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This was the metastasizing agent leading to the complete capture of the government by the deep state.

I guess that's why Barry's Nobel Prize was already in the bag before he was even inaugurated . . .

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/my-valentine-friday-february-14-2025

The Atlantic’s piece desperately clung to its rapidly shrinking purpose as the elite gatekeeper. “Kennedy holds broadly appealing views on combatting corruption and helping Americans overcome chronic disease,” the Atlantic allowed, admitting Kennedy’s undeniable grassroots support. “But,” they sneeringly continued, “he is also, to an almost cartoonish degree, not impeccably credentialed.”

Haha! Good one! Not impeccably credentialed! To a cartoonish degree! I wonder how long the tortured writers struggled to find the best words to describe their seething hostility without completely lampooning themselves as reeking caricatures of overfed academia. Only four years ago, corporate media clapped like trained seals about the confirmation of another lawyer —a lawyer with no public health background— named Xavier Becerra.

https://babylonbee.com/news/impatient-liberal-journalist-starting-to-suspect-trump-will-never-send-her-to-a-concentration-camp

https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/is-americas-witch-hunt-for-racism

America’s unhinged obsession with racism since 2010 reminds me of an eyewitness account of the infamous Witch Trials in Trier, Germany in the 1580s

"In as much as it was popularly believed that the continued sterility of many years was caused by witches through the malice of the Devil, the whole country rose to exterminate the witches. This movement was promoted by many in office, who hoped for wealth from the persecution. And so, from court to court throughout the towns and villages of all the diocese, scurried special accusers, inquisitors, notaries, jurors, judges, constables, dragging to trial and torture human beings of both sexes and burning them in great numbers."

As the economist Thomas Sowell has often pointed out over the years, the chief beneficiaries of America’s witch hunt for racism have been the self-anointed leaders of the black community who have promised to expunge racism from our society.

https://nitter.poast.org/BreannaMorello/status/1895133929117520291#m

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/trust-me-thursday-february-27-2025

Sad! They say that when you find yourself in a hole, you should stop digging. Media is not only still digging, it’s maniacally driving one of Elon Musk’s robotic tunnel-boring machines— straight down. YouGov ran a survey story this week with bad news for corporate media. The poll’s headline said, “More Americans trust the Trump administration than trust the media for fair, full, and accurate facts.” Ruh-roh.




... Trump’s trust rating with independents and Republicans has steadily increased since the election. A similar poll in mid-November showed Trump about even with the media in reported trust. Since then, trust in Trump has surged, and trust in media has slid. Their Trump Derangement Syndrome, having finally gone dormant during the stupifying Biden era, has now come raging back, with sores and pus and who knows what else.

The shift is especially delicious because it’s happening despite non-stop, wall-to-wall negative Trump coverage.

The entire modern media-industrial complex is built on the assumption that media controls the narrative. If a majority of Americans trust Trump more than the media itself, that’s an apocalyptic development for the Fourth Estate. The media’s TDS is repulsive and obvious, and their polling proves it.

Patrick says

Nonsense. The 37% on wages for a single filer does not kick in until over $600k, and even then, only that potion of wages over that $600k. Hardly an impoverished dude. Also, that 20% is only for long term capital gains. Cash in stocks in less than a year and it is taxed the same as wages.

HeadSet says

Nonsense. The 37% on wages for a single filer does not kick in until over $600k, and even then, only that potion of wages over that $600k. Hardly an impoverished dude. Also, that 20% is only for long term capital gains. Cash in stocks in less than a year and it is taxed the same as wages.

From a self-employed standpoint, you gotta factor in that 12.4% social security tax. That makes that effective 37% tax rate middle class.

Misc says

From a self-employed standpoint, you gotta factor in that 12.4% social security tax. That makes that effective 37% tax rate middle class.

If you want to include extraneous items keep in mind that SS tax tops out at about $168k. Also, self-employed can pay a low wage to themselves and take dividends from their S corp and have the company own their vehicle, and so on. Plus, unlike the income tax, SS is something you collect on later, the more you pay in the more you collect (mostly).

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/political-alchemy-saturday-march

To set the stage, so to speak, consider this Reuters headline from a little over four years ago, which ran one week after Biden’s inauguration:

Fact check: Debunking claims that
Biden's Oval Office is a fake movie set
By Reuters
January 26, 2021

Having established corporate media’s position on the matter, now let’s take a look at the video uploaded this week by Trump’s personal attorney Alina Habba:

https://x.com/AlinaHabba/status/1899502744236335266



Alina turned the camera around the green-screened studio and revealed Biden’s giant teleprompter. In contrast to President Trump, who is busily wearing out reporters daily with all his unscripted remarks and open-ended pressers, Joe Biden occasionally showed up in an Eisenhower building studio, where he read off short scripts that were undoubtedly written for him by someone else.

