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No One's Watching the Watchmen
Note: The way this Substack works is that each public post has a follow-up under a paywall in which I discuss either the spicier things I wanted to say but didn’t want to deal with drive-by sealioning in the comments or ideas I didn’t have room for in the main essay. Paid subscriptions support and expand this space—do consider joining the even-angrier side; I have many folk to feed.
While I was writing about the beautiful dream of Trump probably dying and how the media is handling it, which is to say barely touching it and enjoying a refreshing cool drink on the porch while still basking in the dopamine jacuzzi they filled to the brim by having hounded a sitting President out of his own re-election campaign for much less hyenashit insane behavior; I wrote a line, then kept moving it down the essay hoping to find a space to explore the idea…until I ran out of room entirely.
But that’s what the follow-up posts are for!
So here goes.
The line was this: legacy media no longer reports on threats to citizens or America itself, at least not with any real enthusiasm. It reports breathlessly on threats to the regime. We are no the presumed audience of the fourth estate.
