L.A. Riots, Part IV

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags: 

 

The corruption of the Pravda media has been thoroughly exposed, and now they're swirling down the drain, and the "alternative" media is ascendant, but no matter how they're destroying themselves, they continue to lie, misdirect, twist and subvert the truth on every subject in which they cover, including the L.A. Riots and/or protests and demonstrations all over the country.

What we're now seeing is the Stalinization of the Pravda media!   Actually we're seeing the exposure of their Stalinization that goes back to the days of Walter Duranty who covered over Stalin's starvation of tens of millions of people, and ended up with the Pulitzer Prize, which the NYT refuses to return, and the Pulitzer committee refuses to revoke.  And nothing has changed. 

They continue to promote the idea these illegals are innocent of any crimes. Well, if they're here illegally they're criminals, but the number of violent criminal illegals they're arresting is testimony to their perfidious reporting! So, who ya gonna believe, the media, or your lying eyes.  

As for spontaneous, well that's provably false.   One reporter went there posting the usual leftist claptrap and then realized..... hey, wait, this isn't spontaneous (they used the word organic) it's staged and organized with protective gear and food being provided to these rioters, and I'm betting many are paid demonstrators.

Definition leads to clarity, and a failure to define things properly leads to clarity also, such as their claims of "mostly peaceful protests."

The left has been expert at redefining words to support their lies of commission, lies of omission, misdirection, projection, and logical fallacies. An MSNBC reporter  compared ICE agents "slave catchers." CNN’s Dana Bash says Trump is the real arsonist in L.A. and they're horrified Trump called them insurrectionists.  A word they're still throwing around regarding the January 6th protests, where no buildings were burned, no police were attacked, no cars were set on fire, and the only person murdered was an unarmed small woman by a D.C. cop, which is a case the DOJ needs to reopen. 

CNN, MSNBC, ABC, etc, are viper's nests of intellectual corruption, calling all this violence lawful protests.....such as these these "peaceful protests".   One anchor claims all these burning cars was just people having fun and it's the fault of the police for turning it into a confrontation.  Kinda like looting.  Looters think that's a lot of fun also.  How deranged can these nitwits be?  There's no end as one MSNBC reporter "went on an unhinged rant about illegal aliens, claiming they’re the fabric of the community while insinuating that the deployment of federal resources into the city to quell the unrest and deport people who shouldn’t be here is racially motivated."  

Not only are they a "fabric of the community", according to The View’s Ana Navarro, milk prices are going to skyrocket because there'll be no illegals to milk the cows.   Hello Ana, you're unbridled ignorance is showing....again!  People don't really milk cows.  Machines milk them, and milk each cow in four minutes.    

• 'The View' Proves ABC News Has No Standards -ABC has no standards, none. Not for decency, not for intelligence, not for liability or anything close to common sense. Whoopi Goldberg, the "lead" host, can barely intro a segment off the teleprompter and she’s the "wisdom" on the show. 

 As for the Democrats, they're in complete harmony with these "mostly peaceful" rioters, and not the sane taxpayers who are not out there burning, looting, rioting, and attacking the police.... and who are leaving California in droves.   I doubt this journalist who was attacked for documenting their violence thinks this is just "mostly peaceful" fun.    

Media Collapse is Inevitable, and it's a Good Morning in America! Useful Idiots and Paid Lackeys, Part XIV

Does anyone doubt this is a conspiracy of useful idiots and paid lackeys?

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags:

In a letter by Thomas Jefferson to his friend Walter Jones he made clear his feeling about the abuses of the "free press" in 1814 saying:

“I deplore … the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed and the malignity, the vulgarity and the mendacious spirit of those who write for them… These ordures are rapidly depraving the public taste and lessening its relish for sound food. As vehicles of information and a curb on our functionaries, they have rendered themselves useless by forfeiting all title to belief… This has, in a great degree, been produced by the violence and malignity of party spirit.” 

Nothing has changed, nor it will ever change, regarding the lack of integrity in the media! It has been so from their founding, and will continue to be so until the end of time.  But right now, today, because of modern communications, they have more easily, and more thoroughly, corrupted the nation's perception of reality with the stench of their morality, and stunning level of hypocritical ignorance.  

Worse yet, they work diligently to prevent anyone from exposing their perfidy!  As an example, YouTube suspended  One America News Network channel for what they're calling misinformation violations for COVID-19 policy.  That's a convenient way of saying anything that disagrees with the leftist agenda, AKA, free speech, is misinformation and must be censored.    Yet they have little trouble promoting outright lies.  Those don't count because those lies promote false leftist narratives.

Calling them sewer trout would be an insult to trout and to sewers, since both serve a useful purpose.  

Useful Idiots

The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal,  NBC, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, and CNN, all are losing readership or viewership in droves and being forced to scale back as a result.  Alot of big names and a lot of staff are being sent out into the cold, hard, real world, and it's been interesting to see the consequences for them.   When was the last time you heard anything from Chris Wallace after he decided to forego his seven million dollar a year salary in order to podcast.   

And why did Chris Wallace leave?  Because at 77, he was "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 of course will undoubtedly be "unbiased".  

