THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2025
Except on the Fox News Channel: Secretary of Trade War Howard Lutnick says the president is going to win the current case in the Supreme Court.
Most observers seem to think that's unlikely. But last evening, sure enough! That's what Hannity viewers were told:
Lutnick Predicts ‘Trump Is Gonna Win This Case’ After Administration’s Rough Day at the Supreme Court
[...]
“The justices were on the president’s side,” Lutnick said, while wagging his finger. “You are hearing it here from me—President Trump is gonna win this case!”
As always, everything's possible! That said, we think it's worth getting clear on the size of the victory margins in Tuesday's gubernatorial races. As votes continue to trickle in, the numbers look this this:
New Jersey gubernatorial election, 2025
Mikie Sherrill (D): 1,805,244 (56.3%)
Jack Ciattarelli (R): 1,384,601 (43.1%)
Virginia gubernatorial election, 2025
Abigail Spanberger (D): 1,921,472 (57.2%)
Winsome Earle-Sears (R): 1,433,562 (42.6%)
Those were very large victory margins—unless you were watching yesterday's edition of The Five, in which case you saw Dana Perino say this:
PERINO (11/5/25): One thing I would say is that Fox polling—they didn't poll Virginia, they polled New Jersey, and they polled it exactly right—seven points for Mikie Sherrill, which a lot of people didn't want to hear at the time, but they nailed that one.
Presumably, Perino—she's cast as the sane one on this show—was referring to the late October poll reported here by Fox News Digital. That said, if people didn't want to hear that polling result, they would hate Sherrill's actual victory margin, which was a bit more than thirteen points.
Thanks to Perino's weird statement, viewers in Red America weren't asked to hear about the actual victory margin in the Garden State. But that's the way the chaos unfolds on this struggling nation's most-watched "cable news" program.
In just the last few days, viewers of the Fox News Channel were subjected to some analyses right out of the stumblebum playbook:
With respect to the Virginia race, they saw analysts puzzled by the fact that Barack Obama endorsed "the white woman with whom he agreed," rather than the black woman with whom he didn't agree.
(Yes, that's what was actually said, on at least two major programs.)
They saw Emily Compagno hotly insist that Rep. Eric Swalwell—he isn't a major favorite of ours—shouldn't be able to represent a California district because he lived with his family in Iowa until he was 11 years old.
They saw a visible nutcase say that people who attended the No Kings rallies did so because they aren't happy in their own lives and seem to be mentally ill. Also, they saw the same peculiar fellow cover for the sitting president:
When the president tore the East Wing down, having said he would do no such thing, viewers were told that complaints made no sense. You see, President Obama had installed a basketball backboard on the White House tennis court! You just have to Google it, the Fox News superstar said.
Maddeningly, it's impossible for a lone observer to keep up with the tsunami of absurdities churned on this "cable news" channel. Can a very large nation hope to prosper with such nonsense going on?
We think the answer seems to be obvious. That said: there are quite a few things viewers of the Fox News Channel will never be asked to ponder. As this shaping of spotless minds proceeds, major organs of Blue America refuse to report or discuss the shape of this journalistic / cultural chaos.
What sorts of topics won't be discussed on the programs of the Fox News Channel? Last Friday, the editorial board of the New York offered the start of a list.
The editorial seems to have appeared in Sunday's print editions. (It appeared online last Friday.)
At this site, we think the term "our democracy" is too fuzzy to serve as a potent framework for the discussion in question. That said, the editorial appears online under the heading shown below. It offers a list of the sorts of behaviors to which viewers of the Fox News Channel will never be exposed:
Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has, often in open defiance of the law. His actions have raised a chilling question.
ARE WE LOSING OUR DEMOCRACY?
The lengthy editorial proceeds from there. On the New York Times website, it's been summarized in this fashion:
12 signs we're losing our democracy
"Our democracy" strikes us as a fuzzy concept. But based on victory margins in Tuesday's gubernatorial elections, it looks like the electorate has started to absorb the messaging lodged in that lengthy editorial.
Viewers of the Fox News Channel are shielded from such unhappy thoughts.
Tomorrow, we'll post the list of that editorial's "12 signs." The stars will still be clowning around on our nation's most-watched "cable news" channel, and the news division at the Times will still be averting its gaze.
Tomorrow: Twelve theses nailed to the wall
This Dana Perino?
