"Illegal immigration happened."

On Trump's watch?
If you say so.

Literal Nazi propaganda.

There's a TikTok or whatever where some soybenn farmer says he woke up to hearing Trump was sending $20B dollars to Argentina, his main global competition for soybean exports... and then China ordered $12 billion of soybeans from Argentina.

"he desperately tried to distance himself from"

Desperately?

He "barely," and very ham-fistedly in a way that anyone could tell he was lying, tried to distance himself from it.

Thanks for another solid example of why people don't trust mass media reporting on politics.

I know it's old fashioned, but I can't help but feel this should be settled with a duel.

"Rush Limbaugh managed to drive a wedge between many Americans and the MSM. He turned it into a derogatory term."

LOL, "many Americans." Why not just say Republicans? That's Rush's audience.
You like playing these Overton Window games with your deliberate vagueness.

Speaking of Rush, Rush Limbaugh architected the post-truth era we live in now.
Rush Limbaugh architected a political discourse where "Barack The Magic Negro" is acceptable political commentary from the Riiight.

That being said, the Gallup Poll does not use the term MSM:

"In general, how much trust and confidence do you have in the mass media " such as newspapers, TV and radio " when it comes to reporting the news fully, accurately and fairly " a great deal, a fair amount, not very much or none at all?"

The mass media, by definition, includes Rush Limbaugh, FOX News, WSJ, 700 Club, and so on. So if you were to ask me, I would answer "A Fair Amount" or "Not Very Much." And Rush Limbaugh is an example of why.

Republicans poison the airwaves, and then turn around and say "The Mass Media is lying to you!"
Yeah, you're right, Republicans. You're the ones doing the lying.

"The children must have been wearing underwear."

Try not to sound so disappointed when you say that.

If you want Americans to be financially healthy, you'd start with things like regulating the financial "services" that prey on the poor, things like payday loans and

But MSgt doesn't want a government that helps poor Americans become financially healthy.
MSgt wants a government that helps poor Americans stay poor.
Because he likes blaming poor Americans for being poor.

"Dave Ramsey's Total Money Makeover book/plan"

The seven baby steps are:
1. Save a $1,000 beginner emergency fund.
2. Get out of debt using the debt-snowball method. This means to list all debts arranging them by smallest to largest amount. Make only the minimum payments on all except the smallest debt. Use any available money to pay as much as possible to the smallest debt. When the smallest debt is paid off, add that money to the payments of the next smallest debt. Repeat until all debts except the house mortgage are paid off.
3. Save a proper emergency fund that is 3-6 months of expenses.
4. Invest 15% of household income for retirement.
5. Save for children's college.
6. Pay off the home early.
7. Build wealth and be generous.

Let's take Step 1. "According to a 2023 NerdWallet survey, only 45% of Americans could cover a $1,000 emergency expense without using a credit card or loan, indicating that many struggle to build even a modest emergency fund."

So, what Dave is selling isn't going to be actionable advice for roughly half the people who really need help.

You are very out of touch with the way things are if you can't see that.

If you listen to his show, you know how financially ruined millions of Americans already are.

A book isn't going to fix that.

But you don't think it's a thing that society needs to be fixed.

One reason trust in MSM is so low is Republicans aren't held to account by the media.

Not that it's necessarily possible for the media to do that -- but there's not much effort to, either.

This is setting aside the obvious media that's spreading Trump's lies, which is another reason not to trust "the media" in whole, because more and more of it is tainted and propagandized.

"Make a point once in a while instead of trying to make it about me."

My points are usually about Republicans.

You're a Republican.

It's not my fault if you take that personally.

It's yours.

"I was talking about how folks get into poverty.
Not that we should ignore it."

Republicans shutting down the government is intended to put more people in poverty.

Take the W.

It's just so hopelessly easy to dunk on you all day, bro.

White House visitor logs from the Clinton administration, obtained by news outlets through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Clinton Presidential Library, reveal that Jeffrey Epstein visited the White House at least 17 times between 1993 and 1995
#11 | Posted by fishmarket

Well naturally.
That's when Chelsea Clinton was between 13 and 15 years old.
After she turned 16, she wasn't interesting any more.

Keep in mind most poor folks were born into it.
So it's ------ life choices ... ..just not their own choices.
#33 | Posted by eberly

Allowing poverty to flourish is a choice an entire society makes, Eberly.

You are absolutely hopeless if you can't recognize that.

To the comments about Trump's agenda -- and the Supreme Court that is rubber stamping it -- not being "Conservative."

You are correct, but pay attention to what's going on.
They're normalizing Hard Right Fascism by calling it Conservatism.
Like it's just further along some Spectrum of political discourse.
Like the Supreme Court hasn't crossed a Rubicon where the Executive Branch, as a matter of policy, is free to ignore the rule of law as promulgated by Congress.

That's how the media operates to shift the Overton Window.

Nothing but your average libbie dem pettiness.
#6 | Posted by MSgt

Whereas the Kristi Noem brand of pettiness is gunning down your own dog, after you fail miserably at raising her.

I wouldn't let Kristi Noem use my bathroom either. She would probably try to flush a fetus sired by Donald Trump down my toilet, and make a big mess.

And as for you, I don't need to let you use my bathroom, because you wear a diaper.

Thank you for your Service; it must have been especially hard to fight for freedom when you're a fascist.

Thanks CBob. You're a good egg.

Some of us actually had a decent education and are aware of many events in history that the younger generation never heard of.
#9 | Posted by MSgt

Right.

Some of us know Wounded Knee wasn't a battle, it was a massacre of men, women and children. It was just one of many such acts of ethnic cleansing as the United States settled the West.

And some of us think men deserve medals for those atrocities.

Are you one of those men, MSgt?

Don't be shy now, speak up. I look forward to judging you by the content of your character.

You're both right.

The petty cruelty is how they display "strength."

Like the time Kristi Noem gunned down her dog in cold blood.

The President is entitled to anything he wants.
--Republicans

"California's state and local government debt is over $500 billion"

California's state and local government debt has been reported to exceed $510 billion, with the state government alone holding approximately $273 billion in long-term debt and local entities contributing an additional $238 billion. -- AI
California's gross domestic product (GDP) was $4.103 trillion in 2024
Debt is 12.4% of GDP.

"Mississippi had a budget surplus of $750 million for the 2024-25 fiscal year and faced a $6.6 billion financial hole"

In the fiscal year 2024, the state of Mississippi had state debt totaling 8.19 billion U.S. dollars, while local government debt was slightly lower at 7.84 billion U.S. dollars. -- AI
Mississippi's real gross domestic product (GDP) was $122.4 billion in 2024.
Debt is 13.1% of GDP.

I don't know why you think it benefits you to lie.
But you must get some kind of emotional reward for lying, because you make it your life's work here.
Maybe it's knowing your Social Credit Score is going up with Palantir.

#20 Hasn't that always been the case?
#21 | Posted by visitor_

There was a time before you were born; before 1975.
"Since 1975, practically all the gains in household income have gone to the top 20% of households."
What happened before 1975?
You don't know and you don't care, you're already deciding this comment isn't one you can respond to.

SSentinel is here to remind us Nazis are just strong believers in Good Luck.