Pathways, which has drawn anemic enrollment ahead of its scheduled expiration next year, is the subject of an intense legal and philosophical battle over the future of Medicaid, a joint federal-state program that accounts for roughly 10 percent of the federal budget and covers around 75 million Americans, most of them lower income.
Michael Brooks Show: Deep Cynicism: everyone’s lying
In an interview he did with Michael Brooks, Ken Klippenstein said:
They wouldn’t really care that Trump is lying and that he’s saying these patently ridiculous things.
Nancy Pelosi suggests Joe Biden deserves to be on Mount Rushmore
When Leslie Stahl interviewed Nancy Pelosi, Pelosi suggested Biden belongs up the on Mount Rushmore:
In Joe Biden and did you think he needed to step aside no my whole point was whatever he decides but we have to have a more aggressive campaign she mentioned his many accomplishments including his forceful leadership of the NATO Summit with other Western heads of state so he was in a good place to make whatever decision top of his game such a consequential president of the United States a Mount Rushmore kind of President of the United States want know what comes next that he belongs up there on Mount Rushmore Lincoln and Joe Biden but you got Teddy Roosevelt up there and he’s wonderful I don’t say take him down but you can add Biden
John Stewart’s “Daily Show” had to ask Corporate Sponsors for permission to make fun of them
I was surprised that Jon Stewart’s “Daily Show” had a staff person call show sponsors to ask permission to make fun of them:
There was a certain person who was in charge of if the show wanted to make fun of a corporate sponsor or someone under the umbrella of one of the corporate sponsors, this person who worked for the Daily Show would call that company and try to convince them it’s cool to be made fun of. It’s okay to be made fun of on the Daily Show. The clear implication was if that company says no, it’s not getting on there. So imagine the level of corporations that are somehow tied to Viacom, Comcast, all of those, every entity. If they don’t want to be made fun of on the Daily Show, then they’re not going to be. Well, then the Daily Show can’t critique half of what owns this country.
Donald Trump Warns of a “Bloodbath!”
Today, a lot of the media carried a quote in which Donald Trump says: if I don’t get elected it’s going to be a blood bath
. Television is seldom able to present the whole context of a quote, given space limitations. This could be an advantage for Substack writers because CiteIt enables interested readers to have the option of pursuing a quote’s context without commandeering the attention of all viewers.
CiteIt becomes like an advanced form of footnotes that works across:
- text,
- audio, and
- video.
Ken Klippenstein: White House Falsely Declared it Warned Iraq of Impending Airstrikes
In the speech, Biden decried chaos
and declared that order must prevail
. He repeatedly condemned threats of violence, again failing to address the substantive demands of the protesters, reducing the problem to antisemitism and threats to ‘national security.’
Ocsar winner “Refutes his Jewishness”!
Isn’t it outrageous that this year at the 2024 Oscars, an Oscar winner Jonathan Glazer went on stage and said: Right now we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness
. What a disgraceful thing to say!
No, the director of Zone of Interest did not disavow his Jewish identity at the Oscars (Vox)
New York Times: “institutional lack of skepticism”
Judith Miller says the New York Times found that the paper had lacked skepticism
, but they did not interview any of the editors or name specific reporters as responsible.
Miller disagrees that there was insufficient skepticism, but that we were accurately conveying wrong information
.
The Princess Bride – “Get used to Disappointment”
Wesley tells Inigo: Get used to disappointment
Kissinger’s plan to solve trade deficit Germany and Japan using Petrodollar Scheme
they’ve got huge trade surpluses with us uh we’re buying their stuff they don’t buy enough of our stuff what can we do what do they need well they need energy so then America um you know American Military went to Saudi Arabia Kissinger went to Saudi Arabia and they had this they made forged this deal that uh Saudi Arabia the biggest oil exporter would only sell the oil against the US dollar