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Don’t mourn the demise of corporate media gatekeepers Claims that changes in the heretofore biased liberal White House press pool herald a police state are nonsense. By Jonathan Tobin It’s just the latest in a long list of freakouts by the liberal inside-the-Beltway establishment about the way the Trump 2.0 administration is shaking up Washington. The decision to change the composition of the White House press pool, however, seems to hit the D.C. elites where it really hurts. For several decades, the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) has jealously guarded its privilege to determine which outlets get the right to work in the executive mansion and sit in the briefing room when press conferences are held and to be recognized to ask questions. So, it’s hardly surprising that this group—whose complaints are amplified by the hysterical coverage of the issue in the corporate mainstream publications and websites where its members work—is treating this measure as if it is the end of the free press, if not the world. That it is nothing of the kind is only partly why this story says a lot more about the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the establishment press than it does about the foibles and willingness of President Donald Trump and his team to get even with their antagonists. What is going on here is not just a battle between a new administration clearly spoiling for a fight with a liberal press that is hopelessly biased against Trump and will do anything it can to discredit him. It is also an inflection point in which legacy outlets whose hegemonic dominance of journalism ended long ago are being forced to recognize just that. They are being put on notice that their control of the flow of news at places like the White House will no longer be indulged. What’s more, their glaringly obvious tilt to the left that has grown greater with every passing year, especially since Trump began discomfiting the D.C. uniparty, is also a factor here. It has caused them not just to be challenged by those who disagree with their prejudicial coverage but rendered them essentially irrelevant to a 2024 presidential election, whose discourse was largely conducted via podcasts and niche publications, and not the daily newspapers, broadcast and cable-TV https://www.jns.org/dont-mourn-the-demise-of-corporate-media-gatekeepers/

Reliable.

I encourage those with differing opinions to listen to him SecState Marco Rubio Shows on CNN Why He's a Great Pick to Implement Trump Strategy on Ukraine Ward Clark The fallout over the meltdown of talks between Ukraine's President Zelensky and our leaders, President Trump and Vice President Vance, is still being felt. But there was another American administration member present who had a somewhat lower profile in the blowup that concluded the meeting, that being Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Rubio, in an interview on CNN's Kaitlan Collins on Friday, went on to give not only a great summary of everything that happened leading up to the now-famous blowup, but of President Trump's Ukraine/Russia strategy altogether. https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/03/01/watch-secretary-of-state-marco-describes-president-trumps-ukraine-strategy-n2186156

There is no need to read beyond this blatantly false claim. No need to answer "yes or no" to to your screed. Try , just try, reading some other reports about what occurred, and not the propaganda that you have been swallowing so willingly. Meanwhile: "Body-language and behavioral expert Darren Stanton said he thought Zelensky appeared 'quite angry from the outset' and got 'caught up in his own ego.'" "At one point while Vance is talking, Zelensky moves from leaning forward to leaning back with his arms crossed, showing a 'dramatic change in inner emotion' that Stanton believed was the moment Zelensky realized 'he was going to leave.' 'He felt he wasn’t getting his points across or wasn’t allowed to,' Stanton said, adding that he also thought Trump was greatly frustrated by Zelensky, despite remaining stone-faced." From "Body-language experts break down the dramatic Trump-Zelensky meeting (WaPo). https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/03/01/zelensky-trump-video-body-language/

Pro-Hamas Protestors Riot, Seize Building on College Campus in NYC Ward Clark The parade of useful idiots on New York City's Barnard College campus seems to be expanding. On Wednesday, 50 anti-Israel protestors seized a campus building. On Thursday, at least 100 protesters gathered at the entrance to Barnard College, wearing keffiyehs and shouting "Free Palestine." This kind of behavior, we should note, is not a First Amendment issue. These are not "fiery but peaceful" protests. What happened on Wednesday was a riot. There were arrests. There should have been more: The school warned that if the students were not gone by 9:30 p.m., officials would be forced to take "additional, necessary measures to protect our campus." The students were not gone by 9:30 PM. This latest outrage began as protests over the expulsion of two pro-Hamas students, who had been passing around propaganda flyers inside a classroom: https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/03/01/anti-israel-protestors-riot-seize-building-at-nys-barnard-college-campus-n2186160

Covered text THAT is the reason why you don’t see them and why black support for Trump is historically high. The white democrats will use you until you get thrown in jail and then they go home to their custom gas stoves and electric Mercedes-Benz. Don’t believe Mrs. Dr. Publius? She spends a ton of time on black American social media sites, and this is a strong sentiment she sees constantly. “Y’all go ahead, we’re gonna sit this one out.” Americans of all colors are coming to realize that Trump is trying to bring America together and not tear it apart.

