Media Corruption

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
I don’t even know two people that believe he should be returned let alone a ratio of two to one.

Jessica is channeling her fantasies again.


she repeats lies constantly .. information Greg or Jessie should have on hand to call her out, but she largely gets away with minimal push back
 

Kyle

Beloved Misanthrope
PREMO Member
she repeats lies constantly .. information Greg or Jessie should have on hand to call her out, but she largely gets away with minimal push back
Yeah, I noticed that Harold never offers up results of these mysterious poles that Jessica claims to have access.

Like every other Democrat, she pulls them out of her ass.
 

Hijinx

Well-Known Member
Yeah, I noticed that Harold never offers up results of these mysterious poles that Jessica claims to have access.

Like every other Democrat, she pulls them out of her ass.
When you are full of sht, and start pulling things out of your ass, it is well known what is coming out.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member




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GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
Yesterday, President Trump’s full Cabinet met for the fourth time since he took office. Once again, they did it in front of reporters and cameras, and they answered hundreds of reporters’ questions. The media’s packed attendance resulted in almost no articles. The New York Times didn’t report any of the meeting’s actual contents, but rather waxed philosophical with a David French highbrow op-ed headlined, “Trump’s Cabinet Members: A Rorschach Test for America.” Forget about the Times. Watch it for yourself:

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FULL: President Trump’s full, televised cabinet meeting (2:02:46).

David French squinted at his Rorschach card and somehow saw a meeting of North Korean Generals. I’d bet Gavin Newsom’s entire stock of hair gel that David has never seen a North Korean Generals’ meeting. He seemed to love that metaphor and spent too much time on it. The point was, the Cabinet members were too positive about Trump’s policies, which annoyed David, who presumably thought they should be ripping Trump a new one.

Media acts like we all just landed on Planet Earth or have amnesia or something. Joe Biden held only nine Cabinet meetings in four years. Yesterday was Trump’s fourth Cabinet meeting in 100 days, which now exceeds Biden’s annual total during any one of his four agonizing years (President Autopen could only handle three a year). Biden’s meetings were carefully scripted, with Biden answering fewer than a dozen questions over his nine meetings.

Yesterday, President Trump himself took over one hundred questions from reporters.

Later, Press Secretary Leavitt asked pool reporters, “Can you ever remember a Cabinet meeting in which the media were welcomed into the room to ask questions of the entire federal government?” She waited a brief moment for any response from reporters. There was none. “No you can’t,” she answered for them, “because it has never happened.”


Each Cabinet member delivered a quick status report, pointing out achievements, their current focuses, and opportunities. It was all wonderfully encouraging; I could write a segment on each report. Everyone said something memorable and newsworthy. For just one example, RFK told the group that, based on what they’d uncovered, HHS had been “complicit” in child trafficking for “sex and slavery.”

You would think something like that would be a headline-grabber. But only one or two local outlets covered it. Headline from yesterday’s Jersey Shore:

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Secretary Kennedy didn’t just say HHS was involved in child trafficking. He called HHS the principal vector: “We have ended HHS as the role, as the vector, the principal vector in this country for child trafficking," Kennedy said. "And we're very aggressively going out and trying to find these children—300,000 children that were lost by the Biden administration."

A related statement from DHS yesterday announced that, so far, five thousand missing kids have been found and safely returned to family members or a reliable guardian.

It was aggravating but unsurprising that no major media platform reported any of Kennedy’s news.

Anyway, that was just a single point from one Cabinet member. Overall, one was left with the strong impression of not just a collection of individual politically connected appointees, but a coherent team. Not only that, but a team of unique, highly skilled folks who enjoy working together, and who seem to understand both the gravity of the moment but also the need for a sense of humor and a spirit of having fun. The members often cracked jokes and poked fun at each other.

For instance, at one point SecState Rubio quipped, “thanks to Robert, I’m afraid to eat anything.” When Elon Musk was getting ribbed for wearing two Trump caps at the same time, he joked, “I’m used to wearing a lot of hats; even my hats wear hats.”

If you have time, you should watch the whole thing. I will try to cover a few of the more important parts over the next couple days.



 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
The Times is starting to get the idea. Almost a week late, it ran several stories yeaterday acknowledging the unprecedented times we’re living in. One story was headlined, “In 2nd Term, Trump Pushes Bounds of Presidential Power, Testing Rule of Law.” Another said, “Are Trump’s Actions Truly Unprecedented? We Asked 35 Historians.” I’ll save you the trouble of reading it: The historians’ answer was yes, over and over, in various ways.

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The Times framed Trump’s historic first 100 days darkly, as a warning or a sinister omen, but was finally forced to admit that either way, the nation has never witnessed any presidency like this. For instance, one sub-headline blared, “The United States has never seen an effort to expand presidential authority at the scale of Donald J. Trump’s second term.”

“They are trying to do a moonshot on executive power,” explained Harvard Law School professor Jack Goldsmith. Jack doesn’t share Trump voters’ excitement. He feels threatened: “this situation is a much more dangerous threat to the rule of law than the last time.” I’ll just point out that, over the last four years, Jack never thought Biden’s lockdowns, mandatory drugs, or vaccine passports for accessing air travel were threats to the rule of law.

Not to be outdone, Yale Law School professor Akhil Reed Amar (if that is his real name) observed even less meaningfully, “Trump is the most powerful person in the world; he does not seem to be very good at restraining himself and he’s not getting any younger.” Professor Amar always thought Joe Biden was a spring chicken that was sharp as a tack.

Meanwhile, over at Stanford, law professor Michael W. McConnell was most impressed by the rush of events. “It’s just the volume — an incredible spate of activity on all kinds of different fronts, and at some point volume begins to have a qualitative feel to it,” he said. In English, he meant that the raw speed and the uncountable number of things the Administration is doing is creating something new, in and of itself.

In that, we agree. Stanford wins.

The bottom line is, they know it’s a historic presidency. They just don’t want to admit it. They want to focus on controversy, but historic presidencies are always even more controversial than boring ones. They refuse to admit Trump is making history, day after day. They especially don’t want to concede that fact until they have wrangled up a rhetorical wrapper to make it sound bad.

So they must have been especially mad when they heard the next bit of news.



 

Clem72

Well-Known Member
she repeats lies constantly .. information Greg or Jessie should have on hand to call her out, but she largely gets away with minimal push back

Maybe that's the point? Do you think they would put the sharpest most knowledgeable D possible who would have the best possible chance to make them look bad, or would they grab someone so-so to play the stooge? Repeat the talking points while the conservative stars of the show goal tend with the intention to swat away all of their shots.
 
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