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Food Network Now Trouncing CNN in Ratings by Mia Cathell CNN's post-election ratings continue to flail miserably following President-elect Donald Trump's triumph in the 2024 election. And now, CNN can't "Beat Bobby Flay." Viewers would rather watch "Guy's Grocery Games" than "Anderson Cooper 360," according to the latest TV ratings. (X) Last week, CNN finished No. 17 among cable stations during primetime programming hours, losing additionally to Hallmark's campy Christmas movies, house-hunting escapades on HGTV, and even the History Channel. In fact, CNN's small audience was outsized by those tuning into TBS, TLC, TNT, and Freeform, respectively, among others. https://townhall.com/tipsheet/miacathell/2024/12/13/food-network-outranks-cnn-n2648953 .

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Today two Major Hoaxes of the last 20 years collapsed -- the Duke Lacrosse Team scandal and the Jan 6 Insurrection scandal. And it is not even Christmas yet!

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This is ludicrous. SOMEONE in the government knows what is going on. Just tell us.

WH Dem Officials 'Warn' Trump Not to Undo Key Parts of Biden's Legacy and HELLOOO Backfire Maybe Democrats and White House officials missed it, but Trump literally won the election last month and can run the office the majority of Americans elected him for any way he sees fit. Not to mention the moment Biden entered the Oval Office in 2021 he reversed basically everything Trump had done, even removing the cap on insulin costs, seemingly out of spite. So when we see 'officials' warning him about not undoing what Biden did we just point and laugh. And we assume Trump has done the same. Case in point: It was fine when Biden rescinded all Trump border policies on day 1, though. Talk about political, economic, homeland security, and humanitarian risks for the past 4 years. Inflation reduction act is admittedly by Biden himself nothing but an environmental bill. Burn it all down https://twitchy.com/samj/2024/12/12/white-house-warns-trump-not-to-be-president-lol-n2405066

You don't mistrust the "reliable" media enough. Sam Stein Absolutely Fact-REKT for Pushing Fake News About Trump NOT Bringing Grocery Prices Down https://twitchy.com/samj/2024/12/12/andrew-kerr-fact-checks-sam-stein-and-the-leftist-media-claiming-trump-said-he-cant-fix-grocery-prices-n2405088

Real life is stranger than fiction: FBI paid the travel expenses for these sources who went into restricted areas. Meanwhile, Americans sit rotting in jail for doing the same. Pissed yet? https://twitchy.com/samj/2024/12/12/fbi-connection-to-j6-gets-even-more-damning-n2405097

There is exactly zero indication of this is the OP's post. He simply reposted the X tweet that stated the facts It is (again) something borne out of your own prejudices. * and before you go quoting the title, PLEASE tell us that you didn't understand that he was making fun of all the extremists calling President Trump . . . . Hitler,

Brian Thompson went from Jewell, Iowa (population 1,200) to leading 140,000 employees and overseeing $280B of revenue at one of the world’s most important companies. His mom worked as a beautician, his dad at a grain elevator —they were probably really proud when he graduated valedictorian of his 50-person high school class. He played basketball and the trombone, got elected homecoming king, and worked in soybean fields and meat processing plants during summers. While studying at the University of Iowa, he met the woman who would become his wife, with whom he would have two kids. By all accounts, he was smart, hard-working, funny, and a thoroughly decent man. This guy—not the person who murdered him in cold blood— was everything that’s right and good about America, and the American Dream. May his memory be a blessing, and may his example inspire all of us to do better.

Young blood is here. President-elect Trump has gone full throttle for a new generation of leaders. Consider these nominees: Lee Zeldin, 44, EPA administrator Pete Hegseth, 44, Secretary of Defense Kash Patel, 44, FBI Director Tulsi Gabbard, 43, Director of National Intelligence Not everyone welcomes the generational change. When smears and media leaks about nominees’ backgrounds appear, be sure something is happening in the political establishment of Washington, D.C. https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2024/12/10/stop_the_smear_1077804.html

I GUESS YOU COULD SAY THE DEMOCRATS TRIED TO MAKE HIM INTO BRETT KAVANAUGH — AND SUCCEEDED. Pete Hegseth Will Be Confirmed. By Mark Judge https://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/pete-hegseth-will-be-confirmed Well, Kavanaugh was confirmed, too, so maybe this was a bad strategy.

