Source: Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
by Ari Paul
“In speeches and public talks, Trump has repeatedly expressed his fondness for retribution. In 2011, he addressed the National Achievers Congress in Sydney, Australia, to explain how he had achieved his success. He noted there were a couple of lessons not taught in business school that successful people must know. At the top of the list was this piece of advice: ‘Get even with people. If they screw you, screw them back 10 times as hard. I really believe it.’ Knowing this about Trump, Democrats and liberals worry that he will use the Department of Justice, especially if Matt Gaetz is confirmed as attorney general, as an unrestrained vehicle to pursue the prosecution of political enemies.” [editor’s note: So blackmailing social media sites (as the Dems essentially did) to get them to censor your opponents is somehow NOT “a war on press freedoms?” – SAT] (11/16/24)
“Ahead of a Chicago City Council vote unanimously rejecting Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposed $300 million property tax hike, local residents addressed the council and the mayor, criticizing Johnson to his face over trying to raise taxes while catering to illegal immigrants. Among these angry locals were several supporters of President-elect Donald Trump, who, while wearing MAGA gear, gloated about how Trump’s victory means Johnson’s liberal policies – particularly those assisting illegal immigrants – will face a reckoning. ‘The feds need to address you! The DOJ needs to address you! And hopefully Donald Trump will address you, because you’re gonna protect the undocumented, while you’re gonna allow for the citizens in Chicago suffer under your, what? Three percent?’ Chicago resident Tyjuan Sims told the mayor on Thursday night.” (11/16/24)
“In the aftermath of its loss on Nov. 5, the left has turned its lonely eyes to Joe Rogan. The irreverent, world-conquering podcaster — 14.5 million Spotify followers and counting — is considered a symbol of Donald Trump’s ability to use unconventional media outlets to reach disaffected voters, especially young males, aka ‘bros.’ Trump’s interview with Rogan has garnered 50 million views on YouTube, while the podcaster endorsed the former president in the final hours of the campaign. With Trump showing extraordinary strength among young men, progressives are wondering how they can get into the Joe Rogan-type game. As a headline in The New York Times put it, ‘Trump’s Win Leaves Democrats Asking: Where Are Our Bro Whisperers?’ … Progressives are correct about the power of Rogan and his cohort of bro podcasters, but they don’t understand how thoroughly anathema their ideology and cultural sensibility are to this kind of programming.” (11/16/24)
“In their final meeting, China’s leader Xi Jinping told U.S. President Joe Biden that ‘China is ready to work with a new administration,’ as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take over. The two leaders gathered Saturday on the sidelines of the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. Biden was expected to urge Xi to dissuade North Korea from further deepening its support for Russia’s war on Ukraine. Biden said that he was proud of the work the nations had achieved since their last meeting, which was last year on the sidelines of the conference held in San Francisco. ‘Over the past four years, China-U.S. relations have experienced ups and downs, but with the two of us at the helm, we have also engaged in fruitful dialogues and cooperation, and generally achieved stability,’ Biden said. It’s the last time they will meet; Biden is leaving office and making way for Trump.” (11/16/24)
“With President-elect Trump headed back to the White House and Republicans in the majority in Congress, Democrats have few options to push back against the GOP agenda. But one enterprising North Carolina lawmaker thinks his minority party should look across the pond to the United Kingdom for the answer to ‘go toe to toe’ with Trump. Rep. Wiley Nickels, D-N.C., has proposed that Democrats create a ‘shadow cabinet’ to organize the opposition and challenge each decision by the government. ‘Across the Atlantic, the British have something we don’t: a team from the opposition that mirrors the government’s cabinet members’ …. Wiley argues in an op-ed for the Washington Post. His proposal is to appoint 26 Democratic leaders in Congress to mirror Trump’s Cabinet-level officials and challenge each initiative of the incoming administration.” (11/16/24)
“In what war criminal and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called ‘history’s greatest comeback,’ sexual predator, game show host and former Wrestlemania idol Donald Trump was re-elected as US President. Netanyahu, ever quick to kiss Trump’s ring, has been scheming toward this very moment since last October when Hamas fighters embarrassed his government by breaking out of Gaza’s prison walls and attacking Israeli military bases. Indeed, Netanyahu’s investment paid off. Trump’s re-election reshuffles the Middle East colonial deck in Netanyahu’s favour, shifting US policy from the Democratic Party’s hypocritical complicity with and denial of Zionist genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity to a shameless embrace and encouragement of these malevolent actions.” (11/16/24)
“San Francisco robotaxi company Cruise’s long saga over its car’s 2023 dragging of a knocked-over pedestrian has finally reached an end, with the company admitting to criminal behavior and agreeing to pay a $500,000 penalty. On Thursday, company President Craig Glidden signed a legal agreement with Martha Boersch, who leads the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California. In the document, Cruise admits to hiding the immediate aftermath of an Oct. 2, 2023, crash — when the company’s robotaxi dragged a pedestrian it had hit after she was knocked over by another car — from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Glidden, in signing the document, barred Cruise from ever again contradicting that narrative of events. Alongside the agreement, Boersch filed a document accusing Cruise of a felony offense, ‘Falsification of Records in Federal Investigation.'” (11/17/24)
“President-elect Donald Trump’s win last week in Pennsylvania was always right in front of you if you were objectively listening to the concerns of the people and the data showing the most important, misread trend of all: The Republican Party had now become the party of work. In interview after interview, waitresses, welders, rank-and-file union members, plumbers, HVAC small-business owners, hairdressers, and barbers would tell national news reporters, including me, that they were voting for Trump. No matter how often these voters said this, it often was dismissed as an outlier. Or it was placed in a silo of race, meaning it was only the white working class. The blindness among reporters and Democrats was they thought it was only white middle-class voters behaving that way, missing that working-class voters of all races were voting shoulder to shoulder.” (11/16/24)
“Thousands of climate justice advocates took to the streets of London on Saturday to demand the U.K. government ‘end its reliance on fossil fuels, commit to paying climate reparations, and end its complicity in the genocide in Gaza’. Organizers said more than 60 groups — including Extinction Rebellion, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, Amnesty International U.K., Palestine Solidarity Campaign, War on Want, and Just Stop Oil — took part in the March for Global Climate Justice. The demonstration took place amid yet another shambolic United Nations Climate Change Conference and as Israeli forces continue a war on Gaza that U.N. experts this week called ‘consistent with the characteristics of genocide.’ More than two dozen associated protests were held in cities and towns across Britain and Ireland, including Dublin, Edinburgh, Manchester, and Sheffield.” (11/16/24)
“Volcanoes were erupting on the mysterious far side of the moon billions of years ago just like on the side that we can see, new research confirms. Researchers analyzed lunar soil brought back by China’s Chang’e-6, the first spacecraft to return with a haul of rocks and dirt from the little-explored far side. Two separate teams found fragments of volcanic rock that were about 2.8 billion years old. One piece was even more ancient, dating back to 4.2 billion years. ‘To obtain a sample from this area is really important because it’s an area that otherwise we have no data for,’ said Christopher Hamilton, a planetary volcano expert at the University of Arizona who was not involved with the research.” (11/17/24)
