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Here's a video of a discussion of Chase's "Bench Seat."
Friday, March 14, 2025. We're putting MSNBC on pause, Chump continues
his war on education, propaganda is not news coverage, and much more.
We're
starting with that CNN video for a number of reasons. First the
reaction -- negative reaction -- to US House Rep Chuck Edwards is news.
This is happening around the country and it is news.
Second, it's CNN.
Not MSNBC.
Lawrence
O'Donnell was off last night and won't be back until two Mondays from
now. Had he been on last night, we would have highlighted him if he'd
covered the above but we would have most likely highlighted him on
something.
You're not going to find MSNBC in today's snapshot. You won't find it later in the day up here.
Maybe back on Monday.
The community shapes this site and always has.
Too many of you are furious with MSNBC right now. I get it. I really do and we'll go into that in a moment.
11:30
pm EST is the last time we noted them. If I'd known the objection when
I was queuing up videos before the roundtable for the gina & krista
round-robin, that video would not have gone up here.
Let's go back to the CNN video.
A veteran is loudly calling out a US House Rep who is failing We The People.
If
you've missed it, House Conversion Queen Mike Johnson has insisted that
the people -- all these people -- showing up at rallies to demand that
their Congressional reps do their jobs and stop serving Musk and Chump
and start serving the people -- he's insisted these are paid agitators
and George Soros or someone else has paid them.
If
tomorrow we find out that the veteran in the video above was paid off
or was not who he presented as, we'd have every reason in the world to
be upset. Every reason.
That's not going to be the case with the veteran above. But if it had been, we'd have every right to be outraged.
A
number of you are outraged about a similar issue around protests and
you're sick of MSNBC trying to shove it down your throat while lying.
Yes, I agree with the community, it is lying.
When
the genocide in Gaza began (or this wave), we covered the protests and
supported the protesters on campuses across the country. Good for
American students for using their voices. We covered it here. We
bought in some of the activists that Ava and I met with on campuses for
roundtables.
And when the corporate media,
not just FOX "NEWS," would lie, we'd call them out. We're the only ones
that called out some of that garbage. We'd point out that this average
student, 'voice of the people' that was denouncing other students for
protesting was, in fact, a paid member of the right-wing media. FAIR
didn't do it. We did. It was a story of lies, a story of media bias and
a story of media conglomeration (the country's largest owner of
stations across the country broadcast the same lie filled 'report on
every station they owned for example).
Those
liars that we called out? They're still liars. They received money
from right-wing media and that wasn't disclosed in the 'reports' they
were featured in.
But one thing that they said often was that these student protests were being led by non-students and/or foreigners.
The
charge is often made. And it's made because no one wants someone
sticking their nose in our country's business. So if it's a foreigner
leading this, then it is a lot different.
I've
denounced this here for the whole week -- we're talking about the
Syrian-born Palestinian activist who, turns out, pretty much led,
organized and spoke for the Columbia University-based protests.
In
the CNN video above, we hear what the veterans is saying. And, sure,
we applaud him partly because we agree with him. But we also applaud
him because of the integrity he's bringing to his remarks.
If
FOX "NEWS" does an expose Sunday morning revealing that the veteran
isn't who we've been led to believe he was, we're going to feel ripped
off.
(Again, that's not going to happen. The man's a veteran and he wasn't paid by anyone.)
So a lot of you are angry about the Syrian-born activist and, again, I get it.
It helps out FOX "NEWS" and that's bad enough. But we also got lied to and that's equally bad.
The problem you're having with MSNBC is that they won't shut up about it.
Excuse me, they don't cover what we're talking about.
They
cover the Syrian-born activist as a martyr and a noble person and
they're not doing coverage -- as Keesha pointed out in last night's
roundtable, "They are putting their thumbs on the scales and
misinforming to shape our opinions." She's exactly right.
MSNBC
has yet to grapple with the fact that the US-led campus protests were
not all US-led and that the activist in question makes us all look like
fools because we defended against the charges that this was a foreign
influenced movement.
MSNBC doesn't want to inform you of that.
They do want to try to tell you what to think.
And, here's the thing, they're not succeeding.
Syrian-born is a liar. And a lot of us feel betrayed.
They
are trying to create a news story -- there has been no news there since
he was arrested, it's now a matter for the courts. But MSNBC has
decided to stake their brand on this bulls**t.
You're
doing the right thing when they start doing that and you turn off the
TV or change the channel. I spoke with a friend in management and
they're also getting a lot of complaints about this coverage -- as they
should be. But turning off the TV or changing the channel will send a
much stronger message.
Again, there's no
story there. There was no reason, for example, for Chris Hayes to cover
it last night -- I didn't watch, I only became aware during last
night's round table.
There are no new developments and MSNBC isn't being honest.
