“IRS Whistleblowers Involved in Hunter Biden Tax Case Reveal IRS, DOJ, and FBI Knew Laptop “Was Real” Immediately; Claim Prosecutors Demanded They Not Ask Questions About Joe Biden Ahead of 2020 Election
“There were a lot of overt investigative steps that we were not allowed to take because we had an upcoming election.”
“The prosecutors…told us that they didn’t want to ask about ‘The Big Guy.’”
“We corroborated that ‘The Big Guy’ was Joe Biden. Yes.”
“There was no question ever that ‘The Big Guy’ was referring to Joe Biden.”
“It was for the purpose of affecting that [2020] election.”
Investigations are funded by @X subscribers, please consider subscribing @C__Herridge today”
This wasn’t just a bad day in Michigan. The day before, Harris had another rough time at Shell Energy Stadium in Houston, Texas. Her campaign tried to draw crowds by hinting that Beyoncé would perform (Spoiler alert: she didn’t). While Queen Bey did show up, it was only to give a brief speech about “freedom over our bodies.” Understandably, the crowd was less than impressed and restless. When Harris finally took the stage, the boos returned. For many attendees, this event turned into more of a concert filled with heckles rather than an actual rally.
And this about trust or the lack thereof in the media…
Exactly, the outrage is feigned, because Orange Man Bad, even though he didn’t say it. And of course the favorite fraud of Never Trumpers David French makes an appearance to clutch his pearls…
I will report that the “new foreigners “ are spilling over into our region. More home break in’s, car,camper, trailer thefts. More and more neighbors reporting random tattooed foreigners knocking on their doors late at night. People trying to gas up the car being accosted by non English speaking men in box trucks with no license plates on them. It is time to holster up out here in the Wild West!
The bottom line, the comedian was correct. But that’s just a further indictment of the pathetic Biden/Harris admin, and can’t be used to bash the Bad Orange Man, so the media ignores it.
“Long before a comedian’s joke about Puerto Rico lit up headlines and triggered the left, the U.S. island territory was grappling with the toxic issue at the heart of the joke: contamination and pollution.
For decades, Puerto Rico has been saddled with microplastic pollution on its beaches, contamination of drinking water from industry, and air pollution and coal ash contamination from the plants that powered the island’s electricity.
The legacy has been so enduring that last year the Biden Justice Department announced the creation of a special task force to investigate and “prosecute violations of federal law harming the environment, wildlife and human health, and associated fraud, waste and abuse” in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Island region.
These facts were ignored in the faux-outrage over a comedian’s jokes about Puerto Rico during former President Trump’s rally last night.“
“Below is my column in the New York Post on the growing hysteria among press and pundits proclaiming the imminent end of democracy if Kamala Harris is not elected. The predictions of mass roundups, disappearances, and tyranny ignore a constitutional system that has survived for over two centuries as the oldest and most stable democracy in the world. More importantly, the public appears to agree that democracy is under threat but appear to hold a very different notion of where that threat is coming from.
Here is the column:
“Democracy dies in darkness” is the Washington Post’s slogan, but can it handle the light?
The Post has been doggedly portraying the election between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris as a choice between tyranny (Trump) and democracy (Harris). Yet when it commissioned a poll on threats to democracy shortly before the election, it did not quite work out.
Voters in swing states believe that Trump is more likely to protect democracy than Kamala Harris, who is running on a “save democracy” platform.”
NJ, thanks for that link to the Bezos WaPo opinion piece.
He says:
“While I do not and will not push my personal interest, I will also not allow this paper to stay on autopilot and fade into irrelevance — overtaken by unresearched podcasts and social media barbs — not without a fight. It’s too important. The stakes are too high. Now more than ever the world needs a credible, trusted, independent voice….”
This coming from the guy who added 25 extra journalists to hound Trump when he was first elected president. Bezos must be very worried about losing the tens of billions his Blue Origins receives in government funding, especially with this brand new ‘concern’ for media accountability and a new direction for WaPo coming on the same day Trump met with the CEO of Blue Origins. Elon Musk’s Skylink is a direct competitor to Blue Origins also receiving billions in government dollars. And Musk is actually on the campaign trail with Trump. Bezos is desperate.
“At least 1,131 school districts – that serve more than 12 million students – have parental exclusion policies that authorize school officials to secretly oversee the “gender transition” of a child without ever informing parents, getting their input, or obtaining their consent.”
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And only one party and their nominee supports this. DEMOCRATS.
“This is a MONSTER story from @MZHemingway about how she randomly became an eyewitness to Jake Tapper, Jim Sciutto, and James Clapper launching the Russian collusion hoax together.
It’s a story about what happened on a CNN set in January 2017 that’s never been told before. Until now”
“As a Jewish person voting Republican for the first time, there’s something that’s hitting me in the gut, something that feels too close to home. Watching how easily people on the left led by Kamala Harris throw around words like “Hitler” and “Nazi.” on Trump and on republicans, almost like it’s a game, is offensive beyond words. These aren’t just terms to toss into a political debate for shock value. For Jews, these terms hold the weight of millions of lives lost because of the Holocaust’s horror, and the sheer destruction aimed at wiping us off the map.
But what scares me even more is that the same people who casually call Trump and Republicans “Nazis” also label Israel—a country built as a refuge, a safe place after the horrors of the Holocaust—as “genocidal.” They’re pushing to ban arms to Israel, calling for its hands to be tied, for the only Jewish state to be left vulnerable to those who openly call for its destruction. This isn’t just hypocrisy; it’s a chilling echo of the very things they claim to stand against.
The Holocaust is still a part of my family’s story. My great-grandparents were survivors, they lost parents, siblings, children and friends. They wore numbers on their arms, scars of what happens when people look the other way, when words are used to dehumanize and destroy. To see leaders today abuse these words, to twist “Hitler” and “Nazi” into political weapons, makes me wonder if they’ve forgotten—or if they even care—what they really mean. Worse, it’s coming from the same voices pushing to take away Israel’s ability to defend itself, to protect the lives of its people. How can I and any other Jewish person trust leaders who treat our history, our survival, like political gains?
