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Absolutely. BJ NOT an insurrection attempt to overturn an election, NOT an imperfect phone call to overturn election results in a state and NOT doc theft and attempt to conceal docs.
Congrats on one of your weakest attempts at false equivalence.
Trump is responsible for the mud drag through his conduct.
Immaterial now.
Critics are blasting Robert Regan, a Republican nominee for the Michigan House of Representatives, for publicly comparing the 2020 presidential election to a rape.
"I tell my daughters, 'Well, if rape is inevitable, you should just lie back and enjoy it,'" Regan joked on a Facebook livestream.
"That was a shameful comment," said Amber Harris, a Republican strategist, of Regan's rape remarks. The livestream's host, Adam de Angeli, told WXMI that Regan "misspoke," adding, "Maybe not the best analogy, but he was speaking extemporaneously."
Advocates say rape victims are often asked why they didn't "fight back" and are often blamed for their own rape because they "secretly enjoyed it."
The livestream was sponsored by the conservative Michigan Rescue Coalition, which supports former President Donald Trump's baseless claim that the 2020 election was "stolen." Regan said that, if elected, he'd continue to support efforts to decertify the election and "give it back to the rightful owner," Donald Trump.
To counterbalance Regan's assertion, WXMI reported that Trump's election fraud claims have been debunked by numerous audits, court rulings and investigations.
https://www.newsweek.com/lie-back-enjoy-it-if-raped-state-rep-jokes-hed-tell-daughters-1685698
Baseless assertion. Starr had nothing as serious as an an insurrection incitement and obstruction of an official proceeding and doc thefts on his plate.
They're not fake. The DOJ cases in particular have a high bar for bringing indictments, that's why their win rate is 95%.
The judge is begging to be removed.
Stormy Daniels Testified That Trump Is a Terrible Date
Apparently she asked him to change out of some pretty ugly-sounding pajamas.
By Charles P. Pierce PUBLISHED: MAY 07, 2024 11:51 AM EDT
Couple a Samsonites under those eyes. 🤭
Win McNamee//Getty Image
It has come to this at last. The former president* of the United States is confronted in court by the porn star whom it is alleged he paid off to keep their canoodling quiet during his first presidential campaign. The majesty of the law on full display. And it got off to a splendid start, according to The New York Times.
Stormy Daniels is now talking about meeting Trump for dinner. She says that when he first emerged from his hotel suite, he was wearing “silk or satin” pajamas, which Daniels compared to those often sported by Hugh Hefner. She asked him to change, and he returned in more standard dress clothes.
Dude, you’re not Hef. He got there first, and he did it better.
Stormy Daniels says she asked Trump during their dinner: “Are you always this rude? Are you always this arrogant and pompous? Like you don’t even know how to have a conversation.”
Trump clearly mouths an expletive as Stormy Daniels recalls playfully spanking him with a rolled-up magazine, and saying he was much more polite afterwards.
Apparently, among his other faults, El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago proved to be a lousy first date.
Stay tuned for updates. Keep hand sanitizer handy.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a60719124/stormy-daniels-testifiy-trump-hush-money/
Check you PM's.
Poor kitty is most likely envisioning its future.
As either a team mascot or a Kellogg employee?
Yes, a mistake. But nothing is missing and the CONTENT is not less damaging and neither the prosecution nor the defense is either helped or hurt by the admission.
As far as on the news you know each network leaves out news according their affiliation,
So you allege, but only FOX News was successfully sued for doing that.
Stronger economy improves outlook for Medicare, Social Security
Benefits projected to last longer before running dry in the 2030s
By Caitlin Reilly and Jessie Hellmann
Posted May 6, 2024 at 6:18pm
https://rollcall.com/2024/05/06/stronger-economy-improves-outlook-for-medicare-social-security/
"SNIP...........
The hospital insurance trust fund, which pays for Medicare Part A benefits, will be able to pay 100 percent of total scheduled benefits until 2036, five years later than was reported by the trustees last year. Meanwhile, the outlook for Social Security improved slightly over last year’s projections by one metric and remained unchanged under another.
If combined with the program’s disability insurance trust fund, the old-age and survivors insurance trust fund could pay out the full retirement benefit until 2035, a year later than last year’s projection. At that point, Social Security benefits would face a 17 percent cut.
The results nonetheless represent “good news,” the program’s top official said Monday.
“Any potential benefit reduction event has been pushed off from 2034 to 2035. More people are contributing to Social Security, thanks to strong economic policies that have yielded impressive wage growth, historic job creation, and a steady, low unemployment rate,” Social Security Commissioner Martin O’Malley said in a statement. “So long as Americans across our country continue to work, Social Security can — and will — continue to pay benefits.”
There was no such admission, otherwise it would be all over the news. I posted this the other day on another board. It's holding up well.
LOL! Way to jump to conclusions and misrepresent matters yourself. Easy bet, no major news organization will breathlessly present this as 'case over'. Why? Docs not in the precise order that they were presented as being in does NOT change the damaging nature of the contents much less provide grounds for tossing the indictments.
And a mistake that neither advantages the prosecution nor disadvantages the defense is going nof'ingwhere.
I streamed it. That was the wrong call. Plenty of funny moments but plenty also that fell flat.
Our Call: Apologies in advance: Unfrosted flails fruitlessly. SKIP IT.
Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Unfrosted’ on Netflix, Jerry Seinfeld’s Scattershot Assemblage of Dumb Jokes Posing as a Loony Spoof
https://decider.com/2024/05/03/jerry-seinfeld-unfrosted-netflix-review/
Memorable Dialogue: Sample exchange that’s a good example of the type of comedy we get here:
Bob: Did you get my memo about the frogman prize inside? Some kids are eating them.
Edsel: They’re frogmen. They’ll find their way out.
The Gist: BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN. THE EARLY ’60S. The cereal wars are at their peak. In one corner, Kellogg’s, as in Rice Krispies and Corn Flakes. In the other, Post, as in Alpha Bits and (shudder) Grape Nuts. Two corporate HQs, right across the street from each other. We meet Bob Cabana (Seinfeld), a higher-up at Kellogg’s who reports directly to the head honcho, Edsel Kellogg III (Gaffigan).
