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Today’s mish-mashed media morass of news and entertainment (there’s a difference?) favors the defrocked president. Throw so much out there many times a day that it’s hard for the pros, let alone the proles, to focus on any one thing.
So T-Rump can focus all at will.
Detectives look for motive when they investigate crimes. Commissar
T-Rump is currently destroying any legislation to address the chaos at the southern border — and simultaneously kill funding for Ukraine. Who does that serve?
His boss, Czar RasPutin the Impatient Impaler.
When the wannabe Soviet Union Part Deux massed tanks and troops at the Ukrainian border in 2022, Commissar T-Rump rejoiced, calling RasPutin “a genius” who was about to get “all that land.”
Life is just one big real estate scam to the abused son of Old Man Fred. (More on that later.)
Sure, fearful western democracies have spent and will expend lots of money supporting the Ukrainian people against Russia’s invasion. But no matter who buys the weapons, most of the western arsenal is manufactured in gun happy USA.
So tearing out a major chunk of US Ukraine funding allows Czar RasPutin to do what he’s already starting to do: take back the real estate Ukraine has reclaimed from the 2014 Russian invasion and push opposing forces westward toward NATO.
All thanks to that groupie of dictators who considers himself president in absentia.
MAGA moonhowlers have co-opted racist Patrick Buchanan’s schtick from his two very lucrative presidential campaigns of bygone years.
Buchanan trashed immigrants as “those people invading my country!” He didn’t get far against the Bush dynasty, but he made a ton of money, even hiring his sister to run his organization for a hugely inflated salary. (Bay Buchanan is currently pimping gold coins on late night TV infomercials.)
No less than the pope of American conservatism, National Review Magazine founder and longtime PBS “Firing Line” host William F. Buckley, Jr., concluded after exhaustive research that he could “no longer defend”
Patrick Buchanan against charges of racism.
No less than legendary German Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck once made an envious remark about the fortunate geography of the United States “surrounded on three sides by fish.”
Alas and alack, trashing “the other” always works for crypto fascists.
Just a few years ago, Republicans would jump all over anyone, especially a dirty pinko redistributionist Democrat, for doing anything (real or imagined) to help them there godless Commie Russkies. No more.
To steal a Yogi-ism, if Tailgunner Joe McCarthy, R-Wisc., was alive, he’d be turning over in his grave.
FROM THE DEN OF INIQUITY, MORE INEQUITY: Thanks to Gov. Ron DeSatanist appointees, Florida’s state university system has wiped out sociology classes. Apparently students can sign up, but the courses won’t count toward graduation.
Sociology classes will be replaced by a “factual history course.”
Fake news, institutionalized, eh wot?
CAN JON STEWART SUE? Commissar Donaldov is a master at stealing other people’s potshots and taking them for his own.
In his first incarnation on “The Daily Show” which he ended after 16 years in 2015, Jon Stewart proudly called the program an exercise in “fake news.”
T-Rump apparently liked the term so much he scammed it to tar any media coverage he didn’t like. Which is always a lot. Every hour of every day.
Stewart will shortly return to his erstwhile Comedy Central home one night a week thru the end of this year. He will soon find he needs more than 22 minutes every seven days.
WHICH IS ONE REASON WHY the Barbwire llve call-in news/talk/rock show will return soon. Stay tuned.
FAKE NEWS, PART DEUX. The media mogul who owns the Reno NBC and FOX TV affiliates just bought the legendary Baltimore Sun newspaper, once home to the greatest columnist of them all, H.L. Mencken. The Barbwire has long been the sole local critic of Channels 4 and 11 interlarding moonhowler propaganda with their news programming.
It’s not the fault of their very worthy journalists. But when Sinclair Broadcast Group sends out an order that all news departments use a certain piece of spin, all must comply.
Many Baltimore Sun reporters have already left for a startup publication. Nevada Press Assn. Hall of Fame columnist John L. Smith quit the Las Vegas Review-Journal after owner Sheldon Adelson pushed him to print biased info. The late Gomorrah South casino mogul was T-Rump’s largest campaign donor. His widow just bought the Dallas Mavericks NBA team.
Sinclair boss David T. Smith’s partner in the Maryland deal is Armstrong Williams, who lost most of his personal media empire (TV and print) after it was revealed that he was on the take under the table from the George W. Bush White House to use their propaganda.
POETIC JUSTICE DEPT. Writer E. Jean Carroll has beaten her sexual abuser T-Rump in court twice. He will, of course, appeal in aeternam.
Ms. Carroll now has court judgments of $88.3 million against the Commissar. I don’t know New York law, but to appeal a civil judgment in Nevada, the losing side has to post a bond to guarantee payment if the appeal fails. Bonds are obtained from insurance companies, usually for a 10 percent fee. So Trump may have to come with almost $9 million cash — IF he can find any insurance company dumb enough to do business with him.
Ms. Carroll can also file liens against all T-Rump properties in New York. The Commissar has made a fat living for decades flipping real estate to avoid paying income tax on his profits. The liens could stop all his company transactions unless he pays up.
His trial on civil fraud is due to get underway soon. It could cause his outfit to lose all its New York business licenses.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer more honorable guy. But that’s just fake news, right?
Vaxx up, stay safe, pray for Ukraine and almost 100 other currently war-torn lands.
Be well. Raise hell. / Esté bien. Haga infierno.
Andrew Quarantino Barbáno is a 55-year Nevadan and editor of
NevadaLabor.com/ Barbwire by Barbano has originated in the Tribune since 1988. E-mail barbano@frontpage.reno.nv.us Links with this column at NevadaLabor.com/
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