Why does anyone watch Fox News Network?
I don’t get it. Why does ANYONE watch Fox News Network? In fact, the Fox News Network channel is honestly more aptly named the Faux News Network. Literally, their news anchors just make shit up on the spot. Let’s explore.
Faux News
I don’t even fully understand how we got here. Back in the 1970s and 1980s, news channels were well respected because the majority of those news networks held themselves to a relatively high standard of journalistic ethics. Today, journalistic ethics has become mostly a thing of the past. While some video news channels (and newspapers) typically hold their reporters accountable to journalistic standards, clearly some of them do not. Fox News doesn’t appear to impose ANY journalistic ethics or integrity on its staff at all.
Fox News, in fact, appears to let their news anchors say whatever they damned well please. In fact, I believe the (mis)management at Fox News encourages these completely unethical behaviors at Fox News Network.
You may be saying, “I don’t see Fox News lying much at all”. To that I respond with, “In denial much?” Fox News Network anchors lie about as often as they possibly can. In fact, Fox News ended up firing Tucker Carlson over his massive voter fraud allegation lies, which those lies cost Fox News $787.5 million. Once a real dollar value ends up being placed onto an anchor’s basket of lies, that’s when the shit really hits the fan… or more specifically, someone gets fired.
Trump gets Indicted for a Second Time
Donald Trump recently released a statement on Truth Social that he had again been indicted for 37 counts under the Espionage Act. Here’s his thread quoted from Truth Social.
Page 1: The corrupt Biden Administration has informed my attorneys that I have been Indicted, seemingly over the Boxes Hoax, even though Joe Biden has 1850 Boxes at the University of Delaware, additional Boxes in Chinatown, D.C., with even more Boxes at the University of Pennsylvania, and documents strewn all over his garage floor where he parks his Corvette, and which is “secured” by only a garage door that is paper thin, and open much of the time.
Donald Trump: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/110511161240386878
Page 2: I have been summoned to appear at the Federal Courthouse in Miami on Tuesday, at 3 PM. I never thought it possible that such a thing could happen to a former President of the United States, who received far more votes than any sitting President in the History of our Country [false], and is currently leading, by far, all Candidates, both Democrat and Republican, in Polls of the 2024 Presidential Election [too early to tell]. I AM AN INNOCENT MAN!
Donald Trump: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/110511177469281373
Page 3: This is indeed a DARK DAY for the United States of America. We are a Country in serious and rapid Decline, but together we will Make America Great Again!
Donald Trump: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/110511183630692974
I’m including Donald Trump’s thread here simply for reference and for completion’s sake. I don’t want someone claiming that Randocity is making shit up here. Fact checked information in [brackets] added by Randocity. This is real, folks.
Read the Full Indictment here:
I won’t get into the ramifications of both the above indictment and Donald Trump’s ramblings as this unnecessary rabbit hole goes far too deep for this article. However, I urge you to read the text of the above indictment. If you’re interested in hearing valid legal analysis of Donald Trump’s federal criminal indictment, I urge you to watch any OTHER network than Fox News Network, News Max or OAN (One America Network). Such valid news networks include C-SPAN, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, Associated Press, Reuters, NPR and [NewsNation].
Suffice it to say that Trump’s sycophants are not happy with Donald Trump’s latest criminal indictment and are, once again, back on the “Donald Trump as a victim” warpath by making shit up… specifically about Joe Biden. Worse, Fox News Network management is eating up this false garbage about Joe Biden and is choosing (against journalistic ethics) to spew these lies to its viewers. This leads right into…
Why?
I thought that Fox News had given up coverage of Donald Trump entirely? I guess this was just another in so many lies that Fox News continually tells. More than this, why do viewers continue to put up with Fox News’s lying bullshit? How many times can you watch a news program that willfully and intentionally tells you lies straight to your face?
You don’t put up with lies from your co-workers or your friends or your boss or even your own kids! Why are you so willing to be hoodwinked and lied to by your “favorite” news channel?
