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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (4 children)

My word, that is delicious.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Free media coverage of anything Trump does tends to boost Trump's popularity, even if a normal person would see it as stupid or embarrassing. So I'm in two minds about this.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is the 2016 election strategy all over again. “If we blast negative Trump coverage 24/7 people will finally wake up to how evil/racist/dumb/etc. he is!”

This is going to be bigger than the OJ trial. He’s raised close to 10 million off of the mug shot alone. If he’s making that much off the “movie poster”, how much do you think he’s going to profit from the full-length “feature film”?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In 2016 they kept up stupid narratives about how "shrill" or "unlikable" Hillary was to "some" people as well. Also, they gave horse race style/ bothsiderist coverage to right's utter nonsense about BENGHAAAAAAZIIII and things like email servers.

They also decidedly did NOT give the real backstory on donnie and did absolutely nothing to really vet him for an American public that mostly only knew him from being a Bigly Successful Bidnessman on a game show someone else built around his fake image...

Even for the famous tape where he is caught bragging about sexual assault, they chose to focus on the p-word and the pearl-clutching over how that is "locker room talk", when the key issue is really that he's bragging about sexually assaulting women because of the power imbalance, and not because he said the word "pussy". Yeah, the media absolutely flubbed even that much.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Flubbed, or just did like they always do and treat him (and his chud army) with kid gloves? I doubt they’d have used the “oh my stars please get me to the fainting couch” strat had Hillary bragged about grabbing a dude by the dick.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Flubbed, or just did like they always do and treat him (and his chud army) with kid gloves?

Oh I have little doubt that quite a few within the media absolutely delighted in the idea of giving him lots and lots of airtime in order to fatten their wallets, and also a good deal of them really seem to just hate and despise the Clintons, especially Hillary, so they took every opportunity to take a shot at her. I do think quite a few thought that it was one big freaking joke and he could "never" win and engaged in lots and lots of bothsiderism over fears that the right will declare they are biased, hilariously, for the left.

The right declares the media are all liberals anyway, no matter what they do, so I have no idea why there are so many in the media that bend over backwards to do the "objective" bothsiderist things.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Even when he's officially declared ineligible in enough states to matter, conservatives will continue to waste their money on him instead of viable candidates. Let him bleed them dry. He can count all their money from behind bars.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I understand but he's going to make hay out of this no matter what. The good news is that this isn't a debate with an imperfect moderator; it's a judge who can slap real sanctions on people for breaking decorum. Trump won't be in control.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah but it's extremely important for the future of this country for these trials be freely available so we all have the facts (even if people choose to ignore them).it's just important 10-20 years later so the facts don't get erased.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

US treason trial drinking game, what are the rules?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The drinking game is now a smoking game.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Uh, say goodbye to your lungs.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

I did that when I started driving and inhaling tire particles

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] Estiar 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Take a shot every time the defense brings up the first amendment

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

We're going to have to make Bullshit Bingo cards...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Solid 2 piece, fries and a drink