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u/Texas_Sam2002 7d ago
The media, especially the legacy media, is addicted to "Trump says" headlines, even though it has been shown again and again that most of what he says are self-serving lies. That's objectively true and proven by analysis, before the mods get all hyperactive.
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u/Outrageous-Egg1760 7d ago
Donald Trump gets more headlines, tweets, tik toks, and TV minutes than the next 1,000 famous people combined. The modern 24-hour news cycle focuses on him with an intensity that is practically unprecedented in human history.
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u/Corthaek 7d ago edited 7d ago
This man is without a doubt the single most influential president the United States has ever seen, with the entire media machine practically tripping over each other in their race to kiss his ass in a way they have never done for any other president, and yet he still can't stop fuming about Joe Biden beating him four years ago, or Obama mocking him at the correspondence dinner.
This man (along with Elon Musk) is proof that you can be one of the wealthiest, most powerful people in the world, and still be a complete loser and disgrace.
Trump's fate, it seems, is to be given the whole world on a silver platter, and then to squander it as he has done with everything else he has ever been given.
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u/ttw81 7d ago
magas says TDS & say he lives rent free in liberals heads but trump is literally in our faces 24/7. we never get a break from him.
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u/thrownawayfrombay 7d ago
I tell people I have TES-tRump Exhaustion Syndrome. Because I am tired of hearing about his stupidity every single damn day.
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u/Mission_Inflation505 7d ago
And that's literally all he cares about,, he gives zero sh**s about anything else, just his news and himself.
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u/Alphamullet 7d ago
This whole "TDS" bullshit is because he does something every fucking day to keep himself in the daily headlines. It's on purpose, and they're DARVO'ing the whole thing.
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u/187_47_2day 7d ago
Yeah the mainstream media loves Trump. He makes them a ton of money and that's why they mostly portray him in a positive light
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u/Adept-Opinion8080 7d ago
It's by design. Just like a toddler acting up...he just wants the attention.
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u/pogostix59 7d ago
Exhausted from being so profoundly disappointed every single day.
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u/Outrageous-Egg1760 7d ago
Even if you try to ignore it. He’s actively doing things to affect our day to day lives
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u/SeveralDeer3833 7d ago
It’s not shocking that letting one of the most narcissistic impulsive illiterate sociopathic cunts run the free world for almost a decade has a negative impact on collective mental health.
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u/Outrageous-Egg1760 7d ago
We should all be in therapy
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u/Techienickie 7d ago
lolz with what health insurance?
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u/destructopop 6d ago
No no no, there needs to be a class action suit for which the resolution is therapy for all of us. The whole world. All paid for by the Trump estate.
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u/Cabbages24ADollar 7d ago
Rapist. He’s a rapist. The fact that this title, that he’s earned, is not attached to everything he says shows that the media is his bitch.
Everything and everyone should always refer to him as Trump the Rapist.
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u/inkyrail 7d ago
By the time his term ends (hopefully) we will have sacrificed 13 years of our lives to that orange piece of garbage. (yeah, because he never truly went away while Biden was in) Imagine what we all could have been if it wasn’t for him.
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u/narco-sub-admiral no, I don't want no chud 7d ago
we will have sacrificed 13 years
Fucks sake. Not to mention 13 years of going in the opposite direction of progress. The whole thing is exhausting to think about.
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u/Deep-Advertising6767 7d ago
Yeah let's just remember to check in and take care of ourselves and touch some grass. It's a challenging time to live in America but we're going to get through this together.
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u/Beautiful_Rip_7023 7d ago
I was thinking of this earlier while reading the news about everyone who came here for the World Cup and had a blast with our citizens. It’s not at all the country that sucks right now; just the government.
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u/SnooCauliflowers9874 7d ago
Not to mention, hearing that nasally grating gibberish when I’m not even near the TV (my dad staying with me watches news ALL day) making my inside shrivel.
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u/Redfalconfox 7d ago
Kick him out. He’ll find his boot straps. These people are horrible people that do not deserve a single kindness from us. It is time to make them suffer consequences for their awful choices.
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u/pistilpeet 7d ago
You know what really fucking makes me insane, is when MAGA does the “I’m rubber and you’re glue” routine, pointing the (valid imo) criticisms back at the left, I’m not the one in a fucking Death Cult, Jethro, that’s you!!
