Friday, February 14, 2025

Whoa: MSNBC's Response to RFK's Swearing-In Explains Exactly Why People No Longer Trust Media

RedState 

 If they think they can play this kind of game for the next four years, then they should prepare to lose even more in the ratings. They're going to talk over reality and hope to sway people? It's not going to work.

"As we reported, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday, 52-48, to be the new Secretary of Health and Human Services, despite the failed efforts of Democrats to derail him. 

'Kennedy was then sworn in, in the Oval Office by Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, and both he and President Donald Trump delivered remarks. Given the drama around Kennedy, particularly from the Democrats, you would think that this would be big news to show — one way or another, that it was pretty historic. Kennedy delivered some very powerful and touching remarks in which he praised Trump. I'll tease that we have a good story coming on that shortly. 

'But if you were hoping to listen to it, and you were watching MSNBC as the swearing-in happened, you would have been out of luck. Here's host Katy Tur saying they're going to be listening to the event and what Trump has to say, and then cut to an "expert" for commentary about the event. But then, suddenly, she shifts and essentially says, "Oops, we're not going to be listening. Sorry, folks! We're just going to 'watch'" — without letting the people hear the ceremony or any of the important things they might have to say." . . . 

Democrats Find a Cause to Rally Around: Reparations

 American Greatness  

"Although the the idea of forcing reparations on people for a nation’s past injustices is deeply unpopular with the American people, Democrats are not giving up." 

Those stoning Reginald Denny should have to be rewarded for his white supremacy

"While fiercely resisting the Trump administration’s work to eliminate government waste, fraud and abuse, Democrats have found their own cause to rally around.

"A group of congressional Democrats led by Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) have reintroduced legislation that seeks to use taxpayer dollars to pay reparations to black Americans who are descendants of slaves, Fox News reported.

" 'We are in a moment of anti-Blackness on steroids and we refuse to be silent,” said Pressley, a member of the far-left “Squad,”  during a news conference Wednesday. “We will not back down in our pursuit of racial justice.”

"Booker’s office released a statement on the reparations bill, which has 17 Senate Democrat cosponsors, last month.

" 'We as a nation have not yet truly acknowledged and grappled with the ways slavery, racism, and white supremacy continue to disadvantage African Americans,” Booker said in a statement. “Commissioning a study to better understand where our country has fallen short will help lawmakers better address the racial disparities and inequalities that persist today as a result of generational injustices.”

"H.R.40, or the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act, aims to “create a commission to study the impact of slavery and develop ways to deliver reparations to African Americans who are descendants of slaves.”

"Democrat Rep. Summer Lee (D-Penn.) said during the presser Wednesday that every presidential administration has “an obligation” to provide reparations  to black people “to eliminate the racial wealth gap.” Lee argued that “white supremacy is rampant in this country. Just look at the current administration and our own legislative body.” . . .

"April 2023 Squeal Award to President Biden."

 

https://www.terrellaftermath.com/

All aboard! Taxpayers are being taken for a ride on the Biden Boondoggle Express.   "While the president likes to boast that his $1 trillion “infrastructure” bill is building a better America, the truth is Bidenomics and bureaucratic bungling are busting budgets and postponing completion of projects across the country.

"Remember the California High-Speed Train I called out before? Sold to taxpayers at a price of $33 billion and a completion date of 2020, this train still hasn’t left the station. Construction is costing about $1.8 million a day and it won’t be completed for another decade. The total price has skyrocketed to $128 billion— that’s nearly $100 billion more than the original price tag!" . . .

. . ."The Obama/Biden administration committed $3.5 billion for this gravy train as a “shovel ready” project more than a decade ago. President Trump stopped payment, saving nearly $1 billion. Now, the Biden administration has restored that money and even added another $50 million morepraising the project as an example of President Biden’s “build back better” approach. Then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi even celebrated how passage of the Biden bill would help to bring the high-cost, high-speed train into San Francisco." . . .

Is Taylor Swift the next ‘Brandon’?

