Counterfactual News Network ratings dropping faster than a Biden gaffe

CNN's ratings are dropping faster than a breast implant performed by Dr. Jill Biden on Nancy Pelosi. The Jeff Zucker-led network would rather continue attacking former President Trump and Fox News than actually report news--new events, new stuff. Trump has been out of office and off social media for months and the cretins over at CNN, like Brian Stelter, just cannot find a way to "quit" him.

Not one single, solitary show [to imitate Joe Biden's verbiage style] had at least 900,000 viewers on Friday. Their primetime slot also got a lickin' and is hardly tickin' with prime averaging less than 800,000 viewers.

If CNN was a person rather than a crappy cable network, they would have a serious case of anemia and flatulence.

 Prime averaged less than 800K overall.

For comparison, the network averaged 2.74 million viewers in January, so we're talking about more than two-thirds of the audience – gone. https://t.co/a4f14QXStm

— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV)

Greg Gutfeld is more than doubling viewership over the mouthbreathing Don Lemon despite the fact that Gutfeld’s show is supposedly more of a niche comedic exercise. 

Jake Tapper, who was formerly a reporter but has given it up at CNN, comes nowhere close to competing with Fox News in either of his time slots.

It almost seems that CNN's viewers are going to sleep around the same time as Joe Biden, and when they're not sleeping, they're too busy looking for something or someone to destroy.

The most frightening aspect of the CNN situation is that on some level, it seems that they care about their ratings even less than they care about their conflict of interests like with Chris Cuomo reporting on his governor brother Andrew. He only stopped clowning around with Andy when the proverbial crap hit the fan over the coronavirus and sexual misconduct scandals surfaced.

CNN cares more about inserting itself into being an arm of the DNC, like the other networks that aren't Fox News, and they simply cannot quit Trump. They even pulled their airport contracts across the nation and that accounted for much of the fake viewership which seems to support their attitude about ratings.

Even Neil Cavuto's 4 p.m. show, not in itself doing all that great, is still beating every CNN primetime counterfactual news presentation. In fact, the network is the least watched major cable news outlet on television and they're still circling the bowl with their angry anti-Republican rhetoric and absolute bile against Trump.

Plus, like the Democratic Party, they treat their audience as if they're gullible. Sadly, most of them are.

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Teachers Union don't really care about teaching or kids

As much as Fox News has swung from center right to center left as seen by them calling Arizona prematurely in the presidential race, and Neil Cavuto cutting off Kayleigh McEnany after one minute of discussing election fraud, you have to give them credit for Martha MacCallum challenging Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers. 

MacCallum pressed the overpaid Union head over New York City's scientifically baseless decision to close public schools to in-person classroom teaching. 

City officials declared Wednesday that schools would be closed indefinitely starting Thursday after the seven-day average coronavirus infection rate for the five boroughs ticked above 3%. This is in spite of the fact that children below the age of 10 are highly unlikely to contract the virus, and if they do, they have an enormously high survival rate that greatly exceeds that of the flu. And schools are not closed down during flu season. 

Also, there are no cases in which teachers were infected by students and succumbed to the virus as a result.

Weingarten admitted that while evidence has shown that in-person classes are not "superspreading events", "the problem is that schools are not impervious to all that is going on in the outside.

"What the mayor [comrade Bill de Blasio] saw today, or the last couple of days, is that in Staten Island and other regions in the city, you were seeing a trajectory [of cases] that was going way up," Weingarten added. "And so what [United Federation of Teachers President Mike Mulgrew] and others are saying to the city, begging the city [is] 'wear your mask, get the infection rate down, because we want schools to be safe.'"

Pro Tip: Danish studies have shown that masks are useless in preventing contagion.

The back-and-forth went like this:

"No, the schools need to be open, is the point," McCallum responded. "The kids need to be in the schools ... it sounds like the union doesn't want the teachers in the classroom and the mayor doesn't want the teachers in the classroom. The parents clearly want the teachers in the classroom and the CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] wants them in the classroom."

"Martha, you're actually not listening to me," Weingarten responded. "What has happened here is that New York City was the only major school district in the nation to actually reopen schools --

"But they're closing now, Randi," MacCallum shot back. "Why are they closing?"

