Sunday, October 20, 2024
Donald Trump, always a master of creating moments, has an absolutely brilliant campaign event today as he went to a McDonalds owned by someone close to one of this friends and decided to work the deep fryer for the fries and the drive-through window. It could easily have turned into a Michael Dukakis “tank” moment, but the opposite happened. There were smiles all around and Trump made his point: his presidency will be about creating jobs, and no job should be considered too low for a booming economy.
Of course, the media contorted itself to try to paint this all in a negative light. “It’s all staged!!!!” some people said on X (because every time Clinton walked into a McDonalds or Biden walked into an ice cream shop it was completely spontaneous). But the angle Google News ended up going with was Business Insider clutching its pearls about how it was an attack on Harris, and MSNBC painting it as, you guessed it, “unhinged”.
The green and red are back to normal. That’s because Google News is following the Harris campaign’s lead. The campaign no longer needs to win over undecided voters. Now, it just needs to light a fire under its base, making them as frightened, as angry, and as upset as possible. Harris has traded her Jamaican and Black accents for that of a fiery preacher, righteously indignant at the prospect that “he should stand beyond the Presidential Seal”. USA Today as thinking past the sale, talking about how wonderful it will be once Harris wins. The New York Times talks about Trump’s “lifetime of scandals” (mostly concocted by The New York Times), and Politico drives fear into everyone’s heart by talking about how Trump will lose but “take power anyway”. USA Today is doing its duty in decrying Trump’s age, while WaPo talks about how Trump will take the totally unprecedented move of using the power of the government to punish his political enemies.
It’s going to be a long 15 days.
Monday, October 21, 2024
As I said, yesterday Donald Trump pulled off perhaps the one of the greatest campaign events in the history of political campaigns. Unable to just let him take the “W”, the New York Times characterized it as an event where “vitriol boiled outside”. Rather than deign to highlight just ONE conservative outlet that was celebrating the event, Google News decided to feature an article from something called “Quartz” whose headline screamed “McDonalds is distancing itself from Donald Trump”.
In actuality, McDonalds sent out a memo to its franchisees that was a master class in PR. You read it yourself and ask yourself: is this McDonalds “distancing itself” from Trump?
Of course most people will only read the headlines. Google knows it. The mainstream media knows it. And yet most of the American public remain blissfully ignorant, as if Walter Cronkite, John Chancellor, or Peter Jennings is still delivering their news.
The “Trump is crude” narrative is the perfect example. In a three-hour speech, Trump went off on a little joke about Arnold Palmer that got a little “blue” as it referenced the size of part of Palmer’s anatomy. It’s the sort of joke that every guy has heard about all kind of celebrities, and was probably just Trump filling in a few minutes of throw-away time or trying to lighten the mood. But cue the mainstream media clutching their pearls. “He’s CRUDE”. “He’s OBSCENE”. And the AP eve went so far as to ask Arnold Palmer’s daughter what she thought (ew?). In other words, as they’ve done all year, they take 20 seconds of something Trump says and amplify it into a two or three day media cycle.
Speaking of pearl-clutching, the vaunted 60 Minutes decided to issue “A statement” decrying how the horrible Donald Trump would DARE accuse CBS news of deceitful editing of their interview with Kamala Harris. The question then becomes, who do you trust: CBS News, or your own lyin’ eyes.
A lot of people have come to the defense of CBS News, saying that yes, it’s customary to edit a long-winded passage into a tighter one for broadcast. The only question is: is this being done consistently? I replaced to a post by Catherine Herridge with the obvious answer: of course not!
This has been going on for years now, and it seems that there’s a certain portion of the US population that just won’t believe that the media would ever manipulate public opinion in this way.
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Today’s hit piece comes from The Atlantic. Jeffrey Goldberg, the same mind that brought you the following Hoaxes:
- Wrote a piece in the New Yorker in 2002 that (based on circumstantial “evidence”) alleged ties between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda, one of the pieces of “evidence” that led to the Iraq War.
- Wrote a piece in The Atlantic in September 2020 claiming that Trump called soldier buried in Arlington “suckers and losers” based on no evidence. The resulting media frenzy turned out to be one of many hoaxes that influenced the 2020 election.
Evidently still high from what he was allowed to get away with in 2020, Goldberg went on to publish his latest hit piece, titled, not surprisingly “Trump: I need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had”.
We’re used to the “Hitler” stuff, but here’s what makes this piece really abhorrent. The claim in the piece is that Trump (again based on no evidence except “anonymous sources”) offered to pay for the funeral of a fallen soldier, and then when he heard that the cost was $60,000, he cried out “It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a f****** Mexican”.
Goldberg’s goal, of course, is to replicate the “grab them by the p****” furor with two weeks left in the campaign. Accuracy means nothing, context means nothing, truth means nothing. The only goal is to sow turmoil into the Trump campaign so he needs to spend time defending himself.
Anyone with a scintilla of brain matter knows that this is nonsense. But that didn’t stop The Atlantic from reporting it and every media outlet from repeating it. The worst part, of course, is that the sister of Vanessa Guillen, the soldier who Trump was honoring, came out and posted this.
