The FALL OF CNN . & MSNBC

The far left , fear news media CNN is taking a hit .CNN has been plagued by a cascade of high-profile scandals, most notably the  (1)>>firing of its primetime star Chris Cuomo after the anchor was found to be secretly aiding the defense of his embattled older brother, former  (1.1)>>New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, over sexual harassment allegations that resulted in his resignation. This example is a microcosm of why the American people have lost faith in the “news” outlets and partly why we’ve become so polarized as a nation. It’s not about news anymore. But corporate media doesn’t get to lie the country into a war and a financial crisis, continue enriching right-wing fabulists, offer up news literally “presented by” corporate villains, and then pretend that a podcaster is the singular source of misinformation. And it sure as hell doesn’t get to feign surprise when after decades of lies, almost nobody ends up trusting corporate media about anything.It’s about ratings and money. In fact, just this past week,  (2)>>the network averaged a paltry 585,000 total viewers in primetime, placing CNN all the way back in 17th place among all basic cable. Worse yet, the channel’s 120,000 viewers in the key primetime demographic were only good enough for 31st place among cable stations.   I've given up on pretty much all of the cable news in america CNN, Fox, (3)>>MSNBC... I don't really trust any of them. CNN is not exempt from the infotainment trend in America.  NOW we have more transparency with online media. thanks in large part to places like Reddit who are quick to point out unreliable sources. look at how Reddit treats DailyMail, PrisonPlanet /Infowars, CourthouseNews, and other sources of disreputable news and information. (3.1)>>I just cannot stand the left vs. right / us vs. them mentality that they all clearly have. Even the broadcast networks aren't much better. Can we please just get journalist who report only the facts, don't ignore stories that make their preferred political side look bad, don't over sensationalize everything, and don't interject their own opinions and biases into what is supposed to be "news", while not perfect and still prone to propaganda and groupthink, it is a MUCH better system than old media. The difference is that people look to CNN for the real news and are finally realizing that they no longer provide it. AS FAR CNN ratings have gone down the hill . To add, "reporting only the facts" is not just reporting/repeating what a politician says. Report if the politician's statement is correct or not. Report if the politician's statement conveniently contradicts what they said

CNN's Most famed up flub, 
attempt to whitewash 
is making a head line of arson 
protests and that also peaceful.

last week or last year. It's a goddamn disgrace that this is left to The Daily Show and their ilk. It's sad that the viewers of satirical news shows are better informed than viewers of the actual news.CNN’s ratings took a nosedive by a massive 90 percent both overall and in the all-important demographic coveted by advertisers in the first week of the new year.  (4)>>The Jeff Zucker-led cable news network averaged just 548,000 viewers during the week of Jan. 3 — a major drop from the nearly 2.7 million viewers for the same week in 2021, according to Nielsen ratings. The year-ago ratings were jolted by the left-leaning network’s coverage of the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol, which resulted in (5)>>CNN having its most-watched day since Ted Turner launched the news outlet in 1980. But on the one-year anniversary of the attacks, viewers flipped over to CNN’s right-wing rival, Fox News, which topped the ratings for coverage of the event. I watched a lot of CNN during the recent presidential election run.I only occasionally and casually watched CNN before that. However, I was stunned to see how extremely biased the reporting and the interviews were. It was even more disturbing when the reporters would try to defend their neutrality. What ever happened to “Just report the news”. All of it. Both sides of it. They lost a lot of credibility in my books. Any “news” source loses its credibility when it becomes overly biased to the point of not presenting both sides of a story in a balanced manner. It would be interesting to see a lawyer’s perspective on whether news outlets can be sued for reporting in a blatantly biased fashion.  (6)>>YOU MUST REMEMBER CNN was # 1 news network doing 24hr spin on Trump .Yes, it’s no longer an addiction to all the zany Trump content they produced every day. He was a circus and gave them great ratings. Look for them to start manufacturing more content in 2023-2025 when he inevitably wins again.  

MSNBC

If the last four years have taught us anything, it is the need for more education surrounding the topics that directly and indirectly impact us all.yet did the media ever attempt to educate about what different forms of government would actually mean for the vast majority of the population in a given country? Stop peddling controversy, especially this right-wing vs left-wing divisiveness.Let's be honest, the cable news media in general has been a (7)>>soap opera/reality TV show for over a decade with Maddow. There are villains, drama, gossip and righteous outrage. What there isn't is actual news. But let's be honest. Actual news is boring. Nobody wants to watch a half hour of well researched content about water systems maintenance, so we get flint michigans over and over again and we don't even know about it (8)>>...MSNBC worried about post Trump ratings? Foolish and absurd. First of all, TRMS will continue to soar as she has more time for her investigative deep dive. Secondly, just because the Clown Prince will finally be where he can do the least damage to our democracy, does not mean that the Clown Show will suddenly end. The deep divide in this country will not just disappear January 21st. there is much to unpack there, from travels around red and blue America, to dropped investigations that need to be picked up by intrepid journalists to expose the truth.

CNN as "fake" NEWS, WAR MONGERING PROPAGANDA .

