LOLOL: Fox News Lists ‘The Big Moves that Trump Has Made that Will Impact Your Everyday Life’

You really have to hand it to Fox News. When they aren’t serving dutifully as Donald Trump’s Ministry of Propaganda, they are providing a valuable public service by keeping their viewers informed about the critical issues that matter most to them during these trying times.

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The commitment to responsible journalism that Fox News is famous for is demonstrated on a daily basis in innumerable ways. They include their gushing adorations of all things Trump. Their flagrant lies about made-up Democratic scandals. Their distortions and deliberate misinterpretations of breaking news stories. And their devotion to reporting as fact anything that Trump or his MAGA cronies tell them.

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On Monday morning Fox’s “Outnumbered” co-host, Emily Compagno, sought to lavish praise on Trump with an enumeration of “some of the big moves that President Trump has made that will impact your everyday life.” And did she waste time with trivialities like wars in Ukraine and Gaza, or the inflationary tariffs that Trump has imposed on many of America’s allies, or his threats to invade and annex Canada, Mexico, and Greenland, or the unconstitutional offenses against federal agencies by Trump’s co-president, Elon Musk?

Nope. Why bother with those distractions when there are real problems that Trump is working hard to solve? According to Compagno, these are the “big moves” that Trump is focused on…

“It seems like nothing is off the table in Trump’s second term. Trump has just ordered the end of penny production. […]

“Trump has also declared that every February 9th will officially be known as “Gulf of America Day.” […]

“He has clearly had enough. Vowing to bring back plastic straws once and for all. Writing ‘I will be signing an Executive Order next week ending the ridiculous Biden push for Paper Straws, that don’t work. BACK TO PLASTIC!’

“God, I love it. All in a day’s work.”

That’s right! Trump is fulfilling his many campaign promises by finally ridding America of pennies, paper straws, and gulfs with names that fail to properly exalt America, even though the gulf was named before there was an America.

Meanwhile, the nation is on the verge of, if not fully engrossed in, several constitutional crises. The Trump team is shutting down crucial services that police corporate corruption. They are halting already allocated life-saving aid to impoverished countries. They are invading the privacy and security of American citizens, They are terminating prosecutors and inspectors general. And they are refusing to comply with court orders to cease these unlawful activities.

But praise the lord that the torture we’ve endured by the atrocities that Trump is addressing is over. And thank goodness we have Fox News to alert us to these glorious improvements in our otherwise woeful existence. MAGA!

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Fox News Hack Tells ‘Legacy Media’ to ‘Simply Repeat, Retweet’ Whatever Dear Leader Trump Says

Is there anyone left in America who is not convinced that Fox News is a shameless disseminator of disinformation in the service of Donald Trump and his ultra right-wing MAGA cult? If so, the network itself has helpfully provided an argument that ought to seal the deal.

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Trump himself has provided the best evidence that Fox News is his Ministry of Propaganda. He will appear almost nowhere else on television. The only reason he gave an interview prior to the Super Bowl was because the game and the interview were being broadcast on Fox. What’s more, much of his Cabinet and White House staff (19 so far) were recruited from Fox News.

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On Monday morning the dedicated Fox News Trump-fluffers on “Outnumbered” engaged in their routine morning worship ritual wherein they fawn over their idol and endeavor to reconstruct reality in a way that makes the convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and aspiring anti-democracy authoritarian look palatable to his gullible cult followers. To that end, co host Emily Compagno launched into a screed castigating the free press and offering her prescription for how the media ought to cover Trump…

“The fact that the media can’t keep up, A) doesn’t matter because we’re not looking to them for the news anyway. And B) guess what president Trump is doing? His office of comms is directly emailing, putting out on Truth Social, putting on the website, every day, all day, exactly what they are doing. So all you have to do, legacy media, is simply repeat, retweet, repost, and that is the news, and that is the facts.”

See? All the media has to do is to mindlessly regurgitate Trump’s divine and infallible utterances, and then take the rest of the day off. What could be easier? According to Compagno, whatever Trump says “is the news and that is the facts.” No need to argue or research or seek any other opinion. Just shut up and sing along with the Trump hymnal.

Never mind that Trump has actually been documented as the most dishonest occupant of the White House ever. He lies virtually every time he opens his mouth. He even continues to lie after he’s been shown that what he said is a lie.

