Media Collapse is Inevitable, and it's a Good Morning in America! Part II

By Rich Kozlovich Tags:  Part I, Main Stream Media, Media Collapse, Media Corruption,  My Media Commentaries,

 

CNN has been tanking for years, it's continued existence is in question, and they're facing a major defamation fight with James O'Keefe they're most like to lose as the judge who ordered this case to be continued said:

"If you stay on the bench long enough, you see a lot of things. Still, I never thought I'd see a major news organization downplaying the importance of telling the truth in its broadcasts. But that is what CNN has done in this case."

 

If CNN had issued a retraction, which is what was originally asked of them, this could have been avoided, but they didn't because they deceived themselves into believing they could deliberately lie and get away with it by hiding behind the New York Time v. Sullivan decision, since actual malice is hard to prove, and it's long overdue for Sullivan to be overturned.

CNN has it's troubles, and the nation can smile.   At CNN they're going to chop hundreds, including network stars off the payroll.  

"If half the country has decided that Trump is qualified to be president, that means they're not reading any of this media, and we've lost this audience completely. A Trump victory means mainstream media is dead in its current form."..........The report cited Nielsen ratings for CNN, and also MSNBC, that revealed the networks' audiences have vanished. They're down by 40% or more. "Insiders told Puck the new round of firings will likely see on-air talent like them affected, as the network's new CEO looks to free up finances amid waning ratings," ............

In the midst of this Chris Wallace has decided to forego his seven million dollar a year salary in order to podcast.   Chris Wallace is leaving because "at 77, is eager to see what a transformed media environment has to offer, and neither he or his family want him to retire, and he wants more control over what he produces, which will be "unbiased".  Yeah right!  While I'm sure he's more than financially secure, it still comes down to this.  If he couldn't carry the freight at CNN, what makes him think he can carry the freight on his own.

Wallace, who CNN thinks is "one the the most respected political journalists int he news business" was hired at CNN to be their lead guy at CNN+ streaming service which lasted a month. 

• Even CNN’s Star Personalities Won’t Be Safe From Firings Amid Massive Ratings Drop-Off

One of the things I found interesting is all of a sudden we're seeing the worm turning on air.  In times past they made sure everyone was in lock step. No on dared dispute the leftist meme of the moment.  All over the Pravda media they played the bully boy making sure no one dared to defend conservative views, and big tech censored any one who did.  

All the panels were rigged, just like The View with one weak conservative and multiple mouthy leftists who interrupted and talked over the "conservative", constantly spewing out red herring fallacies in order to altering the subject at hand. 

But what happens when a bully has been shown to be a punk?  We're now seeing their own defending those they hate.  And even proclaiming their constant far left drum beat helped elect Trump.  Why?  Because they see the handwriting on the wall, and the bully is almost down and out.   

• Update:  CNN's Scott Jennings: I Did Not Expect Hitler to Get So Many Meeting Requests

Paraphrasing Daniel Greenfield:  "all this reflects the larger reality that most leftist organizations are interchangeable pieces of the same movement with the exact same politics who use different brands to appeal to different demographics."   For the media this is like an infectious communicable disease, and they're all collapsing together as a result.   Let's hope they continue on down that dark path.

 

Democrats Must Stop With the "Hitler" Name Calling

By Robin Itzler 

Editor's Note:  This is one of the commentaries selected from Robin's weekly newsletter Patriot Neighbors. Any cartoons appearing will have been added by me.  If you wish to get the full edition, E-mail her at PatriotNeighbors@yahoo.com to get on her list, it's free. RK 

 

Every sane person knows that Democrat leadership (starting with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris) would not have given post-election speeches proclaiming that the United States will have a peaceful transfer of power IF they really thought Donald Trump was a fascist or a Hitler. The problem is that while they know their name calling was part of the Democrat Party’s political playbook, many of their party’s indoctrinated followers don’t. As Dennis Prager wrote in “Calling Trump ‘Hitler’ Has Done Permanent Damage to the Moral Realm.” 

 “Don’t y’all find it strange that now that he’s (Trump) won, they’re not calling him a threat to democracy? They’re not calling him a fascist … I would think that, if you really believe that, then somebody’s speech would be about how America effed up and how things are about to be really bad. It just makes you wonder how much of it did they really believe or how much of it was just politics.” —Lenard McKelvey known as Charlamagne tha God

"It is beyond belief that American Jewish organizations and American veterans groups have not greeted the labeling of Trump "Hitler" with howls of protest. It is difficult to know if Hitler, Nazism and the Holocaust will ever again evoke the horror that these words have heretofore evoked.

That Jewish groups have not vigorously protested labeling Trump "Hitler" and "Nazi" only shows how deep the left-wing influence has been on most American Jewish organizations, especially the Anti-Defamation League, the organization founded to protect American Jews and combat antisemitism."

On October 25, Ric Grenell, the ambassador to Germany during Donald Trump’s first administration, resigned from the board of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum because of their “silence” following then– presidential candidate Kamala Harris’s comments comparing Trump with Adolph Hitler. Grenell wrote in his resignation letter:

"The Museum leadership's silence in the face of Vice President Kamala Harris comparing her political opponent to Adolf Hitler is dangerous. I have been a part of this Board when lesser comments about the Holocaust were debated for condemnation and action taken."