Example…
Let me give a concrete example based on the fact that Donald Trump has been federally criminally indicted. Keep in mind, Trump hasn’t yet fully been indicted because he has yet to turn himself in. Apparently Donald Trump, or more specifically his lawyer, has only been informed that an indictment is forthcoming. He’ll be indicted when he actually receives the indictment paperwork. He and his lawyers can read it. Then, only after he’s received the official paperwork will he be officially indicted. Once he’s been told the charges in a federal court, he’ll then have also been arraigned. We digress.
The point in this digression is to try and explain why Donald Trump’s sycophants and MAGA cult followers are now up in arms over HIS federal criminal indictment.
Instead of Fox News Network covering Donald Trump’s pending indictment as more-or-less front page news, just as every other mostly centered news network has done, Fox News has decided it has chosen to parrot a fabricated accusation being levied at Joe Biden about some alleged bribery scheme. Yet, once again with Fox News, no details about that accusation are presented… which means, it’s a lie. Without any details presented, there’s nothing to back up the MAGA alleged accusation.
This accusation, however, gives Fox News a false smoke screen cover story for its front page news so it can avoid having to cover Donald Trump’s actual and factual indictment. Instead of telling the Fox News viewers the truth about Donald Trump’s indictment, a truth that even Donald Trump was willing to tell on Truth Social, Fox News won’t discuss it on Fox News. Instead, Fox News Network is now resorting to telling its viewers to yet more lies about Joe Biden as a diversion to avoid telling you actual news. Why do you watch this made up garbage?
This lie is just the tip of the iceberg at Fox News. Fox News’s lies landed them with a $787.5 million settlement to Dominion… and this iceberg is just getting started. Smartmatic is likely to need a whole lot more of a cash settlement than Dominion, assuming that Smartmatic is even willing to settle. The point here is that the lies that Fox News continues to tell are only digging this news channel into an even deeper monetary hole.
Again, why does ANYONE continue to watch ANY news network that intentionally and willfully chooses to lie to you, to all of us?
Silence as a Lie
At Fox News, it get even worse. Fox News withholds valuable legitimate news from you because they don’t think you can handle it. Actually, they believe that if they tell you the real news, you’ll tune out and find another news network. Instead, they spew fabricated information, usually made up by Republicans, but perpetuated by Fox News as truths. This fabricated news is simply to have a story to tell all while hiding actual news from you.
Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie
—Khaled Hosseini, “The Kite Runner”
By not telling you the news that you need to know, you’re being misinformed (which is another form of a lying). News channel charter is to report on news, not hide it from you. That Fox News is willing to withhold actual news from you tells you just how unethical and morally bankrupt the Fox News Network is. You watch a news channel to become informed, not to be left in the dark about current events. Worse, they withhold truthful, factual information and fill in the gaps with lies. When they withhold that news, they do so by using illegitimate and usually false narratives… blowing that fabrication all so way out of proportion, it looks like satire.
If you want satire, you should visit The Onion. At least The Onion has the decency to tell you that what they write is entirely satire and is intended as comedy. With Fox News, you simply don’t know because Fox News won’t take a stand on their reporting shenanigans. Instead, Fox News Network attempts to make itself look like a legitimate news reporting agency, yet they continually fail to report on legitimate news. To cover that lack of real news, they choose to perpetuate fabricated and unsubstantiated information as truth.
Why would you let this amount of lying into your home? If you’re a conservative evangelical Christian, what would the Bible say about a news channel that intentionally tells you lies? “Wolf in sheep’s clothing”, perhaps?
Lying and Conservatism
These two concepts do not go hand-in-hand any more the lying goes hand-in-hand with liberalism. No political affiliation’s mantra is to lie to you. For some reason, Republicans have recently latched onto lies as their new “Yellow Brick Road”, or so misguided MAGA Republicans think, simply to make all other parties look bad. Yet, if you’re smart (and I know that you are), you’ll see right through that stupidity.