They clean up at the annual Bowl and Spoon awards – even the coveted Easiest To Open Wax Bag trophy, PLEASE LAUGH! – but their rival Marjorie Post (Amy Schumer) is nonplussed about it. Not even upset. Not at all. What the hell does she have cookin’ over there? An idea for a fruit-filled pastry based on a recipe she stole from Kellogg’s, maybe? Well, crap. That seems to be it.
And that seems to be it for the plot, too, as the rest of the movie is about the race to make the thing that the movie is all about while trying not to make the movie too much like a blatant nose-to-ass commercial for various Kellogg’s products. (Note: It does not succeed. More on that in a minute.) In order to get a leg up on Post, Bob recruits the best of the best to formulate a pastry product: NASA scientist Donna Stankowski (Melissa McCarthy) leads a team including Chef Boyardee (Bobby Moynihan), the Schwinn bicycle guy (Jack McBrayer), the inventor of sea monkeys (Thomas Lennon), fitness guru Jack LaLanne (James Marsden) and some other people whose products were prominently featured in comic book ads of the era. (Hold tight for that SCORCHING HOT joke about X-ray spex!) This is just the beginning of the celeb parade, and I’ll stop myself from spoiling things so you may be underwhelmed by the drop-ins and cameos unfettered.
Hugh Grant Storms the Kellogg Capitol As Tony the Tiger in ’Unfrosted’s Bizarre Jan. 6th Parody
I can mention that Hugh Grant turns up as a thespian stooping to be the guy in the Tony the Tiger suit, and Sarah Cooper plays a Kellogg’s employee whose only reason to exist is to make us go, “Hey, isn’t that Sarah Cooper, the funny lady who posted the Trump lip-sync videos on Twitter during the pandemic?”
Meanwhile, the competition between Marjorie Post and the Kellogg’s guys heats up like a thing you plug into the wall and put bread into to make it hot and crisp. Tony the Tiger leads a mascot strike, two children characters seem to live in various dumpsters, Bob and Edsel work every corporate-espionage angle to sabotage their rivals’ work, there’s recurring jokes about “buttock rashes,” early gags function as setups for later gags, we nearly drown in dopey mid-century nostalgia and are we worn out by all this yet? Yeah, kinda.
There’s a story here, a corporate competition that winkingly parallels the Cold War and the Space Race, but that bit of inspiration dies with a sigh as Unfrosted shows a marked inability to focus on anything, as if it ate too much ultra-sugary you-know-what and spent the rest of the morning twitching like a methed-out chihuahua.
The period details look good and expensive, the set pieces and costumes bursting with color, thus showing some sense of vision; perhaps the goal is to appeal to the child inside recent suburbanite retirees, and reminisce on the time period with equal parts warmth and typically Seinfeldian nihilism. Not, as they say, that there’s anything wrong with that, but this thing nearly becomes Cutaway Gag: The Movie as it waffles and diddlefarts and screws around, in increasingly grating fashion, miring potentially funny ideas (the Milk Mafia; a South American sugar cartel) within too many dumbass bits (a runaway monster that’s a hybrid of a sea monkey colony and a ravioli) and rapid-fire celeb cameos that seem engineered to distract us from the fact that this movie has no purpose whatsoever.
Considering the ongoing too-easy commentary about the unhealthiness of heavily sugared pseudofood for children, even the movie’s existence as a cynical exercise in product placement is half-assed.
As ever, comedy is subjective. Jokes that might land in your house are just as likely to feel like they’re landing on mine – I can already hear apologists saying they laughed at Unfrosted more than they didn’t, which justifies their time, and that’s fair enough. But that’s a long way of saying your mileage may vary, and wildly.
Seinfeld the sitcom has aged well, but that may be Larry David’s influence, as Seinfeld’s stand-up and general sensibility is increasingly creaky. It’s strange how a staple of Seinfeld’s stand-up translates so passionlessly to this movie – he’s been doing that bit so long, you’d think it’d be something he actually cares about. But there’s very little intent here beyond being a parade of big, dumb jokes that are too silly by half. There’s also the unavoidable sense that a movie isn’t the best place for these jokes, that Seinfeld lazily threw together bits that worked fine on stage and called it good.
Funny, coming from a commie dupe. Please enlighten us on what is 'really' going on between those two countries.
The president is delivering a speech right now that shows the Dems real support of the Jews. ALL of the Holocaust deniers are RW morons. Remember the Tiki torch assholes in Charlotte chanting 'the Jews will not replace us'?
Who were they? ANTIFA? BLM? Nope, same kind of faux grievance nurturing 💩heads we saw on 1/6.
The person whose behavior today most closely resembles that of Hitler is Putin, the 💩heel that Trump has NEVER said a critical word about. Rather he suggested that Putin could do whatever he wants with NATO countries that Trump falsely accused of not paying enough.
Not to be outdone the GOP House Russian Caucus withheld funds for Ukraine for 6 months.
Now THOSE are some f'ing commie lovers.
And those are facts on the ground that never take up residence in your head.
JEFF TIEDRICH
MAY 06, 2024
MAGA judges sure love to be handed free shit. think of it as judicial welfare.
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/oh-gee-look-whos-corrupt-as-fuck
look at Sam Alito. his plutocrat pals are continually loading him into their private jets and shuttling him off to one luxury all-expenses-paid vacation after another. does Fishin’ Trip Sammy pay back his benefactors by ruling the way they tell him to? does Donald Trump shit in a courtroom?
Clarence Thomas is such a greedy fuckface that he threatened to quit the Supreme Court if someone didn’t augment his “measly” Court income. Nazi memorabilia aficionado Harlan Crow stood up and said “I got this, bro” and for the last two decades has been pretty much underwriting Clarence and Ginni’s entire lavish lifestyle.
well, you’ll never guess who else just got caught with her hand in this fun cookie jar: Number One Trump Fangirl Judge Aileen “Classified Documents? I Don’t See Any Classified Documents” Cannon.
you see, there’s a federal ethics law that requires judges to disclose all gifts they receive. NPR started looking into judges who have been flouting this rule and — uh-fucking-oh — there was Judge Fangirl, right smack in the middle of the list.
