President-elect Trump’s election victory was a disaster for the left – their worst Electoral College result since Bush the Elder coattailed Ronald Reagan in 1988. But rather than accept it and try to move forward, leftists and the journalists who love them are choosing another option – running away.
Some want to run away from things that make them uncomfortable – like social media or media they thought friendly only days before – while others want to send in the Mayflower moving vans. Either way, the new motto for the far left should be, ‘Run away!’ in all of its Monty Python glory.
Here are the five worst examples of the left doing their own great escape:
1. Goodbye X, hello why
Leftists have been fleeing Twitter/X ever since Elon Musk first talked about buying it. Twitter quitters have run to Threads and Mastodon and now the latest, Bluesky. Some of the most memorable social media voices for liberal lunacy have flown the coop and gone to the new platform. Actress Alyssa Milano, actor Mark Hamill, author Stephen King and former CNN anchor Don Lemon all hit the bricks.
They weren’t alone. Some prominent businesses like 3M and Balenciaga joined them, along with media outlets like the Guardian and the taxpayer-funded leftists at NPR. The Hollywood Reporter delivered the typical media assessment: ‘‘Bluesky Has the Juice’: Celebrities Flee ‘Toxic’ X for Rival Social Media Site.’ (Yes, free speech is ‘toxic,’ but a leftist bubble is juicy. No bias at all.)
And, as soon as they got to their new home, they complained that it, too, was toxic. Bluesky’s overworked safety team posted this on Nov. 15, during the exodus: ‘In the past 24 hours, we have received more than 42,000 reports (an all-time high for one day). We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour. To put that into context, in all of 2023, we received 360k reports.’
And the mob came for them, as well. Washington Post media writer Erik Wempe wrote, ‘Five reasons Democrats should turn off ‘Morning Joe.’’ The paper’s unhinged lefty columnist Jen Rubin posted on Bluesky, ‘You can stop watching Morning Joe anytime.’ A Salon commentary declared, ‘‘Morning Joe’ has got to go.’ And journalism professor Jeff Jarvis also posted on Bluesky, ‘Hmmm. What else are liberals leaving?…’ above a screenshot of ‘Morning Joe’ talking about the defections from Twitter.
3. Running from MSNBC II
Viewers aren’t the only ones fleeing MSNBC. Its owners are doing the same. Comcast, which owns MSNBC, CNBC and a bunch of other cable channels like USA, SYFY and E!, is spinning them off into a separate company. But since it won’t be part of the NBC Universal universe, the ‘news’ channels could also lose their names. And who knows whether NBC staff will still appear or not.
Host Rachel Maddow even agreed to take a pay cut from her massive salary, dropping from $30 million to $25 million a year to keep her failing network going. The network wanted to keep her, especially given the bad viewership numbers. One exec reportedly called her ‘ratings Viagra.’
