10/31/24 VS Media Podcast on Substack - Back from Fall Break with some thoughts on Jeff Bezos and his Washington Post employees going out of their way to prove him right.
This kid waited all week for his first hike..
Cougar dragged him off after 1/4 of a mile in.
I didn’t try to help or rescue him.
Life is hard, he took it well.
Along with our partners at
@FEMA
, we will continue with disaster recovery as a result of Hurricane Milton. The safety of the American people is our top priority.
Vice President Harris: It is outrageous that every day in our country, parents have to send their children to school worried about whether or not their child will come home alive. It's senseless. We have to end this epidemic of gun violence in our country once and for all. It
@KingJames
Hey King, any support for your fellow NBA player
@EnesKanter
speaking out against the mass extermination of ethnic Muslims in China? You fucking coward.
Washington DC booing Trump at a baseball game the same day the US took out the top terror target in the world says more about Washington DC than it does about Trump.
Walz: In Minnesota we respect our neighbors and their personal choices that they make. Even if we wouldn't make the same choice for ourselves, there's a golden rule, mind your own damn business.
Rewatching this, as soon as Vance corrects Walz that the CBP One app has not been around since 1990, Norah O'Donnell pushes the button under the desk.
They didn't cut the mics because there was insulting and abusive cross talk or yelling. They cut it because Vance was making a
.
@JDVance
calls out moderator Margaret Brennan for attempting to "fact-check" him despite promising they wouldn't do that.
Then CBS cuts off his microphone for pushing back against her.
To those who make the false charge, the WH press corps does not provide questions in advance. The president has a list of media who are credentialed in advance. His team knows who will be in the room and chose reporters from news wires, TV, print, and radio including a Polish
Hamas literally murdered and then kidnapped kids and elderly out of their homes and US congressional Democrats released statements demanding Israel de-escalate. I've never seen this. Ever.
Trump walked down a ramp slowly and the media went full red alert 25th Amendment. Jill Biden is holding court in Cabinet Meetings while the president looks around the room aimlessly and NBC and others are like this is all perfectly normal.
Harris - "I'm here to tell you to prepare for the Hurricane and the governors won't take my call." (Stages photo op)
Biden - "The governor has my cell phone number. We're coordinating everything."
DeSantis - "Yep. Everything's good."
Harris - "Okay well don't you dare price
Doug Emhoff punched a woman in the face with 3 eye witness accounts and CBS, ABC, NBC and CNN ignored it. Not to mention dozens of accounts who made their following in this platform over
#MeToo
Because of an election,
Going out on a limb and suggesting if a MAGA hat wearing yokel drove a van through a Warren or Sanders voter registration tent, it would be the only thing journalists & major news outlets would be talking about right now.
Greta Thunberg was just in Malmo, Sweden wearing a Keffiyeh while protesting Jews outside the Eurovision venue.
Greta is merging antisemitism with her environmentalism.
What so interesting about this is Ferrell's own film proves people aren't threatened by trans people. His own film literally shows him taking his trans friend to country hick bars and dirt car hick races filled with Trump voters, and none of them care.
There's even a scene
Will Ferrell says he doesn’t understand why transphobia exists:
“I don’t know why trans people are meant to be threatening to me… Why would you care if somebody’s happy? Why is that threatening to you?”
This clip of Minnesota First Lady Gwen Walz is making the rounds.
Her reflection on the 2020 riots:
“I could smell the burning tires…I kept the windows open as long as I could because I felt like that was such a touchstone of what was happening."
Hamas fighters saw a hot German EDM Instagram influencer, said "she's a Jew", kidnapped, raped and murdered her in the back of a pick up truck and the Squad members of congress who depend on Instagram likes are like "Hey let's not rush to judgement here."
The President who bragged about going around a SCOTUS ruling on student loans is now worried Presidents can do whatever they want.
The shamelessness is the point.
“I don’t appreciate the new fans that sit there and yell racial slurs at myself, my teammates, and the people that I play against because, yeah, those my best opponents but those are friends too.”
Brittney Griner on players facing racism from WNBA’s news fleet of fans in 2024.
A reminder that when Pete Davidson was having a depressive episode and people were worried he was suicidal, Crenshaw reached out to him on Twitter and by phone.
I can't help but notice that our media is all but ignoring defendants of color who were also acquitted yesterday while doing wall to walk coverage of white defendants.
Speaker Pelosi: "We support peaceful demonstrations. We participate in them. They are part of the essence of our democracy. That does not include looting, starting fires, or rioting. They should be prosecuted. That is lawlessness."
Reminder, Gaza doesn’t have shelters or an iron dome and to please pray for them. May peace prevail in the region and move us towards a moral awakening to care about the human suffering we are seeing. Palestinians are human beings who have been in besieged and are deserving of
We're suddenly going to be told that the son of a President dropping the n-word doesn't matter and it's going to be like watching a carnival ride spin off its axis and into a crowd in real time. It's going to be amazing.
These protests didn’t start because people were told to stay home. They started when government started telling them they couldn’t buy garden seeds & child car seats or go for a walk alone with no one around. It’s a reaction to overreach.
