Trump has hacked the media by lying so relentlessly and egregiously that whoppers that could be career-ending for other politicians don’t even rouse our fact-checkers. He claims American towns are occupied by migrants in every one of his speeches and it elicits yawns. We need to wake the fuck up. - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

atrupar.com • 129 days ago

Trump has hacked the media by lying so relentlessly and egregiously that whoppers that could be career-ending for other politicians don’t even rouse our fact-checkers. He claims American towns are occupied by migrants in every one of his speeches and it elicits yawns. We need to wake the fuck up.

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oeishik.bsky.social•129 days ago

Donald Trump has turned our information ecosystem upside down. He has defied all norms & he poses our country a serious threat. https://youtube.com/live/iBWM9HGarU0?feature=share

jb504.bsky.social•129 days ago

It also demonstrates the danger of billionaire owned news media where the only concern is shareholder value, not public service.

boboinparadise.bsky.social•129 days ago

Almost almost like they're flooding the zone with shit so the rubes can't tell the difference.
Almost

codewizard.se•129 days ago

I'm not American, but are like half of you this stupid?

gaylan.bsky.social•128 days ago

No... Just power mongers scared s**tless! 😠

riva-ace.bsky.social•128 days ago

Actually, yes. Well not stupid … just gullible. Like Russians for the last 150 years, or mid 20th century Western Europeans, or Hungarians, or … ahhhh the list is too long for this kind of medium.

id10terror.bsky.social•129 days ago

Firehose of Falsehoods, it's a planned attack on norms to destabilize our society. PsyOps executed by a useful idiot.

https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html

wardendios57.bsky.social•127 days ago

I think we may have a whole new category of philosphical thought - something that has a meaning, but it cannot be determined whether it is true or false.

drgdave.bsky.social•129 days ago

I'm no journalist, but it seems to me appropriate reporting would be to:

- Report factual claims he makes, if any

- Report statements of opinion

- And include a line like: "Trump also lied on a half-dozen/two dozen/a hundred dozen occasions"

The more lies, the higher it appears in the article.

staidwinnow.cultofsundries.com•129 days ago

The media has no agency?

jarda.bsky.social•129 days ago

I'm sure by now there are almost no dawgs left.

bindermichi.bsky.social•129 days ago

Since there are only ~10 million native Americans in the US he‘s not really wrong there.

concerned-chris.bsky.social•129 days ago

And then there’s the fact that most of the press is so obsessed with polls that they haven’t bothered to focus much on the fact that Elon is in bed with Putin or that there’s been North Korean troop movement to Russia, which is very disturbing not just to S Korea but for Europe and elsewhere?

thewettanktops.bsky.social•128 days ago

The amount of FRONT PAGE headlines about the polling in a race that’s gonna be “🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️” the day before.

What a complete fucking waste of time

riva-ace.bsky.social•128 days ago

No, not a waste if you are a Tump crony. Close polls can be used to show a stolen election.

concerned-chris.bsky.social•128 days ago

Which is why the press is committing malpractice by obsessive focus on them

brainswan.bsky.social•129 days ago

Desensitization 🤔

jdinjc.bsky.social•129 days ago

He is a moron

lezurko.bsky.social•129 days ago

Sometimes I think the only way US voters to recognize the danger of a tRump like president is for him to burn the whole country down to smoking ruins. Americans seem to have to feeling that horrendous leaders that destroy a nation happens to every country but us.

dameofdestiny.bsky.social•128 days ago

How many times can you report someone has called Trump Hitler? After a while, it feels like old news.

gaylan.bsky.social•128 days ago

No one is sleeping, just hiding!

klaus-jenny.bsky.social•129 days ago

Never seen an industry shoot itself in the foot so hard. If he somehow wins, half of those folks will be fired or incarcerated.

murgatroidbonbon.bsky.social•129 days ago

Call 555-FISH-SLAP!

https://www.threads.net/@colbertlateshow/post/DBhwyqBsVem?xmt=AQGz7W2ZKOLq7f2J785PxFlYELnbdKUtoSDuY26aH4sw7g

ditsy.bsky.social•129 days ago

Or flood the voting booths from sea to shiny blue sea.

grumpybb.bsky.social•129 days ago

A bit fucking late now.

psgamer92.bsky.social•129 days ago

I mean it’s obvious they want him to win.

live4today.bsky.social•128 days ago

#TrumpIsFullOfSh!t
#DumpTrump

cherylbluewave.bsky.social•122 days ago

It's the frog in a pot water allegory.

squibbmeisteruk.bsky.social•128 days ago

Meh! Don't forget all the foreign exporting countries that'll be paying the revenue earned from the tariffs the orange man-baby keeps threatening to impose, rather than the reality of domestic consumers paying. Trumper is an imbecile, too.

unclecracker.bsky.social•129 days ago

His stream of lies is picking up pace and farcical intensity.
They are completely unchecked and actually amplified by our complicit press.
There is only one Pravda; what makes any of the dozens of “news” orgs think that THEY will be the designated survivor?

daotoad.bsky.social•129 days ago

It’s gonna be Newsmax.

Fox already betrayed him once and he’s nothing if not vindictive.

kc-momkin.bsky.social•129 days ago

Maybe he bribed them. Maybe he threatened them. Maybe MAGA scares them. Maybe they see something in it for themselves. Maybe media was bought by big money, and if journalists want a job, they can't upset anyone. I don't see how so many journalists can all fall asleep on the job at the same time.

noticeeverytree.bsky.social•129 days ago

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dfarrik.bsky.social•129 days ago

Exactly right. Not only does Harris need to win but there also needs to be sweeping changes to your institutions and, perhaps, American civic values.Otherwise a Democratic win is just a band-aid to much larger issue.