Salty Ginger Talk Newsletter

November 19th, 2024

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November 19, 2024

Salty Ginger Talk Newsletter

November 19th, 2024

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CURRENT EVENTS

Morning Joe team meets with Trump to reestablish dialogue, enraging tone deaf staffers

Our take: For the better part of 10 years, the hosts of the MSNBC show Morning Joe (Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski) have spent many hours decrying Trump. They have repeated the leftist talking points about racism, threat to democracy, comparing him to Hitler, etc. On Monday, they revealed they had reached out to meet with Trump, and he gave them an audience. They met at his home in Florida, and had a conversation. It is likely that the tanking ratings and corresponding job insecurity they created had some sway on the decision to change course. Regardless of the motivation, we applaud all parties for stopping throwing rocks at each other and speaking like adults. It’s good to have conversations and cordial relationships with people you disagree with, even if you disagree with them vehemently. It shows maturity and emotional intelligence to entertain a view point you do not share.

Unsurprisingly, staffers at the left leaning news organization expressed outrage and betrayal. While we defend everyone’s right to both think and express whatever they want, we think the team at MSNBC needs to do a better job of reading the room. It is this exact type of moralizing and preaching that over half the country widely rejected in the election 2 weeks ago. As the saying goes, those who fail to understand history are doomed to repeat it. We have seen the ultra liberal act before, and not many people are interested in more of it.

COURTESY: FOX NEWS

Slanted media coverage continues with latest Trump cabinet nominee.

Our take: President-elect Trump announced his latest cabinet pick, and Salon kept up the liberal media approach of attempting to paint the nominee as unqualified and outlandish. Sean Duffy, a 4 term congresman from Wisconsin, was nominated by Trump to run the Department of Transportation. In addition to his time in Congress, Duffy also appeared in several reality shows in his younger days, as well as most currently hosting a business show on Fox. The Salon article leads with his TV work, burying his 8 years in congress in the 3rd paragraph of the story.

Duffy will replace Pete Buttigieg, whose “qualifications” before being nominated by Biden to the same post in 2021 were 8 years as mayor of America’s 293rd largest city by population, South Bend, Indiana and a spectacularly failed presidential run which Biden won. South Bend ranks behind such thriving metropolis’ as Broken Arrow, OK, Billings, MT, and Gresham, OR in size. But it’s cool, because Pete is gay, so no issues with him running the department. He oversaw such successes as the botched East Palestine, OH train wreck (literal and figurative), an FAA safety system outage that grounded all air travel for the first time since the country was attacked by terrorists on 9/11, and Congress bailing out his failed attempt to negotiate a labor deal between freight railroads and their union. But nothing to see here because he and his husband adopted 2 kids, so… diversity over competence is always OK.

Trump ran on the platform of disrupting the status quo. That does not mean appointing beltway insiders who want to maintain things as they are. The media seems to keep failing the sma elesson over and over. No one cares about the outrage of snobby journalists. The voters have demanded change, and Trump appears intent on delivering that change regardless of mean words.

COURTESY: MSN

Fired FEMA supervisor continues to torch her former employer claiming she is being scapegoated for agency sanctioned discrimination

Our take: In addition to the several articles we have read, we watched an interview with Ms. Washington. She sounded credible, rationale, and understandably upset that she was the fall guy for what she claims was agency sanctioned discrimination against Trump supporters impacted by hurricanes in Florida and North Carolina. She claims receipts exist on the Teams chats of FEMA associates still employed by the agency. There is supposed to be a congressional hearing coming on the issue, and the state of Florida has filed suit against both Washington and FEMA on this issue. We will be following this story closely and bring you updates as they become available.

COURTESY: MSN

TIP OF THE DAY

Focus on what you can control. Focusing on anything else is a waste of time, energy, and resources. It also creates stress and anxiety. There are plenty of things you have control over. Enough to keep you busy for a long time. That’s where is is best to aim your focus.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

The only disability in life is a bad attitude - Scott Hamilton

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