https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/trustee-over-infowars-auction-asks-court-to-approve-the-onion-s-winning-bid/ar-AA1vzEz3 Judges just blocked the onion taking over inforwars Fml Glad that we got exactly one piece of justice this year. In other news, a new bipartisan bill just passed: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/5349/text/eh We're back to Vietnam for sure, the ruling class wants another Red Scare
It's odd to live through the era when America completely gifted the electric automobile to China while the guy in America known for making electric automobiles is busy also ruining everything else, and doubling his wealth while he does it. Yeah that guy. Maybe we should all applaud ourselves, just a little bit, for not doing a Luigi. Surprised that there isn't language in that bill directly equating communism with socialism, as is american tradition. update: I am watching Fox & Friends this morning while I finish up my slides, it's been years since I freebased a Fox show live. This stuff is wild. I'll spare everyone (update3: nope!), but things have notably escalated in how steeped the MAGA propaganda has gotten. I am told that even Elon Musk, the "biggest champion of free speech out there" (- Jonathon Haidt, live interview) favors the new Kids Online Safety Act. But I know EFF opposes it. Sadly, these bills are small potatoes compared to what's coming down the pipes via executive order. and congressional control. oh and judiciary control. Woo this is gonna be great update2: this is surreal, it's brian kilmeade commentating, in free form stream of consciousness, over video footage of jeanine pirro interviewing the subway strangler. For FIVE CONTINUOUS MINUTES. They tease the interview and send you to a website to grab clicks. It's still going! Other commentators are jumping in to take up some time on the clock, but only Pirro and the strangler get screen time. Bummer. It's still going. This is 8 minutes now. Update4: the entire morning on fox is literally this:
China is subsidizing the bejeesus out of electric cars, much like they subsidized the shit out of everything else. The reason Europe and North America have much lower penetration of electric cars is the same reason Hollywood makes mostly superhero movies: it's the only entertainment economy that isn't supported by 70% or greater government subsidy. If you have to make money, you have to sell things people want to buy. Knock 70% off the price of a Ford Mustang and they'd sell like hotcakes too. Tesla? Tesla largely exists to launder carbon credits. It's subsidy of a different kind. The median cable news viewer is 70 years old. I'ma show you one image that encapsulates the current media landscape. Are you ready? Kathy Bates (76), pretending to be Andy Griffith (59 at the time), in a reheating of a 40-year-old show that nobody under 60 watched. Superbowl ads. Jewel of the Paramount crown. Except, of course, for everything Taylor Sheridan does, please god watch Harrison Ford in a cowboy hat we're spending $22m per episode. So you can be mad about the current media landscape? But you gotta keep in mind - nobody is aging into Fox News. Nobody is aging into MSNBC. ZOMFG judge blocks Onion acquisition of InfoWars. Might as well go shoot a CEO.update: I am watching Fox & Friends this morning while I finish up my slides, it's been years since I freebased a Fox show live.
