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‘He’s a lot of fun to be with’: Trump and Epstein were close friends for 15 years
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2025
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The problem is that the audience of lowest common denominator doesn't really care about the dismantling of the post-Cold War world, nor do they understand it. If anything, they prefer the Cold War era because that's the era in which "they made things like they used to" and "the minorities knew their place."
So if you're a news organization, even one that did care about truth and decency and not just profits, how do you get those people's attention? The terminally online MAGA/QAnon doesn't seem to care that he's losing Medicare, or that his children's schools are being gutted, or that his elections are being rigged by billionaires. But he does care about theatrics and drama and outrage. That's what drew him to Trump in the first place. So you run the Epstein/Trump story because nothing else seems to work.
Or... you run it because you know it guarantees clicks and ad revenue, because MAGA/QAnon are the most gullible drooling imbeciles on the planet. Either way, the loss of US democracy is merely taken for granted. It's already happened, it's not news anymore.