Compromised, complicit, craven…
What pisses me off is when outlets wait and do one-off reports as if these events are isolated/unrelated, or they have unclear references about the scale or duration of the protests:
Sure, the local news covered it - where’s the rest?
Useful quality journalism.
Wasn’t sure where to post this… maybe here is good enough.
The comments here reflect that people are noticing the protests aren’t getting a lot of media coverage:
Not until now! I keep asking who is behind the current popularity/approval polling, and how they could miss these vibes.
Media is straight up refusing to cover any of the protests, and actively misreporting the basics of the law-breaking across the administration. Normal people who just casually pass by a few minutes of CNN in a week haven’t heard anything about the worst attack on government since the Civil War.
Probably that they are still only polling older, mostly boomer/Gen X, white middle class people who skew to the right… I still think that polling over all is just… deeply flawed. It’s still often only a few thousand people, and it’s treated by the political and chattering classes as divine word or some shit. We just need a better way to understand the public and their views, I think.
It’s white people, though, I think. A majority of white boomers and gen xers also voted for Trump…
Looks like he lost ground with boomers & it was a tie there.
Middle-aged voters were especially influential in tilting the election to Trump. A commanding 56 percent of voters ages 50-64 cast ballots for Trump, with 43 percent voting for Harris, exit polls show.The candidates were tied at 49 percent among voters 65 and older. The two age groups together comprise well over half of the national electorate, meaning they provided the critical difference for the returning president-elect.
Good for the boomers!
Could be much better. But it’s a start.
I imagine that assaulting social security won’t help them much in upcoming elections.
It is kinda weird to be attacking the demographic most responsible for your win. But, in the words of the famous philosopher, “Stupid is as stupid does.”
But not the demographic most responsible for his win.
I am, probably unreasonably, bothered by the fact that left-leaning shows are on the right side of the graph, and right-leaning shows are on the left. I mean, I know left and right in this context are arbitrary labels, but still…that bugs the shit out of me.
