Is the Mass Media and the Deep State in collusion by design or default?
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I would say that the media is focused on generating negative and unfounded stories on Covid-19 - to increase panic and then sell advertising. Where is the reporting on actual deaths? Are healthcare facilities being additionally-subsidized for claiming they have Covid-19 patients in care? Are there any journalists out there willing to ask those questions? Liz Wheeler and Ben Swann maybe.
Here's some highlights from 2020:
Trump declared that we were too dependent on China and urged manufacturers to bring manufacturing back to the US. Democrats began to complain about the president being xenophobic.
Trump ignored the advice of The Who (that travel bans would be harmful and that the virus couldn't spread from person to person) and closed the boarder to China. Democrats complained that the president was engaging in racist dog whistling to his fanbase.
After Trump closed the boarder to China, Many Pelosi tried to pass a no bans act which would have forcibly re-opened travel to China.
Trump set up a task force to deal with upcoming corona virus threats and democrats and the MSM didn't even notice because they were so preoccupied with 24/7 impeachment proceedings and coverage. Later when they did finally notice some were furious because they claimed no women or people of color were on the task force.
Trump mentioned the corona virus in his state of the union address and the he was working closely with China and others to keep American's safe from infectious diseases. Nancy Pelosi responded by violating the law and ripping up his speech.
After months of the media downplaying the severity of the corona virus and criticizing Trump for going overboard, Trump tried to calm growing fears on national TV and the media flipped and began to attack Trump for not taking the virus seriously enough and calling for his resignation.
After months of the MSM calling the corona virus the wuhan flu, Trump also called it the wuhan flu prompting the media to do a 180 and attack him for promoting racism. An edit war even occurred on Wikipedia to try and change the names of famous pandemics of the past (like the Spanish flu in a bit to try and rewrite history to push the media narrative)
After the media began reporting about a cocktail of drugs that appeared to have positive results in fighting the corona virus Trump mentioned them in passing saying that they might work, they might not work but they were worth looking into and the media flipped to attack Trump for peddling false hope.
After criticism over the shut down of the economy, Trump urged congress to release a stimulus pack. The republican leaders canceled their vacations and worked to quickly put together a biparitisam proposal that was praised at the time by Chuck Schumer for its involvement of Democrats at every step. But right before the vote, Nancy Pelosi got back from her vacation and stop the entire thing complaining that it did too much to help businesses
Despite a second attempt to roll out stimulus checks by both republicans and progressives, the establishment democrats took advantage of the missing republicans quarantined due to exposure to the virus to block the vote so that they could attempt to ram in 14 hundred pages of additional items relating to climate change regulations on airline, diversity quotas for corporate boars, suspension of various aspects of immigration laws, and sweeping changes to the election process and many more.
As progressives in congress, democrat governors and even the hosts of main stream media outlets like CNN and MSNBC began to praise Trump over his handling of the corona virus the democrats began to call for Trump to be banned from making his public updates.
After the media put out a bunch of fake news stories with lies claiming that Trump stated that a fish-tank cleaner could cure coronavirus (because it had an ingredient with a similar name to a drug he referenced), a man died from consuming it. Naturally the media started blaming Trump and doubled down on their narrative.
After a third round of negotiations, republicans and democrats came up with a new bipartisan stimulus package and everyone was celebrating until Nancy Pelosi once again shut it down stopping aid to Americans.
New polls come out showing that more Americans trust Trump than the media and that approval of Trump's handling of the pandemic was over 60%. Multiple media outlets responded by announcing they would no longer be airing Trump's messages.
After drafting a contract to product ventilators, GM let the government know that they couldn't fulfill even a fraction of the requested order so the government decided to re-evaluate the contract to get more bids from other companies. The media decided to lie about it and spun a narrative that the government canceled an order for 80,000 life saving ventilators because they didn't want to spend the money.
Some democrats begin complaining that the current $6,000,000,000,000 stimulus package wasn't enough and began taking to social media to argue that we should also be giving money to foreign real estate investors and illegal immigrants.
While Trump urged for national unity in this time of crisis, the democrats decided to launch two more investigations into Trump.
After it was discovered that the man who died from drinking chloroquine wasn't married to a Trump supporter who innocently heard the news that chloroquine could cure corona virus and tried to follow his advice; but was actually married to a life long democrat who repeatedly donated money to progressive causes and hated Trump, also hated her husband, had indictments against her for previously assaulting him, was mentally unstable and had talked about divorcing him for years... The main stream media refused to publish these additional facts and instead worked to bury and suppress the information to protect the narrative.
Chuck Schumer wrote an open letter to Trump in an attempt to virtue signal and asked him to do things that Trump was not only already doing, but had previously informed Schumer of. When Trump then pointed this out the media began writing articles about how petty Trump was.
The media discovered the the multi billionaire Trump, has somewhere between $99 and $1,500 invested into a mutual trust fund which invested 3% of that money into a company that produced a small amount of Chloroquine and immediately started writing that Trump was only pushing the drug in order to get rich and called for his impeachment. again.
Over 6,000 doctors signed a petition to make chloroquine available due to the positive results worldwide but democrat governors banned it amidst a furious media storm trying to explain why every one was wrong and why it was actually terrible that Trump continued to talk about it.
After Nevada's democrat governor bans Chloroquine he is caught secretly hoarding a private stash for... "government use".
After Trump tied to calm Americans by sharing good news about hospital statistics, CBS News showed footage of Italian hospitals while reporting on New York's conditions in an attempt to make Trump look wrong. After they were caught and forced to apologize for it, they attempted the same stunt again running the Italian footage while talking about the situation in Pennsylvania.
After Trump praised the private sector for doing their part to help out, CNN decided to lie about Elon Musk and claim that he wasn't delivering the promised equipment. When CNN was called out for this they doubled down on the narrative saying that while he "technically" sent them equipment it was the wrong type of equipment and weren't true ventilators so it didn't count. Elon Musk countered by proving that the machines he delivered were in fact what the hospitals asked for which caused CNN to try and explain why doctors would never ask for those types of machines. After doctors began calling out CNN on social media explaining how they were converting over the machines to ventilators and that the had what they had asked for CNN started calling out the doctors rather than admit they were wrong.
Trump played clips of the media saying the very things they were criticizing him for saying and they became furious and called it "dangerous propaganda".
During a press conference Trump asked a doctor if there was any way to apply Bryn's research on using disinfectants to wipe out corona virus inside the body and the media decided to wildly misrepresent the situation by running headlines urging people to ignore Trump's advice to inject themselves with Clorox/Bleach/Lysol etc. Meanwhile, Chris Cuomo's wife was encouraging people reading her health site to bathe with Clorox and the media had nothing to say about that.
Despite Biden accusing Trump of being a xenophobe for closing the border to China and saying that he would not have done that if he were president, he ran a campaign ad saying that he would have been tougher on China than Trump and the media praised him for it.
After a democrat representative meets with Trump to thank him saying that chloroquine treatments saved her life, her fellow democrats decided to censure her.
And on, and on, and on, and on, and on...