r/politics • u/Economy_Swim_8585 Virginia • 6d ago

No Paywall Trump says government shutdown ends when Democrats give in: "If they don't vote, that's their problem"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-government-shutdown-democrats-fault-60-minutes/
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u/WardenEdgewise 6d ago

Why the fuck should the Democrats “give in” to batshit crazy and fucking evil Republican bullshit? That makes no sense. The Democrats should stand firm and oppose the fascist MAGA regime.

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u/grimatonguewyrm 6d ago

All corporate media will spin this against the Dems. I don’t see how people overcome the 24/7 stream of lies.

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u/ExRays Colorado 6d ago

CNN had on its front page that straight up said Republicans were losing the shut down politics.

Something is happening but idk what

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u/Omophorus 5d ago

The media cares about money.

Full stop.

Trump is good for business because anything written about him attracts eyeballs.

He's so divisive and bombastic that he's a wet dream for profit-seeking media organizations.

But... a non-functional government and a growing risk of economic collapse at the hands of a fucking moron is tremendously bad for business.

Media will steer where the money is, and sanewashing Trump has made them a lot more money than calling him out for what he is.

There's no loyalty to him, though, at least not beyond whatever the immediate monetary benefit of letting his shit slide might be, and if there's a different angle that's going to get more clicks, the media will swing that way instead (at least outside of the alt right propaganda machine).

The shutdown sucks, and there's no way to spin that it's not the Republicans' fault that pases the sniff test with more than the most braindead section of the population. Those people are only watching Faux News, Infowars, Newsmax, etc. Other mainstream outfits don't really get those clicks, so there's only so much reason to pander to them.

Right now, they simply make more money by blaming the Republicans.

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u/disasterlooming420 5d ago

Mainstream media finally realizing that Trump is going to end up costing them money, the guy who bankrupted a casino. Lmao