Compagno, however, characterizes Trump’s fountain of falsehoods as his attempts to provide access and transparency. But putting out emails that are demonstrably false, and babbling on social media “every day, all day,” is not how you keep people apprised of what you’re doing. Particularly if what you’re putting out is pure bullpucky. To the contrary, that’s how you deceive simpletons who want to be misled.

It’s also how you steamroll the press to keep them from getting substantive answers to critical questions. That’s what Compagno was referring to when she said that “the media can’t keep up.” It’s Trump’s way of “flooding the zone with bullshit” (as his partner in crime Steve Bannon says) as a deflection tactic.

So while Trump is yammering about renaming the Gulf of Mexico, or banning paper straws, he is also advancing his agenda to cut taxes for the rich (paid for by cutting Social Security and Medicare), curtailing Constitutional rights, and assuming tyrannical control over the government.

Finally, it’s telling that Compagno admits that “we’re not looking to them for the news anyway.” Of course not. Why would the leading distorter of news look to actual journalists for news when they are busy making it up themselves? Or more accurately according to her own admission, transcribing it from their messiah.

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Who Should Fill Andrea Mitchell’s Now Vacant Slot on MSNBC? Jim Acosta? Mehdi Hasan? Or…

MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell hosted the last episode of her program on Friday. Her departure was announced last October in a statement that indicated her interest in doing “more of what I love the most: more connecting, listening and reporting in the field.”

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Mitchell will retain her role as chief Washington correspondent and chief foreign affairs correspondent. However, no one has yet been named to fill her 12:00pm ET time slot. That leaves some interesting possibilities for the network to counter Trump’s war against the free press that he refers to as “the enemy of people.”

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Among the prospective candidates to succeed Mitchell is former CNN anchor, Jim Acosta. He recently chose to ditch CNN when they tried to banish him to an overnight wasteland, despite his having higher ratings than most of his CNN colleagues. It’s clear that the network’s brass were determined to kiss up to Trump by silencing one of his most honest and effective critics. Acosta signed off by warning that…

“It is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant…Don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to the fear. Hold on to the truth and to hope.”

Other potential replacements might include current weekend MSNBC hosts, Katie Phang, Ali Velshi, Alicia Menendez, Jonathan Capehart, and Ayman Mohyeldin. Another intriguing possibility would be to bring back former host Mehdi Hasan, an insightful journalist who was popular with MSNBC viewers before he was let go. Although he may not be available now as he has started his own successful media enterprise, Zeteo.

Replacing Mitchell with Acosta or Hasan would serve the dual purpose of pissing off Trump. Of course, he will attack whoever gets the spot with his hallmark hatred of anyone who dares to criticize him. And he has a special place in the decaying organ where his heart should be for MSNBC. Some of his recent outbursts include…

You take a look at MSDNC, how evil they are. They’re evil. They’re sick. They shouldn’t even be allowed to do what they do. Because it’s so corrupt. They shouldn’t be allowed to do it.”

MSNBC (MSDNC) uses FREE government approved airwaves, and yet it is nothing but a 24 hour hit job on Donald J. Trump…Our so-called ‘government’ should come down hard on them and make them pay for their illegal political activity.”

MSNBC, often and correctly referred to as MSDNC (Democrat National Committee!), should be investigated for its ‘Country Threatening Treason.’”

One option that MSNBC must resist is giving another hour of air time Morning Joe host, Joe Scarborough, who is already controlling four hours every weekday morning. The last thing the network needs is to lean closer to the Trump-fluffers at Fox News.

Speaking of which, Fox just announced its own new host, Trump’s daughter-in-lawlessness, Lara Trump. Which is their way of affirming that the network has abandoned any pretense of being anything other than Trump’s Ministry of Propaganda.

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By Trump’s Deranged Logic the U.S. Should Takeover Israel and Relocate All of its Residents

The Decline of Western Civilization is accelerating apace as Donald Trump continues to roll out his neo-fascist, Project 2025 agenda with the cowardly compliance of Republicans in Congress and the MAGA-friendly media. In less than three weeks he has presided over a federal spending freeze that devastates critical services, the gutting of law enforcement personal at the Justice Department and the FBI, and the illegal invasion of government facilities by the unqualified and unaccountable armies of Muskler Youth.

