At first I was like wow itâs so fucking pathetic that the president of the United States is just gonna rage tweet and watch television all day long by himself but he is probably absolutely loving less people around to bother him so he can crush McDonaldâs Big Macs and guzzle diet cokes while watching tv
Who has the pitiful job of checking whether @PeterNavarroUSA is fake and telling him he has to fix his tweet? Without the bot we would never even know.
Also, the Navarro memo was not âsame as Banâ! Câmon man.
Has anyone watched the Oliver piece on OANN? Holy shit theyâre awful. Itâs worse quality than a community college news production. If they actually get reasonable audiences then the last shred of hope I had for America is definitely gone.
After I saw that, I decided that Iâd check it out just to see how insane it really was. I had it on for about an hour. Itâs was pretty bad, and I just saw a random 1 hr. One of the most amusing things is that one of their correspondents was clearly some Russian dude doing a piece about how the left wing media was biased and couldnât be trusted.
It almost felt like it was something he did for Russian TV in Russian and now heâs just doing an English version for OANN. I assume that wasnât actually the case, but I wouldnât exactly be shocked if it was. Just imagine what Russian, anti-US propaganda would sound like and that was more or less it.
The stuff on the oil deal really is wild. Even the French coverage just spouts propaganda, with paragraph after paragraph about a historic cut and OPEC+ finally reaching agreement. Then, right at the end, they let slip academically that the cuts are a fraction of the demand lost, storage is already full, the price hasnât recovered at all, various countries refused to pay ball in various ways and Trumpâs assurances about the US are essentially fiction. Quality journalism all round.
Iâll see if I can dig it up, but someone did a piece on oann a while back where I think he went to work there, or maybe it was an internship, and then wrote about it. He was told straight out in his orientation, âWe like Russia here.â