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Probably both - reachable people are moving away (possibly to other outlets, maybe just tuning out), the MAGAs are going deeper. And at somepoint, Newsmax and OANN will be accused of being RINOs and even more extreme outlets will pop up and cannibalize them.
I still remember in 2020 how Fox News got a lot of shit for actually reporting facts regarding the election. (At least among their news segments; many of the commentators were eagerly repeating the Republican election lies, which led to their pants being sued off later.) That drift has been happening since then, I believe. And a quick Google search confirms that they peaked in 2020 and have not been able to get back to that level of viewership since then.
Like a goddam tick.
Speaking of FoxNews and schadenfreude, a FoxNews reporter picked the wrong guy to interview at a Trump rally…
I want to buy this guy a beer. Or several.
“Nothing like seeing a cult right up front, man.”
Not 100% schadenfreude, but close enough.
Oh, he’s gonna get featured on Fallon, Kimmel, and Meyers.
Water out the nose hurts!
Zing!
Has anyone seen that clip of the Trump rally attendee invoking the Jonestown massacre?
In addition to the “Trump supporter” who attended a rally because he was too young for the Jonestown massacre, there was this clip from Fox Business in which the reporter asked a college student what he wanted to hear from the President.
Fox Business was interviewing students outside Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, where Trump was preparing to hold a campaign rally for Republican gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds, when a reporter approached student Andrew Pitts.
She asked what he hoped to hear from the president. Instead of offering a glowing endorsement of Trump’s economic policies, Pitts had some complaints.
“I’m hoping to see some relief about the war, some inflation come down, interest rates come down,” Pitts said.
“Just some sustainability when I’m, you know, shopping, getting gas for my truck, things like that. It’s just absurd pricing right now. So I’m just hoping to see some relief in the economy.”
OOPS! Not what she expected to hear!
The reporter responded, “Well, absolutely,” and immediately pivoted to the Fox News election rankings in Florida.
I saw that clip on The Daily Show where they commented that it seemed like reporter was shocked to run across someone who was relatively informed.
Also, Jordan Klepper from The Daily Show attended several Trump rallies in Texas, Nebraska and Ohio to interview the faithful. When the interviewees blame socialism and communism as the real problem, he asks them to define communism. Most cannot.
The Daily Show was also where I saw that clip. Honestly, the Republican Party seems to rely on uninformed voters. I’d like to think more than the Democratic Party.
Seen around:
In the novel Clovenhoof and the Trump of Doom it’s a 2016 and an interpretation of Nostradamus reveals should Trump win his campaign and the UK leave the EU the world will end. The earthly avatars of the Archangel Michael and Satan can’t allow this – the latter because he hasn’t finished Game of Thrones. He flies to the US to do this.
There he bakes a couple plates of brownies spiked with LSD and distributes them at a Trump rally in North Carolina hoping to film interviews with them. Looking at the raw footage the taxi driver who drove him up from Florida can’t tell the sober supporters from the baked ones.
Probably a real-world (not merely novelistic) constant, in the assessment of Trump-rally attendees.
I can’t prove that all crypto junkies are Trump supporters, but I do feel like there’s a strong adjacency. For that reason, I celebrate. Actually, I celebrate either way. Fucking idiots.
Binance Founder Says Exchange May Be Victim of Biggest-Ever Crypto Heist - WSJ
Taylor Monahan of blockchain security group SEAL 911 says attackers netted “well over $2 billion” and as much as $5.5 billion. “Information is changing fast, though, and it will take time to confirm exact numbers,” Monahan said.
Several other cybersecurity experts contacted by the Journal pegged the figure at more than $5.5 billion.
It says it didn’t affect the US arm of Binance, so less likely that MAGA tech bros were affected. Users will be covered by insurance anyway.