Get Off My Lawn! - The Mad Ramblings of a Gen X-er

Crapomics & Media Bias Exposed: The Unseen Impacts of Policy Decisions

November 30, 2023 Online Big Blue LLC Season 2 Episode 51
Crapomics & Media Bias Exposed: The Unseen Impacts of Policy Decisions
Get Off My Lawn! - The Mad Ramblings of a Gen X-er
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Get Off My Lawn! - The Mad Ramblings of a Gen X-er
Crapomics & Media Bias Exposed: The Unseen Impacts of Policy Decisions
Nov 30, 2023 Season 2 Episode 51
Online Big Blue LLC

Believe it or not, media bias is real and often slanting to the left, especially in publications like The New York Times. Join us as we expose and dissect the selective narrative in reporting tragic incidents, such as the heart-wrenching death of a six-year-old boy in an anti-Muslim attack and the murder of a Jewish man by a pro-Palestinian protester. We'll question how the religious identities of the victims affect the media's storytelling and draw attention to the burgeoning anti-Jewish sentiment in certain quarters.

Ever wondered how Bidenomics is shaping the American economy? We've got you covered in a gritty conversation spurred by a young woman's struggle to name instances of Trump's alleged racism. Brace yourself as we navigate the ballooning cost of living in the US and examine Biden's new White House Council on supply chain resilience. And that’s not all. Delve into historical misconceptions about Christianity, take on Obamacare, and explore the ripple effects of policy decisions. It's time to shatter some illusions and serve you the truth on a silver platter. Be ready for an enlightening experience.

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Believe it or not, media bias is real and often slanting to the left, especially in publications like The New York Times. Join us as we expose and dissect the selective narrative in reporting tragic incidents, such as the heart-wrenching death of a six-year-old boy in an anti-Muslim attack and the murder of a Jewish man by a pro-Palestinian protester. We'll question how the religious identities of the victims affect the media's storytelling and draw attention to the burgeoning anti-Jewish sentiment in certain quarters.

Ever wondered how Bidenomics is shaping the American economy? We've got you covered in a gritty conversation spurred by a young woman's struggle to name instances of Trump's alleged racism. Brace yourself as we navigate the ballooning cost of living in the US and examine Biden's new White House Council on supply chain resilience. And that’s not all. Delve into historical misconceptions about Christianity, take on Obamacare, and explore the ripple effects of policy decisions. It's time to shatter some illusions and serve you the truth on a silver platter. Be ready for an enlightening experience.

Support the Show.

Speaker 1:

What you just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. You don't know what that is, mr Trash. I'd show you. But I'm too old, I'm too tired, I'm too fucking blind. If I were a man I was five years ago I'd take a flamethrower to this place.

Speaker 2:

Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?

Speaker 1:

You want answers. I think I'm entitled to it. You want answers, I want the truth.

Speaker 2:

You can't handle the truth In this topsy-turvy holiday season. The truth shall always set you free. This is Tim. This is going to get off my lawn. The mad ralings of a Gen X are oh.

Speaker 2:

We need to talk about bi-denomics. And then we also want to talk about the interesting segment of the media who seems to want to frame stories, and this is nothing new. And evidently we're going to start off on this. First because the New York Times, the old gray lady who's been around forever, has become this bastion of information that you really need to scrutinize repeatedly, because of the fact that they seem to always be playing a narrative. There's always something going on with them that when you read their paper, you always have to take everything with a grain of salt because you know it's going to have that leftist spin.

Speaker 2:

And now, with everything that's going on in Israel, everything that's going on with Hamas, everything going on with Gaza, the ceasefire, everything else, the hostage exchange Can we just talk about the hostage exchange for a minute? It's not a hostage exchange. I'm sorry. The people that Hamas took are hostages. They stole them from their homes, they murdered their families, they raped their daughters, they shot some of their children alive. They beheaded people and they took them hostage. The people that they're exchanging them for, in reference to whom Israel is giving up. The majority of those people are what they refer to as convicted criminals. These were people that were convicted, a large majority of them, by their own peers, people that are also Muslim, people that are Jewish. We're exchanging people who have been convicted of crimes and we're exchanging them for people who are actually taken hostage. I think that really needs to be looked at and addressed.

