They don’t care, because for them it wasn’t about supporting one candidate over another, it was and is about openly hating people. At least that’s what their actions show.
CaptainNoBoat on
This will never happen, but if Trump is his usual incoherent, rambling self at the debate, I wish the media would recycle every question they had in regards to Biden.
Ask every single Republican: “Are you considering another candidate given Trump’s obvious mental decline?”
plz-let-me-in on
The double standard of how the media is reporting on Trump’s mental decline vs. how they were reporting on Biden’s is so frustrating to watch. It’s obvious that Biden did a pretty terrible job during the debate. But people seem to forget that Trump was basically just as bad and also gave rambling, nonsensical answers, while lying through his teeth for almost every answer. And his cognitive decline is even more apparent if you watch *any* of his most recent rallies (sharks? Hannibal Lector?). He literally couldn’t give [a single full sentence during his response when asked about child care costs](https://www.salon.com/2024/09/06/incoherent-gibberish-experts-cant-find-a-complete-sentence-in-child-care-response/). I am so disappointed in my fellow Americans that this election is so close.
medievalmachine on
Why does Harris have to perform well when she’s been surging for weeks, she’s an experienced public prosecutor and a Vice President that didn’t try to overthrow the government?
Trump needs to justify his crazy economic plans to break the economy by supersizing the deficit again while supercharging inflation, while ruining Wall Street by purging the financial regulators.
This is legit crazy uncle stuff! This is Ross Perot with better hype and worse intelligence.
NadBrash on
Arguing in bad faith about the next talking point to rile the mob
Embarrassed_You_8837 on
They are simply repeating the current round of propaganda. The vast majority of people simply repeat what they see or hear with absolutely no knowledge of what they are repeating.
fermat9990 on
The media is giving him a pass on his dementia and thus tilting the election
LeatherFruitPF on
Wishful thinking but I hope the media will start to dump Trump next month leading up to the election.
Clearly this whole sane washing and false equivalency the media portrays is for the views and clicks. I could only hope they start sell him out in the coming weeks.
Reasonable_racoon on
>Where’s everyone who questioned Biden’s age and fitness?
Russia.
Faucet860 on
Harris needs to say there goes grandpa rattling on again during the debate
DMBMother on
If we discount Biden for dropping out, Trump is the oldest person to run for president.
bigbeatmanifesto- on
Everyone forgets that Trump is obese and has heart disease. On what planet is he fit to run a country?
vintagegeek on
It was convenient then. It’s not convenient now.
honeybakedman on
Worried about ratings.
Narragar on
Trump: “Obamna,” “Covfefe,” “Deportated,” “Acclimented,” “Powerfulnnz,” “Dripping shower faucets,” “Leon Musk,” “Kamabla,” “I HATE mosquitos,” “Hannibal Lecter,” “Sharks and electric boats,” “Hamberders.” Ketchup on the wall. A word salad response to the child care question at his recent rally. Forgets that he’s not running against Joe Biden at the town hall with Hannity. Forgets to lie about losing the election on the Lex Fridman podcast. Names his own mental decline “the weave.” Wears oversized suits to hide his diaper. Relies on his teleprompter more. Slower, slurred speech.
Media: *cricket, cricket, cricket
Joe Biden: *stutters*
Media: “JOE BIDEN UNFIT FOR OFFICE”
SlyClydesdale on
They’re just used to it. Everything is priced in with Trump.
He succeeded in numbing the press to his corruption and constant state of scandal.
They’re doing his asymmetrical warfare for him now.
They’ll report on it once it has an impact on his support, either within the party or with the voters. Until then, they’ll collectively shrug.
grimace24 on
They’re washing their tights in the laundry room. This is a huge issue no one is talking about. Trump has sounded more and more incoherent as we have gotten closer to the election. He’s mixing up names, places, and even making stuff up. Yet, no one says a word. Had Biden done this at any point while he was candidate, there would be 1000 articles, videos, etc.
Naiehybfisn374 on
Trump was barely coherent in 2016, too.
wombatshit on
80 year old presidents are fine now. The (R) fixes it.
SalamanderUnfair8620 on
You’re approaching this wrong. It’s a football game to them. It’s only a problem if the away team does it.
Inner_Rope6667 on
Trumpism is driven by cognitive dissonance in toto
Mijbr090490 on
They don’t care. They only care about winning and spiting the libs. Kinda like how they care about law and order, but will support a convicted felon.
InternationalPut4093 on
Biden is too old so is trump
onceinawhile222 on
Did you ever hear the story about the emperor with no clothes?
