Former President Donald Trump is leading President Joe Biden in six out of seven key swing states as Americans believe the economy is going in the wrong direction, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-24/biden-trails-trump-in-6-of-7-key-states-poll-shows-election-2024?leadSource=uverify%20wall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to a new Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll.
The <a href="https://pro-assets.morningconsult.com/wp-uploads/2024/04/Bloomberg_2024-Election-Tracking-Wave-7.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a> of nearly 5,000 registered voters found that Trump leads Biden in key states like Arizona (49-42), Georgia (49-43), Nevada (51-43), North Carolina (51-41), Pennsylvania (47-46), and Wisconsin (48-44), while Biden tops Trump in Michigan (47-45). The majority of those polled had a negative view of the economy&#8217;s direction, with many believing it would only get worse.
According to the poll, 70% of those surveyed believed the economy was going in the wrong direction, while 30% said it was going the right way. When asked how important the economy would be in determining who they pick for president, 82% said it would be &#8220;very important,&#8221; while 14% said it would be &#8220;somewhat important.&#8221; 
Americans also believe that inflation is worsening, with 54% saying they expected it to intensify by the end of the year and 17% saying they believed it would improve. Inflation has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidenflation-number-of-americans-growing-food-at-home-soars" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remained high</a> during the Biden presidency, with customers paying elevated prices for staples like food and gas. A political action committee backing Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-pac-launches-interactive-website-to-show-how-food-prices-have-skyrocketed-under-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launched</a> a &#8220;Biden-mart&#8221; website last month highlighting the dramatic increase in food prices. 
“Some of the shine of the State of the Union address has worn off,” Matt Monday, senior manager of Morning Consult, said. “People are really tying &#8216;Bidenomics&#8217; and their perception of the economy to the inflation rate.”
More than half of voters surveyed (51%) said they trusted Trump more with the economy than Biden (36%), while 13% said neither. 46% of voters also said they trusted Trump more on the issue of good jobs than Biden (38%). 
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By far, the economy ranked as the number one issue for voters polled, with 34% saying it would be their top issue in the presidential election. The only other top issue that polled in the double digits was immigration at 15%, while abortion, a top issue for the Biden campaign, came in at 9%.
Neither Biden nor Trump had a majority of voters who viewed them favorably. While 56% said they had an unfavorable or somewhat unfavorable view of Biden, just 41% said they had a favorable or somewhat favorable view of the president. Trump was viewed unfavorably or somewhat unfavorably by 41% of voters, while 45% had a favorable or very favorable view of him. 
Other issues voters found important included immigration (86%), crime (91%), education and schools (87%), and senior services (89%).