We defended those students, we defended the movement and now Syrian-born is making FOX "NEWS" look like the truth teller.
So,
yes, I get the anger. And when Lawrence comes back, we'll highlight
him. Other than that, I'm going to have wait on the community's
decisions.
I also heard -- and agree --
during the roundtable that the attack on school breakfasts and lunches
is 100% more important than any one person -- certainly more than the
Syrian-born activist. This is going to take place in over forty states
if the administration gets away with it. Over forty states. And, as
we've noted this week, this is going to mean that farmers are going to
be struggling even more because the cuts are going to harm them. But
they're also going to harm our country's children.
A
growling stomach? You can't learn on that. If a child is going
hungry, their basic needs aren't being met and, yes, it does effect
education.
Now you may be the biggest sack of
s**t MAGA idiot. But I would think even that person who hates the world
and thinks all adults are welfare cheats would have the brains not to
blame a child. We're supposed to protect the children. We're adults.
That's our job. And cutting the food program is not protecting them.
Again, you may hate their parents for example if you're MAGA but I think
you'd have to agree that the children themselves haven't done anything
wrong. The gutting that's going on right now is appalling and inhumane
and destroying the economy. That's across the board.
But
the attacks on children's meals -- like the attacks on science -- are
much worse because they will do long lasting damage and, again, we're
the adults, we're supposed to protect the children.
In the roundtable, a number of you made clear that MSNBC isn't interested in this story.
They're
flooding the zone on the Syrian-born activist but America's children
apparently don't have enough disposable income to interest MSNBC so
they'll instead bore us all with another story about the Syrian-Born
activist.
We need to take back at least one
house of Congress in the mid-terms -- I want both. And MSNBC's coverage
isn't helping with that.
The protests were
divisive. Actions can be. Didn't bother me. Didn't bother me that we
lost some readers (and about 40 community members) by covering the
protests.
It was news and I still applaud the American students on campuses who spoke out -- the Americans.
But the b.s. that soon overtook everything cost us the election. And now we live in horror each day.
So,
I hear you, you're not in the mood for MSNBC and their ignoring of real
stories that impact the American people and could impact the mid-terms
to instead do another whine about Syrian-born.
We got enough propaganda on him before he was arrested. We don't need anymore.
Repeating
from last night, a permanent resident? That's a status and it doesn't
mean it can't be revoked. You're getting liars telling you all sorts of
things there. My favorite is: It has to be proven in court!
Where the f**k have you lived since 9/11?
That's why community members are so angry at MSNBC, they're doing propaganda.
The
courts have bent over backwards to take the government's word on
terrorism. Over and over since 9/11 -- and they weren't all that
reluctant prior to that.
There's also the
reality that he may in fact be part of terrorism. I don't know. I
don't know him. I thought Columbia's protests were being led by
American students at Columbia. He's duped the public once already so,
no, I'm not staking my word on his claims.
They
also don't seem to understand immigration. You can't lie on
paperwork. If you do, you can lose a visa or a green card. That's
reality. Reality is also that most of us will lie on a form.
Especially if it's a lengthy form. And it might be a lie of omission,
it might be you short handing something, but it happens all the time.
And that's their out -- the government's out -- when they want to revoke
whatever they granted to a foreigner.
We
have serious issues to address in this country. We all have to figure
out what they are and cover what we need to cover -- what we feel we
need to cover.
MSNBC could argue that this is
the story that they feel that they need to cover. Fine. But they need
to accept the fact that viewers are already tuning out on them and that
will only increase as more air time is wasted on this non-story.
Non-story!!! He could be deported!!!
He
could be. Hasn't happened yet. The only news was that he was taken
into custody over the weekend and the plan is to deport him. That
headline has been more than conveyed. You're no longer doing news,
you're doing propaganda for his defense attorney.
And you're doing that while you're ignoring American children.
In
the mid-terms, other than a few freaks, no one's going to basing their
vote on what happened to the Syrian-born activist. What Chump's doing
to America's children? That's going to be an issue. The measles
outbreak that continues to spread because we have anti-science fools in
Chump's administration? That's going to be an issue.
I said this last night in the roundtable but let me repeat it here:
I
do not live in front of the TV. I do not know every thing that is said
or done on MSNBC. I do leave the TV on these days because I'm a
Nielsen viewer but I really am not a TV person. So I was not aware that
this non-story -- it's a headline at this point -- about one person was
taking up so much TV real estate on MSNBC. I understand the anger I'm
hearing [in the roundtable] and this matter's addressed. We'll put a
halt on including MSNBC for the time being except for Lawrence
O'Donnell. We'll continue to asses this as a community.
So, again, my apologies. It was my ignorance completely. And I am sorry.
