that lefties become befuddled when you hit them with a simple one sentence declarative statement, because they depend on obfuscation via multiple talking points.
The Democrat Party is a cancer that still could destroy this country. But the majority of my condemnation is on the people who support Democrats. Look at the aging boomers. Listen to them. They literally have no idea what they are talking about. They literally accept and believe everything the legacy media says. They produced a lot of similarly idiotic offspring. What is destroying us now, and what may very well succeed, is the fact that so many people are useful idiots who are very unstable. We are not out of this mess by a long shot. And we CANNOT rely only on the GOP as a counterforce. They can’t even do what it will take to pass the Save Act, a 85% + issue. The GOP Party is not meeting the times, and not meeting the challenge. And unless a majority wake up like Sasha we are very likely cooked. And the point of no return will start soon if the Democrats get the House, get the Senate, and/or win the White House in 2028. We are a long way from surviving the left insanity.
As Reagan said, "We are never more than one generation away from losing our freedom".
If Demoncats sweep 2028, America as we knew it, is over.
Yes, I fear that, too.
I do believe this is a moment where we can nudge some of the nearly sane back to reality and off the unhealthy NYT diet of raw, unfiltered America hate that gives them terminal TDS.
The kid interviewed by CNN at the Artemis lunar launch said it best: “We’re going back to the f*cking moon!”
https://aynsrants.substack.com/p/moonshot-whos-with-me
If we were ever there in the first place.
Surveys are a joke. As I learned in my doctoral quantitative research classes, you can make a survey tell whatever story you want
Starting to wonder if there isn’t a correlation between how easy it is for democrats to cheat on elections, and how consistently the corporate media lies and misrepresents anything Trump (and other non-leftists) say and do.
I’m so sick and tired of all the propaganda - it’s as though the lies and the fake news acts as a rationale to help explain away stolen elections. Elections need to be fool-proof, otherwise officials and “representatives” have no reason to be responsive to voters.
It's why the Democrats are so terrified of the SAVE America Act.
Our elected "representatives" have been thumbing their noses at those who elected them for over a century. Our Founding Fathers never intended for people to make a career out of SERVING the people of the country. It was supposed to be understood that it was a temporary, and short term civic duty. Not a JOB where they get paid exorbitant sums of money with benefits none of the rest of us could achieve unless filthy rich. I had an uncle who liked to say, "The first priority of every politician is to get elected. Their 2nd priority is to get RE-elected." They have spat on the people by not being the SERVANT they were chosen to be. Instead they make it LOOK like they are doing something productive in order to keep getting paid to do nothing at all.
Hope u read the coffee and covid substack daily Sasha!🙏🏻👏🏻💪💜
Libs will never see the light. They are convinced of their moral superiority and won’t change for anything. Even if the media should vere towards the middle they would remain dug in.
I think there is hope. The #WalkAway testimonials on social media continue. It's building.
I’m with you. Just weary of the constant trashing of a duly elected president. Did not vote for him in 2016 (left my ballot blank) but saw the handwriting on the wall and voted Trump in 2024. Sadly he is terrible at PR and since the Nixon debacle, Republicans have not figured out how to give a cohesive policy and ideological front. Personally I hope Rubio is the next president. He handles the media so well. He has matured a great deal since I wanted him as the 2016 nominee.
If the media was not out to see him fail at every turn and was for America succeeding above all else, his polling would be higher and his PR more favorable.
Even Nixon, who deserved the thrashing from the media, did not have it this bad.
I disagree on Trumps PR ability. But every chance they get to trash him they take with relish. There is nothing anyone can possibly say that can counter the school yard taunts. They will turn on Rubio soon enough.
Well, he was good enough at PR to win. Personally, I voted for him because he fights.
I cast my first vote for Ronald Reagan for President, and claiming he just 'figured it out' is a pretty rose-colored-glasses view of his Presidency, and also likely highly influenced by the Leftist 'current Hitler' phenomenon. He had some major policy failures (immigration amnesty, spending reductions) as well as some real low points in popularity in the lead up to 1984 and even after. The major difference between Reagan and Trump is well-put as a 'whole of society' #Resistance by not just Democrats but GOP dead-enders who have never let up in the opposition to Trump. There really is not that much difference between the coverage Reagan got back in the day and what Trump is getting now.
I think the addition of violence to "activism" these days is more concerning.
Grok tells me Trump in his 10 year political career garnered about 245,000,000 votes, more than Biden in his 50+ year career. He's doing something right. The press, not so much.
You have to keep in mind that the extreme leftists are pushing for socialism as if that is the answer to all of the woes of not just America but the entire world. They have this skewed view of socialism/communism as if it would have everyone sitting in a circle singing Kumbaya, holding hands and smoking pot. They dream of this unrealistic idealistic world where everything and everyone is equal. They are oblivious to, or choose to ignore, the truth about the failures of socialism throughout history.
Donald Trump is the epitome of individual wealth in a capitalist society. This is a large part of why they hate him so much. He also defeated who the leftists thought should have been the first female president, "Hellery" Clinton. Again, they chose to ignore or were ignorant of just how horrible she would have been in that position.
Then you add the constant barrage from the media fueling that fire and you have what we conservatives see, a group so full of hate for ANYONE who thinks differently from them. There was a time when I didn't care how those on the left lived their lives. But now that they are trying to FORCE me to live as they do and be a willing participant, I want NOTHING to do with them and wish to wall them off from the rest of the country to avoid infecting any more youth than they already have.
There is so much more to be said on the topic, but my rant has gone on long enough, HERE. I'm probably going to write my own article about these thoughts. I may have to write a series in order to cover all the issues.
" I lived through that deception, I find it much harder now to believe anything or even know what is true anymore"
I think we all feel like this, Sasha. Ty