The media is tripping over itself to push bad takes today. It’s a reminder that the media is not your friend, it doesn’t exist to inform you, it exists to drum up narratives that will give it the most ratings and page views, and you have to learn how to filter out their bullshit.
The media is desperate to push the fantasy that Trump will run in 2024, so it can spend the next year drumming up ratings by making you afraid of his comeback. But even if Trump announces a 2024 campaign now, it’ll just be a cash grab; Trump will be in prison long before 2024.
Trump knows this, the media knows this, and they’re counting on you not knowing it, so they can scare you into staying tuned in. If you take these media narratives at face value, you’ll always be confused about what’s really going on, and you’ll never be useful as an activist.
The kicker is that after the media spends X number of weeks or months milking the Trump 2024 narrative, they’ll act shocked when Trump gets indicted/arrested, as if it just fell out of the sky. Even though a New York grand jury is already in the process of indicting Trump.
The media’s favorite trick is to ignore what they know is obviously going to happen, promote a bullshit narrative about some phony ratings-driven thing happening instead, and then pretend it’s surprise breaking news when the obvious thing ends up happening.
If you want this bullshit to stop, push back against the MSNBC and Washington Post pundits who are trying to milk the Trump 2024 fantasy. Remind them that you know he’ll be in prison before then, and that they’re not going to get anywhere by trying to trick you on this.
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