Cannon, herself a Trump appointee, attended two seminars at a luxury resort in Montana, but the privately funded seminar disclosures for both events were not posted online until NPR began making inquiries.
awesome, just awesome. Aileen got caught red-handed and when asked to comment, the required disclosures magically appeared, just like that — and then she tried to pull this fast one:
Clerk of court Angela Noble told NPR in an email that the absence of the disclosures was due to technical issues and that “Any omissions to the website are completely inadvertent.”
yeah, “technical issues,” right. technical, as in “technically, Donny says I’m his favorite judge and laws don’t apply to me, either.”
what do you think would happen if it came out that, for example, George Soros took Judge Merchan out for a cheeseburger, and Merchan didn’t report it?
all hell would break loose, that’s what. the entire wingnut outrage-industrial complex would shit a massive brick. Fox News would turn it into a months-long scandal. Donny Trump would immediately file for a mistrial, and then never shut the fuck up about rigged Democrat judges for the rest of his miserable life.
so where is our worthless corporate-controlled media? because as of this morning, exactly two outlets have covered this story.
New York Times, are you out there? Washington Post? Los Angeles Times? anyone? hello?
crickets. fucking crickets.
speaking of Sundowning Grandpa ShitzInPantz, he had the entire weekend off from his Manhattan trial. so, did he get any campaigning in? fuck no — he spent Saturday and Sunday holed up in his dilapidated Florida golf motel.
Saturday, Donny held a fundraiser — and holy cow, the degenerate dipshit was a whining trainwreck from the word go.
At another point, he complained about having to take so many pictures with donors and told people in the crowd that if they didn’t get a picture, it was because they didn’t give enough money. He also claimed that a wedding at the property got preference over the donors because the wedding was paying more per person to be there.
what a petty little shitstain. this was a $40,000-a-plate event, by the way. imagine shelling out forty large with the promise that you’ll get to rub elbows with Dear Leader — and then being told to your face, fuck you. no photo for you, cheapskate.
It's hard not to be concerned when it *might* be someone you know ....
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10182008836
And a 'useful idiot'? To the commies for sure. For us on this board? A useful speedbag with which to work out on.
And some Trumpanzees lament/ridicule the time they think we must devote to posting responses here. I read their 💩 and the words flow from my mind to my fingertips on the keyboard with⚡️ rapidity. Good thing the keyboard is buffered.
And all of what I've posted on the subject can be checked for accuracy. Why not check the points I made in the post you've responded to?
Plenty of phrases you can crank into the Google machine to check out my claims and refute your sweeping generalizations.
Here is Google's AI response to the question I posed.....Do Google search results show a liberal bias?
Gemini
This is a complex question with no easy answer. There are studies that come to different conclusions. Some people believe Google prioritizes liberal news sources, while others say the algorithms focus on authority and trustworthiness.
Here's a summary of what you might find:
Studies on bias: Stanford research suggests Google's algorithm emphasizes reliable sources over political leanings [search results not biased along party lines stanford university].
Arguments for bias: Some argue that because many established news sources have a center-left viewpoint, this inherently favors liberal perspectives [I Thought Google Was Biased, But The Data Shows They're Not - Ahrefs].
Focus on trustworthiness: Google claims their algorithms prioritize websites with good reputations, which may not always align perfectly with every political viewpoint [Why does google Push liberal news sources, proven false countless times, to the top of my search? - Google Search Community - Google Help].
BIG surprise, websites with 💩 reputations are NOT prioritized. Sorry zerorhedge and gateway pundit.
Here are some tips for evaluating search results:
Look at a variety of sources: Google tries to show you comprehensive results, so look beyond the first page and consider viewpoints from across the political spectrum.
Evaluate the source: Consider the reputation and potential bias of the websites you find.
And THERE is your problem; you BELIEVE 💩 that is not true, not factual.
Do Google search results show a liberal bias?
ChatGPT
The question of bias in Google search results is a topic of ongoing debate and scrutiny. Some individuals and groups have argued that Google's search results exhibit a liberal bias, meaning they allegedly favor liberal or left-leaning perspectives over conservative ones.
However, Google has consistently maintained that its search algorithms are designed to provide users with relevant and authoritative information, rather than to promote any particular political ideology. Google has stated that its algorithms prioritize factors such as relevance, quality, and user experience when ranking search results.
That said, studies and investigations have been conducted to examine potential bias in search results. Some have suggested that certain search results may reflect the underlying biases present in society, including those related to political beliefs. However, determining whether these biases are intentional or the result of algorithmic processes is complex.
Ultimately, perceptions of bias in Google search results often depend on individual perspectives and interpretations. While some users may perceive a bias in the results they see, others may not share the same viewpoint. Additionally, Google continually refines its algorithms to improve the quality and relevance of its search results while minimizing the impact of potential biases.
Asked AND answered. YOUR burden IS to prove that political contributions cause the donators to Dems to undermine the Google business model to produce liberal content search results. If so how then a 90% market share UNLESS all Google users are liberals, and even then? 90% of Americans are not liberals, you f'ing bonehead.
And as I mentioned I DO find search results, fact checks, that contradict liberal assertions. That it doesn't happen as often as contradictions of conservative assertions simply proves it's not a joke that facts have a liberal bias.
How could they not considering the prevalence of RW conspiracy theories junk science beliefs and free range bull💩?
Many conservatives also BELIEVE that the Covid vaxxes don't work, the election was stolen and Trump is innocent of ALL that he has been charged with. Conservative beliefs are hardly a model for critical thinking skills much less a substitute for facts.
And spare me your conclusion jumping about early AI miscues. Do you think the one that you cite means the end of AI or a 'race to a solution'?
No I'm not a programmer, neither am I dumb enough to posit, without proof, that a search engine 'inherits bias'.
I'm a trust but verify guy that a 90% Google market share includes conservatives who DO trust google search results.
How is that a 'company of liberals' IS so widely trusted?
The dissonance is all yours unless or until you back up your assertions with something other than your beliefs.
You've read this many, many, times here. It is accurate and verifiable.
The Infrastructure Bill and the Chips and Science Bill funds are both disproportionately going to red states.