American broadcast media systematically has distorted the news of any war and functioned as an electronic arm of the Pentagon and the mostly (9)>>PRO WAR CNN right now is brimming with coverage of the  (10)>>Ukraine Crisis , that at "any minute" Russia will invade .Oh what wait no war ??? you said it was only hours away , citing government intelligence , does that mean you have been lying again or have the CIA and FBI just been found out to be a bunch of warmongering idiots and Putin has just played the game according to your rules.Western politicians and media representatives continue to spread numerous speculations about possible Russian aggression . There was also an acute recognition that the  (11)>>American public was weary and wary of war. Costly and questionable missions, particularly in Iraq -Afghanistan , had drained support. Please explain why CNN brings on warmongering “military analysts” with ties to weapons manufacturers to give their opinion? Their should be a warning or statement that says “this person has a vested interest in war occurring…” before they speak.CNN is so desperate to distract from their own messy, warmongering corrupt platform that they’ll shriek out some pretty wild shit.If you haven’t already, now is a great time to ban all warmongering  (11)>>U.S. legacy media “news” from your daily diet.  We must send a strong message that their complicity in creating unnecessary, murderous wars is unacceptable!

CNN SEX SCANDALS . FINAL WORD .

In the case of CNN’s recent debacles, context is crucially important.  It's like a soap opera , never ending soap opera! .The list of their scandals includes Jeffrey Toobin, Chris Cuomo, Don Lemon and now, Chris Cuomo’s producer and right-hand man, John Griffin.The reason for this lack of coverage is because the media and Hollywood are all in bed with each other. Harvey Weinstein was lauded by the Clintons.  (12)>>How has CNN responded to these various scandals? Regarding their anchors, Don Lemon is still enjoying support from the network, with CNN publicly issuing a statement of support as its star anchor is sued for sexual assault. Jeffrey Toobin’s masturbation debacle is as if it never occurred as he continues to provide legal analysis on various stories. In the case of Chris Cuomo, he was thrown under the bus by the network, but only months after the allegations of aiding his brother’s political battle came to light. Some anchors at CNN such as Brian Stelter are attempting to distance themselves from Cuomo, ignoring that Cuomo was praised by all, even after he was revealed.CNN is merely a barometer that measures the failings of mankind.The scandal ridden news has a credibility problem as well. Nothing new here, just the fixation that distracts every American from the bigger picture.

