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JohnSJ

(95,609 posts)
Thu Oct 24, 2024, 12:29 PM 3 hrs ago

Just like the mantra "Biden is too old", the MSM is pushing the garbage that VP Harris has no details? "Where is the

meat to the bone", some jackass said on MSNBC a few moments ago. On CNN Frank Luntz pushes the same bullshit.

What a double standard setup by our media.

Has anyone in the media asked for the "details" from trump? They accept his rambling James Joyce stream of the subconscious blathering with zero, zilch follow-up.

The brain dead economic forum in NY that trump appeared at when asked about the expensive cost of child care answered so clearly, "well child care is child care", how about those tarriffs I will impose, money will be pouring in like raindrops"

followed by applause from so-called wall streeter "experts" at that forum.

What a twisted, sick country we live in where what's right is portrayed as wrong, and what's wrong is portrayed as what's right.


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Voltaire2

(14,607 posts)
2. It is a sexist dog whistle.
Thu Oct 24, 2024, 12:51 PM
3 hrs ago

Harris does not have the appropriate 'gravitas'. She has a certain lack.

Redleg

(6,074 posts)
5. LOL. "But Joe Biden is old," "But Hillary's e-mails," but "the inflation,"
Thu Oct 24, 2024, 01:05 PM
3 hrs ago

The media is more interested in taking a Cletus safari to some rural diner to ask the real Americans there what they think. When is the last time they asked people living in urban areas their opinions?

unblock

(54,039 posts)
7. They're still at it from 8 years ago when they said, "we need to hear more from these people"
Thu Oct 24, 2024, 01:22 PM
2 hrs ago

I mean thank god the media finally started giving voice to white men, so horribly underrepresented in our nation's history.

Redleg

(6,074 posts)
8. Exactly, but that is the point- these particular white men feel like they are losing status
Thu Oct 24, 2024, 01:45 PM
2 hrs ago

and privilege and that is why they have sore backsides about it and that is why they are going to vote for the biggest whiner in history.

Redleg

(6,074 posts)
4. The double standard is their only standard
Thu Oct 24, 2024, 01:02 PM
3 hrs ago

Women have to be damn near perfect, men just mediocre. I say that as a slightly better than average man. The same goes for the standards for Democrats versus Rethuglicans. They always expect Democrats to be the "adults in the room" and hardly ever expect the same from Republicans.

Greybnk48

(10,340 posts)
6. They're lugging out the old "Where's the Beef" bullshit from the 80's? Seriously?
Thu Oct 24, 2024, 01:06 PM
3 hrs ago

The Republicans really don't have a single new idea, do they? How fucking sad is this?

Redleg

(6,074 posts)
9. Very fucking sad indeed.
Thu Oct 24, 2024, 01:49 PM
2 hrs ago

"Where's the beef" - LOL- that one takes me back to my youth. The GOP's constancy about tax cuts for the wealthy and for businesses, regardless of the current economic conditions, is as predictable as the sun rising in the east. I remember when Jack Kemp was considered a conservative with new ideas and they mainly turned out to be the same old shit with a different name. Same goes for Paul Ryan, the erstwhile golden-boy and media darling. Old wine in a new bottle. And screw the media for playing this game.

Kid Berwyn

(17,594 posts)
10. Flawless vs Lawless
Thu Oct 24, 2024, 01:50 PM
2 hrs ago

Harris must be Flawless, per Corporate McPravda.

Trump can be Lawless, per Corporate McPravda.

Just like Justice John Roberts said it's supposed to be.

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