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senseandsensibility's JournalI am watching Steve Kornacki cover the VA race on the nbc website
So far (fingers crossed) it looks good for "yes". The no vote is not hitting its benchmarks according to Steve. Results are coming in fast and furious, and it sounds like we'll have a decision soon.
Tormented Tucker
Tucker Carlson: "We'll be tormented by it for a long time": Tucker Carlson apologizes for supporting Trump amid split over Iran War, according to CNN.
The Dem guest says that she does not take this apology at face value (wise lady), but is glad that this may be causing rifts in the maga world. I agree with that.
In the meantime, any words of consolation for poor, tormented Tucker?
Breaking: Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigns amid House Ethics Probe
So that leaves Cory Mills.
Elizbeth Warren's questioning of Fed nominee Warsh took my breath away
Talk about truth to power. When she finished, (and the nicest thing she had to say about him was he was trump's sock puppet), republican Tim Scott was speechless and the rest of the Rs were audibly gasping.
I'm not much of an economist, but two things he said were disqualifying in my book. He would not agree that trump lost the election against Biden. He could not name one thing he disagreed with trump about. He did try to answer that question with some non-funny R humor though. He said that he disagreed with trump's assessment that he (Warsh) was out of "central casting" for a Fed chair. He said that if he was, he would have more gray hair and be smoking a cigar. I guess kind of a "humble brag" way of saying that he is too young and good looking to be a stereotypical Fed char.
He also said that trump NEVER asked him to commit to lowering rates although it has been reported that trump did ask him.
Warning from Hakeem Jeffries about the VA vote tomorrow on redistricting!
Jeffries: "Republicans have spent tens of millions trying to convince the people of Virginia that President Obama and Gov. Spanberger are urging a no vote. That's a stone-cold lie. The no vote position is Donald Trump's position, as is being evidenced tonight. He's been trying to hide it."
Typical R dirty tricks. I hope the voters aren't misled by this nonsense and I'm glad Jeffries is calling attention to it.
Of all the things I worry about when it comes to this war
how trump is grappling with his own fears about it would be dead last. I literally do not give a flying eff.
And yet, this is the WSJ headline displayed and discussed on CNN now: Trump Grappling With His Own Fears About Iran War
The WSJ sets a narrative with these headlines and the rest of the corporate media blindly follows. That means it's all about trump everywhere all the time. I want out of this reality show. 
Okay, that was a pretty good line for a republican
On MSNBC this morning "Republican analyst" Matthew Bartlett said that today's R party is not so much telling voters to "eat cake" as telling them "to watch us eat cake".
He also called trump not the commander in chief but the "decorator in chief". He is predicting dire results in the midterms for his party.
We are being gaslit. Remember this from two days ago?
Trump: Iran has agreed to never close the strait of Hormuz again. It will no longer be used as a weapon against the World! President DONALD J. TRUMP
Two days ago might as well be two years ago in this cycle of insanity that we are being sucked into. But imagine if the corporate media called him on this. Held him accountable. Demanded answers. Did not let up and supported each other by following up on each other's questions instead of allowing themselves to be pitted against each other.
Seriously, this has already happened many times. How many more times will he declare victory with nothing to back it up, be proven wrong, and then make the same claim without being held accountable?
If nothing else, aren't people getting bored? It's not even good reality TV anymore.
Trump held a "big" press conference this morning where he took no questions about Iran
Amid the news that Iran is closing the strait again and not agreeing to relinquishing their uranium contrary to trump's announcements yesterday, it would seem that some questions were in order. But after talking about psychedelics with Joe Rogan standing behind him, and bragging because he signed his own name, he left without taking questions.
And in case you think that the signature thing is a joke, he got all of his minions to clap for him because he signed it so masterfully and then said that Joe Biden couldn't do that.
Then he left without taking questions about the war.
This breakdown on covering trump is precisely what the corporate media pretends not to understand
As he wrote today on bluesky: You always have to pay attention to what is actually happening, not what Trump says is happening. Because Trump lies about everything. Too often media serves as Trump's daily stenographer, passing along his propaganda verbatim.
So simple. Yet the corporate media still regurgitates his every utterance without calling him on the constant lies, contradictions, fantasies, and downright incomprehensible statements. Just reports it verbatim. Then when it turns out to be baseless, they breathlessly wait for his next pronouncement so that they can "report" that. And on and on.
Until they understand that, to paraphrase Stuart Stevens, it is all a lie the cycle will continue.
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