{"id":23009,"date":"2024-10-25T18:10:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T01:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/?p=23009"},"modified":"2024-10-26T10:21:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T17:21:53","slug":"latest-shenanigans-and-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2024\/10\/25\/latest-shenanigans-and-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Shenanigans, and Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li> Trump: the media are &#8220;enemies of the people&#8221;;\n<li> Billionaire owners of LA Times and WaPo refuse to allow their papers to endorse Harris;\n<li> Trump spells out his facist intentions; NYT says, believe him;\n<li> Trump offered to pay for a soldier&#8217;s funeral, and didn&#8217;t; Musk&#8217;s and Fox News&#8217; latest lies; Christian Nationalists&#8217; poor education; Republicans no longer support the military; Yes Russia is spreading disinformation; How democracy is threatened by a global crisis in masculinity.\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mediaproxy.salon.com\/width\/1200\/https:\/\/media2.salon.com\/2024\/09\/donald_trump_2174040805.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Straight out of the authoritarian playbook. <strong>Salon, Griffin Eckstein, 24 Oct 2024<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2024\/10\/24\/enemy-of-the-people-press-at-arizona-rally\/\">&#8220;Enemy of the people&#8221;: Trump attacks press at Arizona rally<\/a>, subtitled &#8220;As Trump lobs threats towards political opponents and faces fascist labels, he attacks the media as &#8216;enemies'&#8221;. Comment: so many enemies!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more-->\\\\<\/p>\n<p>More about billionaires, and how they align themselves with Republicans, even Trump. Despite the opinions of those who write for the newspapers they own.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mediaproxy.salon.com\/width\/1200\/https:\/\/media2.salon.com\/2020\/06\/donald-trump-tech-ceos-0619201.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Salon, Dan Froomkin, 25 Oct 2024<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2024\/10\/25\/billionaires-have-broken-media-washington-posts-non-endorsement-is-a-sickening-moral-collapse\/\"> Billionaires have broken media: Washington Post\u2019s non-endorsement is a sickening moral collapse<\/a>, subtitled &#8220;If democracy dies in darkness, why won\u2019t the Post pick a preferred presidential candidate?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Guardian, 25 Oct 2024<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2024\/oct\/25\/patrick-soon-shiong-the-billionaire-la-times-owner-who-blocked-harris-endorsement\">Patrick Soon-Shiong: the billionaire LA Times owner who blocked Harris endorsement<\/a>, subtitled &#8220;Biotech tycoon\u2019s decision to refuse to allow presidential endorsement led to resignations and subscribers\u2019 revolt&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\\\\<\/p>\n<p>Can he say it any more plainly?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.theatlantic.com\/thumbor\/D2RUJ2PO8-8CUDf-H99MYKG74jE=\/0x0:2000x2500\/622x778\/media\/img\/2024\/10\/22\/GettyImages_632865944-1\/original.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, 22 Oct 2024<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2024\/10\/trump-military-generals-hitler\/680327\/\">Trump: \u2018I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had\u2019<\/a>, subtitled &#8220;The Republican nominee\u2019s preoccupation with dictators, and his disdain for the American military, is deepening.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/nyttrumpwill.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/nyttrumpwill.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>NY Times, The Editorial Board, 25 Oct 2024<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/10\/25\/opinion\/what-trump-says.html\">Donald Trump Says He Will&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Prosecute his enemies; Order mass deportations; Use soldiers against citizens; Play politics with disasters; Abandon allies &#8212; BELIEVE HIM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mediaproxy.salon.com\/width\/1200\/https:\/\/media2.salon.com\/2024\/10\/donald_trump_2179845615.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Salon, Marin Scotten, 23 Oct 2024<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2024\/10\/23\/it-doesnt-cost-60000-to-bury-a-f---ing-mexican-was-outraged-at-cost-of-soldiers-funeral\/\">&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t cost $60,000 to bury a f**ing Mexican&#8221;: Trump was outraged at cost of soldier&#8217;s funeral<\/a>, subtitled &#8220;Trump had offered to cover the cost of U.S. solider Vanessa Guillen&#8217;s funeral after she was murdered in 2020&#8221; And he didn&#8217;t pay to cover the funeral.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\\\\<\/p>\n<p>Lying again.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/am11.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2024\/10\/AP20336754255965-1536x1068.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mediaite, 22 Oct 2024<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/news\/elon-musk-fact-checked-to-mars-on-x-for-posting-outright-fake-news-about-the-atlantic\/\">Elon Musk Fact-Checked to Mars on X for Posting Outright Fake News About \u2018The Atlantic\u2019<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>JMG, 23 Oct 2024<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joemygod.com\/2024\/10\/fox-shamelessly-lies-about-trumps-mcdonalds-stunt\/\">Fox Shamelessly Lies About Trump\u2019s McDonald\u2019s Stunt<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\\\\<\/p>\n<p>The essence of tribalism, where stories matter but facts do not.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/rww25oct.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/rww25oct.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Right Wing Watch, Kyla Mantyla, 22 Oct 2024<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peoplefor.org\/rightwingwatch\/why-do-christian-nationalists-rob-mccoy-know-so-little-about-constitution\">Why Do Christian Nationalists Like Rob McCoy Know So Little About The Constitution?<\/a>.<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>One of the defining characteristics of Christian nationalist activists is a willingness to misrepresent history, as time after time they spread blatant falsehoods in defense of their right-wing ideology. Often, this is rooted in their own ignorance about the Founding Era and the creation of the Constitution, as right-wing pastor, former mayor and city councilman Rob McCoy demonstrated during a recent appearance on &#8220;The Heidi St. John Podcast.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While insisting that the United States was created with &#8220;a Christian form of government,&#8221; McCoy rattled off a series of completely false statements.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Right Wing Watch, Kyla Mantyla, 23 Oct 2024<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peoplefor.org\/rightwingwatch\/america-belongs-us-and-our-posterity-says-white-christian-nationalist-pastor-joel\">America Belongs To &#8216;Us and Our Posterity,&#8217; Says White Christian Nationalist Pastor Joel Webbon<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\\\\\\<\/p>\n<p>Odds and ends.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joemygod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/tgenes-660x330.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Remember when Republicans supported the military? Not if the military threatens their cult leader, apparently. <strong>JMG, 24 Oct 2024<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joemygod.com\/2024\/10\/newsmax-revoke-medals-from-trumps-generals\/\">Newsmax: Revoke Medals From Trump\u2019s Generals<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Axios, 24 Oct 2024<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joemygod.com\/2024\/10\/kremlin-behind-hurricane-disinfo-spread-by-cultists\/\">Russia leveraged hurricane disinformation to deepen U.S. divisions<\/a>. Comment: there are all sorts of players in the world who don&#8217;t care so much about American politics as about making Americans politics seems irreparably broken.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Salon, Chauncey DeVega, 25 Oct 2024<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2024\/10\/25\/theyre-being-called-to-save-the-country-jackson-katz-on-how-maga-masculinity-sells-men-purpose\/\">&#8220;They\u2019re being called to save the country&#8221;: Jackson Katz on how MAGA masculinity sells men purpose<\/a>, subtitled &#8220;The global crisis in democracy is tied directly to a crisis in masculinity&#8221; Comment: again, this is easily understood in the context of the transition from tribal mentality to the modern world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump: the media are &#8220;enemies of the people&#8221;; Billionaire owners of LA Times and WaPo refuse to allow their papers to endorse Harris; Trump spells out his facist intentions; NYT says, believe him; Trump offered to pay for a soldier&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2024\/10\/25\/latest-shenanigans-and-others\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-nature","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23009"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23016,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23009\/revisions\/23016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}