Yeah right!  While I'm sure he's more than financially secure, it still comes down to this.  If he had been able to carry his weight at CNN, he'd still be there, and since he couldn't, what makes him think he can carry the freight on his own?

In order to continue to parrot leftist themes there are shows like The View, which is:

".... one of the most insufferable programs on daytime television, the mecca from where the most miserable, wine-drinking liberal women come to cope and seethe about a second Trump presidency. It’s also prime territory for epic meltdowns, abject stupidity, racism, and all-around strangeness".

In one episode of The View Sunny Hostin claimed voter ID prevents blacks from voting, which implies black people are too dumb to figure out how to get an ID to vote.  Amazing!  Blacks don't seem to have a problem getting driver's licenses and bank accounts requiring ID's, so why would voter ID rules prevent them from voting?  But, she's on The View, which pretty much tell you all you need to know on the dumb chart.

Their Philosophy

The criminal's first rule is, "never give up on the con", and the media lives that.  The reason why Kamala lost the election was because TikTok stole Kamala’s presidency, and in spite of all the facts that have poured out about Joe Biden's mental condition,  a former CNN editor still tried to claim "the media did not act in bad faith".   Not in bad faith?  The only faith they have is bad, just like America's Smeagol, James Carville, who outrageously claimed Trump's White House argument with Zelenskyy was because Trump has syphilis.  How disgusting can they get?  There's no boundaries on the left. 

Is it any wonder the Pravda media is dying, and the reason why is simple, no one trusts them.  They're not devoted to truth, justice, and the American way, they're devoted to destroying Trump, and the traditional values that made America great, and now millions are abandoning them for alternative news sources, and those sources are now in charge of the news. 

But in spite of their woes, will the Pravda media reflect on their misdeeds? No! 

• Legacy of Lies: Scott Jennings Tells Abby Phillip Why Media Trust Is Cratering but She Refuses to Listen

A legacy of lies which Tim Pool drives home at a White House Press Corp meeting saying:

“Many of the news organizations represented in this room have marched in lock step on false narratives, such as the ‘very fine people’ hoax, the Covington smear,” Pool said, prefacing his first official question to Awesome White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. “And now, the ‘Maryland man’ hoax, where an MS-13 gang member, adjudicated by two different judges, I believe, is simply being referred to as a ‘Maryland man’ over and over again.”  “In an effort from the White House to expand access to new companies, you’ve created this New Media Seat. … I’m wondering if you can comment on that unprofessional behavior, as well as elaborate on if there’s any plans to expand access to new [media] companies.”

The author then says:

Other than the Doocy kid, why are all these lying people (He didn't say people here) allowed to sit up front when they should be standing in the back cupping their ears like nursing home patients late for Bingo?   Contempt. Contempt. Contempt. The legacy media only deserve contempt......which is crucial in our noble crusade to someday enjoy the lamentations of their women.

Why do they persist in their insanity?  This Current List of Media’s Anti-Social Positions Explains So Much About What Is Wrong With Them:

The national media outlets and the Democrats are currently mired in a conjoined, downward spiral. The public approval of both entities has been eroding, and the main cause is in the way that they are interlocked. Neither shows interest in addressing - let alone repairing  - the problem. Instead, the Dems and the press appear convinced their entrenched activism and anti-Trump positioning will see them through...

As for Public Broadcasting:

1. Law Professor Jonathan Turley Says it’s Time to Shut Down the Taxpayer Funded ‘Gravy Train’ for NPR
2. End the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
3. FCC’s Brendan Carr Advances Investigation into NPR, PBS Running ‘Prohibited’ Ads

Senator Kennedy of Louisiana once commented about our policy of giving money to nations who hate us asking, "Why are we giving money to countries that hate America? They should be able to hate us for free."   I think that's a philosophy that should apply to NPR and Corporation for Public Broadcasting also.

But, like criminals, they just can't give up the con promoting claims of doom and gloom, having epileptic fits over anything Trump says turning everything into a crisis.  Defending rouge judges who support illegal immigration and decisions that promote voter fraud, and the list goes on and on, but this time nobody is listening. 

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

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags:

 

As we watch the Pravda electronic media gasping it's last breaths and with a total lack of self reflection challenging alternative media types by asking if they think they're real journalists. Anyone who proclaims they're from the Pravda media, either electronic or print, is in effect publicly stating:

 

"I'm a corrupt lying brain damaged puppet, which is why for four years I not only covered up Joe Biden's dementia, I vehemently denied it existed.  Also, I arrogantly, and smugly ridiculed any who dared to question it, and I did it with a smirk!"

 

But the left will always be the left, and they're now trying to rewrite and twist the history of the Biden presidency, but it just ain't playing well.  There's a new sheriff in town, and things are changing, and he's gonna make-em pay!

 

Trump is suing CBS for $20 billion over an interview with Kamala Harris that he claims was deceptively edited. CNN reports that execs at Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS, have discussed a settlement in hopes of winning FCC approval for a proposed merger with Skydance Media, but the court battle is ongoing for now. (More 60 Minutes stories.)