Being a conservative whether evangelical or not, you don’t deserved to be lied to. Likewise, being liberal, you don’t deserve to be lied to. No one deserves lies told to their face. Not conservative, not liberal, not middle of the road. Lying most definitely is NOT the answer. Lying, however, embodies moral and societal decay. It says that as a society, we can’t be bothered to tell the truth anymore; that truth doesn’t matter.
It also says that news media has now become a perpetrator and facilitator of lies. While not all news outlets lie to you and not all do it all of the time, many lie frequently. Fox News Network chooses to lie to you more often than most, usually under the excuse of parroting top MAGA Republicans, “See, he said it first! 👉” Yeah, that argument didn’t work when you were a child and it doesn’t work now.
Most news outlets don’t typically lie as often as Fox News does, however. Fox News Network, as a video news channel, is the absolute most egregious, most blatant and offers the most outrageous lies of any news channel, bar none… other than perhaps the National Enquirer… and who willfully believes anything written in that rag sheet? For video news, maybe OAN lies nearly as much, but they also don’t get nearly the viewership that Fox News has.
Treachery comes in many forms and Fox News Network has proven that they are as treacherous and as lecherous as they come, lecherous with their news hosts painted to look like street corner hookers. Yes, let’s spout all of these lies from so-called “news anchors” painted to look like common hookers… all with the (lack of) brains to match. Clearly, you must be brainless to work at the Fox News Network.
Why these lies?
Simple answer: Donald J. Trump. Donald Trump is not just a habitual liar, he is pathological. Many have taken Donald Trump to be some kind of anti-role model. Donald Trump is actually the antithesis of a positive role model! No one should model their own personal behaviors after Donald Trump, that is unless you want to land in prison.
No one should idolize Donald Trump as a positive role model, least of all American news hosts. Yet, here we are. Fox News Network practically idolizes all things Donald Trump. When Donald Trump gets a lawsuit thrown at him, in Donald Trump’s eyes, it’s never because of what Donald Trump has actually done to trigger that lawsuit. Instead, it’s always about how the Justice Department (or some other Democrat) is in the wrong for bringing that lawsuit down upon poor, pitiful, little innocent Donald. There is absolutely nothing innocent about Donald Trump.
Donald Trump is to blame for Donald Trump
No one can be blamed for Donald Trump’s stupidity and bad conduct except Donald Trump. In fact, Donald Trump could likely have avoided all of this if he had just done what NARA had originally requested… which was to return the documents the first time they asked him to return them. Instead, Donald Trump decided to play games. When you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes. If lawsuits and indictments are being brought down onto Donald Trump, it’s because of what Donald Trump has done. Yet, Republicans want to blame the DOJ and Joe Biden and every other Democrat for Donald Trump’s actions.
Let me ask some basic questions. Did Joe Biden hold Donald Trump’s hand when Trump decided to foment the insurrection on January 6th? Did Joe Biden coach and egg on Trump when he decided to take documents from the White House upon exiting his role as President? Did Joe Biden tell Donald Trump to remain silent while the Capitol rioters continued their violent rampage? The answer to these questions is an emphatic, “NO!”… he did not.
Joe Biden had no hand in Donald Trump’s conduct, behaviors or decisions. Yet, the MAGA Republicans would have you believe that Joe Biden had some hand in these legal actions against Trump. Joe Biden is the President, yes, but he doesn’t control the Department of Justice. That’s an entirely separate branch of government.
Weaponizing the DOJ
The MAGA Republicans using the Fox News Network as a mouthpiece would also have you believe that Joe Biden has weaponized the Department of Justice against Donald Trump. Just the opposite, in fact. Donald Trump has performed questionable behaviors in retaining and possibly disseminating top secret government documents. The DOJ seeks to determine whether those claims are, in fact, true. If anyone has weaponized the DOJ against Donald Trump, it is Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans.