ReplyDelete"Fox News host Dana Perino made a humiliating mistake live on air as she accidentally promoted a GoFundMe for a man accused of murder [instead of for the victim]." - MSN
That Times article merely took 12 complaints currently being made against Trump and called them signs that democracy is threatened. In fact the Biden Administration committed most of those infractions more flagrantly than Trump has.
ReplyDeleteEat a bag of dicks fascist David.
DeleteAt least it was accidental. IIRC some liberals intentionally supported Luigi Mangione.
DeleteEat a bag of dicks fascist David.
DeleteFrom January through the end of October, employers have announced the elimination of nearly 1.1 million jobs. It's the most Challenger has recorded since 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic shut down the global economy.
DeleteBrownie you're doing a hell of a job.
DeleteYes, great job. And hopefully many more useless federal employees will get axed.
Those aren't federal jobs, you useless maggot asshole.
Delete"This surge in layoffs is attributed to factors like cost-cutting measures and the adoption of artificial intelligence."
DeleteNote also that 2 million illegal immigrants left the country. That's why the unemployment rate is only a tad higher than it was when Trump took office, despite the reduction in jobs.
12:17 can now claim to have written the absolute dumbest comment ever. Nice going, quite the achievement!
DeleteYOu are such a fucking tool, Dickhead.
Delete"employers have announced the elimination of nearly 1.1 million jobs"
DeleteSo? Was there also 2 million jobs created? Or 10 million?
'hopefully many more useless federal employees will get axed."
DeleteSaid the useless commenter.
Triggered, Hillary?
Deleteaw triggered 12:42 trying to save face. Cute!
Delete"some liberals intentionally supported Luigi Mangione."
Delete"Some," little buddy?
Was it five? Forty? Three hundred? Were any of them Democratic Party cheerleaders who host cable TV news shows?
I think you're engaging in false equivalence here.
Some conservatives supported Luigi Mangione, too -- right? Did you survey the political affiliation and views of each and every one of his "supporters"? And what does this have to do with the price of beans in Mexico anyway?
DeleteHopefully, the media will realize "de-fund the police" is a Right-wing slogan.
DeleteMartin Luther lives.
ReplyDeleteMartin Luther was an antisemite.
Deletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Jews_and_Their_Lies
This is old news.
Delete482 years old. So it’s all good.
DeleteSecretary of Trade War Howard Lutnick says the president is going to win the current case in the Supreme Court.
ReplyDeleteMost observers seem to think that's unlikely. But last evening, sure enough!
Are you kidding me? The Corrupt SC 6 will find a way. Believe me.
"Tariffs are taxes. They take dollars
Deletefrom Americans' pockets and deposit them in the
U.S. Treasury. Our founders gave that taxing
power to Congress alone. Yet, here, the
President bypassed Congress and imposed one of
the largest tax increases in our lifetimes."
Yes, Mr. Katyal, but King Orange Lucifer says it's an emergency and he must have unlimited kingly powers. Just like Hitler.
"Tariffs are taxes. They take dollars
Deletefrom Americans' pockets and deposit them in the
U.S. Treasury."
Nonsense.
11:42, I cannot take your argument seriously.
Delete11:42, tell us more (I sense profound ignorance).
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DeleteOf course tariffs are taxes. They are directly paid by importers. To what degree the true economic cost is borne by American consumers is legally irrelevant. Only Congress can levy taxes. Taxes on anybody.
DeleteNonsense, David. Tariffs are not taxes. Taxes are taxes, and tariffs are tariffs.
DeleteCHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Counsel,
Deleteyou --yes, sure, the tariffs are a tax and
that's a core power of Congress.
Fucking maggot slobs are all fascists at their core.
Section 8: Powers of Congress
DeleteThe Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
Fucking maggot fascists.
They are directly paid by importers.
DeleteImporters? Are they American citizens protected by the same fucking Constitution you wipe your corrupt ass with, Dickhead in Cal?
paid by importers And passed on to the American consumers to a large extent, so King Orange Chickenshit to cut taxes for the masters of the universe and pass them on to us, right Dickhead?
Well done, @1:06. You did indeed understand my comment.
DeleteGo fuck yourself, Dickhead, you fucking fascist freak.
DeleteTriggered, Hillary?
DeleteSo tariffs are taxes.
DeleteOk then.
Tariffs are not taxes. Taxes are taxes, and tariffs are tariffs.
DeleteBrilliant! It's the tautology appreciation day at in the Howler comment section.