 American Thinker  

"This looks like yet another example of sports networks and sites gaslighting the viewers and readers to avoid stating that which must not be said." As below:

 

MSNBC's Ali Velshi says situation not 'generally speaking
 unruly' while standing outside burning building

"Who can forget when an NBC reporter, interviewing unexpected NASCAR winner Brandon Brown after the race, tried to gaslight viewers hearing the loud chorus of “F--- Joe Biden” chants from the crowd in the stands by saying, “As you can hear the chants from the crowd, ‘Let’s Go Brandon.’”  This spawned LGB memorabilia and an unforgettable rap.

"During Super Bowl Sunday night on Fox, when famous singer Taylor Swift, girlfriend of Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and seated at the game, was shown on the big screen, the crowd erupted into a loud chorus of boos.  The angle from the announcers of the game (Kevin Burkhardt and Tom Brady) was that there were more Eagles fans in the stadium than Chiefs fans.  CBS Sports had the same take.  But on conservative media such as Instapundit, the loud booing was attributed to something else: Swift’s prominent endorsement of Kamala Harris in the presidential election.  (Yes, Swift was pressured by the left to do it, but in the words of Glenn Reynolds of the Instapundit, “She chose...poorly.”)  So who is right?

"First of all, the same crowd enthusiastically cheered for President Trump.  Furthermore, as far as I can recall, at last year’s Super Bowl, also with the Chiefs playing, Swift wasn’t audibly booed even by a subset of the crowd.  I don’t recall any other celebrity rooting for either team in any Super Bowl being so loudly booed.  Swift is not the first celebrity attending a Super Bowl to be the girlfriend of a player, either.  So if sports analysts are going to speculate on the cause of the booing and state it as fact, a better guess would be her Kamala endorsement." ...


Legacy media giant reportedly shifting resources from left-wing paper to promote…a conservative press

  Olivia Murray 

. . ." but one cannot make a logical and persuasive case to support her, because the facts don’t support it. Democrat voters almost universally despised Harris until legacy media outlets told them it was time to pretend she was competent and cunning."

"It looks like the billionaire business mogul who owns the Los Angeles Times may have been red-pilled.

"According to a report from the New York Post, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, who made his wealth in biotech, is in the process of transforming his media empire by shifting resources away from the LA Times, which he bought in 2018 for half-a-billion dollars, and pouring them into a new venture…a conservative press.

"The same article reveals that Soon-Shiong was the man behind the decision to withhold an endorsement for Kamala Harris just as the editorial board was prepared to publish it shortly before the November 5th election, which set off a wave of cancelled subscriptions from progressive readers and preceded a handful of resignations in the office.

"Now here’s where it gets really interesting (and vindicating), because if I had to guess, I’d say this was probably the “straw-that-broke-the-camel’s-back” moment for Soon-Shiong; from an LA Times piece:" . . . 

. . ."It’s also especially offensive since even the “news” section of LA Times has seemed almost entirely opinion-based, again, without the facts to even present the opinions as compelling and reasonable positions.

"As Dr. Lifson observed, it’s almost like there’s an emerging “red-pill” trend among self-made billionaires, and that it’s mostly the inheritors who go and stay woke—Soon-Shiong’s daughter is a radical, progressive activist." . . .

Thursday, February 13, 2025

For Israel--and the World--Take Off the Gloves

Phyllis Chesler at The American Spectator   "Israel, along with those countries facing the menace of Islamic extremism, must ensure there are no future Oct. 7th attacks"   

Israel, as ever, should lead the way. President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu must strategize a way in which Gaza is emptied of potential and active Jihadists. The problem of dealing with a non-stop and never-ending series of Oct. 7ths should not be Israel’s alone to bear.  


"Since its founding in the wake of the Holocaust, Israel has been seen by those who love freedom and justice as a “light” unto the nations, an uncanny progenitor of what it means to be brought low and to rise up again from the ashes. If this perception of Israel is true, and I believe that it is, then how Israel now chooses to deal with Islam’s most shamelessly sadistic barbarism may yet set an absolutely necessary example to other nations.

"After Israel receives the very last living hostages and the very last corpse is set free — it must do the unthinkable: Totally destroy Hamas and remove its active supporters in Gaza, finally take over the Jewish heartland of Judea and Samaria (i.e. the West Bank), and create a sufficient zone of safety between itself and Hezbollah in Lebanon. (Please note I am not suggesting that men like Khaled Abu Toameh or Bassem Eid be ethnically cleansed or exiled.)

