Just read in “The Hill” that the EPA is repealing the 2009 finding that greenhouse gases cause climate change. This ruling, IMO, is one of the most dangerous by the project 2025 gang. Unfortunately it will be lost in the louder tRump noise.
Consider windmills. Trump is off his rocker about them. Attacks at every chance. Meanwhile, the Dakotas are the Saudi Arabia of wind. Dozens of US based Windmill manuafacturers. Wind is a cash crop option for some farmers, especially those where wind is rampant and the soil quality is poor.
Google: In 2023, US wind power generation was 425 billion kilowatt-hours, representing about 10% of total utility-scale electricity generation. The US wind industry also supports over 300,000 American jobs and has invested nearly $330 billion in the last 20 years, with $10 billion invested in new projects in 2023 alone, according to the American Clean Power Association (ACP).
Key Contributions of Wind Power in the US:
Electricity Generation:
Wind is the largest source of renewable electricity generation in the United States, with over 73,000 wind turbines operating across the country.
Economic Impact:
The industry delivers an estimated $2 billion in state and local tax payments and land-lease payments annually. In 2023, the industry invested $10 billion in new projects, and the wind power market size in the US is projected to be $50.5 billion in 2025, according to IBISWorld.
Environmental Benefits:
Wind energy avoids significant CO2 emissions, with wind energy avoiding 351 million metric tons of CO2 emissions in 2024, equivalent to 61 million cars' worth of emissions.
Job Creation:
The US wind industry supports over 300,000 jobs across all 50 states, and wind turbine technician jobs are projected to grow by 68% by 2030.
State-Level Impact:
Wind energy provides a quarter of the electricity produced in eight states and a significant percentage of electricity in others. For example, Oklahoma and Kansas generated over 55% of their electricity from wind in April 2025.
As long as donnydolt doesn’t outlaw renewable energy it will continue to become the dominant means of energy production. Trump hates wind because Scotland put up a wind farm that was in view of one of his golf courses. The republicans wanted the EPA shutdown since Reagan. The decision basically denies that climate change is caused by humans. Watch for greenhouse gases to be allowed to be released without restrictions.
Donald will be "gone with the wind" soon enough---the windmills will not.
"The solid-red Heartland states of Iowa, South Dakota, and Kansas lead the US in non-hydro clean energy generation as a share of their total generation. The three states generate more than half of their in-state electricity from clean energy sources, nearly all of it from wind power."-Google search
The images of people huddled around a radio or TV to watch propaganda won't happen again, unless they kill the internet. There is no particular media popular enough to solidify his movement and make us all listen together like the old days. He's screwed and so are CBS, ABC, NBC, and FOX. The percentage of the population watching them is tiny and literally dying off. No internet---no business and banking.
Dictator-ing was a lot easier when the channels were few and free. F-ing oligarchs, universities, law firms, MAGAs, and media whores for Trump---traitors one and all.
Speaking of images, what could be worse than these psycho killers and the horrors they perpetrate day after day. The atrocities and his craziness will be televised along with the revolution. I think WE are deciding who the mainstream media is with our clicks.
I'm clicking on The Hartmann Report and telling everyone I know about it. See you in the streets!
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Yes we have lots of options on the internet but so do maggots. So we will always live in two camps and they will never listen to a commie loving messenger. I keep harping on the need for quality education and the teaching of critical thinking but it’s the only way out the hellhole that we are living in. It will take at least twenty years to change so we’d better get started.
I am so with you on the importance of education and critical thinking but this is the enemy of MAGA. This why they are hellbent on dumbing people down....
Good points Alis save for one thing. The interwebs are controlled by algorithms, and now there is AI which can write it's own algorithms and has been "taught" by persons with, shall we say, authoritarian or at least technocracy inclinations.
Tik Tok and social media, has tilted the generations towards Trump. A 25 year old is not all concerned about the future, social security, medicaid, even retirement, and if male his primary concern is getting laid, and with female empowerment it is getting more difficult and thus the rise of InCels.
The younger demographic is where TRump has dropped like a rock.
MY brother pointed out to me that young men cannot AFFORD to date. THAT they can figure out. It all goes back to servitude to the rich.
Women getting an education. Religion losing. Gender-bending. True, algorithms dominate the net, but they don't decide what we do.
Young, attractive politicians and pundits are on the rise, so are jocks and entertainers with brains and heart. The symbol of the new generations is a heart made with their hands.