Taxes that are highly regressive, punishing those whose consumption is a higher fraction of their take home pay. Taxes on individuals whose annual wages are below a level that would require them to pay annual taxes to the IRS. Screwing the lowest wage earners.
DeleteImporters will no more pass along the costs of tariffs to consumers, then businesses that are fined when they break the law would pass the costs of their fines along to consumers.
Delete
ReplyDelete"Can a very large nation hope to prosper with such nonsense going on?"
But of course it can't. No very large nation with a cable news channel reporting that president Obama had installed a basketball backboard on the White House tennis court can hope to prosper. No way Jose!
And now, Bob, take some Prozac, and go to bed, please.
Anonymouse 11:31am, you’ve parked yourself on HIS sofa, dummy.
DeleteAnyone who is not a man pretending to be a woman, like the sad lost soul @ 12:11, knows that JD Vance has preemptively claimed "ownership" of all sofas in the country, marking every sofa he encounters.
DeleteAnonymouse 12:23pm, so he’s suffocating you.
DeleteHe's trying to suffocate the country, because he feels uncomfortable in his own skin. Vance's only hope is if Trump does not make it all or most of the way through his term.
DeleteMany doctors are giving Trump about 18 months, but it is likely that at that point it will be too late for Vance to overcome how much he is disliked by the public.
Wow, 1:17, I'm glad you BlueAnons are finally here, to help the Soros-monkeys.
Deletewow 1:28 I never expected to trigger you so successfully. womp womp
DeleteAnonymouse 1:17pm, if Trump dies in office, Vance will automatically become president and have a record to rerun on. His chances of re-election are far and away better than Comma-La’s would have been in that same scenario. They’d be even better if they run her again.
Delete"They" run her? Biden and Harris won the primaries in 2024, elections in which people voted for them. Neither was appointed by any "they". In fact, "they" decided they didn't want Biden to enact a 38% corporate tax so they created a campaign portraying him as too old to be president, then made sure Harris didn't win either, even though she reduced the proposed tax increase during her campaign.
DeleteVance is disliked because he has negative charisma, attacks immigrants by lying about pets being eaten, criticizes his wife's religion in public, and tells lies about appalachia. No one in his party has any faith in his ability to lead. Peter Thiel forced him onto Trump's ticket, but he won't be able to do that if Trump dies in office.
Comma La was appointed/anointed by “they”. There was no primary. She wasn’t the de facto president simply because Biden had “decided” not to run again. Ostensibly… Biden was in office his whole term. They anointed Comma La If Trump died or stepped down tomorrow, Vance would be president. This means Vance would have some presidential tenure. Some chops. Duly noted that you don’t think he could win the next election…we’ll try to treasure that opinion.
DeleteJD Vance has half the charisma of the heating instructions on a can of soup.
DeleteKamala earned her position on the ticket by being elected during the primaries, on the same ticket with Biden. The voters selected her. At the point where Biden dropped out, she polled the highest against Trump of any viable candidate under consideration. Biden asked her to run in his place and she accepted. Your belief that there is some shadowy "they" who anoints people outside of the democratic process may be true in Republican politics but it isn't what happened in 2024.
DeleteVance would be no better than Gerald Ford, who took over for Nixon, pardoning him in a prearranged deal. Ford had no chops. Vance has no charisma and has no basis for commanding loyalty among Trump's supporters, who will go their separate ways in a brawl of in-fighting if Trump dies while in office.
The American people have had it with Trump. If Vance tries to govern like Trump, he will be opposed not just by Democrats but by those in his own party. At the first opportunity, a Democratic party candidate will sweep the 2028 election and will govern with a mandate, including majorities in both chambers of congress. You'd better hope that Democrats will be less vindictive than Trump, when that happens. It will be like G.W. Bushes legacy, where Dems were able to elect Obama because Bush was such a bad president. Maybe we will get our first female president then, or maybe it will be enough to elect Newsom and watch him achieve some long-sought goals, such as public health care, gun control, and a wealth tax. My hope is that it will be your worst nightmare.
No, my belief is that Biden was president till the day his term ended, therefore there should have been a Democratic primary, and not an anointing. Presidents, former or current, do not choose the next contender for office.
Deletehttps://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/us/politics/pelosi-harris-biden-open-primary.html#:~:text=“Had%20the%20president%20gotten%20out,in%20the%20race%2C”%20Ms.