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

(1)>>firing of its primetime star Chris Cuomo.  It wasn't illegal / unethical for him to do it as a brother. It was unethical for him to do it as a paid employee of CNN, an employee with a public-facing role as one of their anchors, and not disclose that he was doing this. Chris’ brother was the governor of NY state, Andrew Cuomo. Andrew was involved in a sex harassment scandal (at least 10 women reported harassment) and Chris, instead of distancing himself like a journalist should, got involved and essentially advised his brother how to get out of the scandal without accepting blame.Andrew eventually stepped down in August, after repeatedly denying guilt. He was pressured by elites in his party to resign, including President Biden, after a damning report from his own state’s Attorney general, Letitia James. The report confirmed the women’s allegations. This investigation was also what shined light on how involved Chris was in advising his brother, although the info was not originally in the report on Andrew’s misconduct. James’ office declassified documents recently which included information about Chris’ involvement as an advisor to Andrew, which some have stated amounts to him being an unpaid government staffer/aide.Further, Chris had a very public relationship with his brother that was unethical beyond this singular moment. Similar to why doctors don’t treat family members and judges don’t preside over family member cases, journalists should not be involved in any story that involves their family. CNN should have shut that ish down immediately and barred Chris from ever interviewing his brother. But they let ratings and money win out over journalistic integrity. To even call Chris a journalist is a bit of a stretch. He was a “pundit” at best.1.1)>>New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Of course. Another democrat who champions womens rights is actually sexually harassing women. Of course, why am I not surpirsed. Imagine my shock.It's more like this case seems like the Coumos just didn't care how blatant they were showing eachother favoritism in their roles, or former role in one case..INTERESTINGLY ANDREW was CNN's poster boy from 2019 to 2021 , he was constantly praised for his handling of the Covid pandemic , which we know as a real flop . He was fighting Trump pretty much during 2020 , again on CNN . His briefings were a MESS from the get go. He’s 100% a step behind NJ. When he closed the Gyms he told a young female reporter he’d like to show her his own personal home gym sometime. He hit on a reporter DURING A STATE OF EMERGENCY BRIEFING. He’s a total sleezebag. If you follow state by state briefings NJ has been on top of this and put pressure on Cuomo. The same day NJ closed 100% bars and restaurants (before NY mind you) Cuomo stated that this wasn’t a big deal and ranted about the ages of his family members and how he’s only worried about his mom.Gtfo of here praising Cuomo over this. It’s pathetic and clear that folks aren’t watching briefings or only just tuned in.(2)>>the network averaged a paltry 585,000 total viewers in primetime, placing CNN all the way back in 17th place among all basic cable. As Baragona notes, the Trump presidency end its end delivered big numbers to CNN. "CNN’s 2020 growth was explosive, especially compared to its two main rivals," he says. "For example, the network’s total day audience in the key demo grew by 90 percent, compared to MSNBC’s 33 percent and Fox News’ 46 percent bump. In primetime, CNN’s key demographic viewership rose by a whopping 102 percent, and its total viewership in those 8 to 11 p.m. hours jumped 83 percent. After starting 2021 as the most-watched cable network, CNN is ending the year with just one timeslot in the Top 25 of all cable news shows -- the one previously occupied by the fired Chris Cuomo.(3)>>MSNBC...MSNBC had a tough time  LAST YEAR with historic ratings declines followed by an evening of its hosts and pundits being ridiculed for a series of election night meltdowns and inaccurate claims.And that’s true, as its 2021 Nielsen ratings were down from recent years’ numbers. Who’s the worst? MSNBC. It stands for Microsoft NBC. Bill Gates ran Microsoft. Therefore we can assume MSNBC pushes a Democrat agenda while pretending to report news. Also, notice that about every 4th commercial is a drug commercial. It matches their viewers: Drug-users. MSNBC ratings (if nothing else) the network devoted ridiculous amounts of time to Trump's rallies both during the 2016 .(3.1)>>I just cannot stand the left vs. right / us vs. them . I blame the 24 h our news cycle, but that’s a long rant not related to this conversation. CNN is the worst offender in the 24 hr propaganda war , it has gone worse since the pandemic exploded . People look at CNN as the ONLY SOURCE , believe everything they are reporting as 'true'. If you lean one way or another, you’ll probably consider your favorite source “real” and everything to the other side as leaning that way. Most will agree with the scale in those directions. For example, if you normally get your news from Fox, then you probably think CNN is left leaning and not centrist at all. But you wouldn’t argue that MSNBC and Slate are more left leaning, and that Occupy is just nuts.(4)>>The Jeff Zucker-led cable news network. But with Trump out, CNN’s ratings crashed and are still sliding, a deep decline that has become even more perilous with Zucker gone and CNN’s mission uncertain. There’s also been almost no internal communication to the company as a whole in the week since Zucker’s departure, with the exception of two cut-and-dry emails Kilar sent to the entire operation: one to say he had accepted Zucker’s resignation. Zucker, it should be noted, played a pivotal role in the development of CNN+, and his departure could not have come at a more inopportune time for the service, which is finalizing such key elements as launch date, pricing and marketing. With Zucker gone,There are many layers to the Zucker saga that one has to peel away before reaching what I see as the crux of the matter: the stunning disconnect between what really matters to the cloistered community of careerist six-figure elites who went to the same Ivy League schools and dine at the same D.C. steakhouses, and what their angry, resentful viewers actually care about. It’s clear that CNN’s on-air stars are seriously confused about the difference between a great boss —(5)>>CNN having its most-watched day since Ted Turner launched the news outlet in 1980.  Turner is a genius , we all know that have to give him credit for the creation of many cable networks . That was way back in 1980, but CNN strayed away from real news , to a more polarized , left political propaganda machine. Ted Turner's creation of a 24/7 news network that would exist on something called cable TV. was terrible! CNN lost all credibility under him. He turned CNN into left-wing tabloid news. Hopefully they can clean house and get rid of all the partisans. They need to get rid of people like Jim Acosta, Brian Stelter, Don Lemon and all the rest of the extreme partisans. I have no problem with a guy like Wolf Blitzer. He is a pro. He shows no bias. That is how news people are supposed to behave. . (6)>>YOU MUST REMEMBER CNN was # 1 news network doing 24hr spin on Trump .I stopped watching CNN and MSNBC in late 2017 because of the non-stop trump coverage. I just couldn't tune in to cable stations that promoted trump lies. I am also doing the same with digital media who saturate their medium with trump articles. I honestly had enough of the entire family and couldn't care less if I never hear trump's voice or idiotic comments ever again. I'm over him.(7)>>soap opera/reality TV show for over a decade with Maddow . "The Rachel Maddow Show" shed at least 20% of viewers across the board during the namesake host’s first week of a temporary hiatus that left the network with a massive hole during a key hour of programing. MSNBC will turn to a rotating cast of hosts to fill in over the next two months. Up first is Ali Velshi, who has regularly sat in for Maddow and other MSNBC hosts. Velshi will fill in for Maddow through Feb. 11.Maddow will remain off the show until April, though she is expected to appear on MSNBC during its coverage of large news events, such as President Joe Biden’s first State of the Union speech, scheduled for March 1.(8)>>...MSNBC worried about post Trump ratings? Barely two months into the post-Trump era, news outlets are indeed losing much of the audience and readership they gained during his chaotic presidency. In other words, journalism’s Trump bump may be giving way to a slump.Only 847,000 viewers stayed with MSNBC during the April to June quarter and even less remained with CNN whose audience shrunk to 654,000. For instance, CNN host Chris Cuomo has recently faced sexual harassment allegations while MSNBC host Joy Reid referred to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as Uncle Clarence and failed to apologise. These and other public scandals have been listed by experts as having a corrosive effect on public opinion and trust in the media organisations.(9)>>PRO WAR CNN.  "Liberal" media works for the Military industrial Complex.  In this narrow context, the real, lasting and graphic human consequences of war are rarely given attention or exposure. Rather, war is considered solely through the antiseptic prism of its domestic political and international geopolitical ramifications. NOW while CNN hires leaders from our military & spy apparatus to present pro- war positions? If you dig deep enough, you see familiar faces with different names over last 15 years filling roles as “experts” and then they’re gone. (10)>>Ukraine Crisis . Real War in #Yemen no coverage , no war in Ukraine every hour on @CNN but @clarissaward conveniently omits Ukraine Pres " WANTS PROOF " of imminent attack , cs it doesn't fit pro war narrative .Interesting how CNN use English "Reporters" to spread Pro-War Lies to Americans.(11)>>American public was weary and wary of war.   Media sources, like CNN, have grown to so influential on public opinion that they can force the different parties at war to focus on certain issues by raising public awareness of the issue.  This has become to be known as “the CNN effect” .  Why does our nation keep trying to kill its way to peace? Why do we continue to send American men and women to die in villages that most Americans have never heard of? Why do we spend trillions of dollars paying for these wars? Why do they continue under progressive internationalists like Barack Obama as well as “America First”  like Donald Trump? And why are they backed by legislators spanning the spectrum from liberal Democrats to conservative Republicans so pro WAR ? (11)>>U.S. legacy media “news” from your daily diet. Watching mainstream news media can be a addiction , far worse than porn. The good guys and the bad guys can often both be guilty of misleading their people with distortions, exaggerations, subjectivity, inaccuracy and even fabrications, in order to receive support and a sense of legitimacy. Cutting off the whole "media" maybe more helpful for the soul.(12)>>How has CNN responded to these various scandals? The ethical no-nos at CNN, furthermore, don’t reflect the ideological corruption alleged in cartoon depictions of CNN. Yes, some anchors have made some statements over the air regarding what is going on , the leaning of "failure" with CNN is 24 hr tabloid fear mongering .