This election, for me, isn’t about party lines; it’s about who will stand by us and who will betray us. It’s about who respects our history, our right to defend our only homeland, and who casually strips that away. This isn’t just politics. This is our survival, our right to exist safely and without fear, and I won’t let those who call for our destruction hide behind empty and twisted words that have haunted my family for generations, and say what you will about Trump, but he won’t exploit words like “Hitler” and “Nazi” for political gains, while the other side does it as frequently as drinking water. That’s why I can’t vote for Democrats, and I will vote for Trump.
And If you, my fellow American non-Jews, think they’ll only target Jews, you’re mistaken. As the saying goes: first, they come for the Saturday people, and then they come for the Sunday people.”
“The New York Times is launching a hit piece against 30 prominent Conservatives including Tucker, Benny, Tim Pool, Ben Shapiro and others in an attempt to deplatform them from YouTube ahead of the election based on so called research by the fraudulent organization Media Matters”
“Psychodrama on Psaki show. Phillippe Reines says a second Trump term would be like a “Scream” sequel, much bloodier. He says to Psaki: “You’re a journalist. You and I may be sharing a cell six months from now.””
“Election officials are pushing people out of line in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, telling them to come back later.
“There’s been lines like this for days across counties in PA. Only for election officials to come out and push people out of line and tell them to come back,” said James Blair, political director of the Trump campaign.
Blair also said there are Democrats in Bucks County running around with badges on, intimidating voters while pretending like they are election officials.
“The Democrats are running around in Bucks County, PA with badges trying to pretend like they are elections officials. These people are not officials.
For those interested in an unbiased take on the ‘mainstream’ media and the challenges it faces for hopefully an honest reboot someday, Tangle has a good – and fair – piece today on the recent decision by a number of news outlets to refrain from endorsing in this year’s presidential contest.
Column: Donald Trump or Kamala Harris? Here’s how I’m going to vote in this election and why
~ … I’m not going to vote for either of them.
But that doesn’t mean I’m neutral as to the outcome of the election. If I lived in a swing state, I might vote for Kamala Harris; I certainly wouldn’t vote for Donald Trump. But given that Harris will carry the District of Columbia, where I live, by at least 30 points, the “It’s a binary choice!” arguments leave me cold.
If I were to vote for Harris, it would be only to vote against Trump. I don’t think Harris has been a compelling presidential candidate, vice president or senator. I think she’s exceedingly wrong on a number of issues. But I also feel something like P.J. O’Rourke did in 2016, when he said in the course of endorsing Hillary Clinton, “She’s wrong about absolutely everything, but she’s wrong within normal parameters.” …
… Trump is simply unacceptable. The mere fact that he violated the American tradition of the peaceful transfer of power is inherently disqualifying. Enumerating all the other reasons not to vote for him — and there are many — would amount to shoveling another 10 pounds of manure into a 5-pound bag.
Moreover, speaking of manure-shoveling, the willingness of most Republicans to excuse Trump’s attempt to steal the 2020 election is another reason to hope he loses. His running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, and House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana have both embraced the embarrassing lie that we had a peaceful transfer of power because Trump ultimately left office on time. That’s like saying a prison riot didn’t happen because eventually everyone went back to their cells and served their sentences.
Breaking Trump’s stranglehold on the Republican Party is worth enduring a conventionally bad Democratic president for four years. That’s particularly true given that Harris will have a hard time getting much of anything through Congress, never mind anything catastrophic, because of the probability of at least partial Republican control. …
… Many people attribute some cosmic significance to voting: “Tell me how you voted, and I will tell you who you are” seems to be the modern iteration of Carl Schmitt’s aphorism. I think this is pernicious nonsense. Elections are simply job interviews as well as performance reviews in which we hire and fire public servants. We’re not anointing kings and queens.
So I will write in some normal, decent Republican on my ballot … I’m taking suggestions …
… In short, I’m thinking beyond this election because politics is a marathon, not a sprint. … My perspective may not make sense to those who believe the fate of the world hinges on this election. But the impulse to treat every race as a life-or-death “Flight 93 election” is a major reason our politics are so broken. …
A conservative, I’ve been told, is not a conservative if he doesn’t vote for Trump. Nonsense. I won’t vote for him because I am a conservative, and I think this country needs healthy, rational conservatism.
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OK, I realize many here may (loudly) object to all of this. But we’re adults, and we’re believers, and I figured maybe a few might find it interesting, I know I’m not the only one with some of these views (and please don’t assume I personally agree with everything in the column, parts I left out for a reason). Otherwise, carry on, please forget you saw this (or me intervening, I am ducking just in case) unless it’s with a polite or thoughtful response. Thank you. 🙂
I never saw an attempt at a steal. I saw a guy who cares about the country trying to use every available legal means to make certain the election was legal. As did many who went before him. Had he wanted an illegal take over, I am certain many would have followed along but probably not most.
I believe Harris and her leaders can do a lot of damage through the much overused executive power.
I do not believe she is wrong within normal parameters but that she is off the charts wrong.
DJ, I give you a gold star for commitment! I am glad you don’t live in a swing state. God has blessed us all to live where we live for His good purposes. It’s pretty amazing how we are all scattered about representing certain areas of the nation. Only God . . .
California has three reps: DJ, Michelle, and Jo. ♡♡♡
Beating that dead horse to death still! He did not incite the Jan 6th march on the capital. No he did not. There was no push for an un peaceful transfer of powers. The DEMOCRATS committed fraud to get into office and you can bet your bottom dollar if the party’s were reversed there would have been bloodshed in the marketplace!…you know like BLM…
thank you Debra, Janice, mumsee, for the respectful and thoughtful, non-emotional disagreement. All fair comments and I appreciated that. 🙂 We can do this.
