Saturday, December 28, 2024

The steady drip, the steady erosion



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— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) December 28, 2024 at 3:08 PM



Holiday weekend or not, the Donald Chump supporters war continues.  In one corner, the wealthy swamp sewer rats he's bringing into his administration.  In the other, the deeply stupid MAGA who thought the unChristian con artist was one of them.   David McAfee (RAW STORY) reports the latest:


Donald Trump on Saturday sided with appointee Elon Musk over MAGA influencers including Laura Loomer, a report suggests.

Loomer is among those who have picked a fight with Musk over certain immigration visas, which he says are necessary for him and other executives to conduct their regular business. Far-right Trump supporters argued that big businesses should instead rely upon talented workers from the United States.

The GOP rift has taken over the news cycle for days, but Trump over the weekend finally gave his perspective, according to a report.

Jon Levine, a political reporter at the New York Post who has investigated Hunter Biden and worked on the 2020 and 2024 presidential elections, said he spoke to Trump about the visas for skilled workers in a phone call.

"President-elect Trump told The Post Saturday he supports immigration visas for highly skilled workers, appearing to side with Elon Musk in the roiling intra-MAGA debate on the issue," the Post reported. The article quotes Trump as saying, "I’ve always liked the visas, I have always been in favor of the visas. That’s why we have them."


So he's not even in office and he's already making clear to the voters who delivered the victory for him just how little they truly matter to him.  


While MAGA is at war… there is a life to live!!! Don’t get too caught up in their BS!

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— Danielle Moodie (@daniellemoodie.bsky.social) December 28, 2024 at 5:26 PM



So many of us saw it coming.  What happens next?  MAGA fights back?  More likely they roll over and take it for now.  They've lied to themselves for so long about Chump.  Chump delivered nothing for them in his first four year term.  





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— Morgan J Freeman (@mjfree.bsky.social) December 28, 2024 at 10:02 AM



They made up excuses and lies and turned out to vote for him in 2024.  And now, he's yet again made how clear they don't matter to him


Tom Boggiono (RAW STORY) reports:


According to longtime political observer Jonathan Alter, the moment Donald Trump is sworn in on Jan. 20, the clock begins ticking on his hold of power since he will be widely regarded as a lame-duck president.

Speaking with MSNBC host Charles Coleman Jr. on Saturday morning, Alter said that the president-elect stands no chance of running for a third term on 2028 despite speculation that he might attempt it, and lawmakers won't have to go along with every demand he makes.

As he explained, "In the short and middle term I think he'll be held to account for all sorts of campaign promises. If he is not successful in lowering prices, as he promised he would do, and if his tariffs and other policies contribute to renewed inflation, he will be judged very harshly on that."


He's probably right but he's also possibly wrong.  Wrong in that he's thinking this is going to emerge when it's already emerging.  Chump's already bloodied and not just due to the Elon Musk issue but also because of the nominations he keeps announcing.  Not making.  He's not President yet.  He can't nominate until he is.  But they're chipping away at his image as well.  He doesn't know what he's doing and that seed was planted when he announced his intent to nominate Matt Gaetz to be Attorney General of the United States.  The report, released Monday, is a stain on Chump that will only grow larger.  He's an idiot and he's a crook -- Chump is.  And that's why he nominated drug using, pedophile Matt Gaetz.  And some of his supporters will try to shake it off but it's there with each nominee -- the nagging doubt that Chump doesn't know what he's doing.  And that nagging doubt will only grow.  Pete Hegseth?  Chump's choice for Secretary of Defense?  His defense of the torture that took place at Abu Ghraib?  He's not fit to serve as Secretary of Defense.  If he's forgotten a general got demoted over that torture -- Bully Boy Bush signed off on the demotion.  That was a scandal and Hegseth can't embrace it and be effective as Secretary of Defense.  As Secretary, you're supposed to represent the best that the military can be -- not be a drunken abuser of women.  


This is eroding him right now.  And if he gets crazy Tulsi Gabbard on as Director of National Intelligence and there is one terrorist attack on US soil, the American people will be calling for his head on a platter because he appointed a cult member with no experience to the post.