 

Finally an adult has decided it's time for 60 minutes to start dealing in facts, not opinions.   The result?  The Executive Producer Resigns whining.  A producer who John Nolte called a documented serial liar.  And Nolte goes on the list the number of names that are crashing or out the door, and it's impressive saying:

 

And so, we can now add Bill Owens to our ever-growing list of Regime Media elites who have committed career suicide or just plain given up due to Trump Derangement Syndrome — Yes, 20 self-deportations:

1. Ruth Marcus – Washington Post columnist resigns.
2. 538 – Disney/ABC’s wildly biased polling site shutters.
3. Paul Krugman – Always wrong New York Times columnist forced out.
4. Jim Acosta – CNN anchor forced out.
5. Norah O’Donnell – Failed CBS anchor out.
6. Chuck Todd – NBC’s former Meet the Press host DEI’d out.
7. Andrea Mitchell – NBC harridan ages out of job.
8. Chris Wallace – Son of Someone out at CNN.
9. Joy Reid – Racist MSNBC anchor too racist for MSNBC. Fired.
10. Neil Cavuto – Fox News anchor scurries away.
11. Alex Wagner – Demoted at MSNBC.
12. Ayman Mohyeldin – Lost MSNBC show.
13. Olivia Nuzzi – Out at New York Mag for allegedly stalking RFK Jr.
14. Katie Phang – Lost MSNBC show.
15. Jonathan Capehart – Lost MSNBC show. Steps down from Washington Post editorial board.
16. Lester Holt – Out as NBC Nightly News anchor.
17. One-third of New York Times Editorial Board – Say, bye.
18. Eugene Robinson – Washington Post columnist quits in snit.
19. Ryan Lizza – Scurries to Substack over credible misconduct allegations.
20. Bill Owens —60 Minutes chief resigns in crybaby disgrace.

The New York Times, with "All the News That's Fit to Print" motto, commonly called 'The Gray Lady", is not a lady, but a hag, and will always be the journalistic sewer it has been for the entire 20th century, and it will never change, and is still a hag.  

1.  Report: NYT Journalist Has Regrets over Kavanaugh Coverage
2. Charles Blow, Journalism’s Clunkiest DIE Hire, Out at the New York Times
3.  NYT piece is oozing with fear.
4.  New York Magazine crops black people out of Trump inauguration party photo, then reports "almost everyone is white"

On the other hand the L.A. Times heard the alarm clock and now they're really "woke". Woke up that is.  Legacy media giant reportedly shifting resources from left-wing paper to promote…a conservative press.  The publisher refused to allow his newspaper.... remember it's his newspaper.... to endorse Kamala Harris.  Why? Because it was clear she was in no way qualified to be President of the United State and he'd had enough, and demanded they print news, not their opinions.  And many quit.  

But the Washington Post is the best story regarding that kind of transformation.  

• So, is Jeff Bezos really seeing the light? - Suddenly, the post-Trump Post will turn its opinions page toward ‘personal liberties’ and ‘free markets.’  Speaking of “free markets,” some outlets (WaPo, MSNBC, L.A. Times, etc.) are shelving their most radical leftists in favor of more consumer-friendly material.  While I don’t believe for a minute that Jeff Bezos has had a come-to-Jesus, road-to-Damascus epiphany, I do believe that he’s recognized that his paper’s hard-left whackadoodle opinions ran afoul of normal, everyday Americans, and therefore posed a long-term drag on his paper’s fortunes.

Bezos is reshaping the paper's opinion section, and the editor quit, and staff reject liberty and free markets. Someone named Jen Rubin left WaPo in order to make her living continuing to belittling Trump, and is being joined by other WaPo staff.  People  I never heard of, just like Ruth Marcus.   I'm betting the vast majority of America never heard of any of them.   Well, good luck with that, if WaPo couldn't make money spewing out their views, why would they think they can make money away from WaPo spewing out their views?   Perhaps they need to start practicing saying, "Welcome to McDonalds."

So, is Jeff Bezos really seeing the light? - Suddenly, the post-Trump Post will turn its opinions page toward ‘personal liberties’ and ‘free markets.’  Speaking of “free markets,” some outlets (WaPo, MSNBC, L.A. Times, etc.) are shelving their most radical leftists in favor of more consumer-friendly material.  While I don’t believe for a minute that Jeff Bezos has had a come-to-Jesus, road-to-Damascus epiphany, I do believe that he’s recognized that his paper’s hard-left whackadoodle opinions ran afoul of normal, everyday Americans, and therefore posed a long-term drag on his paper’s fortunes.

Of course the staff was outraged, who does he think he is?  Well, “there is nothing less tolerant than a leftist scorned.” 

Here’s my take regarding his road to Damascus conversion. Believe it or not, I think this a schadenfreude moment for Bezos.  He’s a nerd who never dreamed of ever being a major center of attention in the world, and he likes it. So, he’s not going to do anything that will diminish that.  He has new hottie on his arm he’s calling his fiance, working out to try and have a new look, and now a new position at the table that affirms he's important.  