"This article is based on interviews with nearly a dozen people who have direct knowledge of how and why Mr. Trump salvaged Mr. Hegseth’s bid, at least for now." I'm reading "Power, Intimidation and the Resurrection of Trump’s Support for Hegseth/The president-elect became convinced that letting Pete Hegseth fail would set off a feeding frenzy among senators. What followed was a MAGA swarm that helped salvage his bid, at least for now," by Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman in the NYT. I'm giving you a free-access link so you can judge the quality of the sources, the likelihood of a senatorial "feeding frenzy," and the meaning of "MAGA swarm." We're told that Pete Hegseth went "from dead man walking to a man with a real shot of being confirmed by the Senate" in what was "a test case of power and intimidation," where Trump demonstrated his "ability to summon an online swarm, even while spending minimal personal capital of his own." Posted by Ann Althouse https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/us/politics/pete-hegseth-trump-defense-secretary.html?unlocked_article_code=1.g04.z2j5.8xB3nmv5E1tI&smid=url-share https://althouse.blogspot.com/2024/12/this-article-is-based-on-interviews.html

Settled ? Climate ‘scientists’ discover they’ve been underestimating a major factor, and all their climate models are in fact wrong by Olivia Murray Climate scientists recently discovered that they’ve been underestimating the impact of a particular organic compound in the atmosphere, and the oversight’s significance is so profound that it’s left existing climate models completely obsolete. As Jo Nova writes, “This is so big, it may change the sacred ‘climate sensitivity’ of the whole Earth”. Isoprene is what’s known as a volatile organic compound, or a VOC, and “has a recognized role in protecting plants against many abiotic stresses” like “heat stress…drought…[and] oxidative stress” with trees being the greatest emitters. (When the chemical isoprene interacts with other compounds in the atmosphere, the products are a number of secondary organic aerosols.) https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/12/climate_scientists_discover_they_ve_been_underestimating_a_major_factor_and_all_their_climate_models_are_in_fact_wrong.html

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How is it we know more about Luigi Mangione than we do about Thomas Crooks? Monica Showalter Within hours of his apprehension in Pennsylvania in connection with the cold-blooded murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, scads of information rolled out about the life and times of suspect Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old man who has been accused of the killing, and in a very short period of time, the Internet being a fast medium. We've seen pictures of his family, and heard their statements of shock and regret at the news. We learned he grew up wealthy, the son of the owner of two resorts near Baltimore. We learned he once worked in a nursing home owned by his family. {snip} It's in striking contrast to the last high-profile killer who came to our attention last July, Thomas Crooks, another young man with a similar background who got his name in the news for attempting to kill President Trump amid a sea of Secret Service incompetence, but did manage to murder an innocent firefighter who was nearby, and injure two others in addition to President Trump, before he was shot dead by a cop. His age was similar, his engineering background was similar, his working in a nursing home was similar But we hear nothing of the level of information Mangione got from this miserable freak -- little about his political motivations, which political party he identified with, what his political views were, who his friends were, nothing about his very strange family who threw away their silverware to prevent police from finding it in a home search after the killing and attempted assassination, nothing about the strange associated classmates who could have been involved in the attack. We know nothing about the strange ad he made for Blackrock, or the 18 burner phones in his backpack. We don't know who he was talking to on the phone, seen in a video, before he launched into his assassination bid. If he had a manifesto, we haven't seen it. And his social media accounts were quickly scrubbed and shut down. Now, some of this can be explained away by Mangione having an internet presence and being a non-misfit socially, which made more information available generally. But that doesn't explain all of it. Where are the classmates who knew him? Why is his family so silent? Why has his social media presence been suppressed? And why is the Secret Service seemingly going out of its way to obstruct Congress? There have been quite a few shouting matches at this point. (Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ... https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/12/how_is_it_we_know_more_about_luigi_mangione_than_we_do_about_thomas_crooks.html