There will be no hesitation among the public.  There will be no call for national unity.  There will only be the fact that a crazy cult member got appointed to a position she had no experience or training for and America was left defenseless as a result.  That will be on Trump and Tulsi and the country will not be forgiving.


Lame duck?  Alter thinks Chump's going to be a lame duck.  He's going to be as effective as a dead duck.  He'll hang himself with each passing week.


Lived experience will be a slow cruel lesson for MAGA.  Whether or not the country -- or the world -- will survive is another question. Gerren Keith Gaynor (THE GRIO) reports:


The newly formed Affirming Leaders Council is sounding the alarm in fear of Trumpism, global authoritarianism, and an international decline in human rights.

The bracing for President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming White House and its implications extends beyond Black, Brown, and marginalized communities within America’s borders. A second Trump term and its hostility toward racial justice, LGBTQ+ equality, and its embrace of White Christian nationalism are also concerning on the continent of Africa. 

Faith and religious leaders in Africa are banding together with Black American allies to fight back against what they see as a political movement driving Trumpism, global authoritarianism, and an international decline of human rights. Together, they formed the Affirming Leaders Council, led by Pan-African advocate Bishop Joseph Tolton, executive director of Interconnected Justice, and Rev. Mpofu Andrea Tutu, the daughter of the late Nobel Peace Prize winner Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa.

“The extreme religious right is a global force that is not only undermining the life and well-being of African Americans but very much so has been meddling in African affairs for many, many, many years,” said Bishop Tolton, who has for years worked throughout the African continent to build a Pan-African, pro-LGBTQ coalition that advances human and civil rights.

In other news, Senator Chuck Schumer has yet again disappointed.  Ten empty slots that should have been filled but that Chuckie wants to let Donald Chump fill.   And this is yet another reason DC needs real voting rights in Congress and real representation.  


This paragraph kept getting moved further and further down the entry:


Speaking of seeing it, Aunt Jemima.  Don't usually use the term "Uncle Tom" or "Aunt Jemima" here.  But we'll be addressing Aunt Jemima here in the year-in-review piece that will go up early January 1st.  She's a Black woman filled with self-loathing who worked on the left or 'left' to defeat Kamala and put Trump back in the White House.   


Originally, it appeared right after the excerpt of David McAfee's report.  It was followed by eleven paragraphs that I pulled from the entry and might use in the year-in-review. Aunt Jemima was a new one to me.  I didn't know her and didn't know the way she worked to ensure Kamala lost.  A lying outlet that lied big time in 2008 brought on Aunt Jemima.  As they did in 2008, they lied for their whore.  If Aunt Jemima had been forced to disclose, her statements would have carried less weight.  But whores gotta whore, right?  


I love how these people get away with it -- lying every four years to advance their candidate and to destroy others.  They pretend to be fair and honest and to be journalists but in reality they are whores.  DEMOCRACY NOW! is the worst of the whores and if you're still trusting Amy Goodman, you're no better than a MAGA member.  

 

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a working-class history of fighting deportations

A WORKING-CLASS HISTORY OF FIGHTING DEPORTATIONS
By David Bacon
Jacobin, 12/15/24
https://jacobin.com/2024/12/deportations-unions-immigrants-organizing-trump
https://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2024/12/a-working-class-history-of-fighting.html

The history of working-class organizing in the United States is full of examples of immigrant resistance to mass deportation, sweeps, and other tactics. Time and again, immigrant worker activity has changed the course of society. It has produced unions of workers ranging from copper miners to janitors. It turned the politics of Los Angeles head. And it is this tradition of worker resistance that is the real target of immigration enforcement waves, both current and threatened by the incoming administration.

Organizers of the past fought deportation threats just as we do today, and their experiences offer valuable insights for our present situation. Not only did they show tremendous perseverance in the face of direct threats to migrants, but these organizers also envisioned a future of greater equality, working-class rights, and social solidarity - and proposed ways to get there. Increased immigration repression has a way of making the bones of the system easier to see and the reasons for changing it abundantly clear. These organizations and coalitions defending immigrant workers, their families, and their communities have often been building blocks for movements for deeper social change.

