When Will We Learn
We have now had the third significant school shooting by a trans shooter (the other were Madison, Wisconsin, and Nashville, Tennessee), with many smaller violent acts by trans individuals. The Left immediately came out condemning not only guns, but prayer. A few nut-cases even tried to blame Trump and White Supremacy. Rosie O’Donnell said, “What do you know, it was a white guy, a republican, MAGA person.” She later, sort of, apologized for this statement, by saying, “I assumed, like most shooters, they followed a standard MO and had standard, you know, feelings of… You know, NRA-loving kind of gun people.” Well, it is at least clear where her bigotry comes from.
Elected officials like the Mayor in Minneapolis seem more interested in protecting their status as a Trans Sanctuary than in protecting Catholic kids. They had no idea of the motive, but were insistent that this should not change their Trans Sanctuary policies. Meanwhile, other Democrats, such as Mamdani, want to expand Tans policies, such as the so-called “Gender Affirming” care. In Temecula, California, near where we lived, the school board wanted to require either a religious or mental health exemption if a girl did not want to change in front of a male. Both of these would go on their records and could adversly affect them. At least after testimony from two eighth-grade girls and many parents, they tabled the measure.
Overt discrimination against Christians is increasing, and like antisemitism, it is coming from the Left. George Yancey, professor of sociology at Baylor University, found that Americans, in general, dislike conservative Christians even more than Muslims. He also found in a survey of academics that “half would be less willing to hire a fundamentalist, and almost two in five would be less willing to hire an evangelical.”
The three school shootings by trans people are not aberrations. Acts of violence against Christians and churches are growing as well. In one report, from May 2020 to November 2022, there were 230 attacks on Catholic Churches in 39 states. Many churches now have armed guards. Two years ago, Gov Walz was warned by Catholic leaders about this increasing threat to safety, but did nothing.
Affirming children’s mental illness causes harm. This is just common sense. Should we treat a bulimic girl by affirming her view that she is too fat, as she starves herself to death? Of course not. Any ambiguity in the science has long since disappeared. Great Britain recently ended Trans surgery on children because it is barbaric and does not help. But the Left here puts ideology over science and common sense. They still are fighting to continue to mutilate children. Affirming mental illness does not help; it harms.
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On a different note, we got shadow-banned. Our series on Gaming and IT had a first day that was close to, if not our best ever. Our views were significantly larger than our average, and we had more new subscribers the first day than any of our other videos over their entire run. Again, that was just the first day. Most of our videos are released on Tuesday, and they build with the best numbers on Friday and Saturday.
Yet, the views for this video dropped drastically, virtually to zero. We wondered what happened. Then part two was released, and it was one of our lowest views ever. After a few days, we only have 13 views and four likes, most from the first day. When we checked the analytics, we had a fantastic click-through rate, 25%. A good one is 2-3. The problem was impressions: how many people saw the image of the video so they could click through? They are not showing it to anyone; they were shadow-banning us.
Why? The video was about troubles in the gaming industry, which we generalized to the IT industry. We see the problems as consolidation and companies putting profit over customer service. While we cited X-Box laying off 9,000 and closing studios to introduce the “Trouble in gaming,” we did not focus on any company but talked in general terms. Controversial, perhaps, but worthy of censorship? Sadly, there is not much we can do about it.
So, what will democracy look like in 10 years when a few mega IT companies control virtually all communications in the country? They could shadow ban anything they do not like and, with AI, could do so. This is why I recommended Zuboff’s book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, a few years back. If you have not read it yet, you should. We will probably do a video on this, but it will likely be shadow-banned.
In the last elections, Republicans, for the first time, effectively leveraged text messages, which helped communications with the base. Republicans in the campaign have said this was an important part of their winning strategy. So, Apple is about to roll out a new feature that will effectively neutralize this. Perhaps this is all just a coincidence, but how would we know? We know they shadow-banned conservatives in the past. Can we really trust them?