"They're closing now," Weingarten replied, "because what the city said and frankly, what lots of other places are are also seeing, is a huge skyrocketing increase -- "

"OK, now you're not listening to me," MacCallum jumped in. "You're not listening to the science here, Randi.

"Yes, everyone agrees we see a spike. We're in a second wave. You and I totally agree on that," the host went on. "What they're telling us, though, is that the wisest scientific move is to have children in school, because what we're seeing is a tremendous loss of learning.

"We're seeing kids who are emotionally unstable because they're not in the classroom, because they're not seeing their friends, and we know from the studies -- this isn't me saying this, this is Brown University and other studies -- that the transmission rate is very, very low. It's a great news story. It's a great news story what happened when you opened the schools. The kids made out very, very well. That's wonderful news. They should stay there."

"I agree. I agree with you," Weingarten answered. "And what the UFT is trying to do is that they're trying to figure out a regional way of opening and closing like they did after -- "

"They don't need to close, that's the point!" McCallum exclaimed. "They don't need to close, is the point."

Weingarten had no pithy reply and the My Pillow guy did his thing.



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Dems out of ideas, steal Trump's

In a clear sign of being devoid of any new ideas and a willingness to steal whatever they can from anywhere they can and claim that it's theirs, Democrats are now calling for the country to "drain the swamp." And the real irony is that it's those Democrats who dwell in the swamp that are calling for its draining.

The metaphor "drain the swamp" while originally referred to the method of keeping the mosquito population under control to combat malaria, it's now used to mean a way to fix problems within the federal government. It has been used most recently by President Trump during his 2016 campaign and thereafter, but it isn't a new term.

Drain the swamp may have been coined by Victor L. Berger (1860 - 1929) in his book Broadsides in which he referred to changing capitalism as "drain[ing] the swamp."

Winfield R. Gaylord (1870 - 1943) described the socialist desire to "drain" the "capitalist swamp." Gaylord was an idiot who never understood how capitalism made America wealthy and gave people the benefit of equal opportunity rather than his socialist desire of equal outcome, which is ridiculous.

In 1983 President Ronald Reagan called for "drain[ing] the swamp" of bureaucracy in the federal government, much like Trump is calling for today.

Pat Buchanan a 2000 presidential candidate and anti-Semite said in opposition to the dominant parties, "Neither Beltway party is going to drain the swamp: it's a protected wetland; they breed in it, they spawn in it."

Then in 2006 Nancy Pelosi [whose Native American name is "Dances with Dentures"] while announcing her 100-Hour Plan responding to the dominance of the GOP mentioned the term "drain the swamp." Then her hands went into severe spasms.

Others have also used that term but it is President Trump who currently seems to own it; at least until the Democrats are trying to take it back. They are using the familiar slogan and trying to act more like President Trump because they ran out of ideas after Lincoln was elected.

Because Democrats are predictable, owing to their identity politics and lack of creativeness, you can expect to hear the chant "drain the swamp" become their battle cry.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) [whose Native American name is "Nostrils with Zip Codes"] said, "President Trump has embraced the most egregious establishment Republican norms and appointed the most conflict-of-interest-ridden Cabinet in my lifetime."

He then added that "The swamp has never been more foul, or more fetid, than under this president."

Not true.

Under former President Obama, there was plenty of foul, malodorous gases coming out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: Fast and Furious, Solyndra, the IRS scandal, the VA's deadly waiting lists, Hillary Clinton's illegal server and her deal with the Russians to sell them 20 percent of all our uranium, Obama's questionable business deals with coal mining, offshore drilling, cash advance companies and more and more and more.

So okay, you expect a swamp-dweller like Schumer to say things along the party line. But to use Trump's words about draining the swamp is actually funny. I hope the GOP deals with it properly.

It seems like all the Dems have are slogans, repealing the Second Amendment, identity politics, allowing illegal immigrants entry into the country and providing them with healthcare and jobs at the American taxpayer's expense.

You now have Hillary Clinton supporting Andrew Cuomo for his third re-election as Governor of New York, while not supporting Cynthia Nixon, a progressive who's running against him. Hillary laughed and pumped her fist in the air when Madeleine Albright told the crowd that there's a special place in hell for women who don't support women.

