The media didn't pay attention to Trump. Now here we are

[kan...@aol.com]

https://newrepublic.com/article/205913/media-malpractice-trumpism-project-2025

They call it media malpractice. And now it's gotten worse, with the sale of multiple major outlets to wealthy billionaire Trump sycophants. 

But some have been pointing out the reality for a long time.

Some of US that is. Trump has always either told us or shown us what/who he is. And  somehow people have ignored or shrugged off or downplayed his message. And now chickens are coming home to roost. 

[B Keg]

.....the media didnt pay attention to Trump is the most absurd thing you've passed along in a while. 

Be nice, even when you don't want to!

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[kan...@aol.com]

Well, they've been sugar coating his march toward authoritarianism for quite some time. 

All that BS about taking Trump literally by not seriously (or is it the other way around?) is just whitewash. 

They never confront him about his lies, lies lies. They give him a  pass on his obviously declining mental/physical acuity.

Their pressers with Karoline Leavitt are a joke. And Hegseth has hand-picked those that can participate in Pentagon briefings. 

And when Stephen Cheung gives his single answer to any question nobody tries to get him to give REAL answers. 

The TV networks, along with WaPo and other major media sources, have been coopted by threats, lawsuits and purchase by wealthy billionaires. 

The list of what DOESN'T get discussed is long and deep. 

That's why I subscribe to your favorite commie, Marc Elias' Democracy Docket. You may think him as a liberal gadfly; but his actual motivation is mostly voting rights protection. He documents the immense efforts by Trump to subvert/influence coming elections. Trump just talked about having the GOP take over running elections in just BLUE states. And his main Congressional jellyfish, Mike Johnson, endorsed the effort. 

Finally this stuff is getting some press; but not enough. Compare the current coverage to say, Watergate. Not even close. Trump's efforts at sabotaging elections should be front page, opening topic every day/night by every outlet not run by Rupert Murdoch. 

[Brian Kegerreis]

Oh, so you havent been passing on few hundred articles about how awful Trump is for the past 10 years or so.... good to know. 

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[GMoney]

On Wed, Feb 4, 2026 at 12:46 PM Brian Kegerreis <bkege...@gmail.com> wrote:

Oh, so you havent been passing on few hundred articles about how awful Trump is for the past 10 years or so.... good to know. 

you should read a couple of them.

it IS good to know

[Brian Kegerreis]

I know he's bad that's why I never voted for the man. You don't have to convince me he's bad, but he's not Hitler. 

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[GMoney]

On Wed, Feb 4, 2026 at 1:26 PM Brian Kegerreis <bkege...@gmail.com> wrote:

I know he's bad that's why I never voted for the man. You don't have to convince me he's bad, but he's not Hitler. 

No, no one's quite been able to rise (sink?) to the levels that Hitler was able to achieve....but that hasn't stopped people from trying.

Hitler's playbook is out there, and it's an interesting read.

There are chapters on annexing the Green...i mean...Sudatan.......Land. There are chapters on referring to immigran....i mean...jews.....as "vermin".  How to create your own IC...i mean...secret service...to carry out your orders without oversight. Chapters on using your power to go after your political enemies. How to cast doubt on the election processes. On and on.

Yep....interesting read. 

 

[Brian Kegerreis]

You mean like when he called communists socialists and fascist vermin? Yeah he did that.

Or when he called an illegal alien who murdered a sped s woman an animal yeah he did that 

Or when he said there were good people on both sides? Yeah he said that after he condemned fascists and right wing extremists and counted them out of rhe good people on both sides. 

I mean I get it he's just a terrible president his words are not spoken with a twisted media taking things he says and massaging the context to seem like he said something else. His words are bad enough by themselves they dont have to be manipulated to make him look worse..... unless of course youre desperately trying to avoid having the keft looked at with any kind of scrutiny. 

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[GMoney]

On Wed, Feb 4, 2026 at 3:27 PM Brian Kegerreis <bkege...@gmail.com> wrote:

unless of course youre desperately trying to avoid having the keft looked at with any kind of scrutiny. 

if and when the kooky left ever gets back into power, they will shift to my primary area of concern/scrutiny.

For now, who the fuck cares about them other than you and any other right wing apologist looking for a diversion from this dumpster fire...

[Brian Kegerreis]

Right wing apologist... oh you mean anyone who is not a left wing nut job, understood.

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[kan...@aol.com]

G, good posts;  wasted effort, but good notions. 

Brian just doesn't get that when Trump does something really bad, and he responds with comments about Obama/Clinton/Biden that he is deflecting from the issue. 

And when I compare Trump to Hitler, and I've made this point since DAY 1, it's not about the Holocaust. It's about his rise to power in a country that had been a functioning democracy with a pretty literate citizenry. And you hit most of the highlights that justify the comparison. Thank you. You left out vilification of the press and INTENSE propaganda. But some the language, like the "vermin" thing, was taken verbatim from A. H. Also the "only I can fix it". 

