I was in a waiting room the other day and had the misfortune of sitting near a television turned to Fox News. I spent years in the 2000s into the 2010s watching this network, and it was bad then, but I hadn't realized how much its turned into straight North Korean style state media. It was just non stop slobbering about how glorious the first two hundred days of Kim Jong Trump's dictatorship have been. It was completely untethered from reality, with the hosts and guest stating that the economy is performing amazing now (in contrast to the reality that he has broken an economy under Biden that was the envy of the world) and basically Trump with his god-Emperor powers is magically transforming the United States into a utopia, which is obviously at odds with the actual country being created: a fascist police state ruled by white Christian nationalist men where a handful of corporations and the mega-wealthy own everything and we labor to let them live in luxury while the federal government does, basically, nothing for citizens. Witness Trump himself using the presidency to add billions of dollars to his wealth, already (not to mention essentially embezzling 1 billion dollars from taxpayers after accepting a $400 million bribe from Qatar to give himself a luxury jet while healthcare is taken away from children, food from the starving.)
Oh, and they ended by saying a new government report reveals greenhouse gases aren't that dangerous. If Fox News had been broadcasting on Krypton the hosts would have been telling people not to worry about the fake news about Krypton's imminent destruction.
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