IMO, social media has a lot to do with alienation. You are probably like me, grew up where our social life was face to face, we learned to socialize,read body and facial clues, got to know each other in real time, not the facade we put on, on the internet.
Educational opportunities for women, meant that a woman's career path was not to find a husband, and so she went to college, In fact women outnumber men at college.
Males are still stuck in the stereotype of being the provider, the protector and that requires a woman who is submissive and subordinate
The modern crop of females, like Boebert and MTG ,and ACB, are oblivious to the reality of their ancestors. Where women not only couldn't vote, but if married, did not own their own wages, if they could find a job as a secretary, telephone operator, teacher seamstress or nurse,not many career paths.
Ken Burns made a documentary about Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony. It was a time when women couldn't even sell property that they inherited. They had to marry and then the husband had control over the property,so about five of them, maybe 7, got together incorporated and put their property in the corporation, and then used it to start up and all female college.
I've done genealogical research and my 5th great grandmother had to give up her dowers rights in 1767, when her husband,my 5th ggf, sold his planation.
Dower rights, the dowery, what females brought to a marriage, because the father had to pay to unload her, as women were not useful to work on the farm.
Fathers had to pay to get rid of their daughters. Still the custom because the father is expected to pay for the wedding.
Evidently women like Boebert, MTG, Virginia Foxx and ACB, think that those are the halycon days of feminiity. If they have their wish, they will wish that they hadn't.
In the hopes that the Internet doesn't get hobbled or entirely controlled by the State, as it has in several other countries (take a quick peek at Internet censorship). Never underestimate Project 2025's eagerness to reinvent America in its own image.
Currently America is a tattooed, part hippy, part bad-ass, diversified nation actually seeking DEI. These racist bastards are losing demographically.
But I get that we can never take anything they do lightly---we are living it right now. Let's hope the BBB turns out to be the Big Beautiful Backlash, Robert.
Thom, today you accurately described in one article the overall present scenario.
Your point by point summation is irrefutable unless your are talking to a criminal.
What’s irrelevant are the oligarchs who through oil and monopoly keep us in the 19th century. They are scared to death to change. While other countries develop new technologies and care about their citizens, the stranglehold of the morbidly rich on our government has grown and so have the crimes against humanity.
The evil is now out in the open. I appreciate that your clarity that makes it possible to enlighten others.
Currently via Google, numerous entities, including state attorneys general, cities, counties, and tribal nations, are actively pursuing lawsuits against major oil and gas companies like ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, and Chevron, alleging that these companies deliberately misled the public about the dangers of climate change and their role in it. These lawsuits aim to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for the damages caused by climate change, seeking financial compensation for costs like increased flooding, forest fires, and heatwaves, and penalties for deceptive practices.
Want a healthy workforce? Guess it's not smart to give them lung diseases and toxic waste sites.
I like the last quote: “When the federal government of the United States decides to go out of the race, it doesn’t stop the race,” said Rafael Dubeux, a senior official in Brazil’s Finance Ministry. “Other countries keep moving.”
Good article, arshambow. Job loss is his specialty. They have been lying about that too.
Yeah, so we're being run by a fat and lazy mob boss in the pocket of big oil who doesn't give a damn about the American people. It's too easy to keep on looting instead of actually creating something.
Between Donald Trump and South Park, which one is the irrelevant cartoon? And yet, the irrelevant cartoon can bully a TV network, because the network is more interested in its business empire, in which the news division is simply a loss leader. Sacrificing its constitutional right (and duty) to question the powerful is good for business, as Les Moonves alluded to.
CBS only exists because of paid advertisements. Start a nation wide boycott of products advertised on their network and send a letter or email to corporate headquarters explaining why.
wangone,you've got it. Can we do this? Itis not hard.Skydance president is David Ellison,son of Larry Ellison( Oracle) who is one of the biggest supporters of Trump.He has stated he is going to be running ads for Trump and will not say anything negative about him.
CBS can do a deal with Bezos to dominate all MSM. Ad Age ranked Amazon as the nation's top advertiser for the fifth consecutive year. Amazon's estimated U.S. ad and promotion spending came in at $13.3 billion in 2023, down about 1%
In the adults ages 19-49, ABC dominates, according to Advertising Age . 60 Minutes does not make the top 20. I never heard of "High Potential" which is Number One.