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Trump Tower in bombed out Gaza

Near the top of the list of catastrophic Trump initiatives is his proposed scheme to commit blatant crimes against humanity by ordering the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, and declaring the occupied Palestinian territory a wholly owned property of the United States. Trump has neither the legal authority, nor the moral standing to make such a declaration. And his escalation of these preposterous pronouncements is a major contributor to his abysmal approval ratings.

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On Thursday morning Trump quadrupled-down on his delusional Gaza annexation aspirations. He posted a comment on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, that reaffirmed just how mentally twisted he is. He began by asserting that “The Gaza Strip would be turned over to the United States by Israel,” as if Israel held that power, or even the inclination to do so. Then he bizarrely implied that the Democratic leader of the Senate, Chuck Schumer, is himself a Palestinian. And it just got worse from there. Trump claimed that the entirety of the Palestinian residents of Gaza…

“…would have already been resettled in far safer and more beautiful communities. They would actually have a chance to be happy, safe, and free. The U.S., working with great development teams from all over the World, would slowly and carefully begin the construction of what would become one of the greatest and most spectacular developments of its kind on Earth. No soldiers by the U.S. would be needed! Stability for the region would reign!!!”

Never mind that the mass resettlement of a populations is a violation of international law. So is the assumption of their then vacant land for the habitation and profit of others. And if Trump really believes that all of that could be accomplished without a provoking a prolonged war between the Palestinians, the U.S., and Israel, he is farther along the path to debilitating senility that previously thought.

What’s more, Trump’s logic is so deeply flawed that it can easily be turned against him. If his proposal for resettlement is so great, why not resettle the Israelis? After all…

“They would actually have a chance to be happy, safe, and free. The U.S., working with great development teams from all over the World, would slowly and carefully begin the construction of what would become one of the greatest and most spectacular developments of its kind on Earth.”

So maybe Trump could make a deal to buy Greenland, or Madagascar, or even Baja California, and move all the Israelis there. If New Israel were in Baja California, I would even move there. There would be peace and prosperity in a beautiful locale, with Mediterranean weather, and close to the U.S. Let the Palestinians have the god-forsaken desert in the Middle East with proximity to their Muslim neighbors.

Of course, that proposal is offered with a healthy heaping of sarcasm. One of the problems with moving either Palestinians or Israelis is that the land they are on now isn’t just some random piece of real estate. It is regarded by both sides as the ancestral homeland for their people, given to them by God. But Trump thinks that he can just pack them up and ship them off to some unspecified destination, even though every Arab country has already refused to take in the Palestinians.

Naturally, Fox News is all for Trump’s idiotic plans to uproot the Palestinians and steal the land. They can’t understand why the idea wouldn’t be accepted with unbounded glee. And Trump probably thinks it would be a good location for a Trump Golf and Resort Spa on the Mediterranean. But maybe he should Don Jr, or Eric or Elon there first to check it out and see if they can’t get Hamas to sign on.

In the meantime, The Daily Show had its own take on the subject. Host Desi Lydic noted that “Trump wants to turn Gaza into the Riviera? He couldn’t even turn Atlantic City into a nicer Atlantic City! If anything, they tore down so many of his casinos he turned Atlantic city into Gaza!”

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Trump’s Nepo-Baby-In-Law, Lara Trump, Hired to Host Primetime Trump-Fluffing Hour on Fox News

Now that the 2024 election is in the books, and Donald Trump has returned to pretending he’s president, while actually golfing and grifting from his Mar-a-Lago bunker, members of his family cult are resuming their compulsory posts as purveyors of pseudo-populist propaganda.

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The White House team that Trump has been assembling is one that is familiar to observant Trump watchers. It is comprised mostly of faithful followers and sycophants whose loyalty is reserved solely for Trump, rather than the Constitution or any other charter of laws.

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After recruiting at least eighteen Cabinet and White House staffers from his Ministry of Propaganda (aka Fox News), Trump has returned the favor by sending one of his own brood back to Fox News. As reported by The Wrap, Trump’s daughter-in-lawlessness, Lara Trump, will soon debut her new show – “My View with Lara Trump” – on the ultra-MAGA network…

“Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of Donald Trump, will host a weekend show on Fox News, marking the first time a close family relative of a sitting U.S. President has done so. A former co-chair of the Republican Party, Lara Trump will launch the new weekend show on Fox News on Feb. 22, the network confirmed to TheWrap. […]

“‘I’m thrilled to bring my voice back to Fox News, talk directly with the American people and highlight what makes this country so great,’ Lara Trump said in the network’s statement. ‘As I cover the success of The Golden Age of America, I look forward to where this time will lead our country and where this opportunity will lead me in the future.'”