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Even the D.C. Mayor now agrees that Trump’s sending in the National Guard worked. Crime dropped drastically, and D.C. is safer. A recent poll following the Guard’s arrival showed that 83% of respondents agreed with Trump that crime in major cities is a problem, and 53% agreed with his handling of crime.
I have seen some complaints that the Guard is “just picking up trash.” Clearly, these people have never been in the military. I saw this, and it brought back memories. While there is much waiting around in the military, being set out to “police” an area, i.e., pick up trash, is just a routine task. When I saw that, it told me that Trump’s plan was working. They had secured the areas they were assigned. Once that was done, they cleaned it up rather than just standing around. It is what they do.
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I am not surprised, but bias remains at the major network. They had zero minutes on the illegal alien who killed three people in Florida, but 18 minutes on Garcia. If it fits the Left’s agenda, it gets covered. If it does not, it gets minimal coverage, if any at all.
I would point out that not only did he kill three people, but this resulted in a change to national policy to try to prevent illegals from getting commercial driver’s licenses. It would not surprise me to see the networks cover the change as yet another example of Trump’s attack on “black and brown people,” without ever mentioning the why, as after the crash, he failed an English test and could not correctly identify road signs. Though I am not sure that would have helped, I do not remember ever seeing a No-U-Turn sign on a freeway.
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Question: Why do top Democrat Contenders for President 1) say Trump will cancel all future elections to stay in office and 2) hire staff for their 2028 run. Could it be the same reason Obama said climate change was a real threat and then purchased beachfront property?
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The DNC wrapped up its conference this week. Land acknowledgements, reaffirmed support for Trans, and deranged statements about Trump. They not only continued their support for DEI, but one speaker said that it was the core of Christianity. Whether or not you believe it happened, the core of Christianity for 2000 years has been the salvific death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
On land acknowledgements, what do they really mean without any plans to give back the “stolen land?” Also, we know from DNA analysis and linguistic studies that there were multiple waves of people on this continent. The peoples in the U.S. and Canada were part of a later wave, not the first. There were warring tribes and peaceful tribes. So why must the most recent settlers give land acknowledgements to the second most recent settlers? Should the second also give land acknowledgements to the third most recent and they the fourth? Who today is not living on so-called “stolen land.”
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So in recent months, the Democrats have stood up for gang members, pedophiles, murderers, rapists, human traffickers, wife beaters, just to name a few categories, while vilifying law enforcement. Trump has made D.C. safer, yet they complain that he threatens to do the same to other major cities. In Chicago, there were at least seven murders and 37 injuries in gun violence over the weekend. Yet |Mayor Brandon is focused on “protecting” the town from Trump, by issuing an Executive Order prohibiting law enforcement from working with Federal Officers or the National Guard. He said, “We will protect our Constitution, we will protect our city, and we will protect our people.” The butcher’s bill from the weekend says otherwise. As for “protecting the Constitution, he evidently does not know of the supremacy clause.
If they were really interested in protecting people, Democrats could make these cities safer themselves. In response to Trump’s threats, there have been some steps in that direction, but how do they do it without upsetting the far Left? Yet again, they are on the wrong side of an 80-20 issue, and according to one poll, only 1% agreed that big cities are currently safe.
So the party that protected and defended slavery, starting the Civil Ware to defend it, invented and defended Jim Crow, used the KKK as its military arm, the party that fought against Civil Rights, and resisted Eisenhower’s using the National Guard to enforce racial desegregation in schools, can now add protecting criminals and attacking law enforcement to the list.
Sure, a growing number of Democrats are waking up to reality, but they are still too few and far from having any significant influence in the party. According to recent polls, many are becoming Republicans.
Here is the link to our shadow-banned video.
Gaming in Trouble: The Bungling of IT – Part 1
Gaming in Trouble: The Bungling of IT – Part 2
And this weeks video
Christianity’s Biggest Problem
Law and Order or Dictatorship?
Trump’s takeover of the DC police is very instructive. Republicans see it as just another part of Trump’s emphasis on law and order. They see things like the number of arrests and removing the tent city outside Union Station, and say it’s about time.
