With news The Daily Beast is now going to be run by a Murdoch toady that helmed right wing rags that carry water for MAGA types I'm just thinking about if there are any major outlets not owned and/or run by right wing or right wing people and/or owned by right wing super rich people/hedge funds. The MAGA or at the very least non-MAGA Republican boosters essentially have the run the place. All newspapers, all cable news channels except MSNBC in the evening, the overwhelming majority of local news stations, the overwhelming majority of radio stations, Politico, The Hill, Vox, HuffPost (thanks to Vivek fuckwads new ownership), Substack, Twitter, Truth Social, all the Meta properties, et cetera. I could go on. The best the rest of us get is bothesidism faux balance bullshit that doesn't piss off mega-rich owner types at ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS and small scale operations like Flaming Hydra, 404 media, Ghost, Mastodon/ActivityPub fediverse. Talk about a very narrow space. Grr... #uspoli#rant
All of this "Democrats should worry about tit for tat" is beyond hypocritical. Democrats did not do tit-for-tat against GWB after the ginned up Clinton Impeachment. Democrats didn't do it to Trump after GOP tried the same thing with Obama nor when they refused to support legislation they normally would under Obama. Trump already tried to make the US AG and DOJ his personal law firm. He directly interfered with investigations against cronies and his family. Meanwhile Democratic congressional members and the Biden's own son are under active investigation and criminal cases for stuff that was shady as fuck, in the case of Menedez, or wouldn't normally have gone this far in the case of some of Hunter's charges. Republicans were already going to use these things without the pretense they are presenting here because one of their own was finally held to account. #uspoli#rant
I had assumed the whole Republican talking point, even by "moderate" Susan Collins, DA Bragg said he'd "get" Trump during the campaign was true. I should have known better at this point. He did not. #uspoli#trump politifact.com/article/2023/ap…
many countries, including Canada, do not let convicted criminals to visit, so really wonder what happens if Trump does actually win (or take) the presidency - like will there actually be G7 summits, or 3 amigos meetings?
So,Canada is in a position to cut of essential war machine minerals to a dependent US if it deems it appropriate to do so .
The U.S. military has, for the first time in generations, spent public money on minerals projects inside Canada: nearly $15 million US to mine and process copper, gold, graphite and cobalt in Quebec and the Northwest Territories.
I recently joined a gym. That's given me about an hour a day of Fox News exposure. As bad as I thought it was, it is far worse. The biggest news events coverage were about how illegal immigrants are behind the unprecedented crime waves afflicting all cities. Meanwhile crime is now back to pre-pandemic levels and even at its pandemic height was still at multi-decade lows. Also, Democrats are giving illegal immigrants free housing, food, phones, and laptops. Why? "Oh you know why..." Readers get to fill in the blanks with that sort of lede. Then we had the completely political hack attack on Trump even though he's never done anything wrong, a major scandal around Hunter Biden's congressional testimony and Fauci's assistant's testimony around something else. That's the big news. The right has a profitable multi-billion dollar industry, far beyond Fox News, to propagandize. There is no counter-balance. And don't say the supposedly liberal MSM. AT best they are led around by the nose by the right wing media and politicians. At worst they have similarly sympathetic coverage when it comes to things like properly addressing wealth inequality, monopolies/trusts, and holding rich powerful people to account. #rant#uspoli#msm#foxnews
Biden could have said, "We disagree with the ICC's actions but realize it is an independent body. We believe in the order of the United Nations and while we disagree in the most strenuous terms we have no choice but to accept it's actions."
But he failed to rise to the moment once again
I don't want him to lose. I don't think he should lose. He should do everything he can to NOT lose.
I sometimes feel that he's not with me on that one, nor are his advisers or comms team. #uspoli#gaza#ICC
#RonFilipkowski:
Rudy’s latest #grift has hit the market - #RudyCoffee. Rudy says it’s “the best coffee you will ever try,” and buying it will help “support the cause of truth, justice, and #AmericanDemocracy.”
The main contradiction of liberal #democracy is that it has largely been shaped through a history of various forms of illegal civil disobedience against entrenched power structures.
Such civil disobedience is (retrospectively) seen as justified, and the people committing it are (retrospectively) seen as heroes. But, each successive generation is asked to believe that any further civil disobedience would be unreasonable.