Lara Trump has surely benefited from her wedded relationship to the Trump klan. She has previously been employed by Fox as a contributor; she was installed to head the Republican National Committee; she got to perform some cringeworthy musical numbers; and now she’s being given an even higher profile platform on Fox as the star of her own program.

This is indeed unprecedented. Imagine how the MAGA cult would respond if Hunter Biden were given his own show on MSNBC. As Lara joins what Trump calls “the enemy of the people,” her hosting duties will obviously be confined to parroting the lies of her Sugar-Daddy-in-Law, Donald. She even admits as much in her statement above saying that she is only there to “cover the success of The Golden Age of America.”

In other words, Lara will ignore all of the far more numerous and horrific failures that Trump will – and has already – inflicted on the American people. Suffice to say that she will never report on Trump’s offenses against democracy and the government institutions that support it, such as…

Add to that Trump’s recent imposition of inflationary tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China, and his latest idiocy, the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza, which the U.S. would then take ownership of. What could possibly go wrong with that?

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Trump’s Press Secretary Stumped When Asked If It’s Safe to Fly – By Peter Doocy of Fox News

Within hours of the news that an American Airlines jet had collided with a military Blackhawk helicopter and crashed, killing everyone aboard both aircraft, Donald Trump had already drawn his conclusions as to the cause. He surmised that the cause of the tragedy was hiring practices that promoted diversity, equity, and Inclusion (DEI). He followed that up by blaming Presidents Obama and Biden.

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Donald Trump and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt

Never mind that Trump had no evidence whatsoever that his racist conclusions had any merit, or even a remote relationship with reality. He neglected expressions of concern or condolences in order to advance his agenda of noxious bigotry, and to exploit the tragedy to attack his political foes. And of course, that narrative was faithfully supported by his obedient politburo chief, Karoline Leavitt, who has been busy clearing press credentials for devoted MAGA cultists.

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On Friday morning, the White House press briefing took a bizarre turn when Peter Doocy of Fox News rose to ask Leavitt a question about the safety of air travel in America. He made an uncharacteristically insightful point about the consequences of Trump’s drumbeating of disparagement toward employees in the aviation sector that he regards as being too dark skinned, feminine, or otherwise representative of the diversity of the nation.

Doocy: If president Trump is telling us that air traffic control towers are staffed with unqualified controllers, DEI hires who never should have been brought on, then it’s not safe to fly commercially, is it?
Leavitt: The president was asked and answered this yesterday, and he believes that it is still indeed safe and Americans should feel safe traveling our skies. With that said, two things can be true at the same time. And we certainly have seen the deterioration of federal hiring standards at the Federal Aviation Administration. And the president wants to increase those standards.

PETER DOOCY: Given DEI hires, it's not safe to fly commercially, is it?LEAVITT: The president believes it is still indeed safe. With that said …

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-01-31T18:17:09.467Z

Doocy’s question staggered Leavitt. It makes sense to reason that aviation safety is at risk if the people responsible for it are incompetent and/or unqualified, as Trump insists. And anyone who accepts Trump’s assessment should keep their feet firmly planted on the ground, rather than put their lives in the hands of freeloaders who shouldn’t have been hired. Right?

Well, according to Leavitt, the answer is more complex. She argues that “two things can be true at the same time.” In her view, the pilots, air traffic controllers, and other aviation staff can be inferior clods who, nevertheless, are still perfectly able to insure the safety of American travelers. Except for the times that they cause jetliners to crash into the Potomac. Leavitt elaborated on her duplicity theory saying that…

“When you’re flying with your loved ones, do you pray that your airplane lands safely and gets you to your destination or do you pray that the pilot has a certain skin color? I think we all know the answer.”

The choices Leavitt offers here are absurd in the extreme. Obviously every air passenger wants to land safely. But nobody “prays” that “the pilot has a certain skin color.” Well, except for racist Trump cultists and MAGA disciples who will only approve of white pilots. For instance, Trump flunky Charlie Kirk actually said “I’m sorry. If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, ‘Boy, I hope he’s qualified.'”