"Israel must try, one last time, as must the Trump administration, to persuade other Muslim countries to grant asylum to the allegedly “innocent” Gazans, perhaps even the type of Gazan who mercilessly mobbed, jeered, and menaced, the sole, lone, young Israeli woman on her way to the Red Cross truck, a woman who’d spent 482 days in solitary, in addition to being starved, deprived of oxygen, sunlight, and medical attention, and who suffered God knows what other abuses.

"Perhaps other Muslim countries will choose the more “innocent” of Gazans, such as the women who kept the Israeli hostages as food-deprived domestic slaves; or those who were employed by UNRWA and who also starved and hid them — and did God-only-knows what else to them.

"If Israel obtains a total military victory (as so many other experts far more knowledgeable than myself have long been calling for); if Israel rids itself of the most hate-filled Jihadists, at least those Jihadists who hug its borders, or who function as fifth-columnists within, imagine the example this might set for Europe, the United States, Canada, and India, all countries or regions that are dealing, or will eventually have to deal, with the growing Islamist hatred that Israel has faced for more than half a century.

"I have long believed that Europe is reaping its karmic destiny. This has not filled me with joy, only sorrow. What I mean is this: For two millennia, Europe persecuted and exterminated its peaceful, productive, and often highly assimilated Semites — the Jews. For a variety of reasons, including greed, guilt, and multiculturalism which functioned as “soft” racism, it has now inherited quite a whirlwind.

"Europe is now faced with violent, parasitic, and non-productive Islamists, who make up the largest number of pedophile rape traffickers in the UK; who stab, car-ram, behead, and shoot down anti-Islamist dissidents, free thinkers, and civilians (but especially Jews in the UK and France); conduct Jew-hunts in Holland; shoot up Christmas markets and gang-grope large groups of women in Germany and in Sweden; and forcibly veil, forcibly marry, and honor kill their own girls and women — especially those who wish to lead Western lives." . . .   More...

The Army is BACK! Military releases new high-octane Trump-era ad... and it's a huge split from woke Biden one

 UK Daily Mail   "Viewers quickly compared the latest advert to one pushed out by the military in May 2021, during the Biden administration.

"The ad, titled 'Emma', told the story of Army officer Emma Malonelord, who operates the Patriot Missile Defense Systems, showing her from her childhood being raised by two moms. 

"She begins the clip saying: 'Although I had a fairly typical childhood, took ballet, played violin, I also marched for equality... I like to think I have been defending freedom from an early age.' 

"The story went on to show how Emma gained confidence from watching one of her moms re-learn to walk after an accident so she could walk down the aisle to marry Emma's other mother. 

"Viewers took to social media to slam the 'Emma' ad as the 'most hated military recruitment advert of all time', and said the newer ad showed the military had entered a new era under Trump. " . . .

The 'Emma' ad, telling the story of Army officer Emma Malonelord, who operates
the Patriot Missile Defense Systems, was panned as a woke approach
to military recruitment 

. . ."The 'Emma' advert was viewed over five million times, but the Army YouTube account removed the comments section after it received backlash. 

"Two weeks into its release, the clip had over 36,000 dislikes and only 775 likes, leading to the comment restrictions, reported the Army Times.  

" 'We started noticing a significant uptick in negative commentary,' Laura DeFrancisco, public affairs chief for the Army Enterprise Marketing Office, told the outlet at the time. " . . .

. . ."'When young men and women who are honorably signing up to serve in our nation's military see someone like Pete Hegseth, the new Secretary of Defense, who is a proven war fighter… that's very inspiring,' Leavitt told reporters of the latest figures.

" 'And we look forward to seeing those recruitment numbers and retention numbers skyrocketing over the next four years,' she added.

" 'I know Pete Hegseth is committed to increasing recruitment at all branches of the Military.' "

The Trump-Hegseth Army ad:


Full article...  Is there any sense of shame in the Democrat crowd?