The only way to get to the bottom of Donald Trump’s alleged illegal wrongdoings is through the legal system. That’s why we HAVE a legal system. If Donald Trump didn’t want to be indicted, he shouldn’t have performed actions that led to this outcome. The DOJ is not being weaponized by the Democrats. Instead, the legal system is being used appropriately to investigate Donald Trump’s actions after his alleged wrongdoing has been both extensively investigated and uncovered.
The MAGA Republicans would have you believe that this investigation began yesterday and that it’s all unjustified. It didn’t. Donald Trump’s problems began the day he left the oval office. Donald Trump’s actions have led to this outcome. Yet, that’s not what the Fox News Network is telling you.
Fox News Networks Perpetuation of Lies
Fox News Network knows exactly what both Donald Trump and, more importantly, that Fox News Network is doing is wrong. Yet, FNN intentionally and willfully continues its perpetuation of lies on its viewers. The question is, if you’re an avid viewer of this treacherous and deceptive news network, why do you continue to watch? More importantly, do you actually believe the literal shit they are slinging at you every single night?
What Fox News is doing is absolutely not news. There’s nothing “newsworthy” about being told lies, deceptions and misinformation. News is telling you fact based truths that exist. News isn’t telling you falsehoods that others have perpetuated. Yet, here we are.
It gets even worse because the Fox News Network regularly invites “guests” onto its programs to not only spew their own lies without basis, they spew them and then the Fox News host fully agrees with those lies and helps spouts even more lies based on those “guest” lies… all without any supporting facts. It is exactly this “without basis in facts” problem that led to the $787.5 million settlement that Fox News Network paid to Dominion voting systems. And yet, that settlement has clearly not changed Fox News Network’s mode of operation to be more upstanding and offer more ethical journalism. In fact, it seems that Fox News Network has paid that $787.5 million solely so the owners of Fox News Network can double down on even more lies.
You must make your own decisions about networks that willfully lie to you. I can’t tell you what to watch. It is your choice to make. If you choose to willfully allow liars to lie to you and then you choose to believe those lies, then what comes out of that is on you.
“A lie begets a lie” –proverb
Instead of these lies, we must fight for truth! Only truth will keep us free.
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Fox News: A basket of deplorables!
Hillary Clinton’s words from the 2016 election have never become more prescient than they are today. Like running into a forest fire, the Republicans and its mouthpiece, Fox News, simply can’t help themselves. Let’s explore.
Fox News and Republicans
These two are now almost synonymous. Joined at the hip, so to speak. Neither can seemingly exist without the other. Meaning, whatever the Republican party does, Fox News falls for hook, line and sinker. Case in point.
With Joe Biden’s recent bid for the 2024 election, Republicans have now stooped to an even lower low point than I have ever seen for any human being on this planet. What low is that exactly? Wishing death upon the President of the United States! How can anyone not consider making a death wish, or more specifically a death threat deplorable? No one should ever wish death upon anyone!! EVER!
Yet, here we are today with Fox News and various other Republicans claiming Joe Biden won’t live through a second term. That’s absolutely sickening. And yes, it’s absolutely deplorable. This is why Hillary Clinton’s words from 2016 have now taken on a brand new prescient meaning when discussing both Fox News and the now Randocity christened Repugnican party.
Wishing Death upon another Human Being?
Who does this? On the one hand, you have the Republicans who claim to uphold the Bible’s values, morals and ethics. On the other hand, they’re now wishing death upon the sitting President of the United States? I can’t even describe how sickening and distasteful this is.
On the heels of mass shootings day in and out and now we have Republicans actively claiming Joe Biden won’t live 5 more years? Yes, that IS wishing death on another human being. It might even be more intentional than that. And yet, you don’t hear the Democrats wishing death on Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis or any other Republican politician. In fact, Joe Biden has consistently railed against political violence. And yet, here we are with these Repugnicans.
Secret Service Investigation of Death Threats
The Secret Service team is supposed to follow up on credible death threats against the President. I would most definitely class these words coming out of the mouths of both Fox News and various Republicans, and in particular Nikki Haley, as death threats against the President of the United States.