Democrats react based on TDS and see it as just another step toward dictatorship. They claim crime is down in Washington and is not a problem. It is true, crime stats show a decline from recent highs. However, there are three problems.
The first is that crime is so bad, and the police can do so little, that many crimes are never reported. It is just not worth the effort. The second is that the commander in charge of the stats has been put on administrative leave for manipulating the numbers to make it look like crime has decreased. He did this by reclassifying crimes as ones that were not reported.
Finally, even with the decrease, crime is still very high. If DC were a state, the murder rate would be the highest in the country. Compared to other world capitals, DC has the highest murder rate at 41 per 100,000. The next highest is Montevideo, Uruguay, at 16.1. Baghdad, Iraq, not typically considered a safe place, is third at 15.2. Washington’s murder rate is 2.7 times higher than in Baghdad, yet apparently, Democrats are okay with that.
So, yet again, we have another 80-20 issue, and again, Democrats stake their position on the 20. One interesting development is that, this time, several Democrats are breaking ranks and saying this is a trap, and Democrats should not fall for it. However, so far, they are a minority.
One thing I cannot quite grasp is the DOJ lawyer who threw a sandwich at a federal officer. A young college student might be idiotic enough and not quite understand what they were doing. But this guy was a lawyer working in the criminal division. He had presumably taken criminal law and knew the definition of an assault and the significance of assaulting a federal officer. So why did he do it? Did he want to lose his job and become a convicted felon, risking his career? Did he think he would get away with it? Was his TDS so strong that he could not think rationally?
I guess he does make it clear why people think there is a deep state, and why it was possible to corrupt the DOJ in the Trump-Russia hoax to break the rules and act illegally.
Putin clearly understands Trump. He goes into the summit and announces that the 2020 election had problems and that if Trump had been elected, the Ukraine war would not have happened. I doubt he really cares one way or the other, but he does know how to get on Trump’s good side. As for the peace talks, I am waiting for the outcome, but am hopeful.
It makes me wonder how history would have changed if, in 2016, Democrats had sought to butter Trump up and get as much as they could out of him. Trump is not ideological; he is transactional. They probably could have gotten a lot. Who knows, if they had, perhaps today it would have been the Republicans who were split and in disarray, and the Democrats united and strong, having just won back the White House. Yet this would have required them to give a bit, which they seem incapable of. So, instead, Hillary invented the Trump-Russia hoax, and then Democrats used it to corrupt the Government in an attempt to remove Trump from office.
Finally, we have yet another in a very long line of tragic stories concerning the danger of the sanctuary policies of Democrats. Sure, they want the warm bodies to boost their numbers in the census, giving them at least 14 to 26 House seats. But at what cost? California gave a commercial truck license to Harjinder Singh, an illegal alien.
Driving a semi in Florida, Singh attempted a U-turn on a freeway, suddenly cutting across all traffic lanes. An SUV behind him, suddenly confronted with a semi blocking all lanes, had no time to brake and could only plow into the side of the trailer, killing the three occupants.
Newsom, of course, blamed Trump and said he was either lying or clueless. The problem is that the Federal Government does not issue commercial licenses; the states do. Most do not give them to illegal aliens; California does.
In 2020, the Trump administration rejected Singh’s work authorization request. However, Biden needs bodies for the census, so they approved it in June 2021. So you can add 3 more to the list of people killed by Biden’s failed policies
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Questions
These days I have a lot of questions. I watched a bunch of Leftists on a panel talking about Mamdani and the hope he brings. Yet I kept wondering, this is July 2025, why are they all wearing masks? They didn’t even work that well for COVID, but they keep wearing them. Sure, they could all have had a medical condition, but I doubt it. When I see protesters in masks, I assume their main function is to hide their identity, but that was not operative here.
The double standard in Justice remains. Pro-life supporters block a clinic and get years in jail. Yet a 28-year-old pro-choice supporter savagely beats two elderly (73 and 84) pro-life supporters, kicking them in the head and leaving one with permanent eye damage, and he gets 1 year of home detention. When will there be one standard for all?
