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Dr Phil faces 'total collapse' after MAGA alignment backfires massively: report (www.rawstory.com)
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Dr. Phil McGraw's attempt to transition from daytime television personality to a politically aligned media mogul during Donald Trump's second presidential term has been marked by spectacular failure and financial turmoil, according to a new report.

Since the start of Trump's presidency, ex-psychologist and famed TV doctor McGraw positioned himself as an active participant in the administration. He became a firsthand witness to ICE raids, a critic of protests, and an ever-present volunteer for the executive branch — attending events like RFK Jr.'s swearing-in and appearing with Trump after the Texas flooding.

Dozens of employees have been laid off as it averaged just 27,000 weekly viewers, broadcasting partnerships floundered and, in July, it filed for bankruptcy.

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[–] aramis87@fedia.io 66 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Undeterred, McGraw quickly launched Envoy Media Company with Steve Harvey, proposing a "citizen journalism" platform.

Ugh, yet another Republican grifter ....

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not a very good one apparently, if his ass is broke

[–] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Republican grifters work best when Republicans don't have all the power. They can blame all your issues on the libs and the communists and support people who will never win like Ron Paul and rake in millions. When they are in charge, the people they have to blame gets silly. Deep state, Jewish cabal of Globalists etc works for a short while, but then all the changes they said will make everything better go into place and things get even worse.

Even worse for them is those who straddled the line to be able to market to whoever was in charge (the Phil's, Harveys, Ozes etc) decide to either join the "strong" or just finally stop faking who they were in the first place and find themselves in an oversaturated sea of people pulling the same grift. With ever poorer marks.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago

Also, the 1% are indiscriminate in their greed. Sooner or later they will forget who their power base is, and suck up the money that feeds it.

Conservatism has no sense of why conservation is good for an ecosystem. Be it ecological or fiscal.