Threatening the president of the United States is a class D felony under United States Code Title 18, Section 871. It is punishable by up to 5 years in prison, a maximum fine of $250,000, a $100 special assessment, and up to 3 years of supervised release.
Source: Wikipedia
Both Fox News and Nikki Haley need to be extra cautious when making such statements that Joe Biden won’t live through a full second term as President.
If you vote for Joe Biden, you really are counting on a President Harris… because the idea that he would make it until 86 years old… is not something I think is likely.” —Nikki Haley
Joe Biden has had no illnesses to indicate that he is anywhere near death’s doorstep via natural medical causes. Quite the contrary, in fact. He seems quite able, healthy and able to perform his job as President of the United States. He has never proven himself to be compromised in any way, either in health or mental faculties. Yet, here we have Nikki Haley making such comments as if they are truth.
Her words can also be taken in two different ways. The first way is that she may have intended the words to be said in a prophetic manner, possibly predicting his death in advance (sketchy and crass at best). The second way is far more nefarious, one that suggests she and/or the Republicans may choose to have a hand in his demise via exercising political violence. At least, that’s the heavy subtext I’m getting from her words and mannerisms.
President Biden is, at this moment, healthy and well. Based on this fact alone, Nikki Haley’s statement is not only strange and detestable, I’d actually take her statement to be a credible death threat against the President’s life. Going onto public record and making a credible death threat against a President is something that shouldn’t be taken lightly.
The Republicans have already proven that they’re willing to tamper with elections, tamper with election processes, tamper with the constitution in addition to making false statements. But now, they’re obviously willing to throw out incidental death threats against the President of the United States.
Republicans are going to say, “You’re being alarmist”; that her words weren’t intended that way. Listen carefully to her words again. They were measured, calculating and most of all, have no basis to be said based on Joe Biden’s present health. The only way her words can be interpreted is as a sincere death threat. Looking at Joe Biden’s health right at this very moment, the only way Joe Biden would or could die in the next 5 years is if Nikki Haley had a hand in his demise. This means, Nikki Haley’s words appear to be a credible death threat against the President of the United States.
Holding Your Tongue / Crossing The Line
There are plenty of ways for a candidate to impress upon potential voters the difference in that candidate’s age and Joe Biden’s age without crossing any lines. That’s fine. But, claiming someone (anyone) will be dead within 5 years implies something else is at play… something nefarious and malicious. First we have an insurrection on the Capitol and now we have prospective candidates making death threats?
Death threats are not and should not ever become the new normal in the United States. Unfortunately, as much as Joe Biden wants no political violence, it seems the new Republicans are now hell bent on making that a reality.
Unfortunately, these new Republicans have no qualms at doing, saying or being anything to get votes. Yet, when is it enough to call foul on these people? Death threats are not protected speech under ANY circumstances.
True threats constitute a category of speech — like obscenity, child pornography, fighting words, and the advocacy of imminent lawless action — that is not protected by the First Amendment.
Source: The Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University
Verbally predicting that a person will die within 5 years without having any evidence to support that assertion implies that the person making the statement intends to do harm to that person.
This type of speech is not protected by the First Amendment and it is also considered a credible death threat against the President of the United States (i.e., advocacy of imminent lawless action). Nikki Haley needs some serious help here to avoid the potential legal consequences of her words said against a sitting President.
It doesn’t matter if she’s a possible Presidential candidate. What matters is her threat.
Republicans at a New Low
Worse, news outlets like Fox News have jumped all over Nikki Haley’s threat and are doubling down on these words themselves, also rephrasing her words by, again, claiming Biden’s imminent death within 5 years. These are not innocent words. These are not protected words. Yet, President Biden is letting this all slide?
Where is Joe Biden’s Secret Service detail? What are they doing? Why are they not taking action against Nikki Haley and her words as well as Fox News as a credible threat? If anyone else had said these words, they’d already have been nabbed and locked up as a credible threat to the United States. Yet, we’re again giving politicians a free pass to make death threats? Since when?
