Liars

That reporters are not willing to deal appropriately with regular lies and liars is not a new thing, but I do think what is new with the Trump administration is that they lie about everything.  There is no interest in in attempting to lie plausibly, or even to stick to the truth when that would serve them just as well.  

This isn't about lawyerly word choice or the usual exaggerations of politics. They just get up there and lie, constantly, in press conferences, in quotes to reporters, on MECHAHITLER THE CSAM APP.

You can't report on this administration by fronting the lies and having the rebuttal 3 paragraphs  - or 3 days - later.  That they lie constantly has to frame all coverage of them.  Nothing is the truth.

I wrote "not willing" because this isn't hard.  They - or their editors - just don't want to.

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America's Worst Murderers

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Safe Home For Billionaires

This stuff quieted down a bit, but "the billionaires will regret their support for Trump and we should welcome them back so stop being mean to them" was a big thing late last Spring.  How is that holding up?

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Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna Says Party Should Court Musk

The near-silence about Elon Musk's MECHAHITLER CSAM GENERATOR is explained in large part by this attitude. 

Meet The New Boss

It really wasn't a good idea to start all those statements saying it was good that Maduro was gone.

There is no sign that the United States’ demands include less repression. Instead the regime is taking the opportunity to crack down. It published a decree directing the authorities to search for and arrest “any person involved in the promotion of or support for the armed attack by the US against the territory of the republic”. On January 5th it sent armed paramilitaries, known as colectivos, onto the streets of Caracas. These are largely controlled by Mr Cabello. Some were stopping drivers to check their phones. The likely aim is to deter any protests against Ms Rodríguez. Some 14 journalists and media workers were also detained for hours before being released, according to the National Union of Press Workers in Venezuela. Ms Rodríguez may have some economic nous and a pragmatic streak, but she was in the innermost circle of a regime that has regularly tortured, killed and disappeared opponents and their family members.

Decades of baby brains thinking that even if someone is a "bad guy" that removing the "bad guy" is good. It likely isn't!

The Trumpers don't even try to fake competence or good intentions! Politicians and many in the press do it for them!

We'll Be Supporting The Moderate Rebels

I have no idea what will happen in Venezuela, but...

Venezuela could face violent instability following the shock capture of President Nicolas Maduro by the US military, experts have warned.

While Maduro’s vice president Delcy Rodriguez was quickly sworn in with US-backing, there are fears a political vacuum sets the stage for a power struggle among multiple heavily armed factions that could spark an insurgency.

Kirkified

A happy ending.

CLARKSVILLE, TN (WKRN) – Austin Peay State University will pay one of its professors $500,000 after initially firing him for a social media post made in the wake of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s death.

That was a deranged few weeks, rendered somewhat funny by subsequent events and behavior. 

Oh No The Dodgy Gambling Site That Lets Me Bet On Murder Is Problematic

Real 80s dystopian movie stuff.

Polymarket refuses to pay bets that US would ‘invade’ Venezuela

Prediction market disputes US raid amounted to an invasion in fight over more than $10.5mn in wagers

Appeasement

One year in and many European leaders - certainly the British ones - have not yet figured out that if you give Donnie an inch he will take a mile and then have his goons flush your head in a toilet.

We have had decades of rhetoric about Chamberlain and appeasement, and now "giving Donnie everything he wants in exchange for nothing and then getting even less than that" is the only course the British PM understands.

If Trump bombs Greenland will our press decide these are real people or not? 

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Chuck Schumer is very encouraged by what his gym buddies tell him, privately, in the Senate gym.

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CBS LOVES AMERICA

That was one of their new promises, but when President AOC reverses everything Trump has done and cuts of all ties to Israel (she will not do this, really), will CBS love that America? Of course not.

Vapid dishonesty.

Remember Bari was defended to the death for years by many senior NYT people.

Heckuva Job

A review of Bari's new best boy in Variety.

Not that that seems to be Dokoupil’s strong suit, or his interest. Elsewhere, in a segment about health and human services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s newly announced and seismic shifts to the recommended vaccine schedule for children, Dokoupil began an interview with a CBS News medical journalist by asking what this expert would say to “parents out there who are celebrating,” because they thought their kids were obliged to be injected with too many vaccines. He ended the segment by declaring “So, parents are going to have some options for themselves!” when, to a large portion of the audience, the precise opposite is true — they’ll now need a physician consult to obtain a vaccine for their child that was once more easily obtained. Dokoupil thanked his guest and announced, brashly, “You clarified it for us.” The guest could be said to have tried his best, despite Dokoupil.

More than that, parents will no longer have the option to raise their children somewhere with sufficient herd immunity. Dokoupil has two young children. Maybe he should understand this.

New Bullshit Just Dropped

SKYNET arrival delayed until 2034, so you can go back to using your horny chatbot CSAM generators without guilt.

Nice Lady

I say give her what she wants.

Hannity: Did you at any point offered to give him the Nobel peace prize?

Machado: It hasn’t happened yet. We want to give it to him. Share it with him. pic.twitter.com/fIGSbnjshc

— Acyn (@Acyn) January 6, 2026

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