Good Lord.

Zelenskyy Did More Damage to Ukraine's Cause Than Russia Ever Could Joe Cunningham The Russians are open to peace because Putin knows they have used more resources than expected - a lot more - in trying to take the country. And, I suspect, they are worried that their support from China might dry up because of all the resources they have used to make what amounts to little gain in Ukraine. So while everyone is accusing President Donald Trump of bowing to Putin's whims, the truth is a bit more complex. It's not that peace would give Putin what he wants in Ukraine, but it allows Putin to save face. What happened in the Oval Office yesterday was a boon for Putin. That's not really in question. It's less about how Trump "helped" Putin and more about how Volodymyr Zelenskyy helped Putin. My position has remained fairly consistent throughout all this: The more resources Russia throws at Ukraine without making any real gains, the less resources they have to use against other American interests. Russia weakening itself is a good thing. And with China maintaining "no limits" support of Russia, China is throwing resources at Russia to prop them up. So, this war is burning through Russian and Chinese resources. The more they waste on Ukraine, the less they have elsewhere. It's not enough to completely stop China from, say, going after Taiwan, but it does help. Truth be told, I want Russia distracted with Putin's ambition to rebuild Soviet-era borders. I want us to help Russia stay distracted not with our boots on the ground but American weapons. If Russia wants out, which it seems like they do given Putin's previous stances on taking Ukraine, then it means Russia is struggling more than they're willing to admit. Now, the flipside of that is that war means more Ukrainian lives lost, which is not good for Ukraine. Russia has a lot more bodies to throw at Ukraine than the other way around, which is another reason American weapons have been good for Ukraine. It's incredibly likely more lives would have been lost without them, and they've been more effective at hurting Russia's military. The problem is that if Ukraine wanted more American support, Zelenskyy showed he has a deep misunderstanding of how to approach a leader like Trump. There are hours worth of videos and transcripts of people who decided to get into a loud argument with Trump in front of cameras. Every single time, it never actually ends well for the person getting into a shouting match. You'll note that even in the debate people say Kalama Harris won against Trump, it did nothing to help her win. If Zelenskyy felt that his usual performance of playing the passionate, angry victim in front of cameras would work, and that that derailing public press event with Trump was a good idea, then it shows he's not really the great leader everyone has praised him of being. I don't much care for some of Trump's comments toward Zelenskyy in the past, but the latter made a massive mistake on Friday, and his subsequent thread on X didn't help matters at all. What you're going to see is the media rush out a bunch of polls showing Americans support Ukraine and that moderate Americans and a handful of Republicans think Trump looked worse in that exchange. But there were over 40 minutes of Zelenskyy being nothing short of an ass to Trump and feeling entitled to support. That is not diplomacy, either, and it's lost in the outrage generated over the much shorter exchange. That entire press event did more damage to Ukraine's cause than anything Putin could have done. In the wake of the event, three things happened: Zelenskyy (probably) cost himself any meaningful assistance from the U.S. for at least four years. Europe shared strong words on social media and nothing else, exposing itself as useless in the face of Russia. The entire foreign policy establishment shuddered, realizing the guy they've been praising as a strong leader is a child. And when I say "the entire foreign policy establishment," I don't mean the liberal foreign policy folks who have been on the wrong side of every issue for at least 40 years. They are normally the loudest voices, and it seems like today they are the most silent. https://redstate.com/joesquire/2025/03/01/zelenskyy-did-more-damage-to-ukraines-cause-than-russia-ever-could-n2186157

No. Pressler is much more a "common man" with NO aspirations of political office. I DID make an error though, Jennings is being encouraged by some to run for McConnel's senate seat in Kentucky.

That is a matter of choice on their part--and, frankly, due to excessive charity on ours. The EU's population is 3x Russia's, and its economic output is 10x Russia's. Yet they need the US to defend them? Why is that?

