James wrote:

.are you saying the media should’ve paid him no attention and then be accused of censorship?

There's a difference between censoring someone and obsessing over them 24/7.

No attempt was ever made at a middle ground.

If you believe it would be censoring him, that means every president before Trump was censored.

Trump is who he is.  It does not change.

I didn't mean he would've changed personalities with a different approach. He's always been abrasive...even in the happy go lucky days of the 80s.

Had he been treated as a normal president day one, he could've adapted to the environment and morphed into a more presidential role.

He was never given this opportunity. It was full blown faux outrage from jump street and his WWF heel type character lashed out adding fuel to the arson underway and this set in motion the feedback loop that engulfed the entire nation.

A shit show? Sure....but there's varying degrees of shit.

The media went all in on chaos day one pushing outrage for clicks and entertainment.

I'm not excusing his handling of the presidency. I'm just not letting the media off the hook. Without them, none of this ever happens.

All presidents deal with similar amounts of media coverage.

That's not true.

Modern presidential coverage....

5 minutes on the evening news....10 if there's a major scandal(Lewinsky)

Couple segments on the hour news shows on CNN, MSNBC, FOX, etc. then they move on to other topics

Newspaper headlines

Online coverage restricted to news sites, political forums, news youtube channels

It started spreading out to other areas during the 2nd term of Obama's presidency. Once the Trump era got underway, everything became Trump world. News programs talking about nothing but Trump, social media drowning in Trump discussion, and any website no matter what the topic, Trump discussion.

Trump world even took over people's lives. Trump derangement syndrome is real. His lovers and haters. Friendships and families torn apart over this madness. If anyone so much as farts, everyone has to know if they're a Trumper so they know how to react.

Trump coverage can't be compared to anything that came before it. There is the pre-Trump world....and then there's Trump world. You can easily draw a line between the two. The contrast is that noticeable.

The coming months are going to be very interesting. Millions of Trump addicts worldwide are about to be deprived of their drug. I can't wait to see how the media changes focus...and how they do it.

Barr did what others would not, that is commendable

How is it a travesty for the media to cover it up but it's commendable for the one guy who could do something about it to cover it up?

Pretzel logic.

This is why our country is broken... likely beyond repair....and we drown in corruption.

There has to be a partisan slant on everything....and various levels of hypocrisy throughout.

Neither side truly wants it investigated. No offense but you're a great example why. You were out for blood until finding out Barr buried it.

This socially engineered,  hyper-partisan trench warfare the general public fights in the name of politicians who care nothing for them is the ruination of this country.

Which leads to....

gotta get that revenge right? i hope they block every single Biden appointee...it'll work out well for them

Good idea! And then in 2024 when the red team gets the presidency back, let's block those too!

Great things will be achieved.

No one cares anymore about actually doing anything productive.

It's all a game now....and the elites laugh at our stupidity behind closed doors.

Good to see Susan Rice being nominated

Ugh. This is why I had to hold my nose tightly when voting for Biden. I had a feeling the blue team crowd of corrupt dipshits would be moving in.

It's musical chairs at this point.

I still don't think he had/has in it him to be a more presidential and adaptable really.  His tactics have never really changed through time.  OK the changing media coverage is far more interesting to me.  Trump didn't help with his constant barrage of tweets, but it just speaks to the modern "coverage" of just going over everything at the point of overkill. So I kinda agree after reading what you said.  I mean Trump didn't help but I put the blame less on him than other things.  Also, as previously mentioned some of his supporters are insane.

What does Hunter Biden have to do with anything.  He is not going to be president of the US now.

Oh that laughable lawsuit by the Texas AG got slapped down by the Supreme Court 9-0.

Smoking Guns wrote:

slashsfro wrote:

Yeah, calling someone else a liar and supporting Trump, who LIES ALL THE TIME, is just mind boggling.

At least he will have a fvcking press conference. Biden only takes softball questions.

I have no idea what that has to do with the topic at all.

All 50 states have now certified their election results.  Biden will finally be certified as the President.

You can blame your boy Barr for the lack of attention to Hunter.

Barr Worked to Keep Hunter Biden Probes From Public View During Election

"Attorney General William Barr has known about a disparate set of investigations involving Hunter Biden’s business and financial dealings since at least this spring, a person familiar with the matter said, and worked to avoid their public disclosure during the heated election campaign.

Republicans and President Trump have pressed Mr. Barr for months to pursue Mr. Biden, especially as his father, Joe Biden, gained momentum in his ultimately successful bid for president. Mr. Barr has staved off pressure from Republicans in Congress for information into the investigations, the person said, without elaborating on his actions.

One investigation became public this week after federal investigators served a subpoena on Hunter Biden. The subpoena sought detailed financial information in connection with a criminal tax investigation by the U.S. attorney’s office in Delaware, according to people familiar with the matter.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/barr-worke … 1607653188