Both the state of disrepair in red state roads and bridges and the need for rural broadband expansion assure that disproportionate flow of money.
Chip factory construction is so far running 50/50 red/blue. But the cap on insulin prices for Medicare diabetes patients tips the scale, pun intended, for more C&S funds toward red states.
You've also read that the economy disproportionally works better under Dems and GOPERS too often to be a coincidence. To the extent that red states have an economy, a rising tides lifts......
Plenty of phrases you can crank into the Google machine to check out my claims and refute your sweeping generalizations.
Besides, Trump has already been cast in the remake of The Red Shoes, renamed The Orange Shoes at his request.
The Red Shoes is a 1948 British drama film written, directed, and produced by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It follows Victoria Page (Moira Shearer), an aspiring ballerina who joins the world-renowned Ballet Lermontov, owned and operated by Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook), who tests her dedication to the ballet by making her choose between her career and her romance with composer Julian Craster (Marius Goring).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Shoes_%281948_film%29
His Character has also been renamed Boris Rotundtov; viewed as a small indignity by a man desperate for box office receipts.
When God came into the garden, they hid from him. He noticed that they had eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge, and turned them out of Paradise. “To Adam he said, ‘Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it’, cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust and to dust you shall return.” After the fall, Adam named his wife Eve (which means ‘life’ in Hebrew), as the mother of all living, the progenitrix of all human beings.
Adam: *ok, ok, I get all that. Sounds harsh but you got a job to do, I suppose. Can I at least stick my tongue down her throat?
*Early Smart Ass-Magnon.
How The Right Wing Media Killed Its Own Audience To Own The Libs
The right wing or Republican media has long been engulfed in scandals. Fox “News” fired chairman Roger Ailes and top rated entertainer Bill O’Reilly after they paid out $40 million in settlements for sexual harassment. Fox paid a whopping $787 settlement to settle a lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems after Fox falsely claimed that Dominion stole the 2020 election. Rush Limbaugh nearly lost his show in 2012 after he said he wanted to watch imaginary sex tapes of a graduate student who spoke out against GOP opposition to birth control.
The biggest right wing media scandal of all time was when they waged a campaign against the Covid-19 vaccine in 2021–22. For over a year, Fox’s highest rated entertainers waged a nightly sabotage campaign against the vaccination effort. In addition, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton waged a sabotage campaign on AM right wing talk radio. These are the entertainers who succeeded Rush Limbaugh.
The reason for the sabotage campaign was that the GOP wanted to prolong the pandemic in the hopes that it would hurt Joe Biden and the Democrats. The GOP opposed both mask and vaccine mandates. Trump refused to wear a mask because it would mess up his bizarre make up. And an integral part of the disinformation campaign was waged by the right wing media’s most popular entertainers. This campaign killed their own audience and possibly cost the GOP the 2022 elections.
What made Fox’s sabotage campaign especially outrageous was that 90% of Fox’s staff was vaccinated. The right wing network had a vaccine mandate for its employees. The entertainers who disparaged the vaccine rollout never mentioned it on their shows. In addition, Tucker Carlson refused to answer questions as to whether was vaccinated for Covid-19.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/5/6/2239188/-How-The-Right-Wing-Media-Killed-Its-Own-Audience-To-Own-The-Libs
Fox also sabotaged Biden’s vaccine rollout for ratings and profit. A Fox insider speaking anonymously said that the anti-vax commentary is “great for ratings,” and that’s what matters to the network’s owners and shareholders. All that mattered to them was that their elderly and vulnerable audience tuned in. Apparently, it didn’t matter to Fox if their audience died.
CNN — July 20, 2021:
“There’s no dispute that Fox News has been delivering to its audience, of which almost 60% is in the high-risk over-65 age group, dangerously misleading information about the Covid vaccine and its rollout by the Biden administration. A report released Friday by the liberal media watchdog group Media Matters documents that the majority of vaccine-related segments that Fox News aired over the past two weeks “repeatedly fearmongered about and downplayed the need for continued vaccination campaigns.
Carlson emerged as perhaps the nation’s foremost coronavirus vaccine skeptic, using his massive platform to argue that the vaccines are less effective and more dangerous than advertised and that his viewers should be deeply concerned about the campaign to get the public to take them.
Ingraham’s primetime show delves into many of the same themes and she is particularly focused on suggesting that the vaccines are useless by mocking prominent people who were infected despite being vaccinated.
Specifically, Media Matters found the between June 28 through July 11, “Fox News aired 129 segments about coronavirus vaccines. Of those, 57% included claims that either undermined or downplayed immunization efforts.
Even worse, Media Matters notes, “Thirty-seven percent of segments included claims suggesting that vaccines are unnecessary or dangerous.” Just one example cited was Fox News host Laura Ingraham, who on her show last week touted “natural immunity” over the Covid vaccine.”
Media Matters — March 7, 2023 :
“Clay Travis is a prolific purveyor of coronavirus misinformation. He has downplayed the severity of COVID-19, insisted effective precautions such as masks do nothing, and fearmongered about and denied the efficacy of vaccines.
Notably, Travis supported the baseless anti-vaccine conspiracy theory that there is an increase in cardiovascular complications in athletes tied to the COVID-19 vaccine.”
The right wing media’s campaign to sabotage the Covid-19 vaccine rollout was deadly effective. According to the Kaiser Foundation, 92% of Democrats were vaccinated, 68% of Independents, and 56% of Republicans.
As a consequence of the GOP’s sabotage campaign, a disproportionate number of Republican voters were killed by Covid-19.
The states with the highest COVID death rates in 2021:
1. Oklahoma
2. Alabama
3. W. Virginia
4. Arizona
5. Kentucky
6. Mississippi
7. Wyoming
8. Florida
9. Georgia
10. S. Carolina
Source: Johns Hopkins; U.S. Census; CDC
Trump carried 8 out of 10 of these states. None of them are blue states.
National Public Radio conducted a study and issued its findings on May 19, 2022:
“NPR examined COVID deaths per 100,000 people in roughly 3,000 counties across the U.S. from May 2021, the point at which most Americans could find a vaccine if they wanted one. Those living in counties that voted 60% or higher for Trump in November 2020 had 2.26 times the death rate of those that went by the same margin for Biden.
