Money, making money. Nothing else even comes close.
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Not true. Murdoch has shown willingness to subsidise mastheads for decades, making a massive financial loss, so long as they have influence. (The Australian is one notable such. Thereâs no indication that it has ever made a profit: its purpose is to be the Very Serious Newspaper in the Newscorp stable, as opposed to the populist rags like The Daily Telegraph, The Herald-Sun or The Advertiser.)
Donât get me wrong, he likes to make money. But itâs not the only consideration. He has shown himself willing to take a substantial loss if it means he gets to own the agenda.
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Iâd argue that heâs still an old-school bizdude, and looks way beyond the next quarter. For him, a few money-losing arms, in pursuit of a place where he can make far more money is a solid investment. Murdochâs problem is he thought heâd have the market all sewn up, but ânewsâ orgs fully in service of the technofasc are colonizing that territory quickly.
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ETA
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Welp. One less subscription. Now I need to get a dvd player and start collecting seasons of Star Trek, I guess.
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Idiocracy incarnate.
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So, they donât let you in, start creating his press conferences yourself, âhe praised Hitler for half an hour, said how much he missed having his daughter and her juicy ****** around the white house this time, then said his next OE would be to pardon all the pedophiles in Federal prisonââŚ
He isnât interested in the truth, donât waste your time trying to publish it.
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Where are all the dipshits screeching about how we donât have a democracy, but a republic now? Oh, right, itâs all the dipshits who voted for thisâŚ
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The Gulf of Fragile Masculinty and White Oblivion
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Thursdayâs opinion by The New York Timesâ editorial board offers a pathetic example. It concedes that Trump and his top associates âare stress-testing the Constitution, and the nation, to a degree not seen since the Civil Warâ but then asks: âAre we in a constitutional crisis yet?â and answers that what Trump is doing âshould be taken as a flashing warning sign.â
Warning sign?
Elon Muskâs meddling into the machinery of government is a part of the coup. Musk and his muskrats have no legal right to break into the federal payments system or any of the other sensitive data systems theyâre invading, for which they continue to gather computer code.
This data is the lifeblood of our government. It is used to pay Social Security and Medicare. It measures inflation and jobs. Americans have entrusted our private information to professional civil servants who are bound by law to use it only for the purposes to which it is intended. In the wrong hands, without legal authority, it could be used to control or mislead Americans.
By failing to use the term âcoup,â the media have also underplayed the Trump-Vance-Musk regimeâs freeze on practically all federal funding â suggesting this is a normal part of the pull-and-tug of politics. It is not. Congress has the sole authority to appropriate money. The freeze is illegal and unconstitutional.
By not calling it a coup, the media have also permitted Americans to view the regimeâs refusal to follow the orders of the federal courts as a political response, albeit an extreme one, to judicial rulings that are at odds with what a president wants.
There is nothing about the regimeâs refusal to be bound by the courts that places it within the boundaries of acceptable politics. Our system of government gives the federal judiciary final say about whether actions of the executive are legal and constitutional. Refusal to be bound by federal court rulings shows how rogue this regime truly is.
Earlier this week, a federal judge excoriated the regime for failing to comply with âthe plain textâ of an edict the judge issued last month to release billions of dollars in federal grants. Vice President JD Vance, presumably in response, declared that âjudges arenât allowed to control the executiveâs legitimate power.â
Vance graduated from the same law school I did. He knows heâs speaking out of his derriere.
In sum, the regimeâs disregard for laws and constitutional provisions surrounding access to private data, impoundment of funds appropriated by Congress, and refusal to be bound by judicial orders amount to a takeover of our democracy by a handful of men who have no legal authority to do so.
If this is not a coup dâetat, I donât know what is.
The mainstream media must call this what it is. In doing so, they would not be âtaking sidesâ in a political dispute. They would be accurately describing the dire emergency America now faces.
Unless Americans see it and understand the whole of it for what it is rather than piecemeal stories that âflood the zone,â Americans cannot possibly respond to the whole of it. The regime is undertaking so many outrageous initiatives that the big picture cannot be seen without it being described clearly and simply.
Unless Americans understand that this is indeed a coup thatâs wildly illegal and fundamentally unconstitutional â not just because that happens to be the opinion of constitutional scholars or professors of law, or the views of Trumpâs political opponents, but because it is objectively and in reality a coup â Americans cannot rise up as the clear majority we are, and demand that democracy be restored.
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âAre we in a constitutional crisis yet?â and answers that what Trump is doing âshould be taken as a flashing warning sign.â
Something Iâve noticed is that the media always treats these crises as impending rather than actual. Twenty thousand people were just starved to death? Thatâs terrible, it means we might be on the verge of a humanitarian disaster! Florida fell into the ocean? Geez, it looks like climate change might become a real problem soon! Trump declared himself dictator-for-life? This raises real questions about the state of democracy in America!
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^^THIS^^
I was disgusted by Jon Stewartâs reason for doing this (as were many commenters on this video):
On the plus side, I discovered many ânewsâ stories on FB are blocked in 
, by law. That proves it is possible, and I hope many more countries follow their lead on this.
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âAnd then they came for me, and I was like, good thing I saved all these fascism bullets instead of trying to protect their first targets!â I donât remember him being such a priveleged dick about that when it was Bush II flushing rights down the drain, or I doubt he would have made any name for himself in the first place.
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