The rich tradition of worker organizing against immigrant repression is a story of courageous struggle and a reservoir of strategic thinking that can help immigrant workers and communities confront the promised MAGA wave of repression. It involves far too many organizations and fights to list here. This article aims to show what people faced, how they fought, and what kind of future they fought for.




RICHMOND, CA - People of faith and immigrant families celebrate Passover and hold a vigil outside the Richmond Detention Center, where immigrants were incarcerated before being deported. An immigrant woman came with her two children to ask for help in getting her husband released.  He was imprisoned in the detention center.


The Old Threat of Mass Deportation

In the outpouring of fear and outrage over Donald Trump's threat to deport millions of undocumented immigrants, many have drawn parallels to the mass deportations of 1932-33. At the height of the Great Depression, with hunger haunting the homes of millions of working-class people, relief authorities denied food to Mexican and Mexican American families. Racist bureaucrats appealed to the government to deport them, claiming that forcing them to leave would save money and open up jobs for citizens. These age-old lies have been recycled over the last century, repeated most recently by the MAGA campaign.

Hunger was the most powerful weapon used to force people to leave. Thousands were swept up in street raids, and many more fled because of the terror these raids produced. Voluntarily or not, people were loaded into boxcars and dumped at the border gates. The euphemism of the '30s was "repatriation." Today's immigration enforcers call it "self-deportation." The idea remains the same, and Trump and J. D. Vance are only the latest proponents of this inhumane policy.

People resisted deportation through the radical organizations of the era, from the Congreso de Pueblos de Habla Española to the unions formed in bloody strikes in mines and fields. The largest farm labor strike in US history, the Pixley cotton strike, erupted in 1933 across the barrios of California's San Joaquin Valley during that peak deportation year. Radical activists were singled out for deportation and defended by communist and socialist defense organizations, including later the Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born. The Mexican government of the time, only a decade after the revolution, also protested and tried to help deportees.

This history of resistance is as important to remember as the history of the deportations themselves. The organizations created by resistance, and the larger working-class movement of which they were a part, survived the deportation wave. While many groups were put on the attorney general's list of subversive organizations during the Cold War, others emerged during the civil rights era. When the immigrant rights movement peaked again in recent decades, it inherited this legacy.




RICHMOND, CA - People of faith and immigrants at the last vigil in front of the West County Detention Center, where immigrants were incarcerated before being deported. After seven years of vigils, the Contra Costa Sheriff cancelied the contract with Federal authorities under which the jail has housed immigration detainees.  Of the 178 detainees, supporters raised enough money to pay for 21 to be released to their families.  Victor Aguilar and Hugo Aguilar are recently released detainees, in front of the detention center.


Workers Win Over Their Unions

One crucial battle was fought by a small group of workers in wealthy Palm Springs, California. Twenty-three years ago, Maria Sanchez, working at the luxurious Palm Canyon resort for $4.75 an hour, marched into the office of Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees (HERE) Local 309. There she and her coworkers joined the union. The hotel hired security guards - dressed in uniforms mimicking those of the Border Patrol - and began firing workers. The immigrant housekeepers organized a silent march in the street outside, prayed in the parking lot, and refused to go back to work.

With the support of Local 309, Sanchez and her coworkers stayed out on strike for four months. She lost her house and car, selling personal belongings to survive. The manager swore they'd never work there again.

Despite his threat, the Palm Canyon was finally forced to agree to reinstate the workers with back pay. But when the hotel said only workers with legal immigration status could go back, everyone stayed on strike another month, documented and undocumented together. "I didn't care who had papers and who didn't," Sanchez told me then. "We decided that no one would go back until we all went back. The union didn't back down, and we won."

