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kentuck

(115,851 posts)
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 10:10 AM Sunday

The mainstream media has become anesthetized...

They are completely numb.

Everything has become "normal".

Tear down the White House? No problem.

Sell out the country and stuff your pockets? No problem.

Unprovoked, attack another country and threaten to blow them off the face of the earth? No problem.

Attempt to rob our Treasury and pay off criminals that committed crimes in your name. No problem.

We could go on and on. You know the litany.

You are on your own to figure it out.

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bucolic_frolic

(56,189 posts)
5. Economic growth through embezzlement and theft
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 10:18 AM
Sunday

Follow the money, in all instances.

In the long run, AI is going belly up, and they know it.

Hey Joe

(876 posts)
6. They have been cowed by repeated threats and
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 10:26 AM
Sunday

lawsuits by this regime as well as their oligarch
owners falling in line with Fuckwits efforts
to intimidate media with his Project
2025’s fascist, anti-American agenda.
An extremely damaging degradation of American
values and principles.

kentuck

(115,851 posts)
7. DU is part of the independent media...
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 10:34 AM
Sunday

...that has to protect and inform the people about what is happening in our government. With so many voices, it is difficult to get the truth to the American people, but we must continue. We are part of the new media. The old corporate media model has been taken over by the oligarchs and propagandists.

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