IMHO a program like Thom's call in show during prime time could raise more than most of the programming. First, the cost of production is nebulous. Google says A partial sample of estimated production budgets for current one-hour series revealed per-episode production costs ranging from $3.1 million to $15 million. Depending on the number of episodes ordered, the price of an entire season can cost from $35 million to $135 million.
So even if advertising revenues were decreased, as long as costs are nebulous, profits can exceed high cost programs.
Wouldn't it be ironic if David Ellison, CEO of Skydance Media, decided he'd make more money if someone like Thom Hartmann ran his news operation? By attacking 60 Minutes, the most valuable CBS program, it became possible for Ellison to get a discount to buy Paramount. But as OWNER, you'd think he'd want to maximize assets like 60 minutes and South Park.
Skydance Media is a privately held company and is currently not publicly traded on any stock market. David Ellison is the son of the world's second richest person, Larry Ellison, who made his gelt from Oracle.
Investigating David's history, he was "talent" rather than management for most of his career. He went to film school, but never graduated. He is a failed actor. His dad was married 6 times. He's been married to one woman, who happens to be Sandra Lynn. https://www.youtube.com/sandralynnmusic
Meanwhile, what If Trump were held to the same standard that the Dominion v Fox suit imposed?
Park is one of the few parts of media content that actually does exist unto itself," Patten told Wallace during Thursday's show. "They could have taken their party to somewhere else if Paramount hadn't coughed up the dough they wanted. So, in a way, they had Paramount by the short and curlies."
The show aired on Wednesday night, where it has remained for 27 seasons. Stone and Parker are also scheduled to speak at ComicCon on Thursday night.
"So, you clearly don't want them showing up in front of thousands with them dissing you," said Patten. "So, I don't think Paramount had any choice here. They had to go with it. Unlike Stephen Colbert, where there was an argument to be made, and it's 'a financial one,' whether or not you buy it or not, and the timing doesn't indicate it. But basically, late night has been losing $40 million a year."
However, "South Park" is a huge money maker for the network, Patten noted.
"And they kind of had to swallow whatever Trey Parker and Matt Stone were going to serve up, and they served up Donald Trump on a plate fully baked. That's just the reality of the economics of it," Patten quipped.
Hal,nice comment. However I doubt late night has been losing $40 million per yr. Let them prove that. If they were losing that amt of money,they would have stopped the losses long ago.
I fear we’re past fascist drift but all the way into fascist, authoritarian shackles. The guy isn’t alone, he’s got all these people associated with project 2025 that we have to stop also. These people are crazy and will not stop. We have to stop them.
The Technate of America was a proposal from the 1930s technocracy movement to reorganize the United States, Canada, and potentially Greenland, Mexico, and Central America into a single continental unit governed by scientific and technological principles. This vision involved replacing traditional political and economic structures with a system led by engineers and other technical experts, aiming for efficiency and elimination of waste through scientific management of resources and production.
It is very hard to read your analysis…. In my 80s, I wish better for the future of younger generations.
I'm in my 80s. I read clearly what Hartmann is telling us. Stand up or you will stand down to Trump's new fascist America.
Perhaps emotionally hard---not clarity?
Just read in “The Hill” that the EPA is repealing the 2009 finding that greenhouse gases cause climate change. This ruling, IMO, is one of the most dangerous by the project 2025 gang. Unfortunately it will be lost in the louder tRump noise.
Consider windmills. Trump is off his rocker about them. Attacks at every chance. Meanwhile, the Dakotas are the Saudi Arabia of wind. Dozens of US based Windmill manuafacturers. Wind is a cash crop option for some farmers, especially those where wind is rampant and the soil quality is poor.
Google: In 2023, US wind power generation was 425 billion kilowatt-hours, representing about 10% of total utility-scale electricity generation. The US wind industry also supports over 300,000 American jobs and has invested nearly $330 billion in the last 20 years, with $10 billion invested in new projects in 2023 alone, according to the American Clean Power Association (ACP).
Key Contributions of Wind Power in the US:
Electricity Generation:
Wind is the largest source of renewable electricity generation in the United States, with over 73,000 wind turbines operating across the country.
Economic Impact:
The industry delivers an estimated $2 billion in state and local tax payments and land-lease payments annually. In 2023, the industry invested $10 billion in new projects, and the wind power market size in the US is projected to be $50.5 billion in 2025, according to IBISWorld.
Environmental Benefits:
Wind energy avoids significant CO2 emissions, with wind energy avoiding 351 million metric tons of CO2 emissions in 2024, equivalent to 61 million cars' worth of emissions.