To share your thoughts with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Email: unavailable, Phone: 202-488-0400, Write: 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, DC 20024 

Update:  CNN's Scott Jennings: I Did Not Expect Hitler to Get So Many Meeting Requests

 

A Sincerity Test for the United Nations

November 18, 2024 by Dan Mitchell @ International Liberty

I get annoyed by the virtue-signalling leftism from the United Nations. And it irks me when the U.N. peddles dishonest analysis. And I’m also nauseated by the bureaucracy’s pervasive corruption.

 

But, unlike the International Monetary Fund and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the U.N. has very little ability to turn bad ideas into bad policy.

Which is why I rarely write about the United Nations. But rarely is not the same as never.

I’m going to pontificate about the U.N. today because Michael Rubin of the American Enterprise Institute has put forth a very good proposal. He wants the bureaucracy to act like it believes global warming is real.

More than 67,000 delegates are in Baku, Azerbaijan, to attend the United Nations’ annual climate summit. …The United Nations itself sent hundreds of “observers” on behalf of both U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and specialized agencies. …There is normal hypocrisy, and then there is John “[private jets are] the only choice for somebody like me,” Kerry hypocrisy — but all pale in comparison to U.N. hypocrisy. The private and jumbo jets ferrying delegates to Baku, the idling sedans and limousines, the steak dinners and caviar mock any pretense that their climate concern is real.

In reality, the annual environmental conference is glorified tourism under the guise of activism. Nothing occurs in Baku that the U.N. could not conduct online and in video breakout sessions at a tiny fraction of the cost and carbon footprint. The same is true for almost every other U.N. conference. U.N. employees often fly first or business class. If the U.N. went online, it could slash not only its travel expenses but administrative ones as well. …Moving environmental conferences online would end U.N. climate hypocrisy and could serve as a test to curtail U.N. jet-setting and shrink the administrative bureaucracy that supports that lifestyle.

Amen. This change would be good for taxpayers and good for the environment.

 

When I issued my Eighteenth Theorem of Government, I was mostly thinking about the preening nitwits in the British royal family and the hypocrites in who go to Davos.

But it obviously applies perfectly to the type of people who attend U.N. climate conferences.

P.S. I’ve participated in two conferences at the United Nations. Sadly, both were in New York City so I didn’t get to travel to some exotic location.

Exclusive: Are Vaccines and Parental Consent Headed to the Supreme Court?

Can parents opt out?

By Liberty Nation Authors  Mark Angelides and National Correspondent John Klar, Esq. Nov 18, 2024 @ Liberty Nation News, Tags: Articles, Law, Opinion

In 2021, six-year-old Leo Politella was given a COVID-19 vaccine while attending school against the direct instruction of his father. Three years later, this case could be headed to the United States Supreme Court. However, it is the path to the highest Court that may end up being the most significant facet of this story.

Liberty Nation News’ correspondent, John Klar, is an attorney on the case* who spoke exclusively with us to explore the ramifications of the upcoming filing, Politella v. Vermont.

Parental Consent

Mark Angelides: John, can you give us a brief background on how Leo came to be vaccinated against his parents’ wishes?

John Klar: Tony and Shujen Politella were not anti-vax, but because they knew the vaccine was early in development and children were at low risk from COVID-19, they did not want their son, Leo, vaccinated. Tony visited the school the week before the clinic and was assured Leo would not receive the vaccine. On the day of the clinic, Leo was given another student’s arm tag, and when he protested that he was not supposed to be vaccinated, he was distracted by the workers and jabbed against his will. It should be noted that Vermont schools received cash awards from the state if they achieved high vaccination rates.

 

MA: What happened when this was first brought to state court? And what do you think are the further ramifications of Vermont’s ruling?

JK: The family did not sue for vaccine injury against a manufacturer but for breach of duty by government representatives. The trial court surprisingly ruled that the federal PREP Act, which governs emergency vaccines such as the one used on Leo, provided immunity to the school officials. The Vermont Supreme Court agreed, so this becomes a binding precedent for future instances in Vermont and possibly for children in other states. School personnel could force jab any child with a PREP Act vaccine with complete immunity unless they cause “death or serious bodily injury.”

MA: What is it that you are asking the Supreme Court to rule on, specifically? What is the “question presented” you propose the Court answer?

JK: The question is whether the Vermont Supreme Court erroneously interpreted the PREP Act to pre-empt traditional constitutional rights and medical ethics for parents and children, including the core right of informed consent. We are asking SCOTUS to issue an opinion that the PREP Act was intended to protect Americans’ health, not eliminate their children’s liberties, and that Vermont and other state courts are wrong to imply pre-emption of basic rights.

MA: Have there been other cases – or are there other cases ongoing – that deal with this question?

JK: Supreme Courts in Wyoming and Nevada have agreed with Vermont, as well as the Kansas Court of Appeals and federal courts in Kentucky and Oklahoma. There is a similar case pending in North Carolina about a football player who was administered a shot against his family’s wishes that we expect will go the other way: We await that decision.

More Common Than You Might Think

MA: I wonder, John, if this were another type of vaccine, for example, measles or DPT, would there have been a different outcome from the Vermont courts?

JK: Yes. The PREP Act only applies to emergency measures during a declared pandemic. Without the PREP Act’s protection, this would be actionable under various legal paths, including “the common-law rule that forced medication was a battery, and the long legal tradition protecting the decision to refuse unwanted medical treatment.”