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It&#8217;s an astonishing statistic that took the internet by storm: 94% of jobs created in 2021 went to racial minorities. It&#8217;s also completely untrue.
The conclusion from Bloomberg — which credits five reporters and four editors for <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-black-lives-matter-equal-opportunity-corporate-diversity/?srnd=premium" target="_blank" rel="noopener">its report</a> — is that on the heels of the Black Lives Matter protests, corporations followed through on their promise to diversify their ranks. The outlet reported that companies in the S&amp;P 100 added 323,094 new employees in 2021, and that only 20,524 of those new jobs were filled by whites.
If true, such a statistic could launch a legion of victorious racial discrimination lawsuits — blacks, Asians, and Hispanics make up roughly 40% of the population, and there is no way they could obtain 94% of new jobs without some level of discrimination.
But the takeaway from Bloomberg is an example of innumeracy by journalists at an outlet once relied upon by businessmen for savvy financial analysis — or of willfully setting aside common sense in favor of what the publication acknowledged is an ideologically-driven &#8220;project to <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-09-26/how-nike-cvs-amazon-drove-diversity-change-post-george-floyd-protests?srnd=premium&amp;leadSource=uverify%20wall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hold companies accountable</a> to [diversity] pledges.&#8221;
A Daily Wire analysis of the same numbers examined by Bloomberg found that, in reality, the demographics of hiring figures for 2021 were barely different from previous years. The percentage of new jobs that went to whites was likely about 46%, eight points below the 54% white makeup of companies&#8217; existing workforces. That&#8217;s to be expected given demographic changes in the United States since the time that the currently-retiring baby boomer generation first entered the workforce.
Though Bloomberg spun the tale as a victory for Black Lives Matter, blacks benefited the least of any racial group from the slight decline in whites, according to the analysis. The percentage of black hires was up from the status quo by 1%, while Asians were up by 2%, and Hispanics were up by 4%. That&#8217;s also explained by demographics — decades ago, when baby boomers entered the workforce, the U.S. was mostly white and black; in the decades since, the numbers of Hispanics and Asians in the United States have increased.
Here&#8217;s how Bloomberg got the story wrong, and how numbers actually work.
Bloomberg based its analysis on a form companies file to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission listing the racial breakdown of their U.S. employees. The forms are filed annually, but they don&#8217;t break out stats for employees hired that year; they just provide the total headcount of all employees by race.
Bloomberg, reaching for a way to isolate recent numbers, focused on the fact that companies increased their cumulative headcount by some 320,000 in 2021. Then they made a flawed leap of logic: They took the increase of minorities across the entire workforce, and divided it by the number of new positions — not the number of actual hires, which overwhelmingly come from replacing people who leave the company. In short, they got the denominator wrong.
&#8220;Bloomberg obtained 2020 and 2021 data for 88 S&amp;P 100 companies and calculated overall US job growth at those firms&#8230;.  Overall, these companies increased their headcount by 323,094 employees in 2021,&#8221; the outlet wrote. &#8220;Bloomberg then analyzed the racial makeup of those additional workers, finding that 94% of them were people of color.&#8221;
But it’s not possible from the data to say that those additional “people of color” took the 320,000 newly created positions. Most of them were almost certainly hired as part of a much larger group: replacements for existing jobs that were vacated by retirees or people changing jobs.
The 88 companies in Bloomberg’s study together employed 8.9 million workers in 2020. Based on a <a href="https://www.netsuite.com/portal/resource/articles/human-resources/employee-turnover-statistics.shtml#:~:text=What%20is%20a%20good%20employee,is%20known%20as%20involuntary%20turnover." target="_blank" rel="noopener">typical annual turnover rate of 18%</a>, an estimated 1.6 million people would have left and been replaced in 2021. So the increase in minorities shouldn&#8217;t be calculated as 300,000 out of 320,000 — it&#8217;s 300,000 out of roughly 2 million (1.6 million plus 320,000).
Some companies may have had no employment growth at all, just turnover from retirements. Bloomberg&#8217;s methodology could capture minor demographic changes across companies like this, then apply all those changes to a small number of newly-created positions from entirely different companies.
Take this hypothetical: There are two companies, each staffed by 100 white people. One of them replaces 20 retiring white employees with 20 black employees. The other is very profitable, so it creates 10 new positions, all given to whites. Bloomberg&#8217;s methodology would conclude that the companies, as a group, hired 20 black people into 10 new jobs, and that minorities received 200% of jobs. This is obviously impossible, and in fact, all of the new jobs went to whites.
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In 2020, the S&amp;P companies were just under 54% white. If every retiree was replaced with someone of the same race, and whites also got the same share of the new jobs, you&#8217;d expect to see 173,000 whites added. Bloomberg observes that there were only 20,000 whites added.
What this tells us is there was a shortage of approximately 153,000 whites — but that&#8217;s not across the 320,000, it&#8217;s across 2 million jobs filled. Instead of hiring just over 1 million whites (54%), they hired about 884,000 (45%).
On the &#8220;people of color&#8221; side, Bloomberg said that Hispanics grew by 131,000 in the 320,000 jobs. But they actually simply got their share of newly-created new jobs (54,000), plus out of the 864,000 whites retiring, 77,000 were replaced by Hispanics.
In all, we can compute that of the 2 million jobs filled in 2021, about 400,000 went to Hispanics — 20%, which is only slightly higher than the 17% in the legacy workforce.
Following the same logic, the number of 2021 hires who were Asian was 12%, slightly higher than the 10% of the legacy workforce, while blacks went up 1%, from 17% to 18%.
Though blacks benefited the least from the decline in whites, that&#8217;s expected because blacks, who make up 12% of the population, are actually overrepresented in the workforce studied by Bloomberg.
Robert VerBruggen, an economic policy fellow at the Manhattan Institute, agreed that Bloomberg’s analysis failed to take into account the workers leaving and their demographics.
“The country&#8217;s demographics are changing — older generations are much whiter than younger ones,” VerBruggen told The Daily Wire. “If whites are disproportionately retiring and non-whites are disproportionately getting jobs, that will skew the numbers, giving the appearance of a serious commitment to equity — or mass violations of civil-rights law, depending on one&#8217;s perspective.”
A telltale sign that Bloomberg&#8217;s &#8220;percentage of the net increase&#8221; methodology is flawed, VerBruggen explained, is that, if the departures of whites had been just a little higher, the net change in whites would have been negative instead of the actual small growth of 20,000. Bloomberg&#8217;s methodology would then assert that whites took a negative percentage of the new 320,000 jobs, a mathematic impossibility.
The study also received pushback from pollster Patrick Ruffini, who <a href="https://twitter.com/PatrickRuffini/status/1707022523391488291" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Bloomberg’s analysis was “statistically illiterate” and pointed out the outlet’s failure to take into account employee turnover.
“This stuff could be the product of generational turnover in the workforce,” Ruffini said. “If retirees are 80% white and new workers are 55% in line with demographics of young workers, you get numbers like this.”
Normally in journalism, there is a safeguard that comes in the form of calling the companies mentioned for comment. But Bloomberg said &#8220;none of the half-dozen companies with the most notable diversity gains wanted to discuss them in detail.&#8221;
The companies could have pointed out that Bloomberg&#8217;s methodology was flawed, and prevented them from publishing an error. But the error overstated their diversity gains, and it was clear from the reporters&#8217; bias that big diversity gains would be portrayed favorably. (The story was headlined “Corporate America Promised to Hire a Lot More People of Color. It Actually Did.”)
Asked about the methodology for its study, a Bloomberg spokeswoman said &#8220;We stand by our reporting and analysis.&#8221;
The Daily Wire&#8217;s calculations based on the data used by Bloomberg can be viewed below:
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A former spokesman for the pedophile advocacy group Prostasia wrote a hit piece in Bloomberg against the new anti-child trafficking film &#8220;Sound of Freedom.&#8221;
Noah Berlatsky <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211116021836/https://prostasia.org/blog/team/noah-berkatsky/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">served</a> in 2021 as communications director for Prostasia, a group that calls itself &#8220;a new kind of child protection organization,&#8221; but <a href="https://prostasia.org/blog/reducing-self-stigmatization-in-maps-can-reduce-risks-of-offending/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">works</a> to remove the stigma surrounding &#8220;MAPs&#8221; or &#8220;minor-attracted people.&#8221;
On Saturday, Bloomberg published an opinion article authored by Berlatsky, titled &#8220;QAnon and ‘Sound of Freedom’ Both Rely on Tired Hollywood Tropes.&#8221; The article was <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/07/15/qanon-and-sound-of-freedom-both-rely-on-tired-hollywood-tropes/c0b861ee-230a-11ee-8994-4b2d0b694a34_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reprinted</a> by The Washington Post.
In the article, Berlatsky, who is also a former NBC contributor, bashed &#8220;Sound of Freedom,&#8221; which has been hailed by conservatives since it premiered last month. The film is about a federal agent who saves a sister and brother from child trafficking and is based on a true story. The movie stars Jim Caviezel and was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sound-of-freedom-film-based-on-a-true-story-exposes-horror-of-human-trafficking" target="_blank" rel="noopener">produced</a> by the same studio that made the faith-based series &#8220;The Chosen.&#8221;
Berlatsky claimed the film has been &#8220;embraced by the far right and Christians,&#8221; who he complains have &#8220;helped boost it to more than $50 million in receipts at the box office.&#8221;
Berlatsky also claimed &#8220;Sound of Freedom&#8221; is linked to the conspiracy theory QAnon. The movie&#8217;s creator recently <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/sound-freedom-movie-creator-tim-ballard-responds-qanon-allegations-sick-1812204" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> allegations that the movie has a QAnon connection &#8220;sick,&#8221; and Caviezel, the film&#8217;s star, said he was unaware of the conspiracy in 2018 when the movie was filmed.
&#8220;But the truth is that the conspiratorial right and the Hollywood default aren&#8217;t that different — which is why, perhaps, our polity has had such difficulty rejecting QAnon, Trump and fascism,&#8221; Berlatsky wrote.
Critics have <a href="https://4w.pub/prostasia-normalize-pedophilia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> Prostasia, the pedophile advocacy group, for years of trying to normalize pedophilia behind a thin smoke screen of &#8220;child protection.&#8221;
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The group&#8217;s blog posts have mentioned &#8220;kink&#8221; and &#8220;child protection&#8221; in the same breath. Prostasia has also <a href="https://prostasia.org/blog/criminalizing-art-and-fiction-is-a-bridge-too-far-for-the-united-nations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">argued</a> against criminalizing fantasy child pornography and in favor of keeping child sex dolls legal.
Besides his stint as communications director for Prostasia, Berlatsky has a long social media history of defending pedophiles.
&#8220;Pedophiles are essentially a stigmatized group. Certain people get designated as deviants, people hate them,&#8221; Berlatsky tweeted in February, 2017, <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bloomberg-sound-freedom-hit-piece-written-pro-pedo-contributor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to a screenshot.
&#8220;The issue isn&#8217;t that people care about the victims. The issue is that pedophiles are loathed,&#8221; Berlatsky tweeted the same day in 2017.
Berlatsky has also attacked the relationship between parents and their children.
&#8220;Parents are tyrants. &#8216;parent&#8217; is an oppressive class, like rich people or white 
people,&#8221; Berlatsky tweeted in December 2020.
&#8220;There are things you can do to try to minimize the abuse that&#8217;s endemic to the parent/child relationship, but it&#8217;s always there,&#8221; he added.
Meanwhile, gender ideology plays a large role in Berlatsky&#8217;s family. He has <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/19/opinions/fathers-day-transgender-daughter-bravery-trust-berlatsky/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">been vocal</a> about supporting his trans-identifying son, who now identifies as a girl.
In February, Berlatsky wrote an <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/wife-bisexual-nonbinary-daughter-transgender-195648373.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> for Insider, titled &#8220;My wife is bisexual and nonbinary, and my daughter is transgender. My queer family helped me better understand myself and my masculinity.&#8221;
Berlatsky&#8217;s Twitter account, which has more than 21,000 followers, is currently locked in private mode.