The Most Important Thing That the Zelenskyy Meeting Showed to Me David Strom It has nothing to do with Zelenskyy. His behavior--and more importantly, the elite's freakout and SIDING with Zelenskyy--laid bare the divide between ordinary Americans (and many frustrated Europeans who are getting a boot stomped on their face by the elites) and the transnational elite. If you believe that the transnational elite should rule the world and everybody else should meekly follow their diktats, you thought Zelenskyy was a brave truth-teller who was rightfully chastising the Bad Orange President and his Appalachian Yokel the reality of how things are supposed to work. If you are an ordinary person, you saw an ungrateful, arrogant, whiny child-man who has been gifted unGodly amounts of money and support insulting the President of the United States in the Oval Office in front of the world after the president graciously praised him and promised him support. "It's not enough! I deserve more! You don't understand!" Yes, Zelenskyy tried to school the president and the Vice President, change the deal they had made in private, on our turf and in public. He lectured and shouted at the President of the United States in front of the world, and now says he did nothing wrong. And nearly every European leader rushed to support Zelenskyy's behavior. Europe is deindustrializing--choosing to become actually poorer and more dependent--and lectures us about how we don't do enough for them. The average EU citizen is now poorer than the average Mississippian, but if you mentioned Mississippi to any of them they would laugh at them as rubes. They laugh at all of us as rubes, and then demand we defend them. Germany cannot put 20 fighter jets in the air. Its tanks are falling apart. No European country could defend its own borders, no less push back Russia. https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/03/01/the-most-important-thing-that-the-zelenskyy-meeting-showed-to-me-n3800320

Apparently it bears repeating

Everyone who wants to comment on today has to watch this entire tape and hopefully realize that at approximately the 38 minute mark President Zelensky asks a question of Vice President Vance which isn’t really a question. (My guess is that someone gave President Zelensky really terrible advice to not fight with President Trump in public but that he could score on the VP because the VP couldn’t respond. Wrong.) President Trump had been almost indulgent of President Zelensky for 38 minutes, trying to get to the post-presser meeting with a path forward to a ceasefire intact, aware that he has to deal with Putin afterwards as well. A couple of times President Zelensky dances on the cliff (especially with the pictures which someone who doesn’t know this business told him would be an excellent stunt and wasn’t) and President Trump steers it back to a path to the post-presser meeting. But then President Zelensky puts the VP on the spot and it escalated. Then President Zelensky tells President Trump how the United States would feel, and you can see our president give into a (justified) rising anger at President Zelensky’s approach and rhetoric, as did the VP. I have long supported Ukraine and still do. President Zelensky’s conduct has been heroic. But he is used to President Biden, Secretary Blinken and NSA Sullivan who did not have a plan or a purpose other than “de-escalation” which they assumed would stop escalation from Russia —which did not happen— and for whom every decision was agony. President Zelensky also did not remember that Ukraine didn’t lose the war (that President Biden told Putin would be fine if it was a “minor incursion”) because of weapons President Trump had sent in his first term. I don’t know how this gets back on track. I don’t know if the warrior Zelensky can actually make a deal. Putin has kidnapped tens of thousands of children, murdered thousands of his people and tens of thousands of his soldiers. Putin has committed war crimes. All of that is true. It is also true that Putin has thousands of nukes and NORKs. President Trump has a plan. He wasn’t in charge when Putin invaded Ukraine the first time or the second time. All President Trump can do is try and bring about a stable and enduring peace and get Ukraine enmeshed with Europe and the U.S. while also dealing with Putin. Nixon dealt with the worst murderer of the 20th century when he sat down with Mao. Reality is what it is. Presidents of the United States have to deal with whatever mess their predecessor leaves them. I’ll repeat what I said on the program today: President Zelensky should call all of his strongest supporters w/i the Senate GOP and genuinely seek advice. And dismiss those who have been “advising” him for the past six weeks. Very publicly.

Not really. This was for February Washington crash - 1/29 Philadelphia crash 1/31 .

I think that he might run for Governor of Pennsylvania in 2026.

Spotted this evening at Men's Wearhouse.....

Wrong thread. .

LOL. If you have to ask, then you will never understand. You are not worth the effort, but just assume that I posted the well known Kamala calling Joe a "racist" during their competing campaigns picture. Okay ?

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