• @[email protected]
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    Did something happen to those viewers to prevent them from viewing? Maybe catch a contagious disease?

    • @Delusional
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      Nah trump is really only responsible for about a couple hundred thousand of those deaths. Not anywhere near 5 million.

      But he is most certainly responsible for hundreds of thousands of American deaths.

  • @Feathercrown
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    Being stupid on TV just doesn’t pull the same audience anymore. Also, use relative measurements for these headlines! “5 million” is useless without context. That’s over 20%!

    • @Pronell
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      But that audience is the cult.

      If they aren’t tuning in to watch the cult leader, that’s potentially good news down the line for turnout.

      Maybe just hopium, but if their enthusiasm drops, we win.

  • @[email protected]
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    Seems to be going around.

    I know I used to watch them just to see what to prepare for. Now I don’t even want the Clif Notes.

    • @Delusional
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      When you keep watching evil people doing evil things and being happy about it, it gets really tiring.

  • @yesman
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    There’s only one thing that matters: ratings

    Donald J. Trump

  • HubertManne
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    I bet most of those are dems wondering what the crazy will be.

  • @profdc9
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    Yes, everyone wants to see the Republican circlejerk.

  • @Kabloink
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    It’s just a multi night political advertisement. No thanks.

  • @Guy_Fieris_Hair
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    I am actually surprised. Seems some people would chime in to see what his ear looked like or what is going on.

    • Cethin
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      How long do you think he’s going to wear that gauze? I suspect it, or something similar, stays on until at least election day. Maybe he gets a gold eartip or something.

    • @HappycamperNZ
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      I only clicked here as its the first post I’ve seen with his new look.

      Every other used old images. Possibly when he was younger inline with their “Biden old” rhetoric.

  • @shalafi
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    Excepting journalists, why would anyone care?

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Despite Donald Trump’s dramatic appearance days after an assassination attempt, the opening night of the Republican National Convention drew in five million fewer viewers than the first night of the convention back in 2016 – when he became the party’s presidential candidate for the first time.

    Fox News had the highest ratings for its RNC coverage, with 6.9 million viewers as of 10pm on Monday.

    On MSNBC on Tuesday, host Lawrence O’Donnell waded in on the numbers, saying “this is a very low-rated convention.”

    Trump unveiled JD Vance as his vice presidential pick in a Truth Social post on Monday, before making his first public appearance since surviving the shooting at his rally in Pennsylvania at the weekend.

    On Tuesday, he returned to the RNC to watch two old rivals, Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis, take to the stage to endorse him in the election.

    Now, Vance is set to take to the stage on Wednesday for his first major address since he was tapped to be Trump’s new running mate.


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  • @[email protected]
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    It is also Allstar week in Major League Baseball, and night 1 of the RNC coincided with the Home Run Derby.

    Of people who still watch broadcast or cable TV as their source of nightly entertainment, I’m going to guess most people were watching dudes hit homeruns instead of watching a glorified political ad.