This is an important topic so the time above was not wasted but let's wrap up with a few other things. Aimee Picchi (CBS NEWS) reports:
The
U.S. Department of Agriculture is cutting two federal programs that
provided about $1 billion in funding to schools and food banks to buy
food directly from local farms, ranchers and producers, part of what the
agency said was a decision to "return to long-term, fiscally
responsible initiatives."
The
move cancels about $660 million in funding this year for the Local Food
for Schools program, which is active in 40 U.S. states, as well as about
$420 million for a second program called the Local Food Purchase
Assistance Cooperative Agreement, which helps food banks and other local
groups provide food to their communities.
The
decision comes as the Trump administration and Elon Musk's Department
of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, say they are slashing federal
spending to reduce government waste. The USDA programs were funded
through the agency's Commodity Credit Corporation, a Depression-era fund
created to buy products directly from farmers.
I
have no idea why this isn't getting more coverage. We noted it this week. This an attack on America's children. This will
impact so many and it's bread-and-butter issue so you'd think
politicians and news outlets would be running with this story. It's
also impacting farmers:
One
farmer in Massachusetts told CBS News Boston that she was concerned the
funding cut could hurt her business. Katie Carlson, president of
Carlson Orchards in Harvard, Massachusetts, said the Worcester Regional
Food Hub, which connects school districts with food from local farmers
through the USDA program, had been a reliable customer.
"We
know that this time of year we can count on the Worcester Food Hub,"
Carlson said. "They may not be huge orders every week, but we know that
they're coming to take something every week, so if that were to all of a
sudden drop off [...] It's just not, not good."
So
children and farmers will suffer in order for Convicted Felon Donald
Chump to deliver tax breaks to his wealthy and crooked friends. That's
our nation priority when trash occupies the White House: Tax breaks for
the wealthy and attack the working class and America's future. In news
of Chump's other attacks on education, ABC NEWS reports:
The
Department of Education's far-reaching layoffs have decimated a small
statistical agency considered to be the "authoritative and trusted
source" of information on the education system in the United States,
four former employees familiar with the situation told ABC News.
Since
the 1860s, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has
collected and analyzed data on education across the country, which has
been used by policymakers and the public to measure academic success,
teacher productivity and crime and safety in schools, among other
topics.
It issues a congressionally mandated
test called the National Assessment of Education Progress -- better
known as the "Nation's Report Card" -- which, since 1969, has been
considered the gold standard of testing to compare the academic
performance and progress of students across all 50 states in math and
reading across several grades.
Since 1860 . . . But, of course, idiot Chump knows better.
Chump
declares war on education because, as a deeply stupid person, he's
always railed against the notion that people could improve their lives
via education. So he attacks and attacks and attacks. Another
example, Erin Hudson and Sophie Alexander (BLOOMBERG NEWS) reports:
The US Department of Education’s sweeping cuts Tuesday included staff that oversee schools’ efforts to help millions of students learn English.
Employees
from the Office of English Language Acquisition, or OELA, are being
eliminated as part of the Education Department’s reduction in force this
week, according to the American Federation of Government Employees
Local 252, the union representing the agency’s employees. The wider
Education Department cuts aim to eliminate half of its more than 4,000
employees. A spokesperson for the department said OELA’s work will
continue in another division.
[. . .]
At
least a dozen OELA staff were cut including those who worked on the
Title III program, which provides federal funding for states to improve
education for students learning English, as well as the National
Professional Development Program and the Native American and Alaska
Native Children in School program, which train teachers to support those
students, according to a person familiar with the matter who asked not
to be named and a document seen by Bloomberg.
The
National Council of Urban Indian Health issued a press release deeming
“federal layoffs targeting essential tribal programs … catastrophic for
Indian Country.”
“DEI requires
context,” said Tempe Chief Diversity Officer Velicia McMillan Humes.
“You have to understand that this is addressing a greater, longer,
pervasive issue.”
Diversity training began with
affirmative action after President John F. Kennedy signed an executive
order in 1961 that required federal contractors to create equal
employment for all.
“You have to learn how to
create strategies to engage individuals who don’t feel safe or
comfortable or don’t feel like they’ll be heard,” Humes said. “But the
first thing we need to do is recognize that we have played a role in
that inequity.”
President
Donald Trump and his administration appear to be ramping up plans to
abolish the Department of Education, a long-promised move that has
prompted as much alarm as it has uncertainty.
The
Department of Education has been around in some form since the mid-19th
century, with its current cabinet-level form being created when a law
passed by Congress and signed by President Jimmy Carter spun it off from
the broader Department of Health, Education and Welfare in 1979. Over
the decades, it's frequently come under fire from conservative
lawmakers, including from President Ronald Reagan, Carter's successor,
but the calls have usually been for it to be stripped back, not shut
down outright.