“Even if Donald Trump loses the election, 2024 will at least be the year Americans finally told the sociopaths who make up our news media to go to hell.”
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“All of them know their time is running out. CNN, MSNBC, the networks — all of them know their overhead is no longer sustainable because their audience is dwindling. That’s why their “star” anchors are reportedly either getting pay cuts or told not to expect raises. And it’s not because this was inevitable. It’s because they pissed away their credibility, literally the core product they sell, because they hate too many of their would-be customers.
Both by arrogance and conviction, these people believe it’s fine to demean, belittle, and then ultimately shut out half of this country. They’re finding out it comes with a heavy price.
Their audiences aren’t going elsewhere solely because the networks’ credibility is shot. It’s a bleaker picture. Their audiences were pushed away by people like Hasan and Phillip, who spit and permit obscenities and indecencies at their political opponents while tolerating nothing less than submission. And the moment they’re challenged on their own terms, they insist you take it back, lest they accuse you of inciting violence.
It’s a revolting game they’ve gotten away with playing for far too long, and they’ve gotten away with it because, unlike them, most people are conflict-averse and are loath to offend. Hasan, Phillip, and their colleagues do it with impunity and glee.
Trump is projected to win, despite everything they’ve said about him and his supporters — for years. If he doesn’t, he will still have beaten this particularly disgusting feature of our media forever.”
The total collapse of today’s MSM can’t come fast enough, and it’s all self inflicted. Time to own it.
The media is finallyrealizing that the monster they built has turned on them, although it seems to be taking some longer than others to accept this reality.
A number of us from inside the industry have seen the trends, AJ (?).
And for us, it’s been sad to see sector that really is important for a healthy society spiral — adding to it all, of course, has been the lack of financial ad backing that all fled to the Internet.
A lot of good folks who felt a calling to the field are struggling to keep going, to report and write with dignity and fairness. There are many good reporters who remain in the industry, now underpaid of course as raises froze about a decade or more ago; but still pursuing the vocation that God (whether they acknowledge him or not) has given them. We’re not responsible for “the industry” just as you or I are not responsible for the downward spiral of our culture (though you probably believe I am at fault, I don’t know). But not one of us has the power to stop a collapsing building if it is destined to collapse. (I hope it’s not.)
Some things we have no control over as individuals or believers or workers. We can rant and scream and let out a barrage of anger and bad language, making many not especially feeling very warm toward us or wanting to be around us very much. And even after all of that, it still won’t fix what we’re so angry about.
So we carry on as God has called us to do, we respect others, we try to win others over (rather than attack them) with some thoughtful debate. If they are not believers, we hope also to relay a message in the way that we relate to them.
I do think the MSM may be seeing the writing in the wall. I don’t expect them to change because they’re virtuous, but because they want to remain relevant. I’m hopeful that some virtue may one day come out of it all simply because God may decide to be merciful. But I’ll believe it in the media when I see it, and not before.
I cannot explain it, but today I have a sense of peace about the election, whichever way it goes, that I have not felt before today. I hope others can experience God’s gift of peace in the midst of the craziness, too. He is so in control. He loves righteousness and hates all forms of wickedness. Trusting in His good will to be done.
I think perhaps it has to do with seeing how He turns what seems really bad around for good for His believing children. We talked about that on the prayer line this morning and gave examples we’d seen in each of our 70 years of living.
Janice – I, too, have a sense of peace about the election. We know that God is in control no matter what happens.
Despite an accusation that was made months ago, my expressing that does not mean that I take a lackadaisical attitude, but rather that I do what I prayerfully believe God wants me to do and trust Him for the outcome.
It may seem strange to some, but I do believe that God leads some believers to go in one direction, others to go in another, and some down the middle, all for His own purposes, both in the outcome of the matter and in whatever He is doing in each of us as individuals.
Janice, it’s funny you say that but I have had the same peace for a couple of weeks. And it only intensified after I voted. It’s like my part is over or mostly over as far as the election is concerned —however it goes, it is well with my soul.
Well when I saw names being named I thought I was in the “smart assery “ category…which I am I suppose but there has been plenty of that posted here by those closer to the left of center too!😁 peace out!! ✌🏼
Kizzie, I definitely believe God leads people in different directions for his own purposes. It helps to remember that when we disagree, or we could end up being inadvertently in opposition to God’s purposes in someone’s life .
“Jeff Bezos has published an op-ed in WaPo: “We must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement. Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose.”
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He sees the truth, the propagandists pretending to be journalists dont. So they seethe…
Oh poor Jen Rubin must be crushed to hear no one cares what her opinion is. 🙂
Media people ought to be listening, but I doubt it.
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“Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election. No undecided voters in Pennsylvania are going to say, “I’m going with Newspaper A’s endorsement.” None. What presidential endorsements actually do is create a perception of bias. A perception of non-independence. Ending them is a principled decision, and it’s the right one. Eugene Meyer, publisher of The Washington Post from 1933 to 1946, thought the same, and he was right. By itself, declining to endorse presidential candidates is not enough to move us very far up the trust scale, but it’s a meaningful step in the right direction. I wish we had made the change earlier than we did, in a moment further from the election and the emotions around it. That was inadequate planning, and not some intentional strategy.”
AJ, I can’t (and won’t) “own it,” it wasn’t my doing in any way.
These broad cultural changes, including those that impact and remake numerous separate businesses across a nation and what is being taught in J schools, are not easily changed overnight, and certainly not with ongoing complaining. This all may have to collapse and be reborn, and if so, let it begin (or rather continue). A free and responsible and fair journalism is essential to the national health. It no longer makes any money which is one of the more immediate problems and things that will likely kill it out.
But it does no good to keep complaining about it so much here. Try to move on.