The scale of the preventable loss of life is staggering. According to a recent analysis by Brown University, nearly 320,000 lives nationwide could have been saved if more people had chosen to get vaccinated. The Brown analysis also shows a partisan split in how those preventable deaths are distributed. States that went most heavily for Trump — including Wyoming and West Virginia — have among the highest rates of preventable deaths, while states that voted heavily for Biden — such as Massachusetts and Vermont — had among the lowest. “
According to a 2023 Yale University study:
“Researchers from Yale University who studied the pandemic’s effects on those two states say that from the pandemic’s start in March 2020 through December 2021, excess mortality was significantly higher for Republican voters than Democratic voters after COVID-19 vaccines were available to all adults, but not before.”
Politico on December 8, 2022:
“Republicans accounted for about 80 percent more of the excess deaths than Democrats. Part of this is because of vaccine hesitancy; part of it is because of the age profile of voters.
Now there is evidence that the demographic change spurred by Republicans’ and Democrats’ divergent responses to the pandemic likely cost Republicans a number of key seats in the 2022 midterms. And the fallout, fueled by cross-country migration and even the Covid death toll, could linger into 2024 and beyond.”
Somebody made Donald Trump aware of the fact that his followers weren’t getting vaccinated and that it may cost him future elections. At an Alabama rally on August 22, 2021, Trump urged his followers to get vaccinated. He was loudly booed and quickly backtracked on that advice at the rally. Trump never talked about it again.
Another aspect of this scandal that is never mentioned is that elected Republican officials quietly stood by and took no actions to prevent the right wing media from killing their supporters. That is yet another indicator that Fox and the right wing entertainers on AM radio run the GOP. That is why the GOP is so extreme. As former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum said: “Republicans originally thought Fox worked for us. Then we discovered that we work for Fox.”
Do you want the GOP in charge again? It is no coincidence that the last two Republican presidents led the United States into disaster. This is the direct result of the GOP’s bankrupt governing philosophy that rejects science, expertise and government itself. The Republicans like to tell us that government doesn’t work and then they wreck government in order to prove it.
Trump and the GOP are overrated by the pundits and the polls. Republicans are celebrating polls. Democrats are celebrating victories.
How The Right Wing Media Killed Its Own Audience To Own The Libs
The right wing or Republican media has long been engulfed in scandals. Fox “News” fired chairman Roger Ailes and top rated entertainer Bill O’Reilly after they paid out $40 million in settlements for sexual harassment. Fox paid a whopping $787 settlement to settle a lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems after Fox falsely claimed that Dominion stole the 2020 election. Rush Limbaugh nearly lost his show in 2012 after he said he wanted to watch imaginary sex tapes of a graduate student who spoke out against GOP opposition to birth control.
The biggest right wing media scandal of all time was when they waged a campaign against the Covid-19 vaccine in 2021–22. For over a year, Fox’s highest rated entertainers waged a nightly sabotage campaign against the vaccination effort. In addition, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton waged a sabotage campaign on AM right wing talk radio. These are the entertainers who succeeded Rush Limbaugh.
The reason for the sabotage campaign was that the GOP wanted to prolong the pandemic in the hopes that it would hurt Joe Biden and the Democrats. The GOP opposed both mask and vaccine mandates. Trump refused to wear a mask because it would mess up his bizarre make up. And an integral part of the disinformation campaign was waged by the right wing media’s most popular entertainers. This campaign killed their own audience and possibly cost the GOP the 2022 elections.
What made Fox’s sabotage campaign especially outrageous was that 90% of Fox’s staff was vaccinated. The right wing network had a vaccine mandate for its employees. The entertainers who disparaged the vaccine rollout never mentioned it on their shows. In addition, Tucker Carlson refused to answer questions as to whether was vaccinated for Covid-19.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/5/6/2239188/-How-The-Right-Wing-Media-Killed-Its-Own-Audience-To-Own-The-Libs
Fox also sabotaged Biden’s vaccine rollout for ratings and profit. A Fox insider speaking anonymously said that the anti-vax commentary is “great for ratings,” and that’s what matters to the network’s owners and shareholders. All that mattered to them was that their elderly and vulnerable audience tuned in. Apparently, it didn’t matter to Fox if their audience died.
CNN — July 20, 2021:
“There’s no dispute that Fox News has been delivering to its audience, of which almost 60% is in the high-risk over-65 age group, dangerously misleading information about the Covid vaccine and its rollout by the Biden administration. A report released Friday by the liberal media watchdog group Media Matters documents that the majority of vaccine-related segments that Fox News aired over the past two weeks “repeatedly fearmongered about and downplayed the need for continued vaccination campaigns.
Carlson emerged as perhaps the nation’s foremost coronavirus vaccine skeptic, using his massive platform to argue that the vaccines are less effective and more dangerous than advertised and that his viewers should be deeply concerned about the campaign to get the public to take them.
Ingraham’s primetime show delves into many of the same themes and she is particularly focused on suggesting that the vaccines are useless by mocking prominent people who were infected despite being vaccinated.
Specifically, Media Matters found the between June 28 through July 11, “Fox News aired 129 segments about coronavirus vaccines. Of those, 57% included claims that either undermined or downplayed immunization efforts.
Even worse, Media Matters notes, “Thirty-seven percent of segments included claims suggesting that vaccines are unnecessary or dangerous.” Just one example cited was Fox News host Laura Ingraham, who on her show last week touted “natural immunity” over the Covid vaccine.”
Media Matters — March 7, 2023 :
“Clay Travis is a prolific purveyor of coronavirus misinformation. He has downplayed the severity of COVID-19, insisted effective precautions such as masks do nothing, and fearmongered about and denied the efficacy of vaccines.
Notably, Travis supported the baseless anti-vaccine conspiracy theory that there is an increase in cardiovascular complications in athletes tied to the COVID-19 vaccine.”
The right wing media’s campaign to sabotage the Covid-19 vaccine rollout was deadly effective. According to the Kaiser Foundation, 92% of Democrats were vaccinated, 68% of Independents, and 56% of Republicans.