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Former Pedophile Advocacy Group Spokesman Writes Bloomberg Hit Piece On ‘Sound Of Freedom’

Former Pedophile Advocacy Group Spokesman Writes Bloomberg Hit Piece On 'Sound Of Freedom'

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bloomberg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bloomberg</a> Opinion was roasted online for using a child to comment on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/supreme-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Supreme Court</a> ethics.
Bloomberg&#8217;s &#8220;Crash Course&#8221; <a href="https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-crash-course-106327154/episode/the-supreme-court-vs-greed-113796470/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">podcast</a> aired an episode on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas&#8217;s alleged conflicts of interest. During the episode, host Tim O&#8217;Brien asked his son Cooper for his thoughts on financial conflicts of interest, to which the boy replied that they should not be allowed to happen. Bloomberg tweeted about it, and were promptly roasted by Twitter users.
&#8220;What do you think a financial conflict of interest is?&#8221; O&#8217;Brien asked his son.
&#8220;When two people both share a bank account and [one person] wants to spend money on something but the other person doesn&#8217;t,&#8221; Cooper guessed.
&#8220;That&#8217;s a good thought,&#8221; said O&#8217;Brien. &#8220;What if I told you it describes when powerful people, like people who sit on the Supreme Court, have money or other things they own and that might affect how they rule on things?&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s correct and I don&#8217;t think that should happen,&#8221; Cooper said.
Bloomberg Opinion promoted the episode on its Twitter account. &#8220;These 9 people make decisions on the future of democracy in the US,&#8221; the post said. &#8220;But they aren’t held to the same level of accountability as Congress. Even Cooper, the son of our podcast host, thinks that’s a problem.&#8221;
The response to Bloomberg&#8217;s tweet was swift. Twitter users lambasted the outlet for using a child to push the Left’s anti-Supreme Court agenda.
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&#8220;Well if Cooper says so, that means that Article MCVII of the Constitution has been invoked, so the Supreme Court is officially disbanded,&#8221; Daily Wire Editor Emeritus <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1650888157733302272?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro</a> tweeted.
&#8220;Children are currently used as activists on climate change and gun control, as we lay out in Stolen Youth,&#8221; tweeted <a href="https://twitter.com/karol/status/1650891025290756097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1650891025290756097%7Ctwgr%5E8685ebe596bb7174806592678e8f51f936fb2b6d%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2Fkarol2Fstatus2F1650891025290756097widget%3DTweet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Karol Markowicz</a>, journalist and author of the book &#8220;Stolen Youth.&#8221; &#8220;Look for them to move child soldiers to other issues.&#8221;
&#8220;Sure you&#8217;ve heard from James Madison, but what does the son of our podcast host have to say,&#8221; Blaze host <a href="https://twitter.com/AuronMacintyre/status/1650898722014785538?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1650898722014785538%7Ctwgr%5E7631b4fdd5398e3c1c910241fedbc167bc84a746%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2FAuronMacintyre2Fstatus2F1650898722014785538widget%3DTweet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Auron MacIntyre</a> tweeted.
&#8220;The woke eight-year-olds are writing opinion pieces about dismantling the Consitution,&#8221; MacIntyre <a href="https://twitter.com/AuronMacintyre/status/1650898532373610501?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1650898532373610501%7Ctwgr%5Ee81132f4f3469ec2acd961eca4aa5b89e1242d75%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2FAuronMacintyre2Fstatus2F1650898532373610501widget%3DTweet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>.
“‘They aren’t held to the same level of accountability as Congress.&#8217; Congress exempts itself from laws including the ability to insider trade,&#8221; one user wrote.
&#8220;I love the &#8216;Even Cooper&#8217; bit, as if children are notoriously difficult to fool,&#8221; wrote another.
&#8220;I guess it&#8217;s &#8216;Try to Undermine the Supreme Court&#8217; week for the DC Media or something,&#8221; another user chimed in.
&#8220;I’ve never seen an appeal to the authority of a child but I suppose that’s appropriate for such childish opinions,&#8221; a user tweeted.
&#8220;The Left is the greatest defender of SCOTUS when it’s progressive, but it has the completely opposite position when it’s conservative,&#8221; said another.
Justice <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/clarence-thomas-shreds-leftist-hit-piece-have-always-sought-to-comply-with-the-disclosure-guidelines" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clarence Thomas</a> has come under fire from the Left in recent weeks after the left-wing outlet ProPublica reported that Thomas accepted paid travel expenses — including flights, staying on a yacht, and other accommodations — from real estate magnate and billionaire Republican donor Harlan Crow. Thomas accepted the gifts for decades, and said “there are few restrictions on what gifts justices can accept,&#8221; in contrast to members of Congress, who are not allowed to accept gifts over $50.
Both Thomas and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harlan-crow-hits-back-slams-yellow-journalism-and-political-hit-job-on-his-friend-clarence-thomas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Crow</a> have since responded to the allegations.

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Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> is reportedly workshopping multiple new derogatory nicknames for Florida Republican Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis">Ron DeSantis</a> as the race for the White House begins to heat up.
Bloomberg News senior reporter Jennifer Jacobs tweeted a report — authored by Nancy Cook — which said that Trump is spending &#8220;much of his and his team’s time&#8221; on complaining about a lack of media coverage, what he claims was a stolen election, and trying to come up with new names for DeSantis, who is widely expected to enter the presidential race in the coming months.
Jacobs said that, according to Trump&#8217;s allies, the former president is considering trying to label DeSantis as “Ron DisHonest,” “Ron DeEstablishment,” or “Tiny D.”
The report added that Trump is trying to &#8220;dig up dirt&#8221; on DeSantis&#8217; wife, recent breast cancer survivor Casey DeSantis, who has three children with the governor.
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Some of the new nicknames Trump has entertained for his chief rival, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis: “Ron DisHonest.” “Ron DeEstablishment.” Or even, “Tiny D.”
His team has spent weeks trying to dig up dirt on DeSantis and his wife, Casey, <a href="https://twitter.com/nancook?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nancook</a> reports<a href="https://t.co/l3od8rxhHc">https://t.co/l3od8rxhHc</a>
&mdash; Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) <a href="https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1632002857724530689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 4, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Casey DeSantis&#8217; recent victory over breast cancer received significant media attention.
“If you want to know who Ron DeSantis really is, when I was diagnosed with cancer, and I was facing the battle for my life, he was the dad who took care of my children when I couldn’t,” Casey DeSantis said.
“He was there to pick me off of the ground when I literally could not stand,” she added. “He was there to fight for me when I didn’t have the strength to fight for myself.”
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I love you, Casey. <a href="https://t.co/HKID5TolyM">pic.twitter.com/HKID5TolyM</a>
&mdash; Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantisFL) <a href="https://twitter.com/RonDeSantisFL/status/1579502655726145538?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Despite Trump&#8217;s repeated attacks on DeSantis, the governor has not responded in kind and has instead focused on delivering for the voters of his state.
DeSantis even <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-commends-trump-in-new-book-despite-trumps-repeated-attacks">said</a> positive things about the former president in his top-selling new book “The Courage to Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival,” saying that Trump &#8220;supported policies that appealed to the base in a way that GOP leaders in the DC swamp had been either incapable of doing or unwilling to do.&#8221;
When <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-on-trumps-attacks-ill-always-give-him-credit-for-the-things-that-he-did-that-were-positive">asked</a> during a recent Fox News interview about Trump&#8217;s derogatory name calling, DeSantis shrugged off the attacks, saying that those kind of attacks come with the territory.
“And, you know, he can say what he wants about me, I’ll always give him credit for the things that he did that were positive,” DeSantis continued. “And I’m appreciative of a lot of the things that he did — doesn’t mean I agree with everything that he’s doing lately or whatever. But ultimately, it’s about delivering for the people you represent and delivering for the country.&#8221;

