Colin Spacetwinks: see: the clinton camp constantly harrumphing about But Her Emails, when 8 years earlier the media being total dogshit who'll snap up anything that looks juicy enough sure seemed like a good avenue for shit like this to start circulating around

feels like part of the longstanding trend of "complain about the media, but never do anything about it other than Hope They're Nice To Us" from democrats is that a lot of 'em find the shittiness of the media convenient when they want to knife somebody else in the party

see: the clinton camp constantly harrumphing about But Her Emails, when 8 years earlier the media being total dogshit who'll snap up anything that looks juicy enough sure seemed like a good avenue for shit like this to start circulating around

as always, the obama '08 campaign is the key thing i point to when people talk about how Unfair the media is. it was extremely unfair how the GOP, the media, and hillary clinton herself were extremely racist to him. if his media strategy was 'mope about shit being unfair', probably would've lost.

this isn't some random trans teenager the news is putting in the spotlight for bullshit. this is the president. the media being unfair is baked in. the party has insanely massive warchests, they've had power ranging from committee seats to the presidency, and they've had decades to do something.

if your only strategies to deal with an unfair media is "mope about it being unfair" or "get more racist to try and make them like you", and you've had tons of money and power and decades of time to do something about the problem, my sympathy turns quickly into "oh fucking well".

clinton was getting his ass kicked by limbaugh just on *talk radio* before fox news *existed*. the most powerful people in the dem party's response to media as an issue has been "vote to make it extremely easy for billionaires to buy up all the radio, tv, news, internet" and "mope about it".

"can you believe they're hardly spending any time or page space on the supreme court saying the president is immune?!" absolutely i can! the media is dogshit! what is the dem's plan to make news cycles about SCOTUS? oops! it's "nothing" cuz everybody at the top agrees to be quiet wimps about 'em.

you can't fucking drive a news cycle about the courts when everybody from dick durbin to joe biden himself agrees that the only possible response they can make to SCOTUS is basically a form response with all the energy of an HR rep saying "we are taking these concerns very seriously."

My go-to example of Dems saying they were going to do something and then quietly abandoning it, only to express shock and surprise when things later get worse: www.whitehouse.gov/pcscotus/#:~....

Presidential Commission on SCOTUS | The White Housewww.whitehouse.gov On December 7, 2021, The Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States voted unanimously to submit its Report to President Biden. On April 9, 2021, President Biden issued Executive...

They had ThinkProgress for awhile but they shut that down because the staff tried to unionize lol

people constantly go "we need some kind of liberal counter to the right wing media project" and do not seem to be able to draw any conclusions on "every liberal who's totally fucking loaded has no interest in funding such a thing"

Biden's antitrust people are working on that, though there's a long way to go.

part of the problem there of course that biden's antitrust people are good, yes, but have pretty much zero backing/energy from their superiors, nor is leadership actually making it a big deal, biden himself included

Remember how Obama at least SAID he was gonna do stuff? He was lying but the fact he even said that he was gonna implement popular policies puts him ahead of the current dems.

I think Biden can't pull this gambit simply because he's president right now. He said if reelected, he would codify Roe. Any reasonable person hearing that goes "Wait he's the president, why can't he do that right now?"

Obama still had the sense to promise stuff for his second term beyond just not being Mitt Romney.

Fair point!

This is where the split between candidate Obama and President Obama was always so stark. He was pretty active in shaping narratives about his own campaign but would seemingly fold immediately when governing.

in terms of pure slimy "win the election at any costs", obama '08 is the example. sure, i'm radicalized now and am a straight up commie, but if you wanna fucking WIN? there's your model! holy shit, what an incredible job he did! and keep shit like OFA and ACORN around too!

"but what can we DO everything's so HARD" a BLACK MAN named BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA took on THE CLINTON MACHINE THAT HAD BEEN SETTING A RUNWAY FOR HILLARY FOR YEARS, THE MEDIA, THE GOP, AND WON. this happened in fucking 2008!!! there are things to learn from his campaign!!!!

instead everybody wants to do hillary in 2016 forever now, a mix of "you don't have any choice so fuck you, get in line" and "i *deserve* this, losers" and just whine about how unfair everybody is and then be surprised this does not help them win. obama '08 but not squishy on gay rights this time!!

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