DeleteCecelia, there WAS a Democratic primary and Biden/Harris won the nomination by winning on ballots around the country. They were the nominees fair and square. Then there was a "Biden is too old" campaign that succeeded in pushing Biden off the ticket, not by any due process but by convincing Biden that he wouldn't have the support he needed to win (especially among campaign donors). Biden convinced Harris to accept the nomination in his place (as she would have if Biden had died during the campaign). She was selected because she polled the highest among possible nominees against Trump, because she had the experience as VP and was most qualified among the possibilities, and because she was willing to run at short notice. Biden now believes he should not have allowed himself to be convinced to step aside. I agree with him. Your idea that some shadowy group selected Harris is wrong.
DeleteAnonymouse 6:42pm. According to Nancy Pelosi, it was Biden who chose his replacement. Pelosi said that until Biden annoyed Comma La, the plan had been to go with a primary.
Deletehttps://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/us/politics/pelosi-harris-biden-open-primary.html
“In an interview on Thursday with The New York Times, Ms. Pelosi said what was widely reported around the time Mr. Biden dropped out: that she believed it was implicitly understood that his exit would be followed by an internal party competition for a new nominee, instead of an anointment of Vice President Kamala Harris:
“Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race,” Ms. Pelosi said during an interview with Lulu Garcia-Navarro, a host of “The Interview,” a Times podcast. She added during the interview, which will be published in full on Saturday, “The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary.
Ms. Pelosi went on: “And as I say, Kamala may have, I think she would have done well in that and been stronger going forward. But we don’t know that. That didn’t happen. We live with what happened. And because the president endorsed Kamala Harris immediately, that really made it almost impossible to have a primary at that time. If it had been much earlier, it would have been different.”
“Pelosi said that until Biden annoyed Comma La, the plan had been to go with a primary.”
DeleteNot “annoyed”— rather “anointed”.
Cecelia, when did Biden annoy Kamala?
DeleteAnonymouse 7:11pm, move your eyes upward to 7:08pm.
DeleteThere already were primaries that Biden/Harris won. Pelosi cannot order a redo.
DeleteAs I said, Cecelia has language problems like a non-native speaker from Eastern Europe. Nancy Pelosi was not the head of the party. Biden was, as the nominee.
DeleteBob has gone back to calling corporate media "Blue America", which makes no sense in contemporary times. Corporate media supports a right wing neoliberal agenda, and they do not give a rat's ass which party is in power as long as the current iteration of that party will toe the line; they are not of, nor represent, Blue America in any way.
ReplyDeleteBob pines for the days of gatekeepers, a ruling elite that keeps citizens in line; however, in reality those days involved the media partying it up with right wingers (Walter Cronkite famously personally feted Powell on his appointment to the SC - the infamous Powell that wrote the Powell Memo, which is foundational to modern Republicans, and their policies like Project 2025), and involved the media being infiltrated by hundreds of CIA-friendly "journalists", stenographers for the CIA right wing agenda.
Biden made the fatal mistake of attempting to reverse the decades long trend of wealth being redistributed to the top 1% - from 1981 through 2021, via neoliberalism (supported by all Republicans and Clinton and Obama as well), we experienced the largest transfer of wealth in history, with $50+ trillion being redistributed from the bottom 90% to the tops 1%; it was this action on Biden's part that spurred corporate media against him.
Society is better served by moving past corporate media, and we are in that process, via the democratization of media. Independent media now dwarfs corporate media, in both audience and influence.
How would you characterize corporate media's total antipathy to Trump?
DeleteCorporate media's stance on Trump is about in line with Somerby's: they enjoy Trump's policies on tax cuts for the rich and corporations and on deregulating, but worry his boorishness will hurt their goals in the long run.
DeleteIn reality, the most successful corporate media outlet is merely a propaganda arm of the Trump admin. Otherwise, corporate media generally turns a blind eye to Trump's lunacy, corruption, and criminality.
I agree with 12:19, Biden's policies quickly placed him on corporate media's shit list, particularly with the appointment of Lina Khan.
I see antipathy to Democrats in corporate media coupled with support for Trump in the content of articles. There is an occasional editorial against Trump but these are daily outweighed by pro-Trump and conservative editorials and news reports.