As a consequence of the GOP’s sabotage campaign, a disproportionate number of Republican voters were killed by Covid-19.
The states with the highest COVID death rates in 2021:
1. Oklahoma
2. Alabama
3. W. Virginia
4. Arizona
5. Kentucky
6. Mississippi
7. Wyoming
8. Florida
9. Georgia
10. S. Carolina
Source: Johns Hopkins; U.S. Census; CDC
Trump carried 8 out of 10 of these states. None of them are blue states.
National Public Radio conducted a study and issued its findings on May 19, 2022:
“NPR examined COVID deaths per 100,000 people in roughly 3,000 counties across the U.S. from May 2021, the point at which most Americans could find a vaccine if they wanted one. Those living in counties that voted 60% or higher for Trump in November 2020 had 2.26 times the death rate of those that went by the same margin for Biden.
The scale of the preventable loss of life is staggering. According to a recent analysis by Brown University, nearly 320,000 lives nationwide could have been saved if more people had chosen to get vaccinated. The Brown analysis also shows a partisan split in how those preventable deaths are distributed. States that went most heavily for Trump — including Wyoming and West Virginia — have among the highest rates of preventable deaths, while states that voted heavily for Biden — such as Massachusetts and Vermont — had among the lowest. “
According to a 2023 Yale University study:
“Researchers from Yale University who studied the pandemic’s effects on those two states say that from the pandemic’s start in March 2020 through December 2021, excess mortality was significantly higher for Republican voters than Democratic voters after COVID-19 vaccines were available to all adults, but not before.”
Politico on December 8, 2022:
“Republicans accounted for about 80 percent more of the excess deaths than Democrats. Part of this is because of vaccine hesitancy; part of it is because of the age profile of voters.
Now there is evidence that the demographic change spurred by Republicans’ and Democrats’ divergent responses to the pandemic likely cost Republicans a number of key seats in the 2022 midterms. And the fallout, fueled by cross-country migration and even the Covid death toll, could linger into 2024 and beyond.”
Somebody made Donald Trump aware of the fact that his followers weren’t getting vaccinated and that it may cost him future elections. At an Alabama rally on August 22, 2021, Trump urged his followers to get vaccinated. He was loudly booed and quickly backtracked on that advice at the rally. Trump never talked about it again.
Another aspect of this scandal that is never mentioned is that elected Republican officials quietly stood by and took no actions to prevent the right wing media from killing their supporters. That is yet another indicator that Fox and the right wing entertainers on AM radio run the GOP. That is why the GOP is so extreme. As former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum said: “Republicans originally thought Fox worked for us. Then we discovered that we work for Fox.”
Do you want the GOP in charge again? It is no coincidence that the last two Republican presidents led the United States into disaster. This is the direct result of the GOP’s bankrupt governing philosophy that rejects science, expertise and government itself. The Republicans like to tell us that government doesn’t work and then they wreck government in order to prove it.
Trump and the GOP are overrated by the pundits and the polls. Republicans are celebrating polls. Democrats are celebrating victories.
How The Right Wing Media Killed Its Own Audience To Own The Libs
The right wing or Republican media has long been engulfed in scandals. Fox “News” fired chairman Roger Ailes and top rated entertainer Bill O’Reilly after they paid out $40 million in settlements for sexual harassment. Fox paid a whopping $787 settlement to settle a lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems after Fox falsely claimed that Dominion stole the 2020 election. Rush Limbaugh nearly lost his show in 2012 after he said he wanted to watch imaginary sex tapes of a graduate student who spoke out against GOP opposition to birth control.
The biggest right wing media scandal of all time was when they waged a campaign against the Covid-19 vaccine in 2021–22. For over a year, Fox’s highest rated entertainers waged a nightly sabotage campaign against the vaccination effort. In addition, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton waged a sabotage campaign on AM right wing talk radio. These are the entertainers who succeeded Rush Limbaugh.
The reason for the sabotage campaign was that the GOP wanted to prolong the pandemic in the hopes that it would hurt Joe Biden and the Democrats. The GOP opposed both mask and vaccine mandates. Trump refused to wear a mask because it would mess up his bizarre make up. And an integral part of the disinformation campaign was waged by the right wing media’s most popular entertainers. This campaign killed their own audience and possibly cost the GOP the 2022 elections.
What made Fox’s sabotage campaign especially outrageous was that 90% of Fox’s staff was vaccinated. The right wing network had a vaccine mandate for its employees. The entertainers who disparaged the vaccine rollout never mentioned it on their shows. In addition, Tucker Carlson refused to answer questions as to whether was vaccinated for Covid-19.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/5/6/2239188/-How-The-Right-Wing-Media-Killed-Its-Own-Audience-To-Own-The-Libs
Fox also sabotaged Biden’s vaccine rollout for ratings and profit. A Fox insider speaking anonymously said that the anti-vax commentary is “great for ratings,” and that’s what matters to the network’s owners and shareholders. All that mattered to them was that their elderly and vulnerable audience tuned in. Apparently, it didn’t matter to Fox if their audience died.
CNN — July 20, 2021:
“There’s no dispute that Fox News has been delivering to its audience, of which almost 60% is in the high-risk over-65 age group, dangerously misleading information about the Covid vaccine and its rollout by the Biden administration. A report released Friday by the liberal media watchdog group Media Matters documents that the majority of vaccine-related segments that Fox News aired over the past two weeks “repeatedly fearmongered about and downplayed the need for continued vaccination campaigns.
Carlson emerged as perhaps the nation’s foremost coronavirus vaccine skeptic, using his massive platform to argue that the vaccines are less effective and more dangerous than advertised and that his viewers should be deeply concerned about the campaign to get the public to take them.
Ingraham’s primetime show delves into many of the same themes and she is particularly focused on suggesting that the vaccines are useless by mocking prominent people who were infected despite being vaccinated.
Specifically, Media Matters found the between June 28 through July 11, “Fox News aired 129 segments about coronavirus vaccines. Of those, 57% included claims that either undermined or downplayed immunization efforts.
Even worse, Media Matters notes, “Thirty-seven percent of segments included claims suggesting that vaccines are unnecessary or dangerous.” Just one example cited was Fox News host Laura Ingraham, who on her show last week touted “natural immunity” over the Covid vaccine.”
