• hypnoton@discuss.online
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    1 month ago

    It’s almost like the billionaire-owned media was busy manufacturing consent and it was going somewhat well for some time.

    I mean Biden has had a series of the senility moments caught on tape, but before the presidential debate the billionaire-owned media successfully manufactured consent by telling the voters to ignore their lying eyes. Not all the senior moments were equally bad, so plenty of plausible sounding excuses were generated.

    After the presidential debate the reality of Biden’s condition was so blatantly exposed, the consent-making machine panicked and started furiously backtracking.

    This situation isn’t a joke because a lot of the billionaires will be negatively affected once Trump becomes King in November. With his King powers Trump can make CNN and MSNBC cease to exist. CNN and MSNBC don’t give two hoots about journalism or about holding power to account (they’d have to hold their own billionaire owners to account then), but they do care massively about their own safety. They are scared now because they no longer believe Biden has a chance.

    And all this insanity happened because none of the players in this story trust the democratic process. None of them trust the American people. None of the involved players respect the voters. They all believe they know what’s best for us.

    If we had a real open and democratic primary none of this would be happening.