• brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago
    • Because it sells/trends.

    • Because they’re all glued to Twitter.

    • Because the Trump crowd is kinda right, they suffer from group think.

    • And because they’re salty that the White House all but hoodwinked them, insisting that Biden was fine, which they clearly should have been more skeptical of.

    I don’t really buy the theories that the media conglomerate leadership is pushing for it. And I’m not calling them incompetent or anything, but clearly they weren’t clear eyed with this issue when a large swathe of the public was.

    And I’m not talking about Republicans. My mother would literally vote for a Hitler/Stalin ticket before Donald Trump, she despises him so much it’s hilarious, but even she thought Biden was way too old to run. Even before the debate.

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      That last bullet point is a big part of it. They got embarrassed on national TV, now they have to make up for being shills.