 

I have no doubt, given the self righteous arrogance leftists spewed out over all this, he was smugly looked down on by the hired help. He knew it!  He resented it!  And now he’s made it clear: They’re the nobodies. They’re just hired help, and they don’t count!  Only he counts, and that’s what he really believes in.  My view of Bezos?   You wouldn’t want to go into battle with Bezos, or for Bezos.  

 

Final thought.  No matter what's unfolding now, know the corporate media will never reform, no matter what shifts they may be taking now.  The Pravda media is arrogant, overpaid, under smart, and they lie constantly!   That's the history of the media from time immemorial. They have history, and it's ugly.   One has to wonder if the Pravda media even sane?   Perhaps we should ask if they're not only insane, but are they treasonous?  

 

 "Treason is an ugly word and an even uglier crime. In simple language treason is the act of betraying one’s country to those who would destroy it and enslave its people. This definition is so simple that leftwing sophisticated journalists sneer at it. To them treason is merely relative with one country’s traitor being another country’s hero. This is the appalling moral and intellectual state of current Western journalism. The moral rot runs so deep that one despairs of living long enough to see any improvement." Gerard Jackson 

Historically, that's the centuries long foundationally social paradigm of the media at it's core, and any improvement is merely a temporary blip on the radar.  It's never gonna change. 

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

By Rich Kozlovich Tags:

Years ago there used to be reality cop shows, and the benefit of seeing what cops had to deal with daily.... hourly....  was encouraging.  Why?  Because you knew no matter what was going on in your life, it was much better than what was happening in much of the rest of the world.  The same is true for watching the Pravda media, including MSNBC.

It's a look into a "parallel universe".  A universe where only far left insanity is considered sane, and anything that smacks of traditional values is not only insane, but vile and hateful.   All whites, conservatives, Republicans, practicing Christians and Jews, are evil and must be ridiculed constantly.  

It's all make believe, nothing going on in reality changes their views, always believing they're the true voice of America.  In spite of their ratings collapse they still arrogantly and smugly act is if the nation cares what they're saying, but those who run MSNBC  know better, and there are penalties for ignoring reality....the loss of viewership, and the resulting funding that goes along with that.

As a result of their loss of viewership, it's become too costly to maintain their overpriced staff.  Top anchors faced huge pay cuts after Comcast cut ties with MSNBC:

That's bad news for the exorbitantly compensated and increasingly unhinged personalities who call the left-wing network home (for now). MSNBC and other declining television assets—but not the reality TV powerhouse Bravo—will be spun off into a new publicly traded company by the end of next year. That means MSNBC will soon be divorced from the ostensibly more serious and less overtly partisan NBC News, which routinely shares reportage, fact-checking (if you can call it that), and contributors with its sister network. Comcast brass on Wednesday told MSNBC staffers that  the network's name and peacock logo might not survive the breakup. The outrageously inflated salaries of the network's top anchors almost definitely won't.

Joyless Reid’s Show on MSNBC CANCELLED. 

 

Does all of this signal a shift in MSNBC’s editorial policies? No. They intend to continue their radical brainwashing of the limited audience they reach. They’re just going to do it with fresher faces who haven’t obliterated their credibility completely… at least not yet. Give it time. The new hosts be recycled as well once they’ve been proven to be just as wrong as their predecessors.  ‘My Show Had Value!’ — Joy Reid Melts Down After MSNBC Axes Her.............By way of example, she cites her promotion of Black Lives Matter and the anti-white 1619 Project, among other far-left causes.......“[A]nd where I come down on that is I’m not sorry,” she concluded.

 

Of course the fact she was unhinged, and her ratings were in the toilet isn't the real reason she was fired.  Oh no,....here it comes...and I know you're all going to be shocked.... it's because MSNBC is racist.  And we know that because Rachel Maddow "hints" they're racists, so if Rachel Maddow says it, then it must be true!  Right? There's talk MSNBC should be investigated for racism, and I agree.  It's clear they hate white people and something needs to be done about it. 

Here's a reality check on Rachel Maddow,  who loves everything about Reid saying she's learned so much from her and has so much more to learn, but isn't so outraged over her firing she's quitting her $25 million dollar a year job...which she hardly show up to do.... Reid was making a piddling three million a year... spewing out hate against whites and screaming nonsense about white supremacy. 

 

Running fast-and-loose with the truth is a much-heralded trait of Maddow, and her now departed former network colleague, Joy Reid. Reid, who was never at a loss for vile condemnations, was subject to an avalanche of critical comments on social media by viewers from both sides of the political aisle........

 

She also failed to mention MSNBC fired other propagandists, all shows no one was watching.   Marcus Ebenhack asks if Rachel Maddow just plain stupid?  Calling her the "left’s high priestess of political drama", the queen of Russiagate, implied J6 was an armed revolt and political violence, which it wasn't, and yet ignored the devastation caused by violent, destructive riots by Antifa and BLM that went on for a couple of years.  He ends saying:

 

 I’ll leave it at this: unless she is knowingly lying to her audience, then unequivocally, yes, she is just plain stupid. 

MSNBC, with their unending comparisons to Adolf Hitler, called Trump’s J6 pardons an effort to create an army of Brownshirts, and the "mostly peaceful" fire bombing attacks on Tesla dealerships protests. 

