Will the Corporate Media cover President Biden's stunning diplomatic success in recovering hostages?

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told Biden, "For you I will do this..." 

For a few more hours but probably not much longer than that...  Because now that these long detained people are back on American and our allies soil it's an old story and boring!  Oooooh, let's see what weird racist garbage Trump (or maybe creepy Vance) has to say!

President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris greeted three Americans released by Russia in a complex prisoner swap involving 24 people being held in six countries when they arrived on U.S. soil late Thursday. 

A plane carrying Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, Marine veteran Paul Whelan and Russian-American radio journalist Alsu Kurmasheva landed at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland after they were freed as part of the swap that also involved Germany, Slovenia, Poland and Norway. 

President Joe Biden pulled off a stunning foreign policy triumph only made possible by the hard work of the Biden State Department and President Biden's years long dedication.  Joe Biden repaired not only NATO but numerous alliances and relationships with countries across the world.  He's really been a tremendous President.

Look...  I know, despite what they may say, Foreign Policy doesn't matter to the American electorate.  And the only thing about foreign relations, which matters to the Corporate Media, is when they get to ride along with the military watching people get killed so the journalist can write their "harrowing" memoir. 

The American people have suffered a severe disservice throughout their lives as the've learned a simple jingoistic concept of foreign relationships.  They've been taught over and over again that the man who struts around and declares they are the awesome Dealmaker with perfect phone calls, must be real good at their job but, intuitively everyone (conservatives included) knows anyone who calls themself "The King" is no true king and anyone who showboats or is a loudmouth braggart is a phony.

But, it's no surprise creepy J.D. Vance played the typical card of Republicans taking credit for things which happen when they aren't even in office,

“But we have to ask ourselves, why are they coming home? And I think it’s because bad guys all over the world recognize Donald Trump’s about to be back in office, so they’re cleaning house,” Vance said. “That’s a good thing. And I think it’s a testament to Donald Trump’s strength.”

• Take Credit for things you don't, do
• Deny Blame for things you do, do
• Proclaim Your Greatness.

Ridiculous, insulting, and laughable.  Trump made some weird nonsense claim similar to when he lied about the Brittney Griner exchange.  But, MAGA cultists don't care Trump's false claims and weird loudmouth proclamations are all that matter to them, truth is irrelevant.  Trump is a weak man's version of strength, a dullards version of competent, and a traitor's version of patriotism...  

When asked about Trump's bullshit claims of what he would have done, President Joe Biden smiled and replied, “Why didn’t he do it when he was president?”

This is true leadership, patriotism, and a President who cares about the American people rather than his weird ego and bank accounts.  But, that matters little to Corporate Media, who still have yet to call for Trump's withdraw as the Republican nominee, let alone declare him unfit for any office.

The Corporate Media is already bored with Vice President Kamala Harris ascendency and incoming Presidency, so the Fucking New York Times (FTFNYT) declared the honeymoon over and Trump sensing an opening decided to be as weird and racist as possible at the NABJ interview knowing the Washington Post, NPR, Faux News (of course) and the major media platforms would rush to put his creepy weirdo racist garbage on the front page of their websites and sagely debate the nuances of how this is bad news for the Kamala Harris campaign.

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo highlighted this chestnut

Right now, journalists are covering this historic success but, eagerly awaiting Trump's next racist declaration insulting VP Harris so they can keep him front and center.  But, while the Corporate media is doing what they always do, helping Republicans get elected President Biden and soon-to-be President Harris are helping the American people.

So, celebrate this victory with releasing innocent people held hostage by key Trump ally Vladimir Putin but, keep fighting because no one is going to save us, we have to fight alongside true Americans like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

Republicans hate and want to kill you - Trumpian Governance - Project 2025 - and the Republican Destruction of the United States of America

In many regards the Republican Party has already accomplished their goal of destroying the United States of America.  Conservatives no longer adhere to the Founding Principles of the Nation and instead simply assert their beliefs over the Rule of Law.  And the Supremacist Court simply amended the Constitution in their role as untouchable College of Cardinals.

Republicans hate America.  Republicans hate You. And Republicans are coming to Kill You.

“So I always keep this fake Hollywood money in my car. So when a homeless person asks for money, then I give them like a fake $5 bill. So I feel good about myself. They feel good. And then when they go to use it, they get arrested. So I’m actually like helping clean up the community, you know, getting them off the street.” - McEntee said in the video posted May 2024 by The Right Stuff, a dating site for rightwingers of which McEntee is a co-founder. 

Do you remember what the initial call to the Police was for George Floyd? Passing a fake $20... Republican humor is to kill people.  John McEntee joined the Heritage Foundation Project 2025 last year.  Dismiss this if you will but, while the vicious Corporate Media spends every single minute of every single day trying to knife Joe Biden (and Kamala Harris), Republicans are openly declaring they will simply murder you,

"Some liberal somewhere is gonna say that sounds awful. Too bad. Get mad at me if you want to. Some folks need killing. It's time for somebody to say it. It's not a matter of vengeance. It's not a matter of being mean or spiteful. It's a matter of necessity." - Republican Lt Governor of North Carolina Mark Robinson.