Trump’s obsession with casting blame on Blacks, women, Democrats, and others for whom he has a visceral, inbred hatred, is emblematic of his rancid divisiveness. And in the furtherance of his prejudices, he couldn’t care less about whether or not what he’s saying about DEI true. And as PolitiFact affirms, it isn’t. But that won’t stop him. He won’t stop lying because he’s pathologically incapable of it. What’s more, he knows that his cult followers not only accept it, they love it.

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Trump Pledges to Forgo 100’s of Billions in Revenue By Letting Wealthy Tax Cheaters Off the Hook

If there is anyone who is still unsure about who Donald Trump is working for, the Grifter-in-Chief himself is making it clear enough that only his most gullible, brainwashed cult disciples will remain blinded by his brazen bullshittery.

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The VIP guest guest list to Trump’s inauguration ought to have been a five-alarm bulletin that Trump is immovably devoted to the wealthiest upper-crusters in America, including such shameless, ring-kissing luminaries as Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos, who donated millions to bankroll his inaugural party. Even so, their largesse was not sufficient to buy Trump an audience. The weather drove the event into the small Rotunda in the Capitol, and his unprecedented unpopularity drove viewers away from their TVs…

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Among the reasons that the American people are shunning Trump are his proposals that overwhelmingly favor corporations and the elite class that is so generous with their contributions – aka bribes. On Saturday Trump delivered a speech to his working class dupes that affirmed his commitment to the American aristocracy. He made a point of singling out a particular piece of his agenda that the privileged set salivates over…

“On day one I immediately halted the hiring of any new IRS agents. They hired, or tried to hire 88,000 new workers to go after you, and we’re in the process of developing a plan to either terminate all of them or maybe we’ll move them to the border.”

This is a long debunked lie that Trump has been telling for years. He likely picked it up from his Ministry of Propaganda, Fox News, back in August of 2022, when Fox’s Brian Kilmeade, sitting in for Tucker Carlson, told a tale of “Joe Biden’s new army,” that will “hunt down and kill middle class taxpayers.” Of course, nothing like that ever existed. It was a mangling of a report about legislation that would provide funding for the IRS for maintenance and a variety of needed improvements.

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The only IRS agents who are authorized to carry firearms are a small number who deal with serious criminal activities, such as money laundering, drug trafficking and organized crime. The bulk of the funding was actually earmarked for replacing employees who resigned, for enhancing customer service, and for improving the agencies technologies. Most of the employee hiring that Trump is claiming to have halted would have affected those sort of administrative positions that make dealing with the IRS easier for everyone. A smaller amount would be spent on agents who audit taxpayers, and most of them would be in the higher income brackets.

An independent study showed that the new funding and staffing “could lead to as much as $850 billion in new revenue over the next decade.” And a recent report revealed that those benefits were already being realized. CBS News reported that…

“The IRS said…that its plan to crack down on wealthy tax cheats is paying off, with the agency collecting more than $1 billion since targeting high-income earners who owe the government money. The joint announcement with the U.S. Treasury Department is meant to highlight that the IRS’ $80 billion in funding from the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act is helping to recoup revenue for the nation’s coffers.”

Trump’s plan would significantly cut into federal revenues, making the deficit worse and reducing the funds available for critical services including policing the border, healthcare, law enforcement, preventing terrorism, aiding poor families and children, education, repairing crumbling infrastructure, and so much more.

However, Trump’s plan would help him in his mission to abolish taxes in favor of tariffs, that would shift the burden of the budget demands to lower and middle class citizens. The result would be huge tax cuts for the wealthy, along with free rein to cheat on whatever taxes remain for them pay. Is that what Trump campaigned on? Is that what his cult followers voted for?

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Fox News Gushes Over Trump’s ‘Hot’ Nominees – Trashes Liberals as ‘Fat, Out of Shape Losers’

It has been ten years since Donald Trump began his political career by riding down a gold-plated escalator from his Manhattan penthouse, and promising to represent the forgotten people of America by catering to the whims of the wealthy and corporations, and punishing immigrants and minorities who he maligned as criminals.

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In the decade that has transpired, some people may have forgotten what Trump did for a living prior to his occupation in the White House. He was not a real estate developer, or a dealmaker, or a marketer. For most of that time he was the host of a reality TV game show, “The Apprentice,” where he pretended to be a successful businessman despite his actual record of multiple failures and bankruptcies. And to this day he leans on that past and those who helped him craft his fake identity.

