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2016 Postmortem

stopbush

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2. Thank you, media, for giving Trump a free ride and acting as the prime enablers

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sun Sep 18, 2016, 11:16 AM

Sep 2016

in his dragging our democracy into the gutter. He wouldn't have reached first base without your huge assist, which included dumbing down the news and the electorate long before Trump entered the scene.

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Donald Trump�s Anything-Goes Campaign Sets an Alarming Political Precedent [View all] babylonsister Sep 2016 OP

Terror threat from drumph BSdetect Sep 2016 #1

Thank you, media, for giving Trump a free ride and acting as the prime enablers stopbush Sep 2016 #2

The media needs to fact-check his ass into oblivion. Martin Eden Sep 2016 #3

For white males only, can you imagine another person doing what tRump has gotten away with? uponit7771 Sep 2016 #4

Never in a million years would that happen... sarae Sep 2016 #6

omg uponit7771 Sep 2016 #7

I think the biggest threat is from the lessons learned Hortensis Sep 2016 #5

The Hotel Infomercial Fiasco Underscores The Failure of the MSM TomCADem Sep 2016 #8

Welcome to the Club, Mr. Martin. What took you so long to realize this? politicaljunkie41910 Sep 2016 #9

Wow! WiffenPoof Sep 2016 #11

He mentioned turning the elections to a third world level duncang Sep 2016 #10