Speaker 2:

Sometimes, I think that's overlooked. I have to laugh because, like I said, I was reading some New York Times articles and I was going back. It's interesting that when you look at their headlines, when things happen in reference to what's going on right now, between now the anti-Muslim rhetoric sorry, I just did another podcast and my brain is still focused on something else you have that rhetoric, and it's funny because somehow that coincides with the anti-Jew movement right now that we're seeing quite prevalent in this country in certain areas, which is really kind of scary, because it seems like these people kind of forgot what happened in Nazi Germany. I was reading, though, a headline in reference to a heinous crime in Chicago where a six-year-old boy was fatally stabbed. They're calling this an anti-Muslim attack. Now the New York Times headline is this six-year-old boy fatally stabbed in anti-Muslim attack authority say. And then the byline underneath it is officials say they consider the attack outside of Chicago a hate crime tied to fighting in Israel and Gaza. So you read that and you think to yourself well, that is heinous, that is terrible, because, first of all, no one should be, you know, you shouldn't be stabbing children, especially over something like this. That's happening somewhere else. There's just too many people that have so much passion about this and I don't want to say they have misdirected passion. But when you side with the terrorists and you think they are what they're doing or what they did was okay, we've said it before, there's something very wrong here. So you read that and you're like, well, okay, you know that's horrible.

Speaker 2:

And then a couple days pass and there was an attack in Los Angeles in a suburb during a protest where a Jewish man died or actually he didn't die, he was murdered. He was murdered. He was literally murdered by a pro-Palestinian protester. So you look at the New York Times article and I love it. The headline is Jewish man dies after altercation at dueling protests in California. And underneath that is the episode occurred in a suburb outside of Los Angeles amid pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Okay, they forget to mention that he was stabbed, and he was stabbed and murdered by a pro-Palestinian person. So I don't, I don't understand this Out of all. How does reporting change so differently between two stories that are almost identical, except for one being a Jewish man and the other one being a six-year-old? The six-year-old was killed in a hate crime, stabbed. We'll read it again Six-year-old boy fatally stabbed and anti-Muslim attacked. Authorities say, officials say they could seriously attack outside of a Chicago hate crime tied to the fighting in Israel and Gaza. Now a Jewish man dies, and it's Jewish man dies after altercation at dueling protests in California. I love it. The episode, episode, the murder, the hate crime occurred in the suburbs outside of Los Angeles amid pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

Speaker 2:

I don't understand why the media has to pander to the left so much. They're almost like petulant children. It's on people on the left and I love it because you watch these people and you watch these protesters and if you try to engage them in a conversation about exactly what's going on, they either walk away or literally just start screaming obscenities because of the fact that they don't know the facts, they don't know what's going on, they don't understand it. They don't don't understand and I love it because the majority of them have the history of Israel completely wrong, have the history of the Jewish communities completely wrong.

Speaker 2:

I loved it the other day that a protester was trying to attack people of Christian faith and this woman goes up to this black gentleman and says you know who's actually from? I believe Ethiopia. And she goes how do you feel that Christianity was forced upon your people in Ethiopia? It's colonialism, zionism. The guy looked at her and said honestly, people forget that Christianity is not a European thing and actually started in Africa, in Ethiopia, centuries before it went to Europe. That the Bible I believe it's the Ethiopian Bible is older by thousands of years than the Catholic or Christian Bible. And again, she didn't want to hear that. So she just started screaming and the guy was actually very articulate about it. He explained it much better than I can. He was very articulate about it but her defense was I'm just going to scream obscenities and say you're a racist even though you're black.

Speaker 2:

Then you had the Dead Spin article about the little boy at the Kansas City Chiefs Game. Now, of course, this kid. He you know it's it was, you know it's his team, the chiefs are his team. So he wanted to support his team. He wanted to do everything. So he painted himself red and black on his face and he has the. He has the with the war bonnet on, I guess you would call it. And so this this reporter will call them loosely a senior writer took a picture of the kid just as he had his head turned and just showed the black face and basically said the NFL needs to speak out against a Kansas City Chiefs fan. And black face, native American headdress that was the headline and accused the boy of double downing on racism. We got him and then. I love it because then you see the picture of the kid and half his face is painted red, half his face is painted black because that's the color of the Kansas City Chiefs.

Speaker 2:

Now you also have to remember that this guy, phillips, who, who's the senior writer, he also slammed the Holden's Native American headdresses and the Tomahawk chop agresture that they use, claiming the boy found a way to hate black people and Native Americans at the same time. Da da da, we got this kid, we got this seven year old. We're just going to go after him. But then again, like I said, the kid changed. You see the kid straight on, half his face is red, half his face is black and, yes, he's wearing the Native American headdress. And then I love it Now because he also took pictures with the, with the let's Los Angeles, oh no, yeah, las Vegas Raiders, cheerleaders and everyone was loving it at the game. And they're still complaining about the fact. Well then, it's not. Well, he just stole the heritage of the Native Americans. So it turns out the kid happens to be Native American. Turns out he's also Native American. So I mean, but don't worry, we're just gonna keep reporting on it.