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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a> has been suckling off the government teat since he was 29. That&#8217;s 50 years.
At nearly 80, Biden has long forgotten what it&#8217;s like to have a real job. And he&#8217;s clearly completely out of touch with what average Americans are struggling through amid the highest inflation in 40 years.
&#8220;I’m not concerned about the strength of the dollar. I’m concerned about the rest of the world. Our economy is strong as hell,&#8221; Biden said last weekend.
“Inflation is worldwide. It’s worse off than it is in the United States,” he added. “So the problem is the lack of economic growth and sound policy in other countries, not so much ours.”
Amid voluminous criticism, the White House doubled down on Biden&#8217;s insane stance that the economy is &#8220;strong as hell.&#8221;
&#8220;The president understands … that inflation is an issue, high costs is an issue for the American people, and so he’s been very clear about making that his number one economic priority. And he has done the work,&#8221; Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
He&#8217;s done the work?! Wrong. WE&#8217;RE doing the work &#8212; and lots of it.
In Biden&#8217;s dismal economy, more than half of working Americans have considered getting a second job to make ends meet.
&#8220;About 38% of workers have looked for a second job, while an additional 14% have plans to do so, according to a survey of more than 1,000 full-time US employees by Qualtrics International Inc., which makes software used by over 16,000 organizations,&#8221; Bloomberg News <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-19/inflation-forces-over-50-of-americans-to-consider-a-side-hustle?leadSource=uverify%20wall">reported</a>. &#8220;At the same time, 18% of working adults said they had moved to an area with a lower cost of living to cut expenses, and another 13% plan to do so.&#8221;
Why? &#8220;About 70% say their pay isn’t keeping up with rising expenses. A recent Brookings Institution study estimated that the current spike in prices means it will now cost more than $300,000 to raise a child to age 17, up $26,000 since inflation took hold,&#8221; Bloomberg reported.
At the same time, 401k&#8217;s are being crushed in Biden&#8217;s economy. The housing market has crashed, and mortgage rates have soared above 7%. And real wages have not kept pace with inflation, actually <a href="https://mishtalk.com/economics/real-year-over-year-wages-decline-for-18-consecutive-months">dropping</a> by 3% during Biden&#8217;s presidency.
That&#8217;s all terrible news for Biden. Inflation is &#8220;extremely or very important&#8221; for 82% of Americans, but Biden&#8217;s approval rating on the issue is just 30%, a <a href="https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/reports/monmouthpoll_us_100322/">Monmouth poll</a> found this month. Crime is second at 72%, but Biden&#8217;s handling is 32%. And immigration comes in at 67% for voters, but the president&#8217;s approval rating is 31%.
“Democrats are all over the place when it comes to their key issues. This makes it difficult for the party to create a cohesive messaging strategy to motivate its base. Republicans, on the other hand, just have to hammer away at rising prices and ‘the wolf is at the door’ to get their voters riled up,” said Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute.
“A major problem for Democrats is their base messaging doesn’t hold as much appeal for independents as the GOP issue agenda does. Even though truly persuadable independents are a rather small group these days, this small difference can have a major impact given the expectation that congressional control will hinge on a handful of very close contests,&#8221; Murray said.

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Biden’s America: Half Of Adults Consider Second Jobs To Make Ends Meet

President Joe Biden's America: Half Consider Second Jobs To Make Ends Meet, New Bloomberg News Poll Finds

Elon Musk and Twitter could reach a deal for the tech billionaire to buy the social media platform as early as today, in an agreement that could exceed $46.5 billion that would bring nearly two weeks of trolling, hand-wringing, and bickering to a dramatic end, according to two reports.
Twitter&#8217;s share price has risen since Musk made his offer of $54.20 per share, pushing the cost of a takeover closer to $50 billion than the original $43 billion.
Talks are in the &#8220;final stretch,&#8221; <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-25/twitter-on-track-to-reach-deal-with-musk-as-soon-as-monday?sref=WFt20nR4&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&amp;utm_content=markets&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-markets">Bloomberg reported</a>, citing a person with knowledge the matter. The San Francisco-based platform and world&#8217;s richest man could have a deal by the end of the day if they can hammer out terms, according to the person. <a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-twitter-set-accept-musks-best-final-offer-sources-2022-04-25/">Reuters reported</a> that Twitter&#8217;s board of directors is poised to recommend shareholders accept Musk&#8217;s $54.20-per-share offer
It remains possible that the deal could collapse at the last minute, the sources told Reuters.
The rapid development comes after Musk met Sunday with Twitter executives to demonstrate he had financing in place. The Tesla mogul had earlier hinted he might bypass the board with a tender offer directly to shareholders if the board rejected the bid he first announced on April 14. The share price of Twitter has risen nearly 7% since Musk made his offer, but still remain some 10% below his offer. Shares were up another 4.5% in pre-market trading Monday, at $51.15.
“A concern that Twitter’s board is weighing is that unless it seeks to negotiate a deal with Musk, many shareholders could back him in a tender offer,” Reuters <a href="https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/twitter-under-shareholder-pressure-to-seek-deal-with-musk-sources-say">reported</a>.
The Twitter board, which includes founder Jack Dorsey and current CEO Parag Agrawal, initially tried to fend off Musk with a so-called &#8220;poison pill,&#8221; which would dilute the value of his shares and allow current shareholders to increase their holdings. But now the board seems to recognize that Musk, who says he wants to take Twitter private to help it grow and better embrace freedom of speech, may have gained the upper hand.
“While the poison pill would prevent Twitter shareholders from tendering their shares, the company is worried that its negotiating hand would weaken considerably if it was shown to be going against the will of many of its investors,” sources told Reuters.
In a Securities and Exchange Commission <a href="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001418091/000110465922048128/tm2213229d1_sc13da.htm">filing</a>, Musk revealed he had obtained a debt commitment letter from Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. and certain other financial institutions showing they were committed to provide $13 billion in financing to him; a separate debt commitment letter from Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. and certain other financial institutions committing to provide $12.5 billion in margin loans, and an equity commitment letter in which Musk committed to provide equity financing for his offer.
<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-re-examines-elon-musks-bid-may-be-more-receptive-to-a-deal-11650822932?mod=hp_lead_pos1">The Wall Street Journal</a> reported Sunday that Musk, who had informed  Twitter Chairman Bret Taylor he would not budge on his $54.20-a-share offer for the company, had met privately on video calls with several shareholders on Friday:
Since making his offer, Musk has used the platform itself &#8211; on which he has 80 million followers &#8211; to criticize its silencing of conservative viewpoints. He has also said he would consider making immediate changes, including adding an &#8220;edit&#8221; button and changing the way users gain coveted &#8220;blue checkmark&#8221; status.