This pushback
was supercharged, however, when Trump pledged during his 2024 campaign
to do just that: shutter the department completely. That threat took
another step forward in early March, when Trump's former Small Business
Administration head Linda McMahon (yes, that Linda McMahon)
was sworn in as the new secretary of education and quickly sent a memo
to department workers claiming that they would be carrying out its
"final mission." Recent reports also indicate the Trump administration
was working on an executive order directing the secretary to prepare for
the end of the department, and on March 11 it was announced that half
of its staff was being cut as part the planned shutdown.
Senator Patty Murray's office issued the following regarding Chump's attacks on education:
Murray: “Families want help to get students’ math
and reading scores up and ensure their kids can thrive—instead, Donald
Trump is taking a wrecking ball to the Department of Education and
robbing our students and teachers of the resources and support they
need.”
ICYMI:
Ahead of Confirmation Vote, Senator Murray Blasts Linda McMahon’s
Nomination: “We Cannot Have a Secretary of Education Who Doesn’t Believe
in Having a Secretary of Education”
Washington, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray
(D-WA), a senior member and former Chair of the Senate Health,
Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following
statement on President Trump’s mass firings at the Department of
Education.
“Families want help to get students’ math and reading scores
up and ensure their kids can thrive—instead, Donald Trump is taking a
wrecking ball to the Department of Education and robbing our students
and teachers of the resources and support they need, so that Republicans
can pay for more massive tax cuts for billionaires.
“Donald Trump and Linda McMahon know they can’t abolish the
Department of Education on their own but they understand that if you gut
it to its very core and fire all the people who run programs that help
students, families, and teachers, you might end up with a similar,
ruinous result.
“Ultimately, what they want to do is clear: fire the people
who help our kids and gut funding for our students, teachers, and
schools. This is about breaking government for working families—and
enriching billionaires like themselves in the process.
“Students, families, and teachers in every part of the
country will pay the price for Trump’s slash and burn campaign to
destroy public education in America. When you rip tax dollars from
public schools, it is working and middle class families who suffer. When
you fire the people who hold predatory for-profit colleges accountable
and who help students get financial aid, it is students who pay the
price for years to come.
“Fewer teachers, less accountability, less resources for
students, and more chaos—it’s the last thing students and schools need,
but it’s exactly what Trump is delivering.”
Senator Murray has been calling out the Trump administration’s
devastating plans to worsen public education in America. She’s pressed
the Trump administration on its plans to shutter the Department, blasted its dismantling of its research arm, and forcefullyopposed Linda McMahon’s nomination and plans to execute Trump’s disastrous agenda.
Senator Murray has championed students and families at every stage of
her career—fighting to help ensure every child in America can get a
high-quality public education. Among other things, Senator Murray
negotiated the bipartisan Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), landmark
legislation that she got signed into law, replacing the broken No Child
Left Behind Act. As a longtime appropriator, she has successfully fought
to boost funding to support students and invest in our nation’s K-12
schools, and she has secured significant increases
to the Pell Grant so that it goes further for students pursuing a
higher education. Senator Murray also successfully negotiated the FAFSA
Simplification Act, bipartisan legislation to reform the financial aid
application process, simplify the FAFSA form for students and parents,
and significantly expand eligibility for federal aid.
In March 2020, Senator Murray introduced the Supporting Students in Response to Coronavirus Act
to support students as COVID-19 spread, and she proceeded to work
across the aisle to deliver resources to schools to support students in
the CARES Act in March 2020 and in December 2020 through the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental AppropriationsAct (CRRSAA). In March 2021, Senator Murray helped secure
critical resources for K-12 schools in the American Rescue Plan, which
was passed without any Republican votes. She also worked to require a
portion of the resources are specifically used to address learning
loss—and has pushed
to ensure the resources are being used effectively to help students get
back on track. In the years since, Senator Murray has fought to renew
federal investments in our schools, ensure resources are used
effectively and consistent with federal laws, and successfully defeated
House Republicans’ efforts to gut federal educational funding as Chair
of the Senate Appropriations Committee in the 118th Congress.
Tesla
has lost so much value in such a short period of time that JPMorgan
analysts said they couldn't think of another comparable moment in
automotive history.
"We
struggle to think of anything analogous in the history of the
automotive industry, in which a brand has lost so much value so
quickly," they wrote, adding that the closest example was when Japanese
and Korean car brands lost sales amid "diplomatic disputes" with China
in 2012 and 2017, respectively.
The JPMorgan
analysts wrote in a note on Wednesday that those historical cases were
"confined to a single market, whereas the decline in Tesla sales in 2025
is not specific to any one nation or geography."
JPMorgan
analysts cut their price target on Tesla by about 41% from $230.58 to
$135, lowering guidance on vehicle deliveries for the first quarter of
2025 to about 355,000 — an 8% year-over-year decrease from the first
quarter of 2024.
From December to Wednesday
after trading hours, Tesla lost nearly 49% of its market cap, seeing its
peak value of $1.54 trillion from the end of last year fall to about
$777 billion.