Canada's TRUCKER PROTEST .

Canada 's Freedom Convoy is a message to United States 

as well .

I was also confused when I saw people milling about with “2022 is 1776” signs. I’m no expert on Canadian history, but it doesn’t seem like much big things happened that year for your lot other than holding back us American lads.The  (1)>>“Freedom Convoy 2022” began as a movement against a Canadian vaccine requirement for cross-border truckers, but has turned into a rallying point against public health measures in Canada. It has also gained increasing support among Republicans, including  (2)>>Donald Trump. NOW the Trucker protest could spill over into the U.S. The well-organized blockade, which police say has relied partly on funding from sympathizers in the United States, is unprecedented by Canadian standards.Protesters in the downtown core "remain highly organized, well-funded, extremely committed to resisting all attempts to end the demonstration safely," he added.Some want an end to a federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers while others insist  (3)>>Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau be deposed on the grounds he exceeded his authority by imposing restrictions to tackle the pandemic.The issue with this protest, is that 90% of truckers are vaccinated. There is nothing that they are going to be able to do, the US has the exact same rules. This protest started in Alberta, we know that Alberta and Covid didn’t mix very well, and they are very much like our US counterpart in the way that they think. It quickly went from a trucker convoy to a freedom convoy, they want all (3.1)>>Covid rules and mandates gone, that God should be back in politics, that climate change is not real etc. etc. etc.Earlier this month, Canada began requiring any truckers arriving from the US be fully vaccinated against coronavirus. Those who are not vaccinated – who are believed to constitute less than 15% of the country’s drivers – are required to quarantine for 14 days. Canada has recorded 2.93m Covid cases and 32,600 deaths from the virus.In many way, Covid-19 has exposed the necessity of the trucking system as well as headwinds within the system, including a shortage of drivers.Some Canadian conservatives have spoken out against the mandate, arguing it places a burden on truckers when supply chains are already strained. (4)>>Some have posted pictures of empty grocery store shelves.But experts caution that the vaccine mandate is just one part of a “perfect storm” to hit the nation’s food system. Poor weather, highway closures and staffing challenges at grocery stores have also made it difficult to get food on shelves.50,000 trucks would stretch bumper to bumper from Ottawa to Winnipeg or some nonsense like that.The convoy would stretch from Parliament Hill to Sault Sainte Marie, assuming they want to go through Toronto. I've added an extra meter onto the truck length for social distancing. BUT As hard as it is to imagine,  (5)>>President Biden’s political fortunes are about to get worse. The massive trucker convoy that crossed Canada to protest against that country’s new vaccine mandates will almost certainly be replicated in the U.S. and will bring with it huge headaches for the Biden White House.Biden pretends to be the champion of the “little guy”; he claims to support blue-collar workers. Truckers are exactly the kind of folks Biden is meant to embrace, but he will not do that.

