donsurber.blogspot.com Highlights of the News
8-10 minutes
Donald John Trump is still our president.
ITEM 1: Yahoo reported, "If Biden shuts down the US economy, the Dow would drop nearly 4,000 points: strategist."
ITEM 2: In 2010, Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell said, "I'm not a witch. I'm You."
Both lost.
ITEM 3: Politico the day before the election, "Trump threatens Senate GOP — now and in the future. Rising stars and longtime senators are both at risk of being pulled down by the president."
Politico after the election, "While Democrats are relieved that Joe Biden has defeated Donald Trump from the White House, their under-performance down ballot is fueling anxiety among lawmakers in both chambers — about how to govern under Biden and how to fend off more GOP attacks in 2022."
Maybe Jones is right. Maybe they aren't a demonic cult because most demonic cults have a better track record.
ITEM 4: Ace of Spades had a nice rant about Fox. He had light to go with his heat.
He wrote, "It's no secret that corporations punish Fox, refusing to advertise on the station. That's why you see so many smaller companies advertising there.
"And it's no secret that our Social Media Overlords rank Fox News very, very low in their search queries.
"Or at least -- they did until now."
A reader Googled "Trump lawsuit" and Fox was the first site to pop up.
At least Judas got 30 pieces of silver. All these clowns got were a few hits.
I'm with Ace. Boycott Tucker too.
ITEM 5: Breitbart reported, "The Trump Accountability Project, which targets supporters of President Donald Trump by adding them to a list and holding them accountable after the election, has announced that it is no longer active.
"The announcement was made on the project’s website, which has been promoted by former Pete Buttigieg staffer Hari Sevugan."
That's a load of Obama.
The communists are a bunch of vengeful people.
ITEM 6: Daily Mail reported, "President Donald Trump spelled out elements of his multi-state legal strategy to try to pry back President-elect Joe Biden's victory as called by the networks, claiming through a recount he would strip Georgia away from the Democrat's column. ... Hi comments about Pennsylvania and Michigan suggest that he will try to find a way to throw out the results in the states. That would grab another 36 electoral votes from Biden's total – depriving him the White House."
ITEM 7: Brian Stelter reported, "Trump voters are flocking to a TV channel that claims Biden is not president-elect."
Well, it is better than watching a crackpot network that told viewers President Trump colluded with Putin top win the 2016 election.
ITEM 8: The Washington Examiner reported, "President Trump has signed an order barring people in the United States from investing in a batch of Chinese companies that the White House says hold ties to China's military.
"News that Trump had signed the executive order, which prevents American businesses and individuals from owning stock directly or indirectly from a list of 31 businesses identified by the administration, was reported Thursday by the Wall Street Journal. Investors will have until November 2021 to divest of the securities in question.
"Divisions of two companies, China Mobile Communications and China Telecommunications Corp., trade on U.S. exchanges.
"The U.S. government argues that these companies support the development of the People’s Liberation Army, China's military.
"The rule had been under review for months, administration officials said. It goes into effect Jan. 11."
The Real President has spoken.
ITEM 9: The Streamable reported, "Disney+ reported today that they have now reached 73.7 million subscribers at the end of September. This is a 16.2 million climb from last quarter, when they reported they reached 57.5 million subscribers at the end of the third quarter in June 2020, but were at 60.5 million subscribers as of August 3rd."
Netflix added 2 million in that quarter, after a drop in September due to the boycott over Netflix running the child porn movie Cuties.
There is a lesson in there.
Somewhere.
ITEM 10: The Kansas City Star reported, "The Kansas City Star will leave its iconic glass building downtown and look for a new home, the newspaper announced Tuesday.
"The Star will vacate its building at 1601 McGee St. by the end of 2021. As part of the transition, the newspaper will move printing to a third party, beginning in the first quarter of 2021.
"The changes come after parent company McClatchy, which owns 30 U.S. news organizations, including The Star, The Miami Herald and The Sacramento Bee, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in February. The reorganization, which was approved by a federal judge in early August, allowed the company to renegotiate leases. Publications across McClatchy and the news industry have seen similar print consolidations."
Disney once owned the paper. Roy and Walt Disney got their start in business by delivering Kansas City Stars.
But newspapers are going the way of matchbooks.
ITEM 11: Penn Live reported, "Pennsylvania election officials cannot count mail-in ballots that were not verified by Nov. 9, regardless of an instruction given to them by Commonwealth Secretary Kathy Boockvar, a Commonwealth Court judge ruled Thursday.
"The decision by President Judge Mary Hannah Leavitt voids a Nov. 1 directive Boockvar issued to election officials in all 67 counties. In that directive Boockvar said those officials had until Nov. 12 to verify the identities of the voters who cast mail-in ballots."
What?
Democrats must obey election laws?
That is absurd. Laws are for little people.
ITEM 12: Just the News, "Just before President George W. Bush left the White House after two terms, he declared he wouldn't be weighing in with thoughts on his successor, following the model of his father, George H.W. Bush.
"But Barack Obama made no such pledge. And now, just days after the 2020 election, the 44th president is hawking a new book so get ready to hear a lot more from him.
"Obama, the first biracial man to be elected president, makes an incendiary charge in his book, A Promise Land, which comes out Tuesday.
"President Trump, he claims, 'promised an elixir for the racial anxiety' of 'millions of Americans spooked by a black man in the White House.'"
Spooked.
He said spooked.
The dude was an affirmative action hire whose policies failed. History judges him by the content of his character. That is what really bugs him.
ITEM 13: Just the News reported, "More than a week after the Nov. 3 elections, Fox News has acknowledged its election night prediction that Democrats would gain House seats was incorrect."
Fox said Democrats would gain 10 to 20 seats.
Fox is unfair, unbalanced, and oh-so-afraid of the Democrat Party.
ITEM 14: The Daily Wire reported, "The Minneapolis chief of police implored the city council to bring in help from the outside after a hemorrhaging police force has left the city reeling amid rising crime.Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo asked city authorities to reinforce their dwindling numbers as violent crime escalates in the city, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
"'Resources are hemorrhaging,' Arradondo said at a Tuesday meeting. 'Our city is bleeding at this moment. I’m trying to do all I can to stop that bleeding.'"
Boo hoo hoo.
The message to the department was clear. Good men and women are leaving. He doesn't care. No one in City Hall in Minneapolis cares.
ITEM 15: United Press International reported, "South Korea offered a glimpse of a science-fiction future on Wednesday with a demonstration flight of a two-seat drone taxi in Seoul, as the government outlined ambitious plans to commercialize urban air travel by 2025.
"At an event held next to the Han River near Yeouido, a finance and banking district in the heart of Seoul, a two-seat drone produced by Chinese manufacturer EHang buzzed quietly overhead for about seven minutes at an altitude of over 150 feet.
"The eVTOL -- electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing Vehicle -- which carries a payload of 485 pounds and can reach speeds up to 80 mph, was loaded with heavy sacks of rice instead of passengers for the flight."
Americans used to invent stuff like this.
Now we are too preoccupied with electric cars and windmills.
ITEM 16: The New York Times said, "Rep. Max Rose Is Defeated as Republicans Take Back N.Y.C. Seat. Nicole Malliotakis, a Republican state assemblywoman, flipped a district that is considered the most conservative in New York City."
She made him a one termer.
Yes, Max Rose -- and fell.
Hard.
|