As usual, I love Isaiah's comic. He's right too. Junior's got nothing. His father had an affair with Marilyn Monroe while he's stuck married to saggy boob.
I'm so tired so this is going to be brief tonight.
Marjorie Taylor Greene has apparently broken ethical guidelines. Again.
Thursday, March 13, 2025. Realities and perception -- touching on
hair and make up in your presentation -- the difference between helping
someone and making a political point, the danger that Junior has become
to our country during the measles outbreak, we note the passing of a nut
job, and much more.
Let's deal with some e-mails
quickly. I'm awful and I'm a hypocrite over the Syrian-born Palestinian
a few of you e-mailing the public account insist.
I may be
awful. I've copped to being a bitch and said repeatedly that I'm not a
nice person. I've said that here since 2005, check the archives.
As for hypocrisy?
No. That would be the Gaza Freaks.
My
take has always been -- go back to 2004 and you'll see it here -- we
should welcome everyone to this country . . . except those coming to
this country to try to start up conflict with another country. Think
some of the Cuban exiles.
If a Cuban wants to come to
this country, I will gladly welcome them. Unless they get here and then
use our country to try to pimp their war with Cuba. You want to come
this country? Great, you're welcome to and I'm glad to have you up
until you're pushing actions against whatever country you hate.
So the activist who's now facing deportation? I agree
with Mike, he should have kept his damn mouth shut. Don't come to the
US and start trying to get us involved in your personal war. As Mike
said, American students on campuses want to protest the genocide? More
power to you. I applauded you and covered you for months and months and
months here.
But I never knowingly covered a foreigner on US campuses taking part in the protests.
I've studied abroad and had the good sense and manners to know my place. I was a guest in a country and I acted accordingly.
"His people!"
The wife's emerged finally.
She wants you to know that he was defending "his people."
They
are his people? Great. Go there. Go to your people. You're not an
American, you're not an American citizen. Those are your people? Well
love them and protect them, go there and help. Get the hell out of this
country and so he can go work to help "his people."
I have no problem with Americans being vocal and demanding an action on an issue.
I
also have no problem with immigrants making demands regarding
immigration. I have a huge problem with people coming over here to this
country and using it as a base for their petty wars and grievances.
Again, that's not new and I've gone over this over and over. I've also
opposed anyone having citizenship to more than one country.
You
can disagree with those positions and you can think I'm stupid and you
can think I'm wrong -- and I'm often wrong --, but there's no hypocrisy
there. I am very consistent.
We'll come back to this topic.
Let's
move to Gavin. I know Gavin Newsom and have noted that many, many
times. He's taken a repugnant stand on transgender people. I have
posted many videos here about that. I have not commented which has one
person insisting I'm covering up for Gavin.
If I were
covering up for him, I wouldn't have posted the videos calling him
out. I really liked Gavin up until that moment. I've known him for
years and years. I'm enraged by his new position and far too angry to
write about it. I know him going back to his first marriage. I do not
trust that I would be able to write rationally or fairly about him at
present. I am sure I would surface many buried bodies if I wrote about
him right now.
B-b-but, you should! He might be president!
He's
never going to be president. Never. It's not happening. California
is seen as a crisis under his watch outside of our state. That's first
of all.
Second of all, he doesn't listen to me. I'm
fairly blunt. I've told him for years to lose that ridiculous hairdo --
but women love to run their fingers through it!!! I don't think they
do, I've had many conversations with both of his wives over the years
and with many women who dated him.
Gavin's really the
only one that likes that ridiculous hairdo. I didn't like it on Barbara
Bush when she was First Lady and I don't like it on Gavin.
It's
a joke and it makes him a joke. And I've not only pointed that out in
person, Ava and I covered it when he went on Chelsea Handler's NETFLIX
talk show. It's cine worthy and plays into the negative portrayal of
him as out of touch and not wanting to be part of regular people.
But he's an idiot and doesn't listen. I see Stephen Jenkins has gone back to normal hair ("Third Eye Blind: Tiny Desk Concert"
just went up this morning). Love Stephan but he was an idiot for going
with that ridiculous George Washington hair -- not unlike Gavin. Third
Eye Blind was riding high of a great album and multiple hits. But then
he decided to end the look that the audience lapped up and debut, with
BLUE, that awful hairdo. They never recovered their momentum.
Gavin has bad hair and way too much baggage.
My guess is he's trying to reshape himself publicly for a run in 2028. I don't think he'll get the nomination.
And
I'll probably work strongly against him if he does try for the
nomination. And while my record getting people awards and offices may
not be strong, I do know how to organize and kill someone's chances. So
I'm not really worried about Gavin and, unless he decides to run for
the presidential nomination, that's all I intend to say about him.