DeleteFor example, today, in the aftermath of Democratic victories in various states, there is an article knocking Schumer, one saying that liberal feminism has ruined the workplace, and an opinion piece about what Democrats can learn from victories. One articles says that Dems won by getting a sliver of Trump voters to switch parties. An article about Fuentes (who is considered a Nazi by the left) says Republicans are considering how close he comes to Trump's nationalism (thus soft-pedaling Trump's extremism, not just that of Fuentes). None of that stuff is pro-Democratic and it appears in a constant drumbeat, every day. The article about Pelosi's announcement retirement talks about how vilified she has been by the right, not her accomplishments. This is how they talk about her:
"She entered political office later in life and became a hero to Democrats for the way she wielded immense power to push Obamacare, climate change legislation and infrastructure programs through Congress."
This is not pro-Democrat language at all.
Forgot to mention, these results are about the NY Times, which is definitely NOT blue media.
DeleteBob refuses to understand that the corporate media aren’t blue.
DeleteWe don't know what Somerby "understands" but we can see that he refuses to acknowledge that corporate media are not blue. Blue America is his strawman that he argues against daily.
DeleteHow would you characterize corporate media's total antipathy to Trump?
DeleteCorporate media is protecting Trump by limiting public knowledge of his wrongdoing, normalizing his bizarre behavior, and refusing to complain about his crimes, corruption and incompetence in office. These are all legitimate stories that are ignored by the corporate media because Trump is blackmailing them in various ways (or because the wealthy who own such media are benefitting from his payoffs). Responsible journalists are fleeing from corporate media.
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaNyjBEe8SE
ReplyDeleteBob, why would you expect the 25% of the US population who attend irrational preachers like Kenneth Copeland not to have a places where they can go to hear irrational political views?
"FIFA is not exactly above bribing world leaders to get on their good side...it has announced the creation of a peace prize, which it plans to award at the draw for the World Cup on Dec. 5 in Washington.
ReplyDeleteThe award, called the FIFA Peace Prize, will “recognize exceptional actions for peace,” soccer’s governing body said Wednesday."
LOL, FIFA takes a back seat to no one when it comes to corruption.
DeleteTwo Now Charged With Plotting Mass-Shooting in LGBT Bars...
ReplyDeleteMohmed Ali, Majed Mahmoud, and co-conspirators were inspired by the Islamic State group’s extremism, according to a 72-page criminal complaint unsealed in federal court."
“Our American heroes prevented a terror attack,” U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said on X.
Religious tolerance is very important. But, but Islam is a unique threat. Gay people aren't being murdered in the name of Confucius or Buddha or Maharishi Mahesh Yogi of even the despicable L. Ron Hubbard.
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/11/05/two-now-charged-with-plotting-mass-shooting-in-lgbt-bars-and-guess-what-n2195893
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_violence_against_LGBTQ_people_in_the_United_States
DeleteIf you read through the lists of incidents you will see that one Islamic perpetrator of violence was not charged as a gay hate crime because Omar Mateen, the man who shot up The Pulse nightclub, didn't realize it was a gay bar. Beyond that, there are not many Islamic people committing anti-gay violence.
Trying to create the impression that Islam commits acts of gay terror in the USA strikes me as an intentional smear against Muslims, which is itself a form of religious intolerance commit by David. Preaching against gay people by American fundamentalists is mentioned as having inspired several acts of violence.
David is incurable, but I still love him.
Delete"Gay people aren't being murdered in the name of Confucius or Buddha"
DeleteYes, but Palestinians are being murdered in the name of Yahweh.
AI says this about confucious:
Delete"While the core tenets of Confucianism emphasize virtue, social harmony, and benevolence, making it fundamentally non-violent, people have been killed throughout history in conflicts where Confucian principles were invoked or in power struggles tied to the imperial system that adopted Confucianism as state ideology.
It is important to differentiate between violence directly advocated by Confucius's original teachings and violence that occurred in the context of political and social systems where Confucianism was the dominant ideology."
Buddhist monks have been inciting violence against Muslim communities in Myanmar.
David is incurable, but I still love him.
DeleteIs it the "pity the child" sentiment that Bob likes to post about?
Guilty as charged, @1:47: "Trying to create the impression that Islam commits acts of gay terror in the USA strikes me as an intentional smear against Muslims, which is itself a form of religious intolerance commit by David."
DeleteThere is a paradox in tolerance: In order to be tolerant, should one be tolerant of intolerance? Must a tolerant person be tolerant of Nazis? Of KKK murderers?
