Oh my.
As I said just a day ago, this is not your usual biannual lovers’ quarrel between co-dependent couple Donald Trump and Fox News.
We have seen those come and go. It gets all hot and angry, Trump sleeps with OANN on TV for a few nights.
But then Trump and Fox News decide that they would rather live with hating each other than go out on their own and grow-up. This is not one of those fights. This one might be for real.
What is different this time?
Easy. Murdoch money might well be on the line this time. The Murdochs are not dumb. They know that the United States is one litigious society. The Murdochs can picture the United States in May of 2021, now crossing 750,000 dead after “the lost winter,” President Biden is calling for a “Warren Commission” type of study into how it was that the United States lost so many people while also bankrupting the world economy, and some evidence will come out about the positive feedback loop in phone calls back and forth between former president Trump’s White House and the Fox offices. Families of loved ones who died because it was all a “hoax” and-or took hydroxychloroquine and died, will sue the ever-living shit out of Fox News.
Is that guaranteed to happen? Not at all. Could it? Absolutely. And that is why this fight is different. And mind you, Trump is tweeting this from Air Force One as he flies to visit a Ford factory in Michigan.
Many will disagree, but @FoxNews [1] is doing nothing to help Republicans, and me, get re-elected on November 3rd. Sure, there are some truly GREAT people on Fox, but you also have some real “garbage” littered all over the network, people like Dummy Juan Williams, Schumerite Chris…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 21, 2020 [2]
And he wasn’t done, obviously:
….Hahn, Richard Goodstein, Donna Brazile, Niel Cavuto, and many others. They repeat the worst of the Democrat speaking points, and lies. All of the good is totally nullified, and more. Net Result = BAD! CNN & MSDNC are all in for the Do Nothing Democrats! Fox WAS Great!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 21, 2020 [3]
Oh, please to be fcking off now!
Though Trump named all those terrible Democratic boogeymen, this tweet might have been referencing something that happened last night – Trump just can’t say it out loud.
Last night, Mark Cuban went on Sean Hannity’s show and explained to Hannity that Trump is a terrible president because all Trump ever does is “play the victim card.” Cuban said, “Trump is the most powerful man on earth, he should quit whining and get out and lead.” Hannity tried to defend Trump with a lie, “they spied on him!” and Cuban dropped a bomb: “So what! That’s in the past. We are in a crisis, lead!”
Hannity had to sit through it and maybe even heard something that might’ve caused a small pit in the tummy. Now Hannity is checking his twitter feed and watching the dollar signs fall, going to OANN.
I wonder if he wonders … This fight is different. The “feedback” was reliably hilarious:
pic.twitter.com/Ga2BldNiW7 [4]
— NostraDonny (@Nostradonny) May 21, 2020 [5]
THIS is what makes this fight different:
#DumpTrump2020 [6] #166Days [7] pic.twitter.com/gA1sCKSHcj [8]
— Brad Celmainis 🛵 #SociallyDistant (@BradCelmainis) May 21, 2020 [9]
THIS is what makes this fight different.
Maybe Fox is beginning to see the writing on the wall. Trumpism will die a lonely death in November, perhaps taking the entire @GOP [10] with it. pic.twitter.com/1QJt07gGeQ [11]
— Tom Shafer (@TomShafShafer) May 21, 2020 [12]
All he does is whine:
GOP have to smear others because they have no positive qualities about themselves and it’s the only for them to look good in comparison and it only works in the stupid https://t.co/5yESS3ga68 [13]
— Vertebrate (@AngieGr60130939) May 21, 2020 [14]
It is always someone’s fault:
You’re full of conspiracies like
OBAMAGATE…🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/pYlG48KQmj [15]— Bobby’s Thoughts (@bobby_thoughts) May 21, 2020 [16]
I hope we persuaded you, this is a wonderful fight to watch because these two needed to break-up long ago. It would be wonderful if Fox swore off Trump, and found a new guy, someone who spoke respectfully and didn’t abuse it.
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Peace, y’all
Jason
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