Many comparisons are eerily appropriate. Again, not the slaughter of untermenschen; but much of the rest. Also, as if BK has noticed (great doubt), Trump is working to build internment camps for as many as 200,000+ people. And judging by the ones already in use, they are VERY substandard. Bad water, bad toilet facilities, overcrowding, etc. In fact, they've gone so far as to ADMIT that the shitty facilities have the intent of getting people to self-deport. Lots of legal violations of US law and international treaties. 

And you're 100% right; scrutinizing the left isn't germane today. Hopefully they WILL require scrutiny soon. 

And yes, the press is failing in adequately emphasizing Trump's perfidy.

Read Democracy Docket for better insight. I have a subscription; but you can Google articles for free. 

[GMoney]

On Wed, Feb 4, 2026 at 3:57 PM Brian Kegerreis <bkege...@gmail.com> wrote:

Right wing apologist... oh you mean anyone who is not a left wing nut job, understood.

Yes, because i'm such a liberal.....

wrong script dumbass

 

[kan...@aol.com]

Brian labels anyone left of David Duke as a commie. 

In the world of the 50's, the only colors were black/white. Makes it simple. 

You are clearly WAY too left for BK. You actually

a) think

b) find that Trump is pretty despicable (as a result of "a"). 

That's WAY too left for MAGA trolls. 

[kan...@aol.com]

Brian, I heard Trump say "good people on both sides"'; but I didn't hear him calling out the fascists. And calling communists socialists is not exactly as super insult. 

It's just confusing/conflating the two ideologies. 

The only time I heard him using the term vermin was in using it to refer to undocumented people crossing the southern border. 

And then there was that whole diatribe where he lamented that most immigrants today are from "shithole countries". And they're people of color. He specifically wished for more Scandinavians. And then there's the granting of asylum white South Africans because they're at such risk. 

If none of this smacks of racism to you,, well, that's on you. 

Calling Trump a "bad person that I didn't vote for" is thin gruel for the situation at hand. Trump is uniquely unsuited for the job, uniquely bad in so many ways. Look up that term sui generis. 

It's Trump's special "badness" that requires commentary, scrutiny and a hard fight to defeat. You didn't hear me talking about either Bush like this. Didn't like their body of work; but they weren't more than 1-2 standard deviations away from "okay". Trump doesn't even show up on the curve. 

But even if we ignore his ignorance, greed, multiple felonies, rape charges,, etc, his current problem revolves around his absolute inability to recognize his defeat in 2020 and his obsessive work to make sure it doesn't happen again. His attacks on the right to vote are the most serious and pressing danger that he presents at this time. 

[B Keg]

Didn't say you were but you're singing their song for some reason. Maybe you should think

Be nice, even when you don't want to!

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[GMoney]

On Wed, Feb 4, 2026 at 10:16 PM B Keg <kegb...@gmail.com> wrote:

Didn't say you were but you're singing their song for some reason. Maybe you should think

I'm a TERRIFIC thinker. Watch: 

People with biases on the left and right by and large, due to their biases, arrive at incorrect conclusions on most issues. They aren't 100% wrong, and oftentimes they have valid premises, just misguided conclusions. In a lot of cases the biases don't necessarily lead to wrong conclusions, just myopic ones. This describes you to a T, by the way.

To you, Mr. Right Wing Bias (which you have in spades, even though you can't and probably never will admit that to yourself), it's cut and dry...black and white....any support of an opinion or premise that is "left" or "liberal" is by definition "wrong"...and therefore i'm guilty of "singing their song". This is bias 101...the inability to consider a premise that is left or liberal on its merits.  It's liberal, or left, or moderate, or independent...so it's wrong. And I'm therefore wrong for "singing their song". I mean...singing their song? Like i'm a parrot? I don't even have to bother defending myself from that inanity.....i got decades of posts on here that prove otherwise. That's just dumb.

I don't expect you to understand this...it's hard to describe colors to someone who is blind.....but I thought I'd at least illustrate what "thinking" involves in case you actually cared.

[Brian Kegerreis]

No what you didn't get is that when I complained they did it when they were doing it you didnt care. I said you will when someone you don't like is doing it. Well now you care. But you never listen to what i actually say or ask for clarification you just people in little boxes and pretend that is what they said. 

The answer is smaller government that way no matter which idiot is in charge they can't do much damage. 

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[Brian Kegerreis]

Well I guess if being pro free speech pro 2A pro smaller government pro freedom in general and against government control of things like the economy and health care and education make me a right wing extremist then I am guilty. 

If I recognize that the open border policy of recent democrats is the opposite of democrats like Clinton and Obama and that the reason for the shift is to create or keep a population advantage in the electoral college via the number of Congressional seats apportioned to blue states, if I object to free stuff for illegal aliens while Americans are in poverty especially veterans and minorities, if I want a legal process for immigration and not an open border makes me a racist then I am.

