America Hates Itself and It Wants To Die

The Trump regime's efforts to flood the zone worked.  They're committing more crimes against humanity than I can keep up with, and I have to squeeze different stories into a single post, as i have to do here.  There are also some stories I don't have time, room, or patience to talk about here at all.

For today . . ..  First of all, the ACA is DOA.  The Republican majorities happily left Washington for the Christmas break without extending Affordable Care Act subsidies that allow the law to work and allow people to, well, get health insurance.  The subsidies expire this coming Wednesday, and come Thursday, January 1, and so people with no health insurance will not be able to get the care the need, while those who do have insurance will pay much higher premiums.  Which group to I fall in?  What's my situation?  Never you mind!  Suffice to say that the Republican health care policy first proposed in 2009 - don't get sick, and if you do, die quickly - is very much back in force, and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is certainly paying more attention to the latter half of said policy.

And once again, I am forced to return to the unpleasant subject of Bari Weiss . . . 

Just two hours before "60 Minutes" was to air this past Sunday, Weiss pulled a Sharyn Alfonsi story about the CECOT prison in El Salvador and the abuse migrants arrested in the United States suffered at that facility, a story that had been heavily promoted in advance, and substituted twin savant classical musicians - one of those feel-good stories "60 Minutes" always likes to do not as the main course but as the dessert that comes after the main course - in its stead.  Alfonsi defended the CECOT story, saying it had been fully vetted, but Weiss stood firm, saying it was biased against the administration and adding that the administration's top aide on immigration had the right to respond.  

That would be Stephen Miller.

Stephen . . . Miller. 

Yeah.  You know how "60 Minutes" correspondents always ask the government to explain its side of an unpleasantly and inconveniently true story and the government denies to respond?  Because what Weiss was apparently suggesting is that if the government declines your request for a comment to your story, than you must . . . kill the story. 

It would be nice if the government could offer its side of the story, but sometimes, as with the case of CECOT, where migrants are tortured simply for being migrants, sometimes, as CBS legend Edward R. Murrow once said, there is no side of the story.

Weiss killed this story because she not only knows that Trump would object to it being broadcast, she knows that David Ellison, who runs CBS, and his dad Larry Ellison, who owns CBS, would object to its airing because Trump would object - which would kill, in turn, the Ellisons' efforts to buy Warner Bros./Discovery.  But because Weiss has no experience in news, she somehow allowed the story to be aired in Canada, and it appeared on politically liberal YouTube channels for as long as YouTube would allow it.  

Awk-ward!

Hey, Bari, you wanted CBS News to simply "do the fucking news," right?  Well, Sharyn Alfonsi did her fucking job and, you fucking scrapped her story before it was to air.  What happened to pursuing the fucking news?  We want to hear the fucking truth!  And hear it out loud!  As Kiss once sang, "I want to hear it loud, I want to hear it fucking loud!!" 

Oh, what?  What?  That's not how that Kiss song from the early eighties goes?  No F-bombs in that song?  Oh, sorry. 

Well, so much for my Star Child photobomb . . . 😝 

I already stopped watching "60 Minutes" when Norah O'Donnell interviewed Trump and let him get away with everything.  I have even less desire to watch it now.