I call it the rightwing mediasphere because the right wing does dominate American news culture. How they accomplished this is a tricky question. Surely a fair amount of the impact was made because of rightwing talk radio starting with Rush Limbaugh and moving on to all the Rush clones and that particularly toxic asshole Mark Levin, playing at farm states workplaces 8 hours a day. and Fox News being so popular. and Murdoch's other ventures like the Wall St. Journal and NY Post. and the Sinclair Group's invasion of America's beloved local news. and other even more extreme wingnut streaming like Newsmax and the like.
but there are other technological factors these days that may be just as important of pieces of the puzzle. There's a whole culture I will henceforth call the Tik Tok mediasphere which is ridiculously dominating this election cycle as all political ingenues who only entered the land of politics because of the charismatic orange cartoon character end up taking the simplest, most flunkeeesque route to modern knowledge - short video clips of Biden and Trump gaffes except they don't really get exposed to the Trump gaffes because the MAGAs grant Trump full immunity on all things like they and Trump hope SCOTUS does. Imagine, this election actually could be decided based on who wins the silly, irrelevant for all practical purposes, gotcha gaffe factor. This is how dumb our media has decided to be. but hey, fuck, it all fits on the tiny lil screen made for their tiny lil brains.
A lot of our own like to backbite the Dems for their losing ways. but the general punditry class always goes to the same sort of hoohah that borrows much from mischaracterizations manufactured and generated constantly from the right. It comes down to this: Our team just ain't willing to fight enough. Here is what they're up against. Ya got an irreverent, base level stupid, big mouthed man, whose number one tool of engagement is blame . He pretty much gets everything wrong, but takes no responsibility ever for fucking up which is basically all he does. Then when he runs into questions and adversity, he blames others. He has legendarily blamed Obama, Hillary, Biden, usually just randomly outa the blue. Now that he's screwing up the economy he blames Jerome Powell for not lowering the interest rates, and he blames the lady who publishes the job reports when he has a series of really bad ones. He has certain idols he doesn't blame - Putin, Bibi for starters. Th...
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