What makes the Palm Canyon experience important today is not just the inspiring courage of the workers but the strategic ideas that guided them. They organized over the concrete conditions of their lives. Faced with legal repression and firings, they defied efforts to make them suffer. Knowing they couldn't fight alone, they looked for help, and the union supported them. Most importantly, they stuck together. "This is exactly what's leading unions to change their attitude towards immigration," explained John Wilhelm, then the national union's president.

It was no accident that as the strike unfolded, the AFL-CIO highlighted the organizing of immigrant workers at its Los Angeles convention. Rejecting its history of support for anti-immigrant legislation, the union federation adopted a resolution calling for immigration amnesty for the country's then six million undocumented people and the repeal of employer sanctions - the 1986 law that made it illegal for them to work. Palm Canyon strikers were among the many witnesses at the subsequent union hearings organized around the country to expose the violation of immigrant workers' rights.

 

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David Bacon @photos4justice on the daily lives and ongoing struggles (both personal and political) of farmworkers - interview on Against the Grain with C.S. Soong
https://x.com/radioagainst/status/1848820503898710137

Pushing Forward: Organizing in a Post Trump Reelection US
November 22, 2024 by 
A Public Affair
https://www.wortfm.org/pushing-forward-organizing-in-a-post-trump-reelection-us/
On today’s two part show, Esty Dinur speaks with photojournalist David Bacon who has a long history of documenting and fighting for immigrant rights.

 


BOOKS - LIBROS

More Than a Wall / Mas que un muro
El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
https://david-bacon-photography.square.site/product/more-than-a-wall-mas-que-un-muro/1?cp=true&sa=true&sbp=false&q=false

 
In the Fields of the North / En los campos del norte
University of California Press / Colegio de la Frontera Norte

ucpress.edu/9780520296077
En Mexico:  https://www.colef.mx

The Right to Stay Home:  How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration  (Beacon Press, 2013)
http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=2328

El Derecho a Quedarse en Casa  (Critica - Planeta de Libros)
http://www.planetadelibros.com.mx/el-derecho-a-quedarse-en-casa-libro-205607.html

Illegal People -- How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants  (Beacon Press, 2008)
Recipient: C.L.R. James Award, best book of 2007-2008

http://www.beacon.org/Illegal-People-P780.aspx

Communities Without Borders (Cornell University/ILR Press, 2006)
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801473074/communities-without-borders/#bookTabs=1

The Children of NAFTA, Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border (University of California, 2004)
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520244726/the-children-of-nafta

Hijos de Libre Comercio (El Viejo Topo)
http://www.tienda.elviejotopo.com/prestashop/capitalismo/1080-hijos-del-libre-comercio-deslocalizaciones-y-precariedad-9788496356368.html



WORK AND SOCIAL JUSTICE:
The David Bacon Archive exhibition at Stanford Libraries

https://exhibits.stanford.edu/bacon/browse
For a catalog: (https://web.stanford.edu/dept/spec_coll/NonVendorPubOrderform2017.pdf)

 

THE REALITY CHECK - David Bacon blog
http://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com

For more articles and images, see  http://dbacon.igc.org and
https://www.flickr.com/photos/56646659@N05/albums
 
 
BROOKE ANDERSON PODCAST #8
�� LISTEN: https://linktr.ee/thatshowthelightgetsinpodcast (or anywhere you get your podcasts)
 

MAS QUE UN MURO
Cinco Entrivistas sobre la exposicion en el Museo Nacional de las Culturas del Mundo, CDMX:


Part 1:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eix0HEStpc
Part 2:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO4IIBPs06U
Part 3:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHtY-fgtsjs
Part 4:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm_MNrEX2Mw
Part 5:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpwSuBbgAQs

 


Pacific Media Workers Guild, CWA Local 39521, adopted a resolution supporting the Labor Call for a Ceasefire in Gaza:  https://mediaworkers.org/guild-joins-calls-for-immediate-ceasefire-in-gaza/

WHEN WE SPOKE OUT AGAINST WAR
Unearthing the history of protest against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Photographs © by David Bacon

https://www.flickr.com/photos/56646659@N05/52759801492/in/album-72177720306862427/
 


 

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Iraq snapshot

Friday, December 26, 2024.  The Water Cooler Set declares the death of non-FOX "NEWS" cable channels while not understanding the changing media landscape, lived reality is about to hit MAGA hard, and much more.