Yes, I am smearing Muslims. IMO they are a much greater threat worldwide than other religions. Examples are too numerous to list: both WTC attacks, mass killings by driving vehicles into crowds in the US and elsewhere. Oct. 7. I refuse to close my eyes to reality, even though some will call me a bigot.
P.S. Of course the great majority of Muslims are fine people. But, if you have 1 million Muslims and only 1% are violent terrorists, that adds up to 100,000 violent terrorists.
When you decide to equate mass murders with religious conviction, or sexual preference for that matter (insofar as that was a dishonest far right talking point recently) in th US you have no ground to stand on unless you acknowledge that the preponderance of such crimes is by white male right wing heterosexual extremists.
Delete@5:00 - You know that one should look at statistics on a per capita basis. It's deceptive to look at total murder figures by ethnic group when the majority of Americans are white.
DeleteThat goes for good stuff as well as bad. Should Muslims be blames because they contribute only a small share of taxes? Of course not. Muslims are only a small share of the populace.
David admits his bigotry.
DeleteDickhead in Cal claims 1% of 1 million is 100,000.
DeleteRemember, Dickhead is the retired actuary numbers guy. LOL
Religious tolerance is how we got in this mess.
DeleteOnce they get you to believe in something as ridiculous as there being a God, getting you to believe Haitian immigrants are eating our pets is child's play.
5:29: yeah got a good laugh out of that
Delete5:14 Only in your dreams are the majority of Americans white male right wing heterosexual ectremists.
DeleteDavid got within an order of magnitude, and I still love him.
DeleteHere is Robert Reich's take on how news should be reported:
ReplyDelete"What is “news” under a president who doesn’t give a damn about anything other than amassing personal power and wealth and getting even with people he believes have wronged him? What’s “news” with a president who lies incessantly? What’s “news” when a president’s mind does not move along rational pathways?
The real news is he’s losing his mind, but the media isn’t reporting on this. The media watched Joe Biden’s mind as if it were watching a giant wounded beast, reporting every hitch and hesitation.
But Trump’s rapid mental decline is somehow uninteresting. The media takes for granted that Trump is maniacal, paranoid, and malignantly narcissistic. So what if he’s becoming ever more so? The norm is abnormal.
Memo to the media: Report on his mental decline but not his moods. Give us details of policies implemented under his name but not his posts. Let us know who is accountable for what the regime is doing and don’t attribute all of it to him." [Rawstory]
"The media watched Joe Biden’s mind as if it were watching a giant wounded beast, reporting every hitch and hesitation."
DeleteNope. I watched CNN and MSNBC during the Biden years and rarely heard a peep on Biden's decline.
Reich commits the logical error of concluding that because someone wants certain things, that shows he doesn't also want other things. I agree with Reich that Trump cares about massing personal power and wealth and getting even with people he believes have wronged him. But, IMO Trump also cares about reducing illegal immigration, reducing crime, bringing manufacturing back into the US, ending wars He says he cares about these things. He spends a lot of time and energy on them. And, he has substantially achieved them.
DeleteI get so tired of the lies David tells about Trump's achievements and motives. Trump only puts time and energy into playing golf and watching TV. Steven Miller is the one persecuting immigrants. Trump loves immigrants, even illegal ones. He married two women who were immigrants, his own family came here as immigrants. His wife, Melania, was an illegal immigrant who obtained a fraudulent visa. He spent some time and money and energy making her legal, but in fairness, she should have been deported. Judging by Trump's own actions, he has increased crime, not decreased it. He himself was responsible for 34 convictions for business fraud, and he has been accused of sexual assault by 28 women, convicted of defaming E. Jean Carroll, when he said she lied about him raping her. Trump has been a friend to criminals, issuing pardons for all of the criminals who desecrated the Capitol building, trying to overthrow the 2020 presidential election. He even pardoned the violent criminals and drug dealers. It is a lie that he has increased manufacturing or ended any wars.
Delete@3:23 The NY Times was relentless in its attacks on Biden as too old. So was the Washington Post, which linked to fake edited videos of Biden sitting on air or wandering aimlessly, which showed entirely normal behavior in the original video. Jake Tapper on CNN was part of the attacks. The many people defending Biden by reporting their own interactions with him, including members of Congress from both parties, the Clintons, Harris, foreign leaders who had recently met with him, and his staff, were largely invisible on MSNBC and CNN. Reporting on Pelosi and Clooney and Republican attacks but not on those defending Biden shows bias.
