The All Things Political Topic - What's Going On...?

[Malcador]

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/international-trade/bessent-warns-of-us-embarrassment-if-tariffs-ruled-illegal

Not the greatest argument when discussing legality of something, that to reverse course if it's illegal would be embarrassing.

As if these mother****ers are capable of shame or embarrassment 

[Gorth]

Honest Government Ads take on Norway...

 

[Zoraptor]

Another interesting example of how bad western media has got at regurgitating state propaganda: Ursula von der Leyen's plane hit by GPS incident. Plus dozens of other articles.

Number of articles citing flightradar24's statement that it didn't happen: zero. Number of articles that had been corrected: zero. Fact checkers that had checked the facts: zero.

Note that the plane's transponder includes GPS consistency values, so it indicates there was no spoofing as well as no appreciable interference. While there certainly is GPS interference close to the Russian border central Bulgaria isn't close to it by any stretch. The whole incident appears to have been quite literally made up then published without asking anyone who could refute it about it.

Expectation that the record will ever be corrected: also zero.