Both CNN, MSNBC  falsely called Garcia ‘Maryland Man’ 506 time in or order to conceal the fact he's here illegally.  He is not a citizen of the US and he's not a Maryland citizen.  Then they bring on that brilliant orator, Jasmine Crockett,  to defend Garcia, smear Trump, and then in turn praise her.  She cries.

 

Biden stranded those astronauts, but MSNBC spreads a massive lie about it.  The astronauts think Trump saved them. Lies cost, as MSNBC pays $30 million to settle defamation lawsuit, and that's a trend we're seeing across the board with the Pravda media.

• MSNBC Legal Analyst Blows Apart Narrative That Trump Is 'Losing' Legal Battles 
• ‘Morning Joe’ Panelists Give New DNC Chair Chances to Take a Popular Stance on “Cultural Issues” . . . He Blows It.
• Don Lemon Blasts MSNBC’s Scarborough and Brzezinski for Preaching ‘Civility’ Towards

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

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags:

 

This has been sitting in my draft file for a couple of months, so some of this goes back a ways, but, it's history, and history is everything as we're seeing the Pravda media dying on the vine.  The cartoon is from this past week and sums up just about everything anyone needs to know about CNN.  CNN excels in a number of things.  Lies of commission, lies of omission, personal attacks, smears, fear mongering, and censorship. 

CNN, The Most Trusted Name in News, claims they're the guardians of truth, and they will decide what's truth tolerating no dissenting views.  Like this time when James Fishbeck challenged views about federal spending the host threatened to cut off his mic, and free speech on Facebook isn't desirable, claiming there's no one saying there's not enough free speech on Facebook.  Really?  Another CNN lie.  

• CNN, MSNBC Use ‘Maryland Man’ Lie 506 Times, Conceal Garcia’s Illegal Status

The Most Trusted Name in News has been caught up in a lot of lies, and then have the nerve to say the really big problem is so many millions of people willing believe Trump's lies, none of which they bother to prove.  But they know Biden did not strand the astronauts Musk rescued, unfortunately for them the astronauts think differently.   The also know Joe Biden already fixed the border, and now Trump is just trying to take credit for all of it, and Trump no understanding about economics. 

And when the lies don't work, they resort to fear mongering.  If Trump purges these agencies, the Deep State bureaucrats are threatening to sell state secrets, including the CIA.  Yeah, and they'll end up in prison.  

Jake Tapper, who has been caught up in these lawsuits says,we're about to enter a period of deep fakes.   The Pravda media loves to smear people.  As in this case where a CNN Panel Tries to Smear Dan Bongino as not being qualified to be the number two man at the FBI, yet we've seen amazingly stupid people appointed to powerful positions, including the judiciary, by Joe Biden without a peep from CNN.   Bongino is a public figure and as a result of they can get away saying a lot about public figures.  But Sullivan doesn't apply to private citizens, such as Zachary Young, who they accused of corruption, and destroyed his business.

Jury Was Ready to Send CNN a Message with $100M in Punitive Damages - The jury responsible for the CNN defamation case was prepared to award Zachary Young up to $100 million in punitive damages, one juror told far-left Variety............

Fed-up Judge Savaged CNN Attorney in Network's Disastrous Defamation Case: 'This Isn't Kindergarten'- Along the way to CNN losing a major defamation lawsuit, the attorney representing the network received a blistering rebuke from the Florida judge overseeing the case. Zachary Young, who is a security consultant, sued the network alleging CNN “destroyed his reputation and business” by branding him an “illegal profiteer” who exploited “desperate Afghans” during a Nov. 11, 2021, report by the network’s senior national security correspondent Alex Marquardt on CNN’s “The Lead with Jake Tapper,” Fox News reported.......

  “Your Credibility With Me Is About None”: CNN Trial Goes From Bad to Worse

 5 billion in punitive damages would make CNN start sounding unbiased - I read with great satisfaction that the Florida jury in Zachary Young’s defamation case against CNN awarded him $5 million in compensatory damages before deliberating about punitive damages .........  CNN’s lawyers almost instantly reached an undisclosed settlement with Young, avoiding any colossal punitive damages (which can’t be discharged in bankruptcy court). I was profoundly disappointed........

 

BREAKING: Jury Finds CNN “Committed Defamation Against Navy Vet Zachary Young” Jurors began deliberating after closing arguments were made on Thursday in a defamation lawsuit against CNN. The deliberations continued into Friday after the jury remained undecided late Thursday evening.  ‘The Most Trusted Name In News’ Guilty of Defamation.

Then there's the consequences for all this vile behavior.  Mass Lay-Offs amid tumbling ratings, to the tune of hundreds of employees.  Why? Their lies have caught up to them and viewership is crashing.  They kept catering to left-wing terrorism to appease a dwindling audience, and just can't seem to understand why they lost those viewers. 