It seems easy to see why DJ might think your “own it” mentioned in your posts about the media are aimed at her, especially because you have directed at least one similar comment in the past to her.
I think it’s possible that the MSM is starting the process of ‘owning’ it. The Bezos article was a start. I’m just wondering what the government’s response to any changes will be. Government has become accustomed to interfering with the public by using the press. Surely the alphabet agencies won’t be happy.
AJ, if I am wrong (sure wouldn’t be the first time) and misread you, I’m sorry. We could have resolved this more amicably if it was just a misunderstanding. We’ll try to do that next time?
You do post almost obsessively now about “the media.” Not sure what the intense focus is about, exactly, but it’s become more noticeable and you seem to be sounding more irritated over it.
The media will begin to reassess as it continues to go broke. It’s a business and the money that once supported it is fast vanishing thanks to the ad stream being sucked up by the Internet over the past many years. It’s taken a while, but staffs are shrinking, pay is most definitely shrinking (and journalism was never a job that would make you anywhere “rich” as it was), and audiences are shrinking.
We’ll see what comes next, I’ll be out of the game sometime soon so it’ll be another generation’s challenge to deal with; am glad I got a taste of when it was still good – not perfect, never will be, but not as deeply flawed as it is now.
I hope they can regroup and get back to the old journalism rules that didn’t produce “perfect” coverage (nothing’s ever perfect) but was a lot better than what we’ve generally seen in recent years when it comes to political coverage. It’s important to all of us and the nation for that to somehow get “fixed.”
Wandering Views 
“American people are the most propagandized people in the whole world and they don’t even know it.”
This clip is brutally honest.”
https://x.com/DefiyantlyFree/status/1851256671529497037?t=1EVfQrA-CxzIk9IiE_eTGA&s=19
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Real investigative journalism, thanks to X. The mainstream media didn’t investigate, they just pushed the Dem lies and talking points, as usual.
X isn’t the problem with today’s pathetic excuse for journalism, it’s the solution.
https://x.com/C__Herridge/status/1851251838693081288?t=aQv1SWyqT7A8_zAse_l-aQ&s=19
“IRS Whistleblowers Involved in Hunter Biden Tax Case Reveal IRS, DOJ, and FBI Knew Laptop “Was Real” Immediately; Claim Prosecutors Demanded They Not Ask Questions About Joe Biden Ahead of 2020 Election
“There were a lot of overt investigative steps that we were not allowed to take because we had an upcoming election.”
“The prosecutors…told us that they didn’t want to ask about ‘The Big Guy.’”
“We corroborated that ‘The Big Guy’ was Joe Biden. Yes.”
“There was no question ever that ‘The Big Guy’ was referring to Joe Biden.”
“It was for the purpose of affecting that [2020] election.”
Investigations are funded by @X subscribers, please consider subscribing @C__Herridge today”
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I’ve always like Catherine Herridge’s reporting.
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Walz shouldn’t be allowed within 500 feet of children.
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1851048926197006378?t=Glw-aVUNFwUNV4czWZ5Dzw&s=19
“Tampon Tim had children march in an LGBTQ pride parade wearing shirts spelling out his name and forming a pride rainbow. Creepy.”
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A Disastrous Day in Texas
This wasn’t just a bad day in Michigan. The day before, Harris had another rough time at Shell Energy Stadium in Houston, Texas. Her campaign tried to draw crowds by hinting that Beyoncé would perform (Spoiler alert: she didn’t). While Queen Bey did show up, it was only to give a brief speech about “freedom over our bodies.” Understandably, the crowd was less than impressed and restless. When Harris finally took the stage, the boos returned. For many attendees, this event turned into more of a concert filled with heckles rather than an actual rally.
And this about trust or the lack thereof in the media…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/28/jeff-bezos-washington-post-trust/
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Another indictment against the US media, who isn’t reporting this because it’s not Dem propaganda.
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1851032667007189164?t=3zeo4i1UnF2XGrsOe1DWFQ&s=19
“New border crossing numbers reveal that the Biden-Harris administration ‘laundered’ migrant crossing numbers.
The true number of illegal crossings is 25% HIGHER than previously reported.”
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So not the 10 to 12 million they claim, more like 15 million.
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Exactly, the outrage is feigned, because Orange Man Bad, even though he didn’t say it. And of course the favorite fraud of Never Trumpers David French makes an appearance to clutch his pearls…
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1851138132596408499?t=b2wquyTZD8Biy0Z78nTRDg&s=19
“Jon Stewart is spot on here. Even he thinks the outrage over MSG is BS.”
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It clearly is BS.
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I will report that the “new foreigners “ are spilling over into our region. More home break in’s, car,camper, trailer thefts. More and more neighbors reporting random tattooed foreigners knocking on their doors late at night. People trying to gas up the car being accosted by non English speaking men in box trucks with no license plates on them. It is time to holster up out here in the Wild West!
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The bottom line, the comedian was correct. But that’s just a further indictment of the pathetic Biden/Harris admin, and can’t be used to bash the Bad Orange Man, so the media ignores it.
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1851256460463710471?t=dsHBM4Q0jeYKh4jv8d0w2administration.
“Insensitive joke aside, Puerto Rico does have a toxic waste problem that feds are slow to fix”
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/environment/tueinsensitive-joke-aside-puerto-rico-does-have-toxic-garbage-problem?utm_source=mux&utm_medium=social-media&utm_campaign=social-media-autopost
“Long before a comedian’s joke about Puerto Rico lit up headlines and triggered the left, the U.S. island territory was grappling with the toxic issue at the heart of the joke: contamination and pollution.
For decades, Puerto Rico has been saddled with microplastic pollution on its beaches, contamination of drinking water from industry, and air pollution and coal ash contamination from the plants that powered the island’s electricity.
The legacy has been so enduring that last year the Biden Justice Department announced the creation of a special task force to investigate and “prosecute violations of federal law harming the environment, wildlife and human health, and associated fraud, waste and abuse” in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Island region.