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Poison pill

Wall Street Journal

Twitter users across the political spectrum excoriated Bloomberg News for an opinion column suggesting low income Americans find ways to lower their costs to deal with skyrocketing inflation.
The column, titled &#8220;<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-03-13/inflation-stings-most-for-those-earning-under-300-000?sref=ZtdQlmKR&amp;utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&amp;utm_content=view&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-view&amp;utm_medium=social">Inflation Stings Most If You Earn Less Than $300K. Here&#8217;s How to Deal</a>,&#8221; was written by Teresa Ghilarducci, a professor of economics at the New School for Social Research, a private university in New York. In it, she explains that inflation, especially soaring gas prices, will do much less harm to Americans who earn more than $289,000 per year. For those near the median income of around $50,000, or less, decisions will be much harder, Ghilarducci wrote.
&#8220;If your income is more than $289,000 a year, the run-up in gas prices may be alarming — but it&#8217;s unlikely to hammer your overall finances,&#8221; Ghilarducci wrote. &#8220;For those earning much less, it’s a different story.&#8221;
&#8220;I expect those most affected will adjust to inflation in the classic way by shifting away from relatively expensive items toward close substitutes,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Here are some ideas on how to reconfigure consumption and lessen the blow. But again, adjustment is hard for people without savings or choices.&#8221;
Ghilarducci&#8217;s suggestions included:
<ul>
<li>taking public transportation instead of driving;</li>
<li>buying and eating meat subsitutes like lentils and vegetables;</li>
<li>avoiding buying items in bulk;</li>
<li>avoiding unnecessary charges; and</li>
<li>avoiding medical expenses for pets</li>
</ul>
Bloomberg tweeted a link to the article Saturday. &#8220;Inflation stings most if you earn less than $300K,&#8221; the tweet read. &#8220;Here&#8217;s how to deal:
➡️ Take the bus 
➡️ Don’t buy in bulk 
➡️ Try lentils instead of meat 
➡️ Nobody said this would be fun
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Inflation stings most if you earn less than $300K. Here&#8217;s how to deal:
➡️ Take the bus 
➡️ Don’t buy in bulk 
➡️ Try lentils instead of meat 
➡️ Nobody said this would be fun <a href="https://t.co/HGJEoXL5ZZ">https://t.co/HGJEoXL5ZZ</a>
— Bloomberg Opinion (@bopinion) <a href="https://twitter.com/bopinion/status/1505292742993321993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
Twitter users from both Left and Right reacted swiftly and scathingly to the out-of-touch headline, clobbering the outlet for its condescending tone, particularly the line, &#8220;nobody said this would be fun.&#8221;
&#8220;So for basically everyone lol,&#8221; CBS News White House Reporter Kathryn Watson tweeted in reply.
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So for basically everyone lol <a href="https://t.co/8AyIuh7fkD">https://t.co/8AyIuh7fkD</a>
— Kathryn Watson (@kathrynw5) <a href="https://twitter.com/kathrynw5/status/1505597139631624199?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
&#8220;The median annual salary in the US is $35K!&#8221; Economics professor and Brookings Institution Nonresident Senior Fellow Shamika Ravi tweeted, citing statistics from the <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N">Federal Reserve Economic Data</a>. &#8220;Inflation is record high (<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inflation-soars-to-four-decade-high-of-7-5">40 year high of 7.5%</a>),&#8221; she added. &#8220;Coping suggestions will get more and more ludicrous…&#8221;
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The median annual salary in the US is $35K! Inflation is record high (40 year high of 7.5%). Coping suggestions will get more and more ludicrous… <a href="https://t.co/ticyTqp1nW">https://t.co/ticyTqp1nW</a>
— Prof Shamika Ravi (@ShamikaRavi) <a href="https://twitter.com/ShamikaRavi/status/1505578399515160578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
&#8220;Inflation stings most if you’re in the bottom 99% of earners,&#8221; University of Denver political scientist Seth Masket noted.
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Inflation stings most if you’re in the bottom 99% of earners. <a href="https://t.co/UIJwLsrUng">https://t.co/UIJwLsrUng</a>
— Seth Masket (@smotus) <a href="https://twitter.com/smotus/status/1505406429318062081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
&#8220;The Liberal Establishment Guide To Handling Inflation: &#8216;Eat lentils, poors!’” wrote Michael Knowles, host of &#8220;The Michael Knowles Show&#8221; at The Daily Wire.
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The Liberal Establishment Guide To Handling Inflation:
“Eat lentils, poors!” <a href="https://t.co/Z3tWy9iluh">https://t.co/Z3tWy9iluh</a>
— Michael Knowles 🤌🏼 (@michaeljknowles) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1505648271909400580?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
&#8220;Crazy that one of the suggestions isn’t to stop paying subscriptions to out of touch, dusty media outlets,&#8221; tweeted &#8220;American Dad&#8221; screenwriter Soren Bowie.
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Crazy that one of the suggestions isn’t to stop paying subscriptions to out of touch, dusty media outlets. <a href="https://t.co/C1dTlzqYX3">https://t.co/C1dTlzqYX3</a>
— Soren Bowie (@Soren_Ltd) <a href="https://twitter.com/Soren_Ltd/status/1505634305917132801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
“Good news. According to Bloomberg, you can avoid all the disastrous policies of the Biden White House for just a mere $300k a year!&#8221; said Texas Republican Congressional Candidate Wesley Hunt. &#8220;Can you say, tone deaf?&#8221;
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Good news. According to Bloomberg, you can avoid all the disastrous policies of the Biden White House for just a mere $300k a year!
Can you say, tone deaf? <a href="https://t.co/qFQUdpHxVo">https://t.co/qFQUdpHxVo</a>
— Wesley Hunt (@WesleyHuntTX) <a href="https://twitter.com/WesleyHuntTX/status/1505558913474650119?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
&#8220;Tips to cope with inflation if you’re poor: &#8211; suck it up, buttercup,&#8221; replied left-wing activist Emily Gorcenski.
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Tips to cope with inflation if you’re poor:
&#8211; suck it up, buttercup <a href="https://t.co/uxhaPySte8">https://t.co/uxhaPySte8</a>
— Emily G (@EmilyGorcenski) <a href="https://twitter.com/EmilyGorcenski/status/1505462095315410951?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
Other responses are below:
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Have you read headlines like this one lately? The mind reels. Boggles. Who the hell do these people think they are? <a href="https://t.co/D6YgbSO91e">https://t.co/D6YgbSO91e</a>
— Matthew J. Peterson (@docMJP) <a href="https://twitter.com/docMJP/status/1505345348071526411?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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i keep buying lentils but im still poor, what gives <a href="https://t.co/Tt5sqLdSJQ">https://t.co/Tt5sqLdSJQ</a>
— Broski (@broskiFGC) <a href="https://twitter.com/broskiFGC/status/1505530722769149954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://t.co/fdCELESNuP">pic.twitter.com/fdCELESNuP</a>
— Matt’s Idea Shop (@MattsIdeaShop) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattsIdeaShop/status/1505334224756301826?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“Nobody said this would be fun”? <a href="https://t.co/9j1anwFAw0">https://t.co/9j1anwFAw0</a>
— Elwë Singollo ❄️ 🧝🏻‍♀️ (@Strangeland_Elf) <a href="https://twitter.com/Strangeland_Elf/status/1505536626491113482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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➡️ Turn off the money printer <a href="https://t.co/BWVhjSq51Q">https://t.co/BWVhjSq51Q</a>
— Senator Michael Rulli (@michaelrulli) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaelrulli/status/1505334823392587777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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People really, really, really, really do not like inflation, and this is why <a href="https://t.co/W7TVIJvgD2">https://t.co/W7TVIJvgD2</a>
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1505333348226383872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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I don’t think “get rid of your car and eat lentils instead of meat” is a winning message for Democrats. <a href="https://t.co/gtxBAVEm5U">https://t.co/gtxBAVEm5U</a>
— Matt Rinaldi (@MattRinaldiTX) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattRinaldiTX/status/1505363576634150913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Are they serious with this shit? <a href="https://t.co/9Bw7Eyiom1">https://t.co/9Bw7Eyiom1</a>
— Ashe Short (@AsheSchow) <a href="https://twitter.com/AsheSchow/status/1505532098765021188?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Get used to poordom, suckers. <a href="https://t.co/wCv3pNpKsE">https://t.co/wCv3pNpKsE</a>
— John Ales AF (@IAmJohnAles) <a href="https://twitter.com/IAmJohnAles/status/1505543567556722698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
Consumer inflation surged to another historic high in February, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index. The inflation rate rose to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inflation-soars-7-9-in-past-12-months-new-40-year-high">7.9% annually</a>, the fastest increase since January 1982. Wholesale producer prices also surged to record highs. The Producer Price Index showed a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wholesale-prices-soar-10-in-february-highest-level-on-record">10% increase</a> in wholesale price inflation in February, which was also the largest annual increase on record.

