They Just Cannot Help Themselves

This appeared on the Yahoo Home Page at 1:29 PM Pacific today.




"...that the president himself..." The clear intention of the headline, since this story is about our former ambassador to the Ukraine, is that President Trump did something wrong.

The actual story is relatively unremarkable.

An ambassador was removed and replaced because the President, at whose pleasure she served, was annoyed that she as interfering with his direct diplomatic efforts.

The "implication" is actually that he was personally involved in firing someone who worked for him. Oh my. Surely that is a criminal offense! Wait, its not? Well, surely it is an impeachable offense! Wait, it isn't any offense at all? Impossible, why else would it be front and center on Yahoo's Home Page? Because...Trump, of course.

 "The former ambassador says she was fired from her post after insisting that Giuliani's requests to Ukrainian officials for investigations be relayed through official channels, according to a former diplomat who has spoken with her. That former diplomat insisted on anonymity to disclose the private conversation."

Here comes the really good part.

"The diplomat was recalled from Kyiv as Rudy Giuliani — who is Trump's personal attorney and has no official role in the U.S. government — pressed Ukrainian officials to investigate baseless corruption allegations against Democrat Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, who was involved with a gas company there." (Emphasis added)

"Baseless corruption allegations"? As far as I know there has been no investigation and certainly no believable non-corrupt explanation for a Ukranian gas company to pay the former V.P.'s son, who has no known expertise in Natural Gas or the Ukraine, something on the order of $50,000 a month while his father was in charge of Ukranian issues for the Obama administration. The payments continued into early 2019.

Did I mention that young Mr. Biden has no expertise that anyone knows of regarding the gas business or the Ukraine itself?

This is what passes for "news reporting".  Dangerous, destructive, infuriating.

Do not believe a word they say.

I think I mentioned Sarah Hoyt once before as saying that when she reads in the mainstream media that it is raining outside she goes outside to check, without an umbrella.

Do not forget that the mission of the media is to brow beat us into silence and discourage us from voting because everyone knows Trump is Toast.

I am looking forward to their furious lamentations when we beat them again in 2020.

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Don't Fall For It #3

They never quit.

Yahoo home page headline,

"Trump may revoke (emphasis added) birthright citizenship for some."

Revoke means, "put an end to the validity or operation of (a decree, decision, or promise): "the men appealed and the sentence was revoked".

So, Trump, the dastardly meanie, fascist, homophobic, misogynist, anti-Semite, Hitler wannabe, is going to invalidate the citizenship of  some or all of those who have gained it by being born of non-citizen parents on US soil.

Except for the part where he intends to do no such thing.

Headline of the story at the link., 

"Trump: End birthright citizenship for some US-born babies".

"President Donald Trump is making another hardline (sic) immigration play in the final days before the midterm elections, declaring that he wants to order an end to the constitutional right to citizenship for babies born in the United States to non-citizens."

No revoking of anything, of course. Everyone who has gained citizenship that way keeps it. The policy is forward looking only.

A week or so ago he said that he would propose a middle class tax reduction before the election.

The "press" immediately mocks him by deliberately misunderstanding what he actually said and implying that he is so stupid he doesn't understand that you can't pass a tax cut when Congress is not in session and it would be impossible to do in a few weeks if it was in session. He never said it would be passed before the election.

"When reminded (really?) Congress wasn’t in session, the president said, “We won’t have time to do the vote. We’ll do the vote later…We’ll do the vote after the election.”

Do not believe anything they say, ever. 

A very clever writer, Sara Hoyt, wrote recently,

"...If they tell me it is raining I go outside to check, without an umbrella." (from memory)

Please do not fail to vote next week whatever the state of your local races.