The media got excited when exit polls (which are hot garbage) showed that the issue that animated a plurality of voters, 36%, was protecting democracy.
This, they thought, must mean that Kamala's going to have a great night. After all, they spent four years pushing this latest hoax/psyop as the main argument against Trump and for a continuation of the Biden-Harris tyranny.
Some people pointed out that it was possible that many of those animated to Protect Democracy actually were voting against the left's censoriousness and literal jailing of political opponents.
I thought that some might indeed be voting that way, but surely, after four years of relentless propaganda and psyops, surely most people thinking about protecting Muh Democracy were brainwashed by the media, right?
Nope:
John Ekdahl
@JohnEkdahl
4 G*****n years of near blanket apocalyptic rhetoric about this issue by both the Democratic Party and the mainstream media, and they lose it. Just an astonishing self-own.
This is the ultimate humiliation, the ultimate show of the impotence and incompetence, of what some still gratingly call "the mainstream media."
They are not mainstream. Mainstream means "reflective of majority sentiment." They are plainly reflective of an extremist, minority sentiment.
WE the real, genuine Mainstream Media, and we should start saying so.
Do I trust the Mainstream Media?
You bet I do. I trust the Federalist, RCP, Joe Rogan, Megyn Kelly, myself, you.
It's not just that "You are all the media" as Elon Musk said.
It's specifically: "You are all the mainstream media."
Of course, the Marxist Propaganda Media is now talking about creating their own "independent media." They're actually pretending that that the left has no equivalent ideologically-captured media.
You know -- apart from ABC, Disney, NBC, CBS, the forced-taxpayer-funded NPR and PBS, MSNBC, CNN, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Gannet newspaper group, etc., etc., etc.
So they're talking about 1, building their own new media to compete with ours, and, of course, 2, taking control of our media and censoring us so that we can't compete with them, and beat them.