Speaker 2:

And then this then this idiot said this idiot Phillips doubles down on it and says for the kid, if an idiot, somebody who mentioned who are treating this as some harmless act because the other side of his face was painted red, I couldn't make any argument. That makes it even worse. He wrote Y'all are the ones who hate Mexicans, but wear some brarros on Cinco de Mayo. Oh listen, there's racism in this world. I'm not gonna deny that. I, I, I, I come from a multicultural family. I'm in a multicultural marriage. I've experienced it firsthand and I've experienced it on both sides of the coin, in reference to my wife being of color and me being Caucasian, and it's just one of those things that happens Because there's idiots on everywhere. There's idiots everywhere, everyone that thinks that there is not a nationality or a person or a religion that isn't racist against someone else.

Speaker 2:

You're fooling yourself, but at the end of the day, in 2024, we've come a long way in race relations. We've come a long way, and sometimes people seem to look for or try to find racism where it isn't so what they do is they create the racism, they create the hatred. We've had multitudes of stories over the last couple years where they racist claims are just made up and though, even though you had, you had the one girl in college and she was trying to get to class and this protester basically claimed that this young woman, who was white and the protester was black, made a racially charged claim against her, she said something that was totally racist and she basically was offended by it and they brought this poor girl up on charges because this was just hearsay information from one person and this young woman who brought the claim against her and all of a sudden became a celebrity on TikTok and now she's doing I forget, she's still working for some news network doing something this. And then it turned out, when they actually had the tribunal or whatever you want to call it the trial at school in reference for this young woman to defend herself, it turned out she didn't say anything racist, that this other young woman thought she overheard her say something, didn't hear her directly say it, and then she was like, wow, someone told me she said it. It's like, well, wait a minute, you made this claim, you made this accusation you made you made your rounds on the liberal media and it turns out that you actually didn't hear her say anything. And it turned out that she didn't say anything racist at all but you ruined her life because of the fact that you wanted to increase your social media cred. Really, it just kind of disgusts you in certain ways that it's just unbelievable but that this could be. You know, nobody reports on the. Nobody reports on the second half of the story.

Speaker 2:

Then there was the story not too long ago I think it was in a school in the Midwest where a noose was found hanging from a dorm room door of three black gentlemen. And you know you had all this racial insensitivity and you had all these things that were going on on the campus at that point in time because racism was running rapid. And then it turned out that these young black gentlemen put the noose on the door themselves. Now I'm not saying that all claims racism were false, but I am saying this you need to examine something fully before you start using the term racist. I mean because that's the left's playing card. If they do not have a logical explanation for anything that they say, or are the ability to pontificate, a clear response and answer All of a sudden, you're a racist. You're a racist and then I love it because you're like well, why am I a racist? Because you just are.

Speaker 2:

There was another great video I watched the other day. This woman went on campus and she was interviewing people about who they're going to vote for, and a young woman asked one. She was like oh, biden. And she was like well, why are you voting for Biden? Because she's like I don't want to vote for Trump because he's a racist. So she asked him or asked her what is he ever saying? What's so racist about Trump? Give me an example. So the young woman couldn't give an example. She just kept claiming the other woman was racist.

Speaker 2:

And then the young woman finally came up with an example and she was like well, he doesn't denounce white supremacy. So the other woman who was interviewing her said well, I can show you a video right now that has at least 20 plus separate times where Trump has denounced white supremacy. Would you like to see it? No, I don't want to see it because you're racist. And she's like well, I can show you the video that's 20 plus times him denouncing white supremacy. No, I don't want to see it. I'm late for class. I love it because it's actually on campus. That's the other out for liberals. I'm late for class. Yeah, you need to go to class because evidently you don't fucking know anything. But you want to sit there and try to tell me you're going to run the world when you've already run it into the ground Because we have the wonderful Bidenomics. Biden has been touting Bidenomics all across the country.

Speaker 1:

Well, so I guess that's, I can't hold this in Boston 1773.

Speaker 2:

I don't know why that came up, because I hit the wrong button, that's why. So we've come across in reference to Bidenomics again, let's talk about the White House.

Speaker 2:

So I can't believe. I'm trying to watch something that keeps coming up and I shouldn't watch something when I was watching something else. So it came out, through an independent study, that American households need an extra $11,434. To maintain the same standard of living they enjoyed in January of 2021. Now I think that this is great for Bidenomics. The analysts found that it might be worse state by state. For example, in Colorado, the average American household must spend an extra $15,000 a year to afford the same standard of living that they had in 2021.

