Salty Ginger Talk Newsletter

November 27, 2024

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November 27, 2024

Salty Ginger Talk Newsletter

November 27, 2024

It’s Thanksgiving Eve (yeah - it’s a thing) and here is our Wednesday newsletter, now buzzing on Beehiv! 🐝 Stay tuned for fresh updates, exclusive content, and more—delivered straight to your inbox.

CURRENT EVENTS

Megadonor expresses surprise when career politician squanders campaign donations

Our take: Hotels.com ran several ads a few decades ago featuring a spokesperson known as “Captain Obvious” He would make statements as if they were an epiphany that anyone with any common sense and life experience would already know. Captain Obvious had nothing on this poltical “megadonor”.

The Harris campaign raised an obscene $1 billion+ in campaign funds in under 4 months. They promptly spent that plus $70 million they did not have on consultants, celebrity endorsements, and indulgences like private travel for staffers and rebuilding the set of a podcast in Washington DC to avoid a trip to LA to appear on said podcast.

We remind you all that this is the party that thinks the government should run more stuff because they are so good at it. This is the same outfit that runs the VA (think about that when government managed healthcare comes up), the post office, and the TSA. The next program the federal government runs well will be the first. Those that donated to the Harris campaign got what they deserved, which is nothing.

COURTESY: NEWSNATION

Axios founder throws tantrum during “award” speech, claims real journalists are those who “act without fear or favoritism.

Our take: Axios founder Jim VanderHei accepted some sort of journalism award, and took the opportunity to demonstrate he lives in an alternate universe during his acceptance speech. Responding to Elon Musk’s statement on X that content creators and independent media (like Salty Ginger Talk) are the real media, VanderHei unleashed a passionate (and false) rant about how “real” reporters work. Among other things, he said “Like, being a reporter is hard, really hard. You have to care. You have to do the hard work. You have to get up every single day and say, ‘I want to get to the closest approximation of the truth without any fear, without any favoritism.'

Maybe Mr. VanderHei can address how the “real reporters” handled any one of the following stories: The origin of Covid 19, the effectiveness of the Covid mandates like masking, social distancing, and closing schools/businesses, the Hunter Biden laptop, Russian collusion with the Trump campaign, Joe Biden’s cognitive state the past 9 months, or the open border policies of the Biden administration. Christ, how about just explaining why you let Kamala Harris go over a month without answering any media questions as a major party candidate running for President?

We suggest Mr. VanderHei take his trophy, shut his mouth, and go finish his dessert. The more he talks, the more credibility he loses. The people aren’t buying your bullshit anymore.

COURTESY: FOX NEWS

Trump taps Bhattacharya to head NIH

Our take: In what may be his best appointment yet, President-elect Trump selected physician and economist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to head the NIH. The NIH is the National Institute of Health, the organization famous for funding controversial gain of function research in Coronoviruses, now widely believed to have cause the Covid 19 pandemic.

Bhattacharya gained international notoriety for being one of a small minority of scientists who dared to speak out against the conventional but terrible beliefs practiced during Covid 19, a heavy handed, one-size-fits-all, based on fiction approach to controlling the spread and severity of the pandemic.

Bhattacharya, unswayed by popularity or need to conform, penned the Great Barrington Declaration (along with several colleagues) criticizing the prevailing opinions around the world, and advocating for individual choice in how people protected themselves from the virus, and that herd immunity was likely the safest, fastest, and best way to get control of the pandemic. He also advocated for more care and treatment of vulnerable communities (elderly, already sick, and immunocompromised people) and largely leaving everyone else to live their life.

Bhattacharya said “he would work to reform American scientific institutions so they were worthy of trust again.” Here is hoping Dr Bhattacharya is wildly successful in his mission, and those responsible for the fraud and Orwellian controls they foisted on the American people are held accountable in the process. he would “work to reform

COURTESY: MSN

TIP OF THE DAY

If you want to develop stronger relationships with people, ask them questions about themselves, then shut your mouth and actually listen to their answer. It never misses.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

In any given moment we have two choices: step forward into growth, or step backwards into safety - Abraham Maslow

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