Once again, Republicans are firmly showing that they are above the law and that law cannot touch them. Our Democracy is clearly under severe threat BY the Republicans. Nikki Haley’s words prove that the Republicans STILL wish to dismantle everything about American democracy. Will this deplorable Republican crap ever truly end?
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Rant Time: Car cleaning and parking courtesy
For some reason that’s unexplainable, I’ve recently seen more and more people digging around in or cleaning their cars in parking lots of retail stores. While I have no problem with a person wanting to clean or rearrange their car, I do have a problem when they’re doing it at an inappropriate time and blocking people from parking or getting out of their vehicles to go to the store. Common courtesy, people, common courtesy. Let’s explore.
Parking and Shopping
When shopping at Target, Walmart, 7-Eleven, Safeway or while doing any other retail shopping, the parking lot is for parking your vehicle. A parking lot is not the place to clean or rearrange things in your car with your trunk open, with all car doors open and just randomly standing at and fiddling with something on your passenger seat. This is neither the time nor the place. If you’ve lost something, figure it out later. If you’re securing a child, do it quickly and finish up. If you are putting your bags away, finish that up. People may be waiting for you to get done with whatever it is you are doing.
When I see this happening, typically the person is parked in a reasonably close spot. What I mean is, they are usually by the door. No, they aren’t just putting their bags away. They’ve got their passenger side door wide open leaning over the passenger seat and digging for something. And they dig and dig and dig for minutes. Not only are they not in the store shopping, they are blocking the space they are in. They are also blocking the two adjacent spaces next to them because their car doors are wide open.
During the holiday season, this is especially frustrating. But, it’s frustrating any time of the year.
Common Courtesy
When a car pulls into a space next to you, they shouldn’t be expected to wait why you fiddle around in your passenger seat. If you’re digging for something, go do it somewhere else. Blocking other people from getting to parking spaces at the store is not what you should be doing and is definitely not what the store intended. Additionally, by doing this, you’re being entirely rude and discourteous. If you need to clean out or dig through your vehicle, take it to a place where it is appropriate. A place like your driveway at home or a car wash. Or, alternatively, move your vehicle to the back of the parking lot where fewer people park and you can do whatever it is you are doing until the cows come home. Don’t do this when parked in the busiest parking section of the lot.
Self entitlement
This is a subject that probably deserves an entire rant on its own. However, more and more people have some notion that they are entitled wherever they go. Such as thinking like, “I’m now a parent with child, I’m entitled to park close.” “I have a big expensive vehicle, I am entitled to do whatever I please with it.” No, when in public, you are no more entitled than anyone else. I’ll repeat that. You are no more entitled than anyone else when you visit any public place. Instead, courtesy trumps entitlement. If you are intentionally blocking or otherwise hindering another person’s ability to get something done, go shopping, park in a space, or otherwise visit a shopping establishment, you are firmly in the wrong. Not only that, you’re lucky that security doesn’t come out and ask you to leave the lot or threaten to tow your vehicle.
As I said above, if you want to go digging in your car for 30 minutes, do it somewhere else more appropriate.
Example
Tonight I was visiting 7-eleven to pick up a package from an Amazon Locker. Just as I pulled into my parking space, some dumbass had the nerve to walk up to and open up the passenger door of his vehicle and proceed to rummage for at least 5 minutes with the door open (I only waited about 60 seconds of it). I was parked right next to him and could not open my driver’s side door to get out. I ended up moving my vehicle to a different space so that I could finally get out. What a complete and utter self-entitled dumbass. Rummaging in your car with all doors open at 7-Eleven is not the time nor the place for that activity. Get your crap together and leave the parking lot. Use common courtesy and allow people who’ve just parked to get out of their car. If you want to rummage, step aside for the 10 seconds it takes to let the person out of their car. Then, go back to it when the person has stepped away. Be cognizant and aware of your environment and the people around you. Apparently, some people just don’t understand the concept of common courtesy anymore.
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