βοΈ RELATEABLE β Saturday, September 21, 2024 β C&C NEWS π¦
Governor DeWine defends Haitian Invasion, badly; pervert Dr. Varma gets corporate media's attention, a little; Routh reporting still raising eyebrows; two great last-minute election changes; more.
Good morning, C&C, itβs Saturday! Your Weekend Edition roundup includes: Mike DeWine whines about Springfield coverage of the Haitian Invasion; deviant covid czar covered in corporate media, sort of; Routh reporting continues to raise concerns; Republicans scheme to tweak Nebraska rules to help Trump; Georgia election board passes pallet of new rules to crack down on cheating.
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π₯π₯ Yesterday, human mole and Ohio Governor Mike DeWine published a defensive op-ed in the New York Times headlined, βIβm the Republican Governor of Ohio. Here Is the Truth About Springfield.β As usual, the article delivered the opposite of what the headline promised.
DeWine began by admitting the curious fact he was born and raised in Springfield. Based on whatβs happening there, DeWine doesnβt seem to like his hometown much. Maybe he was badly bullied as a child.Β Or, maybe he does love Springfield, but just wants to merge together his two favorite places.
DeWine then admitted that, okay, Springfield has a few problems. And those problems are called Donald J. Trump. Plus racists. Apart from that, Springfield is a halcyon habitat for hardworking Haitians, who are exactly like you and me except they used to live in Haiti, never drove a car before, believe in possessing spirits, and sometimes eat cats. Whoops! Strike that last.
What you racists fail to understand is that, before conducting midnight voodoo rituals, Haitians put their woven sandals on one at a time just like the rest of us. And even some Americans are embracing Haitiβs colorful religion, which, while it occasionally involves doing unspeakable things to innocent chickens, it also summons all sorts of fascinating spirits. Plus it involves zombies, and who doesnβt love the Walking Dead.
Mike DeWine, a platinum-level Haitian tourist, didnβt get to be Governor by accident.
All the other complaints are just logistics issues: teaching the Haitians how to speak English, how to drive cars, and how to apply for generous benefits programs using government-issued smartphones and taxpayer-funded internet services. These logistical problems arenβt the Haitiansβ fault; according to DeWine, these problems are your responsibility. Because if you donβt accept the invastion, they will call you names and try to cancel you, to teach the rest of us to shut up.
Ohio Republicans: youβre getting what you voted for.
ππ Yesterday, I reported on Steven Crowderβs hidden-camera exposΓ© about the sick pervert who ran New York Cityβs covid response. The story made the New York Times. Hereβs the ridiculously watered-down headline:
Partied? It sounds like he just went to a disco. Social Distancing? What about getting people fired for not taking the experimental jabs? Preaching? How about bragging how unbearable he made peopleβs lives for public health purposes?
It was the driest article Iβve ever seen from the Grey Lady, who is no stranger to controversy and scandal. The authorβs tone was relentlessly neutral, verging on clinical, seething with barely restrained resentment at being forced to report it at all. While the article did refer, several times, to Varmaβs orgies and his deviant, drug-addled sexcapades, it was only unemotionally and remotely, consistently applying the dry, uncreative label, βsex parties.β
This time, the Timesβ journalistic thesaurus was not in evidence.
Although the Times rounded up several people to quote for the story, none directly criticized Dr. Vermin, I mean Dr. Varma, except for his hypocrisy in imposing mandates and lockdowns while breaking his own rules:
Absent from the reporting was even a hint of moral concern over his ghastly conduct, his poor judgment, his pill-popping, or his swinging pediatrician wife, Melissa.
Nor did the Times report Varmaβs gloating about how unbearable he made New Yorkersβ livers, to force them to get the shots.
The Times never mentioned vile Dr. Varmaβs illegal drug use, not one single time. In a sane world, police would be investigating him right now. Astonishingly, the Times even edited out Varmaβs own self-criticism, which would have made the story much more interesting, the admission his own behavior was βall this deviant sexual stuff.β
Again, in a sane world, verminous Varma would be permanently driven from polite society. The Times found nothing to condemn in Varma except his private inconsistency with his public policies. But the readers arenβt insane. You should see the articleβs comments. Hereβs one very telling example:
Yep, that commenter was wrong.
But at the end of the day, they had to cover the story. They didnβt trot out the time-worn βRepublicans pounceβ trope. And even if they only covered despicable Dr. Varma as just another βpandemic hypocrisyβ story, and even if it never appears in print again, they were nonetheless forced to cover it as straight news.
Crowderβs independent hidden-camera journalism broke through.
Also remarkably, Varmaβs vile story βor at least its hypocritical angleβ was widely covered by corporate media. The Atlanticβs was the worst take of all:
Relatable? Speak for yourself, Atlantic.
π₯π₯ NPR joined reporting on Trump shooter Ryan Routhβs bizarre backstory this morning in an article headlined, βIn his hometown, Trump's alleged would-be assassin acted like he was 'above the lawβ.β It was a strange story for a several reasons.