President Biden to Donald Trump: "Join me or I'll join you in telling the Congress to pass this bipartisan border security bill. We can do it together....So, instead of playing politics, why don't we just get together and get it done."
WATCH: Trump hears from a reporter that Justice Ginsburg has died.
"She just died? Wow. I didn't know that, you're telling me now for the first time."
"She led an amazing life. What else can you say? She was an amazing woman...I'm sad to hear that."
The experts™ skipping Xi variant name in the Greek alphabet so not to offend the country that started this sums this entire thing up perfectly. It can't be topped.
National news outlets and journalists who all swear they heard a baseball fan yelling the N-word at a packed stadium suddenly have nothing to say when a person in a gorilla mask throws an egg at a black candidate for governor,
Rafah is being decimated, there is nowhere else left to go. Israel is now bombing more than 1.7 million civilians trapped in Rafah, Gaza's last place of refuge. A massacre is happening in Rafah right now and the world is silent.
He didn't inherit a Haitian refugee crisis. He didn't inherit bodies falling off the wheel wells of airplanes in Afghanistan. He didn't inherit vaccine mandates that aren't working.
He's trying to make himself a bystander to events around him. It won't work.
Biden responds to his administration's recent crises: "Take a look at what I inherited when I came into office, the state of affairs and where we were. We had 4 million people vaccinated, we had no plan — I could go down the list...I'm not complaining, it's just the reality."
Guys. This isn't "hiding in basement" hyperbole anymore. The dude is the president standing behind the presidential podium and he couldn't finish his own thoughts multiple times. It's not a conspiracy theory. It's on international broadcast video.
Again I've never seen anything like this. I don't ever want to hear about misinformation from Facebook memes. Like, again. Ever. A massive failure and done on purpose.
Hey
@JalenRose
Jacob Blake is still alive, not dead. And he was shot by police because he had a knife, refused to drop it, and a woman he’d sexually assaulted called police asking for protection. This is embarrassing
@espn
.
Trump was at Arlington cemetery at the request and invite of Goldstar families, Harris released a press statement and Joe Biden was on a beach and the media has decided that Trump is the problem in all of this.
7 years ago today, white supremacists and neo-Nazis marched on Charlottesville, chanting racist and antisemitic bile and killing an innocent woman.
This is who Donald Trump calls “very fine people”
Comey found stripped classified material on a laptop of the husband of Hillary Clinton's closest aide, who didn't have a security clearance & was sexting 15 year olds, and he went like "Yeah we're not pressing charges here"
Everything about the Trump indictment is political
Joe Scarborough has done more damage to this country than just about any other person in the past 8 years and it took almost getting a former president assassinated for his own employers to realize it.
They had it down to "Reporter Q&A. QUESTION 1" and gave Biden the questions in advance. They agreed to do this.
And this wasn't a major media scandal. They all ignored it just like they all ignored Jen Psaki accepting an NBC contract while still acting like she was taking
When the president holds a press conference, he already has the questions pre-scripted from reporters, which means the WH Press not only avoided this topic, they actively participated in covering it up.
But now suddenly it's problem.
Biden did not say he would only pick a Black woman for VP. He said he would pick a Black woman for the Supreme Court.
He said he would pick a woman as a running mate. Whitmer—who is white—was a finalist. But he picked Harris in part b/c he thought she would better help him win.
Ignore 12,000 people taking shelter under a desert overpass in 100 degree heat for four days but one blue check mischaracterizes a photo of a border patrol agent and suddenly it's Django Unchained happening.
Journalists did an all hands on deck rush to defend this, including people like Jake Tapper and ABC News, apparently thinking there wasn't more video out there.
There is.
🚨Just in: A Video from 2009 shows a veteran confronting Tim Walz’s staff over claims that he served in Afghanistan. The veteran said Walz could go to jail for violating the Stolen Valor Act of 2006 for claiming to have served in Afghanistan when he didn’t
Something tells me if Russian hackers shutdown a major fuel pipeline which is now causing gasoline shortages, any time from the years 2017-2020, the reaction in the media would be somewhat less muted.
Trump accused Hunter Biden of receiving millions from the wife of Moscow's late mayor Yury Luzhkov.
But Trump himself sought business with Luzhkov's government in the 90s, according to press reports, SEC filings and comments made by Luzhkov last year.
CBS's Margaret Brennan, out of control: "We want to make clear that this
is something we are reporting...as a historic event...We are very mindful that this kind of event can inspire violence, it can inspire retaliation, and we want no part of that."
#TrumpAssassinationAttempt
Things are Fuckin weird. Biden is letting Russia mediate on a new Iran deal while also not sanctioning Russia oil while also negotiating with Maduro to import more oil when the US didn't recognize Maduro who also negotiated with Putin.
This is Joe Biden as President.
President Biden, speaking today to reporters about the travel restrictions on southern African nations where a new Covid variant originated.
“We don’t know a lot about the variant, except that it is of great concern, it seems to spread rapidly,” he said.