Pelosi is still pushing for “gender-affirming” care for kids, and accused the Republicans of “having no winning ideas.” Meanwhile, Frank Lunz said on CNN that Trump is so popular with his base because he is doing exactly what he said he would do before the election, and this is why they elected him. So I guess he has a few winning ideas. What are the Democrats’ winning ideas?
Democratic congresswoman Delia Ramirez from Chicago goes south of the border and says, “I’m Guatemalan and proud of it — first, before American.” Actually, she was born in the US. Predictably, her response to critics was to say that they are only against her opposition to “the nativist, white supremacist, authoritarians in government.” I am surprised she didn’t include racist. Yet, if she thinks this of the government she is a part of, no wonder she is a Guatemalan first. Shouldn’t a congresswoman put Americans first?
Rachel Maddow last Monday said, “That thing we were all warning about for the last few years is not coming, it is here.” She added, “We do now live in a country that has an authoritarian leader in charge. We have a consolidating dictatorship in our country.” Of course, if she were correct, she would not be on TV saying it. Then again, given her network’s falling ratings, is she saying it so that she can blame Trump if her show is cancelled, like Colbert’s?
Sydney Sweeney: You know, if everything is Nazi, doesn’t the word Nazi become meaningless?
Absurdity. Texas Democrats flee the state to oppose gerrymandering by flee to one of the most gerrymandered states: Illinois. But the Democratic Governor of Massachusetts Maura Healey takes the cake for threatening to do the same thing in her state if Texas does not stop. The problem is, although Trump got 36% of the vote, Massachusetts has no Republicans in Congress. So, what is she threatening, to redistrict so a Republican can win?
Sometimes the “why” becomes clear. Trump wants a new census that does not count illegals. The Democrats are screaming foul! So, I guess it is now clear why Biden opened the border for illegal aliens. With each congressional district having about 760K people, 10 million illegals equals 13 congressional districts, and this is even if they don’t vote, which some do. So, the at least 11-20 million illegals give the Democrats between 14-26 House seats, probably more given gerrymandering. Now we know why it is that Democrats support illegal immigration and have sanctuary cities. It is just another way of gerrymandering districts to give them more power.
Yes, Republican gerrymander as well, but illegals can be used to magnify voters. If you have enough voters to create a single safe district for your party, with illegals, you could make it two safe districts. While it is theoretically possible for Republicans to do this, they don’t support illegal immigration, don’t want them counted in the census, nor do they have Sanctuary cities to attract them. Chicago is a blue sanctuary city. Most of the rest of the state is red. If you did not count illegals, would Illinois still be a blue state? Also, an audit of the last census shows a number of errors, which is understandable. But the errors always benefited Blue states and harmed Red, how does that happen?
Congressman Campbell’s recent post has another reason Democrats are in trouble. He said, “Education, Health Care, caring for the poor and the environment were supposed to be their signature issues. The only place they can claim some success is in the environmental arena. Air and water quality as well as the status of our national parks has arguably improved over the last 70 years. But that’s it. They used to run on these issues. But it’s hard to do that when it is so obvious that where they have been in charge, the condition of those issue areas has gotten worse.”
Given this, what are the Democrats to do? He writes, “Answer: If we can’t solve any of the real problems out there, let’s make some up.” However, the problems they made up don’t work, alienate voters, and undermine their credibility.
You have to wonder if Democrats have a short-term memory crisis. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has been spending a lot of money on illegals, against the wishes of his constituents, such that his approval ratings are between 9-14%. Yet now, according to NBC, he is complaining “many key systems people rely upon, like education, health care, housing and transportation are ‘woefully underfunded.’” How long have Democrats controlled Chicago? I checked online: “The last Republican mayor of Chicago was William Hale Thompson, who served from 1927 to 1931.” Wow, he must really have left a big mess if Democrats are still trying to fix it almost a century later. However, maybe if Johnson had spent the city’s money on the city’s needs like his voters wanted, instead of illegal aliens, would Chicago be in this mess?
