14-11-2016, 12:43 AM
(This post was last modified: 14-11-2016, 01:00 AM by Cliff Varnell.)
David Guyatt Wrote:Btw, I agree that the media is manipulated, or rather the media manipulates -- it's an awful cacophony of pre-packaged neocon opinions and state propaganda and is no longer worth the time or effort to read it.
Donald Trump turned cable news into a 24/7 Reality TV Show. Those who were not consumers of this Reality TV Show cannot fully comprehend what happened in the 2016 election.
CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News saw major increases in their viewership and they gave Trump and his surrogates billions of dollars in free air time -- "earned media," they call it.
They allowed Trump and his people to lie unchallenged about everything for a year and a half.
On the day before Comey's treason e-mail letter to Congress the focus of The Donald J. Trump Show Starring Donald J. Trump Featuring the Lovely Ivanka
was on Trump's refusal to release his tax returns, and all the women who went public with his serial sexual harassment.
The last 11 days of the campaign were devoted to attacks on Clinton over the e-mails which ended up having nothing to do with her.
And she's still going to end up with almost 3 million more votes!
Our election process is obsolete and needs a revamp.
Quote: There are far better options out there now for information and insight. I rarely read any mainstream media or watch mainstream news either.
I'm suffering from a serious case of post-election-traumatic-stress-disorder.
I haven't been able to watch "the TV news" since it became apparent fairly early on Tuesday that Clinton would lose Wisconsin.
I cancelled my cable subscription Wednesday morning.
The Donald J Trump Show Starring Donald J Trump Featuring the Lovely Ivanka was given a 4-year run by CNN/MSNBC/Fox.
That's who "won" the election, that's who rigged the election. Assange, Putin, the GOP Benghazi Committee -- they all played important roles but without Comey's interference and the mass-media's compliance Clinton would have won.
Quote:Let me also add that I agree the election was rigged. In all sorts of ways. The DNC rigged it against Bernie and it increasingly appears that one tentacle of the oligarchy may well have rigged it for Trump to win.
For me it's becoming ever clearer that the political class are simply paid actors to play the straight guy in what is a nation utterly controlled by perpetual gangster/mafia class.
Now a new Don has taken over the family and will be running things for the next 4 years.
Yet again the US purse will be picked clean.
The American ruling elite is bi-polar.
Clinton is a card-carrying Globalist, friendly to bankers.
Trump leads the Dominionists, who seek to make the world safe for Jesus to return.
Isn't that something? Millions of white bible-thumpers went to church on Sunday and voted for a pedophile rapist on Tuesday.
If we can keep Il DoucheBag from attacking Iran we might get through the next four years relatively unscathed.
For non-Americans who relish the schadenfreude from watching American society's self-mutilation -- these will be the best of times as long as the world isn't blown up!