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

(1)>>“Freedom Convoy 2022” .I could be wrong here, maybe I am.I keep seeing posts (with nothing to back them up) about the 2022 Freedom Convoy. Claims that there are 50,000 trucks, then most recently, 100,000 trucks. I don't know if people understand how many vehicles that is. The news articles are saying "hundreds" of truckers. How do you figure there are 100,000 trucks? Lol. Again, I could be way off base here, but I doubt there are 100,000 independently owned transport trucks in Canada. In the USA, a country with 10x our population, there are an estimated 350,000 independently owned transport trucks. So using simple math, we can assume there could be ~35,000 in Canada. Now, that leaves a 65,000 truck deficit to claims that people are making about the magnitude of this convoy. Am I to believe that there are distribution companies that are allowing their employees to just take their company trucks (65,000 of them) across the country for a joyride? Unlikely.(2)>>Donald Trump. NOW. former U.S. President Donald Trump gave a shoutout to the truckers’ convoy in Ottawa protesting COVID-19 health measures.The former president wasn’t the only Trump family member to endorse the convoy. Donald Trump Jr. also expressed his support for the convoy in a video posted to Facebook on Tuesday, saying “We need to see more of this here in the U.S.” Other prominent individuals that have lent their support for the protest internationally include Tesla CEO Elon Musk, podcaster Joe Rogan and comedian Russell Brand. The drivers protesting the vaccine mandates have already been portrayed by the liberal media as right-wing zealots and science deniers, which is only one notch above climate deniers. A Facebook group organizing the U.S. convoy that had amassed 130,000 members has been tossed off the social media platform amid allegations that the movement was being promoted by right-wing extremists, which the organizers deny. (3)>>Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Mr. Trudeau attempted to paint the Freedom Convoy as a “fringe minority” with “unacceptable views.” He and several other members of the Liberal Party noted that the protest included members of small right-leaning political outfits like the western separatist Maverick Party and populist/nationalist People’s Party of Canada. A Nazi swastika and a Confederate flag were seen in the crowd. A statue of runner Terry Fox, a Canadian national hero, was desecrated, as were the National War Monument and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.For the most part, though, these were peaceful, ordinary Canadians. Former Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer spoke out in support of the truckers, and a few members of his party attended the protest. Mr. Scheer’s successor, Erin O’Toole, agreed to meet with truckers but then stayed away. (Conservatives ousted Mr. O’Toole as their leader on Wednesday.) The convoy also drew support south of the border. “We want those great Canadian truckers to know that we are with them all the way,” Donald Trump said at a rally. Elon Musk tweeted “Canadian truckers rule.” There’s talk of a Freedom Convoy in Australia, whose Covid restrictions are even harsher than Canada’s.As for Mr. Trudeau, one of his old tweets resurfaced last week. “While many of us are working from home,” he wrote on March 31, 2020, “there are others who aren’t able to do that—like the truck drivers who are working day and night to make sure our shelves are stocked. So when you can, please #ThankATrucker for everything they’re doing and help them however you can.”(3.1)>>Covid rules and mandates gone, that God should be back in politics. The research strongly supports the hypothesis that the COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating the 14 years of consecutive decline in freedom. Not only has democracy weakened in 80 countries, but the problem is particularly acute in struggling democracies and highly repressive states—in other words, settings that already had weak safeguards against abuse of power are suffering the most.The United States has a long history of religious faith supporting and literally driving progressive causes and movements. From the abolition of slavery to women's suffrage to civil rights, religion has led the way for social change.The separation of church and state does not require banishing moral and religious values from the public square. America's social fabric depends on such values and vision to shape our politics -- a dependence the founders recognized.(4)>>Some have posted pictures of empty grocery store shelves. It brings back memories of the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic when toilet paper shelves were picked clean and hand sanitizer was hard to find.So, we’re back to the question at hand―with all this food, why are our grocery store shelves empty? The answer: just-in-time inventory strategy. The good news is that empty grocery shelves we’re seeing during this COVID-19 crisis is not from lack of food and other products. The short-term shortage is due to a food distribution and inventory focused “just-in-time” strategy that aims to produce, ship and stock as few goods as possible to meet demand. By decreasing the capacity of their distribution centers, retailers save on rent, utilities and labor. Distributors save on fuel and wages. Manufacturers cut down on capital locked up in unsold inventory. (5)>>President Biden’s political fortunes are about to get worse.  AS USUAL Biden will not dare stand up for the truckers. And yet, if he dismisses them as a “small fringe minority,” as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently did with the “Freedom Convoy” drivers up north, they could get mad.They could, if pushed, call for a sick-out of America’s vital truckers. Whatever supply chain problems we have had would pale before the catastrophe that could unfold if tens of thousands of drivers simply walked off the job for a day or two. Imagine what would happen to transportation costs, and inflation.The convoy protests would come at an awkward time. The public has had it with the government’s draconian (and largely ineffective) measures to combat COVID-19. Polling shows people are ready to move on.

February OPINIONS .

For February  , here are two opinions .