These facts were ignored in the faux-outrage over a comedian’s jokes about Puerto Rico during former President Trump’s rally last night.“
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TDS is an ugly disease which rots the brain of those infected with it.
And this is propaganda, not journalism.
https://x.com/ResisttheMS/status/1851255613457629371?t=RPb-gU6P7Z2oFU9R3_TWjg&s=19
“CNN makes a disastrous claim about a second Trump term…
That it would be bloody while he executes and jails his enemies😂”
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I love the smell of desperation. 🙂
https://x.com/JonathanTurley/status/1851267738964025471?t=9yQLp1uSSyyDtVEfZhnZ6Q&s=19
“The problem with running on panic politics is that you have to continue to ratchet up the rhetoric to pure hysteria.
jonathanturley.org/2024/10/24/sel…
Take the latest CNN claim by Rep. Debbie Dingell: “He wants to ban Muslims…and he wants to start internment camps.” …”
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Its always amusing to watch NTers buy this trash.
“Below is my column in the New York Post on the growing hysteria among press and pundits proclaiming the imminent end of democracy if Kamala Harris is not elected. The predictions of mass roundups, disappearances, and tyranny ignore a constitutional system that has survived for over two centuries as the oldest and most stable democracy in the world. More importantly, the public appears to agree that democracy is under threat but appear to hold a very different notion of where that threat is coming from.
Here is the column:
“Democracy dies in darkness” is the Washington Post’s slogan, but can it handle the light?
The Post has been doggedly portraying the election between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris as a choice between tyranny (Trump) and democracy (Harris). Yet when it commissioned a poll on threats to democracy shortly before the election, it did not quite work out.
Voters in swing states believe that Trump is more likely to protect democracy than Kamala Harris, who is running on a “save democracy” platform.”
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NJ, thanks for that link to the Bezos WaPo opinion piece.
He says:
“While I do not and will not push my personal interest, I will also not allow this paper to stay on autopilot and fade into irrelevance — overtaken by unresearched podcasts and social media barbs — not without a fight. It’s too important. The stakes are too high. Now more than ever the world needs a credible, trusted, independent voice….”
This coming from the guy who added 25 extra journalists to hound Trump when he was first elected president. Bezos must be very worried about losing the tens of billions his Blue Origins receives in government funding, especially with this brand new ‘concern’ for media accountability and a new direction for WaPo coming on the same day Trump met with the CEO of Blue Origins. Elon Musk’s Skylink is a direct competitor to Blue Origins also receiving billions in government dollars. And Musk is actually on the campaign trail with Trump. Bezos is desperate.
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Since some seem unable to know evil when they see it, this is what it looks like.
https://x.com/nickineily/status/1851266589745676643?t=p6ZZXu-mvuBKG83gVddCZQ&s=19
“At least 1,131 school districts – that serve more than 12 million students – have parental exclusion policies that authorize school officials to secretly oversee the “gender transition” of a child without ever informing parents, getting their input, or obtaining their consent.”
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And only one party and their nominee supports this. DEMOCRATS.
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There’s nothing like reading of dueling billionaires with morning coffee. :–)
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This is what collusion looks like.
https://x.com/seanmdav/status/1851266009728008429?t=FR6MAUD8EdRnVigKB_P3Kw&s=19
“This is a MONSTER story from @MZHemingway about how she randomly became an eyewitness to Jake Tapper, Jim Sciutto, and James Clapper launching the Russian collusion hoax together.
It’s a story about what happened on a CNN set in January 2017 that’s never been told before. Until now”
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https://thefederalist.com/2024/10/29/jake-tapper-is-lying-about-cnns-key-role-in-the-russia-collusion-hoax/
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Again, only one side is doing this. DEMOCRATS.
https://thefederalist.com/2024/10/29/as-president-kamala-would-wage-legal-war-on-churches/
“A Harris-Walz Administration would thrust intrusive, expensive, and time-consuming lawsuits on religious organizations.”
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Powerful stuff.
And all these deaths, rapes, and crime could have been avoided had the Border Czar done her damned job. Harris owns this.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1851278480434180250?t=vYit-EeDyePriXHXWQcT6w&s=19
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Only one side is pushing the evils of porn. DEMOCRATS.
https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1851278440000880719?t=P60rFWgCVApmQjjA83wYiQ&s=19
“The issue that Tampon Tim has decided to focus on in the final week of the election:
*checks notes*
Pornography.”
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“As a Jewish person voting Republican for the first time, there’s something that’s hitting me in the gut, something that feels too close to home. Watching how easily people on the left led by Kamala Harris throw around words like “Hitler” and “Nazi.” on Trump and on republicans, almost like it’s a game, is offensive beyond words. These aren’t just terms to toss into a political debate for shock value. For Jews, these terms hold the weight of millions of lives lost because of the Holocaust’s horror, and the sheer destruction aimed at wiping us off the map.
But what scares me even more is that the same people who casually call Trump and Republicans “Nazis” also label Israel—a country built as a refuge, a safe place after the horrors of the Holocaust—as “genocidal.” They’re pushing to ban arms to Israel, calling for its hands to be tied, for the only Jewish state to be left vulnerable to those who openly call for its destruction. This isn’t just hypocrisy; it’s a chilling echo of the very things they claim to stand against.
The Holocaust is still a part of my family’s story. My great-grandparents were survivors, they lost parents, siblings, children and friends. They wore numbers on their arms, scars of what happens when people look the other way, when words are used to dehumanize and destroy. To see leaders today abuse these words, to twist “Hitler” and “Nazi” into political weapons, makes me wonder if they’ve forgotten—or if they even care—what they really mean. Worse, it’s coming from the same voices pushing to take away Israel’s ability to defend itself, to protect the lives of its people. How can I and any other Jewish person trust leaders who treat our history, our survival, like political gains?
