The Tide is Turning, But Not the Way You Think
- Fred
- Apr 30
- 4 min read
Updated: May 1
Over at Slate, they have declared that "The Tide is Turning in America."
According to Dahlia Lithwick, after a 100 Days of Fascism, America is starting to wake up and the courts are starting to push back.
"This Trump administration is staffed by hollow-eyed cultists and loyalists who neither act as a brake on his most unconstitutional efforts nor possess the capacity to be shamed by the judicial system."
I'm glad Ms. Lithwick's thinks she has claimed a "victory." You know what else she had to say? I have no idea. After slamming President Trump, the article hit a pay wall.
Do you know who actually won? President Trump.
Back in college, I enjoyed listening to Rush Limbaugh, I quote him often at Beacon of Speech.
One of the most profound things he said, and he said it often, is "I am Equal Time." What did he mean? The mainstream media leaned left, he leaned right. A very simple concept. The Left howled that they were neutral and Rush wore his Conservative leanings like a badge of honor.
Rush never wavered from his Conservatism, though the mainstream media finally did admit that they MAY lean left, but just a little bit. And, even if they did admit that they leaned left, it was a moot point, they were speaking 'truth to power' to stop Fascist Trump.
But let's say you're the staunchest liberal in the country. What are you willing to spend your hard earned dollars on for your brand of liberalism?
Back in the day, if you were a staunch liberal, you probably has a handful of magazines delivered to your home. Today, magazines have mostly gone by the way of the dodo.
Now, websites like Slate are BEGGING for money. Pay Wall after Pay Wall have been erected across the digital landscape, including at some of the left's biggest corporations, including CNN. You go over to the Daily Beast, about 90% of that website is Pay Wall.
How many websites are you willing to subscribe to in order to get your liberal pablum?
Now you know me, that answer is zero.
If you're liberal, are you willing to pay for CNN, the New York Times, Slate, the Daily Beast, Rolling Stone, and local Democrat affiliate cleveland.com? That is hundreds of dollars a year. I am telling you, no one is bundling news sources like they bundle streaming services or pay for cable. Websites are going to start going belly up. The business model doesn't add up for the average consumer
But according to Michael Tomasky at the New Republic, Donald Trump has invented something new, "Clown Show Fascism." And then there's an ad begging for you to subscribe to the New Republic in the corner.
The creeping fascism of Donald Trump is a myth. One day, though, Trump will be gone. We have term limits in America and no matter how much Trump wants to circumvent that, it's not going to happen.
What is going to happen is that Left's Brand of Online Journalism is unsustainable, websites will start to merge and disappear. Not through any of Donald Trump's nefarious deeds, but due to the ebbs and flows of the marketplace.
The tide IS turning in America, and once Donald Trump's term is over, a lot of these, for a lack of a better word, propaganda websites won't be able to survive without Donald Trump to kick around. The 'Evil Donald Trump' theme is literally keeping the doors open at websites like the Huffington Post. Places like Slate now simply exist to chase boogeymen, I'm not even sure the website will exist in 2026.
Don't forget, Vice Media went from being worth almost $6 billion in 2017 to ZERO in 2023.
My source? The New York Times...behind this Pay Wall.
Side Note:
Last year we wrote the article Whiny American Journalists. The topic? Many on the Left compared Donald Trump to Hitler. The reasoning? They didn't like the tone of Trump's voice. They thought Trump was a jerk.
My counterpoint was that they KILL journalists in Russia or Mexico. I asked for one example of an American Journalist killed, or wrongly imprisoned, by Donald Trump. There were no such journalists.
Today I read about the plight of Viktoriia Roshchyn at the Guardian (UK). Poor Viktoriia was doing a story about "Black Sites," places in occupied Ukraine that Russian Soldiers were using to torture Ukrainian Citizens and Ukrainian POW's. She disappeared in 2024 and her badly mutilated corpse was returned to her homeland a few months ago. She was tortured to death, with multiple vital organs removed, when her corpse was returned to Ukraine in a prisoner exchange.
It is one of the most upsetting stories I have ever read.
..... I am not exaggerating. I think I'm done writing for today.
Final thought: Ask Evan Gershkovich what its like to be a journalist in Russia.
Addendum: 8 hours later....
After the Guardian (UK) did all the legwork, CNN posted the story of Viktoriia Roshchyn at their website. What was the difference?
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