@MidnightRider What their ass-kissing visit said to Trump - and everyone else - “We’re sorry for all those bad things we said about you, and we won’t do that anymore.” They’ve lost all credibility in commenting on Trump now. So maybe they’ll let their guests opine instead and respond with an Ari Melber-like “Hmm.”

@johnldeboer I haven’t given media credibility in a very long time. The best way to know they are a bunch of lying shitheads is when they are doing a story on something that’s right within your wheelhouse. The US media is not our friend, the media is the mouthpiece of the military industrial complex. The days of 60 Minutes making CEOs Sweat will never return.

@MidnightRider Not as cynical as you, but I hear ya.

@johnldeboer Let me know if this is cynical: Tariffs will cause price increases on all appliances. After those prices go up, no matter what the future market conditions might be, they will not go back down. The same people crying about Biden inflation are going to drive this activity because they voted for Trump, but they will not admit after it happens that they made it worse by voting for him.

@MidnightRider @johnldeboer The truth is often confused with cynicism to those who don't want to hear it.

@MidnightRider I was referring to your take on the media, not the effect of Trump’s economic policies or the lack of wisdom in those who voted for him.

@johnldeboer I know you were. I was just asking if I was being cynical on a completely different topic, what’s your take on the tariffs?

@MidnightRider They will do what you said. Trump doesn’t know how tariffs work, obviously, and his MAGA crowd buys in to his false narrative.He should’ve learned that lesson with his agriculture tariff during his first term, but he didn’t, and it cost the taxpayers big time. Here we go again.

@johnldeboer He doesn’t know how tariffs work it’s true. BUT ! I am tired of giving the Democrats a pass on having no balls. Biden had four years to put his foot up Merrick Garland’s ass and he sat there instead. This country sold out Jack Smith that poor bastard.

@MidnightRider @johnldeboer ITA

@MidnightRider The Democrats are feckless, and the Republicans take advantage of it. Tell me something I don’t know.

@johnldeboer That’s why I consider our government a Punch and Judy show. It all happens by design, “oooo tough break, citizens, they almost did the right thing, better luck next time”. Thomas Jefferson was right but nobody had the ball to ever take his suggestion seriously and now it’s too late.