Notices by Burr Deming (burrland01@mastodon.world)

A thread in a music forum is entitled:
Please Artists, Leave your political BS at home.

Dave Dubya responds, pointing out that Free expression is a core value of democracy and vital to freedom..

Key complaint:
"Not saying an artist, can’t have their opinions, but please I don’t need to hear it at your shows."

Key contrast (Dave):
"Mercifully, every country isn’t like Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, and other dictatorships."
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2025/05/24/week-of-trumps-big-whopping-billoh-noem-student-deports-south-africa-biden-cancer/#davedubya

@jeffowski
oh NO!
I've been wearing eyeglasses for years!!

Signalgate is amplified again as Mike Waltz gets booted. Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson has an excellent question about Pete Hegseth:
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2025/05/02/week-of-trump-flounderwalz-faces-trump-dump-hegseth-floats-tariff-panic-democracy-attacked/#jameswigderson

1/2
Tommy Christopher excerpts from an emotional interview with a survivor of the Florida State shooting, recounting how he was getting ready to die.

Key motivation:
“Seybold revealed to Jackson he knew the suspect, and that he was a member of the Florida chapter of Trump ally Charlie Kirk’s TPUSA.”
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2025/04/26/week-of-trump-decline-polls-plunge-court-cases-lose-economy-collapses-defense-department-well-drinks/#mediaite

1/2
As if the Oval Office visit by El Salvador dictator Nayib Bukele didn’t become bizarre enough, Tommy Christopher brings us the portion where Trump advisor Stephen Miller rants about those wanting the US to kidnap (sic) US resident Abrego Garcia and bring him back.

CNN analyst Paula Reid has the right reaction as she laughs out loud.
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2025/04/19/week-of-trump-tariffs-and-trump-terror-economy-deports-arrest-citizens-no-due-process-threats/#mediaite

On the young man we arrested in error and sent by mistake to a prison in El Salvador:

As I understand it, we don't violate sovereignty by reclaiming US residents.

We only violate sovereignty by claiming canals.

@jeffowski Strange as it may seem, I could be wrong.

I believe the hearing was about Biden administration efforts to counter misinformation from foreign governments. It was wrongly characterized by Republicans as censorship.

So I think it likely that Rep. Self was ineptly trying to tie Biden to the Nazis rather than endorsing Goebbels himself.

2/2
“It starts with the basic stuff, right?” Hegseth told the crowd. “It’s grooming standards and uniform standards and training standards, fitness standards, all of that matters.”

Focusing on how a uniform fits and grooming is a facile take and literally the most superficial view of leading, which belongs in basic training and the parade deck but, not in a combat ready military.
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2025/03/29/week-of-chat-aftermath-lost-signal-lost-allies-freedom-to-criticize-republicans-duck/#disaffectedanditfeelssogood

The submission of classified combat information to a commercial chat app has obvious results going beyond our borders:
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2025/03/29/week-of-chat-aftermath-lost-signal-lost-allies-freedom-to-criticize-republicans-duck/#alliesreact

1/2
Disaffected and it Feels So Good reminds us that chatting with a reporter about military plans is only one of many demonstrations of Hegseth incompetence.

Key priorities:
"Hegseth’s ideas of leadership are like a grade school boys imagination"
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2025/03/29/week-of-chat-aftermath-lost-signal-lost-allies-freedom-to-criticize-republicans-duck/#disaffectedanditfeelssogood

1/3
Among the issues raised by this degree of carelessness with top secret information is the very real danger to those carrying out military missions.

That this instance of sloppiness did not cost American lives was a matter of luck.
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2025/03/29/week-of-chat-aftermath-lost-signal-lost-allies-freedom-to-criticize-republicans-duck/#mediaite

Brian Beutler doesn’t seem to care for the current passive Democratic strategy of relax and let Trump be Trump:
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2025/03/08/week-of-courage-and-cowardice-zelenskyy-european-resurgence-trump-speech-lazy-slashes#BrianBeutler

2/5
For not reporting the new fiction as if it is the truth.

AP has filed a lawsuit against this violation of Freedom of the Press.

The White House Correspondents’ Association, along with pretty much every press organization, is up in arms.
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2025/03/01/week-of-slashes-health-care-veterans-national-security-agriculture-social-security-privacy-integrity-inspectors-general/#themoderatevoice

3/5
What comes next? Will reporters be barred for failing to meet other requirements? How about renaming the President God Emperor Trump and excluding anyone not referring to him under his new title?
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2025/03/01/week-of-slashes-health-care-veterans-national-security-agriculture-social-security-privacy-integrity-inspectors-general/#themoderatevoice

4/5
They have a point. Excluding AP is ridiculously petty, a penalty for refusing to report a made up fantasy as fact, an attempt to intimidate other news organizations into reporting news only as Trump deems fitting.
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2025/03/01/week-of-slashes-health-care-veterans-national-security-agriculture-social-security-privacy-integrity-inspectors-general/#themoderatevoice

1/5
Associated Press will not play Trump’s silly game, renaming what has always been, within any living person’s memory – or what any person within any living person’s memory would have remembered, the Gulf of Mexico.
So Trump orders that AP no longer be allowed in the White House Press Briefing room.
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2025/03/01/week-of-slashes-health-care-veterans-national-security-agriculture-social-security-privacy-integrity-inspectors-general/#themoderatevoice

Juliet at Decoding Fox News brings us a review of Fox efforts to portray Elon Musk as a selfless tech warrior devoted to lowering tax bills for everyday Americans.

She adds her take on Fox and the apparent quid pro quo with New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2025/02/22/instantly-fire-frantically-rehire-week-nuclear-security-weapons-faa-air-animal-health-lab-bird-flu-veterans-affairs-medical-care-power-admin-electricity/#decodingfoxnews

North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz mourns missed opportunities when national leadership is needed: We could have had a human President.

Key defect:
"In those moments, our petulant, amoral, intellectually-stunted, emotionally-fetal White House squatter sits, unable to express coherent thoughts, unwilling to be decent, incapable of basic human empathy, mortally allergic to nobility."
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2025/02/22/instantly-fire-frantically-rehire-week-nuclear-security-weapons-faa-air-animal-health-lab-bird-flu-veterans-affairs-medical-care-power-admin-electricity/#johnpavlovitz

CalicoJack in The Psy of Life provides 5 ideas on how to turn this Shipwreck of State around.
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2025/02/22/instantly-fire-frantically-rehire-week-nuclear-security-weapons-faa-air-animal-health-lab-bird-flu-veterans-affairs-medical-care-power-admin-electricity/#thepsyoflifeblog

The Borowitz Report covers a new international breakthrough as Putin agrees to negotiate with Musk over ownership of Trump.
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2025/02/22/instantly-fire-frantically-rehire-week-nuclear-security-weapons-faa-air-animal-health-lab-bird-flu-veterans-affairs-medical-care-power-admin-electricity/#borowitz