MA: It’s terribly common for people to say they will fight a case to the Supreme Court, but the Court only takes a small fraction of appeals presented to it. What makes Leo’s case different and worthy of such an extraordinary appeal?

JK: The Court takes perhaps 150 out of some 8,000 filings annually. This case has improved odds because it is an issue of national importance and because there is a division between various courts and geographical districts. We believe this is the first petition on this specific issue, and we do not know what will happen in cases “behind” us – for instance, the North Carolina football player case may never be appealed beyond state court. It also concerns compelling facts – this was a very young child, and the school’s error was rather egregious. The case begs for justice. So, Leo’s case is particularly timely.

The SCOTUS Approach

MA: What is the timeline for this writ? And do you think the Supreme Court will grant it?

JK: It will likely be two months before the Court decides, though that may take longer. I am hopeful the Justices will grant our Petition because it is important for all children. The odds remain long, but ours are better than most!

MA: If that happens, what does the process look like?

JK: Both sides would file additional briefs followed by oral arguments in Washington, DC. If that happens, I am very confident we will win the case on the law. The Politellas would then resume seeking their “day in court” in Vermont.

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MA: It seems to me – and I am not a lawyer – that should the Court take up the case, it has implications beyond that of vaccinations. What are your thoughts on this?

JK: Not really so much, in my view. The case is a narrow one of proper statutory construction and application of established doctrines of federal pre-emption. We are simply asking the Court to rule that Vermont and other states are wrong to expand PREP Act immunities in ways never intended by Congress, which shocks the conscience in cases like Leo’s. If the Court agrees, it need not make any ruling on constitutional issues with broader implications. The case is really quite narrow: “Does the immunity granted to vaccine manufacturers extend to healthcare workers who jab people without consent?”

MA: Will you be conducting oral arguments should the case be scheduled for a hearing?

JK: I expect so. You know how I like to talk!

*As a lawyer on the case, Mr. Klar may benefit from any award won.

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Meet the Gay Muslim Man Running the Women’s March

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog

Ahead of Election Day, women wearing red Handmaid’s Tale costumes, rainbow scarves, and toting warning signs about their private parts rallied in D.C. for Kamala and abortion.

The crowd was so small that the media hardly bothered reporting on the rallies.

The Women’s March had come a long way since it claimed to have brought out millions to protest Trump in 2017. And the long way it had come was mostly down. In an early preview of the antisemitism controversies in today’s leftist movements, the March fell apart when its leaders were revealed to be bigots who hated Jews and supported the Nation of Islam

But with Trump back, the Women’s March is back too. And the pre-election rallies are supposed to usher in much bigger post-election and post-inauguration rallies using the “power of diverse women” as part of “a women-led movement” to beat men and take back power for women.

There’s one problem with the Women’s March: its chief of staff is a man.

Aquib Shaheed Yacoob, the chief of staff of the Women’s March, is a gay Muslim man who cut his teeth on early BLM activism in Ferguson through Amnesty International. Then he became the chief of staff to Tamika Mallory, one of the three March leaders, just as controversy broke out over her support for Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan who had praised Hitler

After Mallory’s departure, Yaqoob climbed through the ranks until the Muslim man became the chief of staff for a leading feminist organization which describes itself as “women-led.”

Has the Women’s March redefined the definition of a woman? Or has Aquib Yacoob?

Yacoob does use the trendy ‘He/Him/They’ pronouns implying that some vague undefined part of him has transcended the gender binary, but that falls far short of even identifying, let alone being, a woman. The Women’s March failed to respond to a request for comment on how they define women or “women-led movement”, or whether Yacoob will identify as one by next week.

The presence of a gay Muslim man in the top ranks of a “women-led movement” reflects the larger reality that most leftist organizations are interchangeable pieces of the same movement with the exact same politics who use different brands to appeal to different demographics.

Yacoob became the chief of staff at the Women’s March and a managing partner at the AdAstra Management Collective, a leftist movement consultancy which had worked with the Women’s March, with Amnesty International, where he had previously worked, and the Ford Foundation, which funds the Women’s March, Amnesty International and other AdAstra clients.

AdAstra was founded by Rachel O’Leary Carmona who is the executive director of the Women’s March and a former director of Amnesty International. AdAstra includes multiple people who are also associated with the Women’s March including Yacoob, Noor Mir, a Pakistani activist with Amnesty International and senior advisor to the Women’s March, Tabitha St. Bernard, a founder of the Women’s March, and Shawna Knipper, who is a secretary of the Women’s March.

What does it mean that Amnesty International, a British organization set up in 1961 based on a hoax, and the Women’s March, a trendy modern American group, overlap in this way? The same thing as the revelation that Axe, Dove, Ben & Jerry’s and Breyers are different brands of the same British multinational. Behind the familiar ice cream, soap and cause names are a handful of organizations making up one larger movement staffed by many of the same people.

The Women’s March appears to be AdAstra. And AdAstra names the Ford Foundation as a client, but the infamous radical foundation also funds AdAstra. A number of AdAstra’s people have their own consultancies including Yacoob whose group is named BrownManRunning.

And that is why a gay Muslim man is the chief of staff of a “woman-led movement”.