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The superficiality of Trump’s long occupation as a television performer has been evident in everything he has done as a politician. Appearances were always paramount over substance. It’s why he was so obsessed about crowd size, and lying about having lost the 2020 election to President Biden. It’s why he chose White House staffers who looked good on TV, but had little to no experience in the jobs they were hired to do. That shallowness also continues to this day and dominates his hiring for Trump 2.0.

Trump’s Ministry of Propaganda, Fox News, is also on the job of plastering superficial facades on him and his new brood of bootlickers. That was brilliantly demonstrated by Fox’s resident wannabe schlock-jock, Greg Gutfeld. In a segment on Friday’s episode of “The Five,” Gutfeld sought to extol the “hotness” of Trump’s toadies, while insulting Democrats as dawgs. He began by comparing Biden’s Homeland Security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, to Trump’s nominee for the post…

“Mayorkas to Kristi. You’re going from a garden gnome to Kristi Noem. I mean, she’s so hot that shooting a dog isn’t a deal breaker. And I’m telling you this, you look at this crop of nominees and the party, there’s something there, man. They’re all in great shape. You’ve got to look at people who preserve and maintain what’s important in their lives. If they’re going to do that with their physical self, they’re going to do that in other areas. This is why like a lot of liberals are just fat, out of shape losers, because they don’t believe in structure, discipline.”

Notice that Gutfeld is unfavorably comparing a man who has spent his life in law enforcement and national security, to a small state governor who murders her pets and gets away with it. And Gutfeld absurdly believes that people whose egos demand most of their attention will somehow be more attentive to the less glamorous matters of state.

The rest of Gutfeld’s rant was devoted to praising Trump for hiring critical staffers based on their looks. He makes broad generalizations about the alleged attractiveness of Trump’s nominees, and equally unfair and insulting assessments of Biden’s team. Never mind that Trump’s picks are dreadfully unqualified for the jobs he’s proposing to give them.

For example, alcoholic sexual abuser, Pete Hegseth, conspiracy crackpot and anti-vaxxer, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Russian asset, Tulsi Gabbard, and QAnon kook, Kash Patel. None have the experience, knowledge, or skills to manage massive bureaucracies of government, many of which deal with matters of life and death.

If they look good on TV, which is where Trump found most of them, they meet his prerequisites. Which may be why seventeen (so far) of his nominees are current or former Fox News squawking heads.

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What Gutfeld is conveniently ignoring are the physical attributes of the captain of this cabal of catwalkers (or is that cat eaters?). He doesn’t bother to compare the alluring and intelligent Kamala Harris to the stomach-churning hideousness of Trump. In fact, Dear Leader Trump is hardly a beacon of beauty. He’s a shuffling, wrinkled, orange-glazed, geezer, who is morbidly obese, with resting scowl-face. But sure, he’s in great shape – for a putrefied ham that’s been out on the porch for several weeks.

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FOX NEWS HOST: ‘It Makes Me CRAZY that the Left is Mad at Musk’ – For Bankrolling Herr Trump?

For nearly a decade, Fox News has assumed the role of the Ministry of Propaganda for Donald Trump. Their program hosts and guests have been uniformly worshipful of the convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and aspiring authoritarian, who has become the internationally recognized brand of cable’s premiere disinformation network.

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Fox’s devotion to Dear Leader Trump drives their editorial ideology. So much so that they continue to fawn over and lie about Trump despite having had to pay a $787 million settlement for defamation as a result of their brazenly dishonest parroting of Trump’s 2020 election denials and outright lies. Which they continue to do to this day.

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On Thursday morning Fox Business host Gerri Willis was a guest on Fox’s “Outnumbered.” The discussion covered some of the controversy over the seizure of the American government by tech billionaires, including Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk. With regard to the latter, Willis was inexplicably confounded as to why Democrats would have any problem with Musk’s utterly inappropriate role as an unelected, virtual shadow president…

“The whole idea that the left is mad at Elon Musk makes me crazy because he’s the one who developed their favorite product in the world: the electric car. So how can you be mad at him?”

REALLY? Willis has to be one of the dimmest bulbs in the Fox News marquee. First of all, Musk didn’t develop the electric car. He bought Tesla from the more intelligent and creative people who did develop it. Secondly, Tesla is not the “favorite product” of progressives. In fact, they have led the exodus of buyers who stopped patronizing Musk’s auto business.