How Vance’s ‘Do You Hear Yourself?’ Moment Helped Me See The Propaganda Press For What It Is

 The Federalist 
"Even though I knew the corporate media leaned left and had an agenda, I simply could not fathom that they would straight-up lie and fabricate."  HKG


"The way Donald Trump and J.D. Vance talked to the media on the campaign trail was one of the reasons a lot of people eventually turned away from the Democrats and into the arms of MAGA. I am one of them. 

"About 10 years ago, I started noticing the ever-expanding delta between what I saw with my own two eyes as reality and what the media presented. There is a 2016 standup bit by Dave Chappelle that captured this chasm beautifully. In it, Chappelle recalls the first presidential debate with Hillary Clinton in which Trump said, “The whole system is rigged!” and everybody on the stage who was a beneficiary of the system calmly responded, “No, it’s not,” yet Chappelle thought: “Now wait a minute, it’s what HE said!”

"The cognitive dissonance we’ve lived through over the last several years cannot be overstated. When the regime keeps telling us we must acquiesce and join the chants that men can be women, that it’s a noble idea to defund and kneecap the very people who exist to protect us, or that we must put face masks on toddlers, the thought incongruence is harder and harder to reconcile. This must be the “lived experience” for many Democrats too, whether they admit it or not.

"I am very familiar with such a duality. I grew up in Communist Czechoslovakia and was taught from the time I could remember that there were things we discussed at home that we absolutely could not share at school. From as young as kindergarten, I knew I couldn’t mention anything about my relatives who defected to the West. I knew I could not speak about the books my parents read or that I knew the word “samizdat.” I knew I could not reveal, not even to my friends, that my family would crouch around a small black transistor radio on the weekends at our cabin and listen to “Voice of America.” 

"The totalitarian communist regime demonstrated very clearly to me that just because something is repeated often doesn’t mean it’s true (“The five-year plan is a great success again!”) and that just because the propaganda machine uses terms such as “democracy” and “free elections” to describe itself, that does not mean there is a democracy or free elections."...

 Hana Kabele Gala has been teaching Hotel Business Management for over 15 years. She holds a Ph.D. from Charles University, Prague as well as several other degrees of questionable value. Hana also runs a thriving coaching practice in Seattle, Washington, where she uses neuroscience and hypnosis to help overthinkers live better.

About that "Constitutional Crisis"; "Balderdash".

 Back in Al Gore days the catchword was "gravitas". Today it's "constitutional crisis". In my school days it had been "I love Elvis!" 

AT via Magic Studio

A hissy fit, not a constitutional crisis  "Who knew that the Stones had the Democrats in mind when they sang about that woman who kept having nervous breakdowns? Did Mick have Senator Elizabeth Warren in mind? or Rep. Maxine Waters? I saw a lot [of] women screaming on TV saying that the Constitution was in crisis and that bad stuff is coming our way.

"It's mid-February and the Democrats can't keep up with President Trump. So it's time to go "nervous breakdown" or the "constitutional crisis card." So here we go -- the constitutional crisis is here and fasten your seat belts. The coup is coming. Look out for the tanks because they are rolling down Pennsylvania Avenue any moment. With Pres. Trump is in the lead tank and Elon Musk in the next." . . .

"That's it. Going crazy on TV attacking Musk and Trump is not proof of a constitutional crisis. It simply confirms that there are a lot of screamers on the other side who don’t know why they lost the election."

Jonathan Turley: Dems exhaust last of credibility with false Trump 'constitutional crisis'   "Forty years ago, a radio personality coined the phrase “jump the shark” in reference to the episode of the sitcom “Happy Days” in which the character Fonzie (Henry Winkler) jumps over a live shark on water skis. The term is often applied to dying franchises that turn to sensational language or scenes to try to revive the fading interest of the public. More often, you jump the shark and land in utter obscurity.

"This week, the Democratic Party jumped the shark.

"For years, Dems and their allies pushed the absurd claim that democracy was about to die if Joe Biden or Kamala Harris was not elected president. The public wasn’t buying it. In 2024, Donald Trump won a majority of the voters as well as control of both houses of Congress.

