The 2024 election results certainly came as a surprise to the national media. They spent the last few weeks of the campaign wildly speculating about how Donald Trump wouldn’t accept the results and it would be complete chaos. Instead, Trump won the popular vote and they all had to follow their own norms and accept the results in an orderly fashion. The win wasn’t a landslide, but it felt like one, because of the towering tsunami of garbage the media and the Democrats and their prosecutors threw at Trump. They could not believe that all this lawfare and relentlessly negative publicity would create a backlash. They saw this pattern in the Republican primary -- and yet they couldn’t accept the pattern would repeat itself in the general. They knew that the Biden-Harris approval ratings were abysmal, and that the top issues, like inflation and illegal immigration, were dragging them down. But they loathe Donald Trump so much they could not imagine he could win again….and win much more convincingly than in 2016. So then the media had to think about the unthinkable: doesn’t anyone care about our “news” anymore? How could our relentless anti-Trump messaging fail to land? They had to ponder whether podcasters like Joe Rogan were the wave of the future in influencing voters. They had to moan and whine that “misinformation” spread by Elon Musk’s Twitter ruined all their objectives. Axios.com wailed that “the big media era is over.” The young people aren’t following along. Smart sources said “reaching people ages 35 and under with any message — or even major event — is almost impossible. Or they've seen an eight-second clip with no context, so they have a very different understanding of what happened than someone who saw a mainstream report.” These “cord-cutters” aren’t imbibing the “conventional wisdom.” They’re in “fractured communities” on the internet.  Point and laugh that these people eternally see themselves as the “mainstream,” no matter how the people vote. We can say with confidence that the Big Media don’t have the same grip on public opinion that they have long imagined. When only 31 percent of respondents told Gallup they have a “great deal” or a “fair amount” of trust in the press, most Americans are looking elsewhere for information. No wonder Democrat-enabling journalists worry about “misinformation,” which they define as “information that doesn’t agree with our hot takes.” But when politicians assemble in public, it’s possible they will still feel the pull of the leftist press as the most powerful players, even if the polls don’t match it. Old assumptions die hard in national politics. It would be encouraging for Trump and the Republicans to make sure that conservative journalists, radio hosts, and podcasters are provided with lots of access and make the liberal journalists have to listen to conservatives. Because they tend to be incurious and intolerant of opposing views. Finally, conservatives should enjoy how the liberals said this whole election was about “saving democracy,” and then a majority voted for Trump and GOP control of Congress. Democracy hasn’t died in darkness. The majority of people who cited “democracy” as an issue voted for Trump. This is because the left cannot concede that they were the ones trying to suppress the speech of their opponents and they were the ones that were putting their opponents in jail. They were the ones raiding the home of the opposing former president with guns drawn. So who ended up looking “authoritarian” in the end? Democracy means the left gets to be ridiculed and rejected, and it’s only just begun. 

The Diablo 4 Season 7 PTR has been unveiled, and along with it some of the major features for the next season of Blizzard’s world-beating RPG. While it’s still early days, the initial glimpse suggests that this next update may be one of the best yet - it takes inspiration from the second and best Diablo season so far, with powerful new abilities to learn and additional unique gem types and runes to further amplify your builds. Even better, the much-wanted Armory feature is finally making its long-awaited appearance. Continue reading Diablo 4 Season 7 PTR unveils powerful new abilities and a much-requested tool MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Diablo 4 builds, Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred review, Diablo 4 classes

Nvidia graphics card rumors are back on the menu, as the first leaks surrounding the new RTX 5070 Ti gaming GPU have surfaced. If this rumor is true, the 5070 Ti is getting a decent boost in power over its predecessor, the RTX 4070 Ti. The Ti models have gone through the wringer with the RTX 40-series. Originally slated to be the 4080 12GB, the first one was quietly “unlaunched” and then rebranded as the RTX 4070 Ti. This card was quickly overshadowed about a year later, as Nvidia released the RTX 4070 Super, which we’ve classed as the best graphics card for most. Continue reading Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti gaming GPU specs leak as CES 2025 approaches MORE FROM PCGAMESN: GeForce RTX 4070 Super review, DLSS explained, Best graphics cards

If the world of Stalker feels more alive than some of its contemporaries, like Fallout, Starfield, or even GTA, it’s because of the A-life system. A mainstay of GSC’s apocalyptic shooter, in short, A-life governs the off-screen, ambient behaviour of NPCs and The Zone itself. If you were ever plodding through the elder Stalker games, and suddenly came upon two factions of survivors in a big gunfight with one another, it was because of A-life. If you’ve left a settlement, finished a mission, come back, and found your favorite character tragically dead, it was A-life. But so far, Stalker 2’s version of the system has been malfunctioning, and it ruins the atmosphere and tension of an otherwise great FPS. Responding to players’ observations, GSC now promises a fix. Continue reading Stalker 2 bugs are killing the A-life system right now, but GSC has a fix coming MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Stalker 2 weapons, Stalker 2 review, Stalker 2 artifacts

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We learned that Meta was testing voice message transcription support for WhatsApp this summer, and we got the gist of how this incredibly useful functionality would work. The best part about the whole thing is that voice transcription happens on-device, and everything continues to be end-to-end encrypted. You don't have to agree to send your messages to Meta's servers for transcription. They remain just as private as any other type of communication between two WhatsApp users. Meta is now ready to roll out the feature out of beta, with both iPhone and Android receiving it. The feature will work similarly regardless of platform, but iPhone users do get the better end of the deal, at least for now. Voice message transcription will support many more languages on iPhone than on Android. Continue reading... The post WhatsApp supports voice message transcription, but it’s better on iPhone than Android appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Today’s deals: $270 Nintendo Switch OLED, $20 waterproof Bluetooth speaker, 20% off Peloton Bike+, more T-Mobile’s new deal slashes Go5G Next plans to $5/month for watches & tablets Exclusive deal: Buture VAC01 cordless vacuum has a massive 67% discount T-Mobile’s latest holiday offer: Get an iPhone 16 Pro on us

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