More to the point, Willis is pitifully dense if she can’t grasp why Democrats would oppose Musk after he completely betrayed the environmental movement by buying the presidency for Trump, a climate change denier who thinks that it is a hoax perpetrated by China. And climate change is only the tip of the iceberg of Trump policies that Musk endorses that are anathema to progressives.

Coincidently – or perhaps not – President Biden addressed the same subject in his Oval Office farewell address to the nation Wednesday night. He issued a passionate wake up call to Americans, alerting them to the danger of the emerging Trump oligarchy…

“Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power, and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms, and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead. We’ve seen the consequences all across America and we’ve seen it before.

“More than a century ago, the Americans stood up to the robber barons back then and busted the trusts. They didn’t punish the wealthy, just made the wealthy play by the rules everybody else had to. Workers want rights to earn their fair share. You know, they were dealt into the deal and helped put us on the path to building the largest middle class, the most prosperous century any nation in the world has ever seen.”

President Biden delivers a prescient warning that "an oligarchy is taking shape in America."

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What actually makes Willis and and others at Fox News “crazy” is that the American people can see through their bullpucky. And we aren’t going to lay back and allow the new robber barons to enslave us. Even if they did once pretend to be interested in preserving the planet, but only because of their lust for more wealth.

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Fox News Host Calls for a Full Federal Takeover of California and Declaration of Martial Law

Just in case anyone has not been convinced that Donald Trump has designs on becoming an imperialist totalitarian like his idol Vladimir Putin, he has lately been maniacally posturing to invade and annex several of America’s international allies, including Mexico, Panama, Canada, and Greenland.

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Trump’s threats in this regard may just be pseudo-macho chest-thumping, or attempts to intimidate foreign leaders with militaristic taunts, or pandering to his MAGA cult that tingles when he pretends to be a tough guy, or maybe he really thinks he can get away with it. Whatever his reasoning, he has the unwavering support of his Ministry of Propaganda, Fox News, that is also his primary recruiting pool for his next White House administration.

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At the bottom of the pile of Trump-fluffing Fox News sycophants, is the network’s crass clown, Jesse Watters. And on Friday he delivered one his hallmark harangues that is littered with lies and perverse propositions. In response to the wildfire tragedies unfolding in Los Angeles, California, Watters floated a plan that his Dear Leader Trump would happily sign onto…

“This is biblical-level destruction. And the city of L.A. is hosting the Olympics in four years. There’s no way we can showcase L.A. to the world. A full federal takeover is needed. Invoke the Stafford Act. The state’s overwhelmed. Martial law might have to be declared.”

This sort of fascist dictatorial control is rapidly becoming the goto solution for every problem that Trump World encounters. Watters’ suggestion that the entire state of California be seized by the Feds would disenfranchise the millions of citizens in the state who repudiated Trump in November’s election. And his logic is patently absurd.

Watters is disparaging the efforts of state and local officials, as well as thousands of first responders who are working their arses off to save lives and property. And he’s concluding from that that the 2028 Olympics should be moved out of Los Angeles.

Great idea. Deprive the city of much needed revenue during a time of crisis following a natural disaster. You may notice that Watters never suggested anything like this after the hurricanes and tornadoes that sweep across Florida, North Carolina, Louisiana, and the rest of the South every freakin’ year.

In addition to his comments above, Watters also made wholly unfounded accusations about California’s state and local officials. Mediaite reports him saying that…

“Primetime is calling for a federal takeover of California. […] We can’t wait for a recall election. This is an issue of national security. This is a public health emergency.”

[And…]

“The elected officials in California can’t be trusted. They’re criminally negligent. […] If they’re left in charge to rebuild L.A., they’re going to steal the money. Nothing’s going to get rebuilt.”

There is, of course, no basis for making those charges, other than the inbred biases of Watters and his knee-jerk hostility toward anyone who isn’t a fellow member of the Trump cult. And he is permitted to go on the air at Fox News with these slurs despite having no proof whatsoever. Remember, it was Fox News that was forced to settle a defamation lawsuit for $787 million due to lies they told about the 2020 election.

Maybe some of the innocent targets of Watters’ lies will step up to sue him and Fox over this new set of flagrant falsehoods. But rest assured that the residents of California will not sit by idly and let Trump invade their state to impose his tyrannical will on them, like he’s proposing to do to Panama, Canada, and Greenland. That would be a good way to get California to petition for secession.

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