I'm mean and I never say anything nice or do anything nice -- argues an e-mail.
Really? I'm not a nice person, I admit that. But never do anything nice?
I'm
thinking of a man who passed away. The late John Conyers introduced me
to him a little over 20 years ago. His death really wasn't noted. And
I was being kind -- or thought I was -- by not noting it here. Maybe I
should? Maybe it would teach the Gaza Freaks a lesson about how you
run off people from your causes. Because that's what he did. A very
intelligent person. Dedicated to so many good causes -- and a few nutty
conspiracies.
We highlighted him for years. He'd send
something to the public account. Sometimes he'd send it and I wouldn't
note it or wouldn't note it fast enough and he'd call me personally to
complain.
As the years passed, he got nuttier and
nuttier. And I still highlighted him. Even though it resulted in many
complaints -- because he was getting so nutty.
We
finally did drop him. And he called to gripe and wanted to know why and
I told him he was spreading lies. He screamed back over the phone that
I was "a gatekeeper!" I was preventing the free flow of information.
No.
I wasn't going to allow your lies up here.
A political opinion that I disagreed with? Sure. No problem.
But lies? Lies about science? Conspiracy theories that were so laughable and so bad.
I'm sorry you went nutty but you did. And you lost the ability to speak with people as a result.
He
was nuts at the end. At the end he was Naomi Wolf. Prior to that, he
had a strong mind and could make strong political arguments -- some of
which I agreed with, some of which I didn't. But I'm not interested in
chemtrail conspiracies or lies about vaccinations. I'm not interested in
the nutty.
Gaza Freaks, you'll are on the same path.
There is not enough support in the US to get what you want. And, what's
worse, your behavior in the lead up to the presidential election turned
off a large group of people who previously worked to support you.
You
are as crazy -- as bats**t crazy -- as Francis A. Boyle was at the end
(he's the nut job who recently died that I was referencing above).
Now
I don't want to keep writing about the Syrian-born Palestinian. Mainly
because I don't like bulls**t. And I'm tired of reading and hearing
copy that's coming from the man's attorney. That's not journalism.
(Check out WIKIPEDIA's laughable entry where his claims are presented as
fact and claims from others are just claims. That's not reality. Both
sides are making claims at this point -- his attorney and the
government.) And it's going to get so bad that I'll end up making the
case for him to be deported and doing so better than Chump's idiotic
administration can -- which is why I don't plan on writing about this
topic again.
The reason we're starting with this is
because when I saw the coverage of the ugly wife yesterday, I again had
to ponder: How stupid is this attorney?
Francis Boyle
thought he could act the fool and people would support him. That's not
reality and that's not the world we live in.
The
attorney for the Palestinian doesn't grasp reality. There is no excuse
for the malpractice she's carrying out in terms of the court of public
opinion.
I don't care how devout the wife is or not. You tell the idiot to change her clothes and to put on some make up.
This is not about how you worship. This is about connecting with Americans and getting attention and support for your husband.
The
clothes she wore for the camera? She could have worn the exact same
clothes but in an appealing color and fabric instead of looking like she
was wearing a feedsack.
Her skin was awful. She
needed make up. Men wear make up when on camera. Ronald Regan did --
and I'm talking after he was done acting. The reason is to look
natural.
At the very least, someone should have put mascara on her.
This
is not where you make the case for 'my religion and I'm devout.' This
is where you try to get everyone who catches you to relate to you. You
don't put up barriers.
You're pregnant and your
husband's being deported? Start reaching for people's emotions. And to
do that, you can't put up a wall by looking like some Amish person from
the 18th century.
There is no way the wife is as ugly
as she photographed yesterday. You're in front of the camera, put some
make up on so people watching without any opinion yet are thinking,
"That poor woman, she looks so vulnerable and in pain. I can't imagine
how I'd get through that." That's what you want and that's the only
thing that's going to help your husband. You've got an idiot for an
attorney. She should have told you to put on some make up -- even if it
was just mascara -- so you would look normal to the people watching.
Instead, your bare face looked ugly -- and, again, she's probably not
ugly. But when you go in front of the camera, man or woman, for a
planned interview, you're generally wearing make up. She didn't have to
look like she spent a half hour at the Clinique counter, but she needed
some make up.
I've noted before where friends have asked my
input on their clients. I've noted before where I've advised on
wardrobe in court and on hair and make up. I do know what I'm talking
about.
Time and again, freaks -- like Boyle -- want to prove their point.
That's
not me. That's not how I handle it. Again, the war resisters that
self-checked out and got my help are in Canada and aren't at any threat
of being expelled. That's because my goal during the Iraq War was to
keep them safe. I wasn't going to -- and didn't -- use them to make
points on the Iraq War. I was opposed to the Iraq War and could call it
out -- and did day after day both here and on campuses across the
country. That didn't mean I was using people who self-checked out to
make my point.