Job Creation:
The US wind industry supports over 300,000 jobs across all 50 states, and wind turbine technician jobs are projected to grow by 68% by 2030.
State-Level Impact:
Wind energy provides a quarter of the electricity produced in eight states and a significant percentage of electricity in others. For example, Oklahoma and Kansas generated over 55% of their electricity from wind in April 2025.
As long as donnydolt doesn’t outlaw renewable energy it will continue to become the dominant means of energy production. Trump hates wind because Scotland put up a wind farm that was in view of one of his golf courses. The republicans wanted the EPA shutdown since Reagan. The decision basically denies that climate change is caused by humans. Watch for greenhouse gases to be allowed to be released without restrictions.
Donald will be "gone with the wind" soon enough---the windmills will not.
"The solid-red Heartland states of Iowa, South Dakota, and Kansas lead the US in non-hydro clean energy generation as a share of their total generation. The three states generate more than half of their in-state electricity from clean energy sources, nearly all of it from wind power."-Google search
What a dumb-ass.
Orange Hitler has a problem
The images of people huddled around a radio or TV to watch propaganda won't happen again, unless they kill the internet. There is no particular media popular enough to solidify his movement and make us all listen together like the old days. He's screwed and so are CBS, ABC, NBC, and FOX. The percentage of the population watching them is tiny and literally dying off. No internet---no business and banking.
Dictator-ing was a lot easier when the channels were few and free. F-ing oligarchs, universities, law firms, MAGAs, and media whores for Trump---traitors one and all.
Speaking of images, what could be worse than these psycho killers and the horrors they perpetrate day after day. The atrocities and his craziness will be televised along with the revolution. I think WE are deciding who the mainstream media is with our clicks.
I'm clicking on The Hartmann Report and telling everyone I know about it. See you in the streets!
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Yes we have lots of options on the internet but so do maggots. So we will always live in two camps and they will never listen to a commie loving messenger. I keep harping on the need for quality education and the teaching of critical thinking but it’s the only way out the hellhole that we are living in. It will take at least twenty years to change so we’d better get started.
I am so with you on the importance of education and critical thinking but this is the enemy of MAGA. This why they are hellbent on dumbing people down....
Good points Alis save for one thing. The interwebs are controlled by algorithms, and now there is AI which can write it's own algorithms and has been "taught" by persons with, shall we say, authoritarian or at least technocracy inclinations.
Tik Tok and social media, has tilted the generations towards Trump. A 25 year old is not all concerned about the future, social security, medicaid, even retirement, and if male his primary concern is getting laid, and with female empowerment it is getting more difficult and thus the rise of InCels.
The younger demographic is where TRump has dropped like a rock.
MY brother pointed out to me that young men cannot AFFORD to date. THAT they can figure out. It all goes back to servitude to the rich.
Women getting an education. Religion losing. Gender-bending. True, algorithms dominate the net, but they don't decide what we do.
Young, attractive politicians and pundits are on the rise, so are jocks and entertainers with brains and heart. The symbol of the new generations is a heart made with their hands.
IMO, social media has a lot to do with alienation. You are probably like me, grew up where our social life was face to face, we learned to socialize,read body and facial clues, got to know each other in real time, not the facade we put on, on the internet.
Educational opportunities for women, meant that a woman's career path was not to find a husband, and so she went to college, In fact women outnumber men at college.
Males are still stuck in the stereotype of being the provider, the protector and that requires a woman who is submissive and subordinate
The modern crop of females, like Boebert and MTG ,and ACB, are oblivious to the reality of their ancestors. Where women not only couldn't vote, but if married, did not own their own wages, if they could find a job as a secretary, telephone operator, teacher seamstress or nurse,not many career paths.
Ken Burns made a documentary about Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony. It was a time when women couldn't even sell property that they inherited. They had to marry and then the husband had control over the property,so about five of them, maybe 7, got together incorporated and put their property in the corporation, and then used it to start up and all female college.
I've done genealogical research and my 5th great grandmother had to give up her dowers rights in 1767, when her husband,my 5th ggf, sold his planation.
Dower rights, the dowery, what females brought to a marriage, because the father had to pay to unload her, as women were not useful to work on the farm.
Fathers had to pay to get rid of their daughters. Still the custom because the father is expected to pay for the wedding.
Evidently women like Boebert, MTG, Virginia Foxx and ACB, think that those are the halycon days of feminiity. If they have their wish, they will wish that they hadn't.
