Edit: Just to clarify, my stance here is not “ignore everything Trump.” He has done and will do quite a lot of things that warrant attention and concern. He’s also a serial liar and world class bullshitter. A human testament to the phrase, “actions speak louder than words.” Donald Trump’s political success has always hinged on the fact that people are quick to forget that. He’s already working overtime to distract from the fact that the majority of his campaign promises were just lies and the sooner he can make the people who voted for him forget all the pie in the sky shit they were promised, the better.

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    so…just to point out

    you want a billionaire owned multimedia ad revenue agency (aka the “news”) to stop hyping the billionaire backed chaos cheeze monkey and the stupid shit it says?

    every time he realizes he exists is a moment that spits in the face of evolutionary theory.

    every breath he takes is a testament to the folly of man.

    the sheer hubris of man quakes at the mention of the man.

    he moves trillions of dollars into the pockets of his billionaire lords. they will never stop as long as you exist.

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      you want a billionaire owned multimedia ad revenue agency (aka the “news”) to stop hyping the billionaire backed chaos cheeze monkey and the stupid shit it says?

      This is exactly why instead of expecting the media to evolve or adapt I encourage people to walk away from corporate news.

      I’m not a zealot, so follow it if you like, just know that it has its own goals and one of them is to hook you on its crappy product and convince you that it is the sole arbiter of truth…when it’s really stuffing its billionaire-sponsored narratives down your throat.

      The reality is that if the news were in any way objective and about “the truth”, it would steadily maintain reality-based positions over time, but it doesn’t. It adapts based upon what its billionaire owners want and based upon the whims of the electorate – all the while pretending that it does nothing to influence the whims of the electorate when it very clearly does.

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    Isn’t that exactly what you’re doing right now? The lack of self awareness is astounding.

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    They’ve been doing that non-stop for the past decade and made millions over millions from that

    Do you really believe they’d stop today?

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      All media/journalism is struggling to make ends meet and no one in (real) media wants Trump to be in power. This cynical theory of the media is fucking stupid.

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        the media is owned by the elites. the journalists are not, but you’ll never work in journalism again if you push against the ones that hold the leash.

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    What’s even more stupid is that we’ve already done this. We’ve already lived this stupid-ass reality, and the media made public apologies at the end, only to turn around and do the exact same thing again. I’ll say one thing for trump, he’s right that the media is a circus, and not something to blindly trust. That’s probably the one and only time you’ll hear me say trump was right about anything.

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    That was the path before the election. A lot of clickbait headlines linking to his platform that exposed his “alternate facts basis” for evil. Now the attitude won’t make him go away anymore.

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      The thing is though his name in the spin machine is what he wants. There is an entire industry making money off that news. Its a post truth world my guy

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    I swear it’s just one dead cat after another with this guy. It’s like someone is feeding him this nonsense to keep him busy, and by extension, the media and most of us.

    He’s already working overtime to distract from the fact that the majority of his campaign promises were just lies and the sooner he can make the people who voted for him forget all the pie in the sky shit they were promised, the better.

    That too. Good call, OP.

    I encourage everyone to call non-news what it is - a distraction - until it’s actually a thing that’s happening. In the meantime, consider browsing the AP to read what’s actually happening that’s being masked by all this noise.

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      Yeah, all his campaign promises and bow he’s working on Renaming the Gulf of Mexico because reasons and he’s prepping to invade Greenland, apparently.

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      Trump is actually threatening to invade Panama, that’s not just a ‘distraction.’

      Trump actually did try and lock Hillary Clinton up, it wasn’t just bullshit.

      I despise the extent to which denialism hides in believing that if we ignore or don’t report on the facts of Trump’s terrifying actions (speeches are actions) that will somehow improve the situation.

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      It’s one of the stupidest most pathetic excuses downplaying the serious things Trump is saying. It’s appropriate to take Trump seriously and literally.

      You really fucking believe he wouldn’t nuke a hurricane? Why would you believe that? He does all sorts of stupid things. Sometimes he’s told no and the morons take it as evidence that he wasn’t ever serious.

      The incoming president has declared his intent to expand the borders of the US north and south. That’s news. If you don’t take that seriously and literally, you’re just burying your head in the sand. Stop spreading this mindless denialism.

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    For me the ideal option on another topic was to hide or unsubscribe from all relevant channels after finding the one that does frequent summaries I can read from time to time. If Trump\Elon drama could’ve been reduced to one weekly summary with added context and factcheking that would probably erase the need to follow these news articles completely.