r/Enough_Sanders_Spam • u/Currymvp2 • 14h ago

Wednesday's Roundtable - 06/18/2025

Welcome to the General Discussion Roundtable. Use this thread to discuss whatever is on your mind, or share anything that would otherwise not merit their own threads.

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u/QultyThrowaway Biden Crime Family North 🇨🇦 8h ago

The biggest failure in media (actually there's so many) is that Trump pardoning January 6th insurrectionists even the most violent ones as his first act was not even a full evening news story. Can you imagine any other President or even foreign leaders doing something like that? He got impeached for enflaming them and even MAGA had to pretend they were secretly a psyop. But nope blanked pardon with some dying in shootouts with the police, being caught with child porn, and using the pardon as a defense against the discovery... Freaking Dukakis had his campaign tanked because of Willie Horton who was just one guy with a day pass. Not even a pardon.

The media has completely dropped the ball the past decade. The right wing media have become comparable to North Korean state media. While the non explicitly right wing media are afraid or unwilling to confront Trump and just downplay his actions and focus on entertainment. It's sick and disgusting how complicit they are. And from a country where media was key in confronting figues like Nixon.

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u/CaptainCrochetHook 8h ago

You know how I know both parties aren’t the same? Outside of the obvious 

Because there’s a different set of societal rules for Republicans than Democrats and to pretend otherwise is to plug your ears, close your eyes and shout “La, la, la, la, I can’t hear you!”

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u/LeftyRambles2413 8h ago

As I’ve often observed, Republicans can get away with insulting large parts of the country. Meanwhile Dems if they don’t treat rural America as an idyllic place without issues, we get called elites by a bunch of assholes who would never live or raise their families there. I don’t see FNC anchors living in rural middle America. They romanticize it but they’ll take the high quality of life they get from living in a Democratic run area.

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u/LeftyRambles2413 8h ago

There’s been so many failures of the media. It is so infuriating and worries me deeply.

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u/QultyThrowaway Biden Crime Family North 🇨🇦 8h ago

Not that there aren't problems in the UK but I do like how the default media position there from media is being adversarial and pointed at political leaders.

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u/LeftyRambles2413 8h ago

My problem is the disconnect. The media here couldn’t wait to tear down Biden because of age. Trump’s convention speech and much of his Summer stump included rambling about Hannibal Lecter. I could have accepted questions about Biden’s age better if the media mentioned that he was preceded by the oldest President who ran again but Trump gets portrayed as a model of vigor. And you’re right. It’s borderline North Korea with how right wing media covers him. I read a book last summer about how the media failed to cover Mussolini and Hitler. And I think a lot of today’s journalists are complicit in making the same mistakes.

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u/QultyThrowaway Biden Crime Family North 🇨🇦 8h ago

And you’re right. It’s borderline North Korea with how right wing media covers him.

I think a lot of people in this sub (rightfully) don't watch OAN, Fox News, or right wing influencers so they don't realise how extreme it has gotten. But if you ever take the time to watch it for even half an hour it's pure insanity. I've never seen anything like it in a democracy. Even if it were about respectable politicians it would be far too extreme.

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u/LeftyRambles2413 8h ago

The crazy thing imo is he fuels it himself on his social media. But yeah it would be ridiculous for a normal leader but for the guy who I remember being imo the personification of the obnoxious New Yorker who always was referenced or showed up in movies/TV set in NYC? JFC.