It occurred to me this morning that it has now been over a decade in which we have all been forced to hear something about Donald Trump every fucking day - often many times a day.

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@davidbraze @Remittancegirl Don't forget the owners of those media outlets have been eating their own editorial slop for *decades*. They double-down on the right-wing bullshit because they're indoctrinating themselves, via their own newsrooms. Which IN TURN contributes to the failure of news as a business model. It's a series of viciously self-reinforcing failure modes.

[madmorgan@mastodon.social]

@Remittancegirl absolutely agree - I am sick of hearing about him

[benjamineskola@hachyderm.io]

@Remittancegirl @jzb I remember thinking what a relief it was, after Biden was elected, to not have to be constantly hearing about US politics for a while. (As a non-American.) It dialed back down to only a 'normal' amount of news for a while.

(and then, of course, when the multi-year presidential election process started up again, it returned to the previous ridiculous levels.)

[regendans@todon.eu]

@Remittancegirl Hear hear! I am so sick of seeing photos of Trump or his name in the daily news. Why are these photos not censored like photos of other criminals in newspapers ?

[zleap@techhub.social]

@Remittancegirl

I agree, the BBC are guilty of this, when Trump was elected and took office we had 100 days, covering the first 100 days of his presidency and yet despite being the BRITISH broadcasting corp, we didn't get 100 days of Starmers premiership.

[coder4hire@hachyderm.io]

@markno @Remittancegirl I think the world would be a better place if we created a worm that would delete every article/post about him, so no one would hear about ever again....

[gezthepez@mastodon.scot]

@Remittancegirl we really need it to stop

[dukeduke@mastodon.social]

@Remittancegirl I check the Yahoo finance page every weekday to see what's going on with the markets. I dread it because I know there's a 98% chance I'll see that clown's face attached to multiple news stories.

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@Remittancegirl sadly I think most media companies facilitated his rise (and never questioned anything he did, criminal activities included)... because in this brave new world "engagement" is king and "normal" (read: measured, traditional) politicians don't generate as many clicks or outrage or attention as that abomination. In my little corner all I can do is teach (and encourage in) my child critical thinking. le sigh.

[clintruin@mastodon.social]

@GezThePez @Remittancegirl
"Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness."
- Thomas Ligotti
️ ️
#doomed #worsttimeline

[nicelymanifest@mastodon.social]

@_elena @Remittancegirl All the wrong things being normalised fodder for herds of humans. It continues to drive me to despair to see all around me people clinging tightly to their phones with thick headphones on their ears and scant consequential regard for environment or others.

Most people turn corners without slowing down even when not on their phones as modern life is oblivious to strangers - no preempting, no sense of a shared of the public space. No care.

[bluewaver22@genomic.social]

@Remittancegirl Ditto!

[viq@social.hackerspace.pl]

@Remittancegirl McDonald Trump

[grootinside@troet.cafe]

@clintruin @GezThePez @Remittancegirl
It's physically healthy to avoid any drug.
It's mentally a curse being consciously all the time though.

[hydropsyche@ecoevo.social]

@DukeDuke @Remittancegirl There's a browser extension for that! Make America Kittens Again!
https://tomroyal.com/make-america-kittens-again-faq/

[dialectician@universeodon.com]

@Remittancegirl It is simply the failure to protect the people from the consequences of deregulated markets. As such the media favours the mob, as the media represents those who are the wealthiest. Not only can they pay them the most, they are the most heavily invested in those corporations that own and control the most capital. As such it has pushed the policies and tax benefits of Empire’s fascist cults. Fascists are a syndicate of oligarchs and plutocrats and together with their cults, they have created a violent warmongering mob!

[suedioh@mastodon.social]

@Remittancegirl What will they talk about when he's gone? They will still be talking about him for 10 more years! Your only recourse is to change the channel, and tell the network why you're doing it. Tell everyone else, too. When it starts to cost them money, they will change.

[ludiotic@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Remittancegirl god I remember when Biden got into office and it seemed like things calmed down so much, almost instantly. Even here in the UK the change was palpable.

[danielsreichenbach@mastodon.world]

@Remittancegirl I spent ten years warning people to not enable or elect him. Yet the most common American reply I am getting is: "he is one of us". That seems to be the creepy sentiment shared throughout society.

I worry, people enable him because they want to be like him...

[svennorth@theforkiverse.com]

@Remittancegirl I agree 100%. The irony of me being so frustrated by this is that I have just read and responded to comment about him, thereby promoting exactly what frustrates me and brought him to power.