As for Trump, he continues to rack up wins. CNBC puts his approve-disapprove numbers at 46% approve, 51% disapprove, though other polls have him as low as 40%. The approval number is up 2 points while the disapproval remained unchanged. Given the nearly 100% negative coverage of the mainstream media, with coverage like Maddow’s saying we are now in a dictatorship, this is not bad. I have to wonder what his approval rating would be if press coverage was 50-50. Of course, if the press covered Republicans, like they cover Democrats, would it be over 60% approve?
In his first eight months, Trump has negotiated eight peace agreements. When you add the Abraham Accords from his first term, how likely is it that Trump will win the Nobel Peace Prize? They are such a leftist group, I am very skeptical. Remember, they gave Obama the peace prize for basically just winning the election and the IPCC for climate change. However, what if he can end the Ukraine war this week?
To close, a CBS host put the dumb in dumbfounded. When talking about potential settlements on the moon, he asked Niels deGrasse Tyson if we should be worried because of our history of colonization. Tyson was polite and pointed out that the problems of colonization had to do with indigenous people. No one lives on the Moon.
Short: Why are many people disturbed by Robots? Some see an exciting new technology. Business owners see potential to replace staff. The wealthy see potential house work? Most people see something so expensive they never expect to own one. Where a business owner looks at a robot and sees a machine that can replace an employee, people see a robot that could take their job.
There is no stopping them and they will vastly change the economy and how we think about work. But how? Will these choices be made only by those with enough money to afford one such that by the time the prices drop, we are all stuch with what they decided or will people have a say about these changes? The clock is ticking.
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Odds and Ends
One of my favorite congressmen, John Campbell, now an ex-congressman, looked at the current economic trends in his recent post. After looking at the pros and cons, his basic summary was “I see storm clouds on the horizon, but no rain in sight for this year.” It is worth a read. Note this is a change for him. Early last year, he predicted no downturn for 2024, but possibly one in 2025.
Typically, the Fed cut interest rates last year, but it does not want to cut them now. See Campbell’s post for the mixed effects of such a cut. Meanwhile, predictions of significant increases in inflation have not come to pass, the stock market is at record highs, and real wages are rising again for the first time since Trump’s last term. We even had the first monthly surplus since 2017. Trade deals are being signed, and much of the new investment is beginning to kick in. Consumer confidence has risen significantly. Things are looking promising at the moment. Still, I agree with Campbell about the storm clouds.
Much of the Left is a scam. It is a minority view that can project power far above its numbers. We saw that with USAID, which took billions in taxpayer dollars and used them to support Left-wing causes. Now we have another example. Following the Palisades fire, FireAid raised over $100 million to aid fire victims and fire prevention. None of it went to the victims of the fire. They gave it to left-wing groups, some as far away as Northern California. At least the group that engaged in voter registration among native americans gave the money back. Typically, this would be fraud, but it is California, so I am sure FireAid does not have to worry about that.
You can tell the Left is out of ideas when they try to recycle their problem to attack Trump. They ignored Biden’s mental decline until it was clear that he could not win. Yet, now, they try to claim that Trump’s cognitive decline is such that he should be removed and put in a retirement home. With Biden, they told us to ignore our own eyes; Biden was as sharp as a tack. With Trump, they tell us to ignore our own eyes; he really has declined.
Mamdami wants government-run grocery stores. Not surprisingly, it has been done in the past and does not work. Kansas City opened Sun Fresh, a city-run grocery store in 2018, sinking tens of millions of dollars into the effort over the years. Utopia had arrived. Yet, the place is a ghost town, with many empty shelves and lost $885,000 last year. Other grocery stores in the area turn a profit. The solution? It’s always the same: pour in more money, though it might close. Like most socialist endeavors, they sound wonderful on paper, but never actually work. This is because most have never run a business, and thus they don’t know what it takes. In short, they don’t know what they are doing.