"Rather than examine its messaging, Democrats decided to double down. After the election, politicians and pundits announced a new “constitutional crisis” surrounding the effort to downsize the federal government led by Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

"Kris Mayes, the attorney general of Arizona, declared this week, “We are on the brink of a dictatorship, and America has never been in a more dangerous position than she is today.” 

"The same media that carried the breathless accounts of the imminent death of democracy with the last election are now running “constitutional crisis” articles with many of the same “experts.”

 Trump hasn't created a ‘constitutional crisis' -- he's teaching Dems a lesson  

"Not a sentence said by a Democrat these days doesn’t have a subject, a verb and “constitutional crisis.” 

"President Trump wanting to halt spending while he reviews a government in massive debt is an “assault on Democracy,” a “circumvention of Congress” and, in typical understatement, an “executive coup.” 

"Balderdash".

"While Trump must jump through certain hoops to offer buyouts or pare down departments, it was never the Founders’ intention for career government employees to outrank the president. 

"As Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 70, “energy in the executive is the leading character in the definition of good government.”

"It’s the job of the president to drive the government forward, not allow it to become an unelected blob that controls every aspect of our lives." . . .

 Elon Musk noted Tuesday that if the executive can’t act, “then we don’t live in a democracy. We live in a bureaucracy". Which is where Democrats want to live, since they’ve spent years seeding the bureaucracy.They want to ensure elections don’t matter. "

 It’s impossible for the real Constitution to win if the American people are forced to fund the Constitution’s enemies.

Mix Schumer, Liz Warren, Maxine Waters and you have natural parody!

 Democrats Furious Republicans Trying To Control Government Just Because They Won Election


"WASHINGTON, D.C. — Democrats have unleashed furious attacks on Republicans for using winning the election as an excuse to try to take control of the government.
"Democrats have accused Republicans of attempting to make decisions as to how the government ought to be run, as if Republicans were voted to be in charge.
" 'Winning the election gives Republicans no right to run this country," shouted Senator Elizabeth Warren at a protest. "They cannot simply come in and take control of governmental agencies simply because people voted for them. We must employ every means possible to resist this takeover."  
Tony Branco
"Democrats have turned to the streets in anger as Republicans continue to assert that being elected puts them in charge. "People voting for Trump to be President doesn't magically make him the boss," explained Senator Schumer. "Trump cannot be allowed to come in and issue these executive orders, just because he is the Executive. Rest assured, the Democrats will fight with all of our hearts to stop the people who were elected from being in power."
"At publishing time, Democrats had announced that the only thing Trump was actually allowed to be in charge of was pardoning that turkey on Thanksgiving."

‘Wasteful’: Trump Orders Treasury to Stop Producing Pennies

Legal Insurrection


"President Donald Trump told Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to stop minting pennies. He wrote on Truth Social:

For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful! I have instructed my Secretary of the US Treasury to stop producing new pennies. Let’s rip the waste out of our great nations budget, even if it’s a penny at a time. . .  .

‘The Time Has Come’: Rep. Brandon Gill Wants to Arrest and Deport Ilhan Omar to Somalia For Treason

The Gateway Pundit   


"Republican Congressman Brandon Gill is circulating a petition to arrest and deport Ilhan Omar for treason.

"Gill, a first-term Congressman and son-in-law of conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza, asked supporters to sign a petition to deport Omar in a fundraising email obtained by Axios.

"The first email states:

Friend, we should have never let Ilhan Omar into our country.

And frankly, America would be a much better place if she were to be sent back to Somalia.

Recently, it came out that Ilhan Omar is hosting free workshops for Somalians, who are in our country illegally, on how to evade ICE and deportation.

It could not be more blatant: Ilhan Omar is more loyal to illegal Somalians than she is to the United States, or the office she was elected to.

It is an absolute disgrace.In another email, Gill accuses Omar of treason for facilitating the invasion at the southern border of millions of illegal aliens.

"The second email states:

A sitting Member of Congress is facilitating a full-scale invasion of our country…

A normal society would refer to that as treason…

But regardless of labels, one thing is clear: The time has come to arrest and deport Ilhan Omar." . . .  Full article


REPORT: Ilhan Omar’s Close Friend Goes on Record, Confirms She Has Been Gaming The System