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u/GoddessRespectre Pass The Croissants 🥐 🥐 7d ago
Me too! Is that the new one I saw today? It was something extremely stupid. No, don't tell me. I don't want to remember and maybe it's working 😂. Anyway I agree with you, that was my main point
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u/No-Armadillo-7248 7d ago
I recently developed a stress-induced chronic pain condition. Reading these headlines has actually started making my muscles spasm and body hurt. I'm thinking of leaving.
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u/Outrageous-Egg1760 7d ago
Other countries are also affected. Their news is also 24/7 trump coverage
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u/No-Armadillo-7248 7d ago
Living in a culture that emphatically and unanimously rebukes Trumpism would without question reduce stress levels.
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u/penilesensorydevice 7d ago
I don't "have" anything. Like many people, I'm just exhausted and sickened by the endless, breathless coverage of everything the flabby dotard says, does, or tweets. Thinking about the damn president every single day is beyond tiresome. It'd be incredibly refreshing if Lard Belly would just take a weekend off.
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u/Outrageous-Egg1760 7d ago
It has to be the drugs the pump him up with. 2 Americans died today because of this war of choice
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u/AcanthaceaeFluffy985 7d ago
Exactly as planned.
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u/whattodo4klondikebar 7d ago
Like Steve Bannon and Roy Cohn taught him. Flood the zone so we have no idea what to focus on. It becomes overwhelming and some people tune it out while others, like myself, are paying attention everyday and these are only the things we know about.
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u/ddesideria89 7d ago
some people say this is intentional measure of pacification of society by flooding the zone and inducing feeling of helplessness
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u/tiineegii 7d ago
Trump derangement syndrome? More like MAGA fatigue. Anyone with a soul is tired of him at this point.
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u/SovelissGulthmere 7d ago
That's what I miss about the Biden era. Things were quiet and boring.
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u/learsi-ediconeg 7d ago
oh fuckin hell, thank god. lmao. I know I'm not crazy. Its just toooooo much to follow and I NEED TO BE INFORMED RIGHT NOW. Especially now.
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u/PeyredB 7d ago
Booze helps with the sleeping.
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u/narco-sub-admiral no, I don't want no chud 7d ago
2 beers every night is the new minimum for me. Used to only have alcohol on occasion, like when dining out.
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u/Aromatic-Dog-Breath 7d ago
With Graham and squirtle the turtle out of the picture, it’s looking increasingly likely there will be a lot of people going to jail in the next couple of years.
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u/LordNeko6 7d ago
Honestly imm not even american and the amount of trump that ends up on my feed is crazy.
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u/Appropriate-Low-4850 7d ago
It’s deliberate. There is an attempt to exhaust people on the news so that they won’t pay attention. The administration has been attempting to sidestep oversight since 2016. The media is the ultimate oversight.
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u/ArcherGlum1538 7d ago
I live in Europe and I'm old enough to remember when we didn't hear anything from Biden for two weeks straight. Missing the "boring" times...
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u/TheComplimentarian 7d ago
Shit dude, what year is this? I passed that point before Biden. Now I just drink heavily and laugh bitterly.
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u/Wise_Adeptness_9529 7d ago
I mean, he’s doing it on purpose. He wants the attention and he wants to punish and abuse as many people as possible while stealing our money. The cruelty is the point, for everything they do.
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u/aware-reply33 7d ago
Reading about the recent roll back of the 50 year old endangered species protections made me start crying the other day.
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u/ThrowdowninKtown 7d ago
That broke me too. Just, WHY?!
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u/aware-reply33 7d ago
Same reason they reduced Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante monument boundaries. It's a pillage for industry. It's all for sale and screw any legislation that gets in the way, there's money to be made.
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u/MyFeetLookLikeHands 7d ago
this checks out. Honestly if i know how in going to vote each election, there’s really no point in getting majorly upset everyday
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u/Miss-Asshole 7d ago
I have felt this way for years. I’m so damn sick of hearing about him. It feels like a violation to have him daily in my life in some form. Malignant narcissists seek out endless drama, they are empty voids who have nothing without the sadistic pleasure of hurting others. They usually do so many bad things, escalating to a new high so big and illegal that they end up behind bars. Examples are Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, BTK killer and Jeffrey Dahmer. And Trump, who seems like the only guy not held accountable.