This was about their lives and their
safety. And so what we focused on was that and how we could get
citizenship for them. Too many others wanted to use a Joshua Key or a
Darrell Anderson to make a political point That may have helped you
feel good about yourself but it didn't help those attempting to live in
Canada. No one we helped got deported. No one we helped has ever been
threatened with deportation.
Sometimes you get too lost in trying to make a statement that you're really not helping the people who need help.
Francis fell into that trap as did the Gaza Freaks.
I'm
not going to doom a person to make a political point. That's not
helping them. And pretending the world is at a point it's not yet at is
being an idiot and a danger to the people you say you want to help.
Moving on, depending upon the time zone you are in, Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Cheryl Hines Explains Junior" went up last night or this morning.
Cheryl Hines, the disgusting wife of Junior. Robert Kennedy Junior is a nut job and an embarrassment.
So naturally Donald Chump picked him for HHS. First, let me applaud
him. Last time we noted him, I pointed out that the Secretary of Health
and Human Services should post at the government website his thoughts
on immunizations, not take the attitude that writing a column for FOX
"NEWS" qualifies for a Cabinet Secretary. Guess what? He has posted the column at HHS finally.
It
should have gone up there immediately but maybe this was a wobbly foot
taking a first step? I'll be kind and we'll just move on to the larger
issues of Junior being unqualified.
An
unearthed report showed that Health and Human Service Secretary Robert
F. Kennedy shared "inaccurate" information about a CDC Advisor Committee
on vaccines, as many believe he was laying the groundwork for
dismissing its members.
In recent interviews,
Kennedy has claimed, "I think 97% of the people on it had conflicts. I
think we need to end those conflicts and make sure that scientists are
doing unobstructed science."
However, after reviewing the 2009 report and speaking to people involved with the committee, NPR determined that Kennedy's assertion was "inaccurate."
"Right
now, what we're getting is a total misrepresentation of a 20-year-old
report, about a process that was already being improved before that
report was issued," former CDC Director Tom Friedman told NPR.
Did
he not grasp that there were serious trust issues with regards to him
being the head of this cabinet post? Those concerns are not made better
when you're caught lying. We have the worst measles outbreak in years
and people looking for reassurance that the Secretary of Health and
Human Services is (a) on the job and (b) knows what they're doing.
When Donna Shalala served in that post, no one questioned her
knowledge base, her qualifications or how she did her job. For eight
years, she did a solid job, demonstrated real leadership and kept the
American people informed. It's too bad Junior's struggling. And that
he's struggling at a time when the country especially needs a health
czar. Neha Mukherjee (CNN) explains, "At
least two pregnant women have been infected in this outbreak, according
to officials at Covenant Hospital in Lubbock. Eighty-one measles cases
have been reported in children ages 4 and younger across Texas and New
Mexico. This is part of the larger outbreak that now spans three states,
including Oklahoma, and totals 258 reported cases." The World Health Organization notes:
The
virus is so contagious that 90% of people who are not immune and who
come into contact with an infected person will become infected and
develop the disease.
Measles is normally spread
through direct contact and through the air. The virus infects the
respiratory tract and then spreads throughout the body.
The
measles virus can live for up to 2 hours on a surface or in the air. If
other people breathe in the contaminated air or touch the infected
surface and then their eyes, nose or mouth, they can become infected. An
infected person can spread the virus even before they have typical
symptoms (e.g. rash).
Measles
infects the respiratory tract and then spreads throughout the body.
Symptoms include a high fever, cough, runny nose and a rash all over the
body. Measles is a highly contagious and potentially serious disease.
Most
deaths from measles are from complications related to the disease.
Complications are most common in children under 5 years and adults over
age 30.
One in 5 children infected with the measles virus may develop severe complications.
Complications can include:
blindness
encephalitis (an infection causing brain swelling and potentially brain damage)
severe diarrhoea and related dehydration
ear infections that can lead to permanent deafness
severe breathing problems including pneumonia.
Measles
infection has also been shown to weaken a person’s immune system,
making it more difficult for them to fight off other diseases for months
or even years after being sick with measles.
If
a woman catches measles during pregnancy, this can be dangerous for the
mother and can result in her baby being born prematurely with a low
birth weight.
The only way to stop measles is
to prevent it through vaccination. Measles vaccine is safe and
effective. Two doses of measles-containing vaccine (MR/measles-rubella)
provide 97% protection from infection and the potentially serious
consequences of the disease. For most people this protection is
lifelong.
Health
care professionals are torching Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s response to a
slew of measles cases popping up across the country.
The health and human services secretary suggested Monday that a poor diet could have been behind the death of a West Texas child who contracted measles.
“It’s very, very difficult for measles to kill a healthy person,” Kennedy told The New York Times, adding
that there is “a correlation between people who get hurt by measles and
people who don’t have good nutrition or who don’t have a good exercise
regimen.”