CNN’s Acosta: GOP Should Have ‘Flat Out Rejected’ Trump, in an interview with Brad Todd Acosta was on a role saying the Republicans should have "flat out rejected" Trump.  From Kevin McCarthy to Mitch McConnell he asks how could the Republicans left him be the nominee.  And of course we know he was just trying to help the Republicans.  Right?  Well, unlike the chicanery performed by the Democrats, he was chosen by the base.  And it gets better.  

Acosta has always been an obnoxious jerk, and CNN liked it, at least until their ratings started to crash, and then CNN banished TDS-Afflicted Jim Acosta to time-slot ‘Siberia.  So little Jimmy threatened to quit, and it appeared no one cared.  It seems clear, even to little Jimmy, his days at CNN were numbered and he left.  He's gone, Kevin McCarthy's gone, and Mitch McConnell now sits in back of the boat, and is meaningless to the Republican party.  But the man he insisted should have been rejected, Donald Trump, is still there and he "is" the Republican party now.  

But Jimmy, Mitch, and Kevin aren't alone.  And a lot of people will be following them out the door, as CNN is desperate and big names are involved including Wolf Blitzer.  Time is not on CNN's side, and I expect to see it sold are fire sale prices. 

Observations From the Back Row With News and Views For 3/24/25

By Rich Kozlovich

Well, going "Woke" and reality can be a conundrum, since reality can really bite.  Disney's latest Snow White offering is crashing, and their star who made it clear she hates Trump and his supporters is crashing right along with Disney.  I'm just glad Walt isn't around to see what these misfits have done to his creation.  And that's the pattern of leftism.  Infiltration and corruption, including foundations created by wealthy industrialists of the late 19th and 20th century.  If these people were alive to see what their money has morphed into they'd be aghast at the insanity.  But hey, at least they're all woke, right?  Isn't that sufficient?  

Trump is shutting down the Department of Education, a massively expensive failure that caterers to the teacher's unions, who have failed the children of America, and that includes the universities.   Shutting down places like Harvard and Columbia would be a nice start, but what really needs to be done is ending all funding to all these universities, tax their endowment funds, and force them to become "for profit" institutions with the same rules that are imposed on all businesses.

Let them then teach any insanity they choose to teach, but not on the taxpayers dime. They can advertise their their views to the world and compete in an open market place. And if they lie in their advertisements, they need to be sued by those taken in, and prosecuted for false advertising.   The answer is in the money, not all this crap about academic freedom.  What they want is the freedom to leech off the people they despise, and it's time for that to stop.

Talking about money, in 2023  the world's priciest whisky went up for auction, "Macallan Adami 1926 single malt whisky, a Scotch whisky that spent 60 years aging in sherry casks."  Sale price? "$2.7 million at a Sotheby's auction in London on November 18, 2023, making it the most expensive wine or spirit ever sold."  

I gotta tell ya, I've never understood this. The idea of why anyone would spend almost three million dollars on a bottle of hooch. But if they have the money, and they do, that's their business, and that's okay with me, but once that's done, then what?  As I see it there are three options.

1. Never open it as an investment, but if you can afford to spend almost three million bucks on hooch, the investment argument seems weak to me.
2. Use it to show off.  Imagine that.  They need a bottle of hooch to make them seem like they're something special?
3. Drink it. But I don't understand how any hooch, no matter the taste, can possibly be worth about three million bucks.

Conclusion? They're nuts.

Before Trump was elected the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment Commission, another commission that seriously needs to ride off into the sunset, passed new and expansive rules regarding pregnancy that could upend the workplace.  

Wow! Does that now mean those leftists in government who've been insisting that men and women are the same, were wrong?   That they really aren't the same? I just had a thought. Does that mean transsexuals who profess to be women, aren't real women?  And if they're not real women they shouldn't be competing with "real" women in athletics?  C'mon man, I don't know but that sounds a bit heretical to leftist dogma to me. Can that open up a can of heretical worms.  Just a thought.  Waddayathink?

What Elon Musk has accomplished with Twitter, now X, and DOGE is amazing and commendable.  It's hard to understand the man.  In spite of his positive accomplishments, I think Elon has a screw loose.  What kind a person names his child X Æ A-Xii, along with others named,  Nevada, Saxon, and get these names, Exa Dark Sideræl, Techno Mechanicus.  

If it wasn't for his DOGE accomplishments my thoughts were if there was ever any evidence of interstellar aliens on the planet, he's it, and would clearly qualify as their ambassador.  There's something seriously wrong with this guy. As for the women who've married and/or bared his children; they also must have a screw loose.  

There, I've said it, I mean it, I won't take it back, and I hope he keeps up his good works!  What really irritates me is all that sounds like cognitive dissonance on my part.

There's an unending meme about Trump's economic war on the world, and it's one that's long over due.  Canada and Europe have all been in a real snit over Trump's policies, “How dare you do to us what we did to you long ago! What gives you the right to do to us what we're doing to you now?”   Canada, European nations, as well as other nations, such as China, have long placed tariffs on American goods, and/or subsidized their businesses and industries placing them at a distinct advantage over their American counterparts.  