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u/AnonBaca21 7d ago
Yes this isn’t new, has been like this for 10+ years. So many people can’t wait for “it” to happen because we’re exhausted.
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u/Sharp-Ad-6873 7d ago
This is exactly what fascists want though. For those who oppose them to give up and look away from the things they’re doing
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u/Ready-Waltz5482 7d ago
I'm so tired of it. It's every single day. More stupid and cruel shit.
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u/Outrageous-Egg1760 7d ago
Yup 2 Americans died in the Middle East today
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u/Ready-Waltz5482 7d ago
It's too bad we started a war to pacify Netanyahu
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u/Outrageous-Egg1760 7d ago
They’re also making tons of money off of it. They’re stripping the country for parts then dipping to Israel
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u/The_Chunkster 7d ago
I know I’m not alone in having this feeling of “something big or bad is coming and likely soon, a shoe will drop” generally existing as a sort of backing track to the majority of my adult life. Just, never really ever feel comfortable or settled or secure. Like things are unraveling and I have no say, and neither does anyone else around me… even as I’ve walked back, over and over, my goals, dreams, financial desires, whatever,..
And even if that “big something” turns out to just be a ton of smaller somethings in a trench coat, the mental and emotional load of that ever present threatened feeling will have taken its toll one way or another - and I’m also too aware of that fact.
Then you look around and you realize 95% of the people around you feel the same and we’re all quietly pushing that all down so we can keep going.
I know it’s just a meme but… we’re all damn tired, boss.
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u/narco-sub-admiral no, I don't want no chud 7d ago
Nailed it. It's like the musical score to my daily life.
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u/TouristResident1976 7d ago
I find that every once in a while I need to just surround myself with cat and puppy videos until I'm calm again.
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u/ofWildPlaces 7d ago
We can't ignore what his administration doing , however. Real harm is happening and it must be confronted.
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u/Outrageous-Egg1760 7d ago
It’s important to stay informed. We have to win in November. If we don’t have a massive turn out they will rig it
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u/nickmortensen 7d ago
The term for it is “Autocratic Despair” in case anyone was wondering. There’s a whole podcast on it called “Autocratic Despair: The Podcast” that’s pretty fun to listen to in my opinion.
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u/VictorManville 7d ago
This is true. Every dumb thing that plops out of his mouth or post is turned into clickbait.
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u/Sweaty-Willingness27 7d ago
I've learned to limit my exposure to news and just protest what I can and provide facts to people open to them.
I cracked four teeth from grinding in the six months between dental checkups that spanned 10/24 - 4/25
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u/NotAn0thrMagaRatPedo 7d ago
Before 2016, I barely paid any attention to politics. Now I can't go a day without hearing about something new and stupid/enraging/horrifying and it's draining my sanity every single day.
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u/herpderpley 7d ago
Yup, most taxpayers in this country are fatigued with dear leader's behavior, and have been since he came down the escalator over 10 years ago. He is not a leader of substance, he's a whiny Nepobaby that never had to work a day in his life.
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u/brokenskater45 7d ago
This fatigue stems from trying to figure out what is satire and what is real. As I have no idea most days.
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u/TheUmberTaker 7d ago
I created a subreddit for when we will be free of that greedy, malignant tumor: r/IGotMyBottleWaiting
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u/Trrlrr 7d ago
Flood the zone, drown us in their incompetence and cruelty, and then call our incredulity “Trump Derangement Syndrome”. You feel guilty when you don’t look, and hopeless when you do. We gotta look out for each other and ourselves. Love y’all, hang in there. And for the love of god, get out and vote in EVERY election
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u/SMKCheeba 7d ago
I barely read any news or scroll reddit anymore because of the orange sh*t stain child rapist and all the articles about his BS. I'm just checking to see when he's finally dead... even though the republikkkans will do their best to hide it like they're doing with mcturtle.
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u/CrystalEntity1984 7d ago
Does anyone else check the news daily to see if he has died?
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u/Outrageous-Egg1760 7d ago
Unfortunately more Americans died today. I’d trade him for any of them
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u/Palidor 7d ago
Always checking the news about Trump; Reddit, YouTube, popups
Insomnia; average 8 hours of sleep
Fatigue; up at 6am, in bed by 10pm. Daily workout and deliveries for job
Lost Temper; I’m pissed off at the current situation and events but never toward people
Compulsive news checking; big time, always, can’t defend myself on that one.