Parker also hates the uppity Kamala Harris

Will the non-stop Corporate Media attacks be enough, as they were in 2000 and 2016, where Al Gore was eviscerated for "sighing" and the 25 year Media Whispering Campaign about HRC declared she was one foot in the grave, so vote Trump besides whatever happens we'll be fine!

Republicans see this election as the culmination, the golden opportunity to implement their murderous designs on the Nation.  Republicans have undermined Law & Order, National unity, societal cohesion, faith in elections in order to adopt a ruthless NeoConfederate slave state founded on the unequal application of law, sham elections, white power, and brutal male patriarchy. Bigotry, hatred and fear are the weapons they use to weld white men and women to their side.  And Republicans believe terror and resignation will keep the rest of society in check.

Most male election forecasters, and older comfortable white women like Kathleen Parker assume they'll be safe from the predations of the rapacious Republican Terror Squads.  After all Parker won't need an abortion anytime soon.  So, it remains to be seen if white women will vote Trump a 3rd time.  Trump in his low animal cunning seems to recognize Abortion and Project 2025 are at least a bit off-putting to his white women voters so he's tried to distance himself from both (while following the traditional Republican pattern of taking credit for everything.  The 3 step process Republicans traditionally use is:

• Take all the Credit 
• Pass all the Blame
• Yell, Whine, and Complain

Trump has added the following during his 3 ridiculous runs for Office:

• Promise Everything 
• Deliver Nothing
• Proclaim Greatness

I'm still waiting for the Media to discuss the Epstein Files revelation that Traitor Trump abused and raped children. Especially since Trump has already been found criminally liable for raping E. Jean Carroll.  But, the facts, evidence and court findings about Rapist Donald Trump are "olds" and the Corporate Media is in the business of "News"... 

And since the Corporate Media fucking loves his "showmanship" and more importantly the Rich love his deregulation and tax cuts and want him back in Office, they are busy helping to catapult Republican propaganda, as they have done ceaselessly for over 40 years.  We are in the fight for our very lives, you have to vote, but be prepared because even if Republicans lose again they are going to continue using the awesome power of the Government to immiserate your life and make living impossible.  Because Republicans hate and want to kill you.

Republicans hate America 17: Iowa Governor Scrooge K. Reynolds takes food out of the mouth of the hungry on Christmas Eve

I'm "worried" about childhood obesity that's why
Iowa's only food products are Bacon and HCFS

"At this festive season of the year, Governor Kim Reynolds, ... it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, Ma'am."
Kim Reynolds -"Are there no federal funded prisons?"
"Plenty of prisons..."
Kim Reynolds -"And the Republican created concentration camps.  Are they still in operation?"
"Both very busy, Ma'am..."
Kim Reynolds - "Those who are badly off must go there."
"Many can't go there; and many would rather die."
Kim Reynolds - "If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."

In a Christmas Eve tradition, Iowa Governor Kim Scrooge Reynolds is eager and able to ensure that poor children in Iowa go hungry for the holidays and beyond because poor Iowa children are too fat.  I doubt that Reynolds will have a Dickensian epiphany on Christmas Morn.

Iowa has decided not to participate in a federal program that would provide children with $40 a month in food assistance during the summer, the state announced late Friday.

"Federal COVID-era cash benefit programs are not sustainable and don’t provide long-term solutions for the issues impacting children and families. An EBT card does nothing to promote nutrition at a time when childhood obesity has become an epidemic," Gov. Kim Reynolds said in the news release.

Republicans hate you and want you to die.  Republicans don't even care if their policy decisions hurt their constituency.  Dying of Whiteness is a conservative shibboleth.  Republicans know they can lie with abandon, vote against funds for their voters and simply rely on the Corporate Media to blame Congress, or gridlock in DC, and reinforce the white man delusion of I Blame the Demmycrats!

As a Cuban, I hate Socialism
Which is why I vote against all 
government funding bills.
Now give me my money!

I mean just look at this disreputable Florida Representative María Elvira Salazar, who in 2022 voted against the Inflation Reduction Act while claiming Inflation is 40% and pocketing a cool $500,000 in inside trading, and then a week before Christmas 2023 Salazar decided to celebrate the Federal funds she voted against.  Taking credit for things they vote against is a Republican triumph.

Keep convincing yourselves that Republicans and Democrats differences in politics are a sincerely held divergence in what constitutes a healthy functioning government and Nation and you'll end up in the Trump brand detention camps.

Republicans yearn to purify this Nation and through brutal austerity programs and channeling of tax monies to fascist fundamentalist Christian organizations remold the Nation into a Neo-Confederate White Supremacist country buttressed by the twin pillars of White Power and Wage Slavery.  They explicitly declare their intent to use their Religious Liberty to harass, enslave, and kill you.

I've been hoping these policies and hypocritical actions would cause electoral defeats for Republicans.  But, Salazar has won two elections to the House of Representatives and Kim Reynolds easily won re-election to Governor in 2022 by a far larger percentage than in 2018.  It clearly seems policy choices and delivering on election promises doesn't matter white people do not vote based on what they claim to want; but, against themselves based on the fear and anger Republicans have cultivated within them.