The normalizing just keeps marching on

[maxrandb]

The reflecting pool shitshow is just the same as the "birther, election fraud, Iran, Venezuela, COVID, 'never touched her', 'I know more then the generals', 'I'm the most honest person'" shitshows.

In each of those examples, AND MANY MORE, he has lied his fucking ass off and relied on the "press" to obfuscate for him.

Just look at what is happening now.

Serious people are wasting serious time and effort refuting absolute bullshit.

Serious people are pointing out how it's impossible for this swampy goatrope to have been caused by vandalism.

Give it 48 hours, and the Reflecting Pool fiasco will just become another in a long line of "he said-she said" obfuscations.

We used to say; "a lie can travel around the world before the truth gets its pants on".

In this case, and many others, the truth is fully dressed, yet the press and the people still insist on giving the lie a ride.

He, and the Retrumplicans will keep lying to America UNTIL THE FUCKING MEDIA STOPS PLAYING THEIR FUCKING "IT COULD BE THIS...IT COULD BE THAT, HE SAID-SHE SAID" FUCKING BULLSHIT.

The reason he believes he can get away with this LIE, is BECAUSE THE FUCKING PRESS HAS NEVER HELD HIM ACCOUNTABLE FOR ALL HIS PREVIOUS LIES.

[redwitch]

1. Amen!

The sanewashing is driving me insane!

[CrispyQ]

2. "Too many OB/GYN's aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country." ― George W. Bush

When that quote slid under the radar of the press & was never discussed, I knew they were mostly worthless. The good news is fewer & fewer people are tuning into the main stream media. The bad news is they're tuning into podcasts, many of whom are just influencers who don't really know what's going on.

[maxrandb]

3. I had Walter Cronkite

my kids have Joe Rogan and the former bikini model that posts videos about vaccine efficacy on Tik-Tok

[progressoid]

4. Yep.

The 4th estate deserves as much blame as any for the condition we are in.**

Sadly, after Trump is gone (either from office or from the planet), our broken media system will still be here.

HUGE K/R!


** I equally blame the 77 million people who voted for the bloviating criminal.

[traveler50]

5. Mainstream media is owned by Republican billionaires.

It is time to stop expecting any reasonable reporting on Donald Trump. Major media companies are owned by Republican billionaires. If there was fairness in media we would be seeing panic reporting from them because what they reported about Joe Biden is minuscule compared to the insanity of Donald Trump.

[mvd]

13. That says it

It’s a case of oligarchy supporting the oligarchy.

[Joinfortmill]

6. Preach it! Amen.

[maxsolomon]

7. The "MSM" cannot disprove a lie instantaneously.

It takes time.

We hear MFer's ludicrous lies about the Reflecting Pool and we know instinctively it's BS. We're right, but (to pick DU's favorite whipping boy) the NYT has to PROVE it before they can say it's a lie. 2 verifiable sources, right?

Even when they write the story of the measly 5 citations handed out to tourists for touching floating chunks of paint, that doesn't really hold MFer "accountable". His lies are 1-way conversations. If any MSM reporter gets a chance to call him on a lie, he insults them, changes the topic, and if that doesn't work, HE RUNS AWAY.

I don't think "accountability" is on the table any longer.

[modrepub]

8. Access Over Accountability

Why cause waves using critical thinking? That will only get you ostracized from the politically powerful.

And I prefer to call the M$M.

[Initech]

9. The media is 100% responsible for the mess that we are in.

And instead of correcting the ship, they're doubling down and making things more fascist. Kissing his worthless at every opportunity while the fucking asshole steers us straight into the iceberg. Enough is enough. Fuck the media.

[returnee]

10. If they start now...

…they will highlight their prior bullshit.

[maxrandb]

11. Right now, there are probably "serious" news spokesmodels

trying to track down the 4, or 5 people ghat were issued citations for touching the water to ask them; "did you use a boxcutter to slice a 300 foot gash in the blue sealant"?

Then, they will ask for comment from judge Drinky Mcwinebox and Stinky, Orange Al Capones's lawyer.

Could be this....could be that....I guess we'll never know.

[lame54]

12. He might be telling the truth - this time