1. Biden's Supreme Court Pick .

Picking any nominee to the Supreme Court Bench is always mired in investigations of by partisan biased Committees . (1)>>Well Tulsi Gabberd said, "Biden chose Harris as his VP because of the color of her skin and sex—not qualification. She's been a disaster," Gabbard said early Monday morning. "Now he promises to choose Supreme Court nominee on the same criteria. Identity politics is destroying our country." (1.2)>>Pres . Biden wants a "black woman " in the Court . An ABC News/Ipsos poll out Sunday showed that 76 percent of Americans wanted the president to consider "all possible nominees" while just 23 percent wanted him to only consider Black women for the nomination [ emphasis ] True enough, but there are a bunch of people here who would argue that any Black women nominated must have been chosen based on (2)>>color or sex even though they are highly qualified.The sad part is that Biden could have simply nominated a "black woman" without declaring that he wouldn't consider anyone else. He did that thinking of himself and not the nominee. Replacing Breyer won’t ultimately change the court’s 6-3 conservative majority, which has stymied Biden on major priorities including his recent vaccine and testing mandate for large businesses.  (3)>>CLARENCE THOMAS. Conservative. So many black people are leaving that plantation of the Do Nothing Party that they are now picking a person based on RACE and not qualification....An insult to all of them and MLK. I tend to not like ANY of  Justices that barely ask anything in arguments for decades. That he/she  always sides with conservative rulings with arguments , regardless of being Democrat or Republican . SO that a first year law school student would find idiotic doesn't help either , the most left of the Judges always lean to the right as we have seen recently . It has not anything to do with packing the court . (4)>>The Court IS ALWAYS STRONGLY CONSERVATIVE .Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin on Sunday defended President Joe Biden’s plan to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court, despite blowback from Senate Republicans and new polling indicating most Americans want the White House to consider candidates regardless of race and gender.In an interview on ABC’s “This Week,” Durbin (D-Ill.) responded to Biden’s critics by citing pledges from previous Republican presidents to select female nominees to fill Supreme Court vacancies.There are dozens, even hundreds of qualified people of all genders, races, and backgrounds. Why does it matter than Biden says “of this pool of qualified candidates, I’m going to pick a woman of color”? Like, there is no “most qualified” person for stuff like this. Everyone who has ever been picked as been subjectively picked based on what that particular president wanted and nobody had an issue with it. NOW THE SURPRISING TWIST,  (5)>>Shortly after news of Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement, William Owen, a Democratic National Committee member from Tennessee, texted the party chair, Jaime Harrison, with an idea that by then was already all over Twitter:  (6)>>Kamala Harris for the Supreme Court. Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Wednesday endorsed the unlikely notion that Harris could get the nomination as a way to end the controversies surrounding her. “I think it’s a theory that could be credible,” McEnany said while co-hosting the “Outnumbered” show on Fox News. BUT COULD be the TRIGGER that crashes the Democrats in 2022 and 2024 .Harris has been dogged by criticism since Biden tapped her to deal with the ongoing migration crisis at the southern border, and multiple reports have detailed dissension among her staffers, who’ve called her a “bully” and said they’re “treated like s–t.”

2. Ukraine , and NATO war?

 (7)>>Come on now does America want another war , another cold war ?I've read alot about Russian troop numbers, but has Ukraine mobilized? I read nothing about Ukrainian troop numbers. SO is this  (7.1)>>ANOTHER TRAP TO SUCK AMERICA INTO ANOTHER WAR ????Because you need  (7.2)>>to explain first how diplomacy work in general and what specifically US diplomacy is.There are lots of political questions on this sub from EU/US guys who seem to be normal (not biased, not a troll, like regular people) but all of them are just SHINING with ignorance.This ignorance kinda matches pattern where west destroys whole countries and US/EU citizens just aren't aware about that. Seems like they don't become aware even after immigrants flood their country. Just don't see the connection. And some of these people think than North Koreans/Chinese/Russians/whatsoever are brainwashed. Putin is clearly frustrated with the status quo.  (8)>>Ukraine is still getting a lot of weapons and military aid without being a member of (8.1)>>NATO. This means that bigger guns could be deployed there eventually. TB2 drones put the Donbas militants at a significant disadvantage. Allegedly, Ukraine is developing intermediate-range missiles of their own, something capable of reaching Moscow. . That's what Poroshenko threatened in the past. Another thing is the internal politics of Ukraine have become extremely unfavorable to Russia. Last year Zelensky arrested Viktor Medvedchuk, who is seen as someone close to (9)>>Putin, and banned his TV channels. While he started off his tenure as a peacemaker, now he seems to be dead set on a military solution to the conflict, in spite of the Minsk agreements signed by Ukraine, which stipulate reintegration of breakaway republics with autonomy.So there you have it. Putin has no conventional ways of influencing Ukrainian politics anymore, while Ukraine is rearming and pledging to take occupied territories (and that includes Crimea) back by force, emboldened by Western support. Germany, France, and now the US haven't done anything to compel  (10)>>Ukraine to implement the Minsk agreements. Putin wouldn't have that. His concerns regarding NATO play into it as well, that's something that has been building up for a long time. Russian president Vladimir Putin has told western leaders that he wants binding guarantees that Nato will not allow Ukraine to become a member and will not station missiles on its territory.Moscow handed proposals on the issue to a visiting senior US diplomat this week and said it was ready to start talks on the matter immediately, while continuing to move troops and armour towards Ukraine in what Kiev and its allies fear could be preparations for an all-out invasion.Could also be a ploy to make Crimea and the eastern half of (11)>>Ukraine internationally recognized as permanently Russian, which would be a huge win. Ukraine (as a state) can exist only being neutral. Otherwise it's going to be torn apart as from within (because "ukrainians" are not a monolith nation and frankly saying some regions openly despise and hate other regions - it doesn't help to keep the country from falling apart by itself) so from outside.And of course the NATO demands. That said, an actual invasion should diplomacy fail, could do the same thing.