InevitableAvalanche on
Dementia Don is too old. I am here questioning his fitness.
blackmobius on
It was always one of those “rules for thee not for me” type of attacks. As per usual, the opponents are held to increasingly higher or impossible standards while their own people only need to have a pulse
youveruinedtheactgob on
Supporting their god-dictator, like they always were
SouthAlexander on
Biden was soft spoken when making gaffs. Trump makes gaffs loudly with confidence. That’s it. That’s the big difference. That’s the only thing that really mattered.
Hoodamush on
Those critics didn’t stand on good faith when raising those questions. Even now the criticism shouldn’t be on Trumps age, it should be on how much he is a Russian apologist, and convicted criminal TRAITOR. But you know the media is pretty soft on Trump.
Sad_Lettuce_5186 on
**This is not that fucking complicated.**
Biden and the left must redistribute resources in order to empower the marginalized groups they back.
Trump and the right work to block that empowerment, thus, they maintain the wealthy’s claim to their property and advantages.
So why won’t the media cover it? Because they don’t want their taxes raised and their advantages diminished.
Fucking straightforward
StOlaf85 on
This doesn’t fit their narrative.
Mongo_Straight on
Trump is the goose that lays the ratings golden eggs, so he’s going to be held to a different standard.
The media can’t, and won’t, quit him.
ConsciousReason7709 on
I truly can’t stand mainstream media anymore. MSNBC are the only ones that actually report on Trump in an honest manner. All we heard about was Biden’s age when he was still running, yet I can’t remember in the last week seeing a story about Trump’s age. Anyone who is Trump‘s age shouldn’t be working at Burger King, let alone be President of the United States.
jackofslayers on
Looking at you NYT!
gamergirlpeeofficial on
Is this a serious headline? Because it doesn’t raise a very serious question at all.
> “Are conservatives self-aware of their own hypocrisy when held to their own self-serving standards?”
Yes! Yes they are!
Contrary to the liberal stereotype of conservatives being barely aware NPC’s who barely think through their ignorant positions: conservatives aren’t braindead. They know what they are.
They know they are hypocrites. They pop a power boner everytime they see liberals rage about their hypocrisy.
Conservatives are not moved by values. They are driven by outcomes. Hypocrisy is just a tool to get what you want.
Remember when the GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell used a procedural loophole to block Barack Obama from filling a seat on the Supreme Court for 11 months because (just making up the rules on the spot) “*iT’s aN eLeCtIoN YeAr!*”
Then Ruth Bader Ginsberg dies 1 month before the 2020 election. The GOP nominate, ram through, and confirm Justice Barrett (who voted to overturn Roe v Wade) literally 2 weeks before voters ousted Trump for office.
Stop giving Republicans the benefit of the doubt. They have exhausted the limits of plausible deniability.
linuxjohn1982 on
They were right-wingers acting in bad faith all along.
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Russia?
They don’t care, because for them it wasn’t about supporting one candidate over another, it was and is about openly hating people. At least that’s what their actions show.
This will never happen, but if Trump is his usual incoherent, rambling self at the debate, I wish the media would recycle every question they had in regards to Biden.
Ask every single Republican: “Are you considering another candidate given Trump’s obvious mental decline?”
The double standard of how the media is reporting on Trump’s mental decline vs. how they were reporting on Biden’s is so frustrating to watch. It’s obvious that Biden did a pretty terrible job during the debate. But people seem to forget that Trump was basically just as bad and also gave rambling, nonsensical answers, while lying through his teeth for almost every answer. And his cognitive decline is even more apparent if you watch *any* of his most recent rallies (sharks? Hannibal Lector?). He literally couldn’t give [a single full sentence during his response when asked about child care costs](https://www.salon.com/2024/09/06/incoherent-gibberish-experts-cant-find-a-complete-sentence-in-child-care-response/). I am so disappointed in my fellow Americans that this election is so close.
Why does Harris have to perform well when she’s been surging for weeks, she’s an experienced public prosecutor and a Vice President that didn’t try to overthrow the government?
Trump needs to justify his crazy economic plans to break the economy by supersizing the deficit again while supercharging inflation, while ruining Wall Street by purging the financial regulators.
This is legit crazy uncle stuff! This is Ross Perot with better hype and worse intelligence.
Arguing in bad faith about the next talking point to rile the mob
They are simply repeating the current round of propaganda. The vast majority of people simply repeat what they see or hear with absolutely no knowledge of what they are repeating.
The media is giving him a pass on his dementia and thus tilting the election
Wishful thinking but I hope the media will start to dump Trump next month leading up to the election.
Clearly this whole sane washing and false equivalency the media portrays is for the views and clicks. I could only hope they start sell him out in the coming weeks.