Kennedy’s comment, however, belied the fact that the most vulnerable populations to die from measles are unvaccinated children.
“To be crystal clear: 1. Measles is a nasty disease,” an epidemiologist under the handle @HealthNerd posted on
BlueSky. “2. You cannot treat measles with antibiotics or cod liver
oil. 3. The measles vaccine is very safe and highly effective, as shown
by the ELIMINATION OF THE DISEASE IN THE US FOR 25 YEARS. 4. RFK Jr. is
an ignorant fool.”
In
an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity broadcast Tuesday, Kennedy
said “natural immunity” after getting a measles infection is more
effective at providing lasting protection against the disease. However,
Kennedy left out that the dangers of catching the disease outweigh the
advantage of immunity, according to doctors.
“It
used to be when you and I were kids, everybody got measles,” Kennedy
told Hannity. “And measles gave you protection, lifetime protection
against measles infection. The vaccine doesn’t do that. The vaccine is
effective for some people, for life, but many people it wanes.”
RFK
Jr: "It used to be that everybody got measles. And the measles gave you
lifetime protection against measles infection. The vaccine doesn't do
that ... it used to be that very young kids were protected by breast
milk. Women who get vaccinated do not provide that level of immunity."
Despite Kennedy’s claims, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says
the majority of people who have had the measles, mumps, and rubella
(MMR) and the measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella (MMRV) vaccines
will be protected for life. The CDC also has guidance for people it recommends should be revaccinated.
Dr. Ashish K. Jha (TIME) explains, "Contrary to statements by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,
outbreaks of this deadly disease are highly unusual. The U.S. declared
measles eliminated more than 20 years ago, thanks to an exceptionally
safe and effective vaccine. But efforts to undermine confidence in that
vaccine have contributed to these recent outbreaks. There are things we
can do, individually and collectively, to protect our most vulnerable
and hopefully eliminate measles in this country again."
Two more states are reporting they are now part of the escalating measles outbreaks across the U.S.
Oklahoma health officials on Tuesday reported two cases of the highly contagious infectious disease in the state while health officials more than 1,500 miles northeast in Vermont reported one confirmed case of the virus there.
The
two cases in Oklahoma are being reported to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention as probable cases "due to exposure associated
with the Texas and New Mexico outbreak" and because the victims are
experiencing symptoms consistent with measles, the Oklahoma State
Department of Health said.
Health
and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reportedly was in
contact with a Texas historian who helped support the distribution of
unproven measles remedies amid an outbreak in the state.
Texas historian Tina Siemens told Mother Jones that Kennedy contacted her last week to discuss health concerns in the Mennonite community.
"Siemens
said she had been working with a clinic called Veritas Wellness in
Lubbock, Texas, to distribute medications, including Vitamin C, cod
liver oil, and the inhaled steroid budesonide," the magazine reported.
Siemens was connected to an online fundraiser that
claimed it would be "used to defray the cost of essential vitamins,
supplements, and medicines necessary to treat children enduring
complications from the measles virus and other illnesses."
Senator Ron Wyden's office issued the following statement:
Washington, D.C. –U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff
Merkley today called for immediate action from Health and Human Services
Secretary Robert F Kennedy, Jr. to stop the spread of measles and save
lives after our country experienced the first measles deaths in a decade.
Measles, once declared eliminated in the U.S. over two decades ago,
has infected at least 223 individuals in 13 U.S. jurisdictions.
“Unfortunately, two of these cases have resulted in the
tragic deaths of a child in Texas and a resident in New Mexico. These
mark the first U.S. deaths from measles in 10 years. It is imperative
that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) act immediately
and robustly to stop the spread of this preventable infection and save
American lives,” the senators wrote in a letter to Secretary Kennedy.
To prevent further infections and protect vulnerable populations, the
lawmakers pressed Kennedy to increase vaccination rates: “More
must be done to increase vaccination rates against measles. Clear
communication that vaccines work is imperative to build trust and
increase uptake of vaccinations, ultimately saving lives. Therefore, it
is critical that HHS utilize its authorities to promote vaccination
against measles as the most effective way to prevent infection to
improve vaccination rates and prevent future outbreaks.”
Stressing the importance of reinstating public health workers
indiscriminately fired by the Trump administration, the senators
concluded, “We urgently request that you reinstate all fired
federal health workers and protect those remaining from termination to
help stop the spread of measles and other infectious diseases.”
In addition to Wyden and Merkley, the letter was led by Senator Ben
Ray Luján (D-NM) and signed by Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Chris
Van Hollen (D-Md.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), John
Fetterman (D-PA), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Mazie
Hirono (D-Hawaii), Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), and Reverend Raphael Warnock
(D-Ga.).