Words. That's all the Democrats have along with hypocrisy.

But to be fair, President Trump has also backed away from his campaign pledge of draining the swamp. Fox News' Neil Cavuto went after Trump and spoke to this problem:

"Let me be clear, Mr. President. How can you drain the swamp if you're the one who keeps muddying the waters?

"You didn't know about the $130,000 payment to a porn star, until you did. Said you knew nothing about how your former lawyer handled this, until you acknowledged today that you were the guy behind the retainer payment that took care of this. You insist that money from the campaign or campaign contributions played no role in the transaction. Of that you're sure. The thing is, not even 24 hours ago, sir, you couldn't recall any of this."

A lot of folks were really pissed off at Cavuto for this statement, but that's what you call journalism. I want Trump to succeed; many Democrats want him to fail, even at the expense of the benefit to our nation.

President Trump is not a paragon of virtue in his personal life--we all get it. He cheated on his first wife with Melania and had a romp with a porn actress when Melania was pregnant with his son Barron.


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Mike Kelly calls out Waters as 'devisive'

Kelly to Waters: "Look, a dead bird!"

Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) had a little back and forth with a mentally challenged Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) on the House floor on Friday. 

Kelly, who also owns a car dealership, spoke to Fox Business' Neil Cavuto on Saturday about Waters and how she is divisive.

"We're talking about thousands and thousands of auto dealers and millions of people who work in the industry, and making a broad statement that these are people who discriminate against non-white buyers. This is absolutely preposterous," he told Cavuto.

The clash on the House floor between the two lawmakers over race and discrimination began before a vote to repeal Obama-era legislation that protects consumers from discrimination by automobile dealers.

Kelly harshly criticized Waters on the House floor after she cited a study showing discrimination against people of color in the auto industry in their car-loan process. The frenetic Waters also said the study should have included women too, because "they think women are stupid, don't know how to negotiate a loan, and women have been taken advantage of too."

Before becoming a congress-cretin, Waters was a professional mind-reader because she offered no objective evidence other than her own words to support her claim. It's also possible that whenever unethical sellers see Waters coming, they see an idiot who can easily be fooled and of whom can be taken advantage.

Kelly didn't let her hair-brained remark go unchallenged. He fired back saying she was impugning "the integrity" of people in the auto industry. The only reason he said that was because it's true--she was attacking a large swath of American workers. 

Kelly also admonished the racist Waters by saying she is trying to divide the American people by bringing up race and gender. 

But what else do the Democrats have in their political toolbox but identity issues?

Never to let an opportunity to be offended as a black woman go to waste, Waters said, "I want you to know that I am more offended as an African-American woman than you will ever be. And this business about making America great again; it is your president that's dividing this country."

Kelly refused to back down saying the auto industry does not discriminate against individuals of color. 

If Waters wants to see racial discrimination, she should go to  South Africa
where white people are being attacked by black folks in record numbers.

"To say that somehow what we do is we prey on non-white people is incredibly divisive," Kelly said. "It's not who we are as a country, and if we continue down this path, this cancer that's working its way through our society and breaking us down as a people, you can't talk that way."

There has always been racism in this country. It goes in many directions and it's disgusting. But until Barack Obama was elected as the first black president, racism was at an all-time low. The divisiveness worsened under him because it was politically expedient to divide and conquer for him. 

People like Maxine Waters are the worst kind of racists. They hide behind their race as if they are exempt from their own racism.


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Obamacare, the Shutdown, and Libi

Obamacare Doesn't
The glitch is due to the enormous amount of traffic the Obamacare website is getting from all corners of the USA. Not, I repeat, not due to the poor website design that needed more work. So we can say that the Obamacare website has received as much forethought as Obamacare itself had received.

The site is not user friendly says Russell Reeder, COO of Media Temple, a computer consulting firm, to Neil Cavuto on Fox News. But Obama and his lackeys blame it on high volume. But even if that is true, which is as likely to be as the existence of unicorns in my cornflakes, it shows the lack of preparation and planning of the Obama abomination. SNL used the analogy: "It's like 1-800 FLOWERS being surprised on Valentine's Day."