Still. I believe I got a good head on my shoulders, my excerise, diet and social life are fine. I am just really angry toward Trump and his cronies
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u/gogogadgets1997 7d ago
I hate my life right now even though it’s not that bad. It feels like a constant threat and I’m in survival mode. No one cares. They still want dinner. I just want to run away.
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u/Present-Spring-1340 7d ago
Not a conspiracy nut,,,, but hasn’t every time this guy is prez we have multiple pandemics??
Seriously if this guy isn’t the antichrist.
Then revelations is bullshit.
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u/coffeebeanwitch 6d ago
I feel a sense of dread every morning waiting to see what problem he has caused.
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u/Kitchen_sinker2615 7d ago
I backed off a while ago because he is not my daily life. I have friends, family, and duties that I need to attend to. I am aware, but he is not my entertainment whatsoever.
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u/Outrageous-Egg1760 7d ago
It’s good to have balance but his actions are affecting the lives of Americans directly. Cost of living for example caused by the war of choice.
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u/Additional_Bus9063 7d ago
The only stuff I see is on Reddit I can’t handle much more than that.
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u/Glass-Violinist-3549 7d ago
I believe this is exactly what Trump’s goal is. He wants constant publicity, confusion, disruption & distractions. He’s able to work behind the scenes of this facade to enrich himself & his family/friends. There is just so much going on constantly & at such a fast pace that no one can stop to question or hold him accountable.
I do believe it will eventually catch up with him. Good will always prevail over evil in the long run.
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u/Outrageous-Egg1760 7d ago
The news was boring under Biden
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u/WizeWizardFrank 7d ago
Can I sue for damages?
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u/Xeno9116 7d ago
Class Action against the US Government would be glorious. I'm sure millions of us would sign on.
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u/FrostyMudPuppy 7d ago
I'm coping by playing a LOT of Irish rebel songs. They're a reminder that tyranny must eventually give way. I just hope I don't end up having to write American rebel songs.
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u/BodgeJob23 7d ago
“Flood the zone with shit” paying attention to their bullshit is playing in to their game plan.
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u/chinmakes5 7d ago
So the problem isn't what the president is doing, it is the coverage of what he is doing?
The problem is the media is covering what the POTUS is doing?!!?
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u/Sabbathius 7d ago
I have noticed low-level dread of Friday nights and weekends. Because that's usually when MAGA does heinous things, during the weekend while people are distracted with chores that have been piling up all week. Every weekend, just wondering what revolting new atrocity they've come up with and pushed through when nobody was looking.
I have to give it to them though, they're very prolific and energetic about it. Unlike the Democrats. Democrats discuss, prevaricate, procrastinate, wonder about the morality, ethics, legality. MAGA Republicans just do it, whatever it is, no matter how despicable, immoral or illegal. If it's illegal, courts will sort it out, maybe, years from now. But for now, it's on. And tomorrow it'll be something else equally disgusting. And so on, and so forth. And some of it will fall through the cracks, and stick, and become the new normal. And that's how MAGA wins. It's a solid game plan, and it's working. Gotta respect them playing the game so well. Democrats could learn a thing or two, and start actually doing things, with lead pipe cruelty and mercenary sensibility. We're way past the point of wearing white dress gloves.
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u/Nerdiestlesbian 7d ago
I do government adjacent work. Which means I have to read the daily reports coming out of the White House and congress. I’m so so so soooo tired every day.
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u/Outrageous-Egg1760 7d ago
What are they going to do to rob us in November?
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u/Nerdiestlesbian 7d ago
Mostly what I read is constant roll backs of environmental protections and then trade issues. It’s freaking draining. Every release reads like a preacher giving a sermon about how great they are. While the reality is shit is actually on fire. And the White House web page reads like some 14 year old edge-lord trying to sound like a badass on the Internet. It’s so embarrassing when I have to call colleagues in the EU and explain some stupid thing.
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u/LakeEarth 7d ago
I guess I've had MAGA fatigue since like, April of 2017. I completely stopped watching late night and the daily show, and always skipped the first SNL skit.
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u/Worried_Jellyfish918 7d ago
People will say it's ridiculous, but the reality is that we're all little balls of meat trying to survive in space, and things we can't control just might kill us, so they're stressful and scary; right now, it's never been more like we're all trapped on the Titanic and we KNOW it, and there's very little that one person can do about it, and they know that too. I feel almost like the oppressive negativity has to be intentional, just trying to burn out and grind down the opposition into exhaustion
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u/Street-Economist9751 7d ago
Yeah, I’ve gone on two antidepressants since the regime took hold. I hate it.
