The media lies and manipulation are too much in this election. I'm going to tune out

Just when we were getting used to Joe vs Don they switched it up on us and watching the media go into full assault with a new candidate entering the picture was predictable because of course they were always going to do this, but the amount of attacks and outright lies that the media are telling on both sides is just too frustrating for me to watch anymore and therefore I am going to tune out completely because it is just too maddening to even bother reading it anymore at this point.

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Just one thing out of many that I found really irritating was the fact that seeing as how the border and immigration issues are a very hot topic for this election, the media really tried - and probably succeeded with a lot of people - to convince the public that Harris was never in charge of securing or monitoring the border. There are plenty of videos that show her accepting exactly that role and Biden referring to her as such, yet many media outlets were trying to push the blame on.... jeez I don't even know who. This sort of manipulation is expected of the incredibly dishonest media in our country and I can't help but feel as though they only do it so that people will still tune in to see what sort of malarky they are coming up with next.

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Both sides are claiming that something good that happened was totally their doing and anything bad was someone else's responsibility and of course, since both sides have some level of incredibly powerful media helping them out, they are able to whip up some convenient statistics as "proof" that they are the best. If we were to take what both candidates said at face value, then both of them have created monumental amounts of jobs and are solely responsible for all prosperity that has ever happened, any bad things? Well that was the other guys.

It's just too much to take and I am sick and tired of the bullshit. It seems like almost every headline that I read depending on who wrote it talks about how "Trump is done" or "Kamala gets devastating news" and then you read the article and it is just reiterating the same boring talking points or outright lies about how, for example, Trump wants to ban abortion. They keep talking about that even though it has been repeatedly debunked over and over again. The right is doing the same thing as well and no, I am not trying to say that one side is worse than the other as far as the media is concerned. Nobody is telling the truth and listening to these two, or their PR people constantly talk about how "the other side is scared to debate" is just beyond old.

No doubt the next debate is going to get big ratings and yes, the moderators and the questions are going to be rigged etc but here is the thing I want to ask of everyone that is watching that or is excited about it: "What's the damn point?" Everyone has already made up their minds about who they are voting for outside of a few independents out there. They are either voting for Trump or they are voting for whoever isn't Trump. I don't think anyone actually thinks that Harris is a good choice for President, they just desperately don't want Trump to be President and even though I disagree with much of that sentiment, I can understand how a lot of people would end up feeling that way.

The news is just so dishonest on all sides right now to the point where both sides are employing people to make memes for them because that spreads like wildfire and isn't subjected to any fact-checking scrutiny. I mean, who are you going to sue? Some random meme creator on Reddit? Well good luck with that.

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I am very excited for the next 3 months to be over and right now, I don't really even care who wins. I do know that any campaign mail I get in my mailbox, regardless of who it is sent by, will have "REFUSED" written on it with a permanent marker because then the shipper has to pay postage to have it sent back as well. Screw both of these guys and their absurd campaigns.