Speaker 2:

Now the great thing is, cbs, of all places, reported these numbers and said it is reflected on the cost of basic goods and other factors, despite other positive economic measures, such as jobless rates being at a two decade low. Of course, we always talk about the jobless rate, but we don't talk about the under-employment rate. We don't talk about the people that they no longer count. You are not counted in the jobless numbers. If you stop looking for work or if you have used or exhausted your unemployment, you basically just fall off. You have disappeared. You have disappeared. You're no longer counted because you're not a little over for a job.

Speaker 2:

But that is alarming, that there are certain countries that you, a certain country, certain states that you have to spend it. You have to have an additional $15,000 this year just to live, just to be a where you were in 2021 and, like I said, the average additional cost is eleven thousand four hundred dollars. Where are people getting that? Where are people getting this money? They're getting it through the death loop. I Like to call it the death loop and some other, some analysts, call that. Basically, what you're doing is to, to, to continue to survive, to continue to eat, to continue to feed your families, continue to fill your car, continue to do anything to live. You either Borrow the money vis-a-vis credit cards which is why credit card payments right, you mean credit card debt is at its highest in years or you dip into your savings and it's a death loop because of the fact that you are never, you're not saving money anymore. You're exhausting your savings, you're exhausting your credit just to live, but that's okay.

Speaker 2:

Biden obvios is working. Then. Then, the other day, biden announced an establishment at the White House Council on supply chains resilience on Monday and has 30 new actions to help Americans get the products they need when they need them Reliable deliveries for businesses, strengthen our agricultural and food systems and support good paying union jobs. It's all about the union jobs. Now, too, it's all about the union jobs. But here's the problem. If I knew, where are you getting an extra thousand dot? Where are people, like I said, where are people getting that extra thousand dollars a month? Well, it's very easy. It's very easy, like I said, credit card debt and dipping into their finances.

Speaker 2:

Right now, gallup found on a poll I guess it was a couple, I guess was Tuesday of this week that just 32% of Americans approve of the handling of his handling of the economy. Yeah, cuz, unilaterally, it's just, it's just crap. And the middle class, once again, is being crushed by the things that he is doing, the things that he is forcing. Now it's even to the point that people that believed in green energy are trying to tell them yo yo, yo, slow down Because of the fact that your green energy policies are killing us. Oh, I just, I found the clip about. I was talking earlier about the the gentleman talking about the Bible. I found the clip. Hold on, I found this clip. Let me see if I can get this clip to play. I just, I just found the clip.

Speaker 3:

First fancy was an offer cover for you rule. Whoa, did you hear that Christianity was in Africa before Europe? Yeah, like Ethiopia, go ahead, keep going, brother. The Ethopian Bible is older than the King James. Thank you, that's exactly right. Argument that Christianity brought, that Colonialism brought Christianity to Africa, is completely wrong. Why is it completely wrong? Because Christianity was already in Africa before Europe. Christianity was in Africa before Europe. Everybody here, you need to know that present is not a European religion. Whoa, whoa, whoa one more time, real loud. Christianity is not a European religion. You're awesome.

Speaker 2:

Okay but that. But that guy who knew everything was was just a racist. I mean what happens to be black. But you know, I guess I guess for the, the, the white American, you could be racist and black at the same time. It's, it's, it's all alright. I Love it, though, also because Elizabeth Warren had an epiphany the other day on Obama. Obama cares, unintended consequences.

Speaker 2:

Now, warren didn't want to repeal Obamacare and abdicated many times for Medicare for all, but is it finally acknowledging that Obamacare has increased the healthcare prices and created on it? I love unintentional consequences. I don't know people. You know economists and people smarter than me basically said for a long time that Obamacare, when you, when you do this, when this bill is enacted, it is going to, it is basically going to increase prices, and we've talked about this before. I mean hell. I mean we watched at one point in time our health care costs, in reference to our contributions, triple at one point in time for our company health care.

Speaker 2:

But there's unattentive consequences. What do you mean? But you get to keep your doctor, and I love it because, again, it's health care providers and insurers have exploited the situation, making a sky-high prescription, drug causes and excessive corporate profits. Oh, really, it's again. It's the evil. It's the evil corporations that do everything. Da da dun and I love because she voted against like is it repealing obama care and pushed for Medicare for all when she ran for president in 2020. But don't worry, you get to keep your doctor. You're gonna save like sixteen hundred dollars a year and your medical costs. I'm still waiting for that check. Hopefully that check will come soon because I kind of need the money, because evidently I need eleven thousand four hundred dollars and more just to survive. But things are going so well here in the land of biteonomics, thank God that racist isn't president. We only had prosperity, even during the pandemic, but we don't want to talk about that because, as always, the truth I'm Jim, this is Jim. Let's get up my lawn. The mad rally to the gen X.

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