LET’S MAKE IT INTO A MUSIC

[harriettmb@beige.party]

@wdlindsy I do rather hope the republicans only vote on January 5th - while everyone else is voting up to the next 22 days.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

" I know it sounds like a Saturday Night Live sketch, but it was real life. If President Biden had done that when he was the nominee, we would’ve seen non-stop coverage exploring his mental state.

All of this is why this is truly a national security issue."

~Dean Obeidallah

#Trump #MentalDecline #age #dementia #NationalSecurity #media
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Trump’s dementia is not a political issue--it’s a national security issue.

Why is corporate media refusing to cover this?!

(deanobeidallah.substack.com)

[mlbellar@universeodon.com]

@wdlindsy

"Our Jungle Our Rules" - the corporations that own the media, lock stock and barrel

[suedioh@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy We *did* see non-stop coverage of Biden's mental state! Where the hell was Dean? I was sure he was here somewhere!
Most of Joe's issue was his stutter, which everyone knows about but media endlessly characterized as fragility, while he built the world's most robust economy and led us out of COVID and restored our standing among our allies.
I agree trump is a national security threat; he always has been.

[beingreal@mastodon.world]

@wdlindsy

Let's hope his brain-dead storm-troopers take him literally and do wait to vote until January 5th

[peterbutler@mas.to]

@wdlindsy WP article is indistinguishable from parody

non-paywalled version:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-sways-and-bops-to-music-for-39-minutes-in-unusual-town-hall-episode/ar-AA1sha0E

[runyan50@newsie.social]

@wdlindsy Nobody even noticed the answers he actually gave. They were as bizarre as sharks vs electrical batteries. This whole night was a visit to the mental health unit on Cookoos Nest.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Runyan50 Exactly. How do you parse nonsense? By "weaving" it into patterns and sensibility that are not even there?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@peterbutler "Indistinguishable from parody" is such an apt description — and the insolence of doing this (along with New York Times) when they know that many of us know better. The slap to our faces and the insult to our intelligence and to our eyes' ability to see what we can plainly see….

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@beingreal Nothing seems beyond the realm of wild possibiity with some of these folks.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@SueDiOh It's pretty clear to me Dean Obeidallah isn't just discovering the media's malfeasance here, but that he's reporting on something ongoing that he's been tracking all along.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@mlbellar Yep.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@HarriettMB

[suedioh@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy I know. So why play dumb?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@markmetz Yes.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@CompassionNow A good description.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Tharpa A certain story about a boy crying wolf does come to mind when it's over and over and over again.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@SueDiOh I don't read him as playing dumb. I read him to be calling out the disparity between how corporate media have treated Biden and Trump all along.

[darwinwoodka@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy @SueDiOh

Trump has always been treated differently from anyone, that's really the point. The media has always had special treatment for him, and why is a very interesting question.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@darwinwoodka @SueDiOh Excellent points. I, too, have long wondered why he gets special treatment. Part of the answer, obviously, is that he's white, monied, and has influential connections.