the NY Times is now sanewashing the greedy billionaires who are ripping us off

no, Gray Lady, the oligarchs are not our friends

here’s the scariest sentence in the English language:

“I’m a billionaire, and I’m here to help.”

the fucktangle of oligarchs who Donald Trump has named to his Confederacy of Sewer Clowns are not our friends. oh, these sociopathic shitbags will flash their million-dollar smiles at you as they spin their fantasies of how they’re going to run America like a business, and how amazing it’s going to be for everyone once they’ve cut all the fat out of the budget — but never forget that it’s all a bullshit lie. these greedy bastards have come to Washington to fatten their own wallets, at our expense.

the first thing they’re going to do is steal everything that’s not nailed down, sell it off, and pocket the profits. then they’re going to bring in crowbars so they can pry up everything that is nailed down, and steal all that shit, too.

and while all this pilferage is going on, they’re going to lie right in your face and claim it’s all in the name of ‘improving the efficiency of government services.’

but thank the gods that we have an active and vibrant press who will hold these thieving weasels to account, right?

our media would never take these evil fucks at their word, would they? please tell me that they’re not buying in to all this ‘we’re here to help’ nonsense. please tell me — oh fuck.

A core goal of Mr. Musk and the Silicon Valley set has been to improve the efficiency of government services.

thank you, New York Times. thank you so much for playing loyal stenographer and uncritically parroting what some plutocrat told you. you’re doing the Lord’s work. pat yourselves on the back. did the Times even bother to read the very next sentence in that paragraph?

One tech executive who has been seen at Mar-a-Lago, the investor Shervin Pishevar, has called for an agenda that pushes substantial privatization of American government functions, such as the Postal Service, NASA and the federal prison system, and the creation of an American sovereign wealth fund.

these gazilllionaire fuckwaffles are not benevolent humanitarians. they are economic vampires who want to destroy all the services the government now provides, so they can sell us more-expensive-but-inferior dime-store knockoffs.

ever get a letter in the mail from a bank, or the cable company — or any faceless corporation — and it starts with ‘in order to bring you better service…’?

you know exactly what’s coming next: you’re going to be told you’re getting a shittier deal, and it’s going to cost you more. well, welcome to Donny Convict’s US of A, if these rancid ratfuckers get their way.

and last thing we need right now is The New York Times aiding and abetting the looting of America.

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what the fuck is going on at the Los Angeles Times?

Alexa, show me the stupidest idea in the history of the press.

Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, who blocked the newspaper’s endorsement of Kamala Harris and plans to overhaul its editorial board, says he will implement an artificial intelligence-powered “bias meter” on the paper’s news articles to provide readers with “both sides” of a story.

wait, what? are you telling me that if someone reads something in the LA Times that they don’t like, they can click a button and read a more-mollifying version of it?

“Somebody could understand as they read it that the source of the article has some level of bias,” he said on Jennings’ “Flyover Country,” podcast. “And what we need to do is not have what we call confirmation bias and then that story automatically, the reader can press a button and get both sides of that exact same story based on that story and then give comments.”

no. fuck no.

the news is not a choose-your-own-adventure video game. facts are facts, and you don’t get to cut and paste the version of reality you like better.

this is what happens when you let billionaires buy their own media empires.

Patrick Soon-Shiong is not a newspaper guy. he didn’t get his start in the LA Times mailroom, and work his way from beat reporter to city desk editor to management. he’s not even a nepo-publisher from a dynasty of newspeople, as is the NY Times’ AG Sulzberger.

Soon-Shiong made his billions in the biotech industry. he bought the LA Times because it was an awesome shiny object that seemed like it would be fun to own — and he could give a fuck about capital-N “news.” it’s all just a game to him, and what could be more cool than letting your readers press a button to get “both sides” of a story?

clownfuckery like this is what’s destroying the average American’s ability to have any clue what’s actually going on in the world, and the billionaires who are responsible for wrecking our trust in the media couldn’t care less — as long as they turn a profit.

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Donny Convict was in Paris yesterday, attending the re-opening of Notre Dame Cathedral — and the broken-inside dipshit is still playing his pathetic dominance games.

check out the weird alpha-dog handshake he attempts on Emmanuel Macron.

this fucking guy never passes up an opportunity to show the world that he’s a boorish asshole.

all during Donny’s first go-round as president, he would do this thing with world leaders where he would grab their hand and yank their arm towards him, so they would be thrown off balance. it’s the kind of move you make when you have the emotional maturity of a toddler. it’s how you overcompensate when your tyrannical father never stopped telling you that you were a weak piece of shit who never would amount to anything.

it’s so notorious that there’s even a wikipedia page about it.

oh, let’s not forget about the time Donny pushed Montenegro’s Prime Minister out of the way so he could preen in front of the camera.

thanks, Fred Trump, you really did a number on your son — and the rest of us are paying for it.

is it any wonder that Donny was the most despised person in that cathedral?

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oh, look — the countries that Donny is trying to fuck over are gearing up to fuck us right back.

Having fun in the sun south of the border could get a little more expensive next year for visitors who stop in Mexico via cruise ships.

The Mexican government plans to impose a $42 immigration fee for each passenger on a cruise ship that docks in the country. The new law states that Mexico’s Immigration Institute will issue a “collective visa to every person on the ship’s passenger list.”

and once again, the plutocrats who are “helping” us could give two shits about the economic impact of their fuckery. with their private jets and private islands and the social bubbles they live in, they’re totally insulated from the consequences of their actions.

billionaires are not our friends.

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here’s your daily reminder that I can be found on Blue Sky at this link.

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this is going to be my closing message for the foreseeable future:

practice self-care. do what you need to do to keep sane. if that means you need to disengage with my daily posts for a while, I get it. this community of ours will still be here when you return.

to all the people who have signed on in the days since the election, welcome aboard. settle in as we all try to deal with the shitfuckery that’s ahead of us.

we are all in this together, and we are all here for each other.