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Time and again we warned that Project 2025 was the Trump agenda. And time and again the corporate media regurgitated Donald Trump’s lie that it wasn’t. Regardless of whether it was a deliberate choice or an epic failure of journalism it’s abundantly clear that, going forward, we’re on our own.

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At a minimum, the mainstream media should have said, "Donald Trump denies any connection to Project 2025. Because he has a history of prolific lying, and the architects of 2025 are within, were within, or have been close to the Trump camp, we will report on the project. Furthermore, Trump’s

It got lost in the Biden debate noise in July after it finally was bought to the public’s attention at the end of June. Before that the media ignored it completely and afterward they played it down.

“On our own” seems extreme. Just because someone in the battle fails to discharge their rifle doesn’t meant he/she’s of no use to the unit anymore. Or whatever metaphor to make point that democracies need all the allies (even imperfect ones) it can get.

Where do we go from here? Democratic leadership is NOT rising to the occasion and the media is “what abouting” and normalizing. We need #onslaught rather than #resist. We need to flood the zone. And I have seen nothing but the same, old, tired Dems with the same talking points.

This is not true. Show me one example of “corporate” media softsoaping Project 2025? All the major papers had endless articles about the danger of this plan and who was behind it. Shame on you, Andrew.

Ali Velshi spent weeks on his @msnbc.com morning show meticulously covering Project 2025. He was not alone on that network. It was not enough. Plus, Trump voters get their news from Fox and social media. It’s infuriating. Then there’s the protest vote…

MAGA will find a way to justify anything Trump does, even cutting off cancer research. They are crowing coz Trump is "owning the libs". Their hate and brainwashing won't let them see the reality of what Trump's pandering to Oligarchs and petty bullying of "the libs" does to them.

I wonder about all the Arab Americans and college students who protest voted for Trump, voted 3rd party, or didn't vote because of Gaza. Trump is selling 2000 lb bombs to Israel that Biden banned and he is proposing moving Palestinians to Egypt and Jordan. Are they happy? I say "congratulations".

The impact of the media on elections is disturbing. So many people too busy, lazy or uninterested in doing their own research on candidates, lapping up whatever their preferred media source feeds them.

It’s not Trumps agenda. It’s the Heritage Foundation agenda. Trump is just the lever to true power. He is meaningless and will be left behind shortly.

You are right. Trump has no agenda: he courted constituents to win. It’s all he cares about: winning, money and his fragile ego. He ran again because he felt humiliated in 2020. He probably only ran in 2016 because he felt humiliated by Obama at the Gridiron dinner. He cannot laugh at himself.

You are right he can never laugh at himself. But we must all laugh at him. He should be ridiculed publicly every damn day in the press on TV, in interviews. Show him no respect, treat him like the horrible misfit he is.

When you realize who owns most of the MSM, and who stand to profit in the short-medium term then it makes more sense - the media is more than partisan, they have a vested interest in the outcome, facts be dammed! The GOP is gearing up to run roughshod over individual rights in favour of the elites

It is the Heritage Foundation’s Agenda with Donald Trump as its Frontman willing to sell his cachet with MAGA America for his revenge performance. Would not matter if POTUS were Trump,Vance, or Johnson…they are all bought and sold for a decades-long plan to redesign the govt. @benwikler.bsky.social

Same here in the UK. All our mainstream outlets are treating these Far Right parasites - UK and US alike - as nothing more than run of the mill figures, using 'balance' as an excuse for deliberate false equivalence to help push their agenda. On our own, indeed...

If anyone bothered to read felon’s agenda, much of it was identical to project 2025. It didn’t take much to see it. It shows media didn’t do a damned thing to check things out. They wanted felon in office because he was good for clicks & views & great for the owners’ wallets because of tax cuts.

The same thing happened during the Reagan administration; he made it halfway through it. 💙 #Democracy #Freedom #EndTheStupidity #WorldUnity #EndXenophobia #Equality #EndSystemicRracism #EndRracism #EndHate

Can we stop using the word 'journalism' when it comes to the news media please. What we have is a few very rich right wing media tycoons owning most of the print and visual media, sycophantic editors and greasy pole climbers who can barely put a sentence together. 'Journalism' died years ago.