>Where’s everyone who questioned Biden’s age and fitness?
Russia.
Harris needs to say there goes grandpa rattling on again during the debate
If we discount Biden for dropping out, Trump is the oldest person to run for president.
Everyone forgets that Trump is obese and has heart disease. On what planet is he fit to run a country?
It was convenient then. It’s not convenient now.
Worried about ratings.
Trump: “Obamna,” “Covfefe,” “Deportated,” “Acclimented,” “Powerfulnnz,” “Dripping shower faucets,” “Leon Musk,” “Kamabla,” “I HATE mosquitos,” “Hannibal Lecter,” “Sharks and electric boats,” “Hamberders.” Ketchup on the wall. A word salad response to the child care question at his recent rally. Forgets that he’s not running against Joe Biden at the town hall with Hannity. Forgets to lie about losing the election on the Lex Fridman podcast. Names his own mental decline “the weave.” Wears oversized suits to hide his diaper. Relies on his teleprompter more. Slower, slurred speech.
Media: *cricket, cricket, cricket
Joe Biden: *stutters*
Media: “JOE BIDEN UNFIT FOR OFFICE”
They’re just used to it. Everything is priced in with Trump.
He succeeded in numbing the press to his corruption and constant state of scandal.
They’re doing his asymmetrical warfare for him now.
They’ll report on it once it has an impact on his support, either within the party or with the voters. Until then, they’ll collectively shrug.
They’re washing their tights in the laundry room. This is a huge issue no one is talking about. Trump has sounded more and more incoherent as we have gotten closer to the election. He’s mixing up names, places, and even making stuff up. Yet, no one says a word. Had Biden done this at any point while he was candidate, there would be 1000 articles, videos, etc.
Trump was barely coherent in 2016, too.
80 year old presidents are fine now. The (R) fixes it.
You’re approaching this wrong. It’s a football game to them. It’s only a problem if the away team does it.
Trumpism is driven by cognitive dissonance in toto
They don’t care. They only care about winning and spiting the libs. Kinda like how they care about law and order, but will support a convicted felon.
Biden is too old so is trump
Did you ever hear the story about the emperor with no clothes?
Dementia Don is too old. I am here questioning his fitness.
It was always one of those “rules for thee not for me” type of attacks. As per usual, the opponents are held to increasingly higher or impossible standards while their own people only need to have a pulse
Supporting their god-dictator, like they always were
Biden was soft spoken when making gaffs. Trump makes gaffs loudly with confidence. That’s it. That’s the big difference. That’s the only thing that really mattered.
Those critics didn’t stand on good faith when raising those questions. Even now the criticism shouldn’t be on Trumps age, it should be on how much he is a Russian apologist, and convicted criminal TRAITOR. But you know the media is pretty soft on Trump.
**This is not that fucking complicated.**
Biden and the left must redistribute resources in order to empower the marginalized groups they back.
Trump and the right work to block that empowerment, thus, they maintain the wealthy’s claim to their property and advantages.
So why won’t the media cover it? Because they don’t want their taxes raised and their advantages diminished.
Fucking straightforward
This doesn’t fit their narrative.
Trump is the goose that lays the ratings golden eggs, so he’s going to be held to a different standard.
The media can’t, and won’t, quit him.
I truly can’t stand mainstream media anymore. MSNBC are the only ones that actually report on Trump in an honest manner. All we heard about was Biden’s age when he was still running, yet I can’t remember in the last week seeing a story about Trump’s age. Anyone who is Trump‘s age shouldn’t be working at Burger King, let alone be President of the United States.
Looking at you NYT!
Is this a serious headline? Because it doesn’t raise a very serious question at all.
> “Are conservatives self-aware of their own hypocrisy when held to their own self-serving standards?”
Yes! Yes they are!
Contrary to the liberal stereotype of conservatives being barely aware NPC’s who barely think through their ignorant positions: conservatives aren’t braindead. They know what they are.
They know they are hypocrites. They pop a power boner everytime they see liberals rage about their hypocrisy.
Conservatives are not moved by values. They are driven by outcomes. Hypocrisy is just a tool to get what you want.
Remember when the GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell used a procedural loophole to block Barack Obama from filling a seat on the Supreme Court for 11 months because (just making up the rules on the spot) “*iT’s aN eLeCtIoN YeAr!*”
Then Ruth Bader Ginsberg dies 1 month before the 2020 election. The GOP nominate, ram through, and confirm Justice Barrett (who voted to overturn Roe v Wade) literally 2 weeks before voters ousted Trump for office.
Stop giving Republicans the benefit of the doubt. They have exhausted the limits of plausible deniability.
They were right-wingers acting in bad faith all along.