In the hopes that the Internet doesn't get hobbled or entirely controlled by the State, as it has in several other countries (take a quick peek at Internet censorship). Never underestimate Project 2025's eagerness to reinvent America in its own image.
Currently America is a tattooed, part hippy, part bad-ass, diversified nation actually seeking DEI. These racist bastards are losing demographically.
But I get that we can never take anything they do lightly---we are living it right now. Let's hope the BBB turns out to be the Big Beautiful Backlash, Robert.
Non-denominational amen, alis, non-denominational amen.
Thom, today you accurately described in one article the overall present scenario.
Your point by point summation is irrefutable unless your are talking to a criminal.
What’s irrelevant are the oligarchs who through oil and monopoly keep us in the 19th century. They are scared to death to change. While other countries develop new technologies and care about their citizens, the stranglehold of the morbidly rich on our government has grown and so have the crimes against humanity.
The evil is now out in the open. I appreciate that your clarity that makes it possible to enlighten others.
IMHO will not stop ongoing litigation. https://climateintegrity.org/lawsuits
For many years, the Rockerfeller family wanted to diversify, knowing that fossil fuels are toxic and are depleting assets but were rebuffed by Saudis. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/27/rockefeller-family-tried-and-failed-exxonmobil-accept-climate-change
Currently via Google, numerous entities, including state attorneys general, cities, counties, and tribal nations, are actively pursuing lawsuits against major oil and gas companies like ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, and Chevron, alleging that these companies deliberately misled the public about the dangers of climate change and their role in it. These lawsuits aim to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for the damages caused by climate change, seeking financial compensation for costs like increased flooding, forest fires, and heatwaves, and penalties for deceptive practices.
Meanwhile, the Saudis have also been undermining our economy since 1973 via OPEC. At one time, this was a bipartisan issue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Oil_Producing_and_Exporting_Cartels_Act
A recent NYT article about what China is doing, while the US policy is 'drill baby drill'.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/30/climate/china-clean-energy-power.html
Want a healthy workforce? Guess it's not smart to give them lung diseases and toxic waste sites.
I like the last quote: “When the federal government of the United States decides to go out of the race, it doesn’t stop the race,” said Rafael Dubeux, a senior official in Brazil’s Finance Ministry. “Other countries keep moving.”
Good article, arshambow. Job loss is his specialty. They have been lying about that too.
Yeah, so we're being run by a fat and lazy mob boss in the pocket of big oil who doesn't give a damn about the American people. It's too easy to keep on looting instead of actually creating something.
Not to belabor the issue but just read this from Paul Krugman about the bogus EU deal Trump just did.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/fossil-fool?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=277517&post_id=169617206&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=2g7cs&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Geoff,great post,agree 100%.
Thank you.
Between Donald Trump and South Park, which one is the irrelevant cartoon? And yet, the irrelevant cartoon can bully a TV network, because the network is more interested in its business empire, in which the news division is simply a loss leader. Sacrificing its constitutional right (and duty) to question the powerful is good for business, as Les Moonves alluded to.
Alas Jeffrey, all this proves is that everyone has a price, and that price is not necessarily money, but all too often it is.
Just look how he P.M..s and Presidents humble and humiliate themselves before Trump
Vacuum cleaner salesmen that will go anything, jack him off or give him a B.J. just to sell him their wares.
Les turned out to be a lecherous perv too.
Good observation, Jeffery.
CBS only exists because of paid advertisements. Start a nation wide boycott of products advertised on their network and send a letter or email to corporate headquarters explaining why.
wangone,you've got it. Can we do this? Itis not hard.Skydance president is David Ellison,son of Larry Ellison( Oracle) who is one of the biggest supporters of Trump.He has stated he is going to be running ads for Trump and will not say anything negative about him.
CBS advertisers: https://stopmediabiasnow.com/cbs-advertisers/
CBS can do a deal with Bezos to dominate all MSM. Ad Age ranked Amazon as the nation's top advertiser for the fifth consecutive year. Amazon's estimated U.S. ad and promotion spending came in at $13.3 billion in 2023, down about 1%
In the adults ages 19-49, ABC dominates, according to Advertising Age . 60 Minutes does not make the top 20. I never heard of "High Potential" which is Number One.
