Quote (kenw @ 12 Dec 2020 18:20)
Do you agree that Trump is the most polarizing president ever at least ?
Absolutely not. I believe he's the greatest threat to the entrenched bureaucracy we've ever seen. I also believe that he is the greatest ratings magnet the media has seen since Raegan.
Combine his threat rating with his populist tendencies that threaten the bottom lines of multinational corporations like Amazon, Facebook, Disney, Google, and all too many others, and it becomes obvious why they hate him.
You can't claim how polarizing he is even. Antifa started showing up at his rallies before he even won the 2016 primary. The media was already accusing him of being magically racist, sexist, etc. etc. All the same useless garbage they accused Romney and McCain and Bush of.
On one side, you have people looking at their increased paychecks, lower taxes, higher mobility, jobs coming back, individual mandate gone for those 18 year olds too poor to afford some bullshit $600/month insurance cost, and this super entertaining guy that looks vaguely orange. Add in some historic middle east peace agreements, the first President in 30 years not to start a new war, the first willing to start firing all the war hawks and entrenched super-regulators, restore the EPA back to resolving POLLUTION, and the list goes on.
On the other side, you have people listening to every media channel less fox screaming at the top of their lungs, "MONSTER! ORANGE MAN! AAAHAHHH!!!"
Do you see the difference? It's presentation. And EVERYONE has gotten rich off presenting him as polarizing. But the polarization occurred before he ever won the primary, and he didn't have to say a single word to make it happen.
This'll be the one great thing if/when Trump loses: The media's gonna die. Nobody will give two shits about listening to them lick Biden's asshole. Sure, Microsoft, Disney, and Viacom have plenty more than enough money to fund their news channels at a loss pretty much forever. But nobody will care. It'll return to the Obama days, where CSPAN averages higher ratings than the average news channel. It'll be great.
This post was edited by InsaneBobb on Dec 12 2020 10:51pm