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keep_left's JournalYeah, Kasich sucks. Years ago, he used to have a weekend show on Fox...
...From the Heartland (or some other equally idiotic stereotypical title). 
I remember that Kasich had a big dust-up with Mike Malloy that ended with Malloy tearing off his lapel mic, throwing it on the floor, and storming off the set. Kasich looked like an utter fool as the show tried to regroup from that--which took way longer than it should have for a national network. 
Today, Kasich is just a sad case...simply put, the Trump phenomenon has passed those like him by. Those who were the "rational Republicans": country-club types like Romney, spook-agency chiefs like the late GHW Bush, even reactionary neocons like GW Bush and Cheney...today, they seem like politicians from the Civil War era. Which is an apropos metaphor, because it's going to take a civil war within the Republican party--at the very least--to end the domination of US politics by Trumpism.
"You owe me $400 billion"?! "NATO is dead"?! The heads of our three-letter agencies...
...must be having a stroke over Trump's mob-boss rhetoric. The way that Trump personalizes these kinds of things is just totally pathological. He doesn't seem to understand anything about the world, or even anything about business (has any Trump company ever been publicly traded, for example?).
It's really disturbing that perhaps one-third of the electorate finds this behavior acceptable--indeed, something deserving of their enthusiastic votes. The worst part is that at least some of Trump's garbage rhetoric is likely plagiarized from the editorial page of the WSJ and Forbes (and probably even further-right business publications). The topics Trump seems obsessed with (attacking anything that interferes with profits, e.g. any kind of social safety net, particularly in Europe) appear constantly on the pages of those periodicals.
I'm not sure what Trump gains by displaying this kind of ignorance. Maybe he thinks that by aping the know-nothing bombast coming from papers like the Murdoch-owned WSJ that Wall Street will finally respect him. If that's even partly true, it shows how pathetic Trump has become.
Unfortunately...
"Delta buys 100 Boeing Max planes"
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/18/delta-buys-100-max-planes-in-first-big-boeing-order-in-over-a-decade.html
Looks like they're buying 100 of the Max 10, the next 737 Max model to come. Delta also has an option to purchase 30 more. They expect to begin taking delivery from Boeing in 2025.
This was covered in detail today on KTNF (950 AM) in Minneapolis. John Fugelsang was...
...interviewed on the Matt McNeil Show this afternoon and discussed the "Trump savior" phenomenon at length. The program can be downloaded at the link.
https://www.am950radio.com/events/the-matt-mcneil-show/
Well, there *are* some terrific people in media, e.g. Amy Goodman, though...
...the ever-increasing size of the corporate ownership of media companies is problematic, of course. And even Amy Goodman had her struggles with an entirely non-profit structure (Pacifica Foundation), which at certain points in its history was infiltrated by spooks (and the spook-adjacent).
Years ago, I heard a talk given by Robert McChesney, a professor and media critic from UIUC, in which he discussed post-WWII history. After the Allied victory, one of the very first tasks was to break up the media monopolies of the Axis powers; the Allies' reasoning was that media concentration directly aids and abets fascism. McChesney further argued that we need a taste of our own medicine. And indeed, you can easily see how fascism is aided and abetted; simply observe all the screen time given to Trump, MTG, Boebert, etc. The more outrageous they become, the more screen time they get. It serves to normalize truly crazy ideas.
Rufo was also responsible for the earlier manufactured scandal, "wokeness"...
...and "Critical Race Theory" being taught to grade-school children, a completely fraudulent notion. And as seen in the cartoon (art imitates life), Rufo's garbage was spread through the news media largely uncritically. 
She must have pissed off someone powerful. Either that or the vanity-press "publisher" she's using...
...isn't paying the usual rate to all the grifter middlemen in the right-wing book business. Normally, the conservative "think" tanks are more than happy to buy up huge quantities of this crap so that they can give it away at their rubber-chicken fundraisers.
(more at link)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217258644#post11
I'm guessing that it's actually the latter situation. "Winning Team Publishing" = Drumpf Bookz. (See post #17). It looks like the company was created to maximize the grift potential of Trump's ridiculous coffee-table book from a couple of years ago, Our Journey Together (2021).
https://www.amazon.com/Our-Journey-Together-Donald-Trump/dp/173550372X
How much you wanna bet that Trump's not interested in sharing the grift with anyone else?
My favorite saying as a union steward always was...
..."right to work = no rights at work!".
Just great...Nick Fuentes got one of his pathetic "Groyper" incels elected.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Alt-right_glossary#Groyperhttps://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Groyper_Army
About the only useful thing they do is make life hell for fellow right-wing traveler Charlie Kirk. Unfortunately, they do it by being even more extreme.
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