MONDAY, JULY 6, 2026
With the exception of this morning's report, the Fourth of July continues.
Tomorrow: Who is Jeffrey Rosen?
MONDAY, JULY 6, 2026
With the exception of this morning's report, the Fourth of July continues.
Tomorrow: Who is Jeffrey Rosen?
Trump fudging numbers on crowd size is very on brand, it mirrors his admin fudging employment numbers; we just got new disastrous employment numbers and they had to admit the previous employment numbers were much worse than they originally reported.
ReplyDeleteWhile the top 1%, and even top 10%, are doing fine, the rest of us are likely in a recession and heading for worse.
Modern Republicans are destroying America.
To heck with Israel.
ReplyDeleteI do not see how Somerby's musing about the inadequacies of democratic government are an exception to July 4th commemorations.
ReplyDeleteThis is not a holiday for most working people, so what the hell is Somerby talking about?
A victory for the tariffs
ReplyDeleteToyota to invest $3.6 billion to move Tacoma pickup truck production from Mexico to Texas
We have an agreement with Canada and Mexico that makes collaboration across borders economically profitable. Moving production from Mexico to Texas may be a sign that Toyota doesn't trust Trump to honor that treaty any longer. That is a bad thing, not a victory.
DeleteA victory is when trucks get cheaper.
DeleteGo take a flying fu k you fascist freak
DeleteIn a country with a $32.4 trillion GDP idiot thinks what?
DeleteSteve M suggests that the main goal of Republicans is every day and always to tarnish the left because the left is their opponent. He says:
ReplyDelete"Democratic Establishment politicans and mainstream journalists have no idea that the primary daily goal of Republicans and Republican propagandists is to sow hatred and division, to send the message that Democrats and liberals do nothing but commit evil acts, while Republicans in good standing are never in error and are always heroic, or at least innocent and virtuous.
It's easy to blame Donald Trump for this, but Republican conspiracy theories long predate Trump's entry into politics. Kitty Dukakis burned an American flag! Bill Clinton had dozens of people killed and ran drugs out of Mena Airport! John Kerry lied about his service record in Vietnam!
Partisan smears aren't just a feature of Republican rhetoric -- they're the party's central message. Republicans have learned that they can't sell their agenda (more tax breaks for billionaires, fewer services for ordinary Americans, second-class status if you're not straight, white, and male), so this is what they lead with, every damn day. If we have a crisis of toxic partisanship in America, it's because Republicans are leading the way."
https://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-republican-party-is-toxic.html
This gives us a way to determine whether Somerby is working for the right or the left. For each essay he writes, ask yourself whether it tarnishes the left or not. If you find that each and every post by Somerby criticizes the left, then that is the hallmark of right wing propaganda and talking points. Sometimes it is necessary to read to the very end of his work. Do not be confused about the criticism of Gutfeld along the way. That is not criticism of the right, but a complaint about a single individual who Somerby considers a substandard comedian. Call it professional jealousy. Ditto for the digs at female journalists and black writers/hosts. His main purpose every day is to throw shade on the left, just like his Republican peers do.
Spot on.
Delete"With the exception of this morning's report, the Fourth of July continues."
ReplyDeleteWhat does this even mean?
We are fucked.
DeleteThis is important for Republicans to understand:
ReplyDeletehttps://hartmannreport.com/p/theyre-shocked-we-wont-pretend-anymore-401
"The piece is bracing and worth reading in full, but the core observation is one that the right-wing media ecosystem genuinely can’t process: their voters are suddenly discovering that their daughters and sons and nieces and old college roommates no longer want to come to July 4th, Thanksgiving, and other holidays.
They’re treating this as some inexplicable “progressive cruelty,” as if the rest of us simply woke up one morning and decided to be petty.
Greg Gutfeld did a whole monologue on it on Fox “News.” The framing, of course, is that you’re the unreasonable one for refusing to “look past” a single political choice your father or your uncle made:
“Can’t you just love them anyway? Why are you being so hateful?”
Here’s the thing they can’t quite bring themselves to say out loud, because saying it out loud would require admitting what they actually did: they didn’t vote for lower egg prices, although that’s the cover story most of them have settled on by now.
They voted for a man who descended an escalator in 2015 and called brown-skinned Mexicans rapists, who described non-white immigrants as “vermin” who were “poisoning the blood of our country,” language historians of fascism noted at the time was lifted almost verbatim from Mein Kampf.
They voted for him again in 2024 knowing exactly who he was, knowing what he’d promised to do, knowing that Stephen Miller had spent two years describing on podcast after podcast a deportation operation that would, in Miller’s own words, require building “very large staging facilities” and deploying the military against the civilian population.
They knew."
Yes they did absolutely know what a depraved piece of shit corrupt felon they were voting for.
DeleteThey also voted for a man that called the KKK "good people".
DeleteConcerning egg prices, it turns out egg inflation was the result of the two leading producers/distributors of eggs colluding to set the price high. They were found liable for this in a court case a couple years back.
The primary actionable driver of inflation is entities acquiring enough power (monopoly) to raise prices at will.
Don’t eat eggs.
DeleteMay the Holy Spirit grant you wisdom.
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