It looks like we aren’t the only ones to notice this. Political blog Electoral-vote.com has an item up today titled, “Only 4 Days Left for the Media to Preemptively Kowtow to Trump”. Here’s an excerpt: One of the most depressing storylines of the last few months has been the various media outlets falling all over themselves to curry favor with Donald Trump, prior to his re-inauguration.… Read More
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew Tries to Keep Pace with Trump As we’ve noted, Trump picks his stances by the direction green pieces of paper are blowing in the wind. As a law banning TikTok is coming to fruition, we should reiterate he was critical of the social media app as a first-term president. He even attempted an executive order to shutdown the platform. But come… Read More
Have a Coke and Get in Single File Coca-Cola has presented a special-edition bottle of Coke to the returning president. While it’s been an on-going tradition of theirs present incoming presidents with a commemorative bottle of Coca-Cola, this instance still indicates appeasement for two reasons: Apparently Coca-Cola sees fit to put that little bit of unsettled history into a bottle and set it… Read More
Alabama Governor orders flags at full mast for inauguration Alabama Governor Kay Ivey, breaking with the tradition of honoring the passing of a past President, has ordered that the flags in the state be raised to full mast for the inauguration of Donald Trump. Alabama Governor Kay Ivey, breaking with the tradition of honoring the passing of a past President, has ordered that the… Read More
It Takes a Village Yo, man! WTF? Republicans have often naively used music at their campaign rallies that have lyrics or meaning that is in direct contradiction to conservative principles. Often, this has been to the ire of the respective musicians, in many cases resulting in demands to cease and desist. Despite presenting as a crusader against ‘woke culture’,… Read More
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith kisses the ring again The Canadian media are reporting that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has made the journey to Mar-A-Lago to meet with Donald Trump in advance of his assumption of the Presidency next week. From the CTV coverage: Smith posted an update on social media Sunday, including photos of herself with Trump and Dragon’s Den star Kevin O’Leary. “We had… Read More
Meta to Drop Fact-Checking Program Because It’s ‘Too Politically Biased’ Variety is reporting that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and others, is dropping fact checking because it is allegedly too politically biased. Of course we’ve all heard the expression that the truth has a liberal bias. I am not sure that’s true so much as conservatism, and especially fascism, has a falsehood bias.… Read More
Jeff Bezos nixes cartoon depicting his pre-emptive obedience Jeff Bezos is not laughing after a cartoon slated for print in his own newspaper depicted him pre-emptively kowtowing to Donald Trump. Bezos owns the Washington Post, so he didn’t take kindly when his own editorial cartoonist depicted him being owned by Donald Trump. The cartoon, by long-time Washington Post editorial cartoonist, Ann Telnaes, shows… Read More
Trump sues the Des Moines Register Donald Trump has put his sights on yet another media outlet. In his efforts to suppress any media coverage that could be be seen in any way as oppositional, he has put forth a lawsuit against newspaper The Des Moines Register. The suit also targets parent company Gannett and pollster Ann Selzer. Of all things,… Read More