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To: Scott from the Left Coast
And if the MSM were omnipotent, that’d be a big deal. Those days are well passed, as their audience keeps slipping away.

No one is omnipotent but God, so that is a strawman. However, the MSM is far more powerful than we here are willing to admit. Case in point is how quickly they shoved ol' Joe aside once they trained their fire on him at the end of June. And how successfully they have brainwashed people over the past 2-3 decades about many Dem propaganda bits - Republicans are racist, Trump is racist, women are underpaid, gays are nice people, etc.

Absent the media's distortions and deliberate lies, these elections would not be close. It is because of the media that the R party has only won the Presidential popular vote once in the past 32 years since the media turned its full fury against the R party.

15 posted on 08/23/2024 7:52:57 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: nwrep

For many decades they - the government propaganda arm (MSM) - had the field to themselves. But the rot has set in, it was apparent in 2016 when a novice defeated them.

Now there are platforms in a different form of media that can openly challenge them, which have audiences far beyond them all tolled. As I mentioned in my post (that you conveniently ignored), Elon Musk personally has an audience that dwarfs them all put together. They don’t have the field alone any longer.

They won’t die, they have too many sources of revenue besides what their audiences can yield. But their influence will continue to deteriorate over time. They’ve been beaten before, and this time there is a much larger power base arrayed against them. Cowering in trembling fear of them is both useless and stupid.


25 posted on 08/23/2024 8:14:23 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (Peak crazy is almost here.)
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To: nwrep

It’s much bigger than the media. It’s every powerful institution. and they are all controlled by the wealthy.

Academia, corporations, big banks, arts and entertainment, fashion, advertising, big science, the medical industrial complex.

They all lean Left.

But after being demonized for so many decades by all these forces, Conservatives are waking up to the fact that the GOP Establishment is just the “good cop” who are in on the game.

They don’t represent us, they are our minders.

The point is, somebody has to be the first to wake up. Everyone’s not going to wake up at once.

The principalities that we wrestle against are always going to have a big stage with a big PA system and a fancy light show. It comes with the territory. And of course they’re always going to fool a certain amount of people.

The righteous just have to do the work too defeat them.


51 posted on 08/24/2024 12:16:32 AM PDT by The Fop (God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
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