[perching_aix]

Please do exercise the downvote and flag buttons in that case, instead of polluting the thread with a performative tirade like this. Seems weird that you'd use this as an opportunity to rehash blatantly obvious talking points others have already brought up here before you, if it really does merely just bother you that this is what the respective reputations are and that they're being brought into comparison regardless. It comes across as an attempt to discredit and mock rather than as a genuine upset.

See, I can do this too. All it takes is a modicum amount of conspiratorial thinking and some willingness to engage in ill faith, with a dash of flair for the dramatic. For normal people, it was instead just "oh yeah, news cycle thing one vs news cycle thing two".