Man, if the media was worth a damn it could absolutely bury Trump in negative campaign ads. It's one thing to run a single valid negative campaign ad. With Trump you could collect them like fucking pokemon.

[–] FilthyHookerSpit@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

You'd need over 30x the amount of total pokemon to match the amount of lies he's told as president

[–] getoffthedrugsdude@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago

That's a lotta pokémon

[–] MalachaiConstant@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's the problem though. His core supporters define themselves by who they oppose, so anything negative said about him is seen as an attack and becomes fuel for the hate machine

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The hate machine runs on unicorns and rainbows. I'm not going around chasing unicorns and cursing at the sky.