apparently only Biden can be trusted with oligarchs Biden Gives Bill Gates and George Soros Medals, Then Complains About Oligarchs https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025...edals-then-complains-about-oligarchs-n3798881
CNN Plots to Bury the Anchor Trump Hates Most CNN’s CEO has reportedly floated the idea of moving Jim Acosta to the network’s midnight hour—a substantial downgrade for the longtime Trump antagonist. The Daily Beast Julia Ornedo Updated Jan. 17 2025 3:54AM EST / Published Jan. 16 2025 11:31PM EST CNN is considering a substantial demotion for one of its highest-rating stars—who also happens to be a longtime antagonist of President-elect Donald Trump. CNN chief Mark Thompson called Jim Acosta on Wednesday to propose that his show, CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta, be moved from its 10 a.m. ET time slot to midnight, according to the newsletter Status News. “The move would effectively exile Acosta to the Siberia of television news,” media reporter Oliver Darcy pointed out. The proposal was made just as the CNN boss led a massive shakeup that involved moving Wolf Blitzer to mornings. Acosta was told that the move was about accommodating the logistics of Blitzer’s new schedule and not about his ratings or editorial style. Thompson reportedly told Acosta that the 12 a.m. ET time slot would mean his show would air during prime time hours on the West Coast and be simulcast internationally. With Trump’s inauguration just days away, however, it appears that the overhaul at CNN might be about more than just logistics. “They want to get rid of Acosta to throw a bone to Trump,” a media executive told Darcy. “Midnight is not a serious offer when his ratings are among the best on the network.” Acosta has a famously testy relationship with the president-elect, who he covered as a White House correspondent during the first Trump administration. Trump had many tense interactions with the CNN anchor, at one point even calling him “a rude, terrible person.” n 2018, the White House revoked Acosta’s press pass after he verbally sparred with Trump at a press conference. “CNN should be ashamed of itself having you working for them,” Trump told the journalist at the time. The network’s ratings have fallen by 49 percent since Trump was re-elected in November, according to Nielsen ratings. After it was taken over by David Zaslav’s Warner Bros. Discovery in 2022, CNN has softened its coverage of Trump. Acosta is reportedly seriously considering the midnight slot offer. Continued...
How Joe Biden wasted his presidency His warnings about the oligarchy ring hollow https://unherd.com/2025/01/how-joe-biden-wasted-his-presidency/ excerpt: As many have noted, there was plenty of irony to be found in the address. Democrats, not Republicans, have recently been favoured — in donations and votes — by corporate America, including Big Tech, a few prominent defectors notwithstanding. But the issue with Biden’s speech wasn’t that it was hypocritical given his party’s fundraising prowess and increasingly upscale base. Ike himself, after all, had overseen the expansion of the very military-industrial complex he decried, but at least he ended his presidency with a memorable articulation of the problem that pointed the finger at an institution with which he was closely associated. Biden, in contrast, followed up his comments on a real crisis that has been mounting for decades — a rising oligarchy — with some indications that the main such people he’s concerned about aren’t oligarchs writ large, so much as a few in particular: Donald Trump and his cronies. In this respect, he showed little understanding of why his presidency is ending in such lousy fashion: a governing vision that has vacillated between a broad critique of concentrated wealth and a far narrower one focused on the crisis represented by Trump. more at the link
I have to admit - I am in the minority, but I love the older Melvin Gibson that gives ZERO ****s what anyone thinks about him.
A lot of it requires a cultural change.... after the Great Depression there were many Americans that had a healthy degree of skepticism and distrust of the super wealthy. To be clear - you as a business owner are nothing like those that have a worth of hundreds of millions of dollars and more. That has largely gone away, and that will require Americans being burned by the super wealthy again. I agree with you as well that there will always be some that will try to "get over" or take advantage, even in a place like Japan where there is a disgusting level of power and influence by corporations, there are individual Japanese people that refuse to work or attempt to take advantage of society. However that isn't most people.
forcing this thing inside, away from the public eye. What are they hiding now??? "cold weather" . . . sure Jan. Extremely cold weather will force Trump’s inauguration inside for first time in 40 years https://nypost.com/2025/01/17/us-news/extremely-cold-weather-forces-trumps-inauguration-day-inside/
They've both done a ton of humanitarian work..... Biden onshored the most critical supply chains back to the usa. That's his legacy. Onshoring the TSMC factory from Taiwan is literally going save us from world War 3. Probably the single most important achievement of this century
Braindead MAGA @Salvy want to give tax cuts to billionaires and have it paid for *check notes* taxing scholarships for low income individuals. Sincerely the dumbest cult ever. Right wing populism
I have always liked Gibsons films. He is an interesting cat. He is giving me some Howard Hughes vibes. Don't necessarily know why.
So your saying what about Bill Gates and George Soros I don't understand the point this person is trying to make, I need at least 14 more pages to begin unpacking the concepts.
related Bill Gates had ‘intriguing’ three-hour dinner with Trump: ‘I was frankly impressed’ https://nypost.com/2025/01/17/us-news/bill-gates-frankly-impressed-after-3-hour-dinner-with-trump/ excerpt: Billionaire Bill Gates revealed he recently had an “intriguing” three-hour dinner with President-elect Donald Trump — and he was left “frankly impressed” by their sit-down. “I had a chance, about two weeks ago, to go have a long and actually quite intriguing dinner with him,” Gates told The Wall Street Journal in an interview published Friday. The Microsoft co-founder, 69, said much of their “wide-ranging” dinner table chat focused on global health challenges. “I felt like he was energized and looking forward to helping to drive innovation,” the tech titan said of Trump, 78. “I was frankly impressed with how well he showed a lot of interest in the issues I brought up.” They were joined by incoming White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, and one of Gates’ staffers. The four of us sat there, and it was quite wide-ranging,” Gates said of the dinner. “I spoke a lot about HIV and that [The Gates] Foundation is literally working on a cure for that. We’re at an early stage, and so he in the COVID days, accelerated the vaccine innovation,” he said. “So I was asking him if maybe the same kind of thing could be done here. And we both got, I think, pretty excited about that,” Gates told WSJ’s Editor-in-Chief Emma Tucker. “We talked about polio where we’re very close to getting that done, but if you stop, it’ll spread back,” he continued. “And he was fascinated to hear what he could do to maximize the chance that during the next four years that incredible milestone will be achieved.” more about the oligarchy at the link
state media sucking up to Trump CBS Owner Discusses Settling Trump Suit, With Merger Review on Tap Trump seeking $10 billion in suit over ‘60 Minutes’ Harris interview; FCC signals tough review of Paramount merger with Skydance https://www.wsj.com/business/media/...5?st=FrAtA7&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink link will work for everyone
Washington Post sucking up to Trump The fashion fans who are stoked Melania is back Melania Trump’s clothes had few cheerleaders eight years ago. This time may be different. https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/fashion/2025/01/17/melania-trump-conservative-fashion/