The Women’s March is just a recruitment arm for the larger leftist machine. The Left doesn’t actually care whether the Women’s March is run by women, men or some random combination of pronouns, only whether it recruits warm bodies for the “resistance” against Trump.

But “resistance” like “woman-led” is another empty brand for the larger movement. Behind the “resistance” is a massive foundation with total assets of $20 billion. Behind the “resistance” are private consultancies that actually place and run the front groups that the media covers.

The “resistance” is the establishment which has a highly developed corporate system for finding teams to run the front groups that manufacture the facade of a populist leftist movement

Are Aquib S. Yacoob and AdAstra doing a good job with their part of the “resistance”?

After Trump’s victory, the Women’s March tried to start a dance party outside the Heritage Foundation. The New York Times was obligated to report that “while a band and a D.J. played upbeat songs at top volume, the crowd did not do much more than sway to the beat.” The New York Times did not report anything about who was actually behind the Women’s March.

The forces behind the Women’s March would like to launch another fake resistance dancing to its tune. They are so convinced that no one is paying attention to the man behind the curtain that their “women-led” movement has a literal man behind the curtain as the chief of staff.

The “resistance” is composed of fake populist front groups like the Women’s March or Black Lives Matter that claim to speak for tens of millions, promise to turn out millions, but are actually controlled by small groups of political consultants who deliberately cultivate a radical image.

Their mission is to recruit, rally and riot, to create chaos, tear apart the country and prevent the government from functioning. The media covers them as if they were actual organic popular movements rather than wholly manufactured front groups which did not arise spontaneously in response to an event, but were the work of operatives funded by foundations who were calculating how to best recruit gullible college students to bring the Left back to power.

Activism is not an outraged response to oppression, but a career funded by some of the wealthiest special interests in this country. The causes are products not passions and the activists are professionals whose job is to sell the product. The product changes all the time.

One day they’re for human rights, the next day they’re for Hamas. One week they’re fighting for the environment, another week they’re fighting for illegal aliens. One month it’s abortion and another it’s anti-war or pro-crime because the activists are as interchangeable as their causes.

And if you doubt that, ask the gay Muslim man running the “women-led” Women’s March. 

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation. Thank you for reading. 

Media Collapse is Inevitable, and it's a Good Morning in America! Part I

By Rich Kozlovich

 

The pick envelopes are on the way as Signs of the Collapse of Corporate Media Influence Are Everywhere:

 

Once the affirmative action of carriage fees through pay TV comes to an end (where you are forced to subscribe to a cable/satellite package that includes channels you never watch and those channels still receive an unearned piece of your monthly payment) CNN and MSNBC will no longer be profitable. They cannot survive on merit (advertising fees based on viewers), but they will always be around because soulless liars like Joy Reid, Jake Tapper, Brian Stelter, Nicole Wallace, Rachel Maddow, and Dana Bash do and say what their corporate and Deep State masters tell them to do and say.

 

But, their willingness to be the soulless catspaws of leftist insanity may not matter.  Their might not have a network, and they may not have jobs.  Since the election, as of 11/12/24, MSNBC's numbers dropped by half, and CNN's already dismal numbers dropped another 25 percent.  

Let's star with ABC where they're looking to revamp The View, and are looking to hire Pro-Trump voices voice as ratings tumble, but as you read on what they want is "a" pro-Trump voice, who will be outnumbered, interrupted, talked over, and denigrated.   So, good luck with that.

 

Why did it take so long to come to the conclusion Whoopi and company are dumb as dirt?  Whoopie claimed Jill Biden was a great doctor and should have been made Surgeon General, and not one dingle berry on that panel bothered to ask her what was Dr. Jill's medical speciality.  Did any of them know her degree was in education, not medicine?   If they did it shows what contempt they have for facts and truth, and if they didn't, it shows just  how ignorant they are.  

 

Whoopi has brought that same valuable depth of knowledge and intellectual insight into the debate regarding Pete Hegseth's nomination as Secretary of Defense saying he "clearly does not know anything about the military".  And we know Whoopie know all about the military.  

Remember Whoopi played Guinan on Star Trek Next Generation, so, while she wasn't a Star Fleet officer, she "clearly knows everything about the military" from that experience.  Kinda like Alex Baldwin who acted in Hunt for Red October knew from that experience how to handle fire arms safely.  Star Trek is fiction, and Guinan was a bartender like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Whoopie makes Sheila Jackson Lee look like an intellectual, and makes Nancy (we have to pass the bill to see what's in it) Pelosi look like a wise sage.

 As Silvio Canto Jr. pointed out:

Once again, I don't watch "The View." Like many of you, I get my "views" on internet posts that feature the latest from Joy, Ana, Whoopie, and Asuncion aka Sunny. Thirty-second clips are all I can take from this crew. Thanks to all those who post the clips so I don't have to watch it.  Not surprising that ABC is looking for a little more diversity on the show. Diversity like having cast members who represent those 80% of U.S. counties that voted Trump.

 

Unless they're willing to make it half and half, and choose real conservatives who are knowledgeable, and intelligent, and won't back down or be intimidated,  forget it.  Better they just go down the tubes, that's what competition is all about, and make no mistake, if they had a 50/50 make up with actual conservatives,  their entire viewing audience, which are as brainless as the current hosts, find anything that disputes the tenets of leftist religion unbearable that could unleash a volley of pure hate and rage, like the lesbian who was married to a trans woman, and murdered her father over the election declaring she felt "liberated".  That's the quality of their audience.