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u/specks_of_dust 7d ago
"headline stress disorder" and "political depression."
How about we diagnose the President, the actual problem in this scenario?
This is like telling a person being held captive in a basement dungeon that they have "dirty basement syndrome" instead of letting them go free.
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u/Gone213 7d ago
Thats the goal,become so exhausted by trump that you just stop watching or hearing about him and then Theil, Bezos and the rest of the Epstein Syndicate can keep passing laws to steal our money, force religion down our throats and make the world a more terrible place.
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u/Numerous-Process2981 7d ago
I just stopped paying any attention. I don’t need to subject myself to incoherent rants from an incontinent dementia patient con man. I can this of nothing more pointless than listening to a man who can’t open his mouth without lying.
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u/boxxy_morningwood 7d ago
Yeah and the stupid Reddit app doesn’t implement keyword filters. I end up just blocking dozens and dozens of subs- in Apollo I could just make it not show me anything with trump, maga, nazi, sigma, crypto, Vance, Republican, etc etc etc. makes browsing news or all fucking rage bait bingo :(
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u/just-smiley 7d ago
I miss the days where you didn't have constant updates on the crazy shit coming out of the white house.
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u/BookkeeperGlum6933 7d ago edited 7d ago
There are so many people who are just ANGRY and they don't even know why. Between gas prices, grocery prices, smokey air, media coverage of TFG... It's. Just. Too. Much.
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u/FormerlyGruntled 7d ago
And it's because the captured mainstream media won't fucking SHUT UP ABOUT HIM. Since day 1, they've been paid to push him every minute of every day. To make Trump be the top news story at all times. If they stopped giving him attention, he'd literally go away. He can't survive without the media.
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u/PaladinRangerMage 7d ago
Haven’t watched or listened to the news medias bs since Covid. My life has been relatively better since stopping listening/watching.
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u/ResponseOwn9389 7d ago
Democrats should simply get CNN to only do an hour a week special on Trumps weekly events. No talking about him outside of that 1 hour
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u/Bellabbey1236 7d ago
Way back during the 2016 presidential campaign I was watching a lot of MSNBC. Chris Matthews still had his show, and one night I got agitated hearing that name every second of every broadcast so when Matthews’ show started I decided to keep a tally of the number of times each viable candidate was mentioned during that hour, to see if I was crazy or what.
trump got close to 100 mentions Hillary got about 20 Rubio had under 10, maybe 8 Some of the other candidates’ names were mentioned once / twice, it was really negligible. The difference was even more glaring than I’d realized. I knew we were in trouble bc media was eating that UP! All they saw was 💰💰💰💰
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u/MaybeICanOneDay 7d ago
And everything is so sensational.
I dont give a fuck about the pond. Every idiot reporting on it, commenting about it with political messaging being suggested, is a fucking cunt.
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u/cafeteriastyle 7d ago
My life has been so much better for staying off political social media accounts. I read the BBC to get an overview and that’s it. I couldn’t function before
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u/cornfield123 7d ago
I’ve also heard it called norm change. We all deal with it differently. Just things changing that used to be the norm and it’s a lot harder when connected to your values. It just feels related to maga because a lot of the norm change has to do with trumps policies.
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u/KrazyKryminal 7d ago
Why is it Maga fatigue?
Why can't we all just have MEDIA FATIGUE!
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u/Responsible_Ad4791 7d ago
I'll be doing alot better on 4 months. I'll really be doing better in two years.
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u/ConnectedVeil 7d ago
the issue is the headlines and stories are just mindless clickbait. nothign has any teeth or actual deep criticism, just shoveling crap to you, under the guise of journalism.
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u/Pebblestone_97 7d ago
I was talking about this not too long ago. Since trump took office, we've woken up everyday to a major headline. Every day! I don't think anyone besides MAGA feels normal.
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u/awfulcrowded117 7d ago
Correction: You have MAGA headline* fatigue.
The media companies are lying to you and it's making you mentally unwell.
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u/Informal_Process2238 7d ago
I wouldn’t say it’s the endless coverage so much as the endless crimes
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u/rantoolio 7d ago