| Posted on 11/06/2024 5:36:29 AM PST by Red Badger
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It’s no secret that Matt Drudge (or whoever is running Drudge Report now) hates Donald Trump. The site that was in every conservatives’ bookmarks for years fell from grace when its true leftist love started appearing shortly after Donald Trump’s first victory.
After his third victory (2020 stolen election notwithstanding), Drudge and his famous report are suffering. All of his top links are gone. Only the one headline remains above the columns: “WORLD IN SHOCK”.
It links to a generic Associated Press election coverage story.
There have been many theories about what happened to him and whether he still operates the site. My personal conspiracy theory is one I haven’t shared often but I believe it to be the truth. This is a THEORY, one that I could neither test nor prove. And while it’s possible that someone else bought it or that he’s being blackmailed (the two most prevalent theories), I believe he’s finally just showing his true colors after decades of pretending to be a conservative.
Matt Drudge, in my humble opinion, was always a radical leftist. He found great success in the Clinton years and realized he could build a juggernaut by pandering to a conservative audience. He wasn’t necessarily “controlled opposition” because I do not believe anyone controlled him at all. He did what he did, hired actual conservatives to work some of the shifts on his site, and pretended to be likeminded.
But the reclusive man was only doing it for the money and/or power.
When 2015 rolled around, he wanted Bernie Sanders to win. Attacking Hillary Clinton was easy for him but he wanted to select the GOP candidate he thought Bernie could most easily beat. As was the case with so many leftists, they saw bombastic businessman Donald Trump as an easy target with a ton of baggage who could never win in the general election.
Like Stephen Colbert, Joe Scarborough, “The View,” and other leftist media personalities, Drudge embraced Trump early as his preferred GOP candidate. But while the known leftists quickly flipped on Trump the moment he became the nominee, Drudge was forced to embrace him.
And he did. But until the moment Trump was elected the first time, Drudge did not believe he could actually win. His plan was to show support for Trump and keep in with the conservative crowd, then go back to business as usual once Clinton won the general election.
But she didn’t win. Drudge was shocked. He started questioning his existence as someone living a lie. What made it worse is that many leftist publications cited him specifically in the post-mortems trying to explain how Trump won. Many of them called Drudge Report out as one of the biggest reasons for Hillary’s defeat.
That hit Matt Drudge hard. So he reassessed, realized he had plenty of money, and determined he needed to be true to himself. His Bernie-loving posts started in 2017 and the transition from a conservative beacon to a leftist shell of its old self began.
The site that used to regularly link to The Gateway Pundit, Breitbart, and Western Journal abandoned those stories in favor of Yahoo, MSN, and Washington Post. Today, the closest he comes to linking to a “conservative” site is the DailyMail, and usually only non-political reports.
So it’s fitting that his headline following Trump’s win is “WORLD IN SHOCK”. That’s not true. It’s just him and his fellow leftists who are in shock over Trump’s victory.
I haven’t been to Drudge in many years. Useless site.
Matt Drudge sold his website a long time ago.
he’s in an underground bunker, drinking his own urine...
I saw this overnight and checked on it many times. “World Shocked” could mean anything. Check the 20th story ledge.
He’s most likely in the Seychelles drinking a Pina Colada...................
Usually he’s drinking someone else’s.
That used to be my wake-up site ever morning..................
I seem to remember some talk about him being gay, not sure that was just hearsay or trying to vilify him.
I only go to Drudge to recon the enemy.
also Ann Selzer (sacrificial pollster), 538 (useless turd), Nicole Wallace, Rachael Madcow, and the staff of The View (check all pill bottles and bridge railings), that that Alan Lichman (smug bastard) who’s stupid record is now forever broken.
Oh, and someone needs to make sure Jack Smith still breathing...
“World in Shock” is a DAMN GOOD headline from Trump’s victory, in my opinion.
Look at it the other way - if Harris had won, the headline in the US Media would have been something like:
“World Leaders Relieved that Harris Won”
(one note here - “World Leaders” means the leaders of the 20% or so of the world’s population that answers to the US, or at least US Democrats - the rest of the world leaders likely have differing opinions)
Drudge sold out the website.
Looks to be run by the Chi Coms.
Worthless now.
Hope he enjoyed his 30 pieces of silver.
He denies that...............
Matt hasn’t changed. He still just posts what is out there. He doesn’t write content.
I agree - Drudge is hopeless! I’m just pointing out that this one headline is valid.
Until I saw the title of this thread, I hadn’t thought of Drudge all day yesterday and up to this point this morning.
The Drudge Report is maintained from a windowless building in Beijing.
Agree. If it’s shock, I hope it’s the neck vessel bursting kind of apoplexy...
The world’s not in shock. Radical hate-America leftists are having a very hard time adjusting to the reality that Americans have rejected their radical agenda.
The hordes of opportunists rushing towards our borders will stop. The violent gangs who have entered our country will be rounded up and expelled. People who actually work will not have their earnings confiscated and given to lazy slobs who vote democrat. We, like Trump, have dodged a bullet.
I do not feel sorry for all the individuals who are screaming at the moon, crying their eyes out, making stupid tictocs, or who are about to move to Canada.
Winning feels good!
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