This election, for me, isn’t about party lines; it’s about who will stand by us and who will betray us. It’s about who respects our history, our right to defend our only homeland, and who casually strips that away. This isn’t just politics. This is our survival, our right to exist safely and without fear, and I won’t let those who call for our destruction hide behind empty and twisted words that have haunted my family for generations, and say what you will about Trump, but he won’t exploit words like “Hitler” and “Nazi” for political gains, while the other side does it as frequently as drinking water. That’s why I can’t vote for Democrats, and I will vote for Trump.
And If you, my fellow American non-Jews, think they’ll only target Jews, you’re mistaken. As the saying goes: first, they come for the Saturday people, and then they come for the Sunday people.”
https://x.com/AP_from_NY/status/1851044632647647296?t=LeGGpXGVvHmWBCIIcbNqWQ&s=19
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“The New York Times is launching a hit piece against 30 prominent Conservatives including Tucker, Benny, Tim Pool, Ben Shapiro and others in an attempt to deplatform them from YouTube ahead of the election based on so called research by the fraudulent organization Media Matters”
https://x.com/alx/status/1851273564864893231?t=tR59FSn7Aa23WHPCyHm2sg&s=19
Again, only one side is pushing this censorship and deplatforming garbage thru their propagandists in the press.
DEMOCRATS.
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Only one side pushes this evil. DEMOCRATS.
It’s time to get off your butt and vote against this evil they push.
https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1851282883320701416?t=EMN8I57bH7P_EM9qYJO5lQ&s=19
“Here’s Kamala BRAGGING about making sure “every transgender inmate in the prison system” has access to taxpayer-funded sex change surgeries.”
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Tim Walz is in Georgia today. Maybe Kathaleena hopes he likes it so much that he will move here if he does not make it to Washington..
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Again, DEMOCRATS.
https://x.com/ResisttheMS/status/1850904186331758761?t=ZKEpGhKBAWxJG-EQotb2tA&s=19
“The ‘Progress Action Fund,’ PAC released a pro p*rnographic ad to gain support from ‘chronic m*sturbators.’
Heading PAF is former Obama activist Joe Jacobson.”
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DEMOCRATS are doing this….
https://x.com/ResisttheMS/status/1851305630406955261?t=7Sg89CQfhOxxvL-vidRdlQ&s=19
“Alabama Secretary of State sounds the alarm 🚨that the Biden administration is signing illegal aliens up to vote.”
Current federal policies mandate that anyone who comes into contact with certain state agencies to be provided with VOTER REGISTRATION INFORMATION.”
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Which is why we need this to protect our elections from illegal invaders voters.
https://x.com/tampafreepress/status/1851305985815498863?t=0zIR_mA9Dfghx86Re1pk-g&s=19
“Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz Intros “JAIL For Alien Voters Act,” Felony Penalties For Illegal Voting”
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It amazes me that people take these idiots seriously. They have no credibility. This is why 80% of America think they suck.
https://x.com/TimJGraham/status/1851213900944957766?t=sjJKgmEVOtcr2B2zeiT24A&s=19
“Psychodrama on Psaki show. Phillippe Reines says a second Trump term would be like a “Scream” sequel, much bloodier. He says to Psaki: “You’re a journalist. You and I may be sharing a cell six months from now.””
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Shenanigans again.
https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1851304574390583390?t=ur6Siq_CFW6YfSRqCkbiRQ&s=19
“Election officials are pushing people out of line in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, telling them to come back later.
“There’s been lines like this for days across counties in PA. Only for election officials to come out and push people out of line and tell them to come back,” said James Blair, political director of the Trump campaign.
Blair also said there are Democrats in Bucks County running around with badges on, intimidating voters while pretending like they are election officials.
“The Democrats are running around in Bucks County, PA with badges trying to pretend like they are elections officials. These people are not officials.
Intimidation tactics,” @JamesBlairUSA said.,”
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In a recent sermon, California Pastor Jack Hibbs addresses what has been a hot topic around these parts…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wby2vRj2FbU
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For those interested in an unbiased take on the ‘mainstream’ media and the challenges it faces for hopefully an honest reboot someday, Tangle has a good – and fair – piece today on the recent decision by a number of news outlets to refrain from endorsing in this year’s presidential contest.
https://www.readtangle.com/national-newspapers-decide-not-to-endorse/
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One week to go.
Deep breath, more prayers that we (and the nation) can handle whatever the results are to be well without turning harshly on one another.
Peace to the brethren here among us. 1 Corinthians 13.
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l listened to a good portion of Jack Hibb’s service. Thanks, Tychicus.
CNN-ers, cute 🙂
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For only a few who may be interested (and don’t become overly too excitable by other views):
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-10-29/donald-trump-kamala-harris-election-2024-vote-endorsement-jonah-goldberg
Column: Donald Trump or Kamala Harris? Here’s how I’m going to vote in this election and why
~ … I’m not going to vote for either of them.
But that doesn’t mean I’m neutral as to the outcome of the election. If I lived in a swing state, I might vote for Kamala Harris; I certainly wouldn’t vote for Donald Trump. But given that Harris will carry the District of Columbia, where I live, by at least 30 points, the “It’s a binary choice!” arguments leave me cold.
If I were to vote for Harris, it would be only to vote against Trump. I don’t think Harris has been a compelling presidential candidate, vice president or senator. I think she’s exceedingly wrong on a number of issues. But I also feel something like P.J. O’Rourke did in 2016, when he said in the course of endorsing Hillary Clinton, “She’s wrong about absolutely everything, but she’s wrong within normal parameters.” …
… Trump is simply unacceptable. The mere fact that he violated the American tradition of the peaceful transfer of power is inherently disqualifying. Enumerating all the other reasons not to vote for him — and there are many — would amount to shoveling another 10 pounds of manure into a 5-pound bag.
