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How Trump talks: Abrupt shifts, profane insults, confusing sentences - The Washington Post
"The weave" is a smoke screen for senility.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/25/trump-words-speeches-campaign-president/
When a billionaire owner’s effort to avoid negative attention about fascist appeasement by directing his editorial board to not endorse a candidate inadvertently draws far more attention than simply letting the newspaper follow its normal process would have, this is known as the Reichstand Effect.
As a longtime member of the Washington Post editorial page staff, this genuinely shocks me. My thoughts are with my former colleagues. And I’m just going to say out loud that this would never have happened under Fred Hiatt or Meg Greenfield. Never.
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/25/nx-s1-5165353/washingon-post-presidential-endorsement-trump-harris
“While the issue of false balance is usually linked to how journalists represent topics, false balance is increasingly driven by social media echo chambers, the fragmentation of the news media and the ideologically motivated embrace of fringe ideas. Too often this has allowed a small cohort of vocal contrarians to have an outsized impact on public policy and public perceptions.” (3/9)
Greedy billionaires want Trump to win because he’ll lower their taxes.
🚨Spoiler alert🚨
Greedy billionaires need to pay more taxes, not less.
It's quite hard to look at the current situations with Musk and Twitter, Bezos and the WaPo, and the LA Times as anything other than evidence that the extreme consolidation of wealth is itself a grave and direct threat to society
