Re: May 16, 2025 (fwd)

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Sat, 17 May 2025 08:05:41 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 > On Sat, 17 May 2025, robert wrote:
 >  > This makes me wonder whether Tim really thinks that NPR is left-wing, or
 >  > that he doesn't consume any news whatsoever and that's just what a little
 >  > birdy told him.  The full spectrum dominance does make it hard to keep up.
 >  > 
 >  > Which also makes me wonder: if people are tuning out the news because it's
 >  > so overwhelming, does that mean that they're not seeing the political
 >  > ads, either, or perhaps not acting on them out of disgust?
 > 
 > yes
 > 
 >  > Let's hope that more and more Trump voters become disillusioned to not
 >  > let this bad bill that makes severe cuts to Medicaid pass.
 >
 > and this part, like movie "Network" but even more absurd

Part Squid Game, part Hunger Games.  Sounds like a winner.

 > Yesterday, news broke that Homeland Security 
 > Secretary Kristi Noem has been in talks with the producers of the 
 > reality show for a new 
 > reality show in which immigrants compete against each other in 
 > cultural contests to win the chance to move their U.S. citizenship 
 > applications ahead faster. It is made-for-TV, just like so many of 
 > the performances this administration uses to distract Americans from 
 > the unpopular policies that are stripping the government of benefits 
 > for ordinary Americans and moving wealth upward. 
 > Such a show might appeal to confirmed MAGA. But it is a 
 > profound perversion of the American dream.