Almost a Week of the Anti-Strib, Quite Painful

In no particular order here are some of the examples of obvious bias in story selection, writing and editing from the Strib.  What is particularly notable is the complete failure to report anything positive relating to the Trump Administration.  Not a word about how significantly border crossings are down or how many violent criminals have been ejected from the company.  Very small stories on any new trade arrangements or their beneficial effects for the US, which is striking given that most of what is discussed has very favorable impacts on Minnesota farmers.  No highlighting of the ongoing and intensive attempts to end conflicts around the world.

But what we do get is lies like this–the very top headline in the paper–State Climate Scientists Abruptly Cut.   Now a reader would think they lost their jobs, but they didn’t.  They were merely removed from the national climate assessments, assessments that make up data and do phoney research for the purpose of spreading and reinforcing the climate hysteria.  The work of Trump’s sons overseas may benefit him.  Uhhh, they are running his businesses while he is President, what are they supposed to do run them into the ground?  And gosh, somehow we didn’t see this breathless reporting of supposed misdeeds in regard to Hunter or Joe Bidementia.  President Trump is promoting “austerity”.  Really?  That is simply absurd.  But note that these last two stories are selected directly from the NYT and the Washington Post, the leading media sources for the promotion of Dem party talking points.

A promising U of Minnesota cancer breakthrough may be hindered by cuts in federal funding.  The U has a ton of money, there are a lot of rich private donors willing to fund cancer research, pharma companies make a fortune on new drugs—somehow I think there are plenty of sources of funding for good cancer research.  We have to stop buying into the assumption that the federal government has to fund everything.  Trump tells agencies to stop using disparate impact theory.  This is the primary theory used to promote racism, sexism and other isms on behalf of favored groups and against disfavored ones.  Here is an example.  If you think that the mere statistics showing that one particular group has a higher or lower participation in whatever are determinative of racism, sexism or other isms, than every college in America is discriminating against males; every profession in America is discriminating against males.  See any lawsuits or headlines about that?

Trump and Republicans could keep millions from voting.  Really–emphasize that word could because what is proposed is widely supported and common sense measures like photo ID to vote, requirements that every western democracy uses.  The real concern here for Dems is that their blatant use of illegal immigrants to vote and their making up of voters and their casting votes for people who are incompetent to vote will be stopped and they will lose elections.  That is all this about.  Trump proposes taxes on the rich, buried inside the front section–this is normally a Dem talking point and would be on the front page, but it comes from Trump, so no.  And of course the story focuses on Reps who oppose this.

Trans troops are being banned, part of an effort to be really mean to the alphabet community.   Long overdue, these delusional people should not be in the military and undoubtedly cause a lot of friction.  This is directly contrary to the need for cohesion among a military unit.  Minnesota graduated 84% of high school students, supposedly a record, but actually pathetic.  It doesn’t include all those who dropped out as early as middle school.  The standards to graduate have been eviscerated so that graduating means you probably can’t read at even grade school level and don’t even know what math is.  Minnesota is the fraud and waste capital of the US, and Dems are fighting tooth and nail to stop it, because it is a primary source of recycled campaign donations for them, but the Strib claims they are doing their best to pass new laws to address the problem.  No they aren’t.

And as usual, did you know that tariffs are bad, really bad and that those poor illegal immigrants are being seriously mistreated, and that Elon Musk is cutting federal spending and killing people as a result?