Soup

‘Eat Lentils, Poors!’ Left And Right Slam Bloomberg Article Telling Americans Making Less Than $300k To Spend Less To Cope With Inflation

The Biden administration should focus more on investigating and remedying billions of dollars worth of COVID-19 aid fraud before pumping out more of such spending, Bloomberg’s editorial board wrote on Monday.
In an op-ed published Monday morning, Bloomberg pointed out that the Secret Service estimates that $100 billion in COVID-19 relief funds may have been doled out in fraudulent claims, corrupt deals, or to dead people. The article suggests that Secret Service estimates may be too conservative, however. The editors write:
<blockquote>Even that may be understating the problem. As little as 23% of the $800 billion doled out by the Paycheck Protection Program actually found its way into workers’ pockets. A Department of Labor study estimated that more than $87 billion in emergency unemployment benefits were improperly paid. The Small Business Administration has (among other blunders) disbursed more than $6.2 billion to loan applicants it now suspects of identity theft. Somehow, the Internal Revenue Service managed to issue 2.2 million stimulus checks — worth about $3.5 billion — to dead people.
Only in government could such calamitous neglect be considered business as usual.</blockquote>
So far, the federal government has approved roughly $6 trillion in COVID-19 funds. In providing the funds to Americans in need, however, the government bungled operations with a lack of oversight and communications, leading to “the largest oversight challenge” of President Joe Biden’s administration, Biden’s chief coordinator for COVID-19 spending said last month.
“There is no question that the immense fraud that took place at the crush of the pandemic in 2020, particularly in small-business loans and unemployment insurance, is the largest oversight challenge the Biden administration inherited,” White House senior advisor Gene Sperling <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/02/17/stimulus-aid-oversight-fraud/">said</a>.
The Biden administration continues to push for billions more in COVID-19 aid roughly two years lockdowns began over COVID-19 in the United States. Biden’s agenda is stalled in Congress, however, as fellow Democrats push back against additional COVID-19 spending. As Punchbowl News reported:
<blockquote>The White House hasn’t done anything to sell this legislation to Congress. This is a complaint you’ll hear from House and Senate Democrats. After weeks of rumors that the Biden administration would seek as much as $30 billion to $35 billion in new Covid funding, the White House sent a $22.5 billion request to Congress just before the omnibus package was released. This quickly was pared by one-third to $15 billion. And then it was cut entirely from the package following the uproar from Democratic lawmakers – spurred on by some Democratic governors.</blockquote>
Bloomberg argued that the Biden administration should focus instead on shoring up the government’s aid programs and appropriating billions in misspent funds before seeking additional COVID-19 aid. The editors suggested improving communication across the government and upgrading aged technology.
“Fixing such deficiencies must be a priority,” the editors wrote. “To his credit, Biden has announced <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/03/01/fact-sheet-president-biden-to-announce-new-steps-to-combat-criminal-fraud-and-identity-theft-in-pandemic-relief-programs/">several efforts</a> to combat pandemic fraud. But more focus and investment will be required to stop the cancer of corruption for good.”

Bloomberg: U.S. Doled Out Billions In Fraudulent COVID Aid. Where’s The Accountability?