I am reminded of George McGovern, who, when he lost in 1972, was the most far-left candidate the Democrats had run up to that time. Later in life, he opened a small hotel, which ultimately failed. When asked about it, he said he never realized how hard the government makes it to run a business. Perhaps he should have known that before he ran for President.
The evil that was the Biden border policy got even more absurd. We knew that Biden lost over 300,000 children, an unknown number into slavery and sex trafficking. We learned that at least some were given a hotline number to call if they had problems with their sponsors. Ok. But in congressional testimony last week, we learned that 65,000 of these calls went unanswered. They really did not care. They just wanted warm bodies to flood into the country. As one House Democrat put it, she needs more people in her district to help with redistricting.
The first rule of holes? Stop digging. This lesson is lost on the media and the Democrats. Sure, they are having some effect on their base. One pollster pointed out that less than half of Democrats knew about how Obama had ordered the intelligence to be changed to fit the Russia hoax. Meanwhile, most independents and virtually all Republicans were aware of the story.
The media is doing its best to lie and divert attention, but there is only so much they can do. They are trying to claim that Trump is himself just trying to divert attention away from the Epstein story. The Epstein story is probably one of the first big screw up by the administration. However, most Republicans don’t think Trump is trying to protect himself. Most believe that if the Epstein records contained information against Trump, it would have been leaked long ago. After all, what didn’t they do to get Trump? So why would they have held this back?
In any event, it certainly had not affected Trump’s support among Republicans, which, according to CBS, went from 88% positive to 90% following this scandal. It is not that the scandal caused this; instead, there has been a lot of other good news that outweighed any adverse effects from the mishandling of the Epstein story.
Thus, the narrative pushed in the media that Trump is losing support because of the fallout of the Epstein story, and this is the reason for their claims about Obama’s involvement in creating the Russia hoax, is like most of what they report about Trump: nonsense.
The same can be said about their attempt to recast the Russia hoax into simply a claim that Russia tried to interfere in the election. If that had been the story, it would have been like reporting that it gets dark at night. Of course, they tried to interfere, as do all of our enemies in every election. The Russia hoax had three central claims: Putin wanted Trump to win; Their interference had an impact on the election; and Trump colluded with the Russians to win.
Thus, the Russia hoax was the basis for the claim that Trump’s presidency was illegitimate and that he was Russia’s puppet, which was absurd, as he was harder on Russia than either Obama or Biden. Fox has had a lot of fun playing clips of Democrats and Media pundits now claiming they never said any of this, followed by them playing some of the vast number of clips from 2016 forward of them saying exactly that. Is it any wonder that the media and the Democrats are at historic lows in polls?
The Intelligence assessments in the December 6th meeting did not support the three core claims of the Russia hoax. Obama ordered them changed, which they were, over intelligence analysts’ objections. The new assessment became the basis for trying to remove Trump from office.
Nor is this the complete picture. I am confident that many of the same people who were part of the soft coup attempt on Trump continued their efforts into the 2020 election and beyond. The labeling of Hunter’s laptop as “Russian disinformation” by “51 intelligence officers” is a case in point. This claim has since been refuted, but it served its purpose by giving cover to Biden during a debate and allowing him to attack Trump as a puppet of Russia. As Harry Reid said about why he lied about Romney, “He lost, didn’t he?”
The problem the Democrats are now having is that their defenders in the media have lost their credibility, and thus much of their ability to defend them. They do not know what to do in the new environment, except make silly TikTok videos and swear a lot. After all, nothing gets your point across like a bleep in the audio track.
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A Few Things.
Former Obama aide Rahm Emanuel once said, ‘Never let a crisis go to waste. A crisis is an opportunity to do things you have always wanted.’ Case in point, California. Months after the fires, the reality on the ground is that residents whose lives were devastated by the fire are now drowning in a sea of red tape. Despite all the “promises” to cut the red tape and fast-track the rebuilding, those trying to rebuild face roadblocks from their government. They get some permits, only to be blocked by vague requirements for others.