NOTES AND COMMENTS: (1)>>Well Tulsi Gabberd said. I guess but that is hardly a litmus test for me. She’s an independent democrat currently critical of the same shit most reasonable people are, Dem or Republican. Personally, I’m not going to manufacture thing to disparage her about. She’s principled and ethical relative to the status quo on both sides. (1.2)>>Pres . Biden wants a "black woman " in the Court .Yes, I get pissed off by this and it’s shocking to me that others aren’t. I felt the same way when he said he was going to pick a black woman VP. By making this announcement he’s saying he’s going to pick the best black woman for the job… had he just picked a black woman without this announcement then he would have picked the best person for the job that happened to be a black woman. It reduces the accomplishments of the person picked, stokes racial fear from the right and is all around unnecessary. I don’t see any benefit of making this announcement and nothing but downsides.It absolutely diminishes the accomplishment when the candidacy pool is artificially shrunk based on race. If he didn't say anything and just did it I would applaud him. But he wanted the political brownie points that's why he announced it.(2)>>color or sex even though they are highly qualified.U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez described identity as "just the starting step when we are discussing a Supreme Court justice.” Ocasio-Cortez wants to focus on other questions, notably: “What is going to be that nominee’s worldview?”On the last point, some left-leaning voices in recent days have tried to elevate the relationship between big business and the Supreme Court as an issue in the upcoming nomination fight.Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and ranking minority member Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, will meet with Biden at the White House to go over potential nominees to replace Justice Stephen Breyer, who announced his retirement last week. Biden himself served as head of the Judiciary Committee when he was a senator and presided over the confirmations of six high court picks, including Breyer.(3)>>CLARENCE THOMAS.  writing on behalf of the five conservatives on the Supreme Court and in his first majority opinion of the term, Justice Clarence Thomas tossed out the verdict, finding that the district attorney can’t be responsible for the single act of a lone prosecutor. The Thomas opinion is an extraordinary piece of workmanship, matched only by Justice Antonin Scalia’s concurring opinion, in which he takes a few extra whacks at Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dissent. (Ginsburg was so bothered by the majority decision that she read her dissent from the bench for the first time this term.) Both Thomas and Scalia have produced what can only be described as a master class in human apathy. Who's surprised? The conservative judges on the supreme court are more unabashedly and unapologetically activist than any of the liberal judges the conservatives always used to complain about. At least this time they just ignored some of the facts of the case, not, as in the citizens united case, ignored normal procedure plus threw out stare decisis.If Roe v Wade isn't overturned and the separation of state and church at least weakened in the next few years, I'll bloody well eat my hat. If I had one.(4)>>The Court IS ALWAYS STRONGLY CONSERVATIVE . For decades, a quartet of liberal justices has sometimes been able to secure -- often through tense negotiations -- a crucial fifth vote from the conservative wing. That has meant even though America's highest bench was shifting rightward, it preserved abortion rights and narrowly declared a right to same-sex marriage.But, for the most part, the Court’s most recent religion cases have been extraordinarily favorable to the Christian right, and to conservative religious causes generally. Many of the Court’s most recent decisions build on earlier cases, such as Hobby Lobby, which started to move its religious jurisprudence to the right even before Trump’s justices arrived. But the pace of this rightward march accelerated significantly once Trump made his third appointment to the Court.(5)>>Shortly after news of Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement. Breyer is one of the three remaining liberal justices, and his decision to retire after more than 27 years on the court allows President Joe Biden to appoint a successor who could serve for several decades and, in the short term, maintain the current 6-3 split between conservative and liberal justices.The progressive group Demand Justice hired a truck last year to drive around the Supreme Court's neighborhood bearing this sign: "Breyer Retire. It's time for a Black woman Supreme Court justice."Among likely contenders are federal Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, former Breyer law clerk, and Leondra Kruger, a justice on California's Supreme Court.Despite calls from some Biden supporters to add more seats to the Supreme Court to counter its current conservative lean, Breyer said in March that such a move would risk undermining confidence in the court.(6)>>Kamala Harris for the Supreme Court.  So they shove Kamala into a Supreme Court slot….Biden picks a new Vice President, resigns, and suddenly they have exactly the person they want as president who will not have had one vote cast for them to be president. Sounds like a democrat dream. Lol. Absolute insanity this could happen. My god i can only imagine the leftist shilling trying to sell this corruption as legitimate to the American people. Bonkerz .Yes. The worst AG in California history. A woman who is famous for being Willie Brown’s mistress. On SCOTUS. America deserves better. And Biden could not pick worse.  Her 15 tie-breaking votes in 2021 were the most ever by a vice president in a calendar year. Senate Democrats, nominally in control of the 50-50 chamber because of Harris, will need her this year to continue breaking ties to help advance their policy agenda and secure confirmation of the administration’s nominees to the executive branch and judicial positions. Even if her vote isn’t needed, Harris—the first woman, the first Black American and the first South Asian American to serve as vice president—could still preside over the high-profile vote and announce the confirmation of the first Black woman to the nation’s highest court.(7)>>Come on now does America want another war , another cold war ? If you’re too young to have lived through the original Cold War .If that stance has echoes of the Berlin crisis of 1961, which led to the building of the wall, or the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact powers in 1968, well, the similarities (and some significant differences) are all there.Do we really want a future of fear? Do we want the United States and its supposed enemy to once again squander untold trillions of dollars on military expenditures while neglecting basic human needs, including universal health care, education, food, and housing, not to mention failing to deal adequately with that other looming existential threat, climate change?