The New York is showing its true colors. Donald Trump wants to make a real estate investment and that seems to send Rachael Maddow off the deep end. Rashida Tlaib hates her grandma. And AoC wants to blow up the Constitution again.
A lot of awesome stuff to talk about. None of it is really life-changing but it is interesting.
The New York Times Takes a Stand
One has to be completely head-in-sand to believe that the New York Times is an unbiased. Just a couple of weeks ago, the Times ran a headline when Trumo commented abut the El Paso attack. At first, the headline was “Trump Urges Unity Vs. Racism.” Oh this wasn’t good. Twitter was all a fire with condemnation of the New York Times actual reporting. That’s right, the headline was pretty accurate. The leftists flipped. A few hours later, the times rewrote their headline, stating, “Assailing Hate But Not Guns.”
Wow. It only took a couple of Tweets from the left for the New York Times to run away with tail between its legs and change from actual journalism to the sensationalism that the left expects.
But it get worse for them. Apparently, Slate leaked a statement from executive editor Dean Baquet stating that the Times depended on the Mueller investigation. But that was over and Trump is innocent. So not the Times needs to find another narrative. And they did. Want to guess what it is? That’s right: RACISM!
“We built our newsroom to cover one story, and we did it truly well. Now we have to regroup, and shift resources and emphasis to take on a different story,” said Baquet. His “vision” for how to cover Trump for “the rest of the next two years”: How America has “become so divided by Donald Trump,” particularly when it comes to race.
So, the the NY Times has decided to call out what the “news” would be for the next two years. Nice. And they started with a bang.
The New York Times Magazine just released a piece made up of several essays called “The 1619 Project.” This crap-show is a group of essays by New York Times writers that say the country did not start in 1776 with the implementation of the Declaration of Independence but started in 1619 when he first slaves were brought to the country. The purpose of this project is to “celebrate” the 400 year anniversary of the first slaves being brought to the United States. Throughout the essays, the writers discuss how all aspects of American society, from capitalism to imprisonment to healthcare, were created from the sweat and suffering of African slaves. It also explains how the system in this country is still against black people. Below is a video released by the NY Times. It’s really long so read by blog first then you can watch this:
I agree that we should acknowledge slavery. It was a dark point in our history and it should never be forgotten. But slavery happened long before the United States was established and was not the basis for this country by any stretch. In fact, it was the founding of this country that ended slavery. You know, that little spat called the Civil War. A war started and fought by white men to end slavery. I understand that the New York Times needs to create another narrative to defeat Trump next year. But this is garbage. Our country did not start because of slavery. The capitalist economy is not on the back of slavery. In fact, slavery proves America is great because we ended slavery and systemic racism.
This country is the greatest in human history. We discovered the Internet, cell phone and computing but all the media can do is talk about our past. It’s infuriating.
Greenland
President Trump found out that he had the power to buy Greenland. This was something that, apparently, came out in a meeting. Because Greenland is in a strategically good area and is rich in resources and Denmark, which holds Greenland, is spending vast amounts of money to keep the territory afloat, Trump thought it might be worth holding a meeting with the Prime Minister to discuss buying it.
Now, this is nothing new. The United States has always wanted Greenland and has made offers before. And it’s not like we haven’t bought territory from the Danes before. The Virgin Islands was purchased from Denmark in 1917. So this shouldn’t be that big a deal. If Denmark wants to give away Greenland, great. If they don’t, great. But why not ask.
Rachael Maddow at MSNBC thought it was a big deal. This broad has been a dime short of a dollar for years. But listen to this meltdown.
Poor thing. We need to start another Russia conspiracy to give her life more purpose because she is obviously losing it. Trump, who probably wasn’t really all-in on pushing for a Greenland deal posted an awesome meme on his Twitter account when he saw that this story was becoming “controversial” (not really sure why but whatever).
Fun stuff. Anyway, Denmark said no (and not in the most polite way) and Trump got pissed. He cancelled a trip to Denmark that was scheduled for next month. Now Denmark is ticked. The media is calling it an “international incident.” I’m not exactly sure why. What are they going to do? Throw tulips at us? Stop exporting those wooden shoes to the United States? I have to laugh because this is Trump trollery at it’s finest.
The Squad
And they’re back!
Last week, we talked about how Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar were not allowed in Israel because their itinerary said they were visiting “Palestine” and now Israel (there is no Palestine, by the way), they supported the anti-Semitic BDS movement, they were being funded by a group that were openly anti-Semitic and supporters of terrorism and had no intention of meeting with anyone in the Israeli government but instead were going to meet a bunch of pro-Palestinian groups. Basically this trip was going to be for tearing into Israel. So Israel said, “no.” Makes sense. We would, and have, done the same thing with people who meant nothing but the worst for this country. Israel has a right, maybe even an obligation to its people, to keep these people out.
But Tlaib wasn’t finished. She put in another request to go to Israel. This time to visit her 90-year-old mother. Israel took the request and approved it with the condition that Tlaib not bash Israel while she was there. Well, she couldn’t do that. So she decided not to go. And, with crocodile tears, she explained why during a news conference.
That’s right. She hates Israel more than she hates her mom. Nice! But we always knew she was that kind of quality person.
Of course, how can we talk about the squad without talking about old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? While taking a trip across an empty rural area, she sarcastically told her followers to look at the electoral college. Take a look.
I didn’t play the whole video but you get the idea. She believes the electoral college is a scam and, of course, racist. She says,
“The Electoral College has a racial injustice breakdown. Due to severe racial disparities in certain states, the electoral college effectively weights white voters over voters of color, as opposed to a ‘one person, one vote’ system where all are counted equally.”
She doesn’t believe such sparsely populated areas like the Midwest states should not have as much influence in the election and the elections should be based on the popular vote. Unfortunately, a lot of people take this position, especially on the left. The Founding Fathers knew what they were doing. That means a lot more than what some thirty year old moron thinks. They wanted to make sure that the entire country, even the states with sparse populations, would be represented.
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Resources:
http://pulitzercenter.org/sites/default/files/full_issue_of_the_1619_project.pdf
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/new-york-times-changes-headline-on-trump-shooting-response-after-presidential-candidates-call-them-out
https://www.dailywire.com/news/50775/trump-nyt-just-admitted-what-ive-been-saying-all-james-barrett
https://www.dailywire.com/news/50823/palestinian-authority-cracks-down-lgbt-group-ilhan-james-barrett