No, because the vast majority of FOX aficionados do not seek out supplemental sources. Even though it certainly is clear you only seek out this Substack to search for anything to disparage, it is good you read sources that disagree with your mindset.
"How does it make any sense that we've turned our country over to people who don't really have a direct stake in it?” (JD Vance)
This statement, made by Vance when he was a candidate for the Ohio Senate seat just a few years back, is also an example of camouflage. It’s a dogwhistle for those who wish to disenfranchise some groups of people, a veiled attack of immigration, and a subtle (maybe not so subtle) attempt to “other” a political opponent, hidden behind the cloak of populist-driven "patriotism."
This is one of many examples from the Trump/Vance campaign we'll see in the coming weeks. See if you can spot them.
Stefanik only does and says what she thinks is helpful to her own agenda. It would not be expedient for her to refute anything that Vance or any other MAGA Republican spews. What she truly believes has nothing to do with her political aspirations.
As we know money is speech. I think that wisdom was carved in rock in Linear A script by a Minoan sage and passed down through succeeding generations to be recorded in the Book of John in the story about Jesus asking the Greek Apostle Philip “Dude! Observe the approaching multitude, where are we gonna buy bread to feed them?” Philip retorted “money is speech. When they tithe to hear your ministry you will use your miracle of compound interest and call DoorDash to deliver bread.” (Thus establishing the meaning of bread as money)
Elon Musk, who doesn’t even love this country and instead is only using government contracts to raise money to move to Mars - where he belongs, pledged $45 million a month to Trump. That is a lot of speech! It took something like 400,000 voters to equal that in donations to VP Harris in the first 12 hours after declaring her candidacy.
That is why SCOTUS affirmed that money is speech because it is impossible otherwise for wealthy overlords to subvert the machinery of democracy with a Biblical flood of lucre.
Still, the value of a first time ever donation is not in the amount, it is in the act of showing solidarity. Send just 10 bucks, that will almost cover the expense of all the letters the campaign will mail you from now until Election Day.
Better yet, save them some money on postage by not donating at all. Just vote!
I’ve seen that Musk is having second thoughts about the $45 million a month now that he and Peter Thiel got their man installed a cholesterol clogged heartbeat away from the presidency. I know voters on the right have historically been down on elites. Maybe they should look at the tech broligarchy that practically built JD Vance in a lab. There’s a guy named Curtis Yarvin that Vance seems to get much of his world view from. Yarvin is calling for a techno-monarchy, CEO or dictator for the country.
I hope for the sake of Vance and his family the tech bros are going to pay for their security in case of a loss. You know Trump isn’t responsible for losing. Gotta be JD’s fault then. I wouldn’t want to be the one that cost the Orange Godking his return to the throne.
Every now and then I wonder how the MAGA Trump fluffers in Congress would’ve written it off if Mike Pence had been killed on January 6. Obviously the assaults on police didn’t bother them. I’m sure Nancy Pelosi or another Democrat would’ve been easily excused.
When I think about which campaigns to donate to, I realize that my small donations make much more difference to local campaigns than they would to large national campaigns. Also, early money makes more difference than money given late in the campaign.
I'm happy to give to voteriders.org. I was won over when I realized that sometimes a "voter ID" is a state-issued ID that also allows people to access health services, get a job, and many other things.
For some people, dealing with bureaucracy is just too, too much. Voteriders helps with that.
It's not fair to conclude that Stefanik would repudiate Vance for his ridiculous, outrageous comments. Her track record tells otherwise. The fact that she mindlessly and repeatedly defends Donald Trump's statements and actions suggests that, sadly, she lost her moral compass long ago.
I wouldn’t use “not running a police blotter” as evidence of a bad paper. Most arrests end up in plea bargains or exonerations, and police departments usually post their blotters directly online. Who needs a printed weekly paper for that nowadays?
OH my......from that wonderful description of journalism.....and then to the pictures....of tiny, tiny things! It's so impressive that you, Will, with all that you are encompassing...are still managing to pay attention to both the large...and the very, very small....reminding us all to pay more attention to living in the present. It's far too easy between TV and phones to get distracted from life.
Yes.
No, because the vast majority of FOX aficionados do not seek out supplemental sources. Even though it certainly is clear you only seek out this Substack to search for anything to disparage, it is good you read sources that disagree with your mindset.
It’s kinda, sorta ok for journalists to “take themselves too seriously” when they are doing serious work. Alas, so many are not these days.
“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations.” - George Orwell
Great quote.
It took me a while to find he frogs, great photos.
