Political Memes, Comics, and other Shenanigans, Part 50

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And this is the special Colorado version that's only sold in Colorado stores or to Colorado mailing addresses.

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15 hours ago, ADoyle90815 said:

What, no F? 

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That explains a lot

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"Good Riddance, Rupert"

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Rupert Murdoch is stepping down as chairman of his massive media empire, News Corp. Some of the corporation’s properties are The New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Sun (UK), The Times (UK), The Sunday Times (UK), and of course, Fox News. Murdoch has been a stain on journalism in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia where he’s from. It’s unfortunate that when he was a baby, there weren’t any dingos nearby.

Don’t celebrate too soon because Rupert is leaving his son, Lachlan Murdoch, in control of the empire. Lachlan was named in the lawsuits against Fox News by Dominion and Smartmatic, both claiming that it was under Lachlan’s direction that Fox News intentionally gave a platform to guests that Fox News’ hosts knew were making false and defamatory statements, that Dominion and Smartmatic voting machines rigged the election for Biden, and stole the election from Donald Trump.

Rupert Murdoch is not a journalist and never wanted to advance journalism or information. He has used his “news” outlets to promote conservatism and has pushed lies for decades. Fox News has used anger to motivate its viewers. President Obama once said that if he watched Fox News, he would hate him too.

Fox News is the number one “news” network which is a disgusting thing about this nation. Fox News viewers know they’re being lied to. They have to. Yet, they would rather watch this network that’s shouting at them rather than actual news outlets that are informative. Fox News is also the number one “news” outlet for racists.

During a deposition, Rupert agreed with the statement that multiple hosts at Fox News “endorsed at times this false notion of a stolen election.” When Trump started howling that the election was stolen, Murdoch sent an email to Fox News executives stating, “We don’t want to antagonize Trump further.”

When asked about the “antagonize” email in the deposition, Murdoch said that Trump “had a very large following, and they were probably mostly viewers of Fox, so it would have been stupid.” A news outlet piss off a politician? Heavens to Betsy. That’s part of the territory. When you deliver the news, you are always at risk of angering viewers and readers. So in order not to anger his viewers, Rupert allowed his network to lie to them.

Murdoch never saw Fox News as a legitimate news outlet, but rather as an extension of the Republican Party, the Trump Campaign, and the Trump White House (sic). Murdoch helped the Trump Campaign strategize in 2016. While other news outlets would fire a host for coordinating with campaigns and elected officials (Chris Cuomo), Rupert allowed Fox News hosts to be featured speakers at Trump rallies. During the Trump presidency (sic) Sean Hannity had private phone conversations with Trump nearly nightly.

Shortly after the 2020 election and facing two Senate runoffs in Georgia, Rupert said, “Trump will concede eventually and we should concentrate on Georgia, helping any way we can.” It’s not a news outlet’s job to assist political campaigns and “help any way we can.” That’s not a news outlet, that’s propaganda.

Rupert and Fox News settled with Dominion for $787.5 million which makes part of his goodbye statement to Fox News employees truly bizarre.

Rupert, whose personal net worth is over $17 billion, wrote, “Elites have open contempt for those who are not members of their rarefied class,. Most of the media is in cahoots with those elites, peddling political narratives rather than pursuing the truth.”

I guess it wouldn’t be Rupert’s style to go out the door without lying his ass off.

 

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"Making Menendez"

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Republicans have been investigating President Joe Biden and his son Hunter for corruption, even insisting the president is guilty of taking bribes. They’ve conducted House investigations and spread rumors on social media and on goon TV networks. Yesterday, they got what they wanted. An indictment of an elected Democrat for taking bribes. But, it’s not the Democrat they were shooting for.

New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez has been indicted before. He beat the last one with a mistrial in 2017 and said afterward, “To those who were digging my political grave, I know who you are and I won’t forget you.” Apparently, the diggers didn’t forget him either because he and his wife were indicted yesterday for what prosecutors say is a bribery scheme involving foreign power, piles of cash, and gold bars.

Menendez’s first defense is that he’s from New Jersey, a state that’s never been associated with criminal activity. That damn Sopranos show really gave that state a bad reputation. New Jersey is as free of corruption as I am of sarcasm.

Prosecutors said Menendez used his position as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee to provide sensitive government information to Egypt, browbeat the Department of Agriculture, and tamper with a criminal investigation. In exchange, Menendez rewarded him with gold bars, a Mercedes Benz, cash, home mortgage payments, and other benefits. Prosecutors even searched Menendez’s internet history and discovered he once Googled, “How much is one kilo of gold worth?”. Prosecutors say Menendez’s “benefactors” referred to him as “our man.” One potential GOP challenger to Menendez’s seat has already given him the nickname “Gold Bar Bob.” That’s catchy.

Menendez has vowed to clear his name while running for reelection. Unlike Republicans, most of his party is calling for him to resign. Two prominent ones who have not are his fellow New Jersey Senator, Cory Booker, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. Those two need to do the right thing and call for his resignation. Show Republicans how it’s done.

Menendez is innocent until proven guilty, but he should resign. It’s a disservice to his constituents and the nation to have a Senator with this distraction. Menendez should also use this opportunity to show Republicans that resigning amidst these charges is the right thing to do. Staying in office during this very credible case is purely selfish on Menendez’s part. Besides, he doesn’t really need the income anymore. He has all those gold bars to fall back on.

Republicans have refused to call for Trump to end his campaign and he has four indictments with 91 criminal charges. Even Kevin McCarthy can’t muster up the courage or balls to call for criminal imposter George Santos to resign, who has been charged with 13 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, theft of public funds, and making false statements to Congress.

The reason there are criminal charges against Senator Robert Menendez and not for President Joe Biden is because there’s evidence against Menendez and NONE against Biden. Now, if Republicans want to demand that Hunter Biden resign from the zero positions he currently holds, I’m perfectly fine with that.

 

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