If you are on social media, or if you are watching the regime media, you might be overwhelmed by the sheer volume of bullSchiff coming from the left. Now, it’s all AstroTurf; the social media stuff is all consultant-driven, and the regime media is, well, the regime media. But the regime media is changing regimes before our eyes; it is just that no one sees it because they are distracted by the current fight. Larger trends and a newfound testicular fortitude among conservatives are forcing significant and permanent changes to the structure of the left’s most vital ally, with a powerful downstream effect. Don’t swallow the black pill because leftists are screaming and howling like never before; it’s always dumbest and loudest before the dawn. And the new dawn is going to reveal a mainstream media landscape that is as different as the current social media landscape is today from what it was under Eggplant/President Biden.
Remember social media not long ago? It was a closed system controlled by the communist overlords – capitalists can be the worst communists – who conspired with the evil Biden cabal to suppress the speech of normal Americans about COVID, trans perverts, and everything else. But that’s all changed. Elon Musk, American hero, bought Twitter, made it X, and lifted the censorship rules. Its competitors were forced to follow suit, and that effect multiplied when Trump 2.0 came along (something that likely could not have happened without Twitter morphing into X) and started using the power of government against censorship instead of for it.
While Democrats still bombard X with nonsense bitching and moaning, we patriots dominate it. There are a thousand video clips of wizened Dem crones and sexually ambiguous male-identifying Dems talking about how TRUMP IS LITERALLY HITLER EVEN MORE TODAY THAN YESTERDAY WHEN HE WAS ALSO LITERALLY HITLER. No one remembers a single clip; it’s all lame and all the same. But everyone remembers the ridiculous Hakeem Jeffries with his Frito Bandito moustache and cute lil’ sombrero. X is the right’s playground; the quantity of Bolshevik bellyaching can’t overwhelm the power of the right’s memes. Oh, they try; Gavin Hairstyle’s social media team of people who look and use pronouns exactly like you would think attempted to parody the Trump aesthetic, but can’t quite do it because their heart is not in it. You need a spirit of joy and a sense of humor to meme well, and these bitter, hate-filled losers are just too angry that daddy didn’t love them that they can’t make it happen funny-wise.
We own social media. Memed JD Vance at his most outrageous is always preferable to the high-pitched squealing of the Harry Sissons about Trump being mean to criminals.
Now, it’s the mainstream media’s turn. The regime media is going to change. The first reason is that we’re woke to just how evil it is. There was a time when most Republicans cared what the NY Times or ABC said. They granted these institutions respect. Not us hardcore folks; we always knew exactly what the regime media was. Well, now the truth we have been telling is undeniable. Except for the most impotent of the GOP cellblock submissive caucus (Hi Jimmy Lankford!), Republicans treat the mainstream media like what it is – our enemy. If they go on “Face the Press with George Snuffleupagus” or whatever, it’s to mock the dullard hostess and generate viral clips of her humiliation.
At the same time Republicans accepted that the regime media was simply a Democrat adjunct, structural forces started cutting into its influence. Remember newspapers? They are now just another website. Remember the three networks? Your kids have literally never seen them – they are now the province of aging-out boomers who still watch the news, waiting for the next episode of “NCIS: Des Moines” or “Law and Order: Special Straight White Conservative Christian Male Criminal Unit.”
The loss of respect by conservative normals and GOP pols, its dwindling audience, combined with Trump’s aggressiveness in using our political and other power against it, means curtains for the regime media as we knew it. Trump has forced tens of millions of dollars out of them in settlements. Right-wing pressure got Jimmy Kimmel booted for a week; none of his defenders are talking about his current ratings because they are back in the Schiffer. Clearly, the regime media’s corporate owners have gotten worried and decided that perhaps making blood enemies of half of America was a poor idea.
Two recent events are indicators of the trend. The first involves The Washington Post. It’s fired a lot of its lefty hacks, but as hilarious as it is that these journos are being forced to learn to code (only to be denied work by the H-1B foreigners they once shilled for), the real tell was in a recent editorial about the shutdown. I won’t link it because they get nothing from us, but in that editorial, they pointed out that the Affordable Care Act never actually provided affordable care. Their editorial board committed the heresy of questioning Obamacare! Something new is afoot.
Then, CBS News hired Bari Weiss as its editor-in-chief. Well, the news division did not; she was forced on it by corporate. The staff is aghast, though it cannot question her credentials, as she came from The New York Times before quitting in disgust. Now, Weiss is no Republican, and she is certainly not MAGA, but she personally suffered persecution for refusing to yield to the party line on perverts, Israel, and censorship. She plans to pay special attention to “60 Minutes,” the once mighty institution that has been disgracing itself with the depth and intensity of its Democrat shilling for decades. The old guard is huffing and puffing and strutting around in its skin suit, but they are done. Weiss is going to make CBS News, if not a right-wing outlet, at least not a left-wing one. She will not only cut out the bias, but she will force the broadcast of facts and stories unfavorable to Dems. It’s what they do not cover that is as harmful as what they cover falsely; ask the regime media fans in your life if they know about the crazy kid killer-fantasy Virginia attorney general candidate. They sure would if he were a Republican.
And that’s huge. You see, CBS News – while greatly diminished – remains the primary news source for millions of Americans of crustiness. It’s what old people watch. And who is turning out at these rallies and town halls and who always votes because they have nothing else to fill their empty lives with but politics? Old boomers. No, not all of them, but a lot of them. These soft-headed dorks have been thoroughly indoctrinated. Moreover, they have been kept in the dark about the facts that show the Democrat Party for what it is – a race communist crime family full of fatties, freaks, and naggy wine women. But now, they will get something at least marginally akin to the truth.
The decline of the regime media, like the revolution in social media, is a critical trend. It is fundamental, one of the most important things happening now, and one that will have effects that echo in the future. But no one is talking about it. This long-term strategic campaign to break up the infrastructure of our enemy is overshadowed by day-to-day tactical engagements. Now, that’s good, because while the left is spazzing out over sombreros, it is not fighting back against the restructuring of its most powerful ally. Shhhhh. Don’t tell them. When one day they wake up and the regime media no longer works for their regime, let it be a surprise.
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