 

When you bring in vile ignorant people as hosts, you should expect to find the same kind of vile ignorant people watching the show, and while it's changing,  based on past rating numbers, America has a ton of vile and ignorant people who somehow think these five nitwits are smart and knowledgeable. 

 

Whoopi says she's all in on anti-Trump sex strikes telling men "they’re not going to “get any” if they speak out of line", and if they look anything like Whoopi, and from the pictures I've seen of them, including shaving their heads, I don't think that will be a problem.  

 

Truth be told, I think there's something seriously wrong with her.  She recently claimed a bakery refused to serve her because of her politics.  But the owners of the shop weren't having it and struck back, and now that story is backfiring with a cry for the network to fire her, business at the bakery has exploded as a result of all this

 

 Now that network executives are looking to dump their troublesome high priced help, this presents a good opportunity for Whoopie to be sent home, alone. 

Socialism: Evil and Stupid

November 17, 2024 by Dan Mitchell @ International Liberty

In 2016, I wrote that socialism was both evil and stupid.

Today, let’s look at a practical example, starting with this video about Norwegian taxation that is both funny and tragic.

The tragic part of the video is that it is true.

Norway’s leftist government imposed a big increase in wealth taxation, which is causing successful people to flee the nation.

The socialists in Norway (like their counterparts in France) are upset that their intended victims are not being cooperative. Indeed, the Socialist Party even has a “Wall of Shame” identifying these tax-motivated expatriates.

One of the people on that Wall of Shame decided to tell his story.

He explains that he loves his country but he could not remain in Norway because his annual tax bill was more than 100 percent of his yearly income. Several times more than 100 percent!

By the way, it is very easy to wind up with 100 percent-plus tax rates with wealth taxation.

I showed the math a couple of years ago, and I’ve also cited real-world examples from France and the Netherlands.

There are two main takeaways from today’s column.

• First, Norway is lucky to have lots of oil, which helps to offset the damage of the aforementioned crazy tax policy.
• Second, Americans can breath a sign of relief that we won’t be subject to the backdoor wealth tax proposed by Kamala Harris.

P.S. I’ve joked about 100 percent tax rates in America, but let’s hope that never becomes reality.

P.P.S. If you want another real-life warning about socialism, click here. Or here. Or here.

Begging for Unity: Chuck Schumer Fears GOP Will Follow His Lead

The soon-to-be minority leader wants fair treatment from the new Senate majority – but what is fair? 

By James Fite | Nov 17, 2024 @ Liberty Nation News, Tags: Articles, Opinion, Politics

Republicans swept the 2024 election, winning a trifecta in the halls of power the left simply didn’t see coming. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) certainly didn’t see it coming. He predicted back in August that Democrats would keep the Senate majority – and now he’s begging for bipartisanship. The New York lawmaker was ready for war when he thought his party might nab the trifecta, but now he’s suing for peace. What goes around comes around, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander, you reap what you sow, or something about a pot calling a kettle black – whatever witty expression you choose, the world Schumer now faces as soon-to-be minority leader is one of his own making.

Chuck Schumer and the Plea for Unity

“To my Republican colleagues, I offer a word of caution in good faith,” Schumer said on the Senate floor after the blue trifecta he predicted turned out red instead. “Take care not to misread the will of the people, and do not abandon the need for bipartisanship. After winning an election, the temptation may be to go to the extreme. We’ve seen this happen over the decades, and it has consistently backfired on the party in power.”

Schumer certainly knows a thing or two about letting that power go to one’s head and “going to the extreme” – but more on that in a bit.

“So instead of going to the extremes, I remind my colleagues that this body is most effective when it’s bipartisan,” he continued. “If we want the next four years in the Senate to be as productive as the last four, the only way that will happen is through bipartisan cooperation.”

The senator seems to forget, however, just how partisan his legislative body has been since Democrats took the majority. Indeed, if it weren’t for former Democrats Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, the legislative landscape would look a lot different.

Foolin’ With the Filibuster

As Liberty Nation News reported back in August, Schumer sang a very different song when he thought Democrats might pull a trifecta of their own, sans Manchin and Sinema:

“The New York Democrat has held his seat for the last quarter century, and throughout that tenure, he has waffled back and forth on whether to protect or destroy this particular upper-chamber tradition – seemingly based entirely on which side of the majority he happens to be at the time. Well, Democrats currently hold a slim 51-vote majority, and Schumer made it clear this week that if Kamala Harris wins in November, Democrats maintain the Senate lead, and if they win even a razor-thin majority in the House, the filibuster is as good as dead.”

At that time, Schumer told Politico he was planning to end the 60-vote rule for legislation to pass two voting rights bills. He also toyed with the idea of codifying abortion access into federal law and even expanding the Supreme Court from nine justices to 13.

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In fact, he tried to kill it in 2022, and the only reason he failed is that then-Democrats Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema stood firm on protecting the filibuster. Once those two perpetual thorns in his side left the party and announced they wouldn’t run for re-election, Sen. Schumer figured the filibuster was as good as dead in the 119th Congress. “We got it up to 48, but, of course, Sinema and Manchin voted no; that’s why we couldn’t change the rules. Well, they’re both gone,” he explained.