DeleteAm we to believe that the Times and the Post attacked Biden (for whatever reason) more than they attacked Trump?
DeleteAbsolutely. I spent some time back then listing the number and titles of the pro-anti Trump vs pro-anti Biden articles. I did the same with the Harris articles vs the Trump articles. There were large disparities in favor of Trump and against Biden first, then Harris.
Delete""Our democracy" strikes us as a fuzzy concept. "
ReplyDeleteThe word "fuzzy" is a fuzzy concept too. This is one of the ways Somerby denigrates something without evidence or explanation.
If Somerby were being hauled out of his dwelling by ICE agents who refuse to look at his ID, he might understand that the concept of democracy does not include violations of the Constitution, the pact that protects our freedom and rights, including our right to elect our government and to be governed by elected representatives who are constrained by that document.
If Somerby were deported for calling Trump mentally ill and for quoting Bandy Lee and Mary Trump, he would find the concept of democracy less fuzzy. If he were beaten up on the street for witnessing someone else being detained, pushed onto his face and told to stop resisting arrest, or if his car were crashed into and ICE agents told him he had caused the crash to interfere with their activities, the concept of democracy might seem clearer to him.
Democracy is what we have instead of fascism. If you don't care about it, mock and demean it by calling it "fuzzy," it will be allowed to go away, incrementally as Trump violates all of its principles one by one, until We the People have no recourse but to obey jack-booted thugs who do whatever they please (as long as it is violent and cruel).
The word "fuzzy" implies that Somerby considers our democracy to be defective, not worth fighting for, as he refuses to resist Trump or vote for the only opposition to autocracy in our country, the Democrats. Fuzzy is as fuzzy does. Also, slimy is as slimy does, and Somerby is very slimy these days.
"The word "fuzzy" implies that Somerby considers our democracy to be defective, not worth fighting for"
DeleteYou're simply wrong. Fuzzy mean indistinct or difficult to perceive, neither of which is normative.
Why don't you leave the retarded lady alone, 3:22. Let her be.
DeleteGosh. We're so lucky to have someone who can tell us what Our Gracious Host really means when he uses ordinary sounding words.
Delete“Gracious” as in kind and/pleasant or as in the condescension of gracious royalty?
DeleteWe don't have royalty here in the US. Somerby's use of the royal "we" is an affectation that tickles him but annoys others.
DeleteSomerby uses the term "fuzzy" to refer to things he disapproves of, not things that are hazy or indistinct. I don't find anything hazy or indistinct about our democracy, nor did Somerby explain what he means.
DeleteIt is a fuzzy concept. What Trump has been actively dismantling is all the norms of our government that has evolved over decades and centuries.
DeleteAnonymouse 5:09pm, “we” as in the “royal we” or “we” as in the “editorial we”?
DeleteAnonymouse 5:10pm, well, let me help you out:
DeleteBob- “The lengthy editorial proceeds from there. On the New York Times website, it's been summarized in this fashion:
‘12 signs we're losing our democracy’
“Our democracy" strikes us as a fuzzy concept”
Bob wishes the NYT website headline had been less pithy.
You don't seem to know what pithy means:
Deletepithy definition: "concise and forcefully expressive"
That is the opposite of fuzzy.
"Fuzzy mean indistinct or difficult to perceive..."
DeleteLike a Republican voter who isn't a bigot.
"Somerby uses the term "fuzzy" to refer to things he disapproves of, not things that are hazy or indistinct."
DeleteYou've gone Humpty-Dumpty one better. He argued that words could mean whatever the speaker wanted them to.
Your argument is that Somerby's words mean whatever you (the reader) want them to.
Anonymouse 5:46pm , that’s an accusation that belies what Bob actually wrote as how he feels about the hard copy NYT editorial vs the presentation of the online version.
DeleteYou used the word pithy incorrectly. Now you want to blame Somerby?
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DeleteAnonymous 6:20, I didn’t use pithy incorrectly, Bob used the word summarized and summaries are concise.
pith·y
/ˈpiTHē/
adjective
1.(of language or style) concise and forcefully expressive.
summarize- to give a brief, concise statement of the main points of something, such as a text, speech, or event, without all the details.”
Cecelia is OK with the most common words. When she uses a word that’s even a little unusual, she loses her way. But I still love her.
DeleteAnonymouse 7:21pm, that’s a pithy statement too and it’s as relevant as anonymices trying to distract from the fact that Somerby objected to a fuzzy vague headline.