Moreover, speaking of manure-shoveling, the willingness of most Republicans to excuse Trump’s attempt to steal the 2020 election is another reason to hope he loses. His running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, and House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana have both embraced the embarrassing lie that we had a peaceful transfer of power because Trump ultimately left office on time. That’s like saying a prison riot didn’t happen because eventually everyone went back to their cells and served their sentences.
Breaking Trump’s stranglehold on the Republican Party is worth enduring a conventionally bad Democratic president for four years. That’s particularly true given that Harris will have a hard time getting much of anything through Congress, never mind anything catastrophic, because of the probability of at least partial Republican control. …
… Many people attribute some cosmic significance to voting: “Tell me how you voted, and I will tell you who you are” seems to be the modern iteration of Carl Schmitt’s aphorism. I think this is pernicious nonsense. Elections are simply job interviews as well as performance reviews in which we hire and fire public servants. We’re not anointing kings and queens.
So I will write in some normal, decent Republican on my ballot … I’m taking suggestions …
… In short, I’m thinking beyond this election because politics is a marathon, not a sprint. … My perspective may not make sense to those who believe the fate of the world hinges on this election. But the impulse to treat every race as a life-or-death “Flight 93 election” is a major reason our politics are so broken. …
A conservative, I’ve been told, is not a conservative if he doesn’t vote for Trump. Nonsense. I won’t vote for him because I am a conservative, and I think this country needs healthy, rational conservatism.
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OK, I realize many here may (loudly) object to all of this. But we’re adults, and we’re believers, and I figured maybe a few might find it interesting, I know I’m not the only one with some of these views (and please don’t assume I personally agree with everything in the column, parts I left out for a reason). Otherwise, carry on, please forget you saw this (or me intervening, I am ducking just in case) unless it’s with a polite or thoughtful response. Thank you. 🙂
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Respectfully disagreeing:
I never saw an attempt at a steal. I saw a guy who cares about the country trying to use every available legal means to make certain the election was legal. As did many who went before him. Had he wanted an illegal take over, I am certain many would have followed along but probably not most.
I believe Harris and her leaders can do a lot of damage through the much overused executive power.
I do not believe she is wrong within normal parameters but that she is off the charts wrong.
mumsee
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DJ, I give you a gold star for commitment! I am glad you don’t live in a swing state. God has blessed us all to live where we live for His good purposes. It’s pretty amazing how we are all scattered about representing certain areas of the nation. Only God . . .
California has three reps: DJ, Michelle, and Jo. ♡♡♡
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I think I must agree with Mumsee who said it very well:
“off the charts wrong”.
However the Tangle article DJ linked was very good.
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Beating that dead horse to death still! He did not incite the Jan 6th march on the capital. No he did not. There was no push for an un peaceful transfer of powers. The DEMOCRATS committed fraud to get into office and you can bet your bottom dollar if the party’s were reversed there would have been bloodshed in the marketplace!…you know like BLM…
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thank you Debra, Janice, mumsee, for the respectful and thoughtful, non-emotional disagreement. All fair comments and I appreciated that. 🙂 We can do this.
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That’s just wishful thinking on the Tangle writer’s part.
These outlets see momentum swinging to Trump and they fear him, and what their feeble little minds imagine he will do. Nothing more.
Until their trash product changes, they remain the same biased, partisan outlets peddling dem talking points and lies.
Change that, I might believe you. But given how the left has reacted, and that is their audience, I call BS.
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And thanks to NJ as well, I realize you’re passionate about all of this.
And followed by an “I call BS” from the moderator, so there we go. lol
Stay cool.
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“Even if Donald Trump loses the election, 2024 will at least be the year Americans finally told the sociopaths who make up our news media to go to hell.”
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“All of them know their time is running out. CNN, MSNBC, the networks — all of them know their overhead is no longer sustainable because their audience is dwindling. That’s why their “star” anchors are reportedly either getting pay cuts or told not to expect raises. And it’s not because this was inevitable. It’s because they pissed away their credibility, literally the core product they sell, because they hate too many of their would-be customers.
Both by arrogance and conviction, these people believe it’s fine to demean, belittle, and then ultimately shut out half of this country. They’re finding out it comes with a heavy price.
Their audiences aren’t going elsewhere solely because the networks’ credibility is shot. It’s a bleaker picture. Their audiences were pushed away by people like Hasan and Phillip, who spit and permit obscenities and indecencies at their political opponents while tolerating nothing less than submission. And the moment they’re challenged on their own terms, they insist you take it back, lest they accuse you of inciting violence.
It’s a revolting game they’ve gotten away with playing for far too long, and they’ve gotten away with it because, unlike them, most people are conflict-averse and are loath to offend. Hasan, Phillip, and their colleagues do it with impunity and glee.
Trump is projected to win, despite everything they’ve said about him and his supporters — for years. If he doesn’t, he will still have beaten this particularly disgusting feature of our media forever.”
https://thefederalist.com/2024/10/29/the-medias-revolting-dishonest-insult-game-ends-with-the-2024-election/
They see the writing on the wall. 🙂
The total collapse of today’s MSM can’t come fast enough, and it’s all self inflicted. Time to own it.
The media is finallyrealizing that the monster they built has turned on them, although it seems to be taking some longer than others to accept this reality.
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A number of us from inside the industry have seen the trends, AJ (?).
And for us, it’s been sad to see sector that really is important for a healthy society spiral — adding to it all, of course, has been the lack of financial ad backing that all fled to the Internet.
A lot of good folks who felt a calling to the field are struggling to keep going, to report and write with dignity and fairness. There are many good reporters who remain in the industry, now underpaid of course as raises froze about a decade or more ago; but still pursuing the vocation that God (whether they acknowledge him or not) has given them. We’re not responsible for “the industry” just as you or I are not responsible for the downward spiral of our culture (though you probably believe I am at fault, I don’t know). But not one of us has the power to stop a collapsing building if it is destined to collapse. (I hope it’s not.)