But despite Mayra Guillen’s posts, the X commenters were relentless. Rather than respect Mayra’s wishes of letting her sister rest in peace, many Trump haters piled on, insulting her and calling HER the liar. It was sickening.
Others posted to support Mayra. Mark Meadows came out and posted that Trump never disparaged Vanessa’s memory nor refused to pay for her funeral expenses. Natalie Khawam, who was quoted in the piece, posted that her words were misrepresented. Theo Wold, a translator there that day, completely refuted the allegations.
Do you notice something? Only users on X saw any of these posts. By the time Mayra posted her first comment, the story had already spread to the entire world many times over that Trump insulted a dead soldier AND Mexicans in the same sentence. It is the ultimate test of how stupid and gullible the American people are. We will find out the answer in two weeks.
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Surprise, the Atlantic article continues to dominate the headlines. Not only does it appear #1 on a search for “Trump”, now there are articles from other media outlets who are covering “the news”. Of something that never happened. USA Today gleefully reports “Fox host defends Trump’s praise of Hitler’s generals”. Harris takes time from her two days off to call a press conference whose only purpose is to express her outrage at this thing she happened to read in The Atlantic. The Washington Post dutifully reports this “news” as “Harris says she thinks Trump is a fascist”.
In the meantime, Slate and Politico are scratching their heads as to why Harris isn’t winning by a landslide. Politico blames “male frustration”. Slate blames “billionaires”. No one seems to be looking the way of the candidate who is the screechiest, most out-of-touch candidate since Hillary.
Make no mistake of what’s happening here. These headlines aren’t targeted towards Trump supporters or even Trump leaners. It’s all targeted towards those who already have been brainwashed to despise Trump. Their hope is to light a fire under them to go to the polls, and to be 100% convinced that if they don’t win, it wasn’t because their candidate was flawed nor the other candidate was strong. No, it’s because those who voted for their opponent are so brainwashed that they can’t see the truth. If there’s anything we’ve proven from the last three months, it’s not their opponent’s side that’s been brainwashed.
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Not wanting their October surprises to go to waste, CNN and The Washington Post dutifully spread the news that big, bag Donald Trump groped a lady. 30 years ago. A lady who was with Jeffrey Epstein. But has nothing bad to say about Epstein. But she was traumatized by Trump that she had to say something. 30 years later. 12 days before a Presidential election. The third time he’s run.
In the meantime, Politico and AP aren’t letting go of the other October surprise. Donald Trump loves fascists! Because his old chief of staff said so. The one he fired. And who hates him. But he’s a former general so he would never, ever, ever lie.
In the meantime, The Washington Post, The Guardian (twice), and the New York Times makes sure to shout to the world how Barack Obama, Bruce Springsteen, Tyler Perry, and Beyonce are all headlining a huge rally for Harris in Georgia. Which would be amazing about 15 years ago. Today? The world got to see a bunch of billionaires on stage scolding the audience for even considering voting for Trump.
I won’t even mention the MSNBC article about Trump’s triumphant day at McDonalds. That one’s just kind of sad and pathetic.
Friday, October 25, 2024
Trump just landed the most important interview in new media: the Joe Rogan Podcast. If you recall, the Harris campaign had been floating the idea a few weeks ago, but someone (wisely) squashed that right away.
Trump’s interview with Rogan in Austin Texas was three hours long; before that he was in Las Vegas, after that he went to Michigan. All in one day. What was the Harris campaign saying about him being “exhausted” again?
The big news today was that the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post both declined to endorse a presidential candidate. The left went absolutely nuts, with everyone from Susan Rice to Mark Hamill berating the news outlets and egging on followers to cancel their subscriptions. Of course, CNBC chimed in by saying that big bad Jeff Bezos was the one who killed the endorsement. Because Kamala is practically perfect in every way, and the only reason anyone wouldn’t like her was because a greedy capitalist is undermining her.
In other news, Beyoncé, Beyoncé, Beyoncé, Beyoncé, Beyoncé. That’s right, there’s wall to wall coverage about how Mrs. Z has endorsed Harris, because everyone knows she’s the world’s leading authority on finance, foreign affairs, and immigration policy.
Saturday, October 26, 2024
The Joe Rogan Podcast has been completely memory-holed, except for one piece by NPR picking apart “what Trump didn’t say” while ignoring the fact that Harris has spent a total of zero minutes talking to podcasters or even talking off script at a rally. The seemingly most popular old dinosaurs of the Democratic Party, Bill Clinton and Michelle Obama, are hitting the stump trying to guilt Democrats who aren’t enthusiastic about Harris, while USA Today, the Washington Post, MSNBC, Politico, and AP all repeat the same old tropes about Trump being anti-women, anti-gay, and a dictator and a bully who is, in the words of Joe Biden who lost his debate and THEN lost his position as the Presidential candidate, “a loser”.
All you have to do is listen to the Joe Rogan podcast to hear that Trump is in actuality pretty humble, has a great sense of humor, has a great perspective on foreign policy, energy policy, health policy, and turning the economy around, and is in almost every way the exact opposite of what the hysterical left is painting him as.
The only question remaining in this election is—will Americans see it?