DeleteGoing forward, let’s refrain from distraction.
DeleteIt's just that "our democracy" can mean anything.
DeleteTo the idiot-Democrat media (such as NYT) "Our Democracy" without a doubt means the Democrat party and Our Lord Autopen ruling the country.
Nothing fuzzy about that.
Why should anyone continue to watch Fox? Given that no one should watch Fox, why should Somerby or anyone else spend time discussing Fox?
ReplyDeleteThe question of whether anyone should watch Fox is distinct from the question of how many people do watch Fox.
DeleteSomerby focuses on Fox because of the number of people who watch it.
Anonymouse 3:19pm, you have enormous patience and self-control.
Delete@3:19 didn't answer any of the questions.
Delete2:43 asked 2 questions.
DeleteThe first was rather pointless since people can watch whatever they want for whatever reason they want.
The second, I answered.
Anonymouse 5:06pm, why should anonymices be here talking about TDH, when no one should take TDH seriously enough to read it?
DeleteI come here for Bob’s fuzzy concepts, and I stay for Cecelia’s pithy comments.
DeleteAnonymouse 7:23pm, as anonymouse 3:19pm would argue, given the fact that people shouldn’t read your comments, why are you writing them?
DeleteI write them because I love you and David.
DeleteAnonymouse 10:48pm, is that what your mother said as dunked your head under water?
DeleteThese people make Trump seem like a stable genius:
ReplyDelete"Peter Riera, 44, opened fire in Port St. Lucie, Florida, during an argument over how many eggs a chicken can lay, according to witnesses.
Master Sergeant Dominick Mesiti told WPBF that Riera fired four shots from a .45-caliber Glock at three people who he thought were trying to con him outside Harper's Pub early Tuesday morning.
"The shooter evidently raises chickens, and the conversation was about how many eggs chickens can lay. The conversation got heated for whatever reason," Mesiti explained.
"One victim ran out into the roadway trying to get away from the shooter. The other two victims hid. We had several phone calls; the shooter himself called 911," the officer added.
All of the parties involved in the argument were said to have been drinking. No one was reportedly hit with gunfire. Two of the victims were arrested for resisting officers."
Black Lives Matter
ReplyDeleteDC Crime-Fighting Task Force Boasts 60% Decrease in Murder After Trump Crackdown
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/11/04/exclusive-dc-crime-fighting-task-force-boasts-60-decrease-murder-trump-crackdown/
What "crackdown", you fucking fascist moron? Garbage collecting? You are so fucking in love with Trump, you have no idea the National is doing nothing in DC but wasting tax payer dollars picking up trash.
Delete@4:00 - Do you assert that it's just luck or coincidence that murders are down 60%?
DeleteI assert that you are a fucking trump lickspittle fascist asshole with no clue what you even fucking mean by "trump crackdown". You are a fucking joke. Any excuse you can find to click your heels and sieg heil to the Fuhrer. I live just outside of DC and the fucking NG is doing nothing but walking around jerking off and costing us taxpayers $1 million per day to pick up trash.
DeleteTrump "Crackdown" - bwahaha, from his golf cart or his halloween party at his trashy motel? The fucking old demented fart can't find his ass with both hands. And here you are.
These guys can boast all they want. That doesn't make it true.
DeleteDitto. This is a Trump task force, so their data can't be trusted because we know and they know that if they don't produce numbers that flatter Trump, they could be removed from their position.
DeleteDavid in Cal will be calling the Holocaust "a hoax" within 6 months.
DeleteBet on it.
Thanks to Trump's DEI programs in DC, crime is way down, which helps black people.
DeleteThat Red Media isn't reporting this 24/7 is a mystery only people who can't tell the difference between Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and fine people on the Right, know.
When Trump's actions works well, the mainstream media doesn't mention it. Trump and the conservative media do mention is, but one simply disbelieves them. That's a recipe for never having to change one's mind.
DeleteYou're moving the goalposts again. This thread is about believing what a task force created by Trump says, not what the right-wing media say.
DeleteTrump shat in his own nest and now he's paying the price. No one believes a word he says outside of his lickspittle base.
We have already seen Trump fire an official for presenting data Trump didn’t like, so exactly what motivation would his hand picked lackeys have to do that again? So no, nothing coming out of this White House can be relied upon as anything other than propaganda.
DeleteSomerby doesn't approve of Swalwell. What a surprise!
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