MeidasTouch Turns Democrats’ Minds to Slop.

1. Democracy Now! for the morning news.

I'll be honest, sometimes I can't handle the full hour, because Amy puts it out there raw as it is and sometimes when the shit is real bad, I just can't emotionally handle it. But the sanitizing of our news, thats a major part of the problem; sane washing in an insane time is a form of lying. If I don't have time for that, then I just watch the headlines.

2. Majority Report with Emma and Sam

I try and separate the politics from the news as best I can. I consider Majority to be much heavier on the Politics than the News side, which is fine. They also have complementary schedules. If its an interview I'm not interested in, I'll turn it off. The fun half is good for getting an understanding of what MAGA is doing.

3. Don Lemon Show

I do try and keep track of what the "centrists", or better phrasing, neoliberal/ neoconservative, "raised on corpo media take" is. Don Lemon is about as safe as you get. I also feel like I owe him one because he put a project of mine on his show right after J6, and that launched us in a big way. I watch Don Lemon to get an idea for what corporate media is thinking.

4. Meidas Touch

I do watch Meidas Touch, but only if there is an important trial going on. As far as courtroom news, these are the ones to follow. They have the best "judiciary"/ law takes, because, well, they are all lawyers. Their politics are drivel and not worth listening to.

5. The Benjamin Dixon Show

Ben barely ever puts out content since he started preaching again but he was one of my favorite contributors in the early days of TYT. I was making bootleg Benjamin Dixon show swag almost a decade ago and was one of his first patreons. I always tune in and love his takes. He was making the clearest most consistent points about the rise of white nationalism from 2016-2024 of anyone, but just had to step back because it was grinding him down.

6. ClickBaity Political Thirst Trap

Squirrelgang rise up. These guys know how to win elections and ultimately, thats what matters. They take an unapollegitically black male perspective, which imo, needs to be elevated. They stream on Tuesdays.

7. CurrentAffairs (the linked article)

I like Nathan J. Robinson, even though I think he's a Chomsky fanboy and Chomsky is mostly not worth listening to.

8. LeftistMafia

Just to keep tabs on the zoomers.

9. Jon Stewart

Again, too much of an apologist for the system and for power, but i've got a thing for Jon.

My goal with my media consumption is to gather a diversity of opinions, evaluate those opinions against what they say is going to happen versus what does happen, and weight them accordingly.

@chase_what_matters@lemmy.world made a point below about my "strong opinions"; yes, I have conviction around what I believe to be true. But my goal with my perspective is to have opinions and takes that predict future states of the world, and I think I've demonstrated a strong track record for that. I've been following politics, in excruciating detail, since like.. 1997/8/9.

I think too often people offer charity that news sources don't deserve because they like the "tone" or manner in-which information is presented, rather than evaluating a given sources ability to predict future states. That's the only signal of virtue to me: does your opinion of what will happen predict the future?

There is too much weight put on conventional wisdom and conventional news sources when they are trash at predicting future states of the world.

I used to watch TYT for the evening news. DN! for the morning with Sam and Emma for politics and then TYT in the evening was a great way to keep on top of pretty much everything that mattered. I also liked the more international focus DN! and MR (when it had Micheal Brookes, RIP) had.

But I'm a boat adrift for a decent evening news program now.

Calling them blue maga is some retarded shit though,

You know its funny right. Because the only people who say that are the ones who take it personally.

For those not in the cult, it is a very useful and accurate term. Whoopi said she would vote for Biden if he personally shit himself on stage (on the view). She opposed removing him as the candidate to an audience of millions. How many people did she convince to vote for Biden with her perspective? And when we look at the kind of behavior, like insisting on running an obviously failed candidate well past the point of even being able to recover, an insistence on strategies and approaches that did not work in the past, that were not working then, and that obviously weren't going to work in the future: how can we classify such a movement as anything other than cultlike?

And PodSave, I mean they were that movements vanguard. And they pretty much lost the election for us. Blue MAGA as a movement, they precluded us having a robust primary because "of course we should just run the incumbent". They precluded us swapping out the candidate when they were' obviously floundering in the polls (ages before the meltdown Biden had on stage). They insisted we had to do almost every bad idea, because of their fundamental strategy: any blue would do.

But it turns out, any blue wont do. Candidates actually have to be grounded in the needs of the people they are asking to elect them.

And if you were / are Blue MAGA (which if podSave was/ is your primary source for poltiical interpretation, you almost assuredly are), sad day for you, and sad day for all of us.

Blue MAGA as a movement were wreckers who destroyed our ability to stop the death cult of the Republican party with their half-a-loaf, warmed over neoliberalism. On their insistence of decorum. On their wait your turn approach to leadership.

If that was you, the current state of things rests on your shoulders. Trump was as unpopular as Biden last election. And we lost because of Blue MAGA.