Let's kick things off with Amanda Marcotte (SALON):


In the face of Vice President Kamala Harris losing the presidential election to Donald Trump, the punditry's focus has been almost exclusively on asking how the Democrats couldn't beat a relentless liar with 34 felony convictions and a previous attempted coup under his belt. Everyone has a different theory about Harris' "messaging," with every critic inevitably arguing that if she had just talked more about their pet issue, she would have won.

Another option, however, is to listen to what swing voters who backed Trump said about their decision. That would seem the wisest choice, but to be fair to people who don't want to go there, hearing these people out is a truly miserable experience. What quickly becomes evident about the median voters in an American focus group is how profoundly opposed they are to even the most basic factual information. On the contrary, it's a community with a pathological aversion to reality, where people compulsively react to anything truth-shaped with hostility, running as hard as they can toward disinformation. They are addicted to BS. Of course they voted for Trump, the country's most reliable dealer of their favorite drug. 
This may sound ungenerous to these voters, but only if you've been sparing yourself the torture of engaging their actual opinions. If you hold your nose and dive in, it's startling how much the typical swing voter is allergic to facts. It's not just ignorance, but overt hostility to anything that smacks of veracity. Such as the Trump voter who insisted to the New York Times that Democrats are "lying about pregnancies," by conveying factual information about abortion bans. Or the one who falsely believed "so many people just walk right across the border and get free housing, free food." Or the one who was excited that "Trump brings a Robert Kennedy Jr. or a Tulsi Gabbard and Elon Musk." Or the one who said the  "Democratic Party [is] going after average people who disagreed on Covid, who disagreed on school boards, who disagreed on boys playing in women’s sports," which is just a way to complain about liberals who criticize him on social media for saying things that aren't true. 
Sarah Longwell's "Focus Group" podcast ended the year by interviewing Joe Rogan fans who voted for Trump for the first time this election. It was a smart choice, and not just because Rogan's endorsement likely pushed Trump over the top in a shockingly close election. Rogan's audience perfectly illustrates the way the firehose of disinformation online — his conspiracy theory-hyping podcast has over 16 million followers — has pickled the brains of so many otherwise normal people. Most of the people Longwell interviewed couldn't go two minutes without coughing up a conspiracy theory. Everything is a shadowy plot, from the COVID-19 pandemic to the guy who shot Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. The straightforward details of the shooting of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson came out after the arrest of Luigi Mangione, and yet these voters refused to believe the banal facts. Some are wallowing in theories that Mangione is a patsy, or that the shooting is a psyop. The truer any information was, the more they rejected it. 


MAGA is stupid.  There's no reason to pretend otherwise.  When we'd get a MAGA uber drive in whatever state we were campaigning in last fall, their ignorance regarding how a tariff works wasn't the only thing that came up.  There was so much more stupidity.  

We noted on recently and a lot of people e-mailed asking what was I talking about.  Roseanne Barr gave a big speech that people on the YOUTUBE left and 'left' mocked -- it did deserve that -- but didn't really seem to understand.

Roseanne, in her speech, was talking about Donald Chump as a savior to children -- I'm blocking the speech -- in my mind -- because it's so painful to watch someone who should know better fall into lies.

And I know Roseanne so I know how she fell in.  Things didn't make sense to her, she smokes way too much pot, her sleep is always erratic meaning she's often up all night reading conspiracies on the internet and taking them as truth and praising God that he's seen fit to enlighten her and now it's her job to enlighten others.

While he was in office from 2017 through 2021, she honest believes -- because of lies on the internet -- that governments -- including the US -- are part of some world sex slavery system for children and that Chump fought that.  He was the savior of children.  

These people have been taken out of the real world and plopped into crazy land.

And if you speak to them -- and we spoke to several nut jobs especially when we were campaigning in South Carolina -- you'll find that they base this on internet liars and on the corporate media system.

