Sunday, June 30, 2024

There's A Tiger Loose In My House. How Will This Affect Joe Biden's Campaign?

The grandkittens are here today, so this will be short.

Following Biden's dementia-saturated performance art piece, the news media is obsessed with how it will affect his campaign. Will he be replaced? How? With whom? Will he stay in the race? Can he recover and still beat Trump?

This is like having a tiger loose in your house and worrying about how it will affect a wealthy politician in another city. Err, maybe you ought to worry about whether or not you will survive.

Biden has had dementia this whole time. The press knew it all along. They've been gaslighting us for more than 3 years now and after the debate, everyone can see it. To protect Biden, they have taken whatever was left of their credibility and incinerated it.

Their concern ought to be with their future employment situation, not Biden's campaign. What's the point in tuning into a news program that deliberately hides the news?

1 comment:

tim eisele said...

" What's the point in tuning into a news program . . . "

I gather that, to a great extent, most people don't tune into news programs anymore. According to these pages -

https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/network-news/
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/cable-news/

the viewership of ABC, NBC, and CBS news combined is something less than 18 millionTVs, and the combined viewership of CNN, Fox, and MSNBC looks like a bit more than another 3 million TVs. So say 21 million.

The adult population of the US is 258 million. 21 million people is only 8% of that. Even if we assume that the average TV with news on is watched by two people, that's only 16% of the population watching the news.

I mean, I certainly don't bother watching the TV news. It's dead boring, superficial, takes forever to say anything, doesn't even mention the vast majority of what is going on in the world, and if you miss a bit you can't easily rewind to see what they were going on about. And if the statistics are any guide, probably around 80% of the population agrees with me.