They just don’t get it, Bretton Woods is done, but Trump gets it, and so let them whine, cry, scream, and threaten all they want, we don’t need them, they need us. Europe is doomed, the EU is doomed, and they fail to realize they’re no longer the geopolitical center of the world. It’s shifting to the Middle East, and for a while China.   But China is self-immolating, it just isn’t that obvious yet to them, since they all live in a delusional echo chamber of head nodders, but Europe is heading down the drain, and America isn’t going to bail them out this time, and  China's economy is in trouble.  One more thing. There’s a difference between tariffs for economic reasons versus geopolitical reasons. Trump is mastering both.

We’re not living in a Smoot-Hawley world, and smart tariffs will benefit America.  Over fifteen years ago I observed and wrote about how taking the hard stand was going bring industry back to America. First, again, Bretton Woods is over. We held the world’s hand to keep them up, and now they’re dragging us down. Tariffs, trade restrictions, and most most importantly, the lack of stability in the rest of the world is going to drive companies back, and as it turns out, foreign companies are deciding to come to America.   "Rolls-Royce is reportedly preparing to increase manufacturing production in the United States to avoid tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump."

The trend right now is to eliminate a bunch of rule making nitwit bureaucrats, and the nitwit regulations they passed, which in 2014 cost America 1.8 trillion dollars a year. All of these regulations do one thing for sure - create jobs – for non-productive bureaucrats.  It took government employees 10.38 billion hours to do “the paperwork for the federal government in 2013, and will take 78,000 full-time employees to complete the additional paperwork”, and that was ten years ago, I don’t know what it is now.

Once American capitalism is unleashed it becomes a force of nature no nation on Earth can match. That’s why it’s important to dismantle all these foreign schemes, especially with China. 

On March 16,  John F. Di Leo published this piece, Tariffs and the Moral High Ground, laying out an argument to justify America taking on the world over trade, and did it very impressively I might add, and then failed, with the, "it's not the right time", meme.  I see that pattern playing out so often.

I’m 78 years old, very soon 79, and I’ve been hearing, “This isn’t the right time”, for so long I don’t remember when was the first time I heard it. But I also keep hearing, “if now isn’t the right time, when is”? And, “if Trump doesn’t do it, who will?”

“This isn’t the right time” is just kicking the can down the road, and that never seems to end. That can has been kicked far too long, way too far down that road.  

 

So, let me give the world the answer as when the time is right.

The right time is always ….. always …… when someone comes along who’s willing and has the guts to do it. If there are consequences, then so be it, let them happen, since there will always be consequences. If that’s true, and it is, then let them happen now so my children won’t have to face the deadly consequences of doing nothing after I’m gone.

One more thing, the idea it will take America a long time to adjust isn’t set in stone. During WWII American manufacturers went from the consequences of the Great Depression to the greatest manufacturing giant the world had ever seen, and did it overnight. American capitalism when unleashed is like a force of nature.

Challenging the internationally corrupt trade practices is only one leg of a four legged stool. The second leg is ending the thousands and thousands of destructive regulations imposed on America by a totally corrupt Deep State, and that in the works right now.  It’s clear Trump understands the problem for that four legged stool.   Trade agreements, regulations, spending, and taxes, and is determined to fix them.

I have a number of writers who permit me to publish their work, and one is a libertarian economist, who is usually really smart about economics, and tracks everything. But I’ve not been publishing him lately because he’s on an unending rant about how stupid Trump is about tariffs.

And again, this isn’t 1930 and the world’s economy that Smoot-Hawley impacted no longer exists. They need us, we don’t need them, and I’m willing to take that plunge and see just who lasts the longest. It won’t be Canada, it won't be Europe, it won't be Mexico, and it won't be China.   I’m more than prepared see who gives out first, and it won’t be America.

Ontario strutted big and bad threatening to shut of electricity to three states. Guess what?  It didn’t take long for them to get their heads on right, as  Ontario bowed to Trump in tariff war, and this will be the pattern, not the exception. We don’t need them, they need us, and it’s time we acted accordingly.

Abortion

• Chelsea Clinton: Killing the unborn necessary for America's economy - Clinton claimed that access to abortion "is not just about patient health and well-being, it is a matter of society, economic and fiscal health." This aligns with her previous comment that "American women entering the labor force from 1973 to 2009 added three and a half trillion dollars to our economy."  Essentially, her argument is that abandoning motherhood and killing preborn children is justifiable so that "our economy" can grow. .......

Antisemitism

• Chief Rabbi of Orleans Assaulted Amid Surging Antisemitism in France - French President Emmanuel Macron condemned Sunday the “poison of antisemitism” following a shocking attack on the chief rabbi of the central city of Orleans. French authorities are treating the incident as an antisemitic hate crime. Rabbi Arié Engelberg was assaulted Saturday evening while walking in the city center with his young son. Local media reported that the suspect hurled antisemitic insults at the rabbi before physically attacking him...........

• Jacques Didn’t Do It - The name of the perpetrator has not been released because he is a juvenile, but from the video it is obvious that he is not a Pierre or a Jacques. More likely a Mohammed or Muhammed.