Media Matters — March 7, 2023 :
“Clay Travis is a prolific purveyor of coronavirus misinformation. He has downplayed the severity of COVID-19, insisted effective precautions such as masks do nothing, and fearmongered about and denied the efficacy of vaccines.
Notably, Travis supported the baseless anti-vaccine conspiracy theory that there is an increase in cardiovascular complications in athletes tied to the COVID-19 vaccine.”
The right wing media’s campaign to sabotage the Covid-19 vaccine rollout was deadly effective. According to the Kaiser Foundation, 92% of Democrats were vaccinated, 68% of Independents, and 56% of Republicans.
As a consequence of the GOP’s sabotage campaign, a disproportionate number of Republican voters were killed by Covid-19.
The states with the highest COVID death rates in 2021:
1. Oklahoma
2. Alabama
3. W. Virginia
4. Arizona
5. Kentucky
6. Mississippi
7. Wyoming
8. Florida
9. Georgia
10. S. Carolina
Source: Johns Hopkins; U.S. Census; CDC
Trump carried 8 out of 10 of these states. None of them are blue states.
National Public Radio conducted a study and issued its findings on May 19, 2022:
“NPR examined COVID deaths per 100,000 people in roughly 3,000 counties across the U.S. from May 2021, the point at which most Americans could find a vaccine if they wanted one. Those living in counties that voted 60% or higher for Trump in November 2020 had 2.26 times the death rate of those that went by the same margin for Biden.
The scale of the preventable loss of life is staggering. According to a recent analysis by Brown University, nearly 320,000 lives nationwide could have been saved if more people had chosen to get vaccinated. The Brown analysis also shows a partisan split in how those preventable deaths are distributed. States that went most heavily for Trump — including Wyoming and West Virginia — have among the highest rates of preventable deaths, while states that voted heavily for Biden — such as Massachusetts and Vermont — had among the lowest. “
According to a 2023 Yale University study:
“Researchers from Yale University who studied the pandemic’s effects on those two states say that from the pandemic’s start in March 2020 through December 2021, excess mortality was significantly higher for Republican voters than Democratic voters after COVID-19 vaccines were available to all adults, but not before.”
Politico on December 8, 2022:
“Republicans accounted for about 80 percent more of the excess deaths than Democrats. Part of this is because of vaccine hesitancy; part of it is because of the age profile of voters.
Now there is evidence that the demographic change spurred by Republicans’ and Democrats’ divergent responses to the pandemic likely cost Republicans a number of key seats in the 2022 midterms. And the fallout, fueled by cross-country migration and even the Covid death toll, could linger into 2024 and beyond.”
Somebody made Donald Trump aware of the fact that his followers weren’t getting vaccinated and that it may cost him future elections. At an Alabama rally on August 22, 2021, Trump urged his followers to get vaccinated. He was loudly booed and quickly backtracked on that advice at the rally. Trump never talked about it again.
Another aspect of this scandal that is never mentioned is that elected Republican officials quietly stood by and took no actions to prevent the right wing media from killing their supporters. That is yet another indicator that Fox and the right wing entertainers on AM radio run the GOP. That is why the GOP is so extreme. As former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum said: “Republicans originally thought Fox worked for us. Then we discovered that we work for Fox.”
Do you want the GOP in charge again? It is no coincidence that the last two Republican presidents led the United States into disaster. This is the direct result of the GOP’s bankrupt governing philosophy that rejects science, expertise and government itself. The Republicans like to tell us that government doesn’t work and then they wreck government in order to prove it.
Trump and the GOP are overrated by the pundits and the polls. Republicans are celebrating polls. Democrats are celebrating victories.
How The Right Wing Media Killed Its Own Audience To Own The Libs
The right wing or Republican media has long been engulfed in scandals. Fox “News” fired chairman Roger Ailes and top rated entertainer Bill O’Reilly after they paid out $40 million in settlements for sexual harassment. Fox paid a whopping $787 settlement to settle a lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems after Fox falsely claimed that Dominion stole the 2020 election. Rush Limbaugh nearly lost his show in 2012 after he said he wanted to watch imaginary sex tapes of a graduate student who spoke out against GOP opposition to birth control.
The biggest right wing media scandal of all time was when they waged a campaign against the Covid-19 vaccine in 2021–22. For over a year, Fox’s highest rated entertainers waged a nightly sabotage campaign against the vaccination effort. In addition, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton waged a sabotage campaign on AM right wing talk radio. These are the entertainers who succeeded Rush Limbaugh.
The reason for the sabotage campaign was that the GOP wanted to prolong the pandemic in the hopes that it would hurt Joe Biden and the Democrats. The GOP opposed both mask and vaccine mandates. Trump refused to wear a mask because it would mess up his bizarre make up. And an integral part of the disinformation campaign was waged by the right wing media’s most popular entertainers. This campaign killed their own audience and possibly cost the GOP the 2022 elections.
What made Fox’s sabotage campaign especially outrageous was that 90% of Fox’s staff was vaccinated. The right wing network had a vaccine mandate for its employees. The entertainers who disparaged the vaccine rollout never mentioned it on their shows. In addition, Tucker Carlson refused to answer questions as to whether was vaccinated for Covid-19.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/5/6/2239188/-How-The-Right-Wing-Media-Killed-Its-Own-Audience-To-Own-The-Libs
Fox also sabotaged Biden’s vaccine rollout for ratings and profit. A Fox insider speaking anonymously said that the anti-vax commentary is “great for ratings,” and that’s what matters to the network’s owners and shareholders. All that mattered to them was that their elderly and vulnerable audience tuned in. Apparently, it didn’t matter to Fox if their audience died.
CNN — July 20, 2021:
“There’s no dispute that Fox News has been delivering to its audience, of which almost 60% is in the high-risk over-65 age group, dangerously misleading information about the Covid vaccine and its rollout by the Biden administration. A report released Friday by the liberal media watchdog group Media Matters documents that the majority of vaccine-related segments that Fox News aired over the past two weeks “repeatedly fearmongered about and downplayed the need for continued vaccination campaigns.
