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A Florida Hurricane Delivers Hot Air Blather

Brad Slager
Brad Slager  |  Sep 01, 2023
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09.01.23

Artisanbally-Crafted Narratives – CNN

  • It sounds like the Republicans want to create MORE hurricanes!

In talking with Jared Moskowitz from Florida, in the wake of a hurricane slamming into the Big Bend portion of the state, CNN genius Kaitlan Collins just had to turn things political. See, it is the fault of the Republicans that Florida was hit...goes her theory.

How do you deal with a crisis if lawmakers and the White House can’t even find consensus on it?

We say, take it a step further, Kaitlan – why won’t Republicans pass legislation outlawing hurricanes?!?!

DNC PR Firm – MSNBC

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  • This makes it sound as if there is a way to buy our way out of a natural disaster.

Following this line of stunted pundit thinking, Chris Hayes takes a look at a hurricane hitting Florida and, OF COURSE, sees it as a climate change storm. He then brings up a Joe Biden proposal to give the state $350 million to battle climate change that DeSantis rejected, as if this somehow is correlated in any way with his state absorbing a hit from the storm.

In saying this, Hayes is directly suggesting that had DeSantis taken that payout then Florida would not have been hit and it instead would have – we don’t know, made a sharp turn south and made landfall instead in Mexico, or something. 

Low Octane Gas Lighting – CNN

  • Blaming Republicans directly for something they have not done.

This is a definitive case of taking spoon-fed talking points from the White House. On CNN, they discussed Joe Biden’s desire to call for $12 billion in additional spending to shore up FEMA and other relief aid. Arlette Saenz detailed his desires and then did the bidding of the administration by invoking the president as he politicized the issue.

And President Biden has said that he is ready to call out the Republicans if they don't get on board with this disaster relief funding.

No Republican has done so, but there is a good reason why. Saenz leaves out the detail that Biden was not being entirely benevolent, as he attached additional funding of the Ukraine war effort to this “emergency" domestic relief aid request.

Blue-Anon – THE NEW YORK TIMES

  • Is this a case of the car skirts being too short???

In a completely stunted op-ed, Farhad Manjoo looks at the epidemic of cars being stolen in

certain (Democrat-run) cities and analyzes solutions. It turns out, thieves – who are lightly prosecuted – have gone on TikTok and learned how to easily break into certain models by hacking remote starting options.

Does Manjoo call for an increased police presence? No – he suggests the cities sue the automakers because their vehicles are easily stolen. Almost as if he realized his idiocy, Manjoo does go on to say that TikTok bears no responsibility in this matter. And, we assume, neither do the thieves nor the cities who under-enforce the law.

Legalized Press-titution – THE ECONOMIST

Most are aware that a large reason there are so many companies that come forward with customer-defying social activist positions is because massive investment firms impose social standards on companies to follow or absorb the cost of these entities dumping huge amounts of stock and driving down the market value. Many believe that Anheuser Busch suffered its Bud Light debacle because it catered to Dylan Mulvaney in an effort to boost its ESG rating with investment firms, such as BlackRock.

The head of that asset firm is Larry Fink, renown for pushing his social causes and trying to force his views on the public by manipulating companies through his company’s ability to leverage compliance as it manages trillions of dollars worth of corporate holdings.

The Economist takes a sympathetic look at how Fink is portrayed in the public eye, trying to sell it as unfair how many perceive this corporate titan – even as it acknowledges the problem by declaring he is “the face of woke capitalism.”