Internet liars should be obvious, they're spreading it.

Why did the nut jobs also point to the corporate media.

In their minds, the corporate media proved that this lie was true.  How so?  We would be told that back in 2016 when Hillary Clinton and others were accused of running a children's slave trade out a pizza place in DC, the media was all over that and calling it a lie and blah blah blah. 

But, we would be told, notice how they don't say a word about the slave trade Trump is fighting!!!!!

That's proof that it's real!!!!

The media doesn't have the time to respond to every nut job on RUMBLE.  But they need to start responding.

It's no fun.  I get that.  In the last four years, I think we've noted four liars on RUMBLE.  They're disgusting people and life is frankly too short for me.  But the media needs to be covering it regularly.  When they do not call it out, it leads already deluded people to become even more irrational and more delusional.  

I spoke about this in a post-election analysis and one person noted that if outlets have time to assign journalists to the Taylor Swift beat and the Beyonce beat, they certainly have time -- and money -- to cover the underbelly of the internet that spreads one lie after another and never gets challenged.

I'm not in the mood to sugar coat.  MAGA lives pathetic lives.  There's the economy, yes.  But it's so much more than that.  They are pathetic.  And they need to whine and scapegoat.  So they target women and people of color who are not their enemies but whom they see as getting ahead while they're sinking.  And the resentment builds and they need some unifying theory to explain why this is going on.  So they latch on to conspiracy theories while looking for a con artist to rescue them.

"He's a convicted felon!" doesn't matter to them when they're embracing the lie that governments -- including our own -- are participants in global sex trafficking of children and only Donald Chump can save us!!!

They delude themselves and if the lies aren't being addressed by the corporate media, they read that as an admission that the lies are true.

We're probably all doomed, to be honest.  Even MSNBC is bringing on crack pots to normalize Chump.  We almost posted an MSNBC segment -- I don't know who the host was, some woman -- due to the title but I paused and thought, stream it first.  I did.  I then deleted it -- I do the evening and overnight posts here at least four hours in advance.  I studied poli sci -- undergraduate and graduate.  I am well aware of the hypothesis that a madman can bring security to a multi-polar system in some ways.  Their Republican guest was trying to make that argument but didn't know that argument.

Chump's lunatic statements about grabbing this country or that?  That's now how even a madman brings security.  Those statements only inflame international relations.  And lead to no options are off the table assertions from other crazy leaders of other countries.

But that's what we got on MSNBC. 



Instead of doing what they should be doing -- exposing lies and taking on crackpot notions -- they are bending to him.

And it's stupid for democracy but it's also stupid for business.

The ratings are in free fall!

This is what those pushing changes at CNN and MNSBC insist.  

Historically, this is the month when ratings go into free fall.  Why?  Few care about politics in the holiday season.  Interest tapers off following a general election.

There is a lesson to learn and that was provided by MORNING JOE which, post-election, began fawning over Chump and saw their ratings drop significantly.  The smartest thing MSNBC could do would be ditch that program. The fawning broke the trust the viewers had for the hosts and then the hosts screaming and yelling at viewers about how people are too stupid to understand what they -- Joe and Mika -- were doing and all that other garbage.  It's really the most harmful program the network has.


Ratings keep being mentioned.  Ratings aren't everything or the only thing.  MORNING JOE is also down on streaming -- which, let's remember, is where everything's headed.  Like it or not, that's where it's headed and it's how news and public affairs programs are increasingly consumed.


Take out THE FIVE and FOX "NEWS" is not doing well in streaming.  MSNBC is doing much better and has many segments that go over 70,000 views -- some well over that. Take out THE FIVE and you're not seeing a lot of hit clips on YOUTUBE for FOX when it comes to streaming in the last 24 hours.  You're dealing with a lot of 14 thousand and 40 thousands.  Their biggest streamer in the last 24 hours is 135K for the story about how Russia might have shot down a plane.  MSNBC has three videos on that topic and the one with the largest streams is at 221K.  CNN covered that as well and their YOUTUBE clip is at 459K.

