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UTUSN

(77,431 posts)
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 12:42 PM 12 hrs ago

Gonna gripe about some of my favorite podcasts. Always with the purple prose about KRASNOV "crashing"

Overall, these are the ones I like: Meidas Touch, Pakman, Secular Talk, Sisson, Legal AF/Popek, Luke Beasley, Majority Report/Seder, Cocchiarella, Keith Edwards, Adam Mockler.

The ones I look at most: Meidas, Beasley, Pakman, Edwards, Mockler. Less so, Seder, Popek, Sisson. Stopped Cocchiarella.

*** The gripe: Especially Meidas (my most go-to) is always running with the headlines about KRASNOV "crashing, coming apart, worst day ever, near death," etc. Meidas has tons of solid information, resulting in my tamping down attention to the purple prose. But the lead-up to the State of the Union was the worst: Granted that KRASNOV, in the days prior, was building up to meltdown stage, so it seemed credible that Meidas was predicting a complete clinical break coming.

My problem is, KRASNOV is the worst of the worst, but it's a known condition, can't be worse. So every time somebody says he's at a breaking point, there he comes to the camera and, despite being his obnoxious self, he talks almost in control. Big letdown.




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Gonna gripe about some of my favorite podcasts. Always with the purple prose about KRASNOV "crashing" (Original Post) UTUSN 12 hrs ago OP
Yeah, yesterday MTN podcast headline was about Casey Means IMPLODING before Congress AZJonnie 12 hrs ago #1
I don't watch any of those any more, even Meidas, because they advertise more than they deliver. Ocelot II 12 hrs ago #2
I can't read or listen to them because of that mcar 12 hrs ago #3
Yep. At this point, I avoid any video that has a hyperbolic headline, or yellow text, or a photo of Drumpf. progressoid 11 hrs ago #5
Hyperbolic - exactly! mcar 11 hrs ago #6
The only way to stop that is to stop listening and tell them why EdmondDantes_ 11 hrs ago #4

AZJonnie

(3,427 posts)
1. Yeah, yesterday MTN podcast headline was about Casey Means IMPLODING before Congress
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 12:51 PM
12 hrs ago

I listened, and she did not do any such thing. She lied and gish-galloped and avoided hard questions, but nothing like an "implosion"

I'm with you on this point!

Ocelot II

(130,026 posts)
2. I don't watch any of those any more, even Meidas, because they advertise more than they deliver.
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 12:54 PM
12 hrs ago

I was raised at a time when reading was a thing, not watching a screen, so I'm good at reading and I can do it very fast. I'm old and I don't want to waste whatever time I have left on videos that offer 20 seconds of content after making you sit through 20 minutes of vapid commentary. Is Trump crashing, falling apart, dying before our eyes? Maybe, but don't blather on about it. He could croak any time, or he could linger for years, like a lot of old people with chronic ailments. Until it happens, and may that be soon, don't waste my time telling me about the gangrene or whatever on his hand or the fact that he walks funny.

mcar

(45,874 posts)
3. I can't read or listen to them because of that
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 12:56 PM
12 hrs ago

The sensational, dramatic headlines, the yellow arrow. Every substack from them (with the exception of Filipowski, who does actual reporting) is just "subscribe, subscribe, subscribe."

I realize these sites need subscribers, but substance would be nice without the extremes.

progressoid

(52,975 posts)
5. Yep. At this point, I avoid any video that has a hyperbolic headline, or yellow text, or a photo of Drumpf.
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 01:30 PM
11 hrs ago

EdmondDantes_

(1,623 posts)
4. The only way to stop that is to stop listening and tell them why
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 12:59 PM
11 hrs ago

But click bait sells so unfortunately those of us who don't like it are outvoted by public attention.

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