And, lest you feel tempted to forgive Reuters’ diligent ‘fact-checkers,’ remember that the media participated in propagating this unreal fakery— because it was right there, filming the so-called president. The years of unreality.

https://x.com/amuse/status/1906339939756704153

Democrats are completely unaware that they’re being filmed when they attack Teslas because the drive-by media isn’t covering the attacks.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/liberated-wednesday-april-2-2025

Maybe it’s just me. But it sure seems like the corporate media universe glitched early this morning, when the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post ran eerily nearly identical headlines about the disappointing Wisconsin election results:

Odd that Wisconsin Supreme Court election is a "Rebuke to Trump" when that same Wisconsin just referendumed for Voter ID and Trump won those 2 Florida seats in the special election.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/vigilant-saturday-april-5-2025-c

The New York Times tried to pull a fast one yesterday, but we won’t let them get away with it this time. It began with a very strange and often revolting feature story headlined, “Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral.” Unsurprisingly, the Times framed the story as almost sympathetic to the “victims” — meaning the men caught by independent sting groups for soliciting underage boys and girls for sex.

Vigilantism! Most bizarre, the story was in the Times’ long format, magazine-style, multimedia-dazzling articles. The Gray Lady invested a metric ton of column inches, technology effects, and rhetorical effort into portraying predator-catching groups as grifters, click-baiters, conmen, and violent criminals.

It spent no effort condemning the predators themselves. Instead, it thematically hinted —without saying so— that they, the predators, were the real victims here.

“In the past two years, a growing number of pedophile hunters have gone a step further and violently attacked the targets in their videos,” the Times complained. Some of “the footage shows hunters chasing their targets through retail stores, beating people bloody on public streets, and shaving the heads of their targets.” Citing only a single example, the paper generalized, “In the most extreme cases, people have been hospitalized with serious injuries.”

Awkwardly, no predator hunters have been convicted for assault or battery. This is partly because pedophiles usually eschew pressing charges, which the Times satanically characterized as a kind of legal disability that the sting operators exploit to take advantage.

But one particular sentence, pregnant with patent meaning far beyond its words, betrayed the awful reality of the situation and the Times’ co-conspiring culpability: “The Times reached out to more than two dozen people targeted by violent pedophile hunters,” the paper reported, “but none were willing to speak on the record.”

Lol, good. Pedophiles should be afraid.

Patrick says

Yes, and his defense fund now has over $150k in donations.

https://x.com/redsteeze/status/1911651476507959536

People sometimes ask me why call it "the cool kids table" of media and I can't think of a single recent example better than this.

A person fired for lying to her editors at Washington Post (amongst other things) and a CNN dude trying to fit in while ignoring her assassination fantasies.

O'Sullivan isn't interested in journalism or extremism. All he wants to do is fit in. And getting on camera with Taylor Lorenz and giggling along with her like a Bumble date over commies murdering people in public is how he does it.

All he wants is to belong.

I imagine that Mockingbird MSM have extensive feedback loops to assess the effectiveness of their propaganda and/or distraction value. It is diminishing by the day, but they still have their agog information cannon fodders that they cater to.

I don't waste my time reviewing the deception they serve out, but it is evident indirectly from the people we sometimes interact with. The teacher's union types are hundred percent brainwashed as to not caring what the truth is as long as they believe the lies serve their interests somehow aka factional selective consciousness.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/the-accountant-monday-may-5-2025

Behold, right on cue, the latest example of media inversion. Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal story transformed record-breaking good stock market news into financial doom with a headline Eeyore would have loved: “Stock Market Today: Trump Vows Tariffs on Movies Made Abroad; Dow Futures Slip.” But the sub-headline flipped the script, revealing the truth that, “The S&P 500 rose for nine straight sessions through Friday, the longest winning streak in more than two decades.” ...

The good news in the sub-headline, that the market just set a 20-year record for daily increases, was completely absent from the story. Not only should that singular fact have made up most of the story’s contents, but the article’s headline should have been, “Markets on Historic Run as Trump Expands Tariff Strategy.”

The Journal hates tariffs and the president who made them.

Appropos, here is a clip of President Trump on Air Force One this weekend, scolding the WSJ’s reporter that he works for a “rotten newspaper.” The President said it twice, slower the second time, to make sure the reporter got the message.

The President asked, “Who are you with?” When the reporter answered, Trump sorrowfully said, “the Wall Street Journal has truly gone to hell. It is a rotten newspaper. Did you hear what I said? It's a rotten newspaper.”

Well? He’s not wrong.