China

• Former Congresswoman Explains CCP’s Hidden Influence in California - The former lawmaker warns that CCP influence on California’s campuses, ports, and border should be seen as a national security issue. ......
• Is Australia Set to Become a Security Threat for the United States? - China buying up much of the country, ...........Chinese influence is now powerful enough to have an electoral impact.......... The colonials had to be taught a lesson by the new Asian masters, who dwell in the multicult pot. The problem for the U.S. is that this Chinese influence in Australia is set to grow, and become a major political force. It will not be too many years before whites in Australia become a minority; Anglo Saxons who constituted 97 percent of the population at Federation in 1901, already are a minority. China demands loyalty of all its diaspora, and when things move to a kinetic conflict, it will call all of its racial tribe in Australia to take a stand for the Fatherland of world Emperor Xi, ruler of all men..................

Deep State

• The Trump Administration Goes to War against Bureaucratic Tyranny - “This town is now as nervous as it’s ever been.”  That’s Congressman Chip Roy’s assessment of the mood in Washington, D.C., since President Trump’s return to the White House.  It’s one of several dozen refreshingly blunt descriptions of American politics in Ned Ryun’s new documentary based on his book, American Leviathan.  The documentary is available to anyone with an Internet connection, and it is nothing short of a declaration of war on the administrative state.............
• FBI’s Flagship Field Office Puts Epstein Case File Redactions Ahead of All Other Investigations — Some in 12-Hour Overnight Shifts: Report

Democrats

• Democrats Have A Manhood Problem, In More Ways Than One -  Almost no one believes the absurd tenets of transgender ideology. They pretend to believe because everyone around them is also pretending to believe. Democrats have a penis problem. Specifically, their problem is that they think a woman can have one.  It is Democrat Party dogma that “trans women are women.” The results of implementing this doctrine have been predictable, from males dominating female athletes to female prisoners having to share cells with male rapists to girls losing their privacy in bathrooms.............
• 3 Battleground Senate Democrats Retire—What Does It Mean for 2026? “People retiring ... is usually an indicator that they feel like that they’re in for a fight, and they just don’t have the fight left in them,”.......
• Schumer: GOP Lawmakers ‘Will Feel Like They’re Rats on a Sinking Ship’ 
• California Goes Red? Nearly 50% of CA Voters Considering Voting for Republican Gov - Nearly 50 percent of likely California voters revealed that they are considering voting for a Republican candidate to be the next governor of the state in 2026, according to a recent poll...
• Here's How You Know Things Are Terrible in California 
• Podcaster Gavin Newsom Launches Methane Satellites as California Borrows Money for Health Care 
• AOC Tries to Broaden her Appeal within Democrat Base Spoiling for a Fight - Bernie Sanders stepped onto a stage in downtown Denver, surrounded by tens of thousands of cheering supporters in what he described as the biggest rally he had ever addressed. ...........
• Bernie's astroturf rally
• Sanders and AOC: 100 Years of Socialism
• Even Bernie Won’t Endorse AOC for Senate
• Leftists are finally embracing their Inner Fascist - The far left has always engaged in the politics of projection, but now the truth is coming out with their latest fascistic actions. Have you ever wondered why the far left is so obsessed with fascism and National Socialism to the point that they regularly project these pejoratives on the pro-freedom community? ..........

Economics

• Another One: Car Maker Shifting Production to USA - British engineering giant Rolls-Royce is reportedly preparing to increase manufacturing production in the United States to avoid tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump..........

Immigration 

• Trump Directs DOJ to ‘Seek Sanctions’ Against Immigration Lawyers -  President Donald Trump instructed Attorney General Pam Bondi to punish immigration lawyers and law firms that are gaming courthouse rules and migration laws.  In a memo to Bondi and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem, Trump explained “lawyers and law firms that engage in actions that violate” the nation’s laws “or rules governing attorney conduct must be efficiently and effectively held accountable.”......

Media 

• You Can’t Hate The Fake News Media Enough - My family and I were lucky enough to be invited to the White House this week for the signing of the Executive Order on dismantling the worthless Department of Education...........
• The Gaslighting Is Not Working - In the grand theater of American politics—where narratives are spun faster than a carnival Tilt-A-Whirl—you’d think the Left’s daily barrage of so-called scandals would’ve finally dented President Donald Trump’s public standing........

Middle East 

• Waltz: Trump Administration Seeking ‘Full Dismantlement’ of Iran’s Nuclear Program - National security adviser Mike Waltz said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that President Donald Trump was working towards “full dismantlement” of Iran’s nuclear program..........
• Turkish court orders key Erdogan rival jailed pending trial on corruption charges - A court has formally arrested the mayor of Istanbul and key rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and ordered him jailed pending the outcome of a trial on corruption charges Turkish court orders key Erdogan rival jailed pending trial on corruption charges......
• Are Turkish President Recip Erdoğan's days numbered? -Last week, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s Islamist president, arrested a political rival. That sparked several days of protest, and, today, it’s seemingly culminated with protestors invading the presidential palace. The big question is whether this ends with a brutal response or the end of Erdoğan’s reign.......
• Israel presses ground offensive in Gaza - Israel’s military pressed ground operations across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, urging Palestinians to flee an offensive in Rafah city nearly a week into a renewed assault on the Hamas-ruled territory............