What is the Democratic plan? It seems to be stall, stall, stall, until the residents give up in frustration. Then the government can take their land for its purposes. They want to see the Palisades transformed into their vision of utopia, combining wilderness areas, parks, and low-income housing. Of course, that is as likely as California finishing its high-speed rail project, which it has spent billions on for years and has yet to lay any track. I don’t think it will ever be built.
Another California issue: Their green policies are working. The gas tax just went up again in the state that already had the highest gas prices in the country. Now, two refineries will be closing by the end of the year. One report said gas prices could spike to over $8.00/gallon. As a norm, I don’t expect that, but reducing supply will cause prices to increase, and not just in California. California will still get its gas and will pay higher prices for it. However, their gas must come from somewhere; thus, it will affect everyone as the supply problem ripples across the country. Thank you, California.
One thing about Trump is that he seems to get things done that no one else ever has. For Decades, the Right has complained about PBS and NPR for their waste and their liberal bias. I have been in several radio studios and one TV studio. They were very functional, but barebones affairs, different from the publicly funded PBS and NPR, which have nicer studios. Why should the government fund their competition? Because of the bias, I have not supported them since the 1980s. Their bias is clear to any who wishes to look, except their current CEO. Like most left-wing news sources, they claim to be unbiased. They don’t serve the people; they serve the Left. Nor are they needed in today’s world with a multitude of sources. Yet, despite all the promises, their budget could never be touched until now. And of course, Democrats are out there claiming the cuts to PBS and NPR will cost lives, people will die, and then wonder why people are not taking them seriously.
Here is another indication of TDS: On MSNBC, they had a story about the CEO and HR head caught by the kiss cam. “Because who gets to be a cheater in our society can feel maddeningly arbitrary. One man accused of cheating loses his job and perhaps his family. Another man becomes president of the United States. If anything, some of the president’s supporters celebrate his virility or excuse it as the predictable excesses of the rich and powerful.” Really? Must every story become a reason to rant against Trump?
Steven Colbert’s show was cancelled. Democrats say it is political. Others say this is just an indication that the era of late-night is over, given the decline in ratings. Another possibility is that Colbert had TDS and is just another example of go woke, go broke. Rather than being middle-of-the-road and making fun of both sides, Colbert was very one-sided, attacking not just Trump but half of the country. Thus, not surprisingly, his ratings went down.
Is this the end of late-night comedy? Perhaps, but note that, while Colbert’s rating went down in the last few years, Gutfeld has gone up and now dominates other late-night hosts, despite being in only a fraction of homes. Maybe late-night comedians should focus on being funny first rather than just attacking Trump and the Right.
Finally, to no one’s surprise on the Right, declassified documents showed what many of us suspected. We already knew that the Steele Dossier had originated from Hillary Clinton’s campaign, and Comey played a significant role using it to launch the Russiagate hoax, which claimed that Trump colluded with the Russians to steal the election. We also knew that part of this was the effort to take out Michael Flynn, and they discussed this in at least one meeting with Obama, and Biden suggested that they use the Logan Act. That we already knew.
Tulsi Gabbard declassified documents last week that showed that not only was Hillary involved, but that this was a concerted effort by Clinton, Obama, and his national security team following the election of Donald Trump in 2016 to undermine his presidency. Not surprisingly, this was ignored by ABC and NBC and only briefly mentioned by CBS in an interview with a Democrat asking if there could be charges. Other networks mentioned it briefly, and MSNBC’s primary focus was to downplay the story. “These are not the droids you are looking for. Move along.” As with most other scandals, the more evidence there is, the more the media ignores it.
When Trump first claimed he was wiretapped, this was such an inconceivable idea that he was ridiculed for even suggesting it. It was too outlandish even to consider. Now we know that high-placed Democrats, including Hillary and Obama, actively conspired to undermine the results of an election and try to remove Trump. They lied, cheated, violated established norms and procedures, and even broke the law to try to have a soft coup against Trump. Is the media shocked? No, they fall into line and support Democrats; it’s what they do, and why very few trust them any longer, which is why Democrats are in such trouble.