Democrats: Define “Unity”

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines “unite” as “to put or come together to form a single unit,” or “to cause to cling together.” Unity is defined as the “quality or state of not being multiple” or “a condition of harmony.” If you find yourself wondering why such a simple word needs to be explicitly defined here, it’s because Democratic Party elites – from Chuck Schumer to Joe Biden – seem confused about the topic. Both call for “unity” whenever it seems Republicans may have some power over them, yet then they turn around and try to steamroll right over any GOP resistance, all the while hurling insults at the politicians across the aisle and any Americans who support them.

Trump supporters are “garbage,” according to the sitting president, remember? Digging just a bit deeper into the memory hole, one might recall a time when congressional Democrats promised bipartisanship and unity only to betray their Republican colleagues once they got their way. As LNN Senior Political Analyst Tim Donner wrote back in 2021 after the two-part “infrastructure” reconciliation debacle:

“After weeks of back-and-forth wrangling involving both parties, conflicting House and Senate priorities, and on-again, off-again agreements, the two parties have begrudgingly signaled their willingness to advance a roughly $1 trillion plan for actual infrastructure, which is aging or substandard – roads, bridges, rail, power grid, broadband internet – but they’ll only get it if they agree to roll over for another bill more than three times the size – somewhere beyond $3 trillion – for what it has amusingly termed ‘human infrastructure.’

…

“Much as there are lies, damn lies, and statistics, there are also good deals, bad deals, and outright blackmail. When a rare, truly bipartisan effort for a popular cause is sandbagged by a demand more closely resembling a ransom, an already deeply discredited institution edges dangerously close to the worst democracy has to offer – majority rule by brute force.”

To shamelessly steal a quote from Inigo Montoya, Mandy Patinkin’s character from the film The Princess Bride, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

Good Luck Chuck

Luckily for Schumer, Senate Democrats, and leftists nationwide, Republicans do plan to play nice – at least when it comes to the MAGA legislative agenda. Senate confirmation hearings will likely be put to the same majority bulldozer in the next Congress as they were in the current and previous ones now that there’s no filibuster on presidential appointments – even for the Supreme Court. But soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has vowed to protect the filibuster, no matter how much Democrats resort to the tactic to create a legislative logjam.

The best summary of the New Yorker’s plea comes from Byron York, chief political correspondent for the Washington Examiner: “Please don’t do to us what we were going to do to you.” Despite Schumer’s total disregard for unity and willingness to pull the rug out from under his opponents whenever he held the upper hand, Republicans simply will not play the same game. So, at least regarding the filibuster, what goes around does not come back around. What’s good for the goose isn’t good for the gander after all, and the pot calling the kettle black doesn’t apply.

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Feminists for Human Extinction

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog  

After the majority of Americans voted for the economy over abortion, furious feminists have announced that they will no longer date, marry or have children.

Call it slow motion misery and mass suicide.

In the past, Americans protested by refusing to pay taxes, now leftists are protesting by refusing to have children because of their frustrated eagerness to kill those same children in the womb.

What began as a last minute election gimmick by the Kamala campaign, which decided that its best strategy for winning the election was dividing us by sex, is now poisoning our culture, and further ruining relationships between men and women. And the media is spreading the poison.

CBS News, NBC News and the Washington Post are only a few of the many mainstream media outlets that have taken it on themselves to promote South Korea’s 4B movement to Americans with its ‘four bis’ or ‘four nos’ calling for no dating, no sex, no marriage and no childbirth.

Rather than report critically on a movement that is hateful and destructive, the media has chosen to advocate it as a valid response to their candidate of choice losing an election. Promoting self-harm among psychologically vulnerable populations is supposed to be off limits, but as with transgenderism, the media will push self-harm when it’s self-harm of the right kind.

The media’s push for 4B comes as national levels of loneliness and unhappiness are rising. 1 in 5 Americans recently reported feeling lonely much of the day. Social isolation is more than just an emotion, it can lead to substance abuse and suicide. And a fundamental cause of social isolation is the fracturing of family ties and friendships over politics and culture war issues.

Democrat media outlets have spent years encouraging people to fight over politics at Thanksgiving. Now the media would like to help kill relationships between men and women. Why settle for alienating children from their parents when they can make sure those children will never be born and that there will be no more families to celebrate Thanksgiving?

South Korea’s 0.78 birth rate per woman put it in a state of voluntary extinction even without the 4B movement and American feminists would like to join them by making themselves extinct.

Like all social contagions, 4B spread across TikTok in short clips of hysteria and occasional self-mutilation followed by vows to accept the tenets of the new feminist movement. Some American 4Bers are planning to boycott men only during the Trump administration while others appear to be making a lifelong commitment to remaining unhappy and alone.

Refusing to marry or start families doesn’t hurt Trump, or even most Republican voters who tend to be older and married. Instead it extends the gender war that Kamala had built the closing days of her campaign around to encompass the human relationships of her supporters.

The divisiveness of the Kamala campaign led to a massive backlash and a multicultural coalition that propelled President Donald J. Trump to a record victory. The 4B movement and the media promotion of it is a sign that the Democrats and their media are doubling down on divisiveness.

And no divisiveness is more fundamental than a call to end all relationships between the sexes.

The sex divide has always been a core part of the feminist movement. The end stage of feminism lay in the contention that “all heterosexual sex is rape” and that anything short of homosexuality was the systemic oppression of women by men. The same feminist activists promoting 4B have also labored to revive Andrea Dworkin’s reputation on TikTok.