Carlson emerged as perhaps the nation’s foremost coronavirus vaccine skeptic, using his massive platform to argue that the vaccines are less effective and more dangerous than advertised and that his viewers should be deeply concerned about the campaign to get the public to take them.
Ingraham’s primetime show delves into many of the same themes and she is particularly focused on suggesting that the vaccines are useless by mocking prominent people who were infected despite being vaccinated.
Specifically, Media Matters found the between June 28 through July 11, “Fox News aired 129 segments about coronavirus vaccines. Of those, 57% included claims that either undermined or downplayed immunization efforts.
Even worse, Media Matters notes, “Thirty-seven percent of segments included claims suggesting that vaccines are unnecessary or dangerous.” Just one example cited was Fox News host Laura Ingraham, who on her show last week touted “natural immunity” over the Covid vaccine.”
Media Matters — March 7, 2023 :
“Clay Travis is a prolific purveyor of coronavirus misinformation. He has downplayed the severity of COVID-19, insisted effective precautions such as masks do nothing, and fearmongered about and denied the efficacy of vaccines.
Notably, Travis supported the baseless anti-vaccine conspiracy theory that there is an increase in cardiovascular complications in athletes tied to the COVID-19 vaccine.”
The right wing media’s campaign to sabotage the Covid-19 vaccine rollout was deadly effective. According to the Kaiser Foundation, 92% of Democrats were vaccinated, 68% of Independents, and 56% of Republicans.
As a consequence of the GOP’s sabotage campaign, a disproportionate number of Republican voters were killed by Covid-19.
The states with the highest COVID death rates in 2021:
1. Oklahoma
2. Alabama
3. W. Virginia
4. Arizona
5. Kentucky
6. Mississippi
7. Wyoming
8. Florida
9. Georgia
10. S. Carolina
Source: Johns Hopkins; U.S. Census; CDC
Trump carried 8 out of 10 of these states. None of them are blue states.
National Public Radio conducted a study and issued its findings on May 19, 2022:
“NPR examined COVID deaths per 100,000 people in roughly 3,000 counties across the U.S. from May 2021, the point at which most Americans could find a vaccine if they wanted one. Those living in counties that voted 60% or higher for Trump in November 2020 had 2.26 times the death rate of those that went by the same margin for Biden.
The scale of the preventable loss of life is staggering. According to a recent analysis by Brown University, nearly 320,000 lives nationwide could have been saved if more people had chosen to get vaccinated. The Brown analysis also shows a partisan split in how those preventable deaths are distributed. States that went most heavily for Trump — including Wyoming and West Virginia — have among the highest rates of preventable deaths, while states that voted heavily for Biden — such as Massachusetts and Vermont — had among the lowest. “
According to a 2023 Yale University study:
“Researchers from Yale University who studied the pandemic’s effects on those two states say that from the pandemic’s start in March 2020 through December 2021, excess mortality was significantly higher for Republican voters than Democratic voters after COVID-19 vaccines were available to all adults, but not before.”
Politico on December 8, 2022:
“Republicans accounted for about 80 percent more of the excess deaths than Democrats. Part of this is because of vaccine hesitancy; part of it is because of the age profile of voters.
Now there is evidence that the demographic change spurred by Republicans’ and Democrats’ divergent responses to the pandemic likely cost Republicans a number of key seats in the 2022 midterms. And the fallout, fueled by cross-country migration and even the Covid death toll, could linger into 2024 and beyond.”
Somebody made Donald Trump aware of the fact that his followers weren’t getting vaccinated and that it may cost him future elections. At an Alabama rally on August 22, 2021, Trump urged his followers to get vaccinated. He was loudly booed and quickly backtracked on that advice at the rally. Trump never talked about it again.
Another aspect of this scandal that is never mentioned is that elected Republican officials quietly stood by and took no actions to prevent the right wing media from killing their supporters. That is yet another indicator that Fox and the right wing entertainers on AM radio run the GOP. That is why the GOP is so extreme. As former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum said: “Republicans originally thought Fox worked for us. Then we discovered that we work for Fox.”
Do you want the GOP in charge again? It is no coincidence that the last two Republican presidents led the United States into disaster. This is the direct result of the GOP’s bankrupt governing philosophy that rejects science, expertise and government itself. The Republicans like to tell us that government doesn’t work and then they wreck government in order to prove it.
Trump and the GOP are overrated by the pundits and the polls. Republicans are celebrating polls. Democrats are celebrating victories.
Spoken like a pure bred f'ing NAZI. Trump is more likely to be the one gutted in a lock-up.
Nice try with the Tucker Carlson 'just asking' bullshit.
How much is commie lover Trump getting paid from the Russians to never criticize Putin?
Just asking.
Posting 'the COMMIE PARTY', repeatedly, while overlooking the GOP Russian caucus in the House AND your Putin ass-kissing candidate who has NEVER criticized the commie thug Putin, who in fact groveled while standing next to Putin in Helsinki with his gutless ' I don't know why they would interfere', is not only the definition of insanity but the definition of treason weasel as well.
What DO you ahistorical assholes think Reagan would say if he came back and got a good look at today's GOP?
What I just said, you're a bunch of gutless treason weasel, insurrection supporting, f'ing morons.
That's a chicken 💩 distinction because Trump could no more stop at one day's worth of dictatorship than he could stop his daily consumption of KFC and hamburders.
You're not even a good cherry picker anymore. From your own link
The poll, released on Sunday from ABC News and Ipsos, also found that, among people already registered to vote, Biden has a razor-thin edge of one point, for a split of 46% to 45%. People “likely” to vote tend to favor Biden at 49% to Trump's 45%.
It was a bullshit question, everyone can see from your posts that you're a HS dropout.
That said, what you ARE paying for is that 💩 education that leaves you open to the deserved ridicule you experience here.
And lastly, its not a 'need' it's the compulsion that comes from a lack of self-awareness.
You just can't f'ing help yourself.
There sure are, and you and your fellow Trumpanzees are exhibit A.
You can't handle pushback on, deserved ridicule of, your laughable misinformation, junk science, conspiracy theories and your fake news faves Zero Hedge and GWP, without bawling like the infants you are.