Some things we have no control over as individuals or believers or workers. We can rant and scream and let out a barrage of anger and bad language, making many not especially feeling very warm toward us or wanting to be around us very much. And even after all of that, it still won’t fix what we’re so angry about.
So we carry on as God has called us to do, we respect others, we try to win others over (rather than attack them) with some thoughtful debate. If they are not believers, we hope also to relay a message in the way that we relate to them.
Ok, I need to get back to work.
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I do think the MSM may be seeing the writing in the wall. I don’t expect them to change because they’re virtuous, but because they want to remain relevant. I’m hopeful that some virtue may one day come out of it all simply because God may decide to be merciful. But I’ll believe it in the media when I see it, and not before.
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*on
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I cannot explain it, but today I have a sense of peace about the election, whichever way it goes, that I have not felt before today. I hope others can experience God’s gift of peace in the midst of the craziness, too. He is so in control. He loves righteousness and hates all forms of wickedness. Trusting in His good will to be done.
I think perhaps it has to do with seeing how He turns what seems really bad around for good for His believing children. We talked about that on the prayer line this morning and gave examples we’d seen in each of our 70 years of living.
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Janice – I, too, have a sense of peace about the election. We know that God is in control no matter what happens.
Despite an accusation that was made months ago, my expressing that does not mean that I take a lackadaisical attitude, but rather that I do what I prayerfully believe God wants me to do and trust Him for the outcome.
It may seem strange to some, but I do believe that God leads some believers to go in one direction, others to go in another, and some down the middle, all for His own purposes, both in the outcome of the matter and in whatever He is doing in each of us as individuals.
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Janice, it’s funny you say that but I have had the same peace for a couple of weeks. And it only intensified after I voted. It’s like my part is over or mostly over as far as the election is concerned —however it goes, it is well with my soul.
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Well when I saw names being named I thought I was in the “smart assery “ category…which I am I suppose but there has been plenty of that posted here by those closer to the left of center too!😁 peace out!! ✌🏼
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Kizzie, I definitely believe God leads people in different directions for his own purposes. It helps to remember that when we disagree, or we could end up being inadvertently in opposition to God’s purposes in someone’s life .
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Bezos states the obvious, which will tick off the Jen Rubin type leftists in his employ.
https://x.com/stillgray/status/1851047474028322897?t=k_bh3izJfVu1KV0fBcbWaw&s=19
“Jeff Bezos has published an op-ed in WaPo: “We must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement. Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose.”
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He sees the truth, the propagandists pretending to be journalists dont. So they seethe…
🙂
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Oh poor Jen Rubin must be crushed to hear no one cares what her opinion is. 🙂
Media people ought to be listening, but I doubt it.
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“Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election. No undecided voters in Pennsylvania are going to say, “I’m going with Newspaper A’s endorsement.” None. What presidential endorsements actually do is create a perception of bias. A perception of non-independence. Ending them is a principled decision, and it’s the right one. Eugene Meyer, publisher of The Washington Post from 1933 to 1946, thought the same, and he was right. By itself, declining to endorse presidential candidates is not enough to move us very far up the trust scale, but it’s a meaningful step in the right direction. I wish we had made the change earlier than we did, in a moment further from the election and the emotions around it. That was inadequate planning, and not some intentional strategy.”
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Journalists have lost the power they once had to sway opinions, due to their lies and partisan preaching for one side.
They did this to themselves. Own it.
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I also feel some renewed peace (though I still have to turn in my ballot). Thanking God and we’ll see how this all turns out.
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AJ, I can’t (and won’t) “own it,” it wasn’t my doing in any way.
These broad cultural changes, including those that impact and remake numerous separate businesses across a nation and what is being taught in J schools, are not easily changed overnight, and certainly not with ongoing complaining. This all may have to collapse and be reborn, and if so, let it begin (or rather continue). A free and responsible and fair journalism is essential to the national health. It no longer makes any money which is one of the more immediate problems and things that will likely kill it out.
But it does no good to keep complaining about it so much here. Try to move on.
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You have this habit of thinking everything is about you. It’s not.
I’m speaking of the mainstream, national frauds, not you.
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And you keep saying you’re sick of hearing about it, and yet here you are, everyday, multiple posts.
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I skip around a lot 🙂 lol
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Oh, Janice, I would be glad for him to move there.
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It seems easy to see why DJ might think your “own it” mentioned in your posts about the media are aimed at her, especially because you have directed at least one similar comment in the past to her.
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I think it’s possible that the MSM is starting the process of ‘owning’ it. The Bezos article was a start. I’m just wondering what the government’s response to any changes will be. Government has become accustomed to interfering with the public by using the press. Surely the alphabet agencies won’t be happy.
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AJ, if I am wrong (sure wouldn’t be the first time) and misread you, I’m sorry. We could have resolved this more amicably if it was just a misunderstanding. We’ll try to do that next time?
You do post almost obsessively now about “the media.” Not sure what the intense focus is about, exactly, but it’s become more noticeable and you seem to be sounding more irritated over it.
The media will begin to reassess as it continues to go broke. It’s a business and the money that once supported it is fast vanishing thanks to the ad stream being sucked up by the Internet over the past many years. It’s taken a while, but staffs are shrinking, pay is most definitely shrinking (and journalism was never a job that would make you anywhere “rich” as it was), and audiences are shrinking.
We’ll see what comes next, I’ll be out of the game sometime soon so it’ll be another generation’s challenge to deal with; am glad I got a taste of when it was still good – not perfect, never will be, but not as deeply flawed as it is now.
I hope they can regroup and get back to the old journalism rules that didn’t produce “perfect” coverage (nothing’s ever perfect) but was a lot better than what we’ve generally seen in recent years when it comes to political coverage. It’s important to all of us and the nation for that to somehow get “fixed.”
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