Being married to a man, Kamala presumably does not agree with the 4B worldview, but, like previous male and female leftist candidates, exploited divisions between men and women to advance her political career. At the nadir of her campaign, a Kamala rally brought out Michelle Obama to tell men that if they voted for Trump, they were voting to kill women.

“A vote for him is a vote against us,” she told men.

A majority of suburban white women still voted for Trump, but the 4B movement shows how much damage Kamala and Michelle Obama have done to some of their own loyal base.

The Obamas had spent their career dividing us by race, but in the closing of the Kamala campaign, tapped into ugly rhetoric meant to convince women that men were their enemies.

Michelle Obama clearly does not believe this, but like transgenderism and other social contagions, encouraged mistrust, alienation and self-harm among some women to win.

What does victory look like for a 4B movement?

Kamala and Michelle have contrived to create more division and loneliness. How does dividing men and women win elections? The essence of leftist politics is division. And division naturally creates angry and unhappy people. While racial divisions do that, separating the sexes, ending marriage and children breaks up relationships so fundamental to human existence that the lack of them ensures a state of perpetual unhappiness and eventually the extinction of the species.

And what is abortion, but slow motion extinction anyway?

There were over 1 million abortions in America in 2023 compared to 76,000 COVID deaths. That same year America’s birth rate fell to a record low. The current 1.6 birth rate is below replacement rate which means that America is already slowly going extinct. The mobs of migrants invading the country are there to replace us as the Europeans are being replaced.

And the same feminists who don’t want women and men to marry and have children, who want to kill babies in the womb, also want to open up our borders to a mass migrant invasion.

Feminism in America is advancing national extinction by various means. What its leftist members fear above all else is a national revival at whose center lies the family.

Whether it’s abortion or 4B, feminism is another arm of the leftist plot to end America.

Across every sector and arena, leftists are responding to Trump’s victory by doubling down on dividing us and on convincing us to give up on living our lives, in order to destroy America. 

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation. Thank you for reading.  

P&D and The Week That Was

Truth is the Sublime Convergence of History and Reality

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De Omnibus Dubitandum, (Everything is to be questioned!)

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This Link will take you to My Commentaries.  This Link will take you to My Commentaries by topic.  This Link will take you to My Global Warming Commentaries 

By Rich Kozlovich

 

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Another week and the hits just keep right on coming.  I'm betting the vast majority of people in America are totally unaware there's an international meeting in ... of all places... Azerbaijan, called COP29, a United Nations climate change conference, with the alleged goal of preventing catastrophic climate change.  

They can't seem to make up their mind if it's global warming or global cooling, so they call it climate change, that way no matter what happens they can claim a catastrophe is on the horizon, which justifies them demanding trillions of dollars be placed into the hands of corrupt losers in the third world, (their real goal) and even China wants in on the scam, all claiming the west owes them. 

Since so many know so little about this, I think the message to take away from this is a good one.  No one knows because no one cares and that's because they don't believe any climate change that occurs is caused by humanity.   And they're right.  There are at five pieces dealing with this below. 

Trump is making his picks for those who will take the lead in his administration, and they're an in your face picks to the Democrats, the media, and every leftist moonbat on the planet.  With the exception of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who's a moonbat himself, and I'm amazed at the conservative writers like this one who seem to think that's all fine and dandy.  I don't, and I address that below, try and get this right, once, please, just once, he's a Kennedy!!!!

This article appeared at American Thinker, Our Third-World Future, which I thought was a disturbingly provocative article, and I do fear this is a very real potential.   

• Polymarket FBI Raid Shows the Harris-Biden Justice Department Has Gone Full Banana Republic

England is putting people in jail for speech crimes, truthful speech, for daring to speak the truth about the violent rapes being committed by these Muslim migrants, and thought crimes for praying silently outside abortion clinics. It's already been attempted in America with a woman being jailed for criticizing a city council member at a council meeting. We've lost our minds. One young 17 year old autistic girl in England was punished for daring to ask a man with a beard who claims to be a transgender women if he's a man. 

Many years ago I had an older Jewish couple as customers who I became friends with and we discussed everything, and I always injected a lot of history into the discussions.   I used to schedule at least an extra half hour in order to sit a talk with them.  I once asked her why Jews who live conservative lives, and raise their children with those values, support those whose values are antithetical to all of that? 

She said she’s a conservative in her head, but a liberal in her heart.  She’s passed now, but she voted for Trump in 2016, and her friends were a bit upset asking her why she was listening to that bug man.   I’ve often wondered if she was still alive what she’d be saying to these friends and even her family who opposed voting for a Republican, especially Trump. 

But there are two fundamental truths I subscribe to.  Time and truth are on the same side, and you can’t reason people out of positions they’ve not been reasoned into, but you can scare them out of those positions.   

Jews worldwide are now scared, and they need to be, and they need start realizing who will stand tall in their defense as the leftist monsters keep coming after them, and I think that tide is now turning.  And it isn't just Jews who have to worry,  Report: Anti-Christian Hate Crimes in Europe Triple.  If people tell you they hate you and want to kill you, and keep doing that very thing, they really do need to be believed.