IMHO a program like Thom's call in show during prime time could raise more than most of the programming. First, the cost of production is nebulous. Google says A partial sample of estimated production budgets for current one-hour series revealed per-episode production costs ranging from $3.1 million to $15 million. Depending on the number of episodes ordered, the price of an entire season can cost from $35 million to $135 million.
So even if advertising revenues were decreased, as long as costs are nebulous, profits can exceed high cost programs.
This is why voices like Thom's are desperately needed now more than ever.
Just stop watching CBS and get everyone you know to stop....
"He who does not punish evil commands it to be done."
Leonardo da Vinci
Wouldn't it be ironic if David Ellison, CEO of Skydance Media, decided he'd make more money if someone like Thom Hartmann ran his news operation? By attacking 60 Minutes, the most valuable CBS program, it became possible for Ellison to get a discount to buy Paramount. But as OWNER, you'd think he'd want to maximize assets like 60 minutes and South Park.
Skydance Media is a privately held company and is currently not publicly traded on any stock market. David Ellison is the son of the world's second richest person, Larry Ellison, who made his gelt from Oracle.
Several pundits say that Larry Ellison is more powerful than even Musk and more influential with Trump than anybody else. But the son is apparently not the father. In 2024, David Ellison donated nearly $1 million to former Biden’s re-election campaign. He supposedly is toying with turning over the news operation to Bari Weiss. https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/07/25/what-we-know-about-david-ellison-soon-to-be-paramount-chief-and-major-hollywood-honcho/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bari_Weiss
Investigating David's history, he was "talent" rather than management for most of his career. He went to film school, but never graduated. He is a failed actor. His dad was married 6 times. He's been married to one woman, who happens to be Sandra Lynn. https://www.youtube.com/sandralynnmusic
Meanwhile, what If Trump were held to the same standard that the Dominion v Fox suit imposed?
I can't stand it,24/7 trump ?!! I miss the News. I give thanks for you,Thom, and will be watching on FStv 🤓
Read "Trump's South Park fiasco exposed who really holds the cards: Deadline editor" here: https://www.rawstory.com/south-and-park/
Excerpt:
Park is one of the few parts of media content that actually does exist unto itself," Patten told Wallace during Thursday's show. "They could have taken their party to somewhere else if Paramount hadn't coughed up the dough they wanted. So, in a way, they had Paramount by the short and curlies."
The show aired on Wednesday night, where it has remained for 27 seasons. Stone and Parker are also scheduled to speak at ComicCon on Thursday night.
"So, you clearly don't want them showing up in front of thousands with them dissing you," said Patten. "So, I don't think Paramount had any choice here. They had to go with it. Unlike Stephen Colbert, where there was an argument to be made, and it's 'a financial one,' whether or not you buy it or not, and the timing doesn't indicate it. But basically, late night has been losing $40 million a year."
However, "South Park" is a huge money maker for the network, Patten noted.
"And they kind of had to swallow whatever Trey Parker and Matt Stone were going to serve up, and they served up Donald Trump on a plate fully baked. That's just the reality of the economics of it," Patten quipped.
Hal,nice comment. However I doubt late night has been losing $40 million per yr. Let them prove that. If they were losing that amt of money,they would have stopped the losses long ago.
What? Logic in the age of TRump? I think Colbert is questioning it just like you, David.
Note that Trump is a multiply- CONVICTED rapist, though he does have some other trials that are postponed.
Not to worry. Your elected democtratic leaders will fight back hard . . . . . Oh wait!
Boycott CBS !
I fear we’re past fascist drift but all the way into fascist, authoritarian shackles. The guy isn’t alone, he’s got all these people associated with project 2025 that we have to stop also. These people are crazy and will not stop. We have to stop them.
No rest for people trying to stop the wicked, Elizabeth.
You are so right, alis
Just started reading "1984". Having a hard time of it. Already hearing the CBS echoes.
David Ellison, owner of Sydance-Paramount-CBS is son of Larry Ellison of Oracle, a techbro and major financier of Trump's campaign.
CBS has most def gone over to the dark side, a little brother to Fox or it's major competition?
Techbros, Ellison, Musk, Cook, et al have big plans for America. The Technate of America , a feudal state, a technocracy run by themselves of course https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:34227574
The Technate of America was a proposal from the 1930s technocracy movement to reorganize the United States, Canada, and potentially Greenland, Mexico, and Central America into a single continental unit governed by scientific and technological principles. This vision involved replacing traditional political and economic structures with a system led by engineers and other technical experts, aiming for efficiency and elimination of waste through scientific management of resources and production.