"How does it make any sense that we've turned our country over to people who don't really have a direct stake in it?” (JD Vance)
This statement, made by Vance when he was a candidate for the Ohio Senate seat just a few years back, is also an example of camouflage. It’s a dogwhistle for those who wish to disenfranchise some groups of people, a veiled attack of immigration, and a subtle (maybe not so subtle) attempt to “other” a political opponent, hidden behind the cloak of populist-driven "patriotism."
This is one of many examples from the Trump/Vance campaign we'll see in the coming weeks. See if you can spot them.
Well stated!
I forgot to mention that I love your sense of humor in your nature exhibit. That group of Homo sapiens strolling ARE curiously similarly "feathered".
Stefanik only does and says what she thinks is helpful to her own agenda. It would not be expedient for her to refute anything that Vance or any other MAGA Republican spews. What she truly believes has nothing to do with her political aspirations.
Truth.
Sounds like he's shrinking his community instead of expanding it. That's not fair to the community.
As we know money is speech. I think that wisdom was carved in rock in Linear A script by a Minoan sage and passed down through succeeding generations to be recorded in the Book of John in the story about Jesus asking the Greek Apostle Philip “Dude! Observe the approaching multitude, where are we gonna buy bread to feed them?” Philip retorted “money is speech. When they tithe to hear your ministry you will use your miracle of compound interest and call DoorDash to deliver bread.” (Thus establishing the meaning of bread as money)
Elon Musk, who doesn’t even love this country and instead is only using government contracts to raise money to move to Mars - where he belongs, pledged $45 million a month to Trump. That is a lot of speech! It took something like 400,000 voters to equal that in donations to VP Harris in the first 12 hours after declaring her candidacy.
That is why SCOTUS affirmed that money is speech because it is impossible otherwise for wealthy overlords to subvert the machinery of democracy with a Biblical flood of lucre.
Still, the value of a first time ever donation is not in the amount, it is in the act of showing solidarity. Send just 10 bucks, that will almost cover the expense of all the letters the campaign will mail you from now until Election Day.
Better yet, save them some money on postage by not donating at all. Just vote!
I’ve seen that Musk is having second thoughts about the $45 million a month now that he and Peter Thiel got their man installed a cholesterol clogged heartbeat away from the presidency. I know voters on the right have historically been down on elites. Maybe they should look at the tech broligarchy that practically built JD Vance in a lab. There’s a guy named Curtis Yarvin that Vance seems to get much of his world view from. Yarvin is calling for a techno-monarchy, CEO or dictator for the country.
I hope for the sake of Vance and his family the tech bros are going to pay for their security in case of a loss. You know Trump isn’t responsible for losing. Gotta be JD’s fault then. I wouldn’t want to be the one that cost the Orange Godking his return to the throne.
Every now and then I wonder how the MAGA Trump fluffers in Congress would’ve written it off if Mike Pence had been killed on January 6. Obviously the assaults on police didn’t bother them. I’m sure Nancy Pelosi or another Democrat would’ve been easily excused.
Great to see you at work here! Hope to catch up with you soon.
When I think about which campaigns to donate to, I realize that my small donations make much more difference to local campaigns than they would to large national campaigns. Also, early money makes more difference than money given late in the campaign.
I'm happy to give to voteriders.org. I was won over when I realized that sometimes a "voter ID" is a state-issued ID that also allows people to access health services, get a job, and many other things.
For some people, dealing with bureaucracy is just too, too much. Voteriders helps with that.
It's not fair to conclude that Stefanik would repudiate Vance for his ridiculous, outrageous comments. Her track record tells otherwise. The fact that she mindlessly and repeatedly defends Donald Trump's statements and actions suggests that, sadly, she lost her moral compass long ago.
...[serious question] -did she have one to lose?...
I wouldn’t use “not running a police blotter” as evidence of a bad paper. Most arrests end up in plea bargains or exonerations, and police departments usually post their blotters directly online. Who needs a printed weekly paper for that nowadays?
OH my......from that wonderful description of journalism.....and then to the pictures....of tiny, tiny things! It's so impressive that you, Will, with all that you are encompassing...are still managing to pay attention to both the large...and the very, very small....reminding us all to pay more attention to living in the present. It's far too easy between TV and phones to get distracted from life.
Could this not be said of the post star nowadays that we aren’t getting a lot of local articles about what’s going on in our own town?
We should expect nothing more than complete hypocrisy from Stefanik.
Good article. It must have been hard to criticize the newspaper because newspapers are so important.