Recently it was reported there was a meeting at the Pentagon to decide how to obviate any orders from President Trump they didn't like.   That's pretty gutsy, amazingly stupid, and treasonous.  Especially against a man who's best know for the phrase, "You're fired!"  There's also talk of reactivating General Milley and court martialling him for treason, an excellent object lesson for all officers.  

I served, I hated it, and I despised the officers, but at least they weren't treasonous them, but that's only because the ground wasn't fertile for treason then.  I still despise the officers, and they've demonstrated they deserve to be despised.  However, I will say this.  It's really a good time to be a junior career officer since it's my view there's going to be a lot of openings among the upper ranks very soon, as Trump is assembling a General Officer 'Review Board', and expect to see a lot of voluntary retirements, and firings.  

• Exclusive: DOD Wiping Evidence of DEI Trump Readies to Fire Woke Generals

These nitwits just have no idea who they're dealing with, and the same seems to be true for the Democrats in Congress.  You know, the save "our" democracy party.  Somehow they think they can transform the American government into a parliamentarian form of government vowing to form a 'Shadow Government', like they have in England I guess.  But in America I think that's also called treason.  

The FEMA official that ordered employees to not help American citizens who were Trump supporters, and was fired, has claimed it wasn't her fault, since that's "actually agency policy to discriminate against "politically hostile" homes during disaster response."  Since that was FEMA policy from above her pay grade, and she was just following orders, she shouldn't have been fired.  FEMA claims otherwise.  Congress intends to hold hearings to see who's lying.  Let's hope they do it right. 

In Bucks County Pennsylvania the party of "no one is above the law" continues to illegally count ballots their state Supreme court said that can't be counted, and no one is stopping them.   A Memphis flower shop refuses to do business with Trump supporters and there wasn't a riot.  Imagine that.

In this week's edition I have five commentaries of my own, and twenty nine from others, along with this Buckeye Institute Press Release, which is worth viewing, since academia trying to cover their butts over their illegal diversity, equity, and inclusion programs now that Trump is President and intends to eliminate the Department of Education, at least that's what he's promised, and John Droz, Jr's. Media Balance Newsletter, November 11, 2024, wide ranging and provocative.  

Enjoy, and best wishes!

 My Commentaries

1. Trump Appoints Kennedy to be American's Health Czar
2. Snatching Defeat Out of the Jaws of Victory
3. History is Everything!
4. Let's Try and Get This Right, Just Once, Please! The Russo/Ukrainian War is All Putin's Fault!
5. Well I'm Still Waiting, and Blogger is Still Procrastinating....or Something

Commentaries

1. RFK Jr. Heading HHS Shakes Up the Left-Right Divide By Mark Angelides
2. The Tremors of Trump’s DC Comeback By Mark Angelides
3. Donald Trump Is Energetic During Transition By Kelli Ballard
4. Obama Owes Us At Least $105 Million By Susan Daniels
5. Did Donald Trump Just Forge an Enduring Political Realignment? By Tim Donner
6. The Hamas-Hezbollah-Iran-UN Axis of Evil By Paul Driessen
7. Trump Won Jewish Neighborhoods Across America By Daniel Greenfield
8. Who Lost the 2024 Election? Celebrities By Daniel Greenfield
9. The Third Worldization of America  By Daniel Greenfield
10. The Issue Is Tyranny Versus Freedom By Robin Itzler
11. Why the Cattle Cars Aren’t Being Built By Robin Itzler
12. Points to Ponder By Robin Itzler
13. Trump Submits Resignation Letter By Robin Itzler
14. Late Night TV is Leftist Night TV, and They're Not Funny! By Robin Itzler
15. Trump Won! America Won! Freedom Won!  By Robin Itzler
16. New York Court Delays Bungled Trump Convictions By John Klar
17. The IMF’s Fairy-Dust Economic Policy By Dan Mitchell
18. Are You Even Aware That There Is Another Big UN Climate Conference Going On? Francis Menton
19. Ideas For An Incoming Trump Administration: Climate And Energy Edition Francis Menton
20. More Evidence for the TABOR Spending Cap Francis Menton
21. Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Complete – What’s Next? By Andrew Moran
22. Donald Trump Cabinet Nominee Poker: Aces, Eights – and Wild Cards By Graham J. Noble
23. Digging for the Truth, UAP Is a Congressional Imperative By Dave Patterson
24. What to Expect From the Trump National Security TeamBy Dave Patterson
25. Donald Trump: Friend to Jews and Israel By Eden Priestly
26. So...What Have We Learned? By Rob Pue
27. COP 29: Ruffling Climate Feathers, Making Energy Inroads By Craig Rucker
28. Azerbaijan President says fossil fuels a “Gift from God”, UN parades world leaders By Craig Rucker
29. Major UN embarrassment as COP 29 host proclaims oil and gas gifts from God By Craig Rucker

Permanent Links

1. 45 Communist Goals to Destroy America as Listed in the 1963 Congressional Record
2. My Seven Rules of Geopolitics
3. The John Boyd Legion of Honor

No matter what anyone says, you can’t marginalize the truth!  You can suppress it, you can ignore it, you can avoid it, you can attempt to undermine it, you can attempt to subvert it, you can attempt to organize against it, you can even laugh at it, but if we have the courage and the fortitude to stand and confront the lies, irrespective of the personal costs, the truth will stand the test of time, because truth and time are on the same side.

Constant as the North Star