(7.1)>>ANOTHER TRAP TO SUCK AMERICA INTO ANOTHER WAR ???? True, but an actual war would cost magnitudes more than what they have spent on “border exercises”. I’m not sure they have the money for a real war. NEVER TRUST the AMERICAN MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, they'll LIE via news media to the American people . The other civilizations' lack of negotiating, dealing, or compromising anything was always a source of frustration. We could have had decades if not centuries of peace and technological advancements and wonder-building. We could have had joint wonder-building ventures, but noooo everyones' afraid and paranoid of my Science Victory. The Latest fear mongering media , In fact, during the past few decades, there has been an eerie perception of some sort of a NATO crisis or another: a “profound crisis”, a “deepening crisis”, a “fundamental crisis”, a “general crisis”, an “unprecedented crisis” and even – a “real crisis”.(7.2)>>to explain first how diplomacy work in general and what specifically US diplomacy is.I mean....it is??....it means NATO countries such as USA can have military bases there and have nukes. So ya it IS kind of a threat? Kind of like Cuba accepting Soviet nukes was also a threat, and remember how upset America got about that lolThis isn't the 60's though, and the Cold War has been over for over 30 years. To try and dictate the allowance of a foreign, sovereign nation into an international group is tyrannical and- more importantly- nonsensical. The US has nuclear subs and naval groups all over the planet, literally. They don't need bases in Ukraine to nuke Russia, and so far the only one to move troops into Ukraine has been Russia. The whole "we need the buffer for defense" is just a PR excuse used by Putin to continue his adventurism in Ukraine, which gets him lots of good, distracting news to give the conservatives back home while real people die in defense of their homeland.Let’s not kid ourselves here. If Russia decided to buddy up with Mexico and establish some bases there, then the USA wouldn’t allow this.I don’t know what the solution here is though. Ukraine should get to do what they want, join NATO. Russia should be able to protect their borders and not have hostile neighbours. The USA and NATO I have no idea what they should do. (8)>>Ukraine is still getting a lot of weapons and military aid.  The American government is making matters worse in the Russia -Ukraine conflict by sending weapons to Ukraine . Sends the wrong message . How can we guarantee that our arms won't be used against civilians in a goddamn civil war?As a matter of fact, how can we guarantee that they won't just sell our weapons, just like they did with the MREs we sent them?The West has issued numerous sanctions against Russia in a bid to get it to stop its aggression in the Ukraine crisis, though Moscow denies playing any part in the conflict. The United States so far has supplied Ukraine with non-lethal military equipment, such as flak jackets, medical supplies, radios and night-vision goggles.Unfriendly steps, such as Ukraine bolstering a defense from being invaded. They totally deserve to be invaded for that.I mean, the US was selling arms in the past years and that didn't stop Russia's saber-rattling - on the contrary, it fuels their narrative of being provoked.That’s what is hilarious about all of their statements and I hope the Russian people see it too. UK supplying anti tank weapons to Ukraine… if Russia doesn’t invade and if Russia has no tanks in the Ukraine then how would those be a threat to “Russia”.(8.1)>>NATO.This will prove a challenging task. NATO seems to have lost its mojo after Trump deformed its strategic vision and values and cast doubt over its shared destiny, albeit rhetorically. I don't think the EU wants NATO to exist anymore , the EU is basically cozy with the Russian Federation .The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is the physical manifestation of this relationship, and if dissolved, would be sorely missed. (9)>>Putin, and banned his TV channels. Putin's gamble makes sense from his perspective, because he has a waning window to have any leverage anywhere and needs to drum up nationalism at home... but its also a gamble that could undo him if he doesn't somehow pull off enough of a material win to offset the damage he'll be doing to both Russia, and more specifically its oligarchs, and IMO even in the best case scenario for Russia, the negatives will end up costing more than he gets out of the deal. Dealing with the insurgency to retain Ukraine alone is going to end up eating more resources than its worth, never mind the sanctions and asset freezes/seizures. It'll be one small step forward for his ambition/pride, and 4 giant steps backward for everyone else stuck going along with his hubris.(10)>>Ukraine to implement the Minsk agreements.  Start implementing the Minsk agreements. And statements like " May Russia implement them too" are either made by dishonest or ignorant people, the Minsk agreements clearly define the order of actions and the ball is now in Ukraine's side which must hold elections in Donbass and make changes to the constitution. I think the West is getting increasingly put off by Putin's aggressive rhetoric as it is dispersed by his minions, and will increasing pressure the EU to join in severe sanctions to give Putin something to think about. This is if Minsk II collapses, or never gets off the ground for even one day.There is nothing in this agreement that blocks a future EU or NATO membership, in fact its almost helping them along. The border control thing is HUGE. Its basically a point that will dictate a lot of the others and how the future of the area will develop.It was political theater, Merkel and Hollande leaders wanted to forestall US intervention, Putin and Poroshenko wanted to look like they were open to peace. There was precious little substance there from the beginning, though if you focused on some parts and ignored others as you have in your post, either side could come to the conclusion that they were robbed or that they got a great deal.By implementing Minsk agreement, giving broad autonomy to Donbass and general amnesty for political prisoners. It will probably lead to several other regions requesting same and Ukraine transforming in federation like modern Germany. For this to happen either Ukraine political elites or their american handlers have to agree, so far they prefer current state of affairs.(11)>>Ukraine internationally recognized as permanently Russian. "The Ukraine" is offensive to Ukranians, because adding "the" makes them feel like Ukraine is just a region inside Russia, which is...Sort of the basis of this whole conflict.There is also a terrifying subtext of some hardliners who remember Kiev was an early capital of Russia so they feel its an important part of their birthright to control it. This isn't a massive belief but some of the people in control of "the little green men" believe it. 2021 essay by Putin, titled “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians,” as an example of his thinking.In the essay, Putin called the two nations “essentially the same historical and spiritual space,” tracing his notion of a shared history back more than a thousand years.