If I dont care about when consenting adults sleep with eachother or their sexual practices but I do think that men dont belong in the women's locker room or sports makes me a homophobe then I am.

If I recognize we dont have a tax problem we have spending problem and that on top of that Social Security is just a government mandated ponzi scheme makes me a right winger than I am.

If I'd rather spend a billion dollars on defense than an ounce of Amercan blood on war makes me a warm ger then so be it.  And yes I get the dichotomy between this and the previous tax and spend problem, get back to me when we get rid of all unconstitutional spending then we can address defense spending. 

If trying to look at the world of work education and service ignoring color, gender and background and focusing on character and competence makes me a racist bigoted homphobic mysoginistic asshole then guilty as charged.  

If I don't fit into your kittle box you use to define me amd you can't understamd that then juat understand I used to be a democrat then the democratic party left me. I tried out being a republican and it didn't fit. Fuck em and fuck you if you dont like it.

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[GMoney]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2026 at 12:50 PM Brian Kegerreis <bkege...@gmail.com> wrote:

Well I guess if being pro free speech pro 2A pro smaller government pro freedom in general and against government control of things like the economy and health care and education make me a right wing extremist then I am guilty. 

If I recognize that the open border policy of recent democrats is the opposite of democrats like Clinton and Obama and that the reason for the shift is to create or keep a population advantage in the electoral college via the number of Congressional seats apportioned to blue states, if I object to free stuff for illegal aliens while Americans are in poverty especially veterans and minorities, if I want a legal process for immigration and not an open border makes me a racist then I am.

If I dont care about when consenting adults sleep with eachother or their sexual practices but I do think that men dont belong in the women's locker room or sports makes me a homophobe then I am.

If I recognize we dont have a tax problem we have spending problem and that on top of that Social Security is just a government mandated ponzi scheme makes me a right winger than I am.

If I'd rather spend a billion dollars on defense than an ounce of Amercan blood on war makes me a warm ger then so be it.  And yes I get the dichotomy between this and the previous tax and spend problem, get back to me when we get rid of all unconstitutional spending then we can address defense spending. 

If trying to look at the world of work education and service ignoring color, gender and background and focusing on character and competence makes me a racist bigoted homphobic mysoginistic asshole then guilty as charged.  

If I don't fit into your kittle box you use to define me amd you can't understamd that then juat understand I used to be a democrat then the democratic party left me. I tried out being a republican and it didn't fit. Fuck em and fuck you if you dont like it.

Nice screed.

Like I said....lots of great premises.....mostly incorrect conclusions. 

You in a nutshell. 

[kan...@aol.com]

Brian, I've  heard that confession is good for the soul. Glad you could do it. 

So, a few responses

You have ZERO proof that Biden's open border was intended to get more Democrats voting. That's just stupid. None of those people vote. In order for your premise to hold even an ounce of water, you'd have to show us that MANY illegals vote. But for those of us who inhabit reality, every search in every state has turned up literal handfuls- or fewer- illegal voters. Michigan recently found 14 such voters- OMG, OMG. But it turns out that that number was more like FOUR. 

Same with every other state. The people who came to the US were seeking asylum, something that is recognized by US law and international treaty. 

The whole "I have a dream" thing about judging people based on who they are and not their skin color is a sham when  people like you cite  it. First of all, it was a DREAM of MLK. It wasn't then and isn't now a reality. Telling everyone that AS OF NOW, the playing field is officially level ignores 300+ years of history. You shouldn't expect Blacks to somehow have all the abilities and opportunities available to whites after being enslaved for generations. That's a convenient trope often advanced by...........people like you (and David Duke). 

Social Security isn't a Ponzi scheme. Nice try. But it is running up against demographic realities. People are living longer and birth rates are falling. That creates a reality in which more people collect SS and fewer people pay in. Simple fix? Really simple fix? MORE IMMIGRANTS who are made part of the system. Presto,  problem resolved. 

As for you LGBTQ bone-fides, do you still own that shirt that mentions 26 million abortions? Just wondering. 

The whole trans athlete thing is another stalking horse created by righty  nuts. There are about 10 such people around. Get back to reality and what really matters. Hegseth wants gays out of the military. Gays still get discriminated in employment and housing. 

As for gov't support for undocumenteds:

  Undocumented immigrants are generally ineligible for major federal public benefits, including SNAP (food stamps), TANF, SSI, and Medicaid. However, they may access limited emergency, health, and community services, such as emergency medical care (under EMTALA), WIC, community health centers, and disaster relief. Some states offer additional aid, including prenatal care or in-state tuition for qualified students. 

   No, undocumented immigrants are not eligible for federal financial aid, but they can access state, college, and private funding, with options varying by state, and some states offer in-state tuition for them. Key pathways include state-specific applications (like California's CADAA), institutional grants, and private scholarships, which can cover tuition, living costs, books, and more.

Try not to fall when getting off this high horse. 

That's enough for now. But you get the idea. You are what you confess to. And I don't put you in a box; you crawl into one of your own making.