Iβve been holding off calling this out, since everybody makes mistakes, especially me, but I canβt just stand it anymore. Since early summer, Iβve been seeing a disquieting trend of basic grammar and spelling mistakes creeping into top-tier corporate media stories. For example, in NPRβs caption above, NPR reported that police βmanaged to diffuseβ an armed standoff with Routh (that never resulted in jail time, for some unexplained reason. You try that.).
Anyway. The point is, itβs not βmanaged to diffuse.β Thatβs just wrong. βDiffuseβ means spread over a wide area. They meant defuse. βDefuseβ means to neutralize or resolve a tense situation. Police defused the standoff.
Hopefully, this unsettling trend is merely a DEI phenomenon and not an artifact of declining cognitive ability due to some unidentified environmental factor. An environmental factor like the covid jabs. Just saying.
NPRβs article was equally remarkable. Routhβs crimes were well-known, well-documented, and never went anywhere, rightfully convincing the failed construction worker he was βabove the law.β An inquisitive reporter would have tripped over Routhβs extensive civil and criminal history in public records. Which raises the question of how, when corporate media was constantly quoting Routh in 2022, they somehow managed not to discover his extensive history?
Were reporters simply uncurious? Or did someone vouch for Routh?
π₯π₯ We are less than two months from the election, and things are practically white-hot now. The UK Guardian ran a breaking story yesterday headlined, βRepublicans step up effort to change Nebraska voting rules to help Trump.β Of course itβs to help Trump. Who else does the Guardian think Republicans should help? Harris? The Haitians?
You probably werenβt even thinking about Nebraska. Back in 1992, Nebraska changed the way the state allocated its five electoral college votes. It created a unique, overly complicated allocation system with districts, basically allowing for mix-and-match voting to give Democrats at least one reliable electoral vote each cycle.
Believe it or not, Nebraska could conceivably decide the 2024 race. It could be that close. Hereβs how the New York Times described the math of how a single Nebraska electoral vote (the blue Omaha district) might tip the race in Trumpβs favor:
Republicans moved quickly this week to revert Nebraska to a simple winner-takes-all system, like most states. The change would require a two-thirds majority of the Nebraska Senate. So the key vote has boiled down to a suddenly famous former Democrat, Senator Mike McDonnell.
McDonnell is a Catholic who joined the Republican party just this year after his own party censured him over opposing transgender surgeries for minors. McDonnell has also vowed he would never support βwinner takes allβ in Nebraska, but the Guardian says he is now βwavering.β
Waver harder.
Maine is the only other state that uses a similar system. Last year, Maine Democrats swore that, if Nebraskaβs Republicans moved to revert to a βwinner takes allβ system, then Maine would do the same thing, thereby neutralizing the effect of the Nebraska change.
But chess-playing Nebraska Republicans waited till the last minute, making a comparable Maine change now impossible, since Maineβs rules require 90 days before a bill can become effective.
According to the Timesβ version, Senator McDonnellβs phone is now blowing up with calls and text messages from all over the country, if not the world. McDonnell is in the spotlight, under immense pressure to keep his original promise and not help Republicans change Nebraskaβs electoral allocation system.
So β¦ C&Cers from Nebraska, contact Senator McDonnell and express your support for winner-takes-all: (402) 471-2710; mmcdonnell@leg.ne.gov. Do it right now!
π₯π₯ Yesterday, NPR ran another intensely encouraging story headlined, βGeorgia's Republican-led election board OKs controversial rule to hand-count ballots.β Finally!
Yesterday βpushing through opposition from the stateβs own Republican Secretary of State and Attorney Generalβ the stateβs conservative election board approved a rule requiring hand counts of voter ballots in Novemberβs election.
Theyβre to count the numbers of ballots, not the individual races.
In other words, theyβll be double-checking the electronic machines. Technically, each voting precinctβs local supervisor is required to hand-count the cast ballots, and cross-check those results against how many ballots the electronic machines claim to have tabulated.
NPR whined that, according to experts, hand-counting is slower and less reliable than electronic tabulation. Thanks, Captain Obvious, for pointing out hand counting is slower. But whether it is less reliable β well, that one seems debatable.
Why not count them? Counting cast ballots at the precinct level hardly seems impossible. One suspects all the hysteria must be for a different reason.
On top of that great news, the board passed six other rule changes yesterday. The new rules included: allowing poll watchers to access more places during vote tabulation, daily posting of the numbers of people in each county who cast ballots, and publicly posting reconciliation reports to the county website.
All these rules, including the counting of bare ballots, are designed to make cheating harder and easier to catch. Keep them guessing. Good things are happening, so keep your spirits up.
Have a wonderful weekend! Iβll see you back here on Monday morning, to kick the last full week of September off right.
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Ohio needs more JDs and Viveks, less DeWines and Kasichs. Warmonger open border RINO neocons are the past. MAGA and MAHA are the future.
I live in Ohio and am a registered Republican. I didn't vote for DeSwine. He's a disgrace to our state.