COVID

Fraud

Several media outlets stopped their operations in Russia as Russian President Vladimir Putin took action against journalists.
As Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/putin-fake-news-journalists-war">reported</a>, on Friday, Putin signed a measure into law that would put journalists in jail for publishing information that goes against officials’ statements concerning the Russian war in Ukraine.
“Under the new law, reporters face up to 15 years in prison if they report what authorities deem as false reports about the military. The legislation was passed by both chambers of the Russian parliament,” the outlet noted.
“CNN will stop broadcasting in Russia while we continue to evaluate the situation and our next steps moving forward,” CNN said in a <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/596945-bloomberg-cnn-bbc-halt-operations-in-russia">statement</a>, per The Hill.
CNN Anchor Brian Stelter also <a href="https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1499863796692758535?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet">tweeted</a> about the development.
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This just in from a CNN spokesperson: &quot;CNN will stop broadcasting in Russia while we continue to evaluate the situation and our next steps moving forward.&quot;
&mdash; Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) <a href="https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1499863796692758535?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 4, 2022</a></blockquote>
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BBC Director-General Tim Davie <a href="https://twitter.com/thehill">released</a> a statement on Twitter in reaction to the new law.
“This legislation appears to criminalise the process of independent journalism. It leaves us no other choice than to temporarily suspend the work of all BBC News journalists and their support staff within the Russian Federation while we assess the full implications of this unwelcome development,” Davie said.
“Our BBC News service in Russian will continue to operate from outside Russia. The safety of our staff is paramount and we are not prepared to expose them to the risk of criminal prosecution simply for doing their jobs,” he added.
“I’d like to pay tribute to all of them, for their bravery, determination and professionalism. We remain committed to making accurate, independent information available to audiences around the world, including the millions of Russians who use our news services. Our journalists in Ukraine and around the world will continue to report on the invasion of Ukraine,” he concluded.
Bloomberg News <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-04/bloomberg-to-temporarily-halt-work-of-its-journalists-in-russia">noted</a>, &#8220;Bloomberg News will temporarily suspend the work of its journalists inside Russia after President Vladimir Putin signed legislation that criminalizes independent reporting in the country.&#8221;
Bloomberg Editor in Chief John Micklethwait said on Friday, “We have with great regret decided to temporarily suspend our news gathering inside Russia.”
“The change to the criminal code, which seems designed to turn any independent reporter into a criminal purely by association, makes it impossible to continue any semblance of normal journalism inside the country,” Micklethwait added.
According to Bloomberg, the Russian measure will place prison sentences of up to 15 years for those charged with distributing “fake news” about the troops or calling for sanctions against Russia.
Bloomberg added:
<blockquote>
Two liberal local broadcasters, Ekho Moskvy and TV Rain, went off the air Thursday under pressure from prosecutors who’d demanded that access be restricted because of their coverage of Putin’s war in Ukraine. The websites of the BBC, Deutsche Welle and Meduza, an independent news group, weren’t accessible Friday. Facebook and Twitter were blocked by the country’s communications regulator, Interfax reported.
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Per Fox, Nick Clegg, Facebook&#8217;s president of global affairs, said in a statement on Thursday, &#8220;soon millions of ordinary Russians will find themselves cut off from reliable information, deprived of their everyday ways of connecting with family and friends and silenced from speaking out.”
The situation in Ukraine continues to unfold as Ukrainians defend their country against ongoing Russian aggression.
The developing war has led to the outspoken involvement of government leaders in the United States, including South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lindsey-graham-doubles-down-on-calls-for-putins-assassination">said</a> on Friday, “I’m hoping that somebody in Russia will understand that he’s destroying Russia and you need to take this guy out by any means possible.”

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Twitter users blasted Bloomberg News after the outlet posted an embarrassing headline comparing the possibility of a universal coronavirus vaccine to the One Ring from J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;s legendary fantasy trilogy &#8220;The Lord of the Rings.&#8221;
Writing under the heading, &#8220;One Shot To Rule Them All,&#8221; <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-01-20/a-covid-vaccine-for-all-the-variants-is-possible?sref=Yg3sQEZ2&amp;utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&amp;utm_content=business">Bloomberg</a> editor Mark Gongloff summarized an opinion piece on the site that described the possibility of a vaccine that would not just protect against all current and future variants of COVID-19, but also the SARS, MERS, and other viruses in the same family. That summary was posted in Thursday&#8217;s edition of &#8220;Bloomberg Opinion Today,&#8221; the site&#8217;s opinion roundup newsletter.
Bloomberg tweeted out the article early Friday morning. &#8220;One Covid shot to rule them all, one Covid shot to find them, one Covid shot to bring them all and in the darkness bind them,&#8221; read the Twitter tagline for the article.
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One Covid shot to rule them all, one Covid shot to find them, one Covid shot to bring them all and in the darkness bind them <a href="https://t.co/ITl9ECG0Vx">https://t.co/ITl9ECG0Vx</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/bopinion?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@bopinion</a>
— Bloomberg (@business) <a href="https://twitter.com/business/status/1484406016171298816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2022</a></blockquote>
That line is a reference to the One Ring, the legendary artifact which is central to the plot of “The Lord of the Rings&#8221; trilogy of books, movies, and upcoming <a href="https://press.amazonstudios.com/us/en/original-series/the-lord-of-the-rings-amazon-original-series/1">Amazon Prime series</a>. Unfortunately, Bloomberg seemed to have overlooked the fact that in the story, the Ring is an object of evil, which the story&#8217;s antagonist, the Dark Lord Sauron, wants to use to take over the fictional world of Middle-Earth. In particular, the line used by Bloomberg is part of a poem used within the story to describe the Ring. It refers to the fact that the ring exists to bind the people of the world under his power through the One Ring:
<blockquote>Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, 
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, 
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, 
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne 
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. 
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, 
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them 
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.</blockquote>
Twitter users were quick to point out the oversight.
&#8220;Your idea of a vaccine endorsement is to analogize the COVID-19 vaccine to an evil ring forged by a demonic power so he could conquer and control the world through death and destruction? Kinda think you maybe should’ve workshopped that one a bit more,&#8221; Sean Davis, co-founder of The Federalist, tweeted.
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Your idea of a vaccine endorsement is to analogize the COVID-19 vaccine to an evil ring forged by a demonic power so he could conquer and control the world through death and destruction?
Kinda think you maybe should’ve workshopped that one a bit more. <a href="https://t.co/NhA5BuZHgo">https://t.co/NhA5BuZHgo</a>
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) <a href="https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1484578160209547267?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2022</a></blockquote>
&#8220;Do they know what the one ring was all about?&#8221; tweeted &#8220;Black Hawk Down&#8221; and &#8220;Tenet&#8221; actor Matthew Marsden. &#8220;Hint….it’s not good.&#8221;
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Do they know what the one ring was all about? Hint….it’s not good. <a href="https://t.co/f3mJLhsDMx">https://t.co/f3mJLhsDMx</a>
— Matthew Marsden (@matthewdmarsden) <a href="https://twitter.com/matthewdmarsden/status/1484920271849111557?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2022</a></blockquote>
&#8220;Someone at Bloomberg should really watch <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LOTR?src=hashtag_click">#LOTR</a> and learn what that quote was really about&#8230;&#8221; Young Americans for Liberty Vice President of Communications Reed Cooley tweeted. &#8220;They made a point here, just not the one they were trying to make.&#8221;
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Someone at Bloomberg should really watch <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LOTR?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LOTR</a> and learn what that quote was really about&#8230;
They made a point here, just not the one they were trying to make. <a href="https://t.co/mJjlQG4K27">https://t.co/mJjlQG4K27</a>
— Reed Cooley (@JReedCooley) <a href="https://twitter.com/JReedCooley/status/1484648570464751625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2022</a></blockquote>
Other responses to the tweet are below:
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New public service campaign spokesman: <a href="https://t.co/rt14f7W25D">https://t.co/rt14f7W25D</a> <a href="https://t.co/iY7xTl0ury">pic.twitter.com/iY7xTl0ury</a>
— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) <a href="https://twitter.com/JerylBier/status/1484587135265030152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Quoting the Dark Lord of Mordor to promote COVID vaccination. That won&#8217;t backfire. <a href="https://t.co/bab6dE7zo9">https://t.co/bab6dE7zo9</a>
— Chris Pandolfo (@ChrisCPandolfo) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisCPandolfo/status/1484594161831587843?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2022</a></blockquote>
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uhhhh the context for the quote matters. this doesnt do for the vaccine what you think it does. <a href="https://t.co/24Da5BK4nY">https://t.co/24Da5BK4nY</a>
— tsar becket adams (@BecketAdams) <a href="https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/1484580495891513347?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2022</a></blockquote>
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There are so many pop-culture inspired movie quotes to choose from. Bloomberg did not choose wisely. <a href="https://t.co/4ZCe6HzXU5">https://t.co/4ZCe6HzXU5</a>
— The AZ &#8211; abc15 &#8211; Data Guru (@Garrett_Archer) <a href="https://twitter.com/Garrett_Archer/status/1484600599358238722?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2022</a></blockquote>
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hate this so much. <a href="https://t.co/GdUpKpJGvS">https://t.co/GdUpKpJGvS</a>
— Logan Hall (@loganclarkhall) <a href="https://twitter.com/loganclarkhall/status/1484585123848732672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The shot is like the One Ring, brings out the very worst in men. Good analogy. <a href="https://t.co/bFmTFPFvKq">https://t.co/bFmTFPFvKq</a>
— Chris Tomlinson (@TomlinsonCJ) <a href="https://twitter.com/TomlinsonCJ/status/1484587909407817733?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2022</a></blockquote>
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That&#8217;s enough Internet for today <a href="https://t.co/NwN1mYzrA2">https://t.co/NwN1mYzrA2</a>
— Kate Martin (@KateReports) <a href="https://twitter.com/KateReports/status/1484597731897266178?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2022</a></blockquote>