FOX "NEWS" will from this day forward most likely always have higher viewers because their viewers are older and are youngsters who hit old age early (there's a reason it's called conservativism).  But, so sorry all you idiots who keep insisting that these are the worst times for cable 'news' that's not FOX, that is not accurate.  

The landscape changed some time ago -- long enough for MODERN FAMILY to have done a joke about it and have Hayley explain that her generation gets their news watching a video at the gas pump -- and all the media observers this month and last acting as though FOX "NEWS" is the big success and the business model of the future?  That's just not true.

That should have been in Ava and my piece.  In "Raison d'être (Ava and C.I.)," we noted the liars.  We didn't note the lazy.  Lazy people do no research and run with conventional wisdom and that harms us all.  


And while this nonsense has gone on, no one's really challenged it.  The Water Cooler Set is what Ava and I have long called these lazy idiots.  Many have print experience.  You're seeing the impact the internet is having on broadcast and cable and not one of these conventional wisdom idiots can think back to how the internet changed the figures for newspapers?  How the audience shifted to outlets websites and not printed page.  The consumers want to consume when they want to.  They don't want to be dictated to or tied to a schedule they didn't make.

But instead of talking about how consumers are taking in public affairs programs and news stories, we're getting garbage that among the oldy crowd (elderly and those born old), FOX "NEWS" is a success!!!  When in fact the streaming on YOUTUBE says otherwise.  And you pull segments from THE FIVE out of the mix and FOX "NEWS" is an embarrassment in terms of streams.

By the way, here's the CNN video on Russia that beat MSNBC and FOX "NEWS."


 

Donald Trump has promised to cut energy costs, but an expert said some of his policies might end up hurting his own supporters.

The price of natural gas looks likely to jump despite record-high production, which could undermine the president-elect's campaign pledge, and political analyst Leah Wright Rigueur told CNN that energy costs are largely outside the government's control.

"I think, you know, the secretary of the interior, I think the secretary of energy both understand that or the newly appointed, the nominated secretaries understand that," said Rigueur, an assistant professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. "What is more interesting, I think right now is the fact that under [president Joe] Biden, these kind of energy policies, particularly under the Inflation Reduction Act, have actually been deeply beneficial to red states and blue states, but in particular red states, in some cases rescuing manufacturing, rescuing energy production, rescuing all kinds of industry, and so there is a push amongst Republicans, particularly Republican congressmen, to keep those acts and to keep those things in place."


As much as the press actually doing their job could help educate voters, the reality is that lived experience is about to educate a lot of people over the next four years. 


Adding to alarm over U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's immigration plans, his "border czar" toldThe Washington Post in an interview published Thursday that the administration plans to return to detaining migrant families with children.

Tom Homan, who served as acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement during Trump's first term, said that ICE "will look to hold parents with children in 'soft-sided' tent structures similar to those used by U.S. border officials to handle immigration surges," the Post summarized. "The government will not hesitate to deport parents who are in the country illegally, even if they have young U.S.-born children, he added, leaving it to those families to decide whether to exit together or be split up."

Since Trump beat Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris last month, migrant rights advocates have reiterated concerns about the Republican's first-term policies—such as forced separation of families—and his 2024 campaign pledges, from mass deportations to attempting to end birthright citizenship, despite the guarantees of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Homan—who oversaw the so-called "zero tolerance" policy that separated thousands of migrant kids from their parents—said: "Here's the issue... You knew you were in the country illegally and chose to have a child. So you put your family in that position."



And then there's Elon and other idiots.  



 


Their statements are outraging even MAGA.  Educating MAGA now in the way that the media failed to do in the lead up to the election.  Charlie Nash (MEDIAITE) notes:


 Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy received heavy backlash on Thursday after he suggested that Americans were not being hired because they were mediocre.

After Ramaswamy and billionaire Elon Musk came under fire from prominent Trump supporters on X, formerly Twitter, for supporting H-1B visas over the training and hiring of American workers, Ramaswamy defended his position in a post which accused the United States of suffering from a culture of “mediocrity.”

 
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