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Twitter Users Roast Bloomberg After Embarrassing Tweet Comparing COVID-19 Vaccine To ‘Lord Of The Rings’

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Bloomberg News drew fierce criticism for suggesting that Americans spend their paychecks quickly, purchase expensive items like homes and cars, and take out loans to pay for them, as means of coping with skyrocketing inflation.
The article, titled &#8220;<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-11/the-inflation-pros-from-argentina-offer-tips-for-rattled-americans?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&amp;utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&amp;utm_content=business">For Americans Shocked by Inflation, Argentines Have Some Advice</a>,&#8221; cites the nation of Argentina, whose annual inflation rate is typically about 50%, and suggests that Americans copy the strategies used by average Argentinians to cope with inflation in the U.S., which has risen to a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-inflation-skyrockets-to-6-8-higher-than-expected-fastest-rate-in-nearly-40-years">nearly 40-year high at 6.8%</a>.
&#8220;For many Americans, the sudden burst of inflation that has rocked the economy has been disorienting,&#8221; the article, written by Patrick Gillespie and Ignacio Olivera Doll, begins. &#8220;Consumer prices had been so stable for so long in the U.S. that the population finds itself a little rusty on basic inflationary-era tactics. So for some advice, we turned to people who have become experts in the art of surviving runaway inflation: Argentines.&#8221;
&#8220;Walk around Buenos Aires and you’ll hear conversations &#8212; between 18-year-old college students, 90-year-old retirees and everyone in between &#8212; about currency exchange rates, soaring prices and strategies for coping.&#8221;
&#8220;Of course, the 50% inflation they deal with in a typical year in Argentina &#8212; the product of decades of policy missteps that have destroyed confidence in the central bank &#8212; is far higher than the 6.8% rate that Americans are enduring. But many of the principles that shape the day-to-day habits of Argentine workers, consumers and savers are still broadly applicable in the U.S. today.&#8221;
The first strategy the article suggests is that Americans spend their paychecks quickly. In Argentina&#8217;s high-inflation economy, where money sitting in the bank rapidly loses value, consumers spend their paychecks on the things they need right away, purchasing weeks&#8217; worth of food at grocery stores, even if most of it will sit in the freezer for weeks, Gillespie and Doll write. The authors do not go as far as to suggest that Americans go to the grocery store and begin hoarding their essentials, but they should &#8220;expedite plans to buy big-ticket items &#8212; appliances, bicycles, furniture.&#8221;
&#8220;If you have the money to pay for that sofa now, do it,&#8221; the authors argue.
The article goes on to suggest that Americans not hesitate to take out loans to make those big-ticket purchases. &#8220;If you can get a loan at a rate below inflation &#8212; something that’s possible for many Americans today &#8212; go for it. Inflation will make it easier to repay the loan in coming months and years,&#8221; the article reads.
Next, the article suggests that Americans seek pay raises. American&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/as-inflation-soars-americans-real-wages-decline">real wages are declining</a> due to inflation, as The Daily Wire previously reported and as the authors note, but their solution is simply to negotiate a wage increase.
&#8220;Argentina’s labor unions and companies negotiate annual pay raises for workers that factor in expected inflation. When prices rise more than anticipated, those agreements often get ripped up, and the two sides go back to the negotiating table to iron out new terms. It’s a powerful tool that American workers can take inspiration from, albeit one that would create angst for policy makers trying to prevent a wage-price spiral,&#8221; the article says.
The article also suggests that consumers buy cars and real estate, as well as inflation-linked bonds, to hedge their money against inflation.
The piece was lambasted by conservatives on Twitter.
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Bloomberg next week &#8211;
&#8220;Some of the advice on how to cope with rising inflation includes: Stop using cash and switch to bartering.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/TJXPyGhMZt">https://t.co/TJXPyGhMZt</a>
— Omri Ceren (@omriceren) <a href="https://twitter.com/omriceren/status/1470145756325634055?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Lol. The implication that the paycheck isn&#8217;t spent before it&#8217;s even deposited is flattering, but, yeah, no prob guys. <a href="https://t.co/ULmqDbREXM">https://t.co/ULmqDbREXM</a>
— Caleb Howe (@CalebHowe) <a href="https://twitter.com/CalebHowe/status/1470449088634183683?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 13, 2021</a></blockquote>
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“You will own nothing and you will be happy” <a href="https://t.co/USdiv5zdQ0">https://t.co/USdiv5zdQ0</a>
— Carol Roth (@caroljsroth) <a href="https://twitter.com/caroljsroth/status/1470137657997070351?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2021</a></blockquote>
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ffs Argentina’s annual inflation rate is often 50%. US today at 6%. but sure <a href="https://twitter.com/business?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@business</a> let’s pretend they’re similar <a href="https://t.co/X2D6DqFQW4">https://t.co/X2D6DqFQW4</a>
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) <a href="https://twitter.com/EricBoehlert/status/1470404989617070084?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 13, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Did institutional investors who own trillions in assets write this headline? <a href="https://t.co/90Ndudv1el">https://t.co/90Ndudv1el</a>
— litquidity (@litcapital) <a href="https://twitter.com/litcapital/status/1470152171278770180?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2021</a></blockquote>
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advice: accelerate your downfall. <a href="https://t.co/E3cah6e1Un">https://t.co/E3cah6e1Un</a>
— Logan Hall (@loganclarkhall) <a href="https://twitter.com/loganclarkhall/status/1470146238712590339?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Good God <a href="https://t.co/nk1ipm3Rsn">https://t.